Visiting Italian photographer Roberto Vignoli will be showing work in a one-day pop-up exhibition featuring photo/poetry interactions he has done with poets Claudia Quintieri and Claudio Damiani. One series takes the form of a 20-foot long panoramic print.
No. 5 Butchie Alley returns this Spring, featuring works by Shelley Thorstensen, in cooperation with Dolan/Maxwell. I have been in love with Thorstensen’s work since we met as colleagues at Moore College of Art and Design in the 90’s. She has been a constant source of inspiration over the years as I observed her transform […]
Philadelphia’s own all-women tap company, The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble, “is a powerhouse of technique, joy, and passion” (ThINKingDance). The 2025 Spring Concert Series features innovative choreography by Michael J. Love and Dolores Sanchez, audience favorites by Katie Budris and Kat Echevarría Richter, and a world premiere by renowned Chicago tap artist Star Dixon. From […]
Bowerbird and FringeArts present Pure Lucia – Night 2: Duende Otherness, the second night of a two-part program celebrating the work of composer Lucia Dlugoszewski. This program traces Dlugoszewski’s artistic trajectory from her mid-career works, composed after firmly establishing her collaboration with choreographer Erick Hawkins, to the culminating masterworks of her later years. Featuring chamber […]
On May 15 Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (PVLA), will host its annual fundraising event, The Arts Affair 2025 at REC Philly. Hosted by Cookie Diorio, the evening features an array of live performances from PHILADANCO’s D2, PHONK Philly, John Viscardi & Shekhinah B. and Jazz Trio, DJ Amber Lang, Maya Belardo, Hiruy Tifre, […]
At the end of the millennium, a group of bohemians in the East Village struggle with love, loss, and gentrification amidst the AIDS crisis. In this immersive, exciting new production, Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award™ and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical will transform the Haas Stage and shake the rafters with the iconic chords of “Seasons of Love,” […]
What is the hardest unpaid job in the world? A President's wife! A play by Eric H. Weinberger and Elaine Bromka. Emmy Award-winning Elaine Bromka stars in this deeply moving and witty play. Enjoy this remarkable live one-woman performance brought to you by the Free Library of Philadelphia. Entrance is FREE. No reservations required. Come […]
Grammy Award-winning songwriter Don Henry (Where’ve You Been) joins Phoenixville’s own Callahan & Fey for an intimate acoustic concert experience. Presented in the Garden Suite, the audience will be closer to the performers than in any other Colonial concert setup. Don Henry’s songs have been recorded by an amazing array of artists ranging from Ray […]
Please join us for member artists April Flory and Judith Schermer Artist Talks on their shows currently on exhibit at 3rd Street Gallery, on Sunday, May 18, starting at 2:00 p.m. Artists will host a reception after the talks. 3rd Street Gallery is located at 610 S 3rd Street.
Get ready to smile and laugh! Taffy the Entertainer will visit Welsh Road Library and bring along plenty of whimsy and joy. Expect quit e a bit of interactive fun, music, balloon twisting, silly magic, and games for what will be an unforgettable afternoon.
Tap dancers throughout the U.S. and around the world celebrate tap dance as an American art form each year on Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's birthday (May 25th). Join The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble at Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia on Thursday, May 22 to celebrate with an open tap jam! Tap dancers of all ages are […]
Join us on May 23 from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. for our Now is the Month of Maying Reception as part of South Street’s Fourth Friday Celebrations. Enjoy wine, cheese, and art!
Master detective Hercule Poirot has just retired and is hoping for some peace and quiet in a bucolic small town where no one knows who he is. Fate would have it otherwise. His new neighbor, Sir Roger Ackroyd, appears to have been a man who knew too much. Ackroyd knew that the woman he loved […]
Join The Print Center for a Conversation with Cecilia Paredes, presented both in-person and on Zoom. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cecilia Paredes: By my side or back of me, on view at The Print Center April 18 – July 19, 2025. Paredes will discuss her extensive career, the works in […]
Shavon Norris is an Artist. Educator. Facilitator. She grew up in a Black Sci-Fi Christian home in the Bronx that sparked her curiosity about the magic, medicine, and meaning living within us. Shavon uses movement along with text, sound, and imagery to reveal the stories living in our bodies. Her work explores our relationship to […]
BlackStar presents a site-specific, newly commissioned performance series and installation at Bartram’s Garden, from artist Joiri Minaya. Curated by writer and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell, the series will reflect on the intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden. Much like a Venus flytrap, the plant this project is […]
Chelle, a Black mid-career artist, has written a check that she's not sure her talent can cash. When the city of Baltimore takes down the Confederate monument in the park across the street from her childhood home, she has an idea. She'll apply for a grant to create a piece to replace it. Caught between […]
mayfield brooks improvises while black and is based in Lenapehoking, the unceded land of the Lenape people, also known as New York City. brooks is a movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer. brooks teaches and performs practices that arise from Improvising While Black (IWB), their interdisciplinary dance methodology which explores the decomposed […]
