Registration for The Home Grown Institute March 24-25 is Open! 

* one per family/residence. All repurposed from reclaimed food grade plastic. Supplies are limited.

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All The Best

Sarah Gabriel, Managing Director
The Home Grown Institute
Community-Centered, Skills-Focused, Action-Driven

March 24 – 25, 2012 ”Springing Good Intentions into Action”

A one-day poetry and fiction workshop featuring a visit to theWoodmere Art Museum.

Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012
Time: 10 a.m.—3 p.m.
Fee: $60
Instructors: Kathy Sheeder Bonanno and Susan Agar
Other Info: Tickets to the museum and lunch included

Join us for a day of ekphrastic writing! We’ll start at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill with a mini tour of the museum followed by a one-hour tutorial by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno and Susan Agar about how to write responsively to visual art. Next, we’ll each choose a painting to write about, study it and make a draft of a poem or short story. Finally, we’ll drive down the hill to Musehouse, where we’ll enjoy complimentary lunch. We’ll end our afternoon with a reading of our new poems and stories to the group. What a fun and civilized way to spend a Sunday afternoon! This is a great workshop for writers of all levels.

Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, the Founder and Director of Musehouse, has been an educator for eighteen years. Her book, Slamming Open the Door, was among the ten best-selling books of poetry in America in 2009.

Susan Agar is the Program Coordinator of Musehouse. While living in London, she was a Reader for the Ian St. James Literary Award in short fiction.

Susan is a born and bred Philadelphia resident who has written a very interesting, often very funny, book about her experiences growing up with a somewhat unusual mother and tells of the very frustrating events involved in finding the right fit in placing her aging mom in a safe place. She will discuss her journey on becoming an author and her struggles with the health care system.

Ms. Morse is the first to appear in the 2012 Chestnut Hill Book Festival Speaker Series.

Find a coupon here for a discount dinner at the Chestnut Grill & Sidewalk Cafe before the talk.

The Morris Arboretum wants you to get outside this seasons and explore winter’s diversity. Enjoy winter color in the holly berries and the evergreens, or the winter blooms as they burst through the cold ground. If you need to warm up, just step into the tropically warm glasshouse Fernery with a balmy climate suitable for the thousands of thriving ferns. So, get outside to play and to learn at Morris Arboretum.  For more info, check out www.morrisarboretum.org

The Morris Arboretum and Woodmere Art Museum, located in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, are collaborating to organize an outdoor exhibition during the summer of 2012.

Artists of the Philadelphia region are invited to apply and commit to reinterpreting an individual or pair of full size chairs. Child-size chairs can be included as an optional second or third chair. (We did not get this idea from Goldilocks and the Three Bears!) An honorarium of $200 will be awarded to each artist.

The deadline for the submission of a letter of interest is February 7, 2012. Selections will be made by February 22 and partially assembled wooden Adirondack chairs will be available to artists by February 27. Completed chairs are due the week of April 30.

Prizes will be awarded and chairs will be on view outdoors throughout the summer at either the Morris Arboretum or Woodmere. The exhibit will close September 3 (Labor Day).

 Avenida Restaurant
Feliz Año Nuevo  Ring in 2012
Join us for live mariachi music, and a delicious prix fixe dinner—the perfect way to celebrate the beginnings yet to come.  $45 per person, does not include tax and gratuity  Call 267.385.6857

Chestnut Grill & Sidewalk Café
No Frills New Years
No Fuss, No Mess only Our Most Popular Menu Items of 2011
11 a.m. until 11 p.m.

Herbiary
One Day Maia-Foils-the-Taxman Sale December 31st
15% for total over $15
20% off total over $50
25% off total over $100
Tell them to “foil the taxman” to get your discount.

O’Doodles
New Year’s Eve Party for Kids
Saturday, December 31st
12:00 Noon
Music * Treats * Lots of Fun

Roller’s at the Flying Fish
Starts at 9:00 pm
3-course dinner & music
$55 per person
Guitarist, Jim Dragoni, reprises last year’s sold out evening–great music to accompany great food!

Tavern on the Hill
New Year’s Eve~Easy Does It. 
No Prix Fixe Folderol~Now Budget Busting Boondoggle
Just the same great TAVERN Fare we serve every night of the year.  All a la cate.  With Prime Rib & Lobster Tail Specials!  Come Early, Come Late:  215-247-9948, 8636 Germantown Avenue

The Little Treehouse Play Cafe
Countdown to Midnight
(in Bangkok)
Saturday, December 31st
9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Free celebration with noise makers and cookies.

Give Empirical Point Acupuncture a call (215) 247-7100 to pick up a beautifully printed gift certificate for someone special.

This is a great way to promote health and to build a solid foundation for those New Year’s resolutions!