Portside Art Center’s Summer Arts Enrichment Camp June 18th – August 10th Monday’s -Friday’s 8:30am – 3:30pm Ages 4-12

This summer is going to be so much fun!!

Every day Portside’s campers will get creative with different arts & crafts projects using recycled materials and crafts supplies! Our art projects revolve around different themes Math Mondays, Technology Tuesdays, World Wide Wednesdays, Trip Day Thursday and Fun Friday! This summer we are going on trips to the Philadelphia Art Museum, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia Zoo, Penn Treaty Park, Adventure Aquarium, Greens Grow Organic Urban Farm, and Cione Swimming Pool (every friday). We are also going to have Character Building Workshops each day. The children will participate in a group art exhibition in a local art gallery showing off all of their hard work!

Ages: 8-12 Wednesdays 5:00 – 6:00pm Cost $00

Lets have some fun while building our self confidence. Students will never have stage fright again after this class.

Learn how to perform in front of an audience through the use of theatre games, improvisation and scene work.

There will be a small presentation performed on the last day of class.

This is the message painted on the mural which represents this wonderful creation.

What a monumental day for the Portside Arts Center and the community. The 4th Annual Lehigh Avenue Arts Festival was a great success with over 40 artisan vendors, 10 children activities, 11 live local bands and of course, the moon bounce, it was the largest LAAF the neighborhood ever experienced! The Portside had lots of volunteers of all ages helping with the festival and everyone had a fantastic time. Kim Creighton, Director and Jenna Wilchinsky, Assistant Director said they could not have pulled off the festival without their help and constant volunteerism! Jane Golden was there from the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program with an inspiring speech for the mural dedication ceremony.  Now on the bottom left hand corner of the beautiful tropical fish educational mural states the names of all the artists and the Portside Community who helped with the creation of this magnificent public work of art. Also Cesar Viveros mural artist and Jonny Buss, mosaic artist talked about their inspiration and creation of the mural during the dedication. With tears in her eyes Creighton expressed her gratitude towards the community and the Mural Arts program, Artists and Jane Golden for bringing this mural project to the Portside.cialis This mural is the first of its kind to exist in the Port Richmond area comprised of paint, glass mosaic and metal work making it a mixed media masterpiece. Following the dedication several of the Portside students from the music program showed off their talents on the stage for all to enjoy. The music teachers followed with a violin solo by Elizabeth Zook and Chris Johnson and Tyrel McCoy showed off their drumming talents with some shredding.  Jamie McMahon owner of the Green Rock Tavern organized the live music bringing together local bands who also donated their time for this annual fundraiser for the Portside Scholarship Fund for families of limited resources. Creighton said they received a great outpouring of generosity from local community businesses and community members with donations for our Chinese lottery and also with monetary sponsorships. What a great day said Creighton to see the community come out in such a force to support their local arts center.

To view pictures from the Lehigh Avenue Arts Festival please go to http://merriquephotos.com/portside/

$12 per person

The SAVE THE ARTS & MUSIC benefit show will be a fun night with great live, local bands, “Lost In Company” and “Lady” that feature Portside’s own talented instructors, drink specials and the Good Feeling you will have by supporting your community. Portside is the only community arts and music center of its kind in the river wards!  Unfortunately, we are really struggling to sustain and with YOUR help Portside can continue to provide artistic enrichment for the community. Money raised will go to Portside’s Scholarship Fund & Programming

Portside’s Mission
Our mission is to empower the children and adults of our community with opportunities to develop their artistic abilities, awaken the imagination, and build self esteem and confidence. Through the arts we provide a safe haven for our community to nurture creativity, diversity, literacy and health for the betterment of all.

