Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
*Cover artwork is by Sammy Wendland. The students at Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) are pursuing something beyond a traditional education. They are pursuing the integration of their artistic development with all of the comprehensive education that we require of high school students. As they take risks and explore the…
Students at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts captivated audiences in the Black Box Theatre with their performance of Vanishing Point, a musical written by Rob Hartmann and Liv Cummins. The musical comedy consisted of three performers, Reagan Frankhouser as Aimee Semple McPherson, Katie Conlon as Agatha Christie, and Marcella Karam as…
Walking into the auditorium of the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) last Wednesday, I was immediately stunned. With the projector set up by the Southside Film Institute, there was little to differentiate the assembly hall in the center of South Bethlehem from an AMC theater. My arrival cut dangerously close…
The arts and humanities seem to always be in the heat of some sort of crisis. Those of us in the field feel this the most. Defunding is a consistent issue. But, the bigger issue is how things come to be defunded in the first place. Things that get defunded are things that the people…
For the students of The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, or Charter Arts for short, “the campus is the community.” Located in the heart of Southside Bethlehem, Executive Director & CEO of Charter Arts Diane LaBelle says that the school truly focuses on partnerships and involvement with the South Bethlehem community. While…