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Tag Archives: Phoenixville PA
Music For People Satellite Improvisation Camp
only $89.00 both days
| Saturday 6/25 (10-4pm) Through simple forms we will create music from within and develop skills in listening and playing with others. Lots of music making!
(5-9pm) Celebration The local community is invited to join us for a potluck, music making, dance and badminton playing party. You can perform Open Mic style on the stage, dance, socialize, jam in the back rooms, eat and play Badminton!
($20 Sat night only or $10. if you bring a dish) SMASHVILLE ARTS AND BADMINTON CENTER
310 E High St. Pottstown, PA 3rd floor
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| Music and Well Being Sunday 6/26 10-1pm Improvisation skills utilized with Soundhealing techniques exploring: voice, instruments, Tibetan bowls and a Sound bed.
Healing Arts Studio
125 Prospect St. Phoenixville, PA. ($40. Sunday only )
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Join Lynn Miller For A Therapeutic Sound Session
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A unique Soundhealing experience
Join Lynn Miller for a therapeutic Sound session at the
Healing Arts Studio in Phoenixville, PA
Lynn has a special tool, a Svaram soundbed (a wooden massage table with 50 strings underneath.) As one lays on the table, she plays the strings underneath giving a vibrational massage. The session also uses Tibetan sound bowls, Native flutes and voice. The vibrations nurture the emotional-physical system which can move energy releasing blockages. This tuning of the system leaves a feeling of regeneration, well-being and harmony.
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Badminton And Music Events
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Smashville Arts and Badminton, Grand Opening
Music, Dance, Food and of course Badminton
After 2 years of renovation, we are pleased to announce our 3 court badminton center is open. We want to celebrate with you!We’ll have a stage with Eric and Lynn Miller and friends playing live music, lots of space to dance and of course we’ll play badminton.
Saturday, March 12
310 E. High Street, Pottstown PA 3rd floor 5pm Contribution: $20. or Bring a potluck $10. |
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Music for People Satellite Workshop
Facilitated by Lynn Miller, Mary Knysh and Ron Kravitz
Have an adventure in exploring improvisation music at Ron’s studio. He has an array of fun percussion instruments from around the world and back again. Of course bring your own instrument. We invite all styles of music, all instruments and all levels of experience. Through simple structures we will play music in the moment, and develop skills in playing authentically from the heart.
Join us, it’s fun!! This workshop is an opportunity to work with faculty from Music for People in a small intimate setting. (limited to 19). Saturday, March 19, 2016 9:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. $80.00/workshop registration by 3/13 / $10.00 for show 1012 E Southampton Ave. Wyndmoor, Pa 19038 There will be a concert afterward, Ron’s Underground -an eclectic performance by Music for People staff and friends. |
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
7 – 7:50 pm Ron’s basement is transformed into a theater that seats about 70 people. A pre-concert jam session and potluck brings the community together to make music, and get to know the performers. featuring Lynn Miller – vocals, guitar, zen harp 1012 E Southampton Ave. Wyndmoor, Pa 19038 Suggested donation: $20. at the door |
Music for People Satellite SpiritArts, Transformation through music and dance Improvisation
May 20-22 2016
Eric and Lynn Miller welcome you to their studios. Friday and Sunday the topic will be music and well being. Participants will experience Lynn’s sound-bed (massage table with 50 strings underneath). Saturday, Eric invites you to his new 3,000 square foot facility 7pm Friday-(wine and cheese reception)- Healing Arts Studio-Soundbed 10-5pm Sat.-Smashville, Music for People forms and recording- location: Smashville-Pottstown, PA /Healing Arts Studio, Phoenixville, PA $89.00/workshop registration by 5/06 $20 Saturday night Community dance only * $40. Sunday Sound Healing only register at SpiritArts.us |
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SpiritArts | Lynn@lynnmiller.org | Spiritarts.us
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Expressive Arts Workshop
Spirit Grass At Steel City Coffee House, Phoenixville
Steel City Coffee House
204 Bridge St Phoenixville, PA
Thursday September 17th 7:00 -9:00 pm tickets $12.00 advance or $15.00 at door
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Eric and Lynn Miller (mando, guitar) Clint Goss (flutes) Ron Kravitz (percussion)
Flute Haven Mini 2015 Saturday June 13
Flute Haven Mini offers a day of Native Flute workshops, a flute circle, classes, and performances, and (most enjoyably) music-making and jamming.
