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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ars Nova Workshop
presents
Secret Keeper
Mary Halvorson, guitar
Stephan Crump, double-bass
Ars Nova Workshop kicks off its 14th season with Secret Keeper, a duo comprised of bassist Stephan Crump and guitarist Mary Halvorson. Their first recording, Super Eight, was released in the spring of 2013 on the Intakt label.
About Super Eight, Glenn Astarita on All About Jazz writes that “The duo supplies heaps and bounds of prismatic contrasts. There's never a dull moment, yet it's music with a purpose, often embedded with subtle or wily abstracts and oddball deviations.”
Stephan Crump is a Memphis-born bassist and composer currently residing in New York City. He has collaborated with a variety of artists from across the musical spectrum. Acts such as Dave McDonald of Portishead, The Violent Femmes’ Gordan Gano, The Vijay Iyer Trio, Billy Hart, and Bobby Previte. He began is solo performance career after being invited to International Society of Bassists conference in 2009 and has recorded duo projects with saxophonist Steve Lehman and pianist James Carney. Crump’s own Rosetta Trio is set for its third release, THwirl (Sunnyside Records) in September 2013.
After completing jazz studies at Wesleyan University and the New School in 2002, Mary Halvorson has worked with Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant, Anthony Braxton, Jessica Pavone, Weasel Walter, Tom Rainey, and Ingrid Laubrock among others. As a leader, she has forged an impressive body of work with her trio of drummer Ches Smith and bassist John Hébert, who released Dragon’s Head (2008, Firehouse 12), and her quintet that produced Saturn Sings (2010) and Bending Bridges (2012) including trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson and alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon.
Stephan Crump and Mary Halvorson are currently working on their second album together, anticipated in spring of 2014.
Admissions is FREE
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Fire Museum & The Rotunda Present:
Jeffrey Werbock
In a presentation of traditional Azerbaijani mugham
Jeffrey Werbock will give a performance and presentation of traditional Azerbaijani mugham improvisations on various native stringed instruments. Mr. Werbock has been giving these presentations for nearly 40 years to audiences all over the world. His primary work is giving lecture demonstrations at colleges, universities, academies and museums, mainly in America and Europe. He has also given solo concerts in Azerbaijan, where he is widely known for his passionate love of their traditional music.
Mugham, an ancient Azerbaijani musical tradition with roots as far back as the Ancient Egyptians, is an elusive art within America. Possibly the first music in the world to have an open improvised form free of time signature, it is indispensable with regards to its influence on all types of music, from free jazz to world music to blues. It is important that this gem of Azerbaijani culture is exposed to new generations of open minded musicians and cultural connoisseurs alike so that the understanding of its influence on modern music is not lost.
Jeffrey Werbock was born in Philadelphia in 1951. In 1971 he moved to Los Angeles, California and the following year he met an older man from Daghestan who played traditional Azerbaijani music on one of their native instruments, the kamancha. From the first moment of listening to this strange and ancient music, Jeffrey was completely enthralled. With the guidance of Mr. Avshalomov, he began to study the cultures and peoples of the Caucasus Mountains, with a strong emphasis on the traditional music of Azerbaijan. Only one year after they met, Jeffrey and his teacher moved to Brooklyn where they shared an apartment. After three years of intensive work together, Jeffrey moved to Manhattan in order to be closer to the center where world music began to acquire a following. Since then, he has given hundreds of concerts and lecture demonstrations at museums, colleges, universities and community concert venues in the United States, Europe and Azerbaijan.
Admission is FREE (donations highly appreciated for this event!)
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sephro: Back to Earth by Fantasy Weavers Original Opera for Children & Adults
Kate Quinn's opera saga Sephro continues with Sephro: Back to Earth. Cryss is consumed with guilt for having wronged Craela. While Craela is searching for him in the Astral World, she is abducted and imprisoned on Earth as an alien. Cryss and the Sephrons travel back to Earth to save her.
