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Make the Ware Center for the Arts part of your Lancaster City First Friday route! Join us for an evening of poetry and art focused on peace, justice, and unity.At 7 pm in Steinman Hall, join us for a free performance by Voices of Peace, a collective of five artists and activists from diverse backgrounds who use poetry to promote peace, justice, and unity. Through a curated selection of global poems, they highlight the impacts of war while emphasizing hope, resilience, and solidarity.
From 5 to 8 pm in the atrium, the 8th Annual Peace Kids to the Rescue Art Show and Silent Auction, which features artwork donated by over 70 children from ages 3 to 18, giving young artists an opportunity to use their creativity to make a difference in their communities. Proceeds from the art show and auction benefit Church World Service and the Arch Street Center.
In the Regitz Gallery from 5 to 8 pm, stop by the opening of a new gallery exhibit—Caryolyn Harper's Prison Portrait Project. Hand-sewn, large-format quilts and hand-embroidered batiks portray incarcerated individuals, shining a spotlight on a population the world has largely forgotten.
Free and open to the public!
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42 N Prince Street, Lancaster, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17603
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