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Connexions Summer Party!
Featuring the Alfred James Band!
Rain or Shine!
June 20th at Connexions
...in the garden...in the gallery...

Hello everyone, As many of you are aware, we host an annual Pot Luck Party at the gallery every year to usher in Summer. We are very excited to bring you all a very special musical guest this year.  The Alfred James band recently performed at the gallery and have agreed to come back to join us for our Summer Celebration. If you missed them the first time around, we encourage you to save the date. They are gifted musician's who I would liken to Lisa Bodnar- very talented guys. We are so excited and are sure that if you are planning to attend, you will not be disappointed.  We hope to see you all again this year and a special thanks to everyone that has attended in years past. It has been great fun to share the garden, the gallery and our musical preferences with everyone. Save the date- June 20th.... Have a beautiful day, Alice For more information, please contact us at 610 250 7627

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Connexions Music
The SPUDS!
Saturday June 27th- 8 \\PM

For a great time in Downtown Easton! Come and see The Spuds, rock and roll with fun and crazy energy! Here's the Spuds from the last time they played in the Connexions Garden... www.thespuds.com This is a BYOB event!

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Wei Jane Chir
"Tea and Portraits-Made in Easton" 
Opening Reception: Saturday May 23rd, 6-9PM

Exhibition - May 22nd thru June 28th
Artist Talk- Sunday, June 14th beginning at 2PM

Born in Taiwan, Wei Jane Chir has spent more than twenty years living and making art in Europe and America--exhibiting her work both locally and around the world. In the years following her receiving an MFA from the University of Art in Berlin she had exhibited in Germany, Taiwan and the United States.  Her pictures--especially her highly achieved techniques in egg-tempera, oil paintings, and etching--have won her several awards and have drawn the attention of collectors. In addition to private collections, Wei Jane Chir's works have been housed in the permanent collections of many prestigious art institutions, notably the New York Public Library, Morris Museum in New Jersey, Berlin Henning GMBH in Germany, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art and Taipei Fine Art Museum in Taiwan, to mention a few. Chir's body of work has been favorably reviewed in The New York Times and Art in America. The theme of time, a key aspect of Chir's past work, continues to be a mesmerizing element in her current exhibition at Connexions Gallery. In April 2002, Wei Jane Chir had her fifteenth solo show at the Alexdre de Folin Gallery in New York City. Following that summary of her art to date, she took her work in a new direction. Charmed by the architectural and historical legacy of the city of Easton, she purchased an old house with a small garden in the center of the city's downtown.  Her life in Easton has been very different from the one she lived in New York City.  Surrounded by the clearly defined seasons along Route 611, which winds along the Delaware River, she no longer desired to paint the way she used to.  Her focus turned to remodeling her house into a studio, cultivating her passion for gardening, and retooling her life and art. In the summer of 2007, Chir finally rekindled her interest in drawing, taking inspiration from everyday life and from those with whom she came in contact.  She started to draw portraits of her family from memory, of friends, and of intriguing visitors such as her contracting workers, a local banker, and a utility inspector.  The collection of her portraits is a daily notebook of her encounters with others in her community.    Out of the studio and into the kitchen, Chir has devoted her time to developing unique blends of herbal teas.  She sees this also as an act of creation and a different kind of  artistic endeavor.  "Tea makes people peaceful and genuine!”  The art of appreciating fine teas, and making them, is rooted in the serenity of one’s inner peace.  Gardening and brewing tea have profoundly enriched her ways of encountering, tasting, the passage of time. In this exhibition Wei Jane Chir shares the two artistic projects she started in her new home--Tea and Portraits--both of which are truly “made in Easton.” Please visit her Blog at http://weimoonfestivalphotos.blogspot.com/

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Connexions Workshops

Altered Book Workshop with Maryanne Riker Friday, June 19th at 7pm Maryanne will show you how to turn your old hardback books into instant works of art. Create sculptural altered books that can rest on a tabletop or hang on the wall. Bring a few old hardback books from home, and a popsicle stick. All for only $20

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June Poetry
Thursday Night Open Poetry Reading
Thursday Night, June 4th@ 7 PM

Join us for an informal gathering in the gallery after hours. Free and Open to the public, Poets and poetry enthusiasts welcome! Contact Jennee at Connexions for more information.