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11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
PAN Vegan Pledge Philly 2014
It’s that time of year again where Peace Advocacy Network (PAN) begins planning our annual Vegan Pledge in Philadelphia!
What is the Vegan Pledge?
The Vegan Pledge is a four-week program designed to provide all the necessary education and resources to those who are ready to go vegan and are willing to try it for at least the 30-day time period. A series of five weekly meetings will provide pledges with speakers, cooking classes, and more! Each pledge is paired up with their own person mentor, an individual who has been vegan for some time and will be there to assist and answer any questions that may arise in between weekly meetings. Many past pledge participants have remained vegan for years now and have also remained friends with those they met during the program. PAN works hard to ensure participants have resources available to them long after the pledge is over!
Can you help?
We are hoping you may consider being involved with the Philadelphia Vegan Pledge as either: a mentor, a pledge, or a general volunteer (see descriptions below).
The Pledge dates and times are as follows:
Sunday, January 19th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, January 25th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, February 1st from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Sunday, February 9th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, February 15th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Can you be a mentor?
Mentors are folks who commit to pair up with a pledge for the duration of the program and will check in with their pledges via phone, email, etc. on a weekly basis to ensure they aren’t encountering any challenges and to help them if they are. Mentors are those who are already vegan and will be able to provide answers and resources to those who are just trying veganism for the first time. If you are interested in being a mentor, please fill out this form.
Are you ready to be a pledge?
A pledge is a person who is ready to give veganism a try for the one-month program and will hopefully stay vegan for life! You will be provided with valuable resources such as hearing from amazing speakers, getting hands-on cooking demonstrations, and having your own personal vegan mentor that will guide you every step of the way. You’ll even hear from past pledges and how great their experience with the program was for them. Give it a try and find out how veganism is perhaps the most any one person can do for their own health, the protection of the environment, and of course to show compassion and respect for non-human animals. If you are interested in being a pledge, please fill out the form here.
Would you like to be a general volunteer?
General volunteers will be needed from today throughout the end of the pledge to help with organizing and administrative tasks such as following up with emails, securing product donations, and facilitating discussions in the Philadelphia Vegan Pledge 2014 Google Group. Your help is needed at any capacity you can offer it! If you’d like to be a general volunteer, please fill out this form.
What now?
If you are interested in being a mentor, pledge, or general volunteer, please fill out the respective forms mentioned above. If you have any other questions or concerns, please email Ed Coffin, ed@peaceadvocacynetwork.org. We look forward to seeing those of you who have helped in the past as well as seeing some new faces as well!
We hope you are enjoying the holiday season and look forward to hearing from you soon.
P.S. If you know anyone who might be interested in any of the above opportunities, please feel free to forward this page to a friend!
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
How To Cook A Frog with Julia Child
Written by and starring Annie Danger
Join Julia as she shares her unique take on the state of modern society and culture. Come ready for for a night of reminiscences and surprises, savory treats and rich morsels; a truly interactive experience that takes you into Julia's world of the past and discusses the variety of incredible cultural developments since her heyday of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Tickets are $5-10 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds: http://cookafrog.bpt.me/
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7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER!
Poet-tree En Motion
Winter & Spring Performance Series!
Wednesdays Feb 5th, April 2nd & June 4th
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/flow arts performances, community art creations & VJ projections
Plus an Open Stage/Open Mic/Jam Session! (Sign up Begins & Doors Open @ 7pm)
Featured acts include:
February 5th: Lunar New Year Salutations
Bill Fieger -Composer of electronic music as well as recording and performing solo acoustic music, modifying and creating new instruments to take the music to new places.
Shannon Hayden-stretching the boundaries of virtuosic classical music by embracing technologies.
Kaleema Poles- her natural creativity with Jewelry, Art, & Fashion is inspired from life cycles, family, culture, spirits, friends, dreams, the earth & sky.
Plum Dragoness (a.k.a. Gabrielle de Burke) - a thespian, dancer, martial artist, instructor, poetess and writer known for her poetic style, vocal performance, fire dance, flow arts and choreographic flair throughout Philadelphia and abroad. Since 2007, she has been the event organizer for this ongoing community performing arts series known as Poet-tree En Motion, at The Rotunda!
