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8:00 PM - 9:45 PM
RAW YANKEE THEATER
PRESENTS
RUTHLESS SPOUSE
Russell and Inga Kennedy are performing artists who have high hopes for stardom in their respective fields of Acting and Dance, but quickly find themselves living hand to mouth after two blissful years of marriage. When Russell is blindsided by the success of Carl Waley, a friend and fellow actor, his bruised ego gives birth to a desperation that spirals out of control.
In order for Russell to hide from society and avoid his fate as a once successful actor sorrowfully turned waiter, he must make a sacrifice–and that sacrifice is Inga. Inga Kennedy finds herself in a dark, sexualized world when Russell Kennedy makes the decision to send his wife out into the hands of strange men.
Cast: Janan Ashton, Seonne Baylor, Damon Hill, Van Johnson, Alina Patterson, Tim Richardson, Omar Thrower and Akua Whitaker
Written and Directed by Francine D. Miller
November 1, 2012 @ 8:00pm
November 4, 2012 @ 2pm, 6pm and 9pm
Get tickets @ the door: $15.00 general; $10.00 students w/ valid ID; Group Rates available
Get tickets online @: http://therotunda.ticketleap.com/ruthlessspouse
Sign up for Philly Fun Guide Funsavers for last minute info on a 50% discount on tickets for the November 1 show and the 2pm performance on November 4!
Contact: DeNece Dugan
267-972-6341
denecedugan@gmail.com
Francine Miller
denisemllr1@aol.com
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RuthlessSpouse2012
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8:00 PM - 11:30 PM
CANCELED DUE TO HURRICANE COMPLICATIONS
Atlas Sound w/ School of Seven Bells, SDC
Jazz & Grooves’ first show of the year, featuring extremely talented artists. Opening is Penn campus stalwarts SDC, followed by New York dream-pop outfit School of Seven Bells. And headlining is Atlas Sound, the solo project of Deerhunter frontman, the one-and-only, Bradford Cox.
Atlas Sound is the solo experimental, psychedelic, rock, folk project of musician Bradford Cox, the lead singer of Deerhunter. Cox started using the moniker Atlas Sound at age ten while recording music using a cassette player with two tape decks. Atlas Sound has had three main album releases, the most recent of which, Parallax, has gained widely positive reviews including being placed at #18 on Pitchfork’s top 50 albums of 2011. He has recorded with Panda Bear (of Animal Collective), the Black Lips, and contributed to the soundtrack of the 2009 movie, “Where the Wild Things Are.” Cox’s style is ever changing but he never fails to intrigue and entertain.
School of Seven Bells is an electronic pop duo from New York City. Benjamin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza are praised for their interesting songwriting style and mesmerizing live shows. With Curtis’ gentle guitar sounds over jagged beats; silky vocals hide behind grumpy, alien synthesizers, the show is bound to be a wonderful spectacle. Ghostly International raves that their “songs are effortlessly cohesive and insidiously catchy.” The band has received widespread recognition in the UK and has toured with such artists as Interpol, Blonde Redhead, and Bat for Lashes.
Penn campus stalwarts, 6-piece rock band Slow Dance Chubby, will open the night. Hear some of their music HERE
Tickets: $5 in advance for Penn students; $10 day of show for Penn students; (limited $15 tickets available to public). Click here for tickets.
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7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Join us as Termite TV continues to celebrate its 20th year anniversary with the premiere of a new 'Heath' show and the presentation of the recently completed 'Happiness' show. There will be some installations set up to showcase Termite's ongoing experimentation... and we are inviting alternative health practitioners to join us and share info about their work!
If you're interested in having a table to share info about your health-related project or work, just let us know! http://www.termite.org/
Doors open at 6:30pm. There will be snacks!
Admission is FREE.
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1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
RAW YANKEE THEATER
PRESENTS
RUTHLESS SPOUSE
Russell and Inga Kennedy are performing artists who have high hopes for stardom in their respective fields of Acting and Dance, but quickly find themselves living hand to mouth after two blissful years of marriage. When Russell is blindsided by the success of Carl Waley, a friend and fellow actor, his bruised ego gives birth to a desperation that spirals out of control.
