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The Canary team has certainly been busy for the past month or so! We’ve all been running around Philly attending a myriad of great events and performances, and we somehow managed to get some pretty good work done too, including launching a new website and securing some major media placements.
Here’s what we’ve been up to: voting in our primary (you may have heard a little something about this, our choice didn’t win), sitting in on a Colbert Report taping in Philly (where we saw Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama via satellite, and John Edwards who would easily win the presidency if votes were based on best comedy delivery), attending events such as the opening of There’s a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, the opening of Eurydice at The Wilma Theater, the opening of Dear World at Bristol Riverside Theatre, the Cherry Blossom Festival’s Sakura Sunday, a First Person Arts’ StorySlam, Miro Dance Theatre’s world premiere of Self-Portrait at the Museum of Art and fundraiser Cinco de Miro, the official kick-off bash for the 2008 Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, the Arts & Business Council Luncheon, AND Mason’s brother’s wedding in NYC (congrats, James & Rachel)!
Please read on for our latest news on design, publicity and marketing projects.Canary Promotion + Design ranked at #15 in the Philadelphia Business Journal’s top 25 web design companies this month. Despite being a smaller business, we launched more websites and have more local designers working on Canary projects than several other area design companies.
We’ve launched a new website for the innovative and amazing Pig Iron Theatre Company. It’s easily our most sophisticated Drupal site yet. Using a very intuitive set of back end tools, Pig Iron can add productions, performances, blog entries, and more. The site includes an online store where they can accept credit cards and manage their inventory. The site also allows the company to create custom designs for each production that overlay the main design and give each production page a unique character. And there’s a really fun flash image viewer on the home page. Check it out at pigiron.org.
The Rosenbach Museum & Library’s major retrospective of the work of famed author and illustrator Maurice Sendak is now open to the public through May ‘09. There’s a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak has garnered rave reviews, with feature stories in the Wall Street Journal and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. You can watch an exclusive interview with Maurice Sendak at youtube.com/RosenbachMuseum and visit the exhibition website and the soon-to-be updated rosenbach.org for more info – not only is the museum a client on the PR side, Canary will be redesigning the museum’s website in the coming year.
Philadelphia Young Playwrights will celebrate its 21st year with its annual benefit, Write On! A Philadelphia Young Playwrights' Celebration, on Wednesday, June 4 from 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. at World Café Live (3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia). Awards will be presented to Mayor Michael A. Nutter, Quiara Alegría Hudes – a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2008 Tony Award nominee for In the Heights – and several other outstanding members of the arts and business communities. For tickets to the event, which includes a cocktail reception and live performances, visit phillyyoungplaywrights.org.
Bristol Riverside Theatre’s summer season begins June 12, with the Summer Musicale Series celebrating the great heroes and villains of Broadway, songs of the 1930s and 1940s, and the leading ladies of Broadway, plus the 3rd Annual Jazz Weekend. For showtimes and tickets, visit BRTstage.org.
Girls Rock Philly (GRP) returns for its second summer of teaching girls how to rock out from August 4 – 9, 2008. A non-profit organization presenting Philadelphia’s only rock camp for girls, GRP is now accepting camper and volunteer applications for the 2008 summer camp session. To watch an exclusive video and hear the girls talk about what the GRP experience has meant to them, check out http://go.philly.com/girlsrock. For more information and to submit an application, visit girlsrockphilly.org or call (215) 789-4879.
The nEW Festival will present community classes and workshops led by Melanie Stewart and nEW Artists from June 2 – 20, 2008. Audiences are invited to get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process in an intimate, creative and informal setting, through a Meet the Artists preview on June 19. For details, visit www.newfestival.net.
Mauckingbird Theatre Company will mount their second production, Joe Calarco's energetic adaptation of Shakespeares’ Romeo and Juliet, running August 1 – 23 on the Mainstage at the Adrienne Theatre. R & J has enjoyed successful, critically-acclaimed runs both off-Broadway and on London's West End. With four young men playing all the parts, Evan Jonigkeit of Mauckingbird’s sold-out hit The Misanthrope, will lead the cast as Romeo. Look out for more details in the coming weeks and visit mauckingbirdtheatreco.org.
Critics have praised The Wilma Theater’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl. Read reviews from Philadelphia City Paper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Obit Magazine.
Still haven’t been to a First Person StorySlam event? Check out the Philadelphia Daily News feature here, and join in at the next Slam on June 24.
Check out comedian Paul Mecurio’s recent appearance on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann here.
Read about Miro Dance Theatre’s latest work Self-Portrait in The Bulletin here and read the review by the new Philadelphia arts website, TheFunnelPages.com.
