{"id":24029,"date":"2025-04-23T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=24029"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:18:06","slug":"soma-night-lights-on-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/soma-night-lights-on-friday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SOMA Night Lights &#8211; on Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nv-content-wrap entry-content\">\n<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\u00a0<strong>Keystone College<\/strong>\u2019s Mobile Glass Blowing Studio. There will be a graffiti bomb of a car led by <strong>blitz.INK<\/strong> (sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/hDgw8diPYozxwnRi9\">here<\/a>!) You can play Nintendo favs on the side of the Karambelas Media Center with <strong>Wilkes University<\/strong>\u2018s Esports team.\u00a0<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\u00a0<strong>Fine Arts Fiesta<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>F.M. Kirby Center<\/strong>, Studio 20 (Wilkes University), and\u00a0<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,\u00a0<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.\u00a0<strong>The Down Pour<\/strong>\u2019s fa\u00e7ade will feature a special projection featuring artwork from community members.<\/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! More info:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wilkes.edu\/snl?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR45VsIdQ11rNkq2NyRaVQ-nlx_vB0Sh23Wvg0e7f7xvGjW3CdqFIAzHaMsIfw_aem_1fhG6EziZrPkCfXu26peAQ\"><strong>wilkes.edu\/snl<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\u00a0Keystone College\u2019s Mobile Glass Blowing Studio. There will be a graffiti bomb of a car&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/soma-night-lights-on-friday-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOMA Night Lights &#8211; on Friday!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24028,"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-24029","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\/24029","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=24029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24075,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24029\/revisions\/24075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}