In order for Russell to hide from society and avoid his fate as a once successful actor sorrowfully turned waiter, he must make a sacrifice–and that sacrifice is Inga. Inga Kennedy finds herself in a dark, sexualized world when Russell Kennedy makes the decision to send his wife out into the hands of strange men.
Cast: Janan Ashton, Seonne Baylor, Damon Hill, Van Johnson, Alina Patterson, Tim Richardson, Omar Thrower and Akua Whitaker
Written and Directed by Francine D. Miller
November 1, 2012 @ 8:00pm
November 4, 2012 @ 2pm, 6pm and 9pm
Get tickets @ the door: $15.00 general; $10.00 students w/ valid ID; Group Rates available
Get tickets online @: http://therotunda.ticketleap.com/ruthlessspouse
Sign up for Philly Fun Guide Funsavers for last minute info on a 50% discount on tickets for the November 1 show and the 2pm performance on November 4!
Contact: DeNece Dugan
267-972-6341
denecedugan@gmail.com
Francine Miller
denisemllr1@aol.com
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RuthlessSpouse2012
5:00 PM - 6:45 PM
RAW YANKEE THEATER
PRESENTS
RUTHLESS SPOUSE
Russell and Inga Kennedy are performing artists who have high hopes for stardom in their respective fields of Acting and Dance, but quickly find themselves living hand to mouth after two blissful years of marriage. When Russell is blindsided by the success of Carl Waley, a friend and fellow actor, his bruised ego gives birth to a desperation that spirals out of control.
In order for Russell to hide from society and avoid his fate as a once successful actor sorrowfully turned waiter, he must make a sacrifice–and that sacrifice is Inga. Inga Kennedy finds herself in a dark, sexualized world when Russell Kennedy makes the decision to send his wife out into the hands of strange men.
Cast: Janan Ashton, Seonne Baylor, Damon Hill, Van Johnson, Alina Patterson, Tim Richardson, Omar Thrower and Akua Whitaker
Written and Directed by Francine D. Miller
November 1, 2012 @ 8:00pm
November 4, 2012 @ 2pm, 6pm and 9pm
Get tickets @ the door: $15.00 general; $10.00 students w/ valid ID; Group Rates available
Get tickets online @: http://therotunda.ticketleap.com/ruthlessspouse
Sign up for Philly Fun Guide Funsavers for last minute info on a 50% discount on tickets for the November 1 show and the 2pm performance on November 4!
Contact: DeNece Dugan
267-972-6341
denecedugan@gmail.com
Francine Miller
denisemllr1@aol.com
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RuthlessSpouse2012
8:00 PM - 9:45 PM
RAW YANKEE THEATER
PRESENTS
RUTHLESS SPOUSE
Russell and Inga Kennedy are performing artists who have high hopes for stardom in their respective fields of Acting and Dance, but quickly find themselves living hand to mouth after two blissful years of marriage. When Russell is blindsided by the success of Carl Waley, a friend and fellow actor, his bruised ego gives birth to a desperation that spirals out of control.
In order for Russell to hide from society and avoid his fate as a once successful actor sorrowfully turned waiter, he must make a sacrifice–and that sacrifice is Inga. Inga Kennedy finds herself in a dark, sexualized world when Russell Kennedy makes the decision to send his wife out into the hands of strange men.
Cast: Janan Ashton, Seonne Baylor, Damon Hill, Van Johnson, Alina Patterson, Tim Richardson, Omar Thrower and Akua Whitaker
Written and Directed by Francine D. Miller
November 1, 2012 @ 8:00pm
November 4, 2012 @ 2pm, 6pm and 9pm
Get tickets @ the door: $15.00 general; $10.00 students w/ valid ID; Group Rates available
Get tickets online @: http://therotunda.ticketleap.com/ruthlessspouse
Sign up for Philly Fun Guide Funsavers to receive last minute info on a 50% discount for tickets to the November 1 show and the 2pm performance on November 4!
