Ballet Hispánico Returns to the Weis Center on Feb. 6; Dance Company called “smashingly theatrical” by Chicago Sun Times

Ballet Hispánico Returns to the Weis Center on Feb. 6; Dance Company called “smashingly theatrical” by Chicago Sun Times

The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome back NYC-based contemporary dance powerhouse Ballet Hispánico on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center.

There will be a free pre-performance talk from 6:45-7:15 p.m. in the Weis Center Atrium. The talk will feature Johan Rivera, Artistic Associate & Rehearsal Director.

The performance is sponsored, in part, by Service 1st Federal Credit Union.

Ballet Hispánico is the largest Latine/Latinx/Hispanic cultural organization in the U.S. and one of America’s Cultural Treasures.

At the Weis Center, they will present a mixed repertoire program, designed to be enjoyed by audiences of all ages: Línea Recta by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, ¡Si Señor! ¡Es Mi Son! (excerpt) by Alberto Alonso, Danse Creole (excerpt) by Geoffrey Holder, Buscando a Juan (excerpt) by Eduardo Vilaro, and 18+1 by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano.

Press Quotes
“both earthy and classically elegant” – The New York Times

“When Ballet Hispanico’s dancers take the stage, watch out. No one struts, kicks, spins, leaps and gyrates the way they do. Their joy is infectious.” – New York Newsday

“Ballet Hispánico delivers spirited fun.” – The Boston Globe

Ballet Hispánico’s three main programs — the Company, School of Dance and Community Arts Partnerships — bring communities together to celebrate the multifaceted Latinx diasporas. Ballet Hispánico’s New York City headquarters provides the physical home and cultural heart for Latine dance in the U.S. It is a space that initiates new cultural conversations and explores the intersectionality of Latine cultures. No matter their background or identity — Latine, Latinx, Hispanic — Ballet Hispánico welcomes and serves all, breaking stereotypes and celebrating the beauty and diversity of Hispanic cultures through dance.

Dance visionary and National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez founded Ballet Hispánico in 1970, at the height of the post-war civil rights movements. From its inception Ballet Hispánico focused on providing a haven for Black and Brown families seeking place and artistic sanctuary. By creating the space for Latine dance and dancers to flourish, Ballet Hispánico uplifted marginalized artists and youth, which combined with the training, cultural pride, and the power of representation, fueled the organization’s roots and trajectory. Eduardo Vilaro joined Ballet Hispánico as a Company dancer in 1985 and became the organization’s second Artistic Director in 2009 and CEO in 2015. Vilaro is building on Ramirez’s impact; expanding, and deepening the legacy of visibilizing Latine cultures, and exposing the intersectionality and depth of diversity found in them.

Through its exemplary artistry, distinguished training program, and deep-rooted community engagement, Ballet Hispánico champions and amplifies Latinx voices in the field. For over fifty years Ballet Hispánico has provided a place of honor for the omitted, overlooked, and othered. As it looks to the future, Ballet Hispánico is pushing the culture forward on issues of dance and Hispanic creative expression.

About Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director & CEO
Eduardo Vilaro joined Ballet Hispánico as Artistic Director in August 2009, becoming only the second person to head the company since it was founded in 1970. In 2015, Mr. Vilaro took on the additional role of Chief Executive Officer of Ballet Hispánico. He has been part of the Ballet Hispánico family since 1985 as a dancer and educator, after which he began a ten-year record of achievement as founder and Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater in Chicago. Mr. Vilaro has infused Ballet Hispánico’s legacy with a bold and eclectic brand of contemporary dance that reflects America’s changing cultural landscape.

Born in Cuba and raised in New York from the age of six, he is a frequent speaker on the merits of cultural diversity and dance education. Mr. Vilaro’s own choreography is devoted to capturing the spiritual, sensual, and historical essence of Latino cultures. He created over 20 ballets for Luna Negra and has received commissions from the Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Grant Park Festival, the Lexington Ballet, and the Chicago Symphony. In 2001, he was a recipient of a Ruth Page Award for choreography, and in 2003, he was honored for his choreographic work at Panama’s II International Festival of Ballet.

Mr. Vilaro was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame in 2016 and was awarded HOMBRE Magazine’s 2017 Arts & Culture Trailblazer of the Year. In 2019, Mr. Vilaro was the recipient of the West Side Spirit’s WESTY Award, was honored by WNET for his contributions to the arts, and most recently, was the recipient of the James W. Dodge Foreign Language Advocate Award. In 2022 and 2023, Mr. Vilaro was included in Crain’s New York lists of Notable Hispanic Leaders and Notable LGBTQ Leaders; and was acknowledged as one of Forbes’ Kings of Culture, Legends of Business.