Saturday September 7 at 7pm and Wednesday September 11 at 8pm
We at Fantasy Weavers believe, through opera, the healing power of music, and fantasy, which stirs endless possibilities, we can inspire people. We are reaching out to children and adults who have either been exposed to problems such as bullying, trauma and substance abuse, or have limited or no access to the arts. We aim to increase access to youth opera, to augment the programs at all schools in the Philadelphia area. We intend to bring opera performances to adults through presentations at community-based organizations, such as rehabilitation centers and other adult programs. People will walk away from our shows with the feeling that they have experienced something magical that is not merely entertainment. People will walk away with a message of hope and encouragement.
Tickets are $10. Buy advance tickets HERE.
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3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
POOR POE by William Burrison/NIGHTHAWKS
Sept 8 at 3:30pm and 7:30pm at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Sept 10 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Sept 11 & 12 at 9pm at Christ the King Prayer Chapel, 4233 Chestnut Street (Not Wheelchair Accessible)
Can E.A. Poe survive a brush with madness (or two hit-men), off a train, in Philadelphia? Written by three-time PA Arts Council recipient William Burrison and based on a true account. With live music by Ross Lipton, and a preliminary short play, The Ship That Stops, by Colin Wolfe.
Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 students and 25 and under. Buy advance tickets HERE
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
7:30 PM - 8:40 PM
POOR POE by William Burrison/NIGHTHAWKS
Sept 8 at 3:30pm and 7:30pm at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Sept 10 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Sept 11 & 12 at 9pm at Christ the King Prayer Chapel, 4233 Chestnut Street (Not Wheelchair Accessible)
Can E.A. Poe survive a brush with madness (or two hit-men), off a train, in Philadelphia? Written by three-time PA Arts Council recipient William Burrison and based on a true account. With live music by Ross Lipton, and a preliminary short play, The Ship That Stops, by Colin Wolfe.
Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 students and 25 and under. Buy advance tickets HERE
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6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Join us for a staged reading of “The (Sexual) Liberation of Mammy”, a play by j.D. Stokely. The play is about Adanne, a young Black lesbian whose life is turned upside-down after the Mammy statue her mother gives her comes to life. The play aims to have honest conversations about race, gender & sexuality, while also confronting the ugly history of Black tropes/memorabilia in American history. The staged reading will be followed by a dinner & facilitated talkback with the playwright.
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7:30 PM - 8:40 PM
POOR POE by William Burrison/NIGHTHAWKS
Sept 8 at 3:30pm and 7:30pm at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Sept 10 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Sept 11 & 12 at 9pm at Christ the King Prayer Chapel, 4233 Chestnut Street (Not Wheelchair Accessible)
Can E.A. Poe survive a brush with madness (or two hit-men), off a train, in Philadelphia? Written by three-time PA Arts Council recipient William Burrison and based on a true account. With live music by Ross Lipton, and a preliminary short play, The Ship That Stops, by Colin Wolfe.
Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 students and 25 and under. Buy advance tickets HERE
9:30 PM - 10:40 PM
POOR POE by William Burrison/NIGHTHAWKS
Sept 8 at 3:30pm and 7:30pm at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Sept 10 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
Sept 11 & 12 at 9pm at Christ the King Prayer Chapel, 4233 Chestnut Street (Not Wheelchair Accessible)
Can E.A. Poe survive a brush with madness (or two hit-men), off a train, in Philadelphia? Written by three-time PA Arts Council recipient William Burrison and based on a true account. With live music by Ross Lipton, and a preliminary short play, The Ship That Stops, by Colin Wolfe.
Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 students and 25 and under. Buy advance tickets HERE
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8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sephro: Back to Earth by Fantasy Weavers Original Opera for Children & Adults
Kate Quinn's opera saga Sephro continues with Sephro: Back to Earth. Cryss is consumed with guilt for having wronged Craela. While Craela is searching for him in the Astral World, she is abducted and imprisoned on Earth as an alien. Cryss and the Sephrons travel back to Earth to save her.
Saturday September 7 at 7pm and Wednesday September 11 at 8pm
We at Fantasy Weavers believe, through opera, the healing power of music, and fantasy, which stirs endless possibilities, we can inspire people. We are reaching out to children and adults who have either been exposed to problems such as bullying, trauma and substance abuse, or have limited or no access to the arts. We aim to increase access to youth opera, to augment the programs at all schools in the Philadelphia area. We intend to bring opera performances to adults through presentations at community-based organizations, such as rehabilitation centers and other adult programs. People will walk away from our shows with the feeling that they have experienced something magical that is not merely entertainment. People will walk away with a message of hope and encouragement.