Contact: DeNece Dugan
267-972-6341
denecedugan@gmail.com
Francine Miller
denisemllr1@aol.com
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RuthlessSpouse2012
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8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Andrew's Video Vault double header!
NOVEMBER 8
Pericles on 31st Street (1962 / 60 minutes) A young Sam Peckinpah directed this entry in “The Dick Powell Show,” based on the novel by Harry Mark Petrakis. Features Theodore Bikel, Carroll O’Connor and Arthur O’Connell.
The Man with Two Heads (1972 / 80 minutes) Writer/director Andy Milligan’s chaotic, angry and insane version of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” shot on location in England.
DECEMBER 13
Rienzi – Der Letzte Der Tribunen [Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes] (2010 / 156 minutes) Philipp Stolzl and Christian Baier’s revision of Richard Wagner’s infrequently performed third opera (1842) about civil war in Rome. From the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Admission is FREE to all screenings. Screenings are continuous from 8pm. Huge thanks to Penn Cinema Studies for supporting this series!
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8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Event Horizon
presents
Mayakara, Gina Ferrera, Twyndyllyngs
Mayakara - Mayakara, Sanskrit for Conjurer of Illusions, is the acoustic/electronic duo of Bill Fieger and Mike Hunter. They weave the acoustic elements of Bill’s custom built instruments and Mike’s electronic instruments and processors. Their unworldly sound invites the listener to join the shaman’s dance and see through the illusion that is “reality.” Bill also performs with Stairs to Nowhere and solo as Oblivious Solitude. Mike performs solo as Ombient, with Brainstatik and hosts the Ambient/Electronic/Experimental music show, “Music with Space” on WPRB 103.3 FM Princeton University Radio.
Gina Ferrera - Gina fuses folkloric polyrhythm with electronic music using a multi-dimensional MIDI drum controller, called the trapKAT and a 4-octave MIDI mallet keyboard, called malletKAT. Triggering live loops in a style termed, IDD- “Intelligent dance-drumming”, her live hybrid set-up is comprised of traditional percussion, improvised loop control, vocal effects and drumming on her custom Alternate Mode MIDI trapKAT to create electro-organic ethno-techno.
Twyndyllyngs (Howard Moscovitz and Bill Fox) Two long time solo electronic music artists combine to form a unique sounding electronic music duo. Also part of the trio, xeroid entity, these musicians have together and individually played concerts in England, The Netherlands, Norway, Israel, Canada, Poland, Italy, Canary Islands in Spain, Berlin, Croatia, Romania, Montana, California, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, upstate New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Atlanta. Twyndyllyngs may be heard on a weekly internet concert called Chez Mosc on electro-music radio. They play improvised experimental music which has been aired on Star's End (WXPN), Galactic Travels (WDIY), Thought Radio (WMUH), Music with Space (WPRB) and many internet-only programs
Admission is FREE
The Event Horizon concert series is a Philadelphia, PA based concert series featuring Ambient, Electronic, Experimental and Space Music.
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9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The Parent Infant Center (PIC) presents Family Book Fest a celebration to promote family reading and literacy activities for families with children 7-under Admission is FREE
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Contact: Gina Martino
ginamartino@gmail.com
856-979-4153
Rotunda Rocks for Sandy Relief
Night of Music and Marvels to Benefit Hurricane Victims
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Philadelphia, PA) On Saturday November 10 "psycho-Celtic glam-blues band" Sylvia Platypus along with a contingent of clowns, jugglers, dancers, face-painters, sword swallowers and fire spinners will take over the Rotunda at 4014 Walnut Street for a combined concert and circus-themed extravaganza to aid those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
"As Sandy hit the Caribbean, the suggestion for a hurricane relief concert was raised," says Janet Bressler, vocalist and principal songwriter for Sylvia Platypus. "Then, the devastation arrived so close to home, and the choice became obvious."
