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BURLINGTON — Jay Wahl, producing artistic director at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, has been hired as executive director of the Flynn. He succeeds Interim Executive Director Charlie Smith, who began in January 2020. Wahl joins the Flynn after 11 years at the Kimmel Center, an inclusive organization that engages the Philadelphia region’s diverse communities through performance and education. Wahl served as an international liaison and advocate for the Kimmel Center and the Philadelphia arts community, programming and producing a wide range of performances, and spearheadi...

Black Music City received more than $30,000 in funding to distribute to artists in the Philly area, including parts of New Jersey and Delaware. The program also received funding from the Wyncote Foundation, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit known for its support of local arts. Black Music City celebrates the city’s legacy of Black musicians and other creatives that got their start in Philly, like John Coltrane, Jill Scott, Questlove, and Tierra Whack, among many others. “Black Music City is a program that calls upon Black creatives in the greater Philadelphia area (PA, NJ, DE) working in an...