IceHouse Tonight Proposal
“But the Lehigh! Those were great boating days! Almost everybody spent their evenings on the
water, and music floated therefrom until midnight many times a week. We had
carnivals on the river about once a fortnight. …..The residents were as one
family.”
Charles Schwartz- Summer 1852
In November
2011, representatives of six regional arts organizations met to discuss the
viability of creating a performance series at The Charles Brown IceHouse on
Sand Island. The series, tentatively named
The
IceHouse Tonight, is designed to feature the work of regional artists
and arts organizations in an eclectic blend of performance genres including
music, dance, theater and poetry. Such a
program would be the first formally scheduled series of its kind at the
IceHouse.
The IceHouse Tonight, a response to a growing night-life
scene in downtown Bethlehem, targets the potential college-age and the "restaurant
row" audiences in the center city. As an offering for evening audiences,
the mission-driven performance series is designed to mirror the charm,
independence and sense of contemporary urban life represented by the current
trends in downtown Bethlehem. As a parallel enterprise, The IceHouse Tonight will
produce a performance schedules that projects a sense of youth and diversity by
nurturing the production of new artistic works and the development of new regional
arts organizations. Also in the spirit of current urban directions, The
IceHouse Tonight will provide a stage for collaborative and innovative
programming from well-established regional arts organizations such as those represented
by the Eastern Pennsylvania Arts Alliance.
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