At Flute Haven you can:
raise your level of flute playing,- learn to play with percussion, guitar, and piano,
- dive into performing,
- expand your flute playing into new genres,
Flute Haven is for people of all levels of musical experience – including beginners and experienced players. The amount of time you have played Native flutes is not important – only your desire to explore and expand your musicality.
Optional Friday night wine & cheese jam & reception 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Flutehaven Staff
Clint Goss, Eric and Lynn Miller, Ron Kravitz, Frank Henninger, Ron Volkman, Vera Shanov
9:30-12:30 Workshops * 12:30-1:30 Lunch * 2-5pm Flute Circle
6:30-8:30 Outdoor Concert Stage Performance and Flute Facilitation
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Summer “Soul-stice”
Expressive Arts workshop Sue Mistretta and Lynn Miller
Saturday June 20th 10am – 5pm
 Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year, providing us with the most Light of any day. It also happens to be the day when the shortest shadow is found. Using this as a metaphor for our personal and spiritual growth journey, we will create a day of celebration and purification. Using expressive arts, we will explore our soul longings through painting, sound and movement. We will make this Soul-stice an opportunity to let go of the “old story” we each carry in our lives…even if just for a moment. Only when we let go, are we open to possibilities that exist in our lives. We will shed light on the most meaningful parts of our lives and give these parts of us a voice. Cost for the workshop is $100 and includes lunch and all workshop materials. Early bird special – $90 if you sign up before June 6th!
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Music for People’s, Adventures in Improvisation  Join Our Musical Community
Find your authentic sound, explore your music
Lynn Miller, Ron Kravitz, Mary Knysh and Jim Oshinsky will guide you through singing, drumming, and instrument playing with MFP improvisational structures.
All styles, instruments and levels of experience welcomed.
Immaculata University, Malvern, PA June 26-28, 2015 Special tuition rate for first timers ($199 full weekend, $99 Saturday only) Additional information and registration:
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Phoenixville Borough Council Targets Crime On Bridge Street
PHOENIXVILLE, PA – After a recent increase in crime along Bridge Street, borough officials, residents and business owners say they’ve had enough and are searching for solutions.
During Tuesday night’s borough council meeting, Councilman Michael Kuznar added his voice to the growing number of people concerned about the borough’s safety. A recent armed robbery at the Save More Discount Center on Bridge Street and bricks thrown at two businesses were examples he used that something needs to be done.
“Since Jan. 1, Bridge Street has had over 900 calls to dispatch,” Kuznar said. “That’s a lot for just one street.”
Residents complained about “shady activity” at the Children’s Plaza at Bridge and Banks streets, too.
Read more:
Special Project: Is Pottstown More Dangerous Than Other Towns?
Editor’s note: A continuation of Evan Brandt’s series about crime in Pottstown. Well worth the read. The blogging community has been trying to get this problem addressed for a while now and it’s great that the mainstream media and Montco officials are getting on the bandwagon to clean up Pottstown. We feel Pottstown has great potential but it can’t be realized until crime is brought under control. When criminals learn that Pottstown isn’t open for business anymore, redevelopment can really take hold.
How many times have you heard it in the past year?
“Pottstown is turning into another Reading.”
It’s the kind of comparison not meant to reflect well on the Berks County seat, labeled in 2011 as the nation’s poorest city.
But comparisons are a way to put things in context.
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Schuylkill River Trail Extensions Will Connect Pottstown, Phoenixville
POTTSTOWN — It’s a simple truth, one that Kurt Zwikl repeats often: the longer a trail, the more people it attracts.
So perhaps that’s why as executive director of the Schuylkill River Heritage Association, he is so excited about the nearly $10 million of work being planned for his trail along the Schuylkill River.
Listed among hundreds of projects approved for funding in Pennsylvania and New Jersey by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, two relatively little items in Chester County are big news in terms of the Schuylkill River Trail.
Though small, they form crucial connections between two completed portions of the trail — from Mont Clare to Phoenixville and from Parker Ford to Pottstown.
