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  • Films Shaped by a City Mural Dedication

    Philadelphia Film Society Center 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Film Society Center | 1415 Sansom Street, Philadelphia Marian Bailey’s vibrant new mural, Films Shaped by a City, celebrates some of the key films and film-related organizations that have impacted filmmaking, film presentation, and film-related training in Philadelphia. The mural, which adorns the Sansom Street side of the Film Society Center, is the result of a multi-year project by Mural Arts Philadelphia, BlackStar Projects, and the Philadelphia Film Society, alongside an advisory panel of representatives from PhillyCAM, Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia Asian American Film Foundation, Sotomayor Productions, cinéSPEAK, and others.

  • Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s The Beautyful Ones Mural Dedication

    5547 Chester Avenue 5547 Chester Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Saturday, October 4 | 12–4 pm | 5547 Chester Ave, Philadelphia Join us for a massive afternoon block party, celebrating Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s new mural in the heart of the city’s Africatown neighborhood. Mural Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have collaborated to bring the internationally renowned artist to Philadelphia to recreate her artwork, The Beautyful Ones Series #1c, as her first permanent public art installation. In her methodically layered compositions, Crosby combines painted depictions of people, places, and subjects from her life with photographic transfers derived from her personal image archive, Nigerian magazines, and other mass media sources.

  • Paint Me a Road Out of Here Film Screening & Discussion

    Fitler Club 24 South 24th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Wednesday, October 8 | 6–9 pm | The Fitler Club, level 2 boardroom | 24 S. 24th St, Philadelphia Join us for a special screening of Paint Me a Road Out of Here, a feature documentary that explores the movement to end mass incarceration of Black women by means of liberating Faith Ringgold’s 1971 painting For the Women’s House from Rikers Island and the art of Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter. Paint Me a Road out of Here traces the journeys of the painting and of two artists who challenged the same oppressive institutions with their artwork, voices, and shared pursuits.