<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello all: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please see below an email from one of our GPC chapter members, Simone Cooper, concerning an event she is doing with her group, the Blind Social Club. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:initial">Stacie </div><div style="color:initial"><br style="color:initial"></div><div style="color:initial">Stacie Leap</div><div style="color:initial"><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="color:initial">President, Greater Philadelphia Chapter &</span></div><div><span style="color:initial">President, Pennsylvania Organization of Blind Parents (POBP), </span></div></div><div style="color:initial"><span style="color:initial">National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania </span></div><div style="color:initial"><span style="color:initial"><br style="color:initial"></span></div><div style="color:initial"><span style="color:initial"> </span><a href="mailto:stacie.leap@gmail.com" target="_blank">stacie.leap@gmail.com</a><span style="color:initial"> | 215-776-6741</span></div><div style="color:initial"><br style="color:initial"></div><div style="color:initial"><br style="color:initial"></div><div style="color:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:justify;color:initial">The National Federation of the Blind advances the lives of its members and all blind people in the United States. We know that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. Our collective power, determination, and diversity achieve the aspirations of all blind people.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">The Blind Social Club</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:blindsocialclub@gmail.com">blindsocialclub@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 3:20\u202fPM<br>Subject: The Blind Social Club's 2026 Season Opener: Bright Lights and Delicious Bites Social<br>To: The Blind Social Club <<a href="mailto:blindsocialclub@gmail.com">blindsocialclub@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hello everyone, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I hope you all have enjoyed the start of this holiday season and are staying warm during this winter weather preview.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I want to share some information about our 2026 season opener. We will begin with what I like to call a "Bright Lights and Delicious Bites Social," where we will enjoy a production and a meal together. I hope to have a couple of these each season. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I<span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">n April for our season opener, our production will be a play entitled "Wilderness Generation," which will be playing at the Philadelphia Theater Company located at the northwest corner of Broad and Lombard. Below is information about the play and how you can purchase your tickets. If you have an ACCESS card, you can purchase your tickets for $2 each for up to a total of four tickets. Also, we will be having dinner afterwards at a restaurant in the area, which will be announced at a later date. I'm sharing this information early to encourage you to purchase your tickets early. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Wilderness Generation -</b> </span><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Saturday, April 18 at</span><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> 2pm, Philadelphia Theater Company</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">A powerful, funny, and deeply human world premiere from Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames (Fat Ham), Wilderness Generation, directed by PTC Artistic Director Taibi Magar, invites us into a family reunion layered with memory, music, and the emotional weight of what we inherit and what we choose to carry forward.</span></div><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Over one summer weekend in the Tidewater South, five cousins gather at their grandmother\u2019s home\u2014a place steeped in family lore and unspoken truths. As laughter gives way to old wounds and long-buried secrets, what begins as a celebration becomes a reckoning.<br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Through razor-sharp dialogue, Ijames explores the cycles of silence and survival that define a generation raised in the shadows of trauma\u2014and the strength it takes to imagine something different. With echoes of Lorraine Hansberry\u2019s A Raisin in the Sun and Anton Chekhov\u2019s The Cherry Orchard, Wilderness Generation is a deeply resonant, Black Southern family drama brimming with humor, heartbreak, and healing.<div style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Philadelphia Theater Company</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">480 South Broad Street</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Philadelphia, PA 19146</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">To purchase tickets, c</span><span style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">all 215.985.0420</span></div></div><div style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I hope to see you all there!</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you,</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>Simone Cooper</i></font></span><div><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Founder and Program Coordinator</font></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">The Blind Social Club</font></div><div><a href="mailto:blindsocialclub@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">blindsocialclub@gmail.com</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">215-868-4292</font></div></div></div></div>
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