The Downtown State College Improvement District will host its first May Day Art & Garden Walk on Friday and Saturday.
The event brings together more than a dozen local artists and artisans, displaying their work throughout downtown businesses. Local businesses and organizations also will be offering special May Day experiences.
“Following the success of our holiday art walk last year, we thought a similar spring event would be well received,” Downtown State College Improvement District executive director Lee Anne Jeffries says. “We decided to plan for the weekend of the first of May and focus the theme on spring renewal, so May Day was a natural fit. Other communities enjoy May Day by hanging fresh flower arrangements on their doors, so we thought we would start this annual tradition downtown and get the community involved.”
As the nation continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, we take a moment to check in with a few of our many area arts organizations. With restrictions and shutdowns, our once-lively and diverse cultural scene has been dealt a heavy blow, but innovation from the creative types who lead these institutions has helped them survive.
The Rowland Theatre
“Life changed drastically for us when the COVID mandates first went into effect on March 17, 2020,” says Rebecca Inlow, secretary/treasurer of the non-profit board that manages Philipsburg’s historic Rowland Theatre. “The theater was closed for five weeks for the Spanish Influenza in 1918, and I had been doing my own countdown and remember when we hit the 35-day mark of our closure and thinking how crazy it was that we were surpassing that.”
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