Text Rich (a.k.a. Ali Richardson)- an artist of many talents and gifts using traditional acoustic and electric instruments such as djimbe, guitar, bass, piano, drums, and vocal interpretation that covers singing, emceeing, beat boxing, scatting, and performing poetry.
VJ Spooky (Space Pirates, I<3 Industrial, Stimulate, Smack)-is a Philadelphia based VJ that enhances a multimedia experience for various events and has worked with such acts as Axwell, Laidback Luke, Headhunters and Steve Aoki.
March 2nd-9th: Community Outreach Workshops! Dance/Movement, Poetry/Song Writing & Theater Arts (Pay What You Can/Suggested donation $5-20) Join FB group & Follow Event for details on offerings: facebook.com/events/425380820927264
April 2nd: Spring Rites & Femme-mynistique Fundraising Celebrations!
June 4th: Summer Solar Collaborative Festivities & Plum Dragoness Fundraising Activities!
To keep Updated on Coming Events … Join the Facebook Group for Poet-tree En Motion (facebook.com/groups/116980678334215)!
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9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society
hosts guest speaker E.C. Myers
E.C. Myers is the author of two young adult SF novels in the Coin series: Fair Coin (Pyr, 2012; Norton Award winner and finalist for the Compton Crook Award and British Fantasy Award) and Quantum Coin (Pyr, 2012).
His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Blood Sisters, Loving the Undead, Touched by Wonder, Sporty Spec, Shimmer, Sybil?s Garage, Andromeda Spaceways, and Tales from Moreauvia. ?Lost in Natalie? (co-written with Mercurio D. Rivera) is forthcoming in Space & Time. E.C. graduated from the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2005 and is a member of the prolific writing group Altered Fluid. He is also an assistant editor of Nightmare Magazine, blogs Star Trek reviews at TheViewscreen.com, and is the current SFWA Eastern Regional Director.
E.C. was assembled in the U.S. from Korean and German parts and currently resides in Philadelphia with his wife, a mild-mannered dog, and the requisite two cats. You can visit his website at ecmyers.net and follow him on Twitter: @ecmyers.
Admission is FREE
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6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
TAKII presents Cinemazement
A unique and exclusive Asian screening experience featuring Bleach, Princess Tutu, Excel Saga, and Gekijouban Sengoku Basara: The Last Party!
6:00pm - 10:00pm
So many of us have fallen in love with Asian culture fandom by watching but a few episodes of our favorite imported Japanese favorites & we were hooked! Racing home after school, tossing aside the homework we had weeks to do, just to spend 30 minutes watching anything from Bishoujo Senshi SailorMoon to Pokémon & any other anime under the sun. For others, Asian-themed cinema was a guilty pleasure; fingers trembling as we'd purchase the latest volume of our "must see" Korean & Chinese dramas with an intimate circle of friends who understood our passion for such masterpieces. The Asian Karaoke Idol Invitational brings memories of yesteryear & visions of the future together with its own TAKII Family & other casual Asian film fanatics to bring to you our newest TAKII World Tour exclusive, Cinemazement!
And in the historic & spacious venue that TAKII has been able to call "home" for the last few years, fans of Asian cinema will be able to enjoy a wide variety of video favorites (on a rotating basis), with our inaugural kick-off screenings comprised of the following (domo arigatou to the volunteers at Wikipedia for providing us this vital series info):
- Bleach: a Japanese anime series based on the manga of the same name by Kubo Tite. The anime ran for a total of 366 episodes, including 111 episodes of original material not based on the manga. Bleach was produced by Studio Pierrot & directed by Abe Noriyuki. Bleach's Japanese & English voice actors include some of the most credited & well known voice actors, including Johnny Yong Bosch. Its music was composed by Sagisu Shirou, who also composed the music for Shin Seiki Evangelion. A total of 15 opening themes & 30 ending themes are used throughout the series featuring a diverse group of Japanese artists.
- Princess Tutu: a metafictional, ballet-themed magical girl, dramatic-musical anime series created by Itoh Ikuko in 2002 for animation studio Hal Film Maker. The 1st season of the anime series was broadcast in Japan in 2002 & the 2nd season in 2004. The anime series was also adapted into a 2-volume manga. Both the manga & anime series were licensed by ADV Films in 2004 for distribution in North America. The series explores the concepts of fate & free will in a way rarely seen in any animated series produced today.
