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  • Full Circle: Truth, Healing, and Indigenous Futures by Design

    Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image 1400 N American St, Unit 103, , Philadelphia, United States

    The Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples is now rising on Dickinson College's campus in Carlisle, about a mile from the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School. For nearly forty years, that school used architecture, regimentation, and schooling as instruments of assimilation, bringing Indigenous children from more than 140 Tribal Nations to Carlisle and working to strip away their languages, names, and cultures. This project turns that legacy around. At a moment when painful histories are easily contested or erased, the Jim Thorpe Center is designed so that history can be relearned, healing can take root in Native

    Free

  • More Than a Game: Connections and Community in Women’s Sports

    Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    How do the stories we inherit shape the paths that we choose? Join the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for a conversation with Valerie Still, a WNBA Hall of Famer, author, and direct descendant of William Still, widely regarded as the Father of the Underground Railroad. Drawing on both her family’s legacy and her career as a professional basketball player, Still will reflect on how the stories of those who came before us continue to shape our understanding of resilience, perseverance, and representation. Still will be joined by the Philadelphia Sisters Sports Group and ESPN award-winning TV play-by-play commentator and analyst

    $10