August Twilight in the Gardens

Event Description

$25/ Adults
$20/ Students & Seniors
$16/ PMG Members
BYOB

Tickets available starting August 8

Experience an enchanting evening at Twilight in the Gardens! Bring along some drinks, snacks and friends to enjoy live music and create art in our glittery mosaicked museum. In the courtyard you can catch a performance by David Bamber, who blends jazz, improv and other genres to create music that will soothe your soul. Head over to our craft tables where Teaching Artist Mickayel Thurin is helping us create our own unique mixed-media works! Participants can create small-scale pieces incorporating texture, layering, and symbolic imagery inspired by their personal energy, and emotional themes. We’ll have a ton of different materials for you to experiment with – including paint, fabric, thread, sequins, and more!

Attendees can also enjoy self-guided tours of our rarely-seen mosaicked basement, and can be one of the first to view our current exhibition, Reframed Realities: Works by Anthony Smith Jr.

AUGUST SCHEDULE:
7:00 – 10:00 PM – Create mixed media works with Mikayel Thurin
7:00 – 10:00 PM – Self-Guided Tours of PMG’s mosaicked basement
8:00 – 9:00 PM – Live Performance by David Bamber

ABOUT THE MUSICIAN:
Grounded in the traditions of jazz and improvisation, David Bamber is a genre blending bassist with a focus on creating new and progressive music.  Growing up with a Puerto Rican mother and African-American father gave him the opportunity to become familiar with a multitude of music including, jazz, salsa, R&B, and hip-hop.  David is a graduate of Howard University, where he had the opportunity to perform with iconic musicians such as Hubert Laws, Hugh Masekela, Javon Jackson, Cyrus Chestnut, and Patti Austin.  In his personal career, David has been fortunate enough to share the stage with Warren Wolf, Tim Warfield, Chucho Valdes, and Khary Abdul-Shaheed.  David has performed at a multitude of venues including The Kennedy Center, McCarter Theatre, Apollo, Twins Jazz, Mr.Henry’s, Chris’s Jazz Café, and Blues Alley. During the summer of 2019, he opened for internationally acclaimed trumpet player, Sean Jones at the historic Chicken Bone Beach Jazz Festival in Atlantic City. In October of 2019, David had the pleasure of performing at “The International Festival de Jazz” in Juarez, Mexico with the Philasound Quartet. David Bamber also holds a M.M. from Temple University.  He has been a student of Steve Novosel, Mike Boone, David Wong, Charlie Young, Tim Warfield, Ben Schachter, and Warren Wolf.  David recently released his first EP entitled “Beauty In The Journey”, a compilation of original music, which blends his love of contemporary/electronic music with his foundation in jazz. You can also hear David’s latest electronic single, “Didn’t You Know” on Itunes, Spotify, and Amazon.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Mickayel Thurin is a Haitian American artist born in 1987 in Newport News, VA. She grew up in NY, VA and MI, eventually landed in Philadelphia, PA to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where she studied painting.

Thurin’s chief influences have consistently been expressive color, pattern and texture. She is interested in artists such as: Soutine, Bonnard, Alice Neel, Willem de Kooning, Mitzi Melnicoff, Lissy Funk and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The majority of her works tend to be colorful, expressive, abstracted portraiture done with mixed media. They often contain embroidery and collage.