• Mt. Cuba Center is hosting Nature Play Day on Saturday, Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Discover the wild side of Mt. Cuba with a day of outdoor fun in our natural lands. Take to the open skies by flying a kite; touch a truck and tractor; navigate a nature obstacle course; and more. Embrace your inner explorer on a guided hike through rolling terrain. A variety of food and beverage selections are available for purchase. Free parking for this event is at 1003 Old Wilmington Road, just east of Brackenville Road. The rain date is Sunday, Nov. 5. The event is included with garden admission. Get tickets here.
• A reminder that the Chadds Ford Township Residents’ Association will have its fall roadside cleanup this Saturday, Oct. 28. Volunteers will meet at the municipal building at 8 a.m. The CFTRA will provide gloves, vests, and bags, along with coffee and donuts. It’s also recycling day in the township. Residents can dispose of electronics and get medication disposal bags. Secure paper shredding is also offered.
• The story of Mother Archie is heading for the stage in Harrisburg. Miss Lydia’s Church will be performed on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 2 p.m. in the Kulkarni Theatre at Penn State Harrisburg in Middletown. The performance is free and open to the public. Set in Chadds Ford, in 1924, the play imagines a conversation between Rev. Lydia Archie, a documented historical figure, and Professor Anderson Wales, a fictional astronomer. The play invites the audience to observe these two strangers as they talk about religion, the stars, and race relations. There are plans to bring the play to Chadds Ford.
• The Philadelphia Orchestra announces a new concert series, Orchestra After 5, taking place right after the workday on three Thursdays, Feb. 1, April 4, and May 2, 2024. Featuring classical concerts in a casual atmosphere, the series puts a modern twist on the traditional Orchestra experience. Audiences will gain a new perspective on the concert experience through live video close-ups of the conductors and soloists at work projected on a large screen behind the Orchestra. All performances will be at Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center.
• The Sanderson Museum is presenting Photo Projections into the Past, a historical research and conceptual art project where we superimpose historic photographs and paintings – to real-life scale - onto the original spaces depicted in the images. The resulting visual effect presents a rare perspective of experiencing a painting from the eye of the artist, or a photograph from the precise location and angle from which it was first taken by the photographer. Photo Projections is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 5, from 6-9 p.m. at the museum on Creek Road. The event is free for members, and $10 for non-members.
• West Chester University’s Department of Art + Design presents My Ukraine through Dec. 9, in the John H. Baker Gallery, E.O. Bull Center for the Arts, 2 E. Rosedale Avenue, West Chester. The exhibit is a fundraiser for You Are the Angel, a New York-based non-profit that provides shelter, food, basic medical supplies, drinking water, fuel, and psychosocial support to victims of the war in Ukraine. My Ukraine is the life’s work of former West Chester University Associate Professor Igor Roussanoff, who is himself Ukrainian. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Exhibit hours are Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. An opening event takes place on Friday, Oct. 27, from 5–7 p.m.
• The Crimes Victims' Center of Chester County will be celebrating 50 years of serving the community and creating light for those impacted by sexual violence and other crimes on Thursday, Nov. 9, from 6-10 p.m. at The Farmhouse at People's Light for our Night of Hope Gala. CVC’s CEO Christine Zaccarelli said the evening is designed to raise funds that will go towards general operating expenses, as well as celebrate the group’s 50th anniversary. The dress code for the evening is formal attire. Tickets, available here, start at $175.
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