It's first friday in downtown Lancaster City. Fri, Mar 6, 09 First Friday
5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Over 60 galleries, museums, shops, and restaurants extend their hours. Many artist premiers and openings. First Fridays are a great time to experience downtown Lancaster! Join the thousands who enjoy the evening's artistic energy and fun surprises that make each First Friday special. Come on out this Friday and check out some of these events:
Thu, Mar 5, 09 -Sat, Mar 28, 09 Convergence of Synergy
5 - 9 p.m. First Friday Reception at Annex 24 Gallery. Kenny Reisig, John Berkey and Raymond Rall s convene to present independent components from paintings, photography, sculpture and carvings, etchings, projection and surely combinations thereof in celebration of our 1st
Location: 24 W. Walnut St.
Thu, Mar 5, 09 -Sun, Apr 5, 09 Fabric works by Carol Piersol
Fabric works by Carol Piersol, who has worked with fabric and fabric design as art since a child and in the costume shop at Roschel Center for the Performing Arts.
Location: The Sally Mather Gibson Curriculum Gallery, F&M Campus
Fri, Mar 6, 09 -Tue, Mar 31, 09 Christiane David Gallery proudly presents J. Scott Wolf.
5:30 - 9 pm. Christiane David and Scott Wolf have known each other since owning their shops at the Artworks at Doneckers. Throughout the month of March Scott Wolf will be exhibiting his new original works of the different seasons of Lancaster county, depicted in light, color and drama.
Location: 142 N. Prince St.
Fri, Mar 6, 09 -Tue, Mar 31, 09 First Friday at Carmen & David's Creamery
Carmen & David' s Creamery will showcase another young photographer for the month of March, beginning with a First Friday reception for Nathan Deatrick, a 21-year old Lancaster County native. He captures pictures of ordinary objects and architectural scapes from some very interesting views.
Location: 27 N. Prince St.
Fri, Mar 6, 09 First Friday Kirtan
7:45 - 9 pm. First Friday Kirtan Ohm’ your way to the Yoga Path and experience the uplifting energy of Kirtan, a form of group chanting from ancient India. Afterwards enjoy a sampling of delicious Ayurvedic vegetarian foods flavored with exotic and healing Indian spices, presented by Spice of Life.
Tickets: $10
Location: 428 N. Duke St.
Fri, Mar 6, 09 Friday Night Live!
6 p.m. Friday Night Live! with 8-Track Radio and local craft and food artisans featuring the J.P. McCaskey High School art show. Cast a vote for your favorite art pieces in the “publicly-juried” J.P. McCaskey High School art show and help raise funds for Building Character’s art scholarship fund, and the J.P. McCaskey art club.
Location: 342 N. Queen St. Warehouse C
Fri, Mar 6, 09 Gallery talk and reception “Expanding Universe
6 (First Friday) 4:30 pm An exhibition of welded steel sculpture by Brooklyn, NY artist, Martha Walker. Show runs January 20 - March 29
Location: The Dana Gallery at The Phillips Museum of Art (Steinman College Center), F&M Campus
Fri, Mar 6, 09 -Fri, Apr 10, 09 Landscapes of Imagination
5 - 8 pm. First Friday reception , continues through April 10. "Landscapes of Imagination" is a rarely seen exhibit of drawings, etchings and illustations by Marvin Bileck (deceased 4/2005) and drawings by Emily Nelligan (b. 1924.) The artwork includes explorations into a subject that inspired both artists over a period of 50 years: the landscape of Great Cranberry Island, Maine.
Location: 204 N. Prince St.
Fri, Mar 6, 09 Modigliani String Quartet
8 pm. The Quartet won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and have performed at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and the Kennedy Center. Their program will include works by Haydn, Beethoven and Ravel.
