Join Natural Lands Trust staff at the ChesLen Preserve's Lenfest Center on Aug. 23 at 9:30 a.m. for a summer hike across the preserve, scenic paddle down Brandywine Creek, and cold popsicle treat at the end. The hike will lead to the canoe launch on the West Branch Brandywine Creek, where Northbrook Canoe Company will provide canoes, equipment, and instruction for our 1.5-hour canoe tour. Paddle at your own pace to experience the calm, scenic Brandywine. The trip ends at Northbrook Canoe Company, where we’ll enjoy lunch and popsicles before being shuttled back to the Lenfest Center. Participants may purchase lunch from Northbrook’s Food Shack, or bring your own. Popsicles will be provided and are included in the registration fee. Pre-registration required to reserve your spot. For more information or to register, go to https://www.natlands.org/event/hikepaddlepopsicles-cheslen-2015-0823/#sthash.7T5jtiko.dpuf.
| Compost Workshop |
| Learn how to turn your yard waste into a valuable asset with this intensive one-day composting workshop. Thursday, August 20th, 8:30am-5pm at Mt. Cuba |
Thursday 4-8pm
Pop up Art Shows 5-8pm
Friday 12-8pm
Wine specials from 5-7pm
Saturday 12-8pm
Live Music from 5-7pm
Sunday: 12-7pm
Yoga at noon
| Beneficial Insects |
| Not all bugs are bad! Discover how to attract the beneficial insects that support a healthy landscape. Friday, August 21st, 9:30am-12:30pm |
In Tyler Arboretum’s Butterfly House, visitors to the annual Butterfly Festival (Saturday, August 22, 2015) will experience native butterflies, including: Eastern Tailed Blues; Great Spangled Fritillaries; Monarchs; Spicebush Swallowtails, Silver-spotted Skippers.
“This event offers visitors a unique opportunity to get a close-up look at local butterflies in all stages of development,” says Amy Mawby, Tyler Arboretum’s Director of Public Programs.
The Butterfly Festival presents visitors with informative, educational insight on attracting butterflies to their own back yards, and features native plants, caterpillars, chrysalises, and newly emerged butterflies. Other highlights include:
- demonstrations of monarch butterfly tagging
- a display of butterfly attracting plants (courtesy of Redbud Native Plant Nursery),
- a live bee hive demonstration, courtesy of Edward Pieters, Ph.D. of Pieter’s Apiary,
- insect fun and education with Jon the Bugman,
- beer sampling courtesy of Yards Beer Garden from noon to 2 p.m.
“This promises to be a lively event for the whole family,” says Cricket Brien, Tyler Arboretum’s Executive Director, “We look forward to showcasing our butterflies, and we encourage visitors to explore Tyler’s 650 acres, and our 17 miles of trails.”
Admission to this rain or shine event is included with general admission. Gourmet pizza will be available to buy on the day of the event courtesy of the Pizza Wagon. The Butterfly Festival is sponsored by Redbud Native Plant Nursery, of Media, PA
Event details: Saturday, August 22, 2015. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Rain or shine.
Included with general admission; no pre-registration required.
Tyler Arboretum, 515 Painter Road, Media, PA 19063
It’ll be an absolute food truck frenzy On August 22nd, 23rd returning food truck champions and new favorites will duke it out for glory at Chaddsford Winery’s ‘Back to Back’ Food Truck Competition weekends. Admission is free and all wine and food purchases are pay-as-you-go. Vote for your favorite food truck creations while enjoying live music and complimentary winery tours at 2pm and 4pm each day. And, don’t forget to treat yourself to a wine tasting experience — either our standard tasting ($10), or our new reserve tasting ($15) which includes our limited-release Artisan Series wines Dry Rosé and barrel-aged Chambourcin. Both tastings include keepsake glassware!
This event is rain or shine. No two days will be the same, so be sure to come out for all the excitement, delicious food and delectable wine. Scroll down below for a full listing of vendors for each day.
Cars, Vines, and Wines at Penns Woods Winery
Saturday, August 22nd from 12-4pm
A showcase of Ferrari's and Other Classic cars! Register your own classic car!
