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Mainstage Center for the Arts Performaces Top Things To Do This Week

Also, don't forget the Blackwood Farmers Market on Saturday.

The Mainstage Center for the Arts takes center stage this week with two performances in the township.

On Tuesday at 7 p.m. the Harmony Show Choir from Mainstage Center for the Arts performs at the Camden County Library in Gloucester Township at 15 S. Black Horse Pike. Bring your own chairs to this outdoor concert and be entertained by the professionally staged and choreographed, family-oriented musical revue.

Mainstage will also put on a rendition of School House Rock this weekend at the Dennis Flyer Theatre at the Camden County College Campus in the Blackwood section of the township. 

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The Emmy-award winning pop culture phenomenon teaches a whole new generation to “Unpack your Adjectives” and “Do the Circulation.” Tom, a new teacher nervous about his first day of school, tries to relax by watching TV. The characters come to life and show him how to win students over with music through songs like “Just A Bill” and “Conjunction Junction.” Mainstage Center for the Arts presentsSchool House Rock, Live, sponsored by Bowman & Company July 17 , 18, 7:30 p.m. and July 19, 10:30 a.m. at the Dennis Flyer Theatre, Lincoln Hall, Camden County College, 200 College Drive, Blackwood. Ticket prices: $9 students & seniors/$10 adults.

The Third Thursday Book Chat is also on tap at the library this week. “Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination” by Helen Fielding is the topic for this adult event 10:30 a.m. Thursday.  “Move over 007, a stunning, sexy-and decidedly female-new player has entered the world of international espionage,” a news release says. “Her name is Olivia Joules (that’s "J.O.U.L.E.S. the unit of kinetic energy") and she's ready to take America by storm with charm, style, and her infamous overactive imagination.”

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Then top the week off outside of the library on Saturday for the weekly Blackwood Farmers Market from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Municipal government meetings this week includes the township housing authority 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Gloucester Township Senior Campus I, 405 Woodbury Turnersville Road.


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