Tickets: students $1 and off campus patrons $10
Location: Barshinger Center of Musical Arts, F&M Campus
Fri, Mar 6, 09 Opposites Attract @ Irish Gypsy TRUNK SHOW
Come meet head shoe designer, Jessica Todd, and owner Rick Kramer of the brand new shoe line 'Oppasites Attract' . View and try on the new styles for spring 09. Be one of the first to own a pair of these new, fashion forward, comfortable and innovative new styles. Preview this new brand at www.oppasitesattractshoes.com and come try for yourself at Irish Gypsy.
Location: 52 N. Prince St.
Fri, Mar 6, 09 -Sat, Mar 7, 09 Symposium
5:30 p.m Professor Stanley J. Michalak, keynote address on March 6. March 7 - 9:00 a.m. Sonja A. Trent Brown; 10:30 a.m. Timothy Armer; 1:00 p.m. Melissa Stein; 2:30 p.m. Devon Powers. CLAS Inaugural Symposium for Emerging Scholars engages the concept of "resonance" as it applies to texts, ideas and events that are transformed in space and time.
Location: Bonchek Lecture Hall, Barshinger Life Sciences & Philosophy building, F&M Campus
Sat, Mar 7, 09 "As We Are"
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at St. Andrew UCC. Featuring the jazz group, "The Myopics." Master's level students of Lancaster Theological Seminary are creating a new type of worship experience in a cafe atmosphere that is geared to people wanting to experience alternative worship; music, drama and prayer all in a casual setting.
Location: 701 N. Lime St.
Here is an article about a new Habitat for Humanity project in Lancaster City. The building is scheduled to start in May. The article is from Lancasteronline.com written by Stephen Kopfinger.
A few more people are going to call the city home. Literally, as in, their own house.
Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity announced last week that 19 residential building lots at Fairview Avenue and Seymour Street, in Lancaster's southwest end, were purchased from the Preferred Partners real estate group, for $475,000 Wednesday.
"We're absolutely delighted … we're taking a leap of faith," said Stacie Reidenbaugh, executive director of Habitat, Saturday. She said the project, consisting of townhouses clustered in a quad on a 1.3-acre parcel of land, will enable "more people the opportunity to afford a decent home" in the city.
The Habitat project is the first since last year, when four homes in the 700 block of South Queen Street were dedicated, replacing a row of five homes destroyed by fire in 2002. Four more homes in that effort, facing South Beaver Street, are expected to be finished by April.
It all represents confidence in a community, even as bad news about foreclosures dominates the news.
"Habitat for Humanity certainly advances one of our strategic objectives" — namely, affordable home ownership — said Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray by phone Saturday. The mayor's Strategic Plan for the City has established a goal of developing 300 new market-rate, owner-occupied homes by 2011, according to Habitat. Reidenbaugh noted that the Fairview Avenue and Seymour Street neighborhood, in the vicinity of Price Elementary School, is largely owner-occupied.
Construction of the first four homes is targeted to begin in May. Each home will have off-street parking, accessible from a private alley behind the houses, according to Habitat. The project will be enacted over the next two years.
Habitat is seeking grants and gifts from the community to support the cost of the land purchase and construction of the homes. Habitat has raised $339,000 for the Fairview project to date, according to the organization.
Two homes are sponsored by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and the local Lutheran congregations through the Thrivent Builds grant program. The third home is sponsored by the Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors.
"Despite the economy, we're confident the community [will] support us, as it has in the past," Reidenbaugh said.
Feb. 19 - 22 - Ice Park Ice-skating - Clipper Stadium, 650 North Prince Street, Lancaster, PA. 717-509-4487.
Feb. 20 - Disappearing Act - Hands-On House Children's Museum of Lancaster, 721 Landis Valley Road, Lancaster, PA 17601, 717-569-KIDS. Where do snowmen go on warm sunny days? Come find out what the big “melt down” is all about in our make it, take it workshop. 5:00 - 7:00 pm.
Feb. 20 - musicFRIDAYS - Downtown Lancaster, PA. Each third Friday of the month, Downtown Lancaster hosts Music Fridays. Performances will abound throughout the 300 block of North Queen Street as well as retailers, restaurants, and attractions throughout Downtown. Each month will bring new entertainment to the streets of Downtown Lancaster. 6:00 - 9:00 pm.
