"House of Dreams" Debut

Our play, House Of Dreams, premiered at The Rotunda in West Philadelphia yesterday to a very supportive and receptive audience.

It encompasses the main goals of the program by showcasing the various creative talents of the individuals within the Cultural Arts program through acting, writing, performance art, choreographed movement, live and recorded music, 2 and 3 dimensional visual art, and multimedia outlets, all under the umbrella of theater.

The project was headed by Jerry Perna, Michael Gerkovich, and Alie Vidich, with the rest of the Cultural Arts staff contributing in a strong way. Linda Price and Gina Renzi facilitated its creation.


Richard contributed a great deal of his creative energy to this project. He played beautiful songs for the audience as the cast took their places backstage.


Mike S. narrates.


Eyes in the dark, at the bottom of the sea


The cast focuses their collective energy to become The Blob


David emerges from a dinosaur egg.

Special thanks to Nofre Vaquer for taking these photographs!

House Of Dreams opens Saturday!

House Of Dreams, the play we've been working on throughout the summer, will be premiering this Saturday, September 25th at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street, West Philadelphia) at 1:00pm. We look forward to once again sharing our work with the community.





http://www.therotunda.org/calendar/house-of-dreams/

Things to do with your friends

Rasheed took these photographs on Friday...


Ashley recorded some guitar


Hector tagged school property in graffiti club



Mike S., Pietro, Richard, Tyree, and Yvonne are constructing a car for our fall theater production

Good luck Stephan!

We recently bid farewell to Stephan Tsapatoris, an amazing music teacher who instructed students in various departments of PDDC, as well as completing multiple other helpful tasks within the organization. The Cultural Arts Center wishes him luck in his future endeavors and will miss working with him.

Stephan & Myesha jamming

Music with Stephan

Today we had a special guest Stephan Tsapatoris come in to sing songs and play music with us during morning circle. In photos: Mark, Myron, Timmy, Tyesha and Stephan, Charles, Timmy, Rasheed, Stephan and Hector.

Guitar Lessons

Today we played guitar along to songs on the radio. In photos: Sandy, Jason and Mike.

Music

Everyone is enjoying Tuesday music therapy with Tracy and. In photos: Tyree, Tracy, Raquel, George, Hubert, Charles and Mike.