- Excel Saga: a manga series written & illustrated by Koshi Rikdo. It has been serialized in Young King OURs since 1995 & its individual chapters were collected & published in tankoubon volumes by Shounen Gahosha. The series follows the attempts of Across, a "secret ideological organization", to conquer the city of Fukuoka as a 1st step towards world domination. The titular character of the series, Excel, is a key member of the group working towards this goal, while the city is defended by a shadowy government agency led by Dr. Kabapu. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Victor Entertainment. Directed by Watanabe Shinichi & featuring animation from J.C.Staff, the series premiered on TV Tokyo in 1999.
- Gekijouban Sengoku Basara: The Last Party: an anime film that portrays the end of the Sengoku period. Japan is once again in turmoil as subordinate of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Mitsunari Ishida, cuts a wrath of fury across the land while other leaders rally for an era of peace. Masamune Date & Yukimura Sanada must fight Mitsunari again & bring the country together in harmony. It is the last in a series of anime known as Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings. The film was released on June 4, 2011. The opening song is "FLAGS" by T.M. Revolution & the ending song is "The Party Must Go On" also by T.M. Revolution.
Cinemazement attendees will be treated to a unique viewing experience as can only be provided by the creators of "the world's most extreme Asian culture fusion festival". In lieu of the FREE entrance fee, we will be taking donations & selling Asian snacks/drinks at the door to raise funds necessary to support the mission of The Rotunda in bringing more arts-positive programming into the Greater Philadelphia area.
As a special treat, those who attend will get to participate in a special edition of "Raffle Royale" featuring prizes provided by Team TAKII Coalition Sponsors & Affiliates! As with most happenings that combine the forces of The Asian Karaoke Idol Invitational & The Rotunda, this is an all-ages, family-friendly screening that EVERYONE will be able to enjoy.
Due to the anticipated popularity of this stop on our TAKII World Tour (& it, you know, being FREE), we ask that you make arrangements to arrive ASAP, as the screenings will begin promptly at 6:00pm. A few episodes from each of the anime listed above will be shown & presented by Team TAKII Co-Coordinators. Before the anime movie screening of Gekijouban Sengoku Basara: The Last Party, we will break for a momentary intermission (a great time to fill out cards for "Raffle Royale" & donate a few dollars to The Rotunda or buy some Japanese snacks/drinks). And before the night ends, we will raffle off some of our amazing prizes we have in store.
Again, Admission is FREE, but donations will be requested at the door. All proceeds raised at Cinemazement will go directly towards The Rotunda, which has offered a safe & affordable place for creative minds of all shapes & sizes to bring their artistic dreams to life in the Greater Philadelphia area on an (essentially) 24/7 basis for over 15 years. Now is the time that we show the world how much venues & organizations such as The Rotunda are loved by donating money to their honorable cause while enjoying awesome Asian screening fellowship at the same time. Get ready to be cineMAZED, minna-san!!
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11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
PAN Vegan Pledge Philly 2014
It’s that time of year again where Peace Advocacy Network (PAN) begins planning our annual Vegan Pledge in Philadelphia!
What is the Vegan Pledge?
The Vegan Pledge is a four-week program designed to provide all the necessary education and resources to those who are ready to go vegan and are willing to try it for at least the 30-day time period. A series of five weekly meetings will provide pledges with speakers, cooking classes, and more! Each pledge is paired up with their own person mentor, an individual who has been vegan for some time and will be there to assist and answer any questions that may arise in between weekly meetings. Many past pledge participants have remained vegan for years now and have also remained friends with those they met during the program. PAN works hard to ensure participants have resources available to them long after the pledge is over!
Can you help?
We are hoping you may consider being involved with the Philadelphia Vegan Pledge as either: a mentor, a pledge, or a general volunteer (see descriptions below).
The Pledge dates and times are as follows:
Sunday, January 19th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, January 25th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, February 1st from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Sunday, February 9th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, February 15th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Can you be a mentor?
