Community Calendar

In honor of World Meditation Day, Shanthi Project invites the entire Lehigh Valley community to pause, breathe, and come together. One Breath Together is a free, outdoor guided meditation open to absolutely everyone — no experience needed, no registration required. Just show up.

We'll gather in the courtyard at Connexions Gallery in Easton for a 30-minute meditation led by a Shanthi facilitator, with a livestream running simultaneously on Instagram and Facebook for anyone joining from home. Tune in by visiting us at @shanthiproject on all social media platforms.

Whether you're on the grass with us, or on your couch across the Valley, you're welcome here. Come as you are.

The acclaimed Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Music Department will hold its Senior Instrumental Showcase on May 21 at 7 PM — a special evening honoring the dedication, growth, and artistry of the school's graduating musicians.

Featuring a diverse and engaging program, the senior instrumentalists will take center stage with a collection of self-composed works, favorite selections from past solo performances, and newly prepared pieces that reflect their musical journeys and individual voices.

Tickets are $8 General Admission at CharterArts.org or at the door.

The Mayfair Festival of the Arts will return to Cedar Crest College over Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24, 2026. The festival, a Lehigh Valley tradition for more than 30 years, features a selection of art, crafts, food, and live entertainment.

Admission and on-site parking for the event are free.

The festival includes more than 35 artisan craft vendors and various food and beverage options. Family-oriented activities are centered in Franki’s Fun Zone, which features a climbing wall, Crayola table, inflatable obstacle course, trampoline, and a train ride.

The entertainment schedule for the weekend includes:

• Friday, May 22: Rogue Diplomats (4 p.m.), Kristen Morgenstern (6 p.m.), and Go Go Gadjet (7 p.m.).
• Saturday, May 23: The Large Flowerheads (noon), Stacy Gabel (2 p.m.), Billy Bauer Band (3 p.m.), Erin Kelly (4:30 p.m.), The Wonton Soups (5:30 p.m.), Kendal Conrad (7 p.m.), and Steal the Sky (8 p.m.).
• Sunday, May 24: Class of ’84 (noon), Adeline Csontos (2 p.m.), The Castaway Band (3:30 p.m.), Melody Cruz (5:30 p.m.), and the Philadelphia Funk Authority (7 p.m.).

The festival will conclude Sunday night at 9 p.m. with a drone show featuring more than 200 illuminated drones.

Cedar Crest College has led the festival since 2018. All proceeds from the event support students through the Cedar Crest Fund.

Festival hours are 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, and noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

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$29.50 to $39.54 (fees included)

Fit For A King harness the power of their brotherhood in order to perpetually push forward. The music contains traces of the members’ personal and collective experiences grafted onto an ever-evolving sonic palette of metalcore unpredictability, alternative melody, and deathcore brutality laced with electronic alchemy. As trends came and went in the background of the last decade, the quintet— Ryan Kirby [vocals], Bobby Lynge [guitar], Daniel Gailey [guitar], Ryan “Tuck” O’Leary [bass], and Trey Celaya [drums]—have weathered trials and tribulations as well as enduring the chaos of a world constantly influx.

Kallari is a Kichwa word from the indigenous peoples of Ecuador. It means the beginning, the first opening, the moment before something new is possible. You cannot arrive at kallari without shedding what came before it.

This ceremony is built around that threshold. This is a ceremony for people who know something needs to go. Who have understood that for a while, actually, and just haven't found the right room for it yet.

Through ceremonial cacao, breathwork, and Andean ritual, you are guided through a deliberate release: the version of yourself that was shaped by other people's expectations, by old survival strategies that no longer fit, by the weight of carrying things that were never yours to carry in the first place. The shedding is the point. Not as metaphor. As something that actually happens in the body when you give it the right conditions and the right company.

The cacao Jessie uses is a plant medicine, treated as such in Amazonian and Andean traditions for thousands of years. It works directly with the heart, gently expanding what has been contracted, surfacing what has been sitting underneath. Paired with Icaros, sacred healing songs from the Amazonian tradition, and guided inner journeying, it creates an environment where the body can release what the mind has been managing around for years. Some people experience emotion rising unexpectedly. Some feel a physical shift, warmth or pressure or something loosening. Some leave simply lighter than they arrived, without being fully able to explain why.

Jessie Miño is the founder of Good Vibes Wellness. Her lineage traces back to the indigenous Amazonian and Andean people of Ecuador, and that heritage is not decorative background in her work. It is the work. The ancestral traditions, ceremonial practices, and relationship to the land that were passed through her family are what she brings into the room. She came to this work through her own hard passage: grief, generational trauma, the weight of carrying pain that her thinking mind had already decided was handled. Her ceremonies are quiet and intimate. She is not trying to impress anyone. She is trying to help people put something down.

No prior experience with breathwork or ceremony is needed.

Join Pennsylvania Youth Theatre in celebrating our 40th season with Seussical™, a fantastical, magical musical extravaganza! TONY winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie, and a little boy with a big imagination - Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

It is a story where the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community are challenged and emerge triumphant. Seussical™ is fun for the whole family! Performances are located at the Charles Brown Ice House in Bethlehem, PA. Showtimes are Fridays at 7 pm and Saturdays & Sundays at 2 pm.

Lone Till Payday is an Alt Rock collective from Northwest NJ that has 2 vocalists- 1 male & 1 female that create a dynamic push and pull that is captivating and confrontational. Fueled by raunchy guitars and unfiltered emotion, LTP's innovative sound is built on contrast-- melody and chaos colliding. Their music moves between tension and release, raw power and haunting hooks which is both volatile and deeply human.
Join Lone Till Payday as they hit the stage with special guests Poliwhirl and Lady White Rat!

Story Songs of the 70s is a seasonal concert series by Maine-based singer/songwriter, Tom DiMenna, and features songs by 3 legendary songwriters of the vinyl era — Gordon Lightfoot, Cat Stevens, and Harry Chapin. This folk-rock act blends lush vocals, intricate guitar playing and iconic story songs into a sound that’s both intimate and powerful.

While rooted in the folk tradition, this special Spring edition celebrates the first day of Spring with the fresh energy of the season (“Morning Has Broken” by Cat Stevens, “Early Morning Rain” by Gordon Lightfoot, “Taxi” by Harry Chapin) and has toe-tapping rhythms, sing-along choruses, and a fully amplified presence that has been charming audiences. It’s a carefully crafted presentation of the timeless songs that shaped a generation — performed with heart, humor, and resonance.

Make Me an Angel: Tribute to John Prine brings together Ian Patrick Gallagher, William Melcher, and Duane Beller for a night dedicated to Prine’s songwriting legacy. Formed in 2024, the project has drawn fans into theaters and venues with performances of well-known favorites and deeper cuts from his catalog. Featuring accomplished players from groups including Tavern Tan, Start Making Sense, Urban Achievers, Stray Seeds, and Me & My Uncle, the band delivers these songs with care and respect in the close-up setting Godfrey Daniels is known for.