{"id":250026,"date":"2026-07-23T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:51:07","slug":"nonprofit-hosts-personal-stage-play-to-connect-with-community-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250026\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit hosts personal stage play to connect with community members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; A project years in the making will culminate this weekend in Manayunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Venice Island Performing Arts &amp; Recreation Center is hosting a stage play known as &#8220;Beyond the Surface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s organized by a local nonprofit, showcasing deep depictions of human emotions through spoken word and music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Guidance to Purpose Through Support (GPS) was founded by Christian Dior Dillard as a way to support local youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This show will provide backpacks to guests and audience members as a way to give back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It all takes place Sunday, July 26th, and tickets can be found on their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/dandclegacy.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; A project years in the making will culminate this weekend in Manayunk. The Venice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[106928,19793,6725,69,71,70,7171,11335,7033,1483],"class_list":["post-250026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-106928","tag-actors","tag-nonprofit","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-play","tag-show","tag-stage","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}