Take vocal mannerisms reminiscent of Edith Piaf and John Lee Hooker and combine them with a stage presence that is equal parts James Brown and Judy Garland, and you have some idea of Bressler's lead-singer style . Add the soul-searing Waddy Wachtel-meets-Brian May guitar work of Bill Barone (formerly of the '70's era German symphonic rock band, "Wallenstein") , the heart-stirring musical textures of award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Rutan on highland and uilleann pipes, tin whistles, English horn and Neopolitan zampogna, and the take-no-prisoners rhythm section of Michael Southerton on rhythm guitar, Ruchama Bilenky on bass, and Rosalba Gallo on drums and you get a six-piece outfit (three men, three women) that delivers a tough and tender genre-busting impact.
Sylvia Platypus' visionary scope and fearless presentation are attracting increasing attention from the music industry. They recently signed a publishing deal for the film and TV placement of some of their compositions. The band has a something-for-everyone appeal that reaches across demographics.
"I was inspired by the Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus, which I have never seen" says Bressler. "This seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out the Sylvia Platypus version while helping those hardest hit by the unprecedented 'superstorm'."
Admission is FREE (Suggested donation: $5. to $20.)
www.sylviaplatypus.com
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7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Contact:
Sharee Walls
sharree@specevents.net
Ronnie DiSimone
ronnie@specevents.net
SPEC CONCERTS ANNOUNCE DETAILS FOR
PENN MUSIC COLLECTIVE CONCERT 2012
PHILADELPHIA, PA (10/30/12) – SPEC Concerts is pleased to announce that its second annual Penn Music Collective Concert will take place at The Rotunda on November 15th at 7pm. Similar to last year, the show will serve as a showcase and networking opportunity for Penn musicians. Although admission will be free, donations will be collected at the door for the Vagina Monologues.
The event has been ramped up in scale and scope substantially from last year. The show will be co-sponsored not only by the Vagina Monologues but also by Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity and the Undergraduate Media & Entertainment Club (as part of their Media and Entertainment Week on campus). Additionally, the event has been moved from its old home at St. Mary’s church on Locust Walk to The Rotunda at 4014 Walnut St.
The larger venue will aim to accommodate this year’s greater expected turnout.
Campus musical acts Marigolds, Rail 3, Slow Dance Chubby, and Sarah Lindstedt will each be given 25-minute sets. After the four sets, a panel of judges selected by UME will select a winner to play a 15-minute encore. This judging panel will include professionals inside the music industry as well as music figures from Penn’s campus.
“We’re really excited about this year’s PMC Show”, said College senior and SPEC Concerts Director Dorian Mendoza on the collaborative nature of this year’s event. “It’s about fostering a more involved community of musicians and music fans on campus. There’s a lot of great talent here that flies under the radar for the most part, and we want to help expose more people to it. By collaborating with UME and Alpha Kappa Psi, we’re hoping not only to provide a showcase for some great musicians on campus, but help create networking and promotion opportunities for them”.
For more information, visit:
- The Penn Music Collective Show: http://www.facebook.com/events/249655271824534/
- Undergraduate Media & Entertainment Club: http://www.facebook.com/PennUME
- Slow Dance Chubby: http://www.facebook.com/slowdancechubbymusic
- Marigolds: http://www.facebook.com/Marigoldstheband
- Sarah Lindstedt: http://www.facebook.com/sarahlindstedtmusic
Although admission will be FREE, donations will be collected at the door for the Vagina Monologues.
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8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
featured this month:
Ben Vida & Eli Keszler + Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler
"Utilizing modular synthesizer, computer, drum kit and motorized percussive objects Vida and Keszler play an ecstatic form of electro-acoustic music."
Ben Vida is a Brooklyn based composer, improviser and sound artist. He produces compositions that use analog and digital synthesizing technologies and focus on aural phenomena and sound localization. Ben has released over twenty records on such labels as PAN, Thrill Jockey, Drag City, Amish, Bottrop-Boy, Hapna and Kranky. As both a solo artist and in collaboration he has presented his work in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, South Korea and Japan.
