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![]() The Rotunda & Vision Driven Consulting are teaming up to bring resources and capacity-building workshops to curators and self-producing artists from any discipline. Workshops will be held: 2nd Monday of each month beginning in November, 6:00 – 8:00pm at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St, Philadelphia) All workshops in the series are FREE and OPEN to the public, but please sign up in advance HERE to secure your spot! WORKSHOP SCHEDULE Nonprofit, LLC, or Fiscal Sponsorship (November 9th, 6-8pm) • Discuss the pros and cons of various structures – pool experiences and get new ideas • Craft your mission statement to determine the structure that best suits your practice • Sole-proprietor, LLC, 501(c)3: understand the structures and how your projects fit into them 2016 Planning (December 14th, 6-8pm) • Plan your upcoming year of work • Identify your goals and break them into achievable tasks • Plot your tasks on a timeline for 2016 Fundraising Basics (January 11th, 6-8pm) • Learn the language of fundraising • Maximize opportunities beyond grants to support your projects • Brainstorm actual fundraising ideas for your work Grant Writing – Beginner (February 8th, 6-8pm) • Demystify the language and process behind grant writing • Receive tools for finding grants • Read actual grant proposals to learn common mistakes and important proposal components Grant Writing – Intermediate (March 14th, 6-8pm) • Review aspects of a strong grant proposal • Practice writing an actual grant • Receive feedback on your draft proposal Real Budgeting for Real Work (April 11th, 6-8pm) • Look at sample budgets and learn how to interpret the story behind the numbers • Create a budget tailored to your goals for 2016 • How to assemble a project budget for potential funders Crowdfunding 101 (May 9th, 6-8pm) • Learn how to tell if crowdfunding is right for your project or if it is not • Discover the pros and cons of various crowdfunding platforms • Receive a crowdfunding workbook to help you plan a campaign Getting New Projects off the Ground (June 13th, 6-8pm) • Identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and potential threats of a new project • Think through the components of your project and its goals • Hone in on the details of your program or project and begin a draft project plan Getting People to Show Up (July 11th, 6-8pm) • Learn new techniques for building an audience, recruiting volunteers, and reaching your ideal participant • Troubleshoot issues with audience development that you may have had in the past • Identify tangible ways to keep people coming back in the future Balancing Your Practice (August 8th, 6-8pm) • Identify places of (im)balance in your practice • Discuss health, wellness, and your work • Share and obtain tools for successful time management Developing Campus/Community Collaborations (September 12th, 6-8pm) • Hear stories of successful campus and community collaborations • Learn how to find campus and community partners • Avoid common problems and learn how to build mutually beneficial partnerships Goal Identification & Measurement (October 10th, 6-8pm) • Identify what you want to achieve in your projects • Incorporate critical feedback and self-reflection into your arts practice • Brainstorm and receive tools for measuring success |
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6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
National Black Arts Spoken Word TourPresentsTo Be Young, Black, And Gifted: Words 2 Life Of Fathers To SonsShowtimes: 6:30pm and 8:00pm A performance poetry staged adaptation about the redemption of fatherhood and urbanized boyhood based upon the popular book and spoken word record release entitled "Second Born Son.” Written and adapted by Cali Starks, an Atlanta based emerging actor who has made appearance for radio and television and toured nationally to Georgia, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, California, Washington, D.C., Texas, Pennsylvania, amongst other locales. Mr. Starks has starred in the critically acclaimed Hurricane Katrina dramatic play "Wade in the Water" at the National Black Theatre in New York, the popular play "Oh God Please Send Me a Do Right Man," "From Ancient to Hip Hop" at the National African-American Student Leadership Conference and other national touring productions. He has produced spoken word CD's from poets who have appeared on cable networks such as HBO, TV One, BET and the Black Family Channel. His bestselling books and CD releases continue to receive much acclaim since previewing during broadcast media appearances for the NBC Network affiliate and on the Black College Radio Network. Mr Starks has worked extensively inside juvenile programs mentoring teaching, and tutoring in Philadelphia and Atlanta, with Morehouse School Of Medicine. His latest first person arts/solo performance will kick off a national tour in Philadelphia during January 2016 and is relevant for school aged children, adults and their families.Showtimes: 6:30pm and 8:00pmFor more information contact 267-230-0317, 267-505-1756, or mauricebrianhenderson@yahoo.com$10 Donation per show
