upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Together with Simpatico, the organization will present the Jouska PlayWorks Virtual New Play Showcase, featuring 45-minute excerpts from seven new plays created by Jouska artists. [learn more]
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]
Kol Tzedek Presents... Purim in the Sinkhole: A Triumphant Creature Cabaret on Mar 14, 2020, 7:30 PM at Underground Arts. [learn more]
April 17th at 8:00 PM and April 18th at 2:30 PM, 8:00 PM. Tickets $25. [learn more]
Deadline: February 29, 2020 11:59 PM [learn more]
Shaily Dadiala Performs her new solo "My Place is in the Kitchen" as part of the Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists showcase on November 11 at Asian Arts Initiative at 6:00 p.m . [learn more]
Leeway board member, Germaine Ingram (ACG '12, LTA '08), Lela Aisha Jones (WOO '18, LTA '15) and Arielle Julia Brown's (ACG ‘18) performance Grounds that Shout! (and others merely shaking) is featured in Hyperallergic magazine. [learn more]
Camae Ayewa (LTA '15, ACG '07) (Moor Mother) presents her first theatrical work, Circuit City, a futuristic exploration—part musical, part choreopoem, part play—of public/private ownership, housing, and technology set in a living room in a corporate-owned apartment complex on June 20-22. Commissioned in conversation with Moor Mother’s Circuit City Leeway Board Member Rasheedah Phillips has written Reverse Gentrification of the Future Now: Essay. [learn more]
Ann Marie Mulgrew (WOO '13, 01, ACG '12) and Dancers Company present From the Feminine Gaze on June 14. This multimedia production is a collection of dances and films celebrating power, grace and whimsy inspired by the 100th Anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment and current events. [learn more]
Urban Bush Women is holding auditions for new company members. They are seeking highly skilled dancers with the ability to delve into the rich culture of the African Diaspora with their bodies and voices. On June 7 [learn more]
Join Madhusmita Bora (ACG '12, '10, '09) and Prerona Bhuyan on April 20 from 8-10pm for the Barnes Takeover: Sattriya Dance Company! Sattriya is a 600-year-old dance tradition from northern India that celebrates Krishna. [learn more]
Misty Sol (LTA '16, ACG '16, '13, '11, '07, '06) will be presenting Peppers and Onions: tasting, tall tales, sound, memory and aroma on April 20. This performance installation is a study of pairs: public and private, wellness and distress, word and image, scent and sound, the self and the familial, process and product. [learn more]
A unique opportunity to enter a creative process integrating voice and movement with the Leah Stein Dance Company, culminating in a public performance. [learn more]
The Ants will be performing at a free community event in West Philly on March 16. [learn more]
The Black Spatial Relics Residency supports the development of new performance works about slavery, justice and freedom by emerging and mid-career artists. [learn more]
This celebration of dance introduces and celebrates eight of the most important orishas in Yoruba culture. [learn more]
This edition of AAMP's Commune series features an artistic performance in response to a current exhibition. [learn more]
The 3rd Annual Hot Bits Film Festival is seeking submissions [learn more]
Wit writes a series of articles for Caldera Magazine, highlighting their tips for creating trauma-informed performance spaces, as well as four Black trans artists to watch in Philadelphia [learn more]
Presented in conjunction with Philadelphia Folklore Project, Watts brings together three generations of women keeping this musical tradition alive. [learn more]
Headed by LaNeshe Miller-White (ACG '15, '13), Theater in the X is a community theatre organization committed to providing access to quality productions to the West Philadelphia community at no cost. [learn more]
Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists Mini-Residency will showcase work from selected members of their inaugural cohort, including one of Leeway's newest Art and Change Grantees. [learn more]
Local artist Eiko Fan (LTA '12; WOO '98) will share her 48 years of artistic evolution and invite the audience to be a part of her wood sculpture performance in this special interactive artist talk and workshop. No experience necessary! [learn more]
A play, by Erlina Ortiz, centering the voices of marginalized womyn from Herstory’s past. Las Mujeres will premiere at West Kensington Ministry in March 2018 for Womyn’s Herstory Month. [learn more]
Renowned Indonesian cross-gender dancer Didik Nini Thowok creates a unique and radiant artistic world. [learn more]
Winner of The Kitchen’s inaugural Emerging Artist Award, Camae Ayewa/Moor Mother (LTA '15, ACG '07) presents an exhibition and performances showcasing the creative process of her second solo album using soundscape installation, film, collage, and poetry. The exhibition will be on view February 21 - March 17 at The Kitchen in New York City, and performances take place March 6 and 7. [learn more]
FADE is an evening of music and celebration that puts queer and trans womxn of color at its center. Each event integrates music, performance, and entertainment to create a safe and engaging space for all attendees. [learn more]
The performance art piece, A Glimpse Inside the House of Melanin, debuts on December 1. [learn more]
Chlamydia dell'Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque, the brainchild of Gigi Naglak and Meghann Williams (ACG '08), is bringing their holiday show to Good Good Comedy Theatre on December 7, 8, and 9. [learn more]