Mentors are folks who commit to pair up with a pledge for the duration of the program and will check in with their pledges via phone, email, etc. on a weekly basis to ensure they aren’t encountering any challenges and to help them if they are. Mentors are those who are already vegan and will be able to provide answers and resources to those who are just trying veganism for the first time. If you are interested in being a mentor, please fill out this form.
Are you ready to be a pledge?
A pledge is a person who is ready to give veganism a try for the one-month program and will hopefully stay vegan for life! You will be provided with valuable resources such as hearing from amazing speakers, getting hands-on cooking demonstrations, and having your own personal vegan mentor that will guide you every step of the way. You’ll even hear from past pledges and how great their experience with the program was for them. Give it a try and find out how veganism is perhaps the most any one person can do for their own health, the protection of the environment, and of course to show compassion and respect for non-human animals. If you are interested in being a pledge, please fill out the form here.
Would you like to be a general volunteer?
General volunteers will be needed from today throughout the end of the pledge to help with organizing and administrative tasks such as following up with emails, securing product donations, and facilitating discussions in the Philadelphia Vegan Pledge 2014 Google Group. Your help is needed at any capacity you can offer it! If you’d like to be a general volunteer, please fill out this form.
What now?
If you are interested in being a mentor, pledge, or general volunteer, please fill out the respective forms mentioned above. If you have any other questions or concerns, please email Ed Coffin, ed@peaceadvocacynetwork.org. We look forward to seeing those of you who have helped in the past as well as seeing some new faces as well!
We hope you are enjoying the holiday season and look forward to hearing from you soon.
P.S. If you know anyone who might be interested in any of the above opportunities, please feel free to forward this page to a friend!
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
40th Anniversary Celebration
Corey Wilkes, trumpet + flugelhorn
Ernest Dawkins, saxophones
Kahil El'Zabar, percussion
Ars Nova Workshop welcomes the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble to Philadelphia for its 40th anniversary celebration tour and CD release party. Their new album is called Black is Back.
Kahil El'Zabar led the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s first performance at Child City Arts Center in Chicago in 1973, one year after he had returned from his studies at the University of Ghana. His goal was to combine concepts of African American music making with the earlier roots of traditional African music to produce something new. In his own words: "The spirit of one's approach comes first before the technical. All the facility in the world with nothing that comes from the heart doesn't make good music. The basis of the strength of any artistic evolution has come from ethnicity."
After 40 years, this legendary band is still serving the people worldwide with their special brand of 21st century Griot music. Now featuring the remarkable Corey Wilkes, member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Ernest Dawkins of the New Horizons Ensemble, the trio's "harmonically provocative and rhythmically seductive" (Chicago Tribune) performances impart an ancestral wisdom that conjures an energy rarely encountered in contemporary music.
El'Zabar is one of Chicago's jazz treasures. A member of the AACM, El'Zabar has performed alongside numerous jazz greats and was a member of the bands of Stevie Wonder, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone.
Admission is FREE
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8:00 PM - 11:30 PM
!!!CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW!!!
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 and The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania.
****VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.****
FEBRUARY 13
Outside the Law (1920 / 75 minutes) Lon Chaney, Wheeler Oakman and Anna May Wong star in Tod Browning’s psychological gangster movie set in San Francisco.
Two Seconds (1932 / 67 minutes) Edward G. Robinson is a condemned murderer whose life flashes before his eyes as he is electrocuted in Mervyn LeRoy’s pre-code gangster melodrama.
MARCH 13
Warning Shadows (1923 / 90 minutes) Director Arthur Robison’s Expressionist masterpiece of eerie premonitions and jealousy between a seductress, her husband and her suitors at a dinner party.
The Crash (1932 / 58 minutes) Director William Dieterle’s adaptation of the 1932 novel Children of Pleasure is a startling first-hand account of a rich couple that loses their fortune in the 1929 stock market crash.
APRIL 10*
Ghosts (1915 / 49 minutes) Early silent cinema adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play about the haunting legacy, both physical and emotional, that parents leave to their children.
Dollhouse (2003 / 183 minutes) In Mabou Mines’ historic theater production, director Lee Breuer deconstructs Ibsen’s classic about Nora and Torvald’s crumbling marriage by casting the male roles with little people creating a disorienting examination of power and dominance.
*Presented in association with EgoPo Classic Theatre’s 2013-14 Ibsen Festival. Visit: egopo.org.