Feb. 20 - 21 - CATS - American Music Theatre, 2425 Lincoln Hwy. E. (Rt. 30), Lancaster, PA 17602, 800-648-4102. There's no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theater than with the magic, the mystery, the Memory of CATS. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of T.S. Eliot poems in an airport bookshop, has become one of the longest running shows in Broadway's history. Winner of seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, CATS features 20 of Andrew Lloyd Webber's timeless melodies, including the hit song, "Memory.”
Feb. 20 - 22 - Feel the Passion - Lancaster Symphony Orchestra - Fulton Opera, 12 N. Prince St., Lancaster, PA. 717-397-7425. Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings - The Russian master builds his love song sensuously through the sweetness and deep sonority of strings and percussion. Shchedrin/Bizet, Carmen Suite - With wild abandon, Bizet uses strings and percussion in striking contrast to Tchaikovsky to look at love’s raw, passionate side.
Feb. 21 - Cathy & Marcy and the Delaware Museum of Natural History - Longwood Gardens, US Route 1, Kennett Square, PA 19348, 610-388-1000. This two-time Grammy award winning duo, Cathy & Marcy, has entertained the Queen of Thailand, delighted families at the White House Easter Egg Roll and graced hundreds of folk festivals. From harmonies to banjos, ukuleles to swing, old-time country music to original songs and of course family sing alongs, there is something for everyone.
Feb. 21 - Honey Brook Quilt Sale & Consignment Auction, 1841 Horseshoe Pike, Honey Brook, PA, 610-273-2688. See our full schedule of local Mud Sales.
Feb. 21 - Heirloom Seed Project - February Workshop - Landis Valley Museum, 2451 Kissel Hill Rd., Lancaster, PA. 717-569-0401. Morning and afternoon sessions on a variety of gardening topics. Offered by the Heirloom Seed Project and the Backyard Fruit Growers Association. Pre-registration required.
Feb. 21 - May 9 - Behold The Lamb - Sight & Sound Millennium Theatre, Rt. 896, Strasburg, PA. 717-687-7800. The greatest words ever spoken...the greatest miracles ever done...and the greatest sacrifice ever given. Let the greatness and glory of the life of Jesus Christ fill you with His life-changing love. Behold the Lamb is a powerful presentation of the timeless message of the Savior, that "whoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life!"
Here are some of the farmers markets in Lancaster County. We are lucky to live in such a fertile area and have a ton of fresh produce to buy locally. Most of these markets also offer meat, crafts, and baked goods.
2710 Old Philadelphia Pike
Bird-in-Hand, PA 17505
308 Locust Street
Columbia, PA 17512
Columbia's Historic Market House is open on Thursdays and Fridays from 9AM to 6PM. The market is located at the corner of Third and Locust Streets in Historic Downtown Columbia. The Columbia Market House is the oldest market house in Lancaster County; it blends both Federal and Greek Revival architectural styles.
23 North Market Street
Lancaster, PA 17608
This is America's oldest farmers' market building. Since the 1730's farmers have been bringing meats and vegetables to the site for sale to local residents. Many of today's standholders have been "on market" since the early 1900's.
We encourage you to come early and often for the locally grown foods, fresh baked desserts and breads, cheeses, meats, flowers, crafts and always friendly conversation. Fill your basket and your heart from our treasury of good things.
Central market is open year-round on Tuesdays and Fridays from 6AM to 4PM and on Saturdays 6AM to 2PM. Market is closed on holidays. In these cases market is held the day before the holiday.
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Lancaster, PA is well known for its beautiful farmland, but there is so much more to it than that! Lancaster has many great communitites; Lancaster City is the oldest inland city on the East coast, founded in 1735. From historic homes to new developments, beautiful parks to downtown art studios, Lancaster is a great place to live.
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