About the Dance Works
Línea Recta
From award-winning choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa comes Línea Recta, a powerful and resonant work that explores the absence of physical partnering in flamenco dance. While maintaining the genre’s hallmark passion, Lopez Ochoa’s piece offers an original and explosive movement language performed to Eric Vaarzon Morel’s flamenco guitar.

¡Si Señor! ¡Es Mi Son! (excerpt)
Choreographer Alberto Alonso brings the spirit of Cuba to life. Elaborately costumed dancers make their way across the stage in a carnival style procession eventually breaking off in pairs, their movement intertwined with the Afro-Cuban rhythms of Gloria Estefan’s music from her album, Mi Tierra.

Danse Creole (excerpt)
Inspired by the pulsing Caribbean rhythms of Trinidad, Geoffrey Holder’s Danse Creole explores the influence of European, West African, and Indigenous cultures combined with long, balletic lines. In blending the cultures that developed throughout the country’s history, Holder pays homage to his homeland’s folklore in this lively work.

Buscando a Juan (excerpt)
Inspired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter exhibition and showcasing Eduardo Vilaro’s unique choreographic talents, Buscando a Juan explores the mix of cultures and diasporas through the exoticized body and fixation on gesture and sensuality.

18+1 (excerpt)
Celebrating Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s tenure as a choreographer, this vulnerable and joyous piece demonstrates the care and hope that comes within each artistic endeavor. In a display of subtle humor and eclectic choreography, the movement merges with the playful rhythms found in Pérez Prado’s mambo music.

TICKETS
Tickets are $30 for adults, $24 for seniors 62+ and subscribers, $20 for youth 18 and under, $20 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), free for Bucknell students (limit 1) and $20 for non-Bucknell students (limit 2).

Special rate for youth: Students of local dance studios may purchase tickets for just $10! Use code LATINX online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice after selecting seats.

Tickets can be reserved by calling 570-577-1000 or online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice.

Tickets are also available in person from several locations including the Weis Center lobby (weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and the CAP Center Box Office, located on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center (weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

For more information about this event, contact Lisa Leighton, marketing and outreach director, at 570-577-3727 or by e-mail at [email protected].
For more information about the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, go to Bucknell.edu/WeisCenter or search for the Weis Center on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

Family Friendly Performance Kicks off Weis Center’s Spring Season

Family Friendly Performance Kicks off Weis Center’s Spring Season

The Weis Center for the Performing Arts will welcome a contemporary puppetry/shadow puppetry ensemble, Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North, on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Weis Center.

The runtime for the performance is 80 minutes without an intermission and is suggested for ages 7+.

The performance is sponsored, in part, by Adriana Rojas and family in memory of Andrew.

Song of the North is a large-scale, cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the courageous tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia, who must use all her strengths and talents to rescue her beloved from a perilous predicament and help prevent a war.

This epic love story employs a cast of 500 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of nine actors and puppeteers, all of which come together to create a spectacular experience that advances the themes of unity, collaboration and experimentation through performance and story.

Song of the North, adapted from the Book of Kings (Shahnameh), challenges the Eurocentric worldview of art and storytelling through a contemporary multimedia experience of this classic Persian tale.

About Hamid Rahmanian

Hamid Rahmanian is a 2014 John Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 United States Artists Fellowship. His work centers on theater, moving image, and graphic arts and has been exhibited in international competitions and publications. His films have screened at Venice, Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, and IDFA film festivals and broadcast on PBS, Sundance Channel, IFC, Channel 4, BBC, DR2, and Al Jazeera.

Rahmanian undertook the task of illustrating and commissioning a new translation and adaptation of the tenth-century Persian epic poem Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, titled Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings (2013). The resulting best-selling 600-page art book, lauded by the Wall Street Journal as a “masterpiece,” is currently in its second edition (Liveright Publishing). In 2017, Rahmanian released an immersive audiobook version of Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian King, with an introduction by Frances Ford Coppola. In 2018, he released a pop-up book titled, Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King (Fantagraphics Books) in English and Frenc which received the Meggendorfer Prize for the Best Pop Up-Book and was hailed “Simply breathtaking” by Le Monde.

In 2014, Rahmanian shifted his focus to theater arts, working with shadows and digital media. To date, he has created four theater pieces: Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King (2014), Mina’s Dream (2016, Commissioned by the Onassis Foundation), UNIMA-USA award-winning Feathers of Fire (2016) which premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music and toured in 23 cities around the US and abroad to an audience of 100,000. In 2019, he was commissioned by Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble to create a video animation for the multimedia project, Heroes Take Their Stand. Most recently, Rahmanian created the full-length stage production, Song of the North. Song of the North was awarded a 2021 National Theater Project grant and will premiere in March, 2022 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

This engagement of Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North is made possible through the ArtsConnect program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Mellon Foundation and additional support from the Doris Duke Foundation.

