The Women's Coalition for Empowerment, Inc. presents the Creatives Chat Series 2023, a pop-up series of curated discussions infusing creative industry topics, best practices, networking and live music.

Moderated by Shekhinah B. , author of the Art Economic Empowerment Workbook, an artistic multihyphenate, arts administrator, Edutainer, and vocal performer.

We welcome artists from every discipline to attend. This event will be an open dialogue between attendees and the moderator, a judgement free zone to explore innovative approaches towards creative freedom.

Free | Open to the Public | Live Music | Free Food | Networking

Registration is encouraged. Please register HERE

The School for Temporary Liveness

Experiments in performance, practice, and pedagogy

Vol. 3: April 6–8, 2023

The Rotunda and Slought, Philadelphia

Participate in situations for collective study with Lou Cornum, FORTUNE, Jonathan González & Marguerite Hemmings, Adelita Husni Bey, Niall Jones, Kevin Quashie, Julie Tolentino, Simone White, and more.

Free and open to all — anyone can be a student.

View the program schedule and RSVP for sessions at temporaryliveness.org.

The School for Temporary Liveness invites you to gather in Philadelphia from April 6–8, 2023 for three days of collective study and experiments in practice, performance, and pedagogy. Located at the Rotunda and Slought, STL Vol. 3 operates as a para-site. If the university is typically understood as the place for proper forms of education, then STL offers a space beside the institution—a temporary zone for the unfolding of our improper and uneven assembly.

STL asks: What if we approach performances as invitations to enter into study? Inversely, if we imagine the whole operation of a school as a performance, how does that change the ways we teach and learn, or what we think of as knowledge? For Vol. 3, a cohort of participants have been asked to generate situations for collective study that extend from their various practices. Learn alongside them and with each other through their generous and emergent offerings.

“Study perverts instruction” — STL is an occasion to partake of this perversion, a situation for gathering where “those who study do not improve but improvise.” When approached as a form that bears the excesses, instabilities, and ruptures of social life, performance renders the ways and means by which we come together, linger, exit, and do it all over again. What minor forms of life are brought forth through these passages? What tentative collectivities emerge in these interstices? Performance, like school, can be an excuse for taking part in dissonant communion.

STL is informed by the work of Black feminist thought, critical pedagogies, queer theory, and performance studies. It is equally informed by the practices in life and art—namely dance, performance, and poetics—that circulate alongside and in conversation with these theoretical traditions. This project is in conversation with historical and ongoing attempts to produce alternative contexts for pedagogy and performance.

Quotations are from Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s All Incomplete (2021).

Subscribe to our email list for updates, and follow us on Instagram.

The School for Temporary Liveness is curated and organized by Lauren Bakst.

The Water Fountain, Organized by FORTUNE (S)

Physical Education, Organized by Andrew J. Smyth (S)

 (S) = Slought, (R) = Rotunda

The School for Temporary Liveness

Experiments in performance, practice, and pedagogy

Vol. 3: April 6–8, 2023

The Rotunda and Slought, Philadelphia

Participate in situations for collective study with Lou Cornum, FORTUNE, Jonathan González & Marguerite Hemmings, Adelita Husni Bey, Niall Jones, Kevin Quashie, Julie Tolentino, Simone White, and more.

Free and open to all — anyone can be a student.

View the program schedule and RSVP for sessions at temporaryliveness.org.

The School for Temporary Liveness invites you to gather in Philadelphia from April 6–8, 2023 for three days of collective study and experiments in practice, performance, and pedagogy. Located at the Rotunda and Slought, STL Vol. 3 operates as a para-site. If the university is typically understood as the place for proper forms of education, then STL offers a space beside the institution—a temporary zone for the unfolding of our improper and uneven assembly.

STL asks: What if we approach performances as invitations to enter into study? Inversely, if we imagine the whole operation of a school as a performance, how does that change the ways we teach and learn, or what we think of as knowledge? For Vol. 3, a cohort of participants have been asked to generate situations for collective study that extend from their various practices. Learn alongside them and with each other through their generous and emergent offerings.

“Study perverts instruction” — STL is an occasion to partake of this perversion, a situation for gathering where “those who study do not improve but improvise.” When approached as a form that bears the excesses, instabilities, and ruptures of social life, performance renders the ways and means by which we come together, linger, exit, and do it all over again. What minor forms of life are brought forth through these passages? What tentative collectivities emerge in these interstices? Performance, like school, can be an excuse for taking part in dissonant communion.

STL is informed by the work of Black feminist thought, critical pedagogies, queer theory, and performance studies. It is equally informed by the practices in life and art—namely dance, performance, and poetics—that circulate alongside and in conversation with these theoretical traditions. This project is in conversation with historical and ongoing attempts to produce alternative contexts for pedagogy and performance.

Quotations are from Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s All Incomplete (2021).

Subscribe to our email list for updates, and follow us on Instagram.

The School for Temporary Liveness is curated and organized by Lauren Bakst.

