April Newsletter!

Spring on the Southside  Community Festival & Chili Cook-Off Saturday, April 27th 11:00am - 6:00pm Prepare your taste buds for a Chili Challenge like no other at the SouthSide Arts District’s Spring on the SouthSide Community Festival & Chili Cook-Off! Entering our 24th year on Saturday, April 27th we are welcoming 25 competing chilies to contend for the Title of People’s Choice Best Chili and the Celebrity Judge’s Top Choice!  With live art demonstrations, free crafts for the kids, live music and 2 NEW BEER GARDENS – there’s something for every family member at Spring on the SouthSide.

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April First Friday! Featuring Godfrey Daniels Come Together with Godfrey Daniels and an all-star lineup of Lehigh Valley performers to support “No Place for Hate.” This third-annual benefit show features Bakithi Kumalo (of the Paul Simon Band), Dave Fry, Bev “BC” Conklin, Alyssa Allen (of Touchstone Theatre), John Huie, and Not For Coltrane.   And as always, there will be food and drink specials as well as art and music throughout the rest of the SouthSide! So be sure to grab a bite to eat or shop around before No Place For Hate! Event info!

SAKURA Touchstone Theatre April 11-14 Seventy years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Keiin Yoshimura presents a requiem for the fallen through poetry, video projections, music, traditional Japanese artwork, and contemporary dance. This meditation on the meaninglessness of mass destruction and war has been performed around the world and strives to heal the wounds from the past.  Purchase tickets! South Side Spring Clean Up Saturday, April 13th 10am-12pm The Southside Arts District is seeking volunteers to do a little spring cleaning on the SouthSide! We'll be sprucing up the downtown and greenway in preparation for Spring on the SouthSide! We're in need of volunteers to help collect litter along the Greenway and paint flower planters and merchant windows. Sign up to volunteer!

April Events at Color Me Mine Kids Night Out - Missing Link April 13th Join us for a fun Movie Night at Color Me Mine! We'll paint pottery and watch a movie! Pottery will be kids' choice of a functional plate, mug or bowl with a special technique we will learn!  Easter Egg Painting Party- April 14th Join us for an Easter Egg painting party for the whole family! Each person will get THREE ceramic Easter eggs to paint any way they like! Bring your cameras for photos with the Easter Bunny in our photo booth! Sign up today! Music At The Museum: Songs From The Golden Age Of Radio April 6 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM With a sophisticated and soothing style, Corinne Mammana is an American jazz singer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist and bandleader. She is praised by JazzTimes for her “superb technique.” Build Your Own Radio APRIL 20 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Join Ted Schwartz at NMIH to build your very own FM radio. Participants will learn the basics of working with a printed circuit board while becoming familiar with a variety of electrical components. There will be a soldering tutorial prior to building the radio. Visit our website!

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