Upcoming Events
The Monroeville Arts Council is planning an exciting “Weekend of Art!” in Monroeville that includes visual art, dancing, singing and a 70-piece concert band – all at the local CCAC Boyce Campus with no admission charge.
· On Saturday and Sunday, July 17 and 18, visitors can enjoy MAC’s 22nd Art Show in the Boyce gymnasium from 2 to 7 p.m. Visitors can enter and free park on the left side of school’s complex. The show includes variety of professional renderings by artists from oil and water color paintings to photography to sculpture. It also features the winners from MAC’s Kids’ & Teens’ Korner Art Show, a free basket raffle and silent auction for several paintings.
· On Saturday, July 17, at 4 p.m., Larry Cervi’s East End Kids, Pittsburgh’s premier teen song and dance ensemble that’s celebrating its 20th anniversary, will perform “You Can’t Stop the Beat” for an hour’s performance near the gymnasium. This show includes music from “Bye Bye Birdie, “A Chorus Line” and “Hairspray. The group brings professionally staged and choreographed productions, sung in three-part harmony with featured vocal soloists. Professional sets, props and musical accompaniments enable the East End Kids to bring a little bit of Broadway to local stages.
· On Sunday, July 18, the Community Band South brings its 70 musicians to Boyce’s air-conditioned auditorium stage from 4 to 6 p.m. for the third in MAC’s Monroeville Summer Four-Concert Series. This band has won awards and its dedicated musicians have consistently lived up to their motto, “Music Is for A Lifetime.” Directors James Bennett and C. Dean Streator agree, “We are convinced that high quality music performance is not strictly limited to professional musicians, so in our rehearsals and performances we hope our nurses, computer technicians, doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales reps, librarians, engineers, homemakers, and retired professionals of all occupations can put aside their daily concerns and shift into making beautiful music together.” The audience is assured of a real treat when they hear this band in the 350-seat auditorium. This is the 27th year MAC has offered free concerts to the public!
So come and enjoy your hometown events courtesy of the Monroeville Arts Council. For more information, call Marilyn Wempa at 412-373-7794.