Come out to enjoy the show! Enjoy live music, food from local vendors, crafts from local artisans, and a 1 hour seminar given by our Winemaker, Gino Razzi.
Vote for the best car in show! Sample Penns Woods award-winning wines in a tasting or enjoy by the glass or bottle.
General Admission Tickets for Adults are $16 in advance, $18 at the door. Children under 10 years are FREE.
Includes: admission to event, one glass of wine, one ticket to Vote “Best in Show,” a souvenir wine glass, and a chance to win a 3L bottle of wine!
*You don’t have to own/enter a classic car into the event to attend!*
Register your classic car on our website! Registration is $30 and includes:
- Two (2) General Admissions Tickets into Car show/ Festival
- Two (2) Souvenir wine glasses
- Two (2) Glasses of wine
- Two (2) 'Best in show' voting tickets
- Entered to win a 3L Bottle of Wine
- Entered to win one or more of the following wine inspired trophies presented by Penns Woods.
· Best in Show
· Oldest Car
· Newest Car
· Most Miles traveled to attend
BRING A NEW CHILD'S GIFT to donate to CarzNToys and receive a FREE tasting ticket!
“Carz ‘n Toyz” is a non-profit corporation established for the purpose of bringing happiness to less fortunate children, “Carz ‘n Toyz” accepts monetary donations as well as toys that are distributed to hospitalized children of all ages served by various hospitals throughout South Jersey.
Vendors attending the event include:
- Tallutos Authentic Italian Foods
- Love Food Truck
- Dia Doce Gourmet Cupcake Truck
And more!
Live Music by Greg Jones Trio from 12-4pm!
Get your tickets ASAP! Visit our website for more details and to view photos from previous year’s event!! Or call 610-459-0808.
Saturday, August 22
12:00 - 4:00 pm
terrain
914 Baltimore Pike, Glen Mills, PA
Celebrate a summertime tradition at terrain, where you’ll be the judge in their 8th annual staff salsa contest. Vote for your favorite salsa from terrain’s staff chefs—bragging rights are on the line! After the tasting, take part in a charity tomato toss benefitting Natural Lands Trust. This event is free and open to the public. Winners will be announced at 4:30 PM.
And, remember, Natural Lands Trust members receive 10% off at terrain every day when you show your Member Benefits Card.
BILL MAHER
The Playhouse on Rodney Square
Sunday, August 23 @ 7pm
Tickets: $70-$95
Tickets go on sale Friday, April 24 @ 10am!
For more than 20 years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. First on Politically Incorrect (Comedy Central, ABC, 1993-2002), and for the last thirteen years on HBO’s Real Time, Maher’s combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 34 Emmy nominations. This same combination was on display in Maher’s 2008 uproarious and unprecedented swipe at organized religion, Religulous, directed by Larry Charles (“Borat”). The documentary has gone on to become the 8th highest grossing documentary ever. In addition to his television program, he has written five bestsellers, and been nominated for Emmy awards for three of his ten stand-up specials for HBO.
The Huffington Post says, “I love the way [Maher] seamlessly navigates between the profane and the profound, the silly and the serious—utterly unafraid of afflicting the comfortable (and also there to comfort the afflicted).”
Every Tuesday in August, the Delaware Museum of Natural History is partnering with Artisans Bank to lower admission prices to just $2 per person during Two Dollar Tuesdays. Visitors are invited to explore the wonders of the natural world at the Museum for just $2 on August 4, 11, 18, and 25, courtesy of Artisans' Bank.
United Way of Chester County cordially invites you to join us for our
Campaign Kickoff and Awards Ceremony
Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
$35 per person
150 Penn Oaks Drive
West Chester, PA
Register by August 24th at
www.LiveUnitedKickoff.eventbrite.com
(For those who wish to pay by cash or check,
please contact Ellen Stoltzfus at
Please reply early. Space is limited.
Thursday 4-8pm
Pop up Art Shows 5-8pm
Friday 12-8pm
Wine specials from 5-7pm
Saturday 12-8pm
Live Music from 5-7pm
Sunday: 12-7pm
Yoga at noon
The 35th Anniversary Celebration of the Rachel Kohl Library will take place on Saturday, August 29th from 11 am to 3 pm on the library grounds (687 Smithbridge Road, Glen Mills, PA 19342). Rain date is August 30. Join us for a fun-filled day for the whole family. Enjoy mini-golf and other carnival games, music provided by Thompson Entertainment, food, crafters, raffles, and more!