MAY 8
The Penalty (1920 / 90 minutes) The lawless Barbary Coast of old sets the stage for the criminal reign of a deformed urban warlord named Blizzard (Lon Chaney) who seeks to control the city.
The Unscarred (2000 / 92 minutes) Director Buddy Giovinazzo probes the nature of fraternity and their reunions in this suspense thriller of remembrance and reconciliation.
JUNE 12
The Magician (1926 / 83 minutes) Science and magic intertwine and force lovers apart as a mad doctor seeks to create life in this movie directed by Rex Ingram and based on a 1908 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
Noah’s Ark (1928 / 135 minutes) Early talkie directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Darryl F. Zanuck featuring biblical spectacle and allegory intercut with a yarn of World War I-era espionage and skullduggery.
JULY 10
Soul for Sale (1923 / 90 minutes) Silent era, behind-the-scenes exposé of a young runaway bride trying to make it in early Hollywood. Features cameos by directors Erich von Stroheim, Jean Hersholt, Charles Chaplin and actress Zasu Pitts, among others.
Murder Obsession (1982 / 95 minutes) An actor with a haunted past and his girlfriend take a break from shooting his latest movie to visit his mother. When his director and some of the crew show up, they confront a serial killer.
AUGUST 14
Chicago (1927 / 118 minutes) Cecil B. DeMille brings Maurine Dallas Watkins’ iconic play to the big screen. Based on the true story of Beulah Annan, it tells the story of married jazz baby Roxie Hart and the murder of her lover. The inspiration for Ginger Roger’s 1942 movie as well as the classic 1975 Fosse/Kander & Ebb musical.
Don’t Gamble with Strangers (1946 / 68 minutes) A pair of crooked gamblers pose as brother and sister to lure in suckers until the charade wears thin and ends in murder.
SEPTEMBER 11
Martyrs of the Alamo (1915 / 71 minutes) Playing fast and loose with the facts of history, the founding of Texas is presented in Christy Cabanne’s expansive movie produced by D.W. Griffith.
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976 / 123 minutes) “Truth is whatever gets the loudest applause.” Robert Altman debunks classic western archetypes and explores the difference between western history and western legend in show biz-obsessed America. With Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Joel Grey and Kevin McCarthy.
OCTOBER 9
The Goose Woman (1925 / 80 minutes) Ripped from the headlines of the “Hall-Miller” case—a disgraced opera singer with an illegitimate child sees a chance to reclaim the spotlight by insinuating herself as a material witness in a high profile trial.
Penn and Teller Get Killed (1989 / 89 minutes) Gleefully morbid comedy from Penn and Teller where, on live TV, Penn Jillette publically asks someone to threaten his life, and the candidates pour in. Co-starring Caitlin Clarke and the great David Patrick Kelly.
NOVEMBER 13
Arsenal (1929 / 70 minutes) In Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s drama, a Ukrainian solider returns home after the trauma of The Great War and seeks political reform in his village.
The Virgin Soldiers (1969 / 95 minutes) Legendary stage impresario John Dexter’s first film features a bunch of randy soldiers in 1950s south-east Asia as a commentary on then current Vietnam anxieties.
DECEMBER 11
Traffic in Souls (1913 / 88 minutes) The dark side of the American experience is illuminated in this examination of two immigrants seduced into prostitution by nefarious pimps and flesh traffickers.
Wild Oranges (1924 / 88 minutes) An escaped prisoner terrorizes a political exile and his granddaughter in director King Vidor’s Florida-shot thriller.
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 and The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania.
****VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.****
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11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
PAN Vegan Pledge Philly 2014
It’s that time of year again where Peace Advocacy Network (PAN) begins planning our annual Vegan Pledge in Philadelphia!
What is the Vegan Pledge?
The Vegan Pledge is a four-week program designed to provide all the necessary education and resources to those who are ready to go vegan and are willing to try it for at least the 30-day time period. A series of five weekly meetings will provide pledges with speakers, cooking classes, and more! Each pledge is paired up with their own person mentor, an individual who has been vegan for some time and will be there to assist and answer any questions that may arise in between weekly meetings. Many past pledge participants have remained vegan for years now and have also remained friends with those they met during the program. PAN works hard to ensure participants have resources available to them long after the pledge is over!
