upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
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]
The event is Saturday April 13th from 10am to 4pm at 1801 Diamond Street in North Philadelphia. The day will be a mixture of story sharing and concrete information about how Black and Brown communities can reclaim, preserve, and collectivize land. There are lawyers, conservationists and community organizers presenting. [learn more]
An opening reception with panel discussion for a political art exhibition by the Dalit American collective Equality Labs. [learn more]
Equality Labs presents a one-day workshop on identifying and dismantling caste privilege in the US. [learn more]
Maori Karmael Holmes (ACG '16, '06,'05, LTA '06) wrote and produced a short documentary about the activists who reclaimed the street named after Wilson Goode, Sr. - the black mayor who bombed MOVE. [learn more]
In August, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced its awardees, including Rainbow. [learn more]
Join Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia for a conversation with Tim Hayes on February 13, hosted by Leeway. Tim Hayes is a life-long activist going back to the early 1960's civil rights movement including organizing with SNCC. Hayes was active with The Black Panthers around the US and in solidarity with liberation movements internationally, including supporting Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) Jews in Israel. [learn more]
Cei Bell's (LTA '15) op-ed on MLK Day of Service: "I think that MLK Day of Remembrance should be used to look at our world honestly and question why we are so cruel to each other." [learn more]
Cei Bell (LTA '15) wrote an essay that was published by NewsWorks last month. The piece was about Joe Beam, editor of the historic black gay male anthology In the Life, and the state of the Philadelphia LGBT community's consciousness around racism. [learn more]
Bread & Roses Community Fund is calling all organizers working to make real change in the criminal justice system! Apply for a grant from the Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative. The deadline to submit your application is Thursday, December 1, 11:59 p.m. [learn more]
Asian Arts Initiative is hosting a Community Craft and Art Fair on December 10. [learn more]
Taller Puertorriqueño is celebrating the grand opening of their new El Corazón Cultural Center on December 7. [learn more]
Maori Holmes will present at a panel on Diversity, Prosperity, Redistribution, and Self-Determination at Moore College on December 7. [learn more]
Program Director Sara Zia Ebrahimi’s The FBI Blew Up My Ice Skates will screen at International House on November 11 during the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. [learn more]
Michelle Angela Ortiz has work on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History through December. [learn more]
Pia Dias will launch Episode 00 of Contemporary Black Canvas on November 14 and Episode 01 on November 22. Contemporary Black Canvas is a bi-weekly podcast that will be available on iTunes, Stitcher and Soundcloud. [learn more]
Nsenga Knight is exhibiting work at Arthur Ross Gallery, The Drawing Center and The Old Stone House this fall. [learn more]
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is seeking applications for their 2017 Artist as Activist Fellowship focusing on mass incarceration. Deadline: December 5. [learn more]
Art Sanctuary is hiring Teaching Artists for the 2016 to 2017 academic year to participate in their ArtSTAC Program. Deadline: Rolling. [learn more]
Jennifer Kidwell’s play Underground Railroad Game is showing at Ars Nova in New York from September 13 to October 15. [learn more]
This years theme is racial justice with particular focus on mass incarceration. Deadline: December 7 at 5:00 pm (EST). [learn more]
Che Gossett (ACG '11, '10) will be speaking on a panel about queer racial justice presented by GALAEI on Tuesday, August 26. [learn more]