Tickets are $10. Buy advance tickets HERE.
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Andrew's Video Vault
FREE Screenings Continuous From 8 PM
on the Second THURSDAY of Every Month!
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Viewer discretion is advised.
SEPTEMBER 12
West of Zanzibar (1928 / 65 minutes)
The ninth collaboration between Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning is a tale of revenge and debasement, wherein an evil English music hall magician is completely devoted to his wife who soon abandons him for an ivory trader.
Adventure In Iraq (1943 / 64 minutes)
Director D. Ross Lederman’s thriller where five Allied soldiers crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he seems to be.
OCTOBER 10
The Monster (1925 / 86 minutes)
Roland West directs one of the first “mad scientist” films based on a play by Crane Wilbur. West’s movie freely mixes horror and comedy as Lon Chaney uses a “death chair” to transfer the soul of a woman into a man’s body.
The Eyes of The Mummy Ma (1918 / 57 minutes)
Director Ernst Lubitsch’s Egypt-set thriller about a young painter visiting the cursed tomb of a dead Queen.
NOVEMBER 14
Anna Nicole (2011 / 120 minutes)
Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas’ opera about the busty Playboy playmate who married an octogenarian billionaire.
DECEMBER 12
Rope of Sand (1949 / 104 minutes)
William Dieterle directs Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre in a gritty drama about stolen diamonds and double crosses.
Jewel Robbery (1932 / 68 minutes)
William Dieterle directs the fifth of William Powell and Kay Francis’ seven movies together wherein a robber uses marijuana to make off with coveted jewels.
FREE Screenings Continuous From 8 PM
on the Second THURSDAY of Every Month!
This program is made possible through the generous support of theCinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Viewer discretion is advised.
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
8:00 PM - 9:15 PM
The Storm Rider: A Woman's Journey
by The Theater Cooperative
The Theater Cooperative presents The Storm Rider, the gripping story of Lili Bita's own journey through tragedy, triumph, and loss as she raises an abused child to manhood and confronts her inner demons. Join Lili for this most personal and inspiring of her epic Fringe performances. Directed by Ruchama Bilenky.
Friday September 13 at 8pm
Saturday September 14 at 8pm
Sunday September 15 at 8pm
The Theater Cooperative, in collaboration with Dysfunctional Theater, is proud to announce its sixteenth collaboration with the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Its offering for this year features the renowned Greek actress Lili Bita in her most revealing role.
The Storm Rider is Lili’s personal memoir of love, loss, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Through her unforgettable portrayals of the great heroines of Greek drama—among them, Medea, Clytemnestra, and Lysistrata—Lili has brought to life the passion and sensuality of the theater’s most celebrated and iconic women.
Now, Lili tells her own story. It is, fittingly, one no less vivid, dramatic, and inspiring than that of any of the figures of legend she has brought us before. It is a story of rebellion and liberation against overwhelming odds, of one woman’s struggle to express herself as an artist and an individual and to take her rightful place in the world. It is also a story of the costs of that struggle.
At its center, The Storm Rider is the story of a mother and her son. Conceived in Greece, born in Germany, and raised in America, Philip is the product of a broken home in a broken time—a time of war, social dislocation, and a cultural rebellion that expressed itself, for the young, in sex, drugs, and violence.
Philip’s quest for identity began, as it did for so many, in a rejection of those closest to him. It led him to embrace a Greek story of his own, that of the young adventurer Icarus, who flew too close to the sun on wings of wax and plummeted back to earth. Philip’s wings were nylon, but they melted too in fire as he fell from a California sky, and began a journey back toward love against all odds. His story, and Lili’s, is one unlike any you have ever known. At the same time, it is the story of every mother and son, of every family searching to heal and forgive. Above all, it is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the unconquerable power of love—a power beyond death and time.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for students and 25 and under. Buy advance tickets HERE
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
8:00 PM - 9:15 PM
The Storm Rider: A Woman's Journey
by The Theater Cooperative
The Theater Cooperative presents The Storm Rider, the gripping story of Lili Bita's own journey through tragedy, triumph, and loss as she raises an abused child to manhood and confronts her inner demons. Join Lili for this most personal and inspiring of her epic Fringe performances. Directed by Ruchama Bilenky.