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National Black Arts Spoken Word TourPresentsTo Be Young, Black, And Gifted: Words 2 Life Of Fathers To SonsShowtimes: 6:30pm and 8:00pm A performance poetry staged adaptation about the redemption of fatherhood and urbanized boyhood based upon the popular book and spoken word record release entitled "Second Born Son.” Written and adapted by Cali Starks, an Atlanta based emerging actor who has made appearance for radio and television and toured nationally to Georgia, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, California, Washington, D.C., Texas, Pennsylvania, amongst other locales. Mr. Starks has starred in the critically acclaimed Hurricane Katrina dramatic play "Wade in the Water" at the National Black Theatre in New York, the popular play "Oh God Please Send Me a Do Right Man," "From Ancient to Hip Hop" at the National African-American Student Leadership Conference and other national touring productions. He has produced spoken word CD's from poets who have appeared on cable networks such as HBO, TV One, BET and the Black Family Channel. His bestselling books and CD releases continue to receive much acclaim since previewing during broadcast media appearances for the NBC Network affiliate and on the Black College Radio Network. Mr Starks has worked extensively inside juvenile programs mentoring teaching, and tutoring in Philadelphia and Atlanta, with Morehouse School Of Medicine. His latest first person arts/solo performance will kick off a national tour in Philadelphia during January 2016 and is relevant for school aged children, adults and their families.Showtimes: 6:30pm and 8:00pmFor more information contact 267-230-0317, 267-505-1756, or mauricebrianhenderson@yahoo.com$10 Donation per show
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Andrew's Video Vault at The RotundaFREE Screenings Continuous From 8 PMon the Second THURSDAY of Every Month!Since 2004, Andrew’s Video Vault is a free, once-a-month screening series at the Rotunda in West Philadelphia. Andrew’s Video Vault programs original, obscure, neglected, marginalized and commercially unavailable video media. It connects the West Philly neighborhood to the University of Pennsylvania community and fosters a multicultural examination of motion pictures in a relaxed, educational setting. This program is made possible through the generous support of the Cinema Studies Program and The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania. This project is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Support also provided by PECO. This program is administered regionally by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. JANUARY 14PASOLINI (2014 / 84 minutes)Willem Dafoe is the titular moviemaker in director Abel Ferrara’s look at the famous Italian film director’s last days and violent death.THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS [Uccellacci e uccellini] (1966 / 91 minutes)Pier Paolo Pasolini’s personal favorite among his films is a political allegory where a father and son discuss politics and philosophy as they wander a surreal landscape and hear a profound parable told by a crow.Guest Host and Curator: Dan Buskirk of Phawker.com & the Fun 2 Know podcast FEBRUARY 11Celebrate British actor Oliver Reed’s birthday with a double feature of two of his most acclaimed and controversial films with director Ken Russell.THE DEVILS (1971/111 minutes)Based on real events in medieval France, this film follows a headstrong Roman Catholic priest who is accused of black magic by the disturbed women of a local convent as Cardinal Richelieu tries to gain political power from Louis XIII. Co-stars Vanessa Redgrave.WOMEN IN LOVE (1969/131 minutes)In an almost equally graphic Russell/Reed collaboration, two couples on a joint honeymoon undergo the battle of the sexes.Guest Host and Curator: Samm Deighan of film blog Satanic Pandemonium MARCH 10L’ORFEO [Orpheus] (2006 / 170 minutes)Postmodernism meets the Baroque in Trisha Brown’s staging of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera. Brown’s hypnotic choreography walks a fine line between dance and theater, and creates overarching patterns and structures that sweep through the entire ensemble of performers. A total symbiosis of music, text and movement.Guest Hosts and Curators: Megan Bridge and Peter Price of fidget APRIL 14BLACK VENUS [Venus Noire] (2010 / 159 minutes)From the director of Blue is the Warmest Color, Abdellatif Kechiche’s drama Black Venus is about Sarah Baartman, a.k.a. The Hottentot Venus. Baartman was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th century Europe and lived a life that was unbefitting for even the vilest of human creatures.Guest Host and Curator: Mike Dennis of Reelblack Cinema MAY 12Hal Ashby double feature!
LOOKIN’ TO GET OUT (1982 / 120 minutes)Ashby’s recently unearthed director’s cut strongly bolsters his comic drama about two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who retreat to Vegas in a scheme pay to off their debts. Starring Jon Voight and Burt Young, with Ann-Margret as the old girlfriend and Bert Remsen as a card-counting ace.SECOND HAND HEARTS (1981 / 102 minutes)Ashby’s barely-released comedy features Robert Blake (In Cold Blood, Lost Highway) and Barbara Harris (Freaky Friday) as newly-weds on a road trip to collect her children from disapproving in-laws. With Shirley Stoler and music from Texas cult star, Willis Alan Ramsey.Guest Host and Curator: Dan Buskirk of Phawker.com & the Fun 2 Know podcast JUNE 9SLADE IN FLAME (1975 / 91 minutes)British glam giants Slade star in this rise and fall story of a late 1960s rock band crushed by the wheels of commerce. In 2007, BBC film critic Mark Kermode called this movie, the “Citizen Kane of rock musicals.”OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL (2009 / 104 minutes)Director Julian Temple (of the Sex Pistols documentary, The Filth & the Fury) creates a flashy and enormously entertaining documentary about the brief reign of the British bar band, Dr. Feelgood. Born in the dead-end seaside resort island/oil port of Canvay, this gang of eccentrics rise from their seedy roots to conquer London in a true tale peppered with haunted landscapes and clips of rare black and white British gangster films.Guest Host and Curator: Dan Buskirk of Phawker.com & the Fun 2 Know podcast JULY 14WHITE COMANCHE (1968 / 93 minutes)Director Jose Briz Mendez’s Spanish production features William Shatner in a dual role: the cowboy Johnny Moon and his unhinged twin brother, Notah. Notah’s peyote-fueled vision that he is the Comanche Messiah puts him on a collision course with his estranged brother.CLEARCUT (1991 / 100 minutes)Polish director Ryszard Bugajski directs this unusual Canadian-shot environmentalist revenge fantasy. Dances with Wolves’ Graham Greene plays a Native American spirit who drags a kidnapped logging mill manager into the forest to help him physically understand how a forest feels when it is clearcut.Guest Host and Curator: Dan Buskirk of Phawker.com & the Fun 2 Know podcast AUGUST 11SWEET REVENGE (1976 / 90 minutes)An early vehicle for the great Stockard Channing, casting her as a car thief and master of disguise whose dream is to buy a Dino Ferrari. With Sam Waterston as the smitten public defender and comic scene stealer Franklyn Ajaye as Channing’s accomplice. Directed by Jerry Schatzberg (Panic in Needle Park) and shot by Vilmos Zsigmond (McCabe & Mrs. Miller).A GORGEOUS GIRL LIKE ME [Une Belle Fille Comme Moi] (1972 / 98 minutes)François Truffaut’s little-seen comedic homage to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock. Bernadette Lafont plays a young jailed woman accused of killing her father and lover. She recounts her life in flashback to sociologist (André Dussollier) who weakens to her charms.Guest Host and Curator: Dan Buskirk of Phawker.com &the Fun 2 Know podcast SEPTEMBER 8Experience two of the most extreme cult films about WWII with this double feature.COME AND SEE (1985/140 minutes) A young Russian boy is caught up in the fighting when his village is massacred by Germans. Directed by Elem Klimov.IN A GLASS CAGE (1987/110 minutes). Agusti Villaronga’s revenge drama follows a boy’s revenge on the pedophiliac Nazi scientist who preyed upon him during the war.Guest Host and Curator: Samm Deighan of film blog Satanic Pandemonium OCTOBER 13Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer True Crime Double FeatureDAHMER (2002/101 minutes)Jeremy Renner gives an unforgettable performance (the highlight of his career, thus far) in David Jacobson’s engrossing, stylish, and solidly executed story of one of America’s most infamous serial killers.JEFF – THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES (2012/76 minutes)Chris James Thompson’s fascinating experimental documentary combines extensive interviews with one of Dahmer’s neighbors, the chief medical examiner on the case, and the case’s lead detective with re-enactments of some of the more mundane aspects of Dahmer’s life and crimes.Guest Host and Curator: Mike Zaleski NOVEMBER 10Don Siegel Double FeatureCHARLEY VARRICK (1973/111 minutes)Gripping crime film starring Walter Matthau, in one of his best performances, as a bank robber whose life goes through a series of twists and turns when it turns out his last payload was mafia money. Also stars Felicia Farr, Joe Don Baker and John Vernon.THE BEGUILED (1971 /105 minutes)Bizarre Southern Gothic drama stars Clint Eastwood as an injured Yankee soldier taken in by an all-girls boarding school in Louisiana where things quickly get hot, heavy, humid, and twisted. Also stars Geraldine Page.Guest Host and Curator: Mike Zaleski DECEMBER 8TOO MUCH JOHNSON (1938/67 minutes)Newly discovered Orson Welles footage—silent, unedited camera rolls from 1938. Originally filmed to accompany the Mercury Theatre’s production of William Gillette’s 1894 comedy Too Much Johnson, but never used. Footage features frequent Welles collaborator, Joseph Cotten.FÅRÖ DOCUMENT 1979 (1979/100 minutes)Documentary by Ingmar Bergman about his adopted home, the island of Fårö, where he filmed many of his best works and lived until the end of his life.GLITTERBUG (1994/60 minutes)Montage of Super 8 footage shot by filmmaker Derek Jarman from 1970 to 1986 — part home-movie, part formal experimentation and part social documentary. Music by Brian Eno.Admission to all Andrew's Video Vault screenings is FREE
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![]() One more slam in our regular season! Join us for a night of incredible youth poetry! See who advances to the semifinals! Come out to the Rotunda for one of the best slams in the city! Doors open @ 5:30 pm Open Mic starts @ 6:30 pm Slam starts 7 pm. $7 for students with ID and $10 for adults. |
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![]() G.CALVIN WESTON'S PHOENIX ORCHESTRA Tom Spiker, GuitarElliot Garland, BassKayle Brecher, VocalsDavid Dzubinski, KeyboardsGrant Calvin Weston, Drums and Pocket TrumpetCarlos Santiago, ViolinBenjamin Sutin, ViolinAjibola Rivers, CelloAshley Monique Vines, ViolaListen HERE: https://soundcloud.com/gcalvinweston/with-open-wingsdust-and-ashThis is a FREE Concert. Donations are welcome.CDS WILL BE AVAILABLE |
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