Termite TV Collective

A guided experimentation workshop on the process of essence-making utilizing flowers and the natural environment -- and poetry.A flower essence is an energetic medicine intended to replicate a portion of the essential nature of a plant in a clear bowl of water. What is the essence of a fire pit? What is the essence of a view of the bridge or the breeze over the water?A guided experimentation workshop on the process of essence-making utilizing flowers and the natural environment -- and poetry. The result will be physical essences that participants can both keep & share, and poetry on the

Join Cara for a dynamic workshop that will combine visual and oral storytelling, interactive activities and discussionJoin Cara for a dynamic workshop that will combine visual and oral storytelling, interactive activities and discussion.She'll highlight her work with her eco-art installation repurposed performance-based school bus tiny home and her book, Zazu Dreams, a cross-cultural, climate-justice book and animation.You can find out more about her work:https://www.carajudea.com/

Join us for a shorts program featuring short experimental, documentary and narrative films exploring the theme of UnderstoriesJoin us for the public screening of Understories-Undergrowth: a video program of shorts by Termite TV and PhillyCAM participants interpreting and experimenting with the theme of Understories.The film screening will be following by a Q+A with local artist and herbalist, Maebh Aguilar, who grounded participants in the poetic interpretations of the theme.Artists include:Frances Almodovar, Natalie Thomas, Joy Waldinger, Nicole Duprée, Tamara R. Jackson, Dr. Jenine Lowery, Gabrielle Patterson, Ingrid Raphaël, Michael O Reilly, Anula Shetty, Michael Kuetemeyer, Francesca Lally, the Ghouls Next Door,

A beginner friendly workshop that will teach attendees how to build a small FM radio transmitter.This is a beginner friendly workshop that will teach attendees how to build a small FM radio transmitter while breaking the assumption that you need an engineering degree to start building your own electronics. In addition to teaching technical skills, we will be offering a brief political context of radical radio organizing, past and present, and how people can start to think about building their own communication networks to keep themselves and their neighbors safe. Understanding radio is a great first step in demystifying networked

Join us for El Bembé! A gathering of friends to celebrate the community AR/VR art project, “Places of Power: Las Parcelas and Colobó Garden”Join us for El Bembé! A gathering of friends to celebrate our community-based Augmented and Virtual Reality art project, “Places of Power: Las Parcelas and Villa Africana Colobó Garden.” A project of Termite TV Collective & Norris Square Neighborhood Project. Presented by the Philadelphia Latino Arts and Film Festival and Mural Arts PhiladelphiaCome and experience AR/VR installations in two community gardens celebrating African heritage and the West African diaspora in Puerto Rican culture. Project directors Iris Brown

Let's come together with our community to share and nurture our relationship with grief and loss. What are your rituals for remembrance?Let's come together with our community to share and nurture our relationship with grief and loss. What are your rituals for remembrance? In collaboration with The Thread, an art and grief collective, The Ghouls Next Door are screening their new horror-comedy film, The Soup. After the film, participants will share their stories and have an opportunity to build their rituals through candle making, a grief phone installation, and other interactive art practices designed to honor memory.Location: Termite TV Studio

Termites come together to begin exploring how the theme of mending can be embodied into their projects this year.Join artist Julie Woodard for a grounding session that seeks to inspire and support Termites as they begin exploring how the theme of mending can be embodied into their projects this year. Julie will share her personal experience with mending as the ecological base of her art practice, as well as how the theme connects to caring for our bodies, psyches, and communities. The session will include space for reflection and sharing, skill building with a needle and thread (and the co-creation

Workshop with Duwenavue Sante Johnson in the Termite TV Studio on the theme of mending.Using the technique of embroidery on photos, mixed with fabric and mixed media collage, participants are invited to bring a photo or send one in advance of an image that represents something they would like to mend in their life-a memory, relationship or experience. Participants individuals pieces will be become part of a collaborative exhibit presented at Cherry Street Pier in May.This experience is facilitated by multidisciplinary artist and Senior Hand Embroiderer Duwenavue Sante Johnson. "For Johnson, a master of the needle trade, the artistic process

An exhibition of A/R and VR work from Termite TV’s Places