Friday September 13 at 8pm
Saturday September 14 at 8pm
Sunday September 15 at 8pm
The Theater Cooperative, in collaboration with Dysfunctional Theater, is proud to announce its sixteenth collaboration with the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Its offering for this year features the renowned Greek actress Lili Bita in her most revealing role.
The Storm Rider is Lili’s personal memoir of love, loss, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Through her unforgettable portrayals of the great heroines of Greek drama—among them, Medea, Clytemnestra, and Lysistrata—Lili has brought to life the passion and sensuality of the theater’s most celebrated and iconic women.
Now, Lili tells her own story. It is, fittingly, one no less vivid, dramatic, and inspiring than that of any of the figures of legend she has brought us before. It is a story of rebellion and liberation against overwhelming odds, of one woman’s struggle to express herself as an artist and an individual and to take her rightful place in the world. It is also a story of the costs of that struggle.
At its center, The Storm Rider is the story of a mother and her son. Conceived in Greece, born in Germany, and raised in America, Philip is the product of a broken home in a broken time—a time of war, social dislocation, and a cultural rebellion that expressed itself, for the young, in sex, drugs, and violence.
Philip’s quest for identity began, as it did for so many, in a rejection of those closest to him. It led him to embrace a Greek story of his own, that of the young adventurer Icarus, who flew too close to the sun on wings of wax and plummeted back to earth. Philip’s wings were nylon, but they melted too in fire as he fell from a California sky, and began a journey back toward love against all odds. His story, and Lili’s, is one unlike any you have ever known. At the same time, it is the story of every mother and son, of every family searching to heal and forgive. Above all, it is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the unconquerable power of love—a power beyond death and time.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for students and 25 and under. Buy advance tickets HERE
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
8:00 PM - 9:15 PM
The Storm Rider: A Woman's Journey
by The Theater Cooperative
The Theater Cooperative presents The Storm Rider, the gripping story of Lili Bita's own journey through tragedy, triumph, and loss as she raises an abused child to manhood and confronts her inner demons. Join Lili for this most personal and inspiring of her epic Fringe performances. Directed by Ruchama Bilenky.
Friday September 13 at 8pm
Saturday September 14 at 8pm
Sunday September 15 at 8pm
The Theater Cooperative, in collaboration with Dysfunctional Theater, is proud to announce its sixteenth collaboration with the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Its offering for this year features the renowned Greek actress Lili Bita in her most revealing role.
The Storm Rider is Lili’s personal memoir of love, loss, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Through her unforgettable portrayals of the great heroines of Greek drama—among them, Medea, Clytemnestra, and Lysistrata—Lili has brought to life the passion and sensuality of the theater’s most celebrated and iconic women.
Now, Lili tells her own story. It is, fittingly, one no less vivid, dramatic, and inspiring than that of any of the figures of legend she has brought us before. It is a story of rebellion and liberation against overwhelming odds, of one woman’s struggle to express herself as an artist and an individual and to take her rightful place in the world. It is also a story of the costs of that struggle.
At its center, The Storm Rider is the story of a mother and her son. Conceived in Greece, born in Germany, and raised in America, Philip is the product of a broken home in a broken time—a time of war, social dislocation, and a cultural rebellion that expressed itself, for the young, in sex, drugs, and violence.
Philip’s quest for identity began, as it did for so many, in a rejection of those closest to him. It led him to embrace a Greek story of his own, that of the young adventurer Icarus, who flew too close to the sun on wings of wax and plummeted back to earth. Philip’s wings were nylon, but they melted too in fire as he fell from a California sky, and began a journey back toward love against all odds. His story, and Lili’s, is one unlike any you have ever known. At the same time, it is the story of every mother and son, of every family searching to heal and forgive. Above all, it is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the unconquerable power of love—a power beyond death and time.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for students and 25 and under. Buy advance tickets HERE
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7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The Caribbean Film Academy in conjunction with Lady M Productions presents
an evening highlighting filmmaking in the Caribbean and of filmmakers of Caribbean descent, in the region and the Diaspora. For ONE NIGHT ONLY, four remarkable pieces of work will be shown!
