- February 2008 -

6th Annual heARTs for Friendship Benefit Art Auction:
February 8th's First Friday’s preview - February 1st.

Friendship Community, a non-profit Christian organization that supports people with developmental disabilities, will host its annual heARTS for Friendship Benefit Art Auction at Mulberry Art Studios on February 8, 2008. The reception and silent auction opens at 6:00pm with the live auction beginning at 8pm. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door.

Live and silent auctions featuring local artists will help to raise funds for Friendship Community. The heARTS for Friendship Art Auction showcases pieces of art from original watercolors and acrylics to quilts and pottery. Art may be previewed online at www.friendshipcommunity.net or at Mulberry Arts Studios during First Friday’s preview on February 1st.

Proceeds from the auction will benefit Friendship Community, a non-profit Christian ministry supporting persons with developmental disabilities. Founded in 1972, Friendship Community opened the first group home in Lancaster County. Friendship Community currently serves 130 individuals in a variety of residential settings. For more information about the heARTS for Friendship Art Auction or to order tickets, please contact Friendship Community at (717) 656-2466 ext. 112.

Snowflake Gala 2008

The Snowflake Gala 2008, the Artists' Junction Lancaster's open house and artist showcase, will be coming to Mulberry Art Studios this February. The Gala will be held from 2:00pm until 6:00pm on Sunday, February 10th. Admission tickets can be obtained by calling (717) 295-5732, and will also be available at the door. Tickets are $5.00 per person or $10.00 per household. A selection of the work will be on display in the Louise Gallery during First Friday's reception on February 1st from 5:00 pm until 8:00pm, with the entire exhibit opening to the public after February 10th.

The Snowflake Gala will be comprised of the visual artwork of over twenty local artists along with fifteen to twenty live performances of dance, music and poetry. The Artists’ Junction Lancaster is the local chapter of Artists’ Junction International, a faith-based, non- profit organization with a heart to empower artists to live and create to their full potential. Further information on can be found at www.artistsjunction.org.

PHILIP MALACHOWSKI: LIFE & DEATH TO THE HAPPIES,
AND OTHER AMERICAN AMPHIGORIES

"Imagine a society of happies, of mental slaves, where inner life is reduced to a vast and grotesque theme park, uninterrupted, perfectly isolated, self-contained, where life all around oneself meanwhile crumbles into cultural ruin and decay… It has come to this."

Mad Bastard Press announces a book signing and reading of Philip Malachowki’s "Life & Death to the Happies, and Other American Amphigories" hosted by Mulberry Art Studios on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 1:00pm and again at 2:30pm.

Malachowski's exhibit of original illustrations and excerpts from his previous book,"Fables & Fairy Stories for the Dark and Sinister" was well received earlier this year in the North Gallery of Mulberry Art Studios, and the gallery is delighted that he chose to return to debut his latest creation. For more information about Mad Bastard Press, please contact madbastardpress@gmail.com.