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and currently based in New York City, Eli Keszler began playing drums at eight, and composing at twelve. Before finding an interest in experimental music and improvisation, he played in rock and hardcore bands; his work retains an intense physicality and churning, often ferocious energy. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where he studied composition with Anthony Coleman and Ran Blake. He has collaborated with Phill Niblock, Roscoe Mitchell, Tony Conrad, Joe McPhee, Loren Connors, Jandek, and many others, and has recorded more than a dozen CDs and LPs for ESP-DISK, REL, and PAN.
Keszler’s installations employ piano wires of varying lengths; these are struck, scraped, and vibrated by microprocessor-controlled motorized arms, giving rise to harmonically complex tones that are percussive yet resonant. These installations are heard on their own and with accompanying ensemble scores. Said Keszler in a NPR All Songs Considered interview, “I like to work with raw material, simple sounds, primitive or very old sounds; sounds that won't get dated in any way.” In addition, the patterns formed by the overlapping piano wires allow Keszler to create visual components that relate directly to the music, without having to use projections or other electronic equipment.
Admission is FREE
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6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Every 3rd Saturday of the month PYPM hosts a youth-led open mic and poetry slam for teens to come and share their work in a safe, uncensored environment.
Teens who participate in the slams earn points to qualify for the PYPM Slam Team, which competes at annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival and Slam held in various cities across the U.S with over 50 other youth poetry teams from around the world.
Interested in slamming or signing up for the open mic? See Slam Rules/Schedule, and Registration for full details.
Time: 6PM sharp (doors open at 5:45PM)
Admission: $10 adults, $7 youth and students ($5 for students who attend workshop earlier that day)
Name: Perry Divirgilio
Email Address: perry@pypm215.org
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7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Contact: Dan Blacksberg 215-317-5889 For Immediate Release dan.blacksberg@gmail.com
Trombonist Dan Blacksberg Brings “The Big Yiddish Dance Party”
to West Philadelphia
A Day-long celebration of klezmer music and dance!
2pm: dance workshop w/ Steven Lee Weintraub; $5-10 suggested
4pm: music master class w/ Dan Blacksber and Michael Winograd; $5-10 suggested
7pm: big Yiddish public dance party; FREE
On November 18th at 7PM I will present “The Big Yiddish Dance Party” at the Rotunda in West Philadelphia. This party aims to bring klezmer music to Philadelphia the way it is meant to be experienced, with live music and dance leading by some of the best and brightest performers active today. In addition to the evening dance party, the day will include two workshops, one led by master dance leader Steve Weintraub exploring different styles of Yiddish dance, the other, led by myself and clarinetist Michael Winograd, will be on the nuances of klezmer style for advances instrumentalists. The dance party will be a free event, while the workshops will have a suggested donation of $5-10.
My goal for this event is to give Philadelphians the chance to experience the incredible energy and joy the combination of klezmer music and dance gives when each is done at its highest level. For the past several years, this groups of musicians - with Steve leading the dancing - has been thrilling audiences and moving bodies all across North America and Europe at places like the Richmond Folk Festival, Lowell Folk Festival, the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto, and the Festival of Jewish Culture in Cracow, Poland. I want the “The Big Yiddish Dance Party” to be a meaningful and fun way to experience klezmer for everyone, whether they are deep into the music, or hearing it for the first time.
Trombonist Dan Blacksberg is quickly making a name for himself in his native Philadelphia and internationally for his work in the experimental and Jewish music worlds. A 2012 Pew Fellow in the Arts, Blacksberg brings a burly, rough-edged sound intended to push at the technical and textural extremes of his instrument and carve out new spaces for the trombone in whatever genre in which he finds himself. He is a leader with projects such as the Dan Blacksberg Trio, Hasidic punk band Electric Simcha, and co-leader of new music duo Archer Spade, and noise duo Superlith. He is also highly in demand as a sideman, working with groups such as the Anthony Braxton Quartet and Alan Bern's Other Europeans. As a teacher and practitioner of traditional klezmer on the trombone, Dan has taught performed in festivals all over the world, such as the Klezkamp, Klezkanada, Lowell Folk Festival, the Krakow Fesitval of Jewish Culture, and Yiddish Summer Weimar.