"A Story about Wendy”, “Missed”, “Seawall” and “The Coming of Org”
Admission $5; light refreshments available
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Gender Reel Film and Performance Art Festival
September 19, 20, and 21!!! 6-10pm each night.
Gender Reel is the nation's one and only, coast to coast, film and performance art festival dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender non-conforming & transgender people, images and experiences.
Admission is $10. Buy advance tickets HERE
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Gender Reel Film and Performance Art Festival
September 19, 20, and 21!!! 6-10pm each night.
Gender Reel is the nation's one and only, coast to coast, film and performance art festival dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender non-conforming & transgender people, images and experiences.
Admission is $10. Buy advance tickets HERE
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6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Gender Reel Film and Performance Art Festival
September 19, 20, and 21!!! 6-10pm each night.
Gender Reel is the nation's one and only, coast to coast, film and performance art festival dedicated to enhancing the visibility of gender non-conforming & transgender people, images and experiences.
Admission is $10. Buy advance tickets HERE.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
One Year by MamaCITA Five
in our beautiful sanctuary, which is in the front of our building. Please enter on Walnut Street
Installation open Sept 7, 8, 12–15 + 19–21, from 6pm–8pm.
25-minute performance on Sept 7 and Sept 21 at 6:30pm.
In 2012 there were 331 murders in Philadelphia. This visually stunning art installation of hundreds of wire sculptures “one for each murder” confronts public apathy towards urban violence. On September 7 and 21, a short musical and spoken word performance will immerse the audience in lamentation, remembrance, and hope.
Admission is FREE. RSVPs encouraged but not required.
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1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Receive CPR training from L. Watson
Learn how to save a life. This FREE 2 hour class is open to people from all walks of life and professions. Certificates of CPR training completion will be given at the end of class.
This class is open to 20 people only, so register NOW. Registration will close on September 21.
Register HERE
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Jesus Didn't Tapout Live Concert
with 1 Body in Christ, C-City, Nikoleye, India Irvin, Mic Rose, Charles Sleyon, Body of Evidence
w/ food and vendors (Kingdom INC Apparel and Mary Kay)
Admission is FREE
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6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
It's Showtime Ent
presents
The Movement
Mixtape Release Showcase/25th Bday Bash for DOM SHIZZ
Featuring some of the hottest MCs/entertainers in the tri state:
Mr. Prez
J-Mugga
Fran Daddy
Fame $$
Lif B
Mill T.
Streetz
Chubby M.
Hosted by Comedian Malcolm Hill and Showtime DJ Auto Truck Club
Admission is 10; Soul food platters for $7
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
CHARLES CURTIS, cello
performs works by Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Eliane Radigue, Tashi Wada, and Christian Wolf
ABOUT THE EVENT
An internationally acclaimed cellist of new and experimental music, Charles Curtis has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance and musical experimentation, with a special emphasis on the interpretation of the post-John Cage American avant-garde. He has worked extensively with pioneers of new music including Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier and Éliane Radigue, whose works he performs in an intimate solo concert kicking off Bowerbird's GATE series.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Eliane Radigue: Occam V (2013)
A new work for solo cello, part of the ongoing series "Occam River." A particular idea from "Naldjorlak I" is here focussed on exclusively, without the large-form development of the latter. An open string and its adjacent unisons and octaves are exhaustively investigated as a terrain of constantly varying resonance. "Occam V" was developed collaboratively by Éliane Radigue and Charles Curtis between January 2012 in Berlin and July 2013 in Clans, France. Approximately 15 minutes in duration.
Tashi Wada: Untitled (2013)
A work of variable length - up to 40 minutes - in which Tashi Wada manipulates, in performance, a recording of Charles Curtis played back on a specially-modified Teac 4-track reel-to-reel deck, while Curtis performs related material. The space of the recording and the space of the performance are superimposed in such a way that acoustical differences stand out but also interchange in ambiguous ways.
