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Arts center to open downtown

We are excited to announce the opening of Eilandarts Center in Merchantville on April 14, 2013. It's a place where people of all ages can come to explore, learn, be engaged and grow. Our goal is to inspire and create a platform for a creative outlet in all the arts. By nurturing each individual’s creative potential, we aim to provide social and cultural benefits to the community as a whole.
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Cast your vote for Merchantville

Online voting has begun for the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s first ever “I Love Classic Towns” photo contest. The public can vote for their favorite images by visiting the Classic Towns website at www.classictowns.org. The deadline to vote is May 14th.
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College students and teachers exhibiting at Bridgeton gallery show

The works of five Camden County College art students and two CCC faculty members will be shown together during the exhibition "Artists in the Making & Their Mentors," which runs this month at Gallery 50 in Bridgeton. "Artists in the Making & Their Mentors" will run Jan. 4 through 27, with an artists' reception scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 6. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. http://on.cpsj.com/wGEhdX

Production company filming in town

Giant Chipmunk Productions would like to welcome the Borough of Merchantville on board the production of Cyril B. Jones! Our quaint South Jersey town will be the setting of Cyril's adventures. We will be shooting "The Post Mortem Adventures of Cyril B. Jones" with our LA actors in Merchantville on Tuesday morning 11/22, from 9:00 a.m. until sunset and Wednesday, 11/23, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Everyone is welcome to come out and watch the shoot. The first episode of this webseries will be airing December 18th on Katy Sohler's website. You can also find additional information about the series and follow the production on Katie's production blog.

Giant Chipmunk Productions presents a haunting new comedy—the story of a ghost who won't let anything keep him from his dream career, not even death. Cyril B. Jones was living the perfect life, or so he thought. When his life suddenly ends, he discovers his dream life was just that—a dream. His competitor took his promotion at the office and Claire, the girl he thought loved him, really only considered him a good friend. Now, Cyril is determined to get his life back no matter what it takes, even if doing to means haunting his co-workers.

First Friday Art Show & Holiday Gathering

On Friday, December 2nd from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. stroll down to the "Shops of North Centre" for their holiday gathering. Vintage shop, Keepers, custom woodshop, Victoriana East and Manifest Health Alternative Medicine, a yoga and healing therapy studio are sponsoring a FREE event featuring local artists, refreshments and live music.
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Fall play at CCHS

Camden Catholic High School presents the classic comedy “The Front Page.” November 17, 18 and 19 at 7:30 PM and Nov. 20 at 2:00 p.m. Alumni Night is Saturday, November 19th. Tickets are $10 for general admission, and $7 for seniors and students with ID. Tickets are available at the door or by calling 856-663-2247 ext. 54. Visit www.cchsarts.com for more information and events schedule.
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rts venture brightens commercial strip in Haddon Township

A major exhibition space and new studios for 10 artists opened last month at 1001 White Horse Pike in the "South of Haddon Arts and Business District," the promotional name for a section of Haddon Township most folks call Oaklyn. A potters' collective, a sculptor, and a mixed-media artist already occupy the rear of the landmark building, where a sleek street-level hair salon offers its own brand of artistry. http://bit.ly/vcD43k

Merchantville author pens second book

fitter Christopher Fitter is a Merchantville resident and associate professor in the English Department at Rutgers Camden, Fitter, who earned a PhD from Oxford has just his second book, "Radical Shakespeare: Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career", published by by Routledge, due in bookstores November 9, 2011. His first book, "Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory ", traced conceptualizations of nature across three millennia of Western literature, art, and thought. He is currently working on its sequel, "Shakespeare and the Essex Crisis: 1596 -1601". He has also published a dozen essays in scholarly journals, including Shakespeare Studies, Milton Studies, Essays in Criticism, English Literary History, English Literary Renaissance, Early Modern Literary Studies, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Southern Literary Journal, and Southern Quarterly.

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