{"id":23848,"date":"2025-04-15T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=23848"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:19:04","slug":"soma-night-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/soma-night-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"SOMA Night Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Sordoni Art Gallery for SOMA Night Lights, a mesmerizing celebration of art and technology on Friday, April 25, from 6 to 11 pm on the 100 Block of S. Main St.!<\/p>\n<p>The evening will start with glass-blowing demos from <strong>Keystone College<\/strong>\u2019s Mobile Glass Blowing Studio. There will be a graffiti bomb of a car led by Blitz. Ink (check back next week to sign up to paint!). You can play Nintendo favs on the side of the Karambelas Media Center with <strong>Wilkes University<\/strong>&#8216;s Esports team. <strong>The Rusty Iris<\/strong>, a school bus transformed into a double-decker, mobile sculpture, art exhibit, and venue, will be blasting tunes all night long with fire performances at 7:30, 9:00, and 10:30 pm!<\/p>\n<p>The Kids Courtyard at 116 S. Main St. will have fun, free crafts for children and tables featuring some of our favorite community partners like the <strong>Fine Arts Fiesta<\/strong>, <strong>F.M. Kirby Center<\/strong>, Studio 20 (Wilkes University), and <strong>Circle Centre for the Arts, home of the Wyoming Valley Art League<\/strong>. Check out our info booth to learn about the event, what\u2019s going on in the SOMA Arts District, and buy some awesome merch made by one of our sponsors, <strong>Axelrad Screen Printing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Once the sun sets, we will kick off the projections by Jeff Dobrow. He will transform buildings in the SOMA Arts District (100 Block of S. Main St., downtown Wilkes-Barre) into incredible works of art. <strong>The Down Pour<\/strong>\u2019s fa\u00e7ade will feature a special projection featuring artwork from people in the community (submit your artwork at <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkes.edu\/snl?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR45VsIdQ11rNkq2NyRaVQ-nlx_vB0Sh23Wvg0e7f7xvGjW3CdqFIAzHaMsIfw_aem_1fhG6EziZrPkCfXu26peAQ\"><strong>wilkes.edu\/snl<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>We are so excited for this event and can\u2019t wait for you to join us on Friday, April 25, from 6 to 11 pm in the SOMA Arts District!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Sordoni Art Gallery for SOMA Night Lights, a mesmerizing celebration of art and technology on Friday, April 25, from 6 to 11 pm on the 100 Block of S. Main St.! The evening will start with glass-blowing demos from Keystone College\u2019s Mobile Glass Blowing Studio. There will be a graffiti bomb of a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/soma-night-lights\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOMA Night Lights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23876,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848\/revisions\/23876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}