SpiritArts Workshop To Be Offered in Phoenixville
Come explore the practices in my new book!
SpiritArts Workshop
SpiritArts Workshop
Have fun in the
Healing Arts Studio
Church alley, Phoenixville, PA
Saturday, May 31 10-5pm $65.
www.SpiritArts.us call to register 610-999-5945
Join Lynn for a talk/and SpiritArts experiential sampler on
Wednesday May 14th @ 7pm
at the Phoenix Village Arts Center, 207 Bridge St. Phoenixville, PA
Heroin Addict Admits To Chester County Bank Robbery
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WEST CHESTER, PA – A 23-year-old man addicted to heroin told a Common Pleas Court judge he wants to make a change in his life when the time comes for him to walk out of prison.
Instead of robbing banks to fund his addiction, as Michael Brown pleaded guilty to before Judge Anne Marie Wheatcraft on Tuesday, he would rather find a job that allows him to speak to people dealing with the same problem.
Brown, a high school dropout who had been addicted to heroin for three years, told the judge he would appreciate the chance to tell others just starting on the road to drug addiction about how he had made the same mistake, only to see his life ruined by having to feed his habit, court observers said.
Wheatcraft appeared impressed with Brown’s determination, and in a recommendation to the state Department of Corrections, suggested that he be allowed to serve his prison sentence at SCI Chester, which has an advanced drug rehabilitation program for inmates.
Read more: http://www.dailylocal.com/general-news/20140318/heroin-addict-admits-to-bank-robbery
Jury Finds Phoenixville Hospital Nurses Negligent, Awards Family $32.8M
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WEST CHESTER, PA — A Chester County Court jury awarded $32.8 million to a young North Coventry girl who was born with brain damage at Phoenixville Hospital, finding negligence on the part of two nurses who were attending her pregnant mother.
The verdict came late Friday after the panel of eight men and four women deliberated more than nine hours in the case of Lily Ciechoski, who suffers from spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy. The jury found that the nurses had improperly failed to alert the girl’s mother’s doctor about a drastic change in the baby’s heart rate for 13 minutes during labor.
That failure and other delays in the delivery caused the baby to suffer the brain damage she now struggles with, said her attorney Jason Archinaco of the Pittsburgh law firm of Archinaco Bracken.
“I compare it to an airplane going into a nose dive for 13 minutes and no one telling the pilot,” Archinaco said in an interview Wednesday.
Phoenixville Council Appoints New Member To Fill Vacated Seat
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PHOENIXVILLE — In a split vote at Tuesday night’s meeting, borough council appointed a current planning commission member to fill the East Ward seat Mike Speck vacated by his election to mayor in November.
Shai Perednik, who also serves on the borough’s historic architecture review board, joined council in a 4-3 vote divided along party lines Tuesday night.
“It’s an exciting opportunity to get involved in the borough,” Perednik said, adding he’d like to see his family grow up alongside the borough.
One of three candidates interviewed, Perednik received approval votes from Council President Jim Kovaleski, Council Vice President Dana Dugan, Jenn Mayo and Jeremy Dalton.
Phoenixville Man Accused Of Following Woman For 21 Miles
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WEST GOSHEN TOWNSHIP, PA — A 25-year-old Phoenixville man is facing stalking and related charges after he allegedly made numerous unwanted sexual advances toward a woman before following her car for more than 21 miles.
During the early morning hours of Jan. 3, a young woman was driving when she noticed another vehicle following closely behind her own vehicle, according to the West Goshen Police Department. When the victim stopped at a Wawa store, the driver of the other vehicle approached her both inside and outside of the store and repeatedly asked for the victim’s telephone number.
Police said the driver of the vehicle, a silver Honda Civic with Pennsylvania tags, was later identified as Scott Andrew Rosenberg.
Investigators said that when the victim refused to give Rosenberg her phone number, he continued to harass her and suggested various sexual encounters he said he would like to have with the victim.
New Faces, Appointment Could Shake Up Phoenixville Council Dynamic
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PHOENIXVILLE — Moving into 2014, borough council’s dynamics could change with new faces from November’s election, familiar faces taking on new roles, and the appointment of a new council member due by early February.
