Enjoy Afro-Cuban Rumbas, every Friday night, from 7 to 10pm. A taste of Cuban folklore alive and well in Philadelphia, where a circle of friends gathers to drum, sing and dance, come feel the drums!
Enjoy the James Collins Quintet at the First Presbyterian Church of Germantown, 3pm, as part of their Crossroads Concert Series. Featuring Steve Wilson, Victor Lewis, David Wong, & Noah Hocker. Opening set: Tony Williams Quartet. Free admission.
Enjoy the homey atmosphere and great jazz with the Tony William Jazz Quartet-Tony Williams, saxophone, Dave Posmontier, piano, Mike Boone, Bass and Craig McIver, percussion. 6-9pm. 5531 Germantown Avenue. Dinner available. $l0
Photo Installation Opening: Racism Is A Sickness at Main Campus Library, Mint Bldg, Community College of Philadelphia. Artist talk at 11:30 by Tieshka K. Smith and Kimberly Bonner, Adjunct Instructor, Social Science followed by reception. Explore this art and social change project by Philadelphia-based photographer Tieshka K. Smith. Racism Is A Sickness is a visual […]
National Poetry Month presents Philly Poet Laureate & Germantown's Yolanda Wisher, April 13, 7-8pm at Oak Lane Branch, Free Library. Reading from her works and signing copies for purchase of her latest poetry collection "Monk Eats an Afro".
"Coming to Terms with Slavery's Kitchen-Quarters" with Douglas Sanford, Ph.D. $15 Suggested Donation includes light meal of ham biscuits and ice tea. Recent research underscores the importance of kitchen-quarters - an arrangement in which kitchen buildings were also used as living quarters for enslaved servants - in both plantation and city residences. In fact, kitchen-quarters likely […]
For the 3rd year, The Germantown Artists Roundtable will be celebrating Philly Poetry Month, Saturday, April l6, 1-2pm, hosted by Philadelphia poet laureate Yolanda Wisher. Enjoy local poets and neighbors sharing their own or favorite poems. All ages welcome. Bring a favorite poem to hang on our clothesline-we'll supply the clothespins!
Enjoy some Victorian theater, a Mutter Museum panel, and a glass of champagne at this unique event at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion. Victorian Theatre – The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman as interpreted by Josh Hitchens. Friday, April 15 & Saturday, April 16 performance at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17 at 2 & 4 p.m. […]
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with the fabulous Larry McKenna, tenor saxophone, Lee Smith, bass, Aaron Graves, piano and Dan Monaghan, drums at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Stenton Avenue & Gorgas Lane.