upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
KYL/D’s Open Studio Series allows the community to experience excerpts of the company’s work-in-progress and discuss how the choreography is created and re-envisioned throughout the company's season. [learn more]
Dismantle The House is a choreopoem about the intimacy of power, violence, and revolution from Director Kai Davis (LTA '17), and featuring herself, Shanel Edwards, Ashley Davis, Afaq, and David Gaines. [learn more]
Germaine Ingram (ACG '12, LTA '08), Leeway board member, and Lela Aisha Jones (WOO '18, LTA '15) are performing in Grounds that Shout! (and others merely shaking). This series of performances is in response to the layered histories of Philadelphia's religious spaces through contemporary dance, reflecting on the relationships and connections between practices of movement and worship. [learn more]
Marie Alarcón is one of the featured artists in this multidisciplinary exhibition curated by Maori Karmael Holmes. [learn more]
López's ACG project brings a weekend of black queer & trans artists, makers, and performers to the Rotunda in February. [learn more]
The Philadanco founder partners with String Theory Schools to open a performing arts charter school in West Philadelphia. [learn more]
This free progressive 8-week workshop series will result in an experimental performance piece. [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]
Sanchez's FPA directorial debut will show as part of the 2018 First Person Arts Festival. [learn more]
Presented in conjunction with Philadelphia Folklore Project, Watts brings together three generations of women keeping this musical tradition alive. [learn more]
Queen Dinita is among several international dancers featured in the celebratory video. [learn more]
The feminist children's musical duo return with a special performance in 2018. [learn more]
The exhibition runs from September 4 - December 15, and officially opens with a First Friday reception on September 7 at 6:00pm. [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]
Join Jeannine Osayande (Founder/Artistic Executive Director, Jeannine Osayande & Dunya Performing Arts Company) and African drummer Ira Bond for a free moving/drumming/writing workshop at Bartol Foundation on Wednesday, December 6. [learn more]
Donna Oblongata (ACG '16, '14) leads a two-day workshop on cultivating maximum liveness on stage, both in ourselves and in the objects we bring with us, on December 9 and 10 at Panorama Arts Collective. [learn more]
Destiny Estimate is a new play by MJ Kaufman (ACG '13) about fate, life and possibility through movement, mythology, storytelling, and song. It runs October 19 - 29, 2017 at Christ Church Neighborhood House. [learn more]
Join Cambodian American Girls Empowering for a Khmer Classical Dance Master Class with Lanica Angpak (LTA '15) on Sunday, October 29. [learn more]
Leah Stein (ACG '17, WOO '02, '99) presents a weekend Practice and Performance Lab on October 13 and 14 at The Art Room. Enter a creative process with Leah Stein’s thread of research that integrates body, voice, song, movement and rhythm. [learn more]
DivaNation Philly, a jazz vocalist collective spawned by the Philadelphia Jazz Project and Philadelphia’s stellar, jazz guitar sensation, Monnette Sudler join up to present a concert highlighting a cast of all-female vocalists. [learn more]
Hurry Up and Wait is a juried exhibition at Asian Arts Initiative, curated by Adriel Luis. They invite submissions by artists working in visual art, literary arts, and performing arts on the subject of migration and immigration. Deadline is July 10. [learn more]
Power Street Theatre Company and Norris Square Neighborhood Project present Theatre en Las Parcelas, a series of culturally-resonating performances in a garden space in North Philadelphia. Don't miss Out of Orbit on June 10, a three-character theatre piece that incorporates poetic monologue, movement and music while exploring the complexities of power and privilege, environmental justice, homelessness, ancestral awakenings, and Latinx cultural preservation. [learn more]
Philadelphia Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher (ACG '08) has curated the 2017 Outbound Poetry Festival, presented by Philadelphia Contemporary, featuring performances by Denice Frohman (LTA '12), Monnette Sudler (LTA '11, ACG '15, '14), Trapeta Mayson (LTA '07, ACG '14), Ursula Rucker (LTA '08, ACG '08), and more! Events take place April 9-21. [learn more]
Debra Powell-Wright (ACG '15, '11 '06), founder/director of For Women Collective, with Pat McLean (LTA '06, ACG '11, '05), the late Darlene Godwin-Beard, and Karen Smith, are featured in the first episode of The Market, a new CCPTV program focused on the African American Diaspora. [learn more]
For Women Collective will host Sisterly Luv Salon, an at-home pop-up shop, show, and self-care session featuring hand-made crafts, books, performances, yoga, and dance on July 1, 2017 at 12:00 PM in Clifton Heights, PA. They are seeking a limited number of vendors who offer one of the following: hand-made crafts, jewelry, clothes, or art. [learn more]
Monnette Sudler (LTA '11, ACG '15, '14) performs in the Outbound Poetry Festival, the Philadelphia Real Book concert, and the Center City Jazz Festival this month. [learn more]
Sarah Mitteldorf (ACG '15, '12)'s ensemble, Kaleid Theatre, will be performing a new piece, Scape-ing, on April 27-29 in Germantown. Scape-ing is an exploration of hate in space and in the body. Told through dance, plot-lines, poetry, and news articles, Scape-ing is a theatrical investigation of violent human emotions, a personal reflection on the first months of a new administration, and a ritual of compassion. [learn more]
iele paloumpis (ACG '10) and Jai Arun Ravine (ACG '16) are performing in Shadow Play at Brooklyn Arts Exchange in Brooklyn, NY on Friday, March 3. This event, curated by Marissa Perel, is an evening of interdisciplinary performances addressing the shadow aspects of identity, intimacy and community. What kinds of bodies are permitted to survive? What kinds of bodies are worth being cared for? [learn more]