Born on Governor’s Island and Bar Mitzvahed in the Bronx, Steven Lee Weintraub received his dance training in Manhattan with Alvin Ailey and Erick Hawkins, among others, and studied dance pedagogy with Phyllis Weikert. He is in international demand as a teacher of traditional Yiddish dance at festivals and workshops including Klezkamp, Klezkanada, and festivals in Krakow, Weimar, Furth, Paris and London to name a few. Much of his career has been creating and performing Jewish dance; he has worked with choreographers Felix Fibich and Shula Kivel, and has performed the work of Fred Berk. He was a principal dancer and choreographer with the Israeli folkdance group Parparim and was assistant director of the annual Israeli Folk Dance Festival in NYC. For many years he choreographed and danced with his partner Sharona Paller Rubenstien. This spring, Steve was the recipient of a DanceBridge space grant, which facilitated the debut performance of the New Yiddish Dance Ensemble.
Though only 30 years of age, Michael Winograd is considered a modern master of the klezmer clarinet style. Like others in the klezmer revival he has a jazz background, and graduated with distinction in 2005 from the New England Conservatory in Boston. Winograd has since fully immersed himself in the klezmer world. In 2006, he founded the first Yiddish dance house, or Tanzhoyz, in New York City where traditional European Jewish dance is performed, taught and celebrated by some of the greatest musicians and dancers in klezmer today. He also keeps the tradition alive by teaching at Living Traditions' annual KlezKamp in New York and KlezKanada outside of Montreal, and has been musical director of "Kids and Yiddish" at the Folksbeine Yiddish Theater in New York City. He has taught and performed all over the world.
Nov. 18th: The Big Yiddish Dance Party at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St.
2PM: Dance Workshop, 4PM: Music Masterclass, 7PM: Public Dance Party. Workshops
suggested donation $5-10, Party: Free
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Friends of 40th Street General Meetings
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Great things are happening in West Philadelphia!
Bring your neighborhood or organizational updates and announcements to share.
The Friends are residents, businesses, institutions and non-profits working together to improve the 40th Street corridor and its surrounding area.
All community members and business owners are encouraged to attend !
more info to follow.
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7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Poet-Tree En Motion
October 17th, November 21st & December 19th, 2012!
A FREE community event (but donations are always appreciated)!
This ongoing seasonal event series features a variety of dance/movement/theater mediums, live electronic/acoustic music, vocalists & poetry/spoken-word presentations, circus/fire performances, community art creations VJ projections by VJ Yakov & open stage/open mics! (Sign up begins @ 7:15pm=>SHARP)
Featured acts include…
November 21st: Giving Thanks & Salutations…
Bianca Boom- Those who have heard her voice say, "It is different." Always considering her strongest talent to be her voice, Bianca continued to develop a unique vocal style while gaining performance experience in the past, as a violinist and freestyle rapper. She soothes the listener with a gentle lullaby in "Do What You Gotta Do, Redid," and just as easily, delivers into a spit-fire rhythmical style towards people who do not under in, "The Sine." Demonstrating her own dynamic brand of mysticism and romance mixed with edgy poems and beats, Bianca will always give the listener something to remember her by.
the Femme-mynistiques- Trio of sis-starz merging forces w/ fresh beats, mystic vocals, rhymes & lyrical poetics devoted to the “femminine mystic”. Together these three ladies bring to the stage backgrounds in beat/music production, dance choreography, staging theater productions, hostess-ing venues, singing, rap & spoken word performances (see link above for more info)!