History
The Portside Arts Center is a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) community-based, educational arts center located at 2531 E. Lehigh Avenue, on the border of the Fishtown and Port Richmond neighborhoods of Philadelphia. In 2007, Director, Kim Creighton, a 20 year resident and skilled mosaic and metal artist purchased a two story 6,000 square foot building. Alongside dedicated friends and volunteers worked very hard to renovate the space in preparation to house the Portside Arts Center. They turned a warehouse filled from floor to ceiling with old furniture, old machinery, clothes, and collectibles into two visual art classrooms, a performing arts room and a music studio. Since 2008, the Portside has received nothing but great reviews and feedback from members of the community, media, local businesses and schools. The Portside offers more than 60 different music, visual and performing arts classes to children teens and adults. In 2011 the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program completed our full building educational fish mural that we are so proud to have on our walls.
Come see our beautiful Tropical Fish Mural.

Their Struggle
To fulfill her dream and vision of making the Portside a permanent amenity to the greater Port Richmond community Director, Kim Creighton has been working more than 60 hours a week unpaid since 2008. The little income Portside makes barely pays utilities, staffing, supplies, and our student scholarship fund. There are no other arts centers of its kind in our area and very little to no arts and music education within the schools. Due to the limited financial resources of the families in our community, Portside has been providing partial and full scholarships through fundraising to children, teens and adults who cannot afford to participate in our visual, performing and music programs. They provided over $4,600 in scholarships last year alone. On January 21, 2012 Portside moves into their fifth year and our goal is to make Portside a permanent cornerstone in our community. Please help keep the arts in your community by supporting and donating to Portside Arts Center.

This event is sponsored in part by Mike Driscoll of Finnigan’s Wake
Donate though PayPal or mail in a check made out to Portside
A tax deductible receipt is available upon request
Start Time: 04:00pm
Date: 2012-02-19
End Time: 07:00pm

$12 per person donation

The SAVE THE ARTS & MUSIC benefit show will be a fun night with great live, local bands, “Lost In Company” and “Lady” that feature Portside’s own talented instructors, drink specials and the Good Feeling you will have by supporting your community. Portside is the only community arts and music center of its kind in the river wards! Unfortunately, we are really struggling to sustain and with YOUR help Portside can continue to provide artistic enrichment for the community. Money raised will go to Portside’s Scholarship Fund & Programming

Portside’s Mission

Our mission is to empower the children and adults of our community with opportunities to develop their artistic abilities, awaken the imagination, and build self esteem and confidence. Through the arts we provide a safe haven for our community to nurture creativity, diversity, literacy and health for the betterment of all.

History

The Portside Arts Center is a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) community-based, educational arts center located at 2531 E. Lehigh Avenue, on the border of the Fishtown and Port Richmond neighborhoods of Philadelphia. In 2007, Director, Kim Creighton, a 20 year resident and skilled mosaic and metal artist purchased a two story 6,000 square foot building. Alongside dedicated friends and volunteers worked very hard to renovate the space in preparation to house the Portside Arts Center. They turned a warehouse filled from floor to ceiling with old furniture, old machinery, clothes, and collectibles into two visual art classrooms, a performing arts room and a music studio. Since 2008, the Portside has received nothing but great reviews and feedback from members of the community, media, local businesses and schools.  The Portside offers more than 60 different music, visual and performing arts classes to children teens and adults.  In 2011 the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program completed our full building educational fish mural that we are so proud to have on our walls.

Come see our beautiful Tropical Fish Mural.

Their Struggle

To fulfill her dream and vision of making the Portside a permanent amenity to the greater Port Richmond community Director, Kim Creighton has been working more than 60 hours a week unpaid since 2008. The little income Portside makes barely pays utilities, staffing, supplies, and our student scholarship fund. There are no other arts centers of its kind in our area and very little to no arts and music education within the schools. Due to the limited financial resources of the families in our community, Portside has been providing partial and full scholarships through fundraising to children, teens and adults who cannot afford to participate in our visual, performing and music programs. They provided over $4,600 in scholarships last year alone. On January 21, 2012 Portside moves into their fifth year and our goal is to make Portside a permanent cornerstone in our community. Please help keep the arts in your community by supporting and donating to Portside Arts Center.

This event is sponsored in part by Mike Driscoll of Finnigan’s Wake

Donate though PayPal or mail in a check made out to Portside

A tax deductible receipt is available upon request