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An interested passer-by stops to take a closer look at a Rolling Stone exhibit,
held recently at the
Hetzel Union Building on the University Park campus. A variety of exhibits
are now
on display at the HUB and the Palmer Museum of Art.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Slick back your hair, get out your bobby socks and saddle shoes and twist the night away at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra and Flash Cadillac at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport, part of Penn College.
Flash Cadillac has been performing for 25 years and was the first band to perform, in 1971, on American Bandstand without having a record.
For the past several years, Flash Cadillac has collaborated with more than 40 symphony orchestras to combine classic rock and classic pops.
For more information, call the arts center at (717) 326-2424. Tickets are $37, $32, $26, $21, $18 and $12.
On June 22, country music artists Diamond Rio will perform at the Community Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $28.50, $23.50 and $18.50.
Zoller Gallery and the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts jointly present "Crafts National 32," an annual juried crafts exhibition. The exhibition opens on May 31 and will run through July 19 in the Zoller Gallery, room 101 Visual Arts Building, on the University Park campus.
The exhibition features the work of 78 craft artists from across the United States and Canada, selected from 696 works entered by 253 artists.
For more information, contact Glen Speirs at (814) 863-3352.
MetaStages, an outreach program of the School of Theatre Arts, will offer drama camps for youth in July and August.
Separate sections for children ages 9-18 will include training in acting, voice and speech, mime, movement, improvisation and production workshop. The camps meet daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and culminate with final performances by each group for family and friends on the stage of the Pavilion Theatre on the University Park campus.
For more information about drama camps and semester programs for kindergarten through grade 12, call Joann Leonard, director at (814) 867-8390.