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12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Want to support small, queer-owned businesses this holiday season? Come get your shopping done at Queer Space Philly's Third Annual Holiday Market. This year's market will host 25+ local makers, crafters, and organizations. Items for sale include candles, clothing, baked goods, and original art. There is a suggested donation of $5-$10 for entry, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 15% of these donations will be donated to PCRF. The remaining donations will be used for QSP programming in 2025. Learn more about Queer Space Philly & the market.
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
A casual, friendly vegan potluck with lots of space!A perfect chance to reinvent Fall dishes or bring something totally new!An opportunity to meet new people and share time with old friends!Children welcome!Please bring one VEGAN dish (no animal products*) per adult, along with a serving utensil and a list of ingredients. The ingredients list is very important because some folks have allergies.Please don't bring something that has to stay hot unless you also bring a crock pot, warming plate, or something similar.No alcohol. Nonalcoholic beverages and ice are welcome.The Rotunda will provide plates, cups, napkins, etc. We will also provide some sort of craft for those who want to stay busy.*no meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, honey, or anything that came from an animal. If you have questions about an ingredient, feel free to email information@TheRotunda.org Accessibility info: On the left side of the building toward the back, there are seven steps up. On the right side of the building toward the back, there is a ramp.There is a single occupancy all-gender ADA restroom in the first floor not far from the ramp entrance. There are additional all-gender restrooms on both sides of the basement.
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Bucket List Open Mic CompetitionHosted by BOOMDoors at 6:30pm, show at 7pmAdmission is $5
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Practice for the balls! Vogue drop-in. All are welcome. These [almost] weekly sessions are free unless the event is a ball in which case the admission price will be stated in the event info. 6pm-9pm.
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12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Weekly Improvised Music Session. All are welcome to come and jam if you like to play improvised music. Almost every Wednesday 12pm-2pm
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9:00 PM - 11:59 PM
The Gathering! breakin, DJs, ciphers, and more. So pull up! 9pm-1am. Admission is $3 before 10pm, $5 after.
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: marketing@albustanseed.org Palestinian Vocalist, Nibal Malshi Brings Her Signature Blend of Traditional and Contemporary Arabic Music to Philadelphia Featuring and Directed by Firas Zreik and an ensemble of talented local musicians Philadelphia, PA, November 6th, 2024 – Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture is thrilled to announce an extraordinary evening of live music featuring acclaimed Palestinian vocalist and multidisciplinary artist, Nibal Malshi, in concert on December 6th, 2024, at 7:00 PM at The Rotunda, located at 4014 Walnut St. Known for her rich, expressive voice and dynamic artistry, Nibal Malshi will bring her signature blend of traditional and contemporary Arab music to Philadelphia. Accompanied by an ensemble of talented local musicians, including Gideon Forbes (woodwinds), Bashar Farran (bass), and Gilbert Mansour (percussion), the evening will be directed by the celebrated kanun player Firas Zreik. “As an artist, I see my work as more than just a profession; it’s a platform for positive change and a message of peace and humanity. My creative journey is not only about expressing myself through art & preserving the Arab music, but also using my voice and influence to connect people and make a meaningful impact on society.” - Nibal Malshi About Nibal Malshi: Nibal Malshi is a distinguished Palestinian artist, hailing from the city of Haifa in Palestine. From the tender age of 5, she embarked on a musical journey, dedicating her life to the art form and drawing inspiration from renowned Arab artists. Her performances, spanning both her homeland, Europe & the USA, include notable venues such as the Institute de monte Arab in Paris. Nibal's artistic journey extends internationally, with significant collaborations such as a month-long dance workshop in Ramallah & Beir Zeit partnered with Al- Qattan Foundation and KVS from Brussels, participation in Voice for Peace projects in Germany, and involvement in musicians' programs in London. Nibal has graced numerous events including the Arab American National Museum Grand Gala, Arab Cultural Center Gala in Houston TX, Arab America Summit in Washington DC, Rene Moawad Foundation DC,Palestine Foundation in LA, APWA Virginia and many others.In recognition of her outstanding contributions, Nibal was honored as an "Arab America Foundation 40 Under 40" award recipient in 2023. Tickets are pay-what-you-wish/suggested $20. Purchase HERE About Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture: Rooted in Arab arts and language, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture offers artistic and educational programming that enriches understanding and celebrates diversity, while supporting the pursuit and affirmation of Arab American cultural identity and playing a constructive civic role within broader American society. |
