Recent Highlights: Jan–Jun 2025
The second half of our 24/25 season was a veritable feast, replete with dance, music and theatre, and the press was right there with us! Here are some of the highlights.
Read more...Toll the Bell: Observing National Gun Violence Awareness Day
In the Philadelphia area, we hear near-constant news about gun violence. Our fellow citizens are injured or dying with all-too-frequent regularity in shootings
near a public school, in a
workplace, or when
gathering to celebrate the Memorial Day holiday, a recent tragedy that left two dead and nine wounded. Though our home ranks in the
top twenty cities nationally with the highest gun homicide rates, gun violence isn’t exclusive to Philadelphia; within the United States, nearly
47 thousand people died of gun related injuries in 2023. Though these are troubling statistics, things are slowly improving.
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