TICKETS
Tickets are $30 for adults, $24 for seniors 62+ and subscribers, $20 for youth 18 and under, $20 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), free for Bucknell students (limit 1) and $20 for non-Bucknell students (limit 2).

Youth groups are encouraged to attend this performance; receive $5 tickets by using code PERSIA at checkout, after selecting seats.

Tickets can be reserved by calling 570-577-1000 or online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice.

Tickets are also available in person from several locations including the Weis Center lobby (weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and the CAP Center Box Office, located on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center (weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

For more information about this event, contact Lisa Leighton, marketing and outreach director, at 570-577-3727 or by e-mail at [email protected].

For more information about the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, go to Bucknell.edu/WeisCenter or search for the Weis Center on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

Weis Center Kicks Off Spring Season on January 30

Weis Center Kicks Off Spring Season on January 30

Note: All performances take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall, unless otherwise noted.

The Weis Center’s spring 2024 season kicks off on Tuesday, January 30 with a family-friendly performance of Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North, a large-scale, cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the courageous tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia, who must use all her strengths and talents to rescue her beloved from a perilous predicament and help prevent a war. This epic love story employs a cast of 500 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of nine actors and puppeteers.

Ballet Hispanico returns to the Weis Center on Tuesday, February 6. Ballet Hispánico is the largest Latine/Latinx/Hispanic cultural organization in the U.S. and one of America’s cultural treasures. They will present a mixed repertoire of three pieces.

Kyshona, an artist who blends roots, rock, rhythm and blues and folk, will perform on Thursday, February 8. Her release, Listen, was voted Best Protest Album of 2020 by Nashville Scene. Kyshona’s nonprofit organization, Your Song, offers songwriting programs for youth empowerment programs, detention, re-entry, recovery, mental health and veterans centers and organizations.

Blues artists Jontavious Willis and Jay Hopp perform at the Weis Center on Wednesday, February 14. Jontavious got his much-needed break from the living legend Taj Mahal in 2015, when Mahal asked Willis to play on stage with him. That appearance resulted in a roaring response from the audience and led Willis to bigger stages and broader opportunities, including an opening slot at select shows along the TajMo tour, featuring his musical mentors Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’. Jayy started in the church; first playing drums in gospel groups before being introduced to guitar by his cousin. The guitar led him on a musical journey backwards through time, unpacking the history of blues guitar. He went to school with Jontavious, who then opened his ears to an even earlier generation of acoustic players.

The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine will perform on Friday, February 23 under the chief conductor Volodymyr Sirenko. Pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky will be featured.

Formed by the Council of Ministers of Ukraine in November 1918, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine is considered to be one of the finest symphony orchestras in Eastern Europe.

Then on March 1, tenThing returns to the Weis Center. Formed in 2007 by Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth as a fun and exciting collaboration among musical friends, the 10-piece, all-female brass ensemble has firmly established itself on the international scene to great acclaim. tenThing is celebrated for its commitment to outreach and access to music through a diverse repertoire, from Mozart to Weill, Grieg to Bernstein and Lully to Bartók.

The Martha Redbone Roots Project comes to the Weis Center on Tuesday, March 5. Martha Redbone is a Native American and African American vocalist/songwriter/composer/educator. She is known for her unique gumbo of folk, blues and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky, that is infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Inheriting the powerful vocal range of her gospel-singing African American father and the resilient spirit of her mother’s Southeastern Cherokee/Choctaw culture, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American roots music. With songs and storytelling that share her life experience as a Native and Black woman and mother in the new millennium, she gives voice to issues of social justice, bridging traditions from past to present, connecting cultures and celebrating the human spirit.

Traditional Irish music will be performed on Friday, March 22Described by the BBC as “an icon of Irish music,” the band has played at festivals from Rock in Rio, Brazil, to Glastonbury, England, toured with the Irish president and struck up tunes on the Great Wall of China. Dervish has a lineup that includes some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians, fronted by one of the country’s best-known singers Cathy Jordan. Dervish has been long-established as one of the biggest names in Irish music internationally.

