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Hosted by BuildaBridge Description (from host) **REGISTRATION IS CLOSED AS OF 1/15/2024. **WE'LL OPEN UP REGISTRATION AGAIN IN 2-3 WEEKS. **THE NEXT PROGRAM SHOULD BE BEGINNING IN MARCH **FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE WAIT LIST **WE'LL BE IN TOUCH IF SPACE OPENS UP Build A Bridge is sponsoring The Music Studio @ The Lonnie Young Recreation Center from 4:00 PM to 5:30PM, Monday and Thursday, 1100 East Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19138. The program is free. In…
Description (from host) Fiber artists are invited to join us for an afternoon of crafting and conversation with fellow artists. All skill levels are welcome. Assistance with knitting and sewing will be provided, and we have a sewing machine to use. Some supplies will be available. We'll be meeting from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., most Wednesdays.
Hosted by BuildaBridge Description (from host) **REGISTRATION IS CLOSED AS OF 1/15/2024. **WE'LL OPEN UP REGISTRATION AGAIN IN 2-3 WEEKS. **THE NEXT PROGRAM SHOULD BE BEGINNING IN MARCH **FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE WAIT LIST **WE'LL BE IN TOUCH IF SPACE OPENS UP Build A Bridge is sponsoring The Music Studio @ The Lonnie Young Recreation Center from 4:00 PM to 5:30PM, Monday and Thursday, 1100 East Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19138. The program is free. In…
Bring your instrument, words, and ears to enjoy a time of sharing ancestorial space. Vendors, Food, and Live Entertainment for this monthyl gathering! Our featured artist will be Chioma Sheri. Chioma Sheri is a human, storyteller, poet, creative cultivator, sometimes performer, all times learner, lover of God, & bearer of laughs. She is driven by the potential of language and deeply believes in the power of storytelling and community record-keeping, specifically with regards to how we hold and support stories from…
Join us for an intimate and poignatnt conversation between professors and writers Joshua Myers and Bedour Alagraa that considers the role of study and thought amid the current crisis. Drawing from Myers’s Of Black Study and Alagraa’s forthcoming The Interminable Catastrophe the conversation explores the ways that Blackness can more than respond to antagonism but reshape how we understand the terms. An indepth Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation. Attendees will get an exclusive in-store discount. -------- About…
Hosted by Lonnie Young Advisory Council Description (from host) The Lonnie Young Advisory Council invites you to an afternoon of line dancing! Every Saturday from 12-2pm. Free & fun fitness!
Announcing!3 new exhibitions by @amlyles_visualartist, @jmaz79 and @delilahblueness1. @imperfectgallery is very excited to invite YOU to the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 17 (6-9pm). See what has been keeping these artists busy these days. Amir’s layered mixed media paintings will welcome you in the front room of the gallery, José’s captivating street photography from Philly and his native Guatemala, will hold you in the back room for a bit, and then... you’ll step into the wild world of Tina Baylor in the GReaT GLaSS eLeVaToR, her…
Enjoy an afternoon of clay play! Children will have a great time creating marvelous, magical, wondrous, animated, objects of art! Ages 5-8: April 6: Coil Creations May 18: Animal Wall Pockets June 8: Sun Medallions Ages 9-12: April 27: Fun Face Mugs June 1: Garden Inspired Tiles June 22: Creative Wall Pockets
And next up at @wildindigo.poetry are the incredible, grounded, visionary, word magic makers @kirwynsutherland and @yeseniamontillapoet These two poets are BELOVED in every room they enter and each have a knack for activating the collective heart while bending time and space to reveal the deeply intimate with individual and collective struggle. If you go to any Philly poet event, you are highly likely to see Kirwyn, always celebrating poets! Kirwyn Sutherland is a Ciinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience…