Gatherings
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A Classic Christmas
A Classic Christmas Friday, Dec. 6 , Dec, 13  7pm Suggested donation $10 Reserve a table |  740.622.0326 or pomerenearts@gmail.com We’re breaking out of our acoustic guitar mold and going Classic Christmas for December’s Rent Party.  Emerging vocalist Donovan Rice. Mike Abood Caroline Heading piano.  Christmas Cookies. We’ll have water and coffee but guests are welcome to bring beverages. WHAT IS A RENT PARTY? At the time of the Great Migration north (1910-1930), blacks emigrating from the south settled the problem of Harlem’s inflated rents by throwing parties. Furniture was moved to the outside walls, musicians and refreshments were brought in, card tables were set up out of the way of the dance…
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AUTISM: A MEXICAN ADVENTURE
Craig Matis  AUTISM: A MEXICAN ADVENTURE OPENING SAT. JANUARY 4, 1-3PM RUNS THROUGH FEB. 9, 2014 ARTIST STATEMENT I am an artist and parent of a young man with mental disabilities.  I have created a series of panels, all of which tell the story of a father who takes his autistic son on a journey through Mexico, as a way to cope with the recent death of his wife in America. Using a mixed media technique of folded paper and 3-D pencil drawings, I have incorporated my own personal experiences with raising a special needs child into a surrealistic narrative that leads the father and son on a mystical dream…
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Maxine Metheney with Joe Hardesty
Maxine Metheney with Joe Hardesty –not country tonight, well maybe a little Friday, Nov. 1, 7pm Genre: Rock Suggested donation $10 Reserve a table |  740.622.0326 or pomerenearts@gmail.com Family picture is “Clay County Sweethearts” back home at about the age of 12..  The one with the white coat was taken in Nashville, TN performing with local band there. Red one is a recent one but had to be cropped. . Friday, November 1, 7pm the Pomerene Center welcomes Maxine Metheney and Joe Hardesty for a special RENT PARTY evening of music.  Maxine  will be sharing her non-country side, a side we all too rarely get to hear from this…
