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First Friday returns to downtown

First Friday returns for the month of July, featuring its usual entertaining mix of art, music and more, in addition to celebrations of the City of Williamsport’s 150th anniversary.

Friday’s events include:

Music on Pine Street

5-9 p.m.

Featuring Crossfyre (members of several churches in the Williamsport and Lycoming County area), Minister Gia Jones and The Braggs Family, led by Minister Zavon Braggs.

Dorothy Dietrich, Houdini magician and escape artist

7:30 p.m.

Pine Street (closed portion)

Opening receptions: Lisa Darrow and Brian James Spies

The Firestone Building,

400 Market St.

6-9 p.m.

Opening reception: David Moyer, “The Naturalist”

Gallery 425, 425 Market St.

6-9 p.m.

Moyer’s imagery explores visual and literary ideas through drawings and black and white print media. Throughout his art career, he has gravitated toward the German print tradition and holds a particular fondness for the work of Durer, Wolgemuth, Cranach, Holbein and Baldung-Grien.

Lycoming alumni art show

Lycoming College Art Gallery, 25 W. Fourth St.

First Friday hours: 2-9 p.m.

Five-year anniversary

and open house

Converge Gallery, 140 W. Fourth St.

4-9 p.m.

Opening reception: Roger Shipley, “Recent Drawings”

Artisan Cooperative & Gallery, 46 W. Fourth St.

5-8 p.m.

Shipley will be showing recent graphite and mixed media drawings of the Pennsylvania countryside. “Wood’s Edge” and “Woods” are two series that depict his study of the forest’s density and the interrelationship of the various textures emulating from the variety of plant forms growing in the woods of Pennsylvania.

Opening reception: Stephanie Calhoun, “Artistry Beyond the Camera”

4th Street Grille Gallery at the Genetti Hotel

5-8 p.m.

Collegetown Gallery: Jetta Harrison

Gallery 425 lobby,

425 Market St.

5-9 p.m.

A Lycoming College junior exhibiting her photography for Collegetown Gallery, taken when Harrison was recently in Vietnam for 18 days. The two series are titled “Windows” and “People.”

Featured artist: Stephen Rosini

Dirty Dogs Studio + Gallery

146 W. Fourth St.

Student juried art exhibition: “My Favorite Place or Thing in Williamsport”

Old City Hall, 454 Pine St.

5-8 p.m. (prizes awarded at 7 p.m.)

Students were asked to create works of art to help celebrate the City of Williamsport’s 150th anniversary. There also will be supplies at the show for children to draw their favorite place or thing in Williamsport, which could be a park, a house, a business, a building, an annual event or even a person.

Prizes will be awarded in the categories of preschool, kindergarten through third grade, fourth through sixth grade, seventh through eighth grade and ninth through 12th grade.

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