The Green Line Cafe is hosting an open mic-style poetry event tonight at the 45th and Locust shop. The even starts at 7 p.m. and is free. If you want to read, rsvp gontarek9 at earthlink dot net.

As Clark Park undergoes another transformation, we thought folks might be interested in this photo of the Dickens/Little Nell statue from 1910.

More photos are available at our Flickr feed.

The Winter Solstice doesn’t seem to get much respect anymore. It’s usually just dismissed as the shortest day of the year and forgotten. All the love is thrown at the Summer Solstice, but it’s the winter Solstice that signals a rebirth. Therefore, everyone is invited to a Winter Solstice lantern walk today that leaves the Cedar Park point at 46th and Baltimore at 4:30ish. The walk will proceed to the Cedar Park playground at 50th and Baltimore.

Participants are asked to bring something delicious and portable to share along with flashlights and/or flameless lanterns (no candles please). There is very likely to be music, dancing and storytelling.

Performers run through their last rehearsal before the Y.T.A.P. program’s first performance tonight at The Rotunda at 7 p.m.

When a dozen or so 4th through 6th graders from Henry C. Lea School (4700 Locust St.) take the stage tonight at The Rotunda for their performance of “Let’s Learn Each Other!” they will complete what Beth Nixon hopes will be the first of many semesters of collaborative youth involvement in the West Philly arts scene.

The students have worked with poets, musicians and puppeteers, including Nixon, to tell their story through performance. That collaboration has been difficult this semester, the pilot run of Y.T.A.P., but Nixon hopes the program can adjust and grow to become a unique after-school program that will allow kids to design and stage their own performances.

The program is still looking for funding and in-kind donations – from art supplies to snacks. It’s also looking for kids interested in spending a couple of days a week after school at The Rotunda working with an amazing group of artists.

Tonight’s show at The Rotunda begins at 7 p.m. and is free.

Eagles fever seeped out of West Philly homes and into the streets after the big win yesterday, leading to an impromptu twist on a Christmas classic during caroling in Clark Park. The Eagles notched a dramatic, come-from-behind win against archrival New York Giants and “Hark the Herald Eagles Sing” soon followed.