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Portside Arts Center Gets Artsy with Hyperion Bank
Friday, January 8, 2010
7:30 to 10:00 pm
Hyperion Bank - 2nd & Girard Ave
- A special series of Happy Art Hour events featuring a variety of craft projects, art instruction and other fun!
- Ladies and gentlemen 21 and older are welcome to attend. This class will be dedicated to Printmaking.
- Happy Art Hour classes are about 'making art, making friends'.
- For a complete schedule, further information about Portside Arts Center and to reserve your space please visit: www.portsideartscenter.com or phone them at 215-427-1514.
Past Events:
Third Season Opener of Family Theatre Series hosted by Hyperion Bank
November 7, 2009
- The premiere performance of Runaway Bunny, presented by B. Someday Productions was a runaway hit with local families at this community event hosted for the third year by Hyperion Bank.
- The Family Theatre Series in an interactive, literature-based performance program for children (ages 2-7) and their caregivers that features professional actors bringing great children's stories to life. The children participated by acting out the characters with their bodies and their voices. Then they made a handicraft related to the stories that were told and had healthy snacks that the Bank provided as an extra treat.
- To the children's delight, actors Sonja Bingham and Daniel Ostrov also performed based on two additional stories, Franklin in the Dark and The Ugly Duckling.
- Joe Matisoff, Hyperion Bank President, noted "we are very pleased to once again make our space available for this great neighborhood group. We are huge supporters of educational programs for our community residents."
Hyperion Bank Hosts Hyper Halloween Spooktacular!
Saturday, October 24th
- Hyperion Bank, extended an invitation to local residents and their children to attend their first ever Halloween event in the headquarters branch office at 199 W. Girard Avenue on Saturday, October 24th.
- The Bank's staff went all out with Haunted House decorations including a graveyard, a bubbling witch's cauldron, ghosts, flying bats, spiders and spooky Halloween sounds and music. The children enjoyed a special 'witch's brew' and goody bags filled with treats and prizes to take home.
- According to bank president, Joe Matisoff, "the pumpkin painting was a big hit and the balloon artist was spectacular." The Witches of Hyperion Bank hosted around 45 children and their parents. One of the witches said, "As a community bank we are always looking for ways to touch our local neighborhood residents and what could be more fun than a Halloween party for the children?
First Annual HYPER BOWL
June 17, 2009
6 pm to 11 pm
- North Bowl, 909 N 2nd Street, Northern Liberties
- Hyperion Bank has organized this first ever annual event to raise funds for a "Community Chest" for the benefit of neighborhood associations that provide programs to improve our local environment and to help provide educational materials and program support for our community schools.
- This B2B Bowl-a-Thon will pit local businesses against each other as well as teams from our Schools, PTOs and Neighborhood Associations.
- For more details on how you can participate and to sign up your group's team, please contact Suzanne Mooney, Hyperion Bank at 215-789-4198 or via email: smooney@HyperionBank.com
11th Annual Take Your Dog to Work Day
June 26, 2009
8 am to 12 Noon
- Help Hyperion Bank celebrate Pet Sitters International Take Your Dog to Work Day.
- Bring your favorite canine companion along for doggie treats and enter our raffle for a special gift basket full of Doggie Goodies. Meet "Buddy" Matisoff, Hyperion Bank's first dog and his proud owner, Joe our illustrious President & CEO. Bank employees will also be bringing along their four legged friends to join in the fun.
- We are planning on a "Bake Sale" - all proceeds to benefit PAWS at 2nd & Arch Streets - so plan on stopping by our table to pick up some homemade people goodies to enjoy for the weekend.
- PAWS will be here with "Dogs for Adoption"
- And every day you can enjoy our FREE freshly baked cookies and FREE lollipops - served up in our branch.
- For further information on the event please contact Suzanne Mooney at Hyperion Bank at 215-789-4198.
- Please visit PAWS online at www.phillypaws.org to learn more about this fine community organization.
City Wide Spring Clean-Up
Saturday, April 04, 2009
9 am to 2 pm
- Hyperion Bank and its employees and local neighbors answered Mayor Nutter's call for help in cleaning up the city. Hyperion Bank volunteered to be a host site, acting as a sign-in location for volunteers as well as a distribution center for the cleaning supplies provided by the city. In addition, Joe Matisoff, president and CEO of the bank, said that nearly half of the bank's employees, plus numerous family members, signed up to help pick up trash and otherwise clean the neighborhood surrounding the bank's headquarters facility at the corner of Second and Girard.
- "We view this as part of the civic responsibility any good corporate citizen should feel," said Matisoff. In addition to the supplies provided by the city, Hyperion Bank provided the volunteers with free bottles of water, coffee and plenty of the fresh chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies the bank bakes daily for its customers.
- Volunteers collected over a dozen bags of trash - approximately half of which were recyclables.
- Special thanks go out to our friends and neighbors along 2nd Street and Palethorp Street for pitching in.
Hart Park - Spring Into Your Park - Clean-Up
Saturday, April 18, 2009
10 am to 1 pm
- Hyperion Bank participated with neighborhood community groups to clean up and fix up at Hart Park, an inner city gem of a park, located at 1315 N. 4th Street (between W. Master and W. Thompson Streets and N. 4th & N.Orianna Streets). In addition to providing man power with bank employee-volunteers, Hyperion Bank provided bottled water and freshly baked cookies for all the workers.
- For further information on how you can help keep Hart Park beautiful, please contact the Lisa Maiello at 215-370-0099 or lisadmail@gmail.com
Fishtown Area Business Association Shad Fest
Saturday, April 25, 2009 (Rain Date April 26)
11am to 5 pm
- Hyperion Bank was a sponsor at this day-long event at Penn Treaty Park, Delaware Avenue and Beach Streets. The annual event celebrates the historical and environmental significance of Fishtown, one of Philadelphia's oldest riverfront neighborhoods.
- Activities included "The Shad Run" a 5K race, live music, arts & crafts and food booths with festival themed foods and local specialties.
KSNAC (Kensington South Neighborhood Advisory Committee) - Tree Tenders Tree Planting
Saturday, April 25, 2009 (Rain or Shine)
10 am to 1 pm
- This event is a partnership with Tree Vitalize and The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
- Volunteers met at Al-Aqsa Society, 1501 Germantown Ave where the trees and the tools were organized. Hyperion Bank helped plant approximately 70 trees throughout the neighborhood and provided bottled water for the volunteers as well as freshly baked cookies.
- For further information on this effort to replenish the city's tree umbrella...please contact Lisa Maiello at 215-370-0099 or lisadmail@gmail.com
Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby Parade and Trenton Arts Festival
May 16, 2009
12 noon to 5 pm
- Hyperion Bank was a sponsor of this Third Annual event. An initiative of the NKCDC, the parade is a competition which features wacky designed human powered vehicles and is being held jointly with the Trenton Avenue Arts Festival.
- Following the parade there was a day-long craft fair with live music, local food and over 100 vendors. For details go to http://kinetickensington.org/about
Piazza at Schmidt's - City Paper Trunk Show
May 16, 2009
12 noon to 5 pm
- Hyperion Bank was on the Piazza all day with FREE Rita's Water Ice, Philly Soft Pretzels and lots of giveaways. Hundreds of people came out to join us in the fun as we celebrated the Grand Opening of the Piazza, located on N. 2nd Street just two blocks south of West Girard Avenue on the former location of the old Schmidt's Brewery.