Christian Wolff: One Cellist (2013)
A very recent work (completed in May 2013) of about eight minutes duration, much of it a kind of two-part polyphony for a single instrument. Very fast material alternates with nearly static moments; sometimes a clear variation process is evident.
Wolff writes: "One Cellist" was made for Charles Curtis. It pushes - perhaps rather far, the furthest so far - my current way of working with fragments - about 25 of them here, variously derived - from simple gestures (bits of a tune, e.g. from a Shaker song, a children's song, parts of scales). Â Occasionally these fragments are interwoven with each other, but mostly they are just there, one after another. The music is presented in such a way that the performer may choose various ways of realizing it.
Alvin Lucier: Slices for Cello and Pre-Recorded Orchestra (2011)
53 orchestral instruments sustain a 53-note tone cluster in pre-recorded loops. The solo cello plays through the cluster melodically, eliminating with each played note the orchestral instrument sustaining that note, until the cluster is erased. In a new melodic ordering, the solo cello brings the corresponding sustaining instrument with each new tone until the cluster is re-inscribed; this alternating process of erasing and re-inscribing the cluster is repeated seven times. The soloist controls the pacing by activating a Supercollider patch via foot pedal. The duration is about 25 minutes.
Alison Knowles: Rice and Beans for Charles Curtis (2010)
Knowles made a graphic score of hand made rice paper with lentils, bits of string and cloth worked into it. In performance, Curtis explores the natural resonance of the cello by working through the entire corpus of the instrument in a way analogous to the process suggested by the making of the score. The duration is variable, between 10 and 20 minutes.
Admission is FREE
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9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
(nearly every last Thursday)
new time: 9pm-1am
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.
THIS MONTH! Hip2Know will be with us. Hip2Know is a project designed to raise the awareness of sexually transmitted infection rates in Philadelphia youth and to promote the personal and community benefits of getting tested. This month Hip 2 Know will be featured at The Most Ill, The Most Raw, The Most Authentic Gathering Hip Hop Event! Special performances and free giveaways all night long! All are welcomed! Bring your friends! Get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Get your friends tested. Make sure no one gets burned.
#knowyourstatus #don'tgetburned www.hip2know.org
Admission is $5
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8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Ian M. Fraser is a computer musician working in free improvisation and algorithmic based composition. His primary focus is generative structures, pseudo-artificial intelligence, stochastic processes and networking systems for audio/visual output. With Reed Evan Rosenberg, he works with the continual development of Keroaän, a musical Artificial Intelligence designed to perform without any human intervention what-so-ever. In live performance they combine live generative works with real-time visualizations utilizing high intensity strobe lights and lasers. Other recent collaborations include an on going improvised duo with Jesse Kudler, and an audio visual collaboration with AP Vague. Ian is the co-director of the Philadelphia Sound Forum.
Mark Baechtle and Richard Marcus are two seasoned avant garde musicians who have been familiar faces in the electronic music scene. Both have worked extensively in designing sound and live compositions for theater companies, video production teams and modern dance choreographers. These artists have performed live at museums, galleries and festivals locally and abroad in solo and in collaborative projects. Using the newest technology and keeping true to their analog roots, this electronic improvisational duo has a vibrant spirited approach to the sound they create, exploring the new and redefining the old.
The past couple of years in the studio have opened up some new ideas for these two artists in collaboration. They have moved the boundaries of improv/electronic/ambient to a new level of sonic textures and rhythms evoking sound collages in the mind’s eye.
This project started out as an experiment and has now come to the “horizon” and hopefully will flourish to be witnessed in the mind’s eye of the audience. If you hear you will see.
Loud and Sad is the long running collaboration of Joe Houpert & Nathan McLaughlin, currently based out of Philadelphia, PA and Hudson, NY. Both individually in their solo work and together in this duo, Houpert and McLaughlin explore the vocabulary of the reel to reel tape machine as a partner in accompaniment. They have built up this tape machine vocabulary through various phases of their work, utilizing a variety of instrument sources and trying to ground those in social concepts and ideas. The current focus is adding folk instrumentation to that vocabulary, with renewed emphasis being put into the energy of live performance. They have a number of releases that chronicle their various incarnations on labels such as cae-sur-a, FET Press, Digitalis, Greenup Industries and an upcoming release on Tranquility Tapes. You can also hear their work as part of the trio Tilth, with Cody Yantis. ..
