For maps and description of this celebration,
click here for the 2009 Solar Flair Festival Brochure:
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› June 19th & 20th
10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
GoggleWorks, Reading Public Museum, Reading's Riverfront, West Reading's Penn Avenue.
Sponsored by the Community School of Music and the Arts.
› June 19, 2009
Solar Flair Art Walk
Friday 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Art walk begins at the Goggleworks and will lead through the RACC Campus,
West Reading Playground, Reading Public Museum and finally stopping at the
Wyomissing Stone House. Shuttles will be available to transport participants
back to the Goggleworks Parking Lot.
The following are locations where groups and individuals will be along the Art Walk:
1. Goggleworks - guitar/vocal - Zachary McLaughlin
2. Schmidt Training Center Courtyard - Latin Flair Dance Troupe
3. Penn Street Bridge Arch - Leah Queen/flute - Barbara Breidenstein - vocalist
4. RACC Library - Chris Trachte - Violin
5. Riverfront Trail - Dawud Felton - Musician/Artist
6. Riverfront Trail- Naomi Mazy and friend - Poetry
7. Riverfront Trail - Photography team - Faces of Reading
8. Riverfront Trail - Theresa Farrissi - guitar, ducimer, vocalist
9. West Reading Playground (to be determined) - Reading Community Players
10. Reading Public Museum - entrance - Vocal Trio - BCCC
11. Reading Public Museum - Planeterium - Guitar/Vocalist - Cara Wocizhowski
12. Reading Public Museum - Berks Bards
13. Reading Public Museum - Katheryn Uhler Music Studio - violin, guitar, vocals
14. Stone House in Wyomissing - Amanda Birdsall and The Orphan Train
› June 20, 2009
Craft Show
10 a.m. - 7 p.m. The festival is located in Reading and West Reading along the banks of
the Schuylkill River. Reserve your space by contacting Phyllis McLaughlin at
pmcl304@comcast.net.
Art on the Avenue
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. in West Reading
Full day of free family fun. Juried art show, parade, special children’s events,
street performers, arts film festival, exhibits, dancing, music, shopping, food,etc.
See our decorated sponsor frogs. Produced by West Reading merchants and
Main Street Foundation.
A special children’s area organized by Clay on Main, Oley, in the 400
block of Penn Avenue including making silly hats, clay frog ornaments, collages,
bracelets and frog buttons. Ongoing children’s art activities include face painting,
chalk art, drawing and making paper crafts.
Will also feature the Spiral Q Puppet Theater; "Poet's Row" with Craig Czury and
Heather Thomas creating interactive opportunities for all; exhibits by local art
and community organizations, a film festival, three stages of music (folk, world
and alternative), many other strolling “characters;” a variety of food from
borough and outside vendors; and shopper specials from merchants.
The major sponsor is Compleat Baldwin Brass. Other sponsors are Kuhn Funeral
Home, 3rd and Spruce Café, Jerry and Carolyn Holleran, Severin Fayerman,
Raymond and Carole Neag, E.R. Stuebner, West Reading Drug Store, Edwards
Business Machines, Esterbrook Pharmacy and Wenrich Associates.
For more information call 610-685-8854 or visit:
www.westreadingmainstreet.org/artontheavenue2009.htm
Artists apply at www.zapplication.org. (Rain Date: June 21,2009).
Neighborhood Appreciation Day at the GoggleWorks
12pm-4pm
On Saturday, June 20th the GoggleWorks will be hosting its annual Neighborhood
Appreciation Day. There will be refreshments, demonstrations, and hands on art
activities to engage our neighborhood community and offer them the opportunity
to get to know GoggleWorks better. Free radio Disney performances at 11:30
a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Berks Classical Children's Chorus at 2:15 p.m. Free books
for young readers.
Cops N Kids
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Kids Reading Program will be on site, handing out books to the children in
the neighborhood and Radio Disney will provide entertainment for children.
More on Art on the Avenue
West Reading’s Art on the Avenue, a daylong celebration of juried and visual arts, music, dance, food and children’s and family activities along Penn Avenue, will be held on June 20, 2009 and return to the much broader concept it had when it began 15 years ago, including presenting juried artists.
Key organizers Nancey Seghetti, Rita Ditsky and Nancy Campbell, along with several merchants, the West Reading Main Street Foundation, borough officials and other key groups and agencies have united to expand Art on the Avenue.
“Obviously, this is all about the arts and everyone agrees that we need to put together an event to celebrate the many different art forms and hope that we can attract a substantial audience from within Reading and Berks County and from neighboring counties,” said Nancey Seghetti, owner of the Mosiac Studio, 522 Penn Ave.
“We also want people to come to our borough to see what treasures we have here and to hold events like Art on the Avenue that will keep them coming back,” stressed Rita Seghetti Ditsky, owner of Seghetti’s Italian Market, also at 522 Penn Ave. “All of us realize, too, that we are a community and we need to do everything that we can to enhance the quality of life for residents and visitors,” added Nancy Campbell, owner of Compleat Baldwin Brass, 623 Penn Ave.
For this year’s West Reading Art on the Avenue, which runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Rain date is Sunday, June 21.), organizers plan to feature exhibits by juried artists selected through a national search including local and regional artists, an opening parade on Penn Avenue, numerous children’s arts activities including street chalk drawing, exhibits and demonstrations by local arts and civic organizations, displays and special sales by numerous merchants, a Haydenfilms Film Festival in the Fred Astaire Dance Studio, 603 Penn Ave. (The former Penn Theater.), street performers, music, dance and food.
A major fund-raising effort will be the Friends of the Frog. Sponsors, groups, individuals and organizations will be able to sponsor large (54” high by 44” wide), unpainted white frogs that they can decorate. Frogs will then be displayed prior to and during Art on the Avenue and then auctioned to raise funds to help support the event. A frog sponsorship is $2,500.
“Painting and decorating animals and other objects has proven very successful and since we are all about art, we thought frogs would be a perfect addition and a different way to ask for support,” said Nancey Seghetti. A sample frog is on display at Compleat Baldwin Brass.
Art on the Avenue needs additional sponsorships as well, said Nancy Campbell. “We have four levels for financial support—Louvre at $10,000; Metropolitan at $7,500; Prado at $2,500; and National Gallery at $1,000—and we are also seeking in-kind sponsors for selected events.”
Major sponsors thus far include the ReadingHospital and MedicalCenter and Baldwin Hardware and Compleat Baldwin Brass. Major community supporters of Art on the Avenue currently include RiverPlace on the Schuylkill, Berks Economic Partnership, Berks County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, the Community School of Music and the Arts and the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
To enter the juried art competition, call 610-685-8854 or visit www.zapplication.org. ZAPP™ enables individual artists, including those from Reading and BerksCounty, to apply online to multiple art shows through this one central Web site.
For other details or information about participating in the June 20, 2009 Art on the Avenue celebration, contact West Reading Main Street at 610-685-8854. Or visit the website: www.westreadingmainstreet.org/artontheavenue2009.htm.
Sponsored by the Community School of Music & the Arts
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