Around Town July 4

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on July 3, 2013

• Chadds Ford Township resident Frank Murphy has been elected vice president of the Temple University College of Engineering Alumni Association. Murphy is also a member of the Temple University College of Engineering Board of Visitors and is a partner in the law firm of Deeb Blum Murphy Frishberg & Markovich. He is a former member of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School Board and is the Republican candidate for supervisor in Chadds Ford.

• Brandywine Ballet Company will perform in Delaware County’s Summer Festival at Rose Tree Park’s Amphitheater, Friday, July 26 at 7:30 p.m. The performance at Rose Tree Park is admission-free and open to the public. Rose Tree Park’s performance venue is a scenic hillside amphitheater, which features four grass terraces and is conveniently located at Route 252 & Rose Tree Road, just off Route 1.

• Darlington Arts Center invites the community to the opening reception of “The Brandywine Valley,” an exhibition of oils and pastel originals by Garnet Valley artist Annette Alessi, and a book signing of “100 Artists of the Brandywine Valley” by author Catherine Quillman. The free reception is Tuesday, July 16 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet Annette and Catherine while enjoying complimentary wine and cheese before the book-signing.

• Each of the three candidates vying to become the new music director and conductor of the Kennett Symphony will conduct a concert during the symphony’s 2013-2014 season. Michael Hall will conduct the opening night concert on Sept. 21; Rei Hotoda takes the holiday concert on Dec. 7; and David Alexander Rahbee will conduct the spring concert on March 22, 2014. Tickets for the finalist concerts will be available mid summer. Phone 610-444-6363 or visit www.kennettsymphiny.org

• Thd Brandywine River Museum is offering free admission on July 12 in honor of Andy Wyeth’s birthday.

• The Bizzigirls Community Marketing Cooperative is volunteering time to the United Way of Southern Chester County with a series of Pop Up events. The first event is a Bizzigirl Pop Up Sip N Shop scheduled on Thursday, July 11, from 6 - 8:30 p.m. at Brandywine Prime in Chadds Ford. The event features local indie vendors selling unique and totally desirable hand crafted goods. The lineup of vendors is Squidge & Bean and Bog Berry Handicraft both of Philadelphia, 3 Sisters Soaps & Scents of Media, Milk Truck Vintage of Wilmington, and Vintage Faerie Jewelry Studio of Chadds Ford. Event admission is $5 per person and includes reduced price drinks, complimentary nibbles, music, networking, friend-making, and do-gooding.