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11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Animal ACTivists of Philly Holiday Bizarre and Indoor Flea Market 11am-3pmStop by for your holiday gifts and decorations and help animals at our THIRD annual Holiday Bizarre!Free vegan snacks, holiday music, and all for a good cause. We will also be giving out a free gift to the first 100 flea market visitors.Examples of new or gently used items available - holiday decorations, jewelry, games, small appliances, and much more!All funds raised will be donated to an animal sanctuary to be named soon.Please join us for an afternoon of fun and festivities! Admission is FREE*** VENDOR TABLES AVAILABLE to a limited number - please email philly4animals@gmail.com to reserve a spot ****
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
We are excited to announce QTIBIPOC Yoga For Us By Us hosted by Meesha and Philly Transmascs of Color. This 1.5 hour yoga class includes community introduction and grounding into the space, one hour of yoga flow that incorporates philosophy, breathwork, asana, and meditation, and thirty minutes of integrating through journal prompts and shares.Meesha Sharma (they/she) will be your guide during this yoga experience and hopes to gift you healing tools that you can take off the mat and into your life.
From Meesha: This is an affinity space for QTIBIPOC to gather to carve out time for communal healing. When we have events dedicated to us we feel valued, and are able to take up the space in an important way.
Meesha is a queer diasporic South Asian that has ten years of yoga teaching experience. They teach to share the roots of yoga as a holistic way of life and healing modality, and work to combat the harm that the wellness industrial complex has done by appropriating South Asian culture for profit. They have taught all age ranges from preschoolers through senior elders, and their current work involves carving out safe and brave spaces for QTIBIPOC to learn and practice indigenous healing modalities.
Philly TMOC was started by two transboys grieving boyhood and in search of community that decenters whiteness and prioritizes QTBIPOC joy and community. Their goal is to bring you curated social events that encourage play, connection, and brotherhood. They are a sober and covid-conscious space. Racism, sexism, misogyny, ableism, fatphobia, colonialism, or zionism of any form will not be tolerated. They are a community lead and volunteer based group.
Open to QTIBIPOC attendees ONLY 6pm - 730pm
Bring your own mat
Cost: Sliding Scale Ticket, $5-25, with no one turned away for a lack of funds. RSVP HEREIf you are a non-QTIBIPOC member who would like to donate to help cover the costs for the event, you can do so through the Lavender Panzies CashApp ($CampwithaQ) or Venmo (@lavender-panzies) with the note “QTIBIPOC Yoga Event Donation”
Accessibility Notes: The Rotunda is a sober space that is wheelchair accessible. Masking is strongly encouraged. Please stay home if you aren’t feeling well. Water is available at the venue, but bringing a water bottle is recommended.
#queerjoy #flinta #queeryoga
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Bigger Picture presents Planning your 2025 featuring Christopher KP BrownFree, virtual workshopGet ready to plan with a purpose at the Planning Your 2025 Workshop! Join us for an interactive evening of planning and goal-setting. This isn't your typical workshop - it's a celebration of the future, and you're invited!Our facilitator, Christopher KP Brown, will guide us through the process. We'll be mapping out the year 2025, identifying our goals, and creating tasks to bring them to life. So, grab your planners or calendars and get ready to turn your dreams into reality. Let's bid farewell to 2024 and welcome 2025 with clear vision and high spirits!Registration is required in order to receive the Zoom link. More info and registration at https://conta.cc/4fGO28P and https://conta.cc/4fLSinu
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
This December, join songwriters Ali Dineen and Aly Halpert for a special evening of song and comfort in community. In the pocket of time between two avalanching political events, Ali and Aly will share songs for the heart, for resilience, and for all of us doing the work of birthing a different world. Aly will be accompanied by Multi-instrumentalist Rachel Chang. Come on in, loosen, and hold on: "Things are not as they seem/and you are not on your owncause nobody enters this world alone." - Ali Dineen Doors @ 7pm, Concert @ 7:30pm$18-54 suggested donation, with NOTAFLOF (No one turned away for lack of funds) Ali Dineen (she/they) is a songwriter, composer, visual artist and teacher. Born and raised and currently working in Queens, NY, she has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival, among other wonderful venues. Ali worked as Musical Director for the Stop Shopping Choir for several years, including on their 2024 national Love Earth tour opening for Neil Young. Ali was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in 2020, and is a 2025 NYSCA arts grant recipient. Ali works as the music director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective. They are currently working on a new music and theater piece about Joan of Arc. Aly Halpert (she/her) is a queer Jewish musician, educator, and activist living on Lenni Lenape land in Philadelphia, PA, USA. A singer, pianist, and guitar player, Aly writes songs for building community and visioning different worlds. Aly leads music and prayer for Jewish community, including Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action, Hadar's Rising Song Institute, Kol Tzedek Synagogue, and Let My People Sing. Her songs have been sung in national gatherings, song circles, and quiet moments of personal prayer, and have moved people all over the world. Her first full-band album Loosen was released in April 2022 with Rising Song Records. Aly believes deeply in the power of music to awaken us to the loss and hope we carry, expand our sense of possibility, and connect us to each other and our collective strength. Rachel Chang (she/her) is a Jewish musician, songleader, and educator, as well as a music therapist, living in Philadelphia, PA. Drawing from the many communities and identities that have shaped her, Rachel leads with expressive guitar, sensitive listening, and a deep intention to cultivate belonging. She is the director of A Queer Nigun Project, which uses nigunim as a collective healing practice for LGBTQIA+ people, for Jews of Color, and for incarcerated people in Jewish community, and she is the ritual director at LUNAR: The Asian Jewish Collective. As a queer and multiracial Chinese-American Jew, Rachel has spent years grappling with what it means to belong, to take up space, and to be heard in Jewish community, and she has found music to be an invaluable resource. Doors @ 7pm, Concert @ 7:30pm$18-54 suggested donation, with NOTAFLOF (No one turned away for lack of funds). Advance tickets can be purchased HERE
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Practice for the balls! Vogue drop-in. All are welcome. These [almost] weekly sessions are free unless the event is a ball in which case the admission price will be stated in the event info. 6pm-9pm.
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12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Weekly Improvised Music Session. All are welcome to come and jam if you like to play improvised music. Almost every Wednesday 12pm-2pm
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7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
BRIGHT BULB SCREENINGS, Free Double Features Every Second Thursday of the MonthFollow Bright Bulb Screenings on Facebook, InstagramClassic Martial Arts Double Feature w/ Writer/Pew Fellow Alex Smith!THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (1978, directed by Lau Kar-leung, 115 minutes, Hong Kong)KUNG-FU HUSTLE (2004, directed by Stephen Chow, 98 minutes, Hong Kong)Hi, I'm Alex!! I'm an award winning writer of sci-fi and comics, an Afrofuturist collage artist, and experimental musician. My friend Dan asked me to curate for Bright Bulb! Last time, I combed the web for a group of short films that I thought represented the DIY spirit and promises of AfroFuturism. This time, I'm pulling films from a genre whose influence on my own writing and art can't be understated: kung fu! While many think of kung fu films as mindless action, even the most mid-level kung fu flick can be rich with narrative vision, creativity, technical wizardry (from sets, to choreography, to the practical effects!), social commentary and magical fantasy that broadens the imagination. Ever since i was a kid these films, from the iconic impact of 5 Deadly Venoms to the intricate choreography of The Buddhist Fist, to even the campy wuxia inspired Big Trouble in Little China, have rocked my world in seminal ways. So come watch a couple with us!THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN is part revenge story/part political intrigue/and a lot of parts epic montage, a story whose main points lie in its subtlety and empowerment narratives. Gordon Lui stars in this 1978 classicKUNG-FU HUSTLE is on the other end of the kung fu spectrum! It uses comedy and deft choreography to explore themes of redemption and destiny.Follow Bright Bulb Screenings on Facebook, InstagramAdmission is FREE
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7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Snow Caps "Notes" Tape Release + performances by Goer, Altruistic Vision, and DJ Afrvbz. This show is being produced by The Monthly Fund @themonthlyfund and is a benefit for the People's Fridge on 52nd Street @thefridgeon52nd.Doors at 6:30pmAdmission is FREE; donations encouraged at the doorMasks are strongly encouraged and will be available at the door
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Shop 60+ local makers on Saturday, then a different lineup on Sunday! Find handmade holiday gifts like artisan jewelry, warm hand knits, functional ceramics, home wares, art, prints, ornaments, cards, stationery, candles, soaps, calendars, and so many more unique treasures by Philly's most creative makers.It's Saturday and Sunday, December 14 and 15 from 10am to 4pm. Vendors will be located indoors (rain or shine) and outdoors (weather permitting). All areas of the event are wheelchair accessible. Leashed pets are welcome in the outdoor areas. Admission is FREE(The vendor application deadline has passed.)
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10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Shop 60+ local makers on Saturday, then a different lineup on Sunday! Find handmade holiday gifts like artisan jewelry, warm hand knits, functional ceramics, home wares, art, prints, ornaments, cards, stationery, candles, soaps, calendars, and so many more unique treasures by Philly's most creative makers.It's Saturday and Sunday, December 14 and 15 from 10am to 4pm. Vendors will be located indoors (rain or shine) and outdoors (weather permitting). All areas of the event are wheelchair accessible. Leashed pets are welcome in the outdoor areas. Admission is FREE(The vendor application deadline has passed.)
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Philly Fiber Flock Holiday Party and Supply SwapJoin the Philly Fiber Flock for an evening of fiber crafting and swapping! What to bring:1. Yourself!!2. A knitting, embroidery, crochet, or other fiber craft project to work on in a community gathering.3. Yarn or supplies to swap (not required - and you are welcome to still take from the swap if you do not have items to donate!). All remaining supplies will be donated to the Craft Coven.4. A snack or drink to share (also not required, but appreciated).Admission is FREE
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12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Weekly Improvised Music Session. All are welcome to come and jam if you like to play improvised music. Almost every Wednesday 12pm-2pm
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Save the date: Dec. 18th! Poet-tree En Motion will return with its Winter Solstice edition. Enjoy a cacao ceremony, sound journey, movement meditation, and more multidisciplinary arts!As always, the event is FREE to the public. Event runs 7-9pm. More details to come
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8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Bowerbird is delighted to present a special screening of Lotte Reiniger’s pioneering animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed.When The Adventures of Prince Achmed premiered in Germany on September 23, 1926, it was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seventy-five years later, this enchanting film still stands as one of the great classics of animation — beautiful, mesmerizing and utterly seductive.Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan and soars headlong into a series of wondrous adventures — joining forces with Aladdin and the Witch of the Fiery Mountains, doing battle with the sorcerer’s army of monsters and demons, and falling in love with the beautiful Princess Peri Banu.This cinematic treasure has been beautifully restored with its spectacular color tinting and with a new orchestral recording of the magnificent 1926 score by Wolfgang Zeller. Thrilling, sensuous and dazzling, Prince Achmed will enthrall children and film enthusiasts of all ages.ABOUT THE ARTISTLotte Reiniger made over sixty films, of which eleven are considered lost and fifty to have survived. The film maker is best known for her pioneering silhouette films, in which paper and cardboard cut-out figures, weighted with lead, and hinged at the joints were hand-manipulated from frame to frame and shot via stop motion photography. The figures were placed on an animation table and usually lit from below. In some of her later sound films the figures were lit both from above and below, depending on the desired visual effect. Framed with elaborate backgrounds made from varying layers of translucent paper or colorful acetate foils for color films, Reiniger’s characters were created and animated with exceptional skill and precision.In addition to producing silhouette animation films, Reiniger was equally engaged by live shadow puppetry, which was at times recorded on film and used in live-action films. For example, in 1933, Reiniger made a shadow play sequence for G.W. Pabst’s Don Quixote (1933). In 1937 she created “Le Pont Cassé,” which translates to “the Broken Bridge,” a short shadow play sequence filmed for Jean Renoir’s La Marseillaise (1938). This famed shadow play was the most popular piece by François Dominique Séraphin, founder of the Theatre Séraphin in Versailles in 1770. Reiniger’s filmed play emulated Séraphin’s style and was thus an homage to the roots of European shadow play. Admission is FREE
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Cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control! The Gathering! breakin, DJs, ciphers, and more. So pull up! 9pm-1am. Admission is $3 before 10pm, $5 after.
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