Kalamandir Dance Company- Kalamandir Dance Company (501c3) is a contemporary dance ensemble that uses the vocabulary of classical Indian dance to explore new spaces of artistic expression. Instead of diminishing the foundation of our classical styles, we look to investigate their communicative potential when merged with Western dance traditions. Using Odissi, Kathak, Bharatanatyam, Capoeira, Flamenco, Modern and Ballet training, our dancers collaboratively converse with movement and create dialogue with expression. We are driven by creativity, human emotions, and a desire to be released from the four walls of our daily existence. Our movement vocabulary is a collective effort that aims to create a reachable area for all people to participate and communicate. Artistic Director, Malabika Guha presents the piece “The Love That Remains”. Based on the Portuguese word “saudades,” this piece explores the fervent state of longing by channeling the painful sweetness of remembering a loved one from whom we have been separated while reveling in the joy that they may return (see link above for more info)!
Kintala- experimental world music percussion project
December 19th: Winter Solstice Celebration…
* Hennessey Bonfire-musical performance fusing ancient/futurist sound instrumentation rooted in African, Mediterranean, Cuban, and Indian grooves.
* Mira Treatman & Friends-live music and dance performance
* Rigger (w/ guest poet Moriarta Van Blasphemachen)-Led by Philly based DJ/artist Otis Brown, Rigger showcases a wide array of styles of electronic music, spanning nearly 2 decades of creating tracks & remixing
* Plum Dragoness (& special guests TBA)-resident performance artist & poetess stages works in progress through dance/spoken word/live music
A FREE community event (but donations are always appreciated)!
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6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative
Food Justice Movie Night
screening
The Weight of the Nation
Obesity in America has reached a catastrophic level. Almost every aspect of our lives is threatened. The first step toward ending the damage is learning how to fight back.
In order to win, we have to lose.
Doors at 6pm, movie at 6:30pm.
Contact- 215-898-1600 or Events@UrbanNutrition.org
Admission is FREE. Free dinner served.
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9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
(nearly every last Thursday)
new time: 9pm-1am
featured this month: Aquil, Aime, JawnzapSeven, and Newz Huddle
Established in 1996, The Gathering is the longest/strongest-running truly Hip Hop event in Philly.
The Gathering IS b-boys/b-girls, pop-lockers, emcees, graffiti writers, DJs, men, women, and children of all ages enjoying an organic, community-based celebration of The struggle, the Love, and the culture of Hip Hop.
DJs spin Hiphop, breaks, and funk all night, and there are open cyphas, a tag wall, and a featured performance and graffiti panel each month.
Admission is $3
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8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Puppet Uprising's
13th Annual
Year-End Cabaret
& Cheap Art Bazaar
TWO NIGHTS! Friday & Saturday Nov 30 & Dec 1
Cheap Art at 7:30 • Cabaret at 8pm
Donations Solicited
If we’ve done our math correctly, the last day of November and the first of December will be Puppet Uprising’s 13th Annual Year-End Cabaret. Acts featured include cross-dressing Spanish love songs by UPHOLSTERY CON PAPOS, cardboard romances by FLYING DONKEY PUPPET TROUPE, a disembodied meditation by the MEDIUM THEATRE COMPANY, the self-explanatory antics of MR. & MRS MAGOO'S TRAVELING TRASH PUPPET CIRCUS, and an annual visit from alien instrument-maker the GREAT QUENTINI. Also, in the spirit of Puppet Uprising’s radical roots, artists from OCCUPY WALL STREET come down from NYC to grace us with some news-of-the-day styled performance around relief from Hurricane Sandy, and New Orleanean hula-hooper extraordinaire MARY-GO-ROUND invites you to try your hand at a life-size game of ring-toss. All that, and Clint Eastwoood doing stand-up comedy too.
For more info, visit puppetuprising.com or call 267-909-2633 (and please note: we haven’t sold out by becoming a dot-com—our old dot-org web address was hijacked by a Japanese dating site).
Donations Solicited at the door.
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Event Categories
- Education
- Poet-tree en Motion
- Philly Youth Poetry Night
- Bright Bulb Screening Series (formerly Andrew's Video Vault)
- Ars Nova Workshop
- Bowerbird Presents Gate
- The Gathering
- Open Mic
- Philly Fringe Festival
- 40th Street Summer Series
- Event Horizon
- Bowerbird Liminal States Series
- The Bigger Picture (TBP) workshop series (formerly Vision Driven Artist Workshop Series)
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