Can you help?
We are hoping you may consider being involved with the Philadelphia Vegan Pledge as either: a mentor, a pledge, or a general volunteer (see descriptions below).
The Pledge dates and times are as follows:
Sunday, January 19th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, January 25th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, February 1st from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Sunday, February 9th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Saturday, February 15th from 11-2 PM at The Rotunda
Can you be a mentor?
Mentors are folks who commit to pair up with a pledge for the duration of the program and will check in with their pledges via phone, email, etc. on a weekly basis to ensure they aren’t encountering any challenges and to help them if they are. Mentors are those who are already vegan and will be able to provide answers and resources to those who are just trying veganism for the first time. If you are interested in being a mentor, please fill out this form.
Are you ready to be a pledge?
A pledge is a person who is ready to give veganism a try for the one-month program and will hopefully stay vegan for life! You will be provided with valuable resources such as hearing from amazing speakers, getting hands-on cooking demonstrations, and having your own personal vegan mentor that will guide you every step of the way. You’ll even hear from past pledges and how great their experience with the program was for them. Give it a try and find out how veganism is perhaps the most any one person can do for their own health, the protection of the environment, and of course to show compassion and respect for non-human animals. If you are interested in being a pledge, please fill out the form here.
Would you like to be a general volunteer?
General volunteers will be needed from today throughout the end of the pledge to help with organizing and administrative tasks such as following up with emails, securing product donations, and facilitating discussions in the Philadelphia Vegan Pledge 2014 Google Group. Your help is needed at any capacity you can offer it! If you’d like to be a general volunteer, please fill out this form.
What now?
If you are interested in being a mentor, pledge, or general volunteer, please fill out the respective forms mentioned above. If you have any other questions or concerns, please email Ed Coffin, ed@peaceadvocacynetwork.org. We look forward to seeing those of you who have helped in the past as well as seeing some new faces as well!
We hope you are enjoying the holiday season and look forward to hearing from you soon.
P.S. If you know anyone who might be interested in any of the above opportunities, please feel free to forward this page to a friend!
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
YOUTH NIGHT OPEN MIC & POETRY SLAM
Every 3rd Saturday of the month, except August and September, PYPM hosts a youth-led open mic and poetry slam for teens to come and share their work in a safe, uncensored environment at The Rotunda. Young people from all over Philadelphia come to express themselves in front of a supportive audience of over 125+ people where they can grab the microphone and be heard!
***Interested in slamming or signing up for the open mic? See Slam Rules/Schedule, and Registration for full details.
Date: Every 3rd Saturday from September through June
Time: 6PM sharp (doors open at 5:45PM)
Admission: $7 youth and Students with ID / $10 Adults / ($5 for students who attend workshop that day)
PYPM YOUTH SLAM TEAM & BRAVE NEW VOICES
Teens who participate in the slams earn points to qualify for the semi-final and final slams to make the PYPM Slam Team.
Each year PYPM sends a Youth Slam Team to represent Philadelphia at The Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival to compete against over 50 other poetry teams from around the world. The festival is held in various cities across the U.S giving teens an opportunity to travel, from Los Angeles to Chicago. Youth poets earn their spot on the team by competing in Youth Night Slams. PYPM won first place at Brave New Voices in 2011 and 2007.
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MEETING MOOG: The Early Electronic Music of Andrew Rudin
Bowerbird Presents GATE
Bowerbird is pleased to present this concert portrait of the early electronic music of composer Andrew Rudin. The concert will feature Rudin’s Tragodiea performed with a live video accompaniment and Il Giuoco (1966), which Robert Moog said to be the first large-scale, original, serious composition created on his synthesizing instruments. Il Giuoco is accompanied by a film (also made by the composer).
The late 1960s witnessed the true coming of age of electronic music. While new instruments had been developed since the beginning of the century, and widespread production began to percolate in the wake of the Second World War, it wasn’t until albums such as Morton Subotnick’s Silver Apples of the Moon (1967) and Wendy (née Walter) Carlos’ Switched-On Bach (1968) that electronic music reached the public ear on a massive scale.
Andrew Rudin's composition Tragoedia appeared hot on the heels of Subotnick’s record, which it followed in Nonesuch Records' groundbreaking series of commissions for original, album-length works of electronic music. Subtitled “A composition in four movements for electronic music synthesizer,” the large-scale structure of Tragoedia is based on the four fundamental emotional processes of Greek tragedy.
Rudin’s career up to the creation of Tragoedia transected a rich and fascinating period in the history of avant-garde music in Philadelphia. After undergraduate studies in which he was heavily influenced by the music of the Second Viennese School and Igor Stravinsky, Rudin went to the University of Pennsylvania in order to work with George Rochberg, who had recently become chair of the music department there. Rudin also studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, who taught as a visiting professor for one semester, and George Crumb, who joined the department in Rudin’s final year there. He may also have crossed paths with future pioneering sound artist Maryanne Amacher, who was an undergraduate at Penn in the early 60s.
Admission is FREE
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3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Philly Loves Women In Horror: A Film Screening & Networking Event Looks Forward To An Exciting Women in Horror Month 2014 in Philadelphia With More Films and a Q&A Panel
We are happy to announce the one of a kind, second annual Philadelphia Women in Horror Month event, Philly Loves Women In Horror!
But these aren't your mainstream horror films. Women filmmakers who specialize in the horror genre have a formidable capacity for genre mixing and dispelling popular, dismissive opinions that overwhelm the genre. They create intense, dark narratives that provide plenty of gore as well as plenty of insight about men and women in our society.
Philly Loves Women in Horror aims to enrich the Philadelphia artistic community by welcoming the public who enjoy horror films and those who are curious about what women create when they sit in the director's chair. In addition, Philly Loves Women In Horror exists to encourage local artists to collaborate on creative projects, share facts about women directors within and outside of the horror genre as well as make charitable donations to Lil Filmmakers, a local non-profit organization that gives our youth the opportunity to learn all aspects of filmmaking under the guidance of founder and Temple University film school graduate Janine Spruill. This past February, we were able to raise enough money to help with transportation and food services for their grueling film schedule for their long awaited second feature film, Erudition directed by the precocious 17 year old Anissa Cooper. Next year, we plan to help raise funds for an after school program and new equipment to keep up with an ever rapid, digital age.
A Q&A panel has been added that includes the founder of Women in Horror Month, Hannah Neurotica along with local and regional horror bloggers, artists, and filmmakers Samm Deighan, Jenny Dreadful, and Kristina Leath-Malin. The discussion will cover women in horror in front and behind the camera and how these women are radically changing the film and horror industry landscape.
The wide range of diversity with this coming year's award winning film selections span North America with a pit stop in Tasmania.
2014 Official Selections:
The Dump (2012) USA
Director: Rebekah McKendry
Anniversary Dinner (2012) USA
Director: Jessi Gotta
My Mom and Other Monsters (2011) USA
Director: Kate Tsang
Sheeties (2012) USA
Director: Paula Haifley
OowieWanna (2011) USA
Director: Bridget Palardy
JustUs (2011) USA
Director: Lori Bowen
Summer Of The Zombies (2011) USA
Directors: Ashleigh Nichols & Eddie Beasley
Doll Parts (2011) Canada
Director: Karen Lam
Awesome Oujia Board (2009) USA
Director: Tonjia Atomic
The Room At The Top Of The Stairs (2010) Tasmania
Director: Briony Kidd
Philly Loves Women In Horror is an official event in honor of Women in Horror Recognition Month, a month long celebration that happens every February wherein people all over the world create events and projects for charity that promote underrepresented female professionals in the film and art industries including directors, producers, cinematographers, musicians, FX Artists, painters, sculptors, and more.
Women in Horror Recognition Month is a service provided by the Viscera Organization, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that expands opportunities for contemporary female genre filmmakers.
For more information, please visit:
www.facebook.com/phillyloveswomeninhorror
www.lilfilmmakersinc.com
www.womeninhorrormonth.com
www.viscerafilmfestival.com
Press from 2013:
examiner.com - http://www.examiner.com/article/philly-loves-women-horror-event-to-feature-the-latest-lia-scott-price-film
University of Pennsylvania's Queer & Feminist Film Studies - http://pennqueerfemfilm.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/event-philly-loves-women-in-horror-film-screening-networking-event/
Philadelphia City Paper - http://www.citypaper.net/agenda/events/188618151.html
Horror Society - http://www.horrorsociety.com/2013/01/24/praey-to-screen-at-philly-loves-women-in-horror/
In Liquid Art + Design - http://inliquid.org/blog/event/philly-loves-women-in-horror/
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3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander is a global anthology of social justice poetry edited by Ewuare X. Osayande featuring the work of 65 poets from Africa, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Canada and all across the United States including poet icons Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Haki Madhubuti and Askia Toure.