The Water Fountain, Organized by FORTUNE (S)

Physical Education, Organized by Andrew J. Smyth (S)

 (S) = Slought, (R) = Rotunda

The School for Temporary Liveness

Experiments in performance, practice, and pedagogy

Vol. 3: April 6–8, 2023

The Rotunda and Slought, Philadelphia

Participate in situations for collective study with Lou Cornum, FORTUNE, Jonathan González & Marguerite Hemmings, Adelita Husni Bey, Niall Jones, Kevin Quashie, Julie Tolentino, Simone White, and more.

Free and open to all — anyone can be a student.

View the program schedule and RSVP for sessions at temporaryliveness.org.

The School for Temporary Liveness invites you to gather in Philadelphia from April 6–8, 2023 for three days of collective study and experiments in practice, performance, and pedagogy. Located at the Rotunda and Slought, STL Vol. 3 operates as a para-site. If the university is typically understood as the place for proper forms of education, then STL offers a space beside the institution—a temporary zone for the unfolding of our improper and uneven assembly.

STL asks: What if we approach performances as invitations to enter into study? Inversely, if we imagine the whole operation of a school as a performance, how does that change the ways we teach and learn, or what we think of as knowledge? For Vol. 3, a cohort of participants have been asked to generate situations for collective study that extend from their various practices. Learn alongside them and with each other through their generous and emergent offerings.

“Study perverts instruction” — STL is an occasion to partake of this perversion, a situation for gathering where “those who study do not improve but improvise.” When approached as a form that bears the excesses, instabilities, and ruptures of social life, performance renders the ways and means by which we come together, linger, exit, and do it all over again. What minor forms of life are brought forth through these passages? What tentative collectivities emerge in these interstices? Performance, like school, can be an excuse for taking part in dissonant communion.

STL is informed by the work of Black feminist thought, critical pedagogies, queer theory, and performance studies. It is equally informed by the practices in life and art—namely dance, performance, and poetics—that circulate alongside and in conversation with these theoretical traditions. This project is in conversation with historical and ongoing attempts to produce alternative contexts for pedagogy and performance.

Quotations are from Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s All Incomplete (2021).

Subscribe to our email list for updates, and follow us on Instagram.

The School for Temporary Liveness is curated and organized by Lauren Bakst.

The Water Fountain, Organized by FORTUNE (S)

Physical Education, Organized by Andrew J. Smyth (S)

 (S) = Slought, (R) = Rotunda

On Monday, April 10th, join us for Grant Writing for Artists with Tisha Smith, MBA Manager of Finance & Grants at Columbia University. In this two-hour virtual workshop, Tisha will teach the basics of applying for arts grants and share common pitfalls to avoid with research and preparation.

WORKSHOP TOPICS INCLUDE:

Registration is FREE and is required and appreciated. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grant-writing-for-artists-with-tisha-smith-mba-tickets-493391586517

Access to workshop replays will be available to attendees only.

The Bigger Picture (TBP), in partnership with The Rotunda, local artists and creative entrepreneurs, offers free resources workshops for artists and organizations on a monthly basis.

SHOWTIMES:

I Know the End is a 1-act play about Los Angeles and all its urban folklore, Chicana experience, monsters, girlhood, trauma and rage, with a title borrowed from a Phoebe Bridgers song. Tickets are free. Estimated show runtime is an hour, and there will be no intermission.

Content warning: this is a play largely about dead and murdered women, with lots of cursing, screaming, blood, general blasphemy, and lights/sound effects. Please attend at your own risk!

This play is co-sponsored by the GSWS Department and The Rotunda.

Tickets are FREE. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-know-the-end-tickets-600835795037

SHOWTIMES:

I Know the End is a 1-act play about Los Angeles and all its urban folklore, Chicana experience, monsters, girlhood, trauma and rage, with a title borrowed from a Phoebe Bridgers song. Tickets are free. Estimated show runtime is an hour, and there will be no intermission.

Content warning: this is a play largely about dead and murdered women, with lots of cursing, screaming, blood, general blasphemy, and lights/sound effects. Please attend at your own risk!

This play is co-sponsored by the GSWS Department and The Rotunda.

Tickets are FREE. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-know-the-end-tickets-600835795037

SHOWTIMES:

I Know the End is a 1-act play about Los Angeles and all its urban folklore, Chicana experience, monsters, girlhood, trauma and rage, with a title borrowed from a Phoebe Bridgers song. Tickets are free. Estimated show runtime is an hour, and there will be no intermission.

Content warning: this is a play largely about dead and murdered women, with lots of cursing, screaming, blood, general blasphemy, and lights/sound effects. Please attend at your own risk!

This play is co-sponsored by the GSWS Department and The Rotunda.

Tickets are FREE. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-know-the-end-tickets-600835795037

Wail has a self titled release on Translation Loss Records. The music can be found at:https://wail2.bandcamp.com/releases

Make your own dollhouse from a shoebox or corrugated cardboard. Endless possibilities. Endless! CC RIOT is an artist and educator who works primarily in ephemera an d text-based media (zines, collage, concepts). Instagram:  @CCRIOT / Www.carolynchernoff.com