Patti in Camden on 9/27

["Fiona Webster" <fi>]

I see Bonnie G. has already got the word on the Walt Whitman
Center Benefit... Here's the official press release...

			--Fiona

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Patti Smith in Benefit at Walt Whitman Center

Patti Smith opens the fall Season at the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts
Center, Camden, New Jersey with a rare performance on Sept. 27.  The
benefit performance with longtime collaborator Lenny Kaye and musician
and poet Oliver Ray includes both musical and spoken pieces.

The 7 PM performance is perfectly suited to the intimate Art Center
auditorium that was originally designed as a venue for poetry readings
in 1976.  Tickets priced at $15 (concert only) and $25 (concert plus
signed anthology _Early Works_, and ticket to another Center event) 
go on sale Sept. 4.  For Information call 1-800-964-8300.  The Center
will not be selling tickets until Thursday Sept. 4, 1997. Please do
not call the Center for tickets.  On the 4th, the Center will begin
taking orders via telephone.

All proceeds from this performance will directly support the ongoing
educational and family theater programs at the Walt Whitman Center. 
All three performers are donating their time and talents to this
benefit out of a shared respect for the legacy of Walt Whitman.  Patti
Smith, raised in nearby Woodbury also holds a fondness for Camden and
Southern New Jersey.

The Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center is a non-profit, literary,
performing and visual arts center for adults and children.  It is 
housed in a 70 year old neoclassical building at 2nd and Cooper 
Streets in the handsome Johnson Park Square on Rutgers University's 
Camden campus.

Contact:  Nick Patselas (609) 964-8300.
Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Johnson Park at 2nd and Cooper Streets
Camden, NJ 08102