See What Happens // A PHL + Detroit Artist Conversation
See What Happens // A PHL + Detroit Artist Conversation
Philadelphia, PA
SEE WHAT HAPPENS In this informal talk, we provide a moment for Philly- and Detroit-based artists to connect in proximity, and ask each other: How does your city shape your life as an artist? What does the field require, and how are we meeting it? Are we proceeding “differently”? What does care lo…
Saturday, June 18 2022
3:30 PM
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5:00 PM
A Host of People // Cleopatra Boy
A Host of People // Cleopatra Boy
Philadelphia, PA
IMPORTANT: June 24 Performance Only - In light of today's Supreme Court decision, and to make space to honor the protest scheduled to happen at Philadelphia's City Hall at 6:30pm tonight, we have decided to start tonight's show at 8pm. CLEOPATRA BOY is an original multi-media play that uses the h…
Thu, Jun 23 2022
9:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 25 2022
10:30 PM
Ahya Simone // Iridescence
Ahya Simone // Iridescence
Philadelphia, PA
IRIDESCENCE is a live-scored abstract short film around revealing one’s self and autonomy of storytelling. Using my body as a main visual subject, I explore my universe of interests – visually and sonically. I am always fascinated with time, clocks, and astrological natal chart geometry as symbols …
Thu, Jun 16 2022
9:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 18 2022
8:30 PM
Emily Bate // Wig Wag
Emily Bate // Wig Wag
Philadelphia, PA
WIG WAG is an interactive theater piece where the audience and performers explore communal music-making. The piece unfolds as a secular "church service" that uses group singing, group text recitation, and music performed by a vocal quartet to explore the tension and pleasure of co-existing with oth…
Thu, Jun 16 2022
6:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 18 2022
7:30 PM
Harge Dance Stories: Fly|Drown Open Studio
Harge Dance Stories: Fly|Drown Open Studio
Philadelphia, PA
FLY | DROWN is a dance folktale honoring Black women’s movement towards flight. Set in a post-Great Migration home in Detroit, MI, it is an interwoven story of two characters, elder and nyeusi, moving between the mundane, the majestic, fact, and fable. Nyeusi, a Sankofa bird from the ocean (and per…
Saturday, June 25 2022
4:00 PM
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6:00 PM
Team Sunshine Performance Corp // Your Optimism is Not Required
Team Sunshine Performance Corp // Your Optimism is Not Required
Philadelphia, PA
How can we dream about the future when it feels so heavy? YOUR OPTIMISM IS NOT REQUIRED takes place at an intimate, outdoor performance site encircling a campfire. Guided by two performers, the audience comes to embody characters in the lives of Daughter and Dad: a biracial teenager and her white …
Wed, Jun 22 2022
7:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 25 2022
8:30 PM
Applied Mechanics // The Colonialists
Applied Mechanics // The Colonialists
Philadelphia, PA
You’ve gathered at the art gallery for a corporate event. Your hosts welcome you in. They are in business attire. They are friendly and efficient. They begin to suggest improvements to the gallery. They invite you to give them a hand in composing some formal recommendations and gently rearranging t…
Wed, Jun 22 2022
3:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 25 2022
2:30 PM
Propelled Animals // Call her by her name: Lenape Sippu
Propelled Animals // Call her by her name: Lenape Sippu
Philadelphia, PA
This site-responsive performance, featuring Esther Baker-Tarpaga, Barber, Raquel Monroe, and Courtney Jones will take place at Cherry Street Pier next to Lenape Sippu— one of the Lenape names of the Delaware River, a colonial naming. This hour-long performance will explore the themes of water, reci…
Friday, June 24 2022
5:30 PM
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7:00 PM
Motown Philly Back Again Party
Motown Philly Back Again Party
Philadelphia, PA
Donations tonight will benefit Reclaim Project in Michigan and the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA. Hosts Starfire and DJ Aura headline this celebration of Philly and Detroit intermingling, featuring live music, performance art, and more from Trade School artists. This production is part of TRADE…
Friday, June 24 2022
9:00 PM
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11:30 PM
Ava Ansari // How To Make a Bouquet in a Voting Box?
Ava Ansari // How To Make a Bouquet in a Voting Box?
Philadelphia, PA
Guests will be received one by one, and work with Ansari to draft a personal body contract for themselves around the act of voting. Working from a space of delicacy, using flowers and the body, and rooted in multiple body-mind modalities, including Iyengar yoga, viewpoints, Suzuki, and Persian poet…
Tuesday, June 21 2022
11:00 AM
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8:00 PM
