WCR announces capital campaign; Spin Doctors booked for block party [Spotlight] – Reading Eagle

The WCR Center for the Arts, 140 N. Fifth St., has kicked off a $350, 000 funds campaign to improve building accessibility ahead of its 20th anniversary in 2024.

“We are ready to embark on our WCR Accessibility Campaign, which will open our own doors further and allow the WCR Center for the Arts to play a larger role in the downtown Reading arts community, ” said Jayme Rhoads, president of the board of directors. “You may not know that behind the charming front entrance on North Sixth Street lies a grand 250-seat auditorium with exceptional acoustics and elegant historical architecture. Our planned convenience project will give the audience members with limited mobility the particular means by which to enjoy the variety of performances housed in our building. ”

The project will maintain the historic integrity from the building and the front facade will remain undisturbed. Funds will be used to construct a two-stop lift that will be inside a stair tower attached to the exterior of the rear from the building, incorporating the new lift into the existing structure. This addition will give improved access to the main audience floor and restrooms, while complementing the traditional beauty found on the particular front façade and internal design.

To date, the WCR offers received project-related gifts from the Presser Foundation, the Holleran DonorAdvised Fund of Berks County Community Foundation, Customers Bank, Reading through Elevator as well as the International Union of Elevator Constructors, Local 5, “Lift for the Vet” program.

Donations can be mailed to William G. Koch & Associates, 2650 Westview Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610. Checks can be made out to WCR Center for that Arts.

The Woman’s Club of Reading was formed in 1896 and acquired the property within the Callowhill Historic District in 1919. The leaders of the Woman’s Club then had a large auditorium constructed. The building has been home to the Friends of Chamber Music for over 50 years.

Over several decades, membership declined and there was gradual deterioration from the building. In 2004, a group of community frontrunners came together to save the structure, which resulted in the particular creation of the WCR Center for typically the Arts, which aims to preserve, revitalize, honor and transform this facility as a center for cultural, social and business events, with special focus on the performing arts.   For more information, visit www.wcrcenter.org .

Music

The particular Reading Royals hockey team announced Monday that often the Spin Doctors will be performing at the Opening Night Block Party before the team’s ECHL house opener against the Indy Fuel on Oct. 29 at Santander Arena.

The Spin Doctors are an alternative American rock band originating from New York City. The music group began in the late 1980s plus consists associated with singer Chris Barron, guitarist Eric Shankman and bass player in addition to percussionist Aaron Corness.

Typically the band is best known for its early 1990s hits “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong, ” which usually charted on the Billboard Top 100 in No. 7 and No. 17, respectively. Additionally , your band was nominated with regard to a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group along with Vocal regarding “Two Princes. ”

This concert is a free show in the team’s pregame block party event. Tickets to the exact game, which often begins from 7 p. m., may be purchased by visiting the Royals’ box office with Santander Industry or by calling 610-898-7825.

Art

An unveiling reception will be held Sept. fifteen in the Reading Public Museum’s European Gallery for two stained and painted glass panels depicting typically the Crucifixion and even the Virgin and Child that have been within the museum’s collection since they were bought in 1933.

The panels will be displayed in custom-built light boxes, and accompanied by text detailing their newly discovered history together with attribution.

Often the windows were last displayed in 2012 in the museum’s Arms and additionally Armor Photo gallery, before being removed intended for gallery renovations. At that time, these people were described as “16th hundred years Baumgartner panels from Nuremberg” with this artist unknown and the patron only identified by his last name.

In early 2022, in preparation for reintroducing the windows in often the galleries, research was undertaken to determine if more information could be learned using your panels’ inscriptions and known provenance as clues.

Catharine Ingersoll, Ph. D., associate professor regarding art history at Virginia Military Institute and a scholar whose research focuses on southern German visual and material culture in the past due medieval not to mention Renaissance periods, was contacted to contribute her professional opinion.

Ingersoll confirmed the exact museum’s Hans Wertinger attribution and was able to offer identities for the patrons. According to Ingersoll, the panels were likely made simply by Hans Wertinger alone or even with his workshop, in Landshut, Germany. They were commissioned by Peter Baumgartner and his wife Anna von Trenbach for their own family burial chapel within the parish church inside Mining, Austria, and completed in 1524.

At the unveiling, Ingersoll will speak on the particular rediscovery and also attribution involving the home windows, the Baumgartner family as well as the making of discolored glass inside 16th millennium Europe. Your reception and lecture will be open to all plus costs $10 for museum members in addition to $20 to get nonmembers. It will include tastings of German-style beer. Contact Lindsay Crist at Lindsay. [email protected]. org to register.

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Art Plus Set, West Reading, is hosting the exhibition “Memories connected with Distant Lands, ” Mary Burke’s watercolors and oils, inspired by simply the coasts of Maine and Ireland, through Sept. 30, with a reception September. 9 from 5 in order to 8 g. m.

Abstract yet deeply evocative of their subjects, Burke’s paintings have an extraordinary way of taking one to the heart and soul of her native Ireland in europe and beloved coast with Maine. Her unique style has been hailed for its “vibrant energy” and even “ethereal air” and called “hauntingly beautiful. ”

Film

ReadingFilm, throughout conjunction together with local mental health organizaitons, has announced two free film screenings in support of Suicide Awareness Month: The documentary “Hell or perhaps High Seas” is going to be shown Thursday, Sept. 15, on 6: 30 p. m. at Boscov Theatre around the Goggleworks Center for your Arts, together with “Wake Up: Stories From the Front Lines of Committing suicide Prevention” will be shown Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 6 p. meters. in Perkins Auditorium during Penn State Berks.

“Hell or High Seas” follows U. S. Navy veteran Taylor Grieger and writer Stephen O’Shea as they sail around Cape Horn, the world’s most treacherous ocean waters. A discussion will follow. Register at eventbrite. com .

“Wake Up” sheds light on four different groups with varied stories to tell about suicide: American veterans, members of the LGBT community, university students and gun owners. Through their testimony, the film weaves the diverse tapestry of experiences into a multifaceted narrative for the heroes on typically the frontlines.

Theater

The Reading through Theater Project has introduced auditions pertaining to its fall production, “Present, Future, Past, ” three one-act plays about Reading’s past, present and future, written by means of regional playwrights.

Auditions may be kept Tuesday, September. 13, for 6: 30 p. mirielle., with call backs (if needed) on Wednesday, Sept. 14, located at 6: thirty p. m., at Holy Cross United Methodist Church, 529 N. Fifth St ., Reading. Free parking as well as the entrance are accessible at the back of the building, off of Chapel Street.

More information about the roles, plays, directors and additionally overall production, and this audition sign-up form, are posted by readingtheaterproject. org . Email [email protected]. org or contact 484-706-9719 using questions.