Four current council members will carry over to 2014. East Ward representative Mike Speck won his bid for mayor and will resign from council Jan. 3. Richard Kirkner, Dave Gautreau and Karl Bucus all decided against running for re-election.
2013’s council had a 5-3 Democrat majority with Democrats Kirkner and Speck serving as president and vice president, respectively.
Of the four returning council members, three — Jenn Mayo, Jim Kovaleski, and Dana Dugan — are registered Democrats and one — Christopher Bauers — is a registered Republican.
UPDATED: Weather Service Issues Storm Warning, 6 Inches Possible
POTTSTOWN — Weather forecasters are calling for more snow today, with a possible accumulation of 6 to 8 inches across the region.
According to the National Weather Service, “there will be enough cold air in place for a widespread snowfall to occur, and there is the potential for significant accumulations” as a low pressure system moves across the Northeast today into Sunday. As the system moves away, temperatures, which have been dipping into the teens at night for the Philadelphia region, could rise, causing the snow to turn into sleet and freezing rain, the weather service warned.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for Berks, Chester and Montgomery counties and the Philadelphia region from 7 this morning through 5 a.m. Sunday as a result. In addition to the heavy accumulation, the weather service warned a quarter inch of ice could accumulate at the end of the storm Sunday morning. The weather service warned travel conditions could be hazardous as bridges and overpasses could become slippery. “Bridges and overpasses tend to ice up first,” it said.
The heaviest snowfall times will be between 3 p.m. and midnight when snow will fall an inch an hour with visibility only one half mile, the weather service said. Temperatures will only be in the 20s and possibly into the teens in the Poconos. Gusty winds are also possible, the weather service said.
Phoenixville Rejects Hiring Additional Police Officer
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PHOENIXVILLE, PA — Borough council voted 5-2 Tuesday to turn down a request to budget for a 29th officer for the Phoenixville Police Department.
Supporting the addition of a police officer were East Ward council members David Gautreau and council Vice President Michael Speck, who was recently elected mayor. Negative votes came from all other council members at the meeting. Middle Ward council member Jennifer Mayo was absent.
Borough Manager E. Jean Krack said he and Finance Manager Stephen Nease could, if necessary, find room in the budget to add another officer without raising taxes. The proposed budget does include the addition of two persons to the streets department, one to sanitation and one to public works.
“We have looked at our projections, and we believe that, if it was council’s pleasure, that we could work on the revenue side to get some additional dollars,” Krack said.
Phoenixville Hospital Furloughs Come On Heels Of $4B Acquisition Deal
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Editor’s note: Thanks for going there, Evan! I was complaining about this very thing today. They have billions to spend on buying more hospitals but then turn around and cut jobs. Makes no sense to me! You would think the time to buy would be if you were flush with cash. Now they will own two hospitals in Lancaster once this deal goes through as well.
PHOENIXVILLE — One day after Pottstown Memorial Medical Center furloughed 30 employees for 90 days, The Mercury has confirmed that similar furloughs occurred at Phoenixville Hospital.
Phoenixville Hospital spokesperson Lori Cunningham confirmed Thursday that the full-time equivalent of 24 employees in “clinical, non-clinical support and administrative departments” have been furloughed.
News of the staff reduction occurs at the same time that the company that owns both hospitals, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems Inc., is planning a $3.9 billion purchase of Florida-based Health Management Associates Inc., which also operates hospitals around the country.
Cunningham said the furloughs at Phoenixville, which she described as “not scheduling a small number of employees in various departments,” have “no definitive time line. As always, staffing is dependent upon patient volume and clinical needs.”
Phoenixville Residents Voice Opposition To Housing Plan
PHOENIXVILLE — The council meeting room at Borough Hall was filled to the brim while residents strained to listen from the building’s lobby as council heard public comments against a planned development at Friendship Field Tuesday night.
“I think you can pretty much sense the temperament of the community in this council room,” Council President Rich Kirkner told a lawyer representing the development group, Michael B. Murray Jr.
After almost a dozen people got up to voice their opposition to the project set for the corner of Franklin and Fillmore streets, council unanimously voted to strike the project from its agenda amid cheers and applause from those in the audience.
The proposed plan, by Housing Development Corporation MidAtlantic, which focuses on providing affordable housing, called for four-story-tall apartment buildings called Parkview Heights.
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