Contact: Owen Divers, Public Relations & Grants Coordinator
Rachel Kohl Library
687 Smithbridge Road, Glen Mills, PA 19342
610-358-3445 ext. 4
[email protected]
It’s a Picnic in the Park as John Wellington and Dan Foster, Democratic Party candidates for Concord Township supervisor, hold a joint fundraiser at the Newlin Grist Mill on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 1-4 p.m. Tickets are $30 for adults, $10 for children. There will be a picnic lunch, live music and games. For tickets, go to https://goo.gl/UfTCUo
Penns Woods Winery Movie Night in the Vineyard featuring… Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark!
Saturday, August 29th, 2015 * Movie will begin at dusk (around 9 pm)
Enjoy an evening under the stars in the vineyard!
There will be free popcorn available along with our wine list by the glass and bottle!
* Wine Tastings will end at 7pm, wine by the bottle and glass will be available until 11pm *
Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and join us in the vineyard!
MUSIC: Matt Santry 2:00pm - 5:00pm
FOOD: TBD 3:00pm - 9:00pm
NOTE : NO OUTSIDE BEVERAGES ARE PERMITTED (alcoholic and non alcoholic alike). ALL COOLERS are subject to random check . Any alcohol other than PENNS WOODS WINES will be confiscated.
Tickets are $16 and include free popcorn
- Kids 10 years and under are FREE
- Tickets are non-refundable but in the case of rain, there will be a rain date announced.
TICKETS ARE LIMITED: WE HIGHLY SUGGEST PURCHASING IN ADVANCE! Purchase Tickets on our website!
Tuesdays, September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015
6:00 – 7:00 pm
ChesLen Preserve
1199 Cannery Road, Coatesville, PA 19320
Bring a little sun into your day with this series of five, one-hour yoga classes set outdoors under ChesLen’s pavilion. Certified instructors from Bliss Yoga Studio lead classes to connect body and mind, surrounded by views of the preserve’s rolling fields and meadows.
You will move through a series of poses including sun salutations, becoming familiar with each pose, while allowing your body to learn and feel the intentions of each pose.
$75/person for the series.
Chadds Ford Business Association meeting
Check presentation to Friends of Brandywine Battlefield from Baseball Benefit.
Hors D'oeuvres and networking
$25 - RSVP to [email protected]
or prepay at http://www ChaddsFordLive.com/shop
Join now and membership is good through 2016
When night falls, your journey begins. Nightscape sets our Gardens aglow with moving imagery, lights, and original compositions beautifully animated and projected onto the living canvas that is our landscape.
Nightscape is on view July 1–October 31, Wednesday through Saturday evenings. Please note: Nightscape is open exclusively for Members July 1 & 2. A special ticket is required to view Nightscape. Purchase tickets in advance as sell out is likely. All-day Gardens Admission is included.
Limited tickets remain for opening weekend: July 3 & 4
Buy Before You Arrive • Special Ticket Required • Tickets Limited
Ages 19 and Older: $27 Ages 5–18: $17
Children ages 4 and under: Free ticket required
Art Stroll
Kennett Square’s Art Stroll is a monthly celebration of the local art scene as it is showcased in the galleries, shops and restaurants throughout town. Residents and visitors alike are encouraged to stroll the tree-lined streets and browse the many businesses that stay open late. The Art Stroll runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the first Friday of each month.
AFTER 5 p.m. on Friday, enjoy free parking anywhere in the PARKING GARAGE and at any street meter.
FRIDAYS from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light
September 5, 2015–January 3, 2016
As a painter, Louis C. Tiffany was captivated by the interplay of light and color, and this fascination found its most spectacular expression in his glass “paintings.” Through the medium of opalescent glass, Tiffany could actually capture light in color and manipulate it to achieve impressionistic effects. Using new and innovative techniques and materials, Tiffany Studios created leaded-glass windows and lampshades in vibrant colors and richly varied patterns, textures, and opacities.
Organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City, Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light is comprised of five windows, twenty lamps, and seventy-five pieces of opalescent flat glass, in addition to educational models illustrating how leaded-glass shades are selected and fabricated, along with three examples of Tiffany lamp forgeries to explore issues of authenticity and connoisseurship.
Dragonfly hanging shade (detail), Tiffany Studios, New York, ca. 1905. The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, New York N.86.GL.8
The objects on display are some of the most iconic and celebrated of Tiffany’s works. Chosen for their masterful rendering of nature in flowers or landscape scenes and for the subtle use of light and shading in decorative geometric patterns, they exemplify the rich and varied glass palette, sensitive color selection, and intricacy of design that was characteristic of Tiffany’s leaded-glass objects. This exhibition also highlights some of the key figures at the Tiffany Studios who made essential contributions to the artistry of the windows and lamps—chemist Arthur J. Nash and leading designers Agnes Northrop and Clara Driscoll.
Dr. Egon Neustadt, the founder of The Neustadt Collection, began acquiring Tiffany lamps in 1935. He went on to amass an almost encyclopedic collection, but perhaps his most significant acquisition came in 1967 when he purchased the flat and pressed glass leftover from the closing of the Tiffany Studios in the late 1930s. This collection contains some 275,000 pieces of glass and is the only holding of its kind. With both materials and objects, The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass is uniquely positioned to fully explore Louis C. Tiffany’s legacy of painting with color and light.
Image at top: Well by Fence window, design attrib. to Agnes Northrop (1857–1953), Tiffany Studios, New York, ca. 1910. The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, New York N86.W.9
Tuesdays, September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015
6:00 – 7:00 pm
ChesLen Preserve
1199 Cannery Road, Coatesville, PA 19320
Bring a little sun into your day with this series of five, one-hour yoga classes set outdoors under ChesLen’s pavilion. Certified instructors from Bliss Yoga Studio lead classes to connect body and mind, surrounded by views of the preserve’s rolling fields and meadows.
You will move through a series of poses including sun salutations, becoming familiar with each pose, while allowing your body to learn and feel the intentions of each pose.
$75/person for the series.
Longwood Gardens’ New Summer Exhibit,
Longwood Gardens’ new nighttime installation, Nightscape: A Light and Sound Experience by Klip Collective, opening today, takes guests on an immersive journey around the Gardens with moving imagery, light and original music using Longwood’s plants and landscape as the canvas. Created by Klip Collective of Philadelphia, this innovative display is Klip’s first garden-wide installation and will showcase never-before-seen views of Longwood at night. Tickets are on sale now at longwoodgardens.org.
“Using our Gardens as the inspiration and the canvas, Klip Collective is creating an imaginative visual and sound experience. Our guests will journey through the landscape and encounter the beauty of the gardens in a new and memorable way, augmented by light, imagery, and sound,” said Executive Director Paul B. Redman.
“Nightscape is an experience very much in relationship with what’s already here at Longwood,“ said Klip Collective Director Ricardo Rivera. “Within each different Garden landscape, we’re interpreting the space through movement, color, light, and sound, feeding off what’s there and illuminating it with our imaginations in a playful way,” he said.
One of the Nightscape experiences guests will encounter is at the Rose Arbor. Here, horticulture and art converge in an arrangement featuring striking bismarckia palms illuminated in a kaleidoscope of color.
The Flower Garden Drive by day is a formal avenue of towering hedgerows, but during Nightscape, undulating waves of blue and green transform flowerbeds, hedges, and trees into an undersea fantasia.
The Legacy Tree, one of the oldest in the Gardens, is transformed as deep blue and violet colors move from the tree’s root system through its arching canopy where particles of light disperse into the night sky.
The Large Lake inspires a celebration of the natural world, orchestrated against a musical score that evokes the sounds of the night forest. The Flower Garden Walk is home to thousands of points of light that play and scatter among the flowerbeds, delighting all who see it.