On February 23, 2014 Ewuare X. Osayande will lead a reading and discussion of the book that will headline poets in the book. The event is free. The book will be on sale ($25). All proceeds from the sale of the book are being donated to the Trayvon Martin Foundation and the Legal Defense Fund for Marissa Alexander. More information on the book and the campaign can be found at: StandOurGroundBook.com.
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.
Admission is $5
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8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Alabaster Museum
Presents:
Mark Fosson (Drag City/Tompkins Square)
Nathan Bowles/Scott Verrastro Duo (MIE Music, mem. of Pelt/Black Twigs/Kohoutek/Curanderos)
Matt Sowell
https://www.facebook.com/events/237282089777759/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
Mark Fosson:
Songwriter and guitarist Mark Fosson grew up in Kentucky, where he began writing songs while he was still in his early teens. In the late '70s he sent some song demos to John Fahey's West Coast-based Takoma Records, and Fahey, impressed with what he heard, offered Fosson a recording deal. Fosson lost no time in relocating to Los Angeles and began recording with Fahey, but as bad luck would have it, Takoma was in some difficulty, and the label soon folded. Fahey allowed Fosson to retain the master tapes of the sessions, however. Now located on the West Coast, Fosson met fellow songwriter Edward Tree, and the two began working together, eventually forming the Bum Steers, a country-tinged group, in the late '80s. Fosson material appeared on several soundtracks through the 1990s. In 2001 he began collaborating with singer/songwriter Lisa O'Kane, who recorded several of his songs, and Fosson also began recording a solo project, "JESUS ON A GREYHOUND", which was eventually released on Big Otis Records. The record drew positive reviews and Fosson was frequently compared to Americana artists like Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Joe Ely, John Prine, and Guy Clark. The Fahey material finally saw the light of day as "THE LOST TAKOMA SESSIONS" from Drag City Records in 2006. His instrumental piece "Another Fine Day" is featured on the critically acclaimed Tompkins Square compilation "IMAGINATIONAL ANTHEM Vol. 3". His newest release, "DIGGING IN THE DUST", is also available on Tompkins Square Records. – bio
Nathan Bowles/Scott Verrastro Duo:
We're extremely excited to be releasing Polar Satellites the stunning collaboration by Nathan Bowles (Pelt/Black Twig Pickers) and Scott Verrastro (Kohoutek) in early July.
Polar Satellites is a mesmerising collection of percussion improvisations performed in duo by Nathan and Scott deep in the winter of 2009 and 2010 with absolutely no overdubs.
Building on the starkness of last years Effigy by Pelt, (recently repressed on MIE), the duo have recorded an even bleaker, more minimal and hermetically vibed record together. Unnerving and hypnotic, Polar Satellites is an intense journey into the unknown, awash with uncategorisable percussive instruments, kalimbas and banjo.
Nathan and Scott first met in Washington D.C when Nathan would sit in on Kohoutek sets. They were brought together as a duo on a track recorded for Three Lobed Records' Jack Rose tribute album and were so struck by the results that they went down to Black Dirt Studios and laid down these tracks with Jason Meagher on engineering, recording and mixing duties. James Plotkin has again done an excellent job on mastering duties. – MIE Records bio
Matt Sowell:
Philadelphia based Matt Sowell is an American Primitive guitar player. Deeply influenced by the guitar finger stylings of Jack Rose and John Fahey, Matt is constantly being challenged and evolving as a guitar player. Combining American blues, attributes of rag time with hints of Indian Ragas in his pieces, the sonic textures that Matt plays will bring you to deep introspective places. - bio
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Fire Museum Presents is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Fire Museum Presents must be made payable to "Fractured Atlas" only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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Admission is FREE (donations accepted and appreciated)
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Event Categories
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