upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Screening Scholarship Media Festival 2020
The Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF) provides a creative, collaborative space to explore the affordances and challenges of multimodal strategies in research and to interrogate their social implications. [learn more]
Project ABOLITION NOW! Youth Art & Self-empowerment Workshop
Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project – ABOLITION NOW! Workshop Thursday, August 1, 6:30-8pm Join us and Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project for a workshop that examines and challenges perceptions of safety, policing, and prisons [learn more]
Common Field Convening
From April 25 - 28, 2019, arts organizers from around the country will gather at the Common Field Convening for three days of dialogue, panels, workshops, practical and social exchanges exploring the state of the artist organization field. [learn more]
NALAC Leadership Institute 2019 Applications Are Open
The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) is accepting applications for its 2019 summer leadership intensive in San Antonio, TX. [learn more]
Applications Open for 2019 Judith C. Jones Fellowship for Trainers of Color
The Judith C. Jones Fellowship supports the leadership of grassroots trainers and organizers of color to build power and skills their organizations and communities. [learn more]
Leeway Partners with Good Pitch Philadelphia
Good Pitch is an opportunity for organizers to connect with media makers within their communities in a model of radical creative collaboration. [learn more]
Katie Rauth (ACG '18) Reclaims the "Fat Gaze for Fat Gays"
Katie Rauth talks femme campiness in film, fat activism, and pop culture in an interview on Artblog. [learn more]
Impact Filmmaking with Jos Duncan (WOO '17, LTA '13, ACG '11)
Love Now Media's Jos Duncan will present a workshop this month at Scribe Video Center. [learn more]
Ants On A Log Performing at Philly FringeArts Festival
The feminist children's musical duo return with a special performance in 2018. [learn more]
Working Conditions Opens at AAI
The exhibition runs from September 4 - December 15, and officially opens with a First Friday reception on September 7 at 6:00pm. [learn more]
NoVo Foundation Seeks LOIs for Radical Hope Fund
The NoVo Foundation announces the Radical Hope Fund, a new $20 million, four-year commitment to support bold and transformative social justice work across the globe. They invite letters of inquiry from projects anywhere in the world. Deadline to apply online is Wednesday, October 4. [learn more]
Center for Artistic Activism Seeks Part Time Non-Profit Manager
The Center for Artistic Activism is hiring a Part Time Non-Profit Manager. Deadline: rolling. [learn more]
Therapy Center of Philadelphia is Hiring
Therapy Center of Philadelphia (TCP) is hiring a new Clinical Supervisor to join its supervisory team. [learn more]
Therapy Center of Philadelphia Presents Social Justice Seminar
Therapy Center of Philadelphia is hosting its fourth social justice seminar on September 30. [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative Social Practice Lab Call for Artists
Asian Arts Initiative is pleased to invite artists and creative thinkers from all types of disciplines to apply for the third Social Practice Lab cycle. Deadline: August 12 [learn more]
Helicon Collaborative Hiring a Researcher
Helicon Collaborative is looking for a part-time researcher / coordinator to play an important role on projects and to support their overall organizational work. This part-time position starts as a four-month contract with the possibility of extension. [learn more]
National LGBTQ Task Force for Queering Racial Justice
Join the National LGBTQ Task Force September 10 at The Philadelphia African American Museum for a day of learning, storytelling and skill building for queer and ally people of color and white folks. [learn more]
Register Now: Allied Media Conference 2016!
The 18th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 16 - 19 in Detroit bringing together a vibrant and diverse community of people using media to incite change. [learn more]
Najee Gibson on Panelist for Movements for Change
Najee Gibson (ACG ’10, ’09), artist and member of Hearts on a Wire, along with Kaleia Brown, Miss Songbird of Philadelphia 2015, A. Dionne Stallworth, founding member of GenderPAC, and Ja’nae-Dardlene Tyler, HIV Prevention Specialist, HIV Advocate, and research assistant will all be panelist for Movements for Change Thursday, June 2 from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm at the William Way Community Center (1315 Spruce Street). [learn more]
Black Quantum Futurism/ The AfroFuturist Affair Celebrates Opening of Community Futures Lab
Camae Ayewa (LTA ’15, ACG ’07) and Leeway board member Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism/ The AfroFuturist Affair, is celebrating the opening of Community Futures Lab (2204 Ridge Ave) June 18 from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Community Futures Lab will function as a resource library, community studio and gallery, workshop space, story recording booth, thinktank, experimental space and more. All ages are welcome [learn more]
Join Girls Justice League for their 2016 Summer Institute!
The 2016 Institute is an opportunity for girls ages 14-18 to experience an inclusive space that promotes girls power through social awareness. [learn more]
Call for Participation for Philadelphia Residents
Created by Philadelphia artist Maria Möller (ACG ’14, ’11) and Medellín activist Daniel Urrea in reaction to the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement,Value Content/Valor Contenido, is part of 75°West/75°Oeste, an ongoing project that exchanges ideas and knowledge, art and objects between Philadelphia and Medellín, cities which both sit on the 75th degree west line of longitude. Deadline for participation: June 6 [learn more]
Mary DeWitt's Release: Portraits of Women Serving Life on view in Andover, MD
Mary DeWitt’s (ACG'15,'09, LTA'10, WOO'00,'03) Solo Exhibition, Release, portraits and video of women sentenced to life without parole in Pennsylvania, will be on view in the Gelb Gallery [learn more]
Book Talk & Strategy Session to End School Pushout for Black Girls in Philadelphia
An upcoming talk by Dr. Monique Morris on her new book, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, will be held at the William Way LGBTQ Community Center (1315 Spruce St), April 4 from 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm. [learn more]
Justice Denied: A Display of Inmate Artwork
Art for Justice presents, Justice Denied, an exhibit about systemic injustice in the Criminal Justice System with a focus on the death penalty and false confessions at Temple University Beasley School of Law - Klein Hall (1719 N. Broad Street) [learn more]
I Am Paintings an Exhibit by Lauren Vargas
Lauern Vargas (ACG ’15) along with youth participants from North Philadelphia are exhibiting the creation of collaborative portraits in the show I Am Paintings, which will be held Friday, March 11 from 6:00pm- 8:00pm at the Orange Korner Arts gallery (4401 North 7th St.) [learn more]
Cultural organizing: Art as a tool for social change
Join the American Friends Service Committee (1501 Cherry Street) staff for a live-streamed conversation on March 30 at 2:00pm, about the key role of art in effecting social change [learn more]
Registration Now Open for the Screening Scholarship Media Festival 2016
camra at Penn presents the 4th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival for two (April 1-2) days of panel discusions, film screenings, sound and image installations, and a keynote event. [learn more]
Baz Dreisinger: Reading, Q&A and Book Signing
Join Baz Dreisinger, a teacher in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, for a reading, audience Q&A and book signing February 26 at 1:30pm centered on her new book Incarceration Nations: A journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World [learn more]
Undoing Racism® Community Organizing Workshop
Dancing for Justice Philadelphia (DFJ Philly) and The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) are joining forces to present a weekend intensive that will facilitate awareness of race in various aspects of personal, professional, and organizational interactions. [learn more]