Other experiences include the Topiary Garden, which brings to life these “living sculptures” in a powerful and whimsical display. The East Conservatory showcases the convergence of Longwood’s horticultural expertise with the artist’s vision of form and color in a breathtaking spectacle. In the Silver Garden, an arid, still landscape by day is transformed into an undulating, moving experience. Finally, multiple levels of color and light animate the towering palms of the Palm House.
Beer Garden Features Longwood Brew
Longwood is debuting its first ever Beer Garden featuring Victory Brewing Company. Dine with friends and family under the stars while enjoying pub-style fare and a variety of beers on tap, including a new Longwood signature brew, Longwood Seasons: Summer Zest, created by Victory Brewing Company using lemons grown at Longwood.
Nightscape Programming
Throughout Nightscape, Longwood will offer a variety of special programs and activities for guests to enjoy. These include live music, Family Nights, and a new Artist & Friends speaker series. A Nightscape ticket is required for admission to the programs and Beer Garden.
Each Thursday in the Beer Garden regional artists perform live from 7-10 pm. Bluegrass artist Marc Silver, Gypsy jazz performer Jon Dichter, soulful music innovator Angela Sheik, and acoustic pop performer Dani Mari are slated to appear. Check longwoodgardens.org for the performance schedule.
Artist & Friends
Join the creator of Nightscape, Ricardo Rivera of Klip Collective, and an engaging panel of technologists and artists as they discuss cutting-edge topics inspired by the technology, art, music, and design, of Nightscape. Panel discussions are at 7 and 9 pm.
Soundscapes: Composers for Nightscape—July 10
Jon Barthmus
Composer, Sun Airway
Julian Grefe and Justin Geller
Founders, Pink Skull
Designing an Experience—August 14
Nick Fortugno
Co-Founder, Playmatics
Josh Goldblum
CEO, Blue Cadet
Alternative Storytelling—September 11
Yelena Rachitsky
Creative Producer, Future of StoryTelling
Kamal Sinclair
Co-Director New Frontier Story Lab, Sundance Institute
Effects of Technology on the Art of Storytelling—October 9
Navid Khonsari
Executive Producer, Ink Stories
Torfi Frans Olafsson
Creative Director, EVE Universe IP
Family Nights
July 15 & August 19
Enjoy a Nightscape-inspired seek-and-find activity and engage with staff in locations throughout the Gardens during these fun, family focused evenings. Don’t miss the live performance in the East Conservatory Plaza at 7 pm.
Gardens on Tap
September 16 & October 21, 7 pm and 9 pm
Explore the art, chemistry, and horticulture behind botanically inspired cocktails, spirits, and brews.
Nightscape is open now and will be on view Wednesday – Saturday evenings from 6-11pm through October 31. Best viewed in dark, Nightscape begins at 9:30 pm in July, 9:00 pm in August, 8:30 pm in September and 7:30 pm in October. Special Tickets, which include all-day admission, are required and should be purchased in advance. Admission is $27 for adults (ages 19+); $17 for students (ages 5–18); and free for ages 4 and under. Members do not require a ticket, but do require a free reservation. For complete details and information, visit longwoodgardens.org/nightscape.
About Klip Collective
Klip Collective is a visual art shop bridging projection lighting, technology and storytelling. Klip was founded by photographer Pier Nicola DʼAmico and video artist Ricardo Rivera in 2003 to create immersive video projection experiences. In a short ten years, the Philadelphia–based firm has gone from being a purely artistic endeavor to an experiential partner sought out by many of the world’s most respected agencies and cultural institutions. Klip Collective has had installations at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, and Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier in 2007, 2013 and 2014. For more, information visit klip.tv.
About Longwood Gardens
In 1906, industrialist Pierre du Pont (1870-1954) purchased a small farm near Kennett Square, PA, to save a collection of historic trees from being sold for lumber. Today, Longwood Gardens is one of the world’s great horticultural displays, encompassing 1,077 acres of dazzling gardens, woodlands, meadows, fountains, 10,010-pipe Aeolian organ and 4.5-acre conservatory. Longwood continues the mission set forth by Mr. du Pont to inspire people through excellence in garden design, horticulture, education and the performing arts. Longwood Gardens is on US Route 1 near Kennett Square, PA. For more information, visit longwoodgardens.org or call 610-388-1000.