Bill and the Belles returns to the Weis Center on Thursday, April 4. Happy Again isn’t exactly happy, but the delightfully deadpan new album from roots mainstays Bill and the Belles is full of life, humor and tongue-in-cheek explorations of love and loss. This album marks a new chapter for the group by featuring 11 all-original songs penned by founding member Kris Truelsen. There’s no dancing around it: this album is about his divorce. But the group has a knack for saying sad things with an ironic smirk, pairing painful topics with a sense of release and relief. Anyone who’s been to one of their shows can attest that you leave feeling lighter and refreshed.

Then, two young classical artists, Jonathan Swensen on cello and Adam Golka on piano will be showcased on Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. Rising star of the cello Jonathan Swensen is the recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant and was featured as both Musical America’s New Artist of the Month and One to Watch in Gramophone magazine. Polish-American pianist Adam Golka first performed all of Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas when he was 18 years-old, and he returned to the complete cycle in 2020-2021 for performances in New York City, Orlando, and Houston.

The U.S. Army Field Band/Jazz Ambassadors take the stage on Friday, April 12 in a free performance.Known as America’s Big Band, the Jazz Ambassadors are the premier touring jazz orchestra of the U.S. Army. Formed in 1969, this 19-piece ensemble has received critical acclaim throughout the U.S. and abroad performing America’s original art form, jazz. Performances by the Jazz Ambassadors offer some of the most versatile programming of any big band. Concerts include classic big band standards, instrumental and vocal solo features, patriotic favorites, contemporary jazz works and original arrangements and compositions by past and present members of the Jazz Ambassadors. This performance is free, but tickets are required in advance.

Finally, the season ends with Caña Dulce Caña Brava on Thursday, April 18. Caña Dulce Caña Brava offers a performance that shows off the music, poetry, dance and traditional attire of Veracruz, Mexico, interpreted by artists who are beneficiaries of the jarocho culture and noteworthy performers with years of experience on both national and international stages. The group stands out as an artistic project that highlights feminine poetry and voices. Creating an experience that connects the spectator with distinct emotions, one is taken on a voyage through multiple rhythms, accompanied by traditional string instruments, such as the harp and the jarana, percussion and zapateado (percussive dance), poetic improvisation in rhyme and visual effects.

Season Brochure

The season brochure is now available as an eco-friendly, downloadable and printable PDF at Bucknell.edu/WeisCenter.

Hardcopies are available at the Weis Center and throughout the Susquehanna River Valley region including the Susquehanna River Valley Visitors Bureau, Columbia Montour Visitors Bureau, local Chambers of Commerce and local libraries.

Sponsors

The Weis Center’s 2023-24 season is supported by the following season-level sponsors: Bucknell Sports Properties, The Daily Item, Seven Mountains Media, Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation and WVIA.

Event sponsors include Backyard Broadcasting, Bucknell Music Department Gallery Series, Martha and Alan Barrick, Centre Daily Times, Class of 1953 Fund, Coldwell Banker Penn One Real Estate, Columbia-Montour Visitors Bureau, Nancy and Sam Craig, Evangelical Community Hospital, Geisinger, Jazz at Bucknell, Clayton and David Lightman, Teri MacBride and Steve Guattery, The News Item, PPL Foundation, Press Enterprise, Asbury Riverwoods, Adriana Rojas and family in memory of Andrew, Service 1st Federal Credit Union, Gary and Sandy Sojka, Standard Journal, Stone State Entertainment, ViaMedia, Williamsport Sun Gazette, Karl Voss and Chanin Wendling family, PAHomepage/WBRE/WYOU, WNEP and WVIA.

Grant funding for the season includes Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Western Arts Alliance Advancing Indigenous Performance (AIP) Touring Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

TICKETS

Tickets are now available:

  • Weis Center Atrium
    Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
  • Elaine Langone Center, Campus Activities & Programs Center
    Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

The Campus Box Office opens one hour prior to performances at the performance location.

570-577-1000 or Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice

For more information about the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, go to Bucknell.edu/WeisCenter or search for the Weis Center on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

 

Ring in the New Year with BTE’s Improv

Ring in the New Year with BTE’s Improv

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – Join the Downtown First Friday festivities with BTE’s Improv Night on Friday the 5th of January at 7:30 p.m. at the Alvina Krause Theatre.

Bloomsburg’s premier improvisational comedy troupe will entertain audiences with hilarious games, ridiculous scenes, and other feats of unscripted comedy. Will cast members Amy Rene Byrne, Crystal Comuntzis, Renee Fawess, Rory Gaughan, Johanna Gelbs, Abby Golden, Abigail Leffler, Violet Race, Kyle Bower, and Michaela Tloczynski have what it takes to stay on their feet during these fast-paced, raucous shows?

Comedy lovers can buy advance tickets for $10 by calling the BTE Box Office at 570-784-5530 or visiting www.bte.org. All door tickets will cost $15.

