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Fall Arts Preview
Tune in as our arts and culture maven Michaela Majoun leads through the best the Fall Arts Season has to offer. Highlights include:

Culture, Creativity, and the City Town Hall Meeting
A panel discussion and reception on Sunday, September 9 at the Painted Bride Arts Center to help develop concensus on the future of the arts in Philadelphia before the next mayoral election. Panelists from other cities will speak on the impact of their city arts offices as Philadelphia is poised to reinstitute ours. The town hall meeting is open to artists, art consumers, and all interested citizens.
Listen to Tuesday's Fall Arts Preview on Culture, Creativity & The City

Unexpected Sights, Sounds, and Thoughts from The 11th Annual Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival
The 11th Annual Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival is in full swing. It started Friday and is on until September 15 at venues around the city, bringing cutting edge performance art, theater, dance, music and visual art from around the world to mingle with local groups in an orgy of nonstop performance. Music is a huge part of the festival, on its own and accompany other arts.

Here’s a quick trip through some of the sounds and music of this year’s fest. This pastiche of the 11th annual Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival is meant to let you know that the festival will expose you to unexpected sights, sounds, and thoughts. It uses clips from The Many Men of Martha Manning, a six episode radio soap opera available as a podcast… Tar, a dance-based exploration of African trickster tales with music composed by King Britt....Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century a punk rock operetta by Brooklyn’s World/Inferno Friendship Society…Grace:Kingdom, a multi-discipline recreation of Jeff Buckley’s CD Grace by A Grateful Company…and No Dice by Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a four hour dinner theater extravaganza.
Listen to Wednesday's Fall Arts Preview on the Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival

InLiquid.com
InLiquid.com is a center point of Philadelphia's visual arts community, bringing artists together on the web to share and expose their work. Executive Director and founder of the site, photographer Rachel Zimmerman has organized shows and events featuring members' work from September through November at Painted Bride Café Gallery, the Crane Arts Building, International House, and the Schuylkill Arts Center.
Listen to Thursday's Fall Arts Preview on InLiquid.com

A Festival of Disability Arts and Culture
Independence Starts Here: A Festival of Disability Arts and Culture is the first of its kind in Philadelphia, presenting performances, art exhibitions, workshops and lectures featuring music, dance, theater, poetry, film, painting, and more with the common thread of work influenced by the experience of disability and created by artists with and without disabilities. (October 19 - November 20)
Listen to Friday's Fall Arts Preview on the Festival of Disability Arts and Culture

Here are some other events of note in the visual and performing arts this fall:

Grand Opening of the Suzanne Roberts Theater, new home of Philadelphia Theatre Company, presenting a new Stephen Sondheim revue Being Alive
October 23-December 2
www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/
newtheater/project.html

6th Annual First Person Festival at L'Etage
November 7-11
www.firstpersonarts.org

Re:Print Re:Present Re:View presented by Philagrafika and Temple Gallery at multiple sites
Begins with opening September 7th at Temple Gallery
www.philagrafika.org

The newly renovated and expanded Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and unveiling of works from the Museum's collection that have never before been displayed, state-of-the-art visitor amenities, study centers, and educational resources.
www.philamuseum.org/perelman/

Tribute to John Cage and his New York School associates, including a premier by Christian Wolff
Relache
www.relache.org

The XPN Morning Show covered the Mural Dedication celebrating American Bandstand's 50th anniversary. Bob Bumbera was at the festivities at the original Bandstand studios on Market Street in Philadelphia and captured the Most Memorable Music Moments of Connie Francis and The Geator...Michaela Majoun interviewed them and Chubby Checker live on the Morning ... and you can hear it all right here! To submit your own musical moments, click here
885 Most Memorable Musical Moments

The Tipplers Tour is a historic walking tour of taverns offered by Once Upon a Nation and led by your guide, 18th century Irishman Liam McCoy.
onceuponanation.org/adventuretours.htm
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Michaela Serves Up Hot Soup on the Morning Show
Hot Soup Glass Studio in Old City has a long history of teaching and exhibiting...and has special activities every First Friday.  Find out more in this feature produced by XPN Morning Show Intern, Selin Amado.

Curator Felice Fisher speaks with Michaela Majoun in the gallery for a brief tour of:
Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush Through Sunday, July 22
This exhibition marks the first time an exhibition in the United States focuses on the eighteenth-century Japanese master of ink painting Ike Taiga (1723–1776) and his wife Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727–1784). Bringing together key works from both Japanese and Western collections, it offers American audiences a look at over 200 exceptional and rarely seen screens, handscrolls, hanging scrolls, and album and fan paintings by the two artists. http://www.philamuseum.org/

You can listen to the Curator's tour here.

Director John Byrne, Glen Hansard of The Frames, and Czech Musician Marketa Inrglova
On Wednesday May 2 XPN held a member screening of the new film Once, directed by John Byrne and starring Glen Hansard of the Irish band The Frames, and Czech musician Marketa Irglova.  The three stopped by the XPN Morning Show for a discussion of the film and a song. You can listen to the interview here.
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Joss Stone Returns to Philly
On Friday April 27, Michaela got to talk with Joss Stone, who was in Philly for a gig at The Electric Factory. If you missed the interview, you can check out the entire conversation here.

Michaela & Francis Dunnery

Michaela & Rufus Wainwright

Michaela & Rhett Miller