| Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! After a bustling holiday season, we've closed the Garden during the month of January - and Philadelphia has finally gotten cold enough to deserve it. We'll be back open during weekends in February, and then starting March 1st, the Garden will again open six days a week. Be sure to bring yourselves, visiting friends and family members, and newcomers to the Philadelphia area! In the meantime, we have a host of exhibits and events to share with you, including a special show of photographs from Mexico running through February, and a workshop extravaganza this March. Don't forget to check the coupon at the bottom of this email for a very special offer.
February 2 - March 15, 2008, Opening - Saturday, February 2, 2008 5 - 8PM Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Judith Roberts trained at the Art Institute of Baltimore. She fell in love with Mexican culture when she first traveled to the country twenty years ago. She settled with her family in San Miguel de Allende, opened a shop selling folk art, clothing, and jewelry, designed her own clothing line, and spent much of her time photographing all that she saw. This exhibition focuses on Roberts' extensive trips throughout Mexico's vastly diverse ethnic regions, where she experienced and captured celebrations and religious rituals along with ordinary life. The Magic Gardens is showing Roberts' photographs in relation to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Frida Kahlo exhibition that opens on February 20th.
Isaiah Zagar announces the March Mosaic Marathon! With the Gardens now open to the public and largely complete, Isaiah has begun an even larger project, this time in a two-story South Philly warehouse that he plans to transform into a Palace of Mosaic Art. To make this dream a reality, Isaiah needs your help. He's looking for 100 participants to accomplish a monumental feat of mosaicing madness. The project? Mounting one of Isaiah Zagar's most unique set of panels, Philadelphia Dance, onto the longest wall of this new space, and then creating an original 3,000 square foot continuous mosaic around it. The challenge? Finding 100 people or more to make this happen in just two days.
As Isaiah says, "It's impossible!" Join the group and help prove common sense wrong.
Monthly Open Mic Starts March 6th Stop by the Magic Gardens every first Thursday starting March, 2008 to hear or share the latest local poetry, prose, and other acoustic creations. Performance slots are open to the first 10-12 individuals. The show starts at 7, with a $5 entry fee that goes entirely to the Gardens. Contact Lara for more information at milesthetrumpeter@hotmail.com.
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