Founded in 1978 as an artist-driven, community-based resident ensemble, BTE creates innovative work with local and national impact. Today, BTE produces a lively mix of classic and contemporary plays and original theatre education programs for all ages. For more information about our shows and programs, please see www.bte.org.

Community Arts Center awarded EITC funds from Fulton Bank

Community Arts Center awarded EITC funds from Fulton Bank

Williamsport, PA –The Community Arts Center received a $1,000 donation from Fulton Bank as part of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program that will go to support the Educational Series programming at the CAC, which includes Romeo & Juliet; Full STEAM Ahead Vol. 2: World in Motion; Keep Marching – The Road to the March on Washington; and Rosie Revere, Engineer.

“Fulton Bank is so pleased to support the educational programs offered by the Community Arts Center through the EITC program. With this program, school children of all ages in Lycoming County will be able to enjoy educational age-appropriate programs and performances. It’s a wonderful way to bring the arts to many,” said Leslie Temple, SVP Market Leader/Business Development Officer, Fulton Bank.

The Community Arts Center is an approved Educational Improvement Organization by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. The EITC program provides tax credits to eligible companies that do business in the state when they contribute to scholarship organizations, educational improvement organizations and/or pre-kindergarten scholarship organizations.

“We’re incredibly grateful for contributions like this, which help to fund engaging local performances that might not otherwise be available in Williamsport. Fulton Bank’s assistance in bringing our community together to support the arts is invaluable,” said Jim Dougherty, Executive Director of the CAC.

Funding for the educational programming is derived from various sources, including EITC Funds, donations, corporate sponsorships, and grants.

“We’ve offered our Ed Series since 2007, and it is only possible because of support like this from Fulton Bank,” said Ana Gonzalez-White, College Relations Officer in charge of CAC Development. “We can’t do it without the community.”

For more information about giving opportunities at the CAC, contact Gonzalez-White at 570-327-7657 or email [email protected].

The Community Arts Center is owned and operated by Pennsylvania College of Technology, a national leader in applied technology education. For more information on the college, visit www.pct.edu.

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Pictured from left to right: Jim Dougherty, Executive Director, Community Arts Center; Ana Gonzalez-White, College Relations Officer, Community Arts Center; Leslie Temple, SVP Market Leader/Business Development Officer, Fulton Bank; Alfreda Baer, Williamsport Financial Center Manager, Fulton Bank; and Brian Paulhamus, Commercial Relationship Manager, Fulton Bank.

Community Arts Center awarded EITC funds from Jersey Shore State Bank

Community Arts Center awarded EITC funds from Jersey Shore State Bank

Williamsport, PA –The Community Arts Center received a $3,000 donation from Jersey Shore State Bank as part of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program. The funds will be used to support the approved Educational Series programming at the CAC, which includes Romeo & Juliet; Full STEAM Ahead Vol. 2: World in Motion; Keep Marching – The Road to the March on Washington; and Rosie Revere, Engineer.

“Jersey Shore State Bank is proud to support the Community Art Center’s continued commitment to educational programming in the arts and the opportunities offered to the youth in our area,” said Natasha Mantle, JSSB Williamsport Branch Manager.

The Community Arts Center is an approved Educational Improvement Organization by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. The EITC program provides tax credits to eligible companies that do business in the state when they contribute to scholarship organizations, educational improvement organizations and/or pre-kindergarten scholarship organizations.

“This generosity allows us to bring the wonder of live performance to young people throughout our community, both on the stage and in the audience. EITC funds are essential in developing the arts through our region, and we’re thrilled to partner with Jersey Shore State Bank in supporting this mission,” said Jim Dougherty, Executive Director of the CAC.

Funding for the educational programming is derived from various sources, including EITC Funds, donations, corporate sponsorships, and grants.

“I appreciate very much this contribution to our educational programming from Jersey Shore State Bank,” said Ana Gonzalez-White, College Relations Officer in charge of CAC Development.

“In addition to the learning that takes place, it’s one of the most fun programs we offer.”

For more information about giving opportunities at the CAC, contact Gonzalez-White at 570-327-7657 or email [email protected].

The Community Arts Center is owned and operated by Pennsylvania College of Technology, a national leader in applied technology education. For more information on the college, visit www.pct.edu.

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Pictured from left to right: Natasha Mantle, Williamsport Branch Manager, Jersey Shore State Bank; Ana Gonzalez-White, College Relations Officer, Community Arts Center; Jim Dougherty, Executive Director, Community Arts Center; Dawn Remsnyder, Commercial Lender, Jersey Shore State Bank.