Moonstone Arts Center

Category: Moonstone Arts Center Events

  • Krista Parrish Trio CD Release Party

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    SATURDAY, MAY 15 – 8pm – CD RELEASE PARTY – $10KRISTA PARRISH TRIO At a glance Krista Parrish will likely draw you in with her beauty and contagious smile but below the surface is a deeply intellectual, timeless songwriter. She sings with a range and tone that is exceptional, writes clever lyrics that will touch…

  • The Life of The Poet Workshop with Leonard Gontarek

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    Every Thursday, 5:30 – 7 PM. $60 for four sessions.Contact: Leonard Gontarek – gontarek9@earthlink.net – 215.808.9507.www.leafscape.org/LeonardGontarek Discussion of contemporary and international poetry, and participants’ work. Weekly assignments. Improve your poetic skills. Gain a fuller understanding of poetry in our world. Find time to write and balance and support. Keep your spirit up. For poets at…

  • American Faust film screening and discussion

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    WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 6pm – FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSIONAMERICAN FAUSTis a hard-hitting documentary about Condoleezza Rice, an extraordinary but little-understood woman who rose out of segregated Alabama to become the most powerful woman in the world. Incisive and shocking, this is the first retrospective film on the Bush Administration. It overturns the popular misconception of…

  • MSP: Pheralyn Dove and Steve Bloom

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    TUESDAY, MAY 11, 7pm – POETRYThe Moonstone Poetry Series Presents“LADY DOVE” aka PHERALYN DOVE & STEVE BLOOM Pheralyn Dove is a poet, performer, wordsmith, infotainist and culturalist whose work has been showcased nationwide and internationally as a spoken-word artist, actor, author, essayist, playwright, creative writer and technical writer. She has appeared on stages in her…

  • Philadelphia Stories Fiction Workshop

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    PHILADELPHIA STORIES FICTION WORKSHOPAn 8-week workshop from the area’s popular literary magazine that offers writing tips, assignments, and peer critique.Moderator: Aimee LaBrie received her MA in writing from DePaul University in 2000 and her MFA in fiction Penn State in 2003. Her collection of short stories, Wonderful Girl, won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in…

  • Water Cures, Drugs Kill: A Study Group

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    The aim of this group is to study, apply and spread the good news about the biggest medical breakthrough you never heard of! Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, an Iranian born gastroenterologist, discovered that most of the chronic, degenerative diseases that kill millions of people around the world each year, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. can be…

  • Liars Club Philly

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    THURSDAY, MAY 6, 7pm – LITERATURELiars Club with Leslie Banks, Dennis Tafoya, Greg Frost, Kelly Simmons, Solomon Jones, Merry Jones, and Jonathan McGoran (writing as D.H. Dublin) L.A. Banks is the author of the Vampire Huntress Legend and Crimson Moon Series. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business…

  • Modern Jazz Showcase with The Matt Davis Trio and Hypercube

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    WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 9pm – MUSIC – $5 COVER – BYOMODERN JAZZ SHOWCASE withThe MATT DAVIS TRIOHYPERCUBE (CHRIS ASCHMAN, Trumpet; MIKE CEMPROLA, Sax; TIM WENDEL, Guitar; RYAN KUHNS, Bass; and special guest, DOUG HIRLINGER, Drums)

  • Nicholas Wight Trio

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    SUNDAY, MAY 23, 8pm – MUSIC – $5 COVER – BYONICHOLAS WIGHT TRIO The Looks of It are a 7 piece experimental indie pop band with both male and female vocalists, who use lush harmonies and orchestrations to create a unique and often quirky sound. Nick Wight Trio featuring Tim Wendel – guitar, and Jordan…

  • Keith Gilyard author of John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism

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    FRIDAY, MAY 7, 7pm – NON-FICTIONArt Sanctuary, The Brothers Network & Moonstone Arts PresentKEITH GILYARDauthor John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism ($39.95 University of Georgia Press) “John Oliver Killens is a genius of the South, and Keith Gilyard has honored this youngblood, civil rights and union activist, novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter in…