Danya AbdelHameid

Danya AbdelHameid will collaborate with Friends of the Tanner House to produce a podcast to build solidarity and power in service of the Save The Tanner House campaign, an effort to preserve, rehabilitate, and transform the Henry Ossawa Tanner House – a National Historic Landmark in North Philadelphia where the renowned Black artist lived and worked – into a community hub. Danya will invite Black Philadelphians to participate in all stages of production: audio recording, narrative structuring, sound editing/design, and public release. This will include a community-led editorial board, oral history interviews, field recording workshops, the use of music from local artists and participant-produced field recordings to score the podcast, as well as a series of community listening sessions to share the podcast upon completion.

The Friends of the Tanner House, Inc, is an organization dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the historic Tanner family property at 2908 W. Diamond St. Through our heritage stewardship, the Friends of the Tanner House honors the growth, development and sustenance of the rich Black cultural life of North Philadelphia with family-centered artistic, intellectual, and cultural programming.