If you missed the Philadelphia Complaint Choir’s meteoric rise to fame in the run-up to it’s spell-binding performance at the 2008 First Person Festival, you must have been sleeping!  Fortunately, intrepid documentary filmmaker Cecelia Smith followed the choir from it’s earliest practices through its final performances.  You can get much of the story at the Philadelphia Complaint Choir blog or find out about the global Complaint Choir movement at complaintschoir.org.  Smith will screen A Fine Whine, a music video of the Philadelphia Complaint Choir, and talk a little bit about her work covering this extraordinary effort stemming from a fruitful artistic partnership between Shelley Spector and First Person Arts.  Please join us on February 11th from 7:30pm-9:30pm.  No whine, just beer from Philadelphia Brewing Company!

First Person Salon
Feb. 11th, 2009 7:30-9:30 (Doors at 7pm)
Location: Laurie Beechman Cabaret at The University of the Arts
(Philadelphia Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St., Philadelphia)
Admission: $8
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Here’s a fan video of the Philadelphia Complaint Choir in action in Suburban Station back in November:

Other artists at the First Person Salon on Feb. 11th:  Katie Sweeney, Daravann Yi, and Marianne Bernstein.