This issue has…

• 🥣 A Beautiful Bowl
  it’s mine now

• 🍞 Banana Bread Ballet
  and cookies; lots of cookies

• 📜 24,000 Words
  not really; don’t worry

DANCE

Bake-dancing

As is the case every year, Phipps Dance did its thing during the Candlelight Stroll event and absolutely packed the PCA’s lobby.

As you can see above, we held our annual bake sale, chock full of delicious holiday baked goods. And then, just when everyone least expected, we straight up danced in the lobby. A lot. With costumes.

Turns out the PCA’s lobby makes a pretty good dance venue.
I’m kidding, of course. It’s way too small and no sprung floor (?) c’mon. But Phipps dancers are HARD. CORE. and made it work.

Way to go, PCA Dance! 👏👏👏

Did you experience the bake-dancing event? Didja buy a cookie or two? Reply to this email and lemme know how you liked it.

PROGRAMMING

Bonkers is beautiful

It was another bonkers (in a good way) weekend last week, as the PCA played host to 3 packed houses of It’s a Wonderful Life, a very well-attended Black Box concert by the one and only, Courtney Burton, the aforementioned lobby bake-dancing event, galleries full of PCA Member art, and classes-classes-classes to round things out.

These are my absolute favorite times to be at the Phipps. Nothing says “community arts center” like 124,587 people crammed into the lobby, each one maneuvering through the crowds to go experience something different. What a cool place.

God bless the Phipps!

👆
my favorite gallery piece of the week
Check out this very cool piece from PCA member and frequent volunteer, John Schultz.
Did I purchase this piece? Maaaaybe. Yes. Yes, I did. I couldn’t help myself.
Get to the Phipps this weekend; it’s your last chance to catch the Member show!

SAUSAGE-MAKING

The numbers no one asked for

Beehiiv, which is the newsletter platform I use for the Flying P, sent me some end-of-year numbers — you know, ‘cause we have to MEASURE EVERY SINGLE THING TO MAKE SURE IT’S GROWING WOULDN’T WANT SOMETHING TO SIMPLY EXIST JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT.
Get off my lawn.

Anyway, since this is the final P of the year, I thought I’d share some of the highlights:

First, nearly 24,000 words feels like a lot until you realize it’s less than 500 words per week. ChatGPT laughs at my pitiful output and looks forward to the day it can take my job.

As you know, I aim for one Flying P per week (Thursdays), and as you can see from the image above, I waaaaaaay missed the mark. Every single week is hard, you guys. I may need to move to bi-weekly, especially since that seems to be where I’m at anyway…but I’m gonna give it a few more months before I officially concede.

On the plus side, a 70% open rate is super-duper! Y’all are really good at reading this little weirdo newsletter. Good job, everyone!

At 328, we are a small but mighty group. Some of us love ketchup on a hot dog, but we won’t talk about that atrocity this close to Christmas.

Road trip anyone? ☝️

What are your thoughts on the P this year? Hit reply and send me any likes, dislikes, and/or fantastic ideas that I can implement in 2026 to keep you from unsubscribing.

Thanks for reading, everyone — and much more importantly, thanks for supporting the Phipps Center for the Arts.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

PS - just a reminder that there’s a matching grant in effect through the end of this calendar year. Make a donation to the PCA before Dec 31st and it will be doubled. Just sayin’. 😊

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