The Event Horizon concert series is a Philadelphia based concert series featuring Ambient, Electronic, Experimental and Space Music.
Admission is FREE
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
All concerts will be held at the 40th Street Field, the beautiful green space adjacent to the Walnut West Free Library at 40th and Walnut Streets. All shows begin at 6pm. THESE SHOWS ARE NOT AT THE ROTUNDA.
EXPANDED 40TH STREET SUMMER SERIES
University of Pennsylvania, University City District (UCD), and The Rotunda are pleased to announce the 2013 (and newly-expanded!) concert calendar for the annual 40th Street Summer Series, the free outdoor performance series in University City.
Scheduled for the last Saturdays in May to September, the 40th Street Summer Series will transform the 40th Street Field into a family-friendly center of global sounds and good vibrations.
These free outdoor performances will feature internationally-renowned ensembles including Brooklyn Qawwali Party (performing/reworking the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), the whimsicalPhiladelphia Ukulele Orchestra, the Millennial Territory Orchestra (performing the music of Sly and The Family Stone), Spaceship Aloha(featuring Man Man's Chris Powell), The Heavens Atheist Gospel Trombone Choir, and more to be announced.
Complimentary (first come, first served) Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream will also be given out during the performances. PLUS! Free face painting, balloon art, and portraits. AND circus antics from Give & Take and fire artists!
The 40th Street Summer Series is sponsored by AroundPhilly, BenFM, Ben & Jerry's, Campus Philly, Philadelphia City Paper, Daily Pennsylvanian, Grid Magazine, Homewood Suites, Philly Pretzel Factory, Metro, Philadelphia Weekly, Philly Fun Guide, UC Review, UCNet, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Saturday, September 28 | Millennial Territory Orchestra performs the music of Sly & The Family Stone
Grammy nominated trumpet-composer Steven Bernstein (Sex Mob) leads his 12-piece ensemble featuring a top-flight roster of talent through the monumental songbook of Sly & The Family Stone to deliver unforgettable fun for all. By filtering the music of Sly and The Family Stone through its own “downtown NYC” aesthetic, MTO illuminates the melodic and harmonic sophistication of this immortal body of work, while upholding the Day-Glo soul and psychedelic funk that’s the backbone for classics like M’Lady, Everyday People, and Family Affair.
Admission to all shows is FREE
Visit the official website for the 2013 40th Street Summer Series:http://universitycity.org/40th-street-summer-series
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1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Renaissance Arts Day
A FREE day of demonstrations and classes on Renaissance arts such as theater, music, dancing, spinning, cooking, pottery, calligraphy, embroidery, sword-fighting, and more!
Renaissance activities for all ages! For more info, please see http://ivyeinrust.eastkingdom.org/renarts.html or e-mail Livia at moas@ivyeinrust.eastkingdom.org.
Sponsored by the Society for Creative Anachronism – Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust.
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7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Transfigurations-Transgressing Gender in the Bible
Drawing on inspiration from interviews with transgender and genderqueer individuals, Peterson Toscano weaves their experiences into the stories of transgender and gender variant people from the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Hilarious and moving, Toscano’s one-person play deepens well-known (and lesser known) Bible stories as he presents an array of genders.
Critical acclaim for Transfigurations-Transgressing Gender in the Bible-
Bible-lovers, gender-transgressors of all sorts, people who love justice! Make haste to see Peterson Toscano's play Transfigurations as soon as possible! His biblical exegesis is insightful and accurate, and you will glean a whole new perspective painlessly because of his charming performance
-Dr. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, author of Omnigender, co-author of Transgender Journeys
It is an absolute must-see for all…I haven’t had my brain opened up and refilled so gracefully in a long, long time. My heart loved it too.
Scott Turner Schofield, performance artist and writer
Admission is free but registration is suggested as seating is limited.
ctltransfigurations.eventbrite.com
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