Enjoy the Tony Williams Jazz Quartet at Germantown's cozy LaRose Jazz Club with a room full of jazz lovers. Tony Williams, saxophone, Craig McIver percussion, Mike Boone bass and Aaron Graves, Dave Posmontier keyboard. Dinner available for $10. Free parking in rear or in front on Germantown Avenue.
Celebration of Black Love is an artistic tribute to the essence of black love, its endurance, devotion and resilience. Through music, film, poetry and storytelling, this multigenerational event will honor the many ways black history has borne witness to love at all costs. Leeway Transformation Award winner (2016) Julie Rainbow was disturbed by the media's […]
It's our 6th session of free live music in the garden. Come check out Robyn Mello, the amazing Orchard Director with Philadelphia Orchard Project. She will be performing with last month's guests, The Twins. — at Pastorius Community Garden.
As part of the city wide Fringe Festival, Way of Words will be staging a 2 day poetry and art happening at its headquarters at Herman St. Studios. There will be interactive poetry writing, book-making, collage projects, art installation, readings and performances throughout the two day event. All are welcome participation is encouraged but not […]
You're invited to hear Philadelphia’s poet laureate Yolanda Wisher and her husband, double-bassist Mark Palacio, at The Art Room, Aulenbach House, 29 W. Tulpehocken Street, 2nd floor, on Friday, September 22nd, 7:00 - 8:30 pm. The Germantown-based duo will share stories and images from their past projects and perform original songs and poems. Admission - […]
The Fall Murals Walk route passes the historic Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, located in the former Germantown Academy complex. Join us at 10 am, Saturday, September 23, at Wayne and Chelten Avenues, Germantown-and see our newest mural right there.
"Imperfect Benefit" is going down at the gallery! Featuring live music from Buddy Roc and the Heartbreak Kids and the Julian Hartwell Trio, this epic benefit concert will also include a premier screening of new music video "Next Man" by Buddy Roc, raffles and CD giveaways, delicious food and drink, and community fellowship, all in […]
Please join us for a curator’s talk from Mural Arts' Monument Lab curator Paul M. Farber, on artist Jamel Shabazz’s Love Is the Message, a mural in Germantown that features select images of veterans and residents alongside monumental figures and artworks in the neighborhood. This talk is presented as part of Shabazz's concurrent exhibition Love […]
Monument to the Philadelphia Poet Yolanda Wisher (ACG '08), Lillian Dunn (ACG '12), Nicole Steinberg, and others have selected a host of Philadelphia-based poets for a one-night-only monument in verse, part of Monument Lab on September 27. More info. At Logan Circle.
Germantown's Yolanda Wisher’s Rent Party at the Rosenbach Thursday, September 28 │ 6:30–7:30 p.m. The tradition of the rent party dates back to the Harlem Renaissance, when communal gatherings of artists and musicians fed the outpouring of blues, jazz, and poetry for which this period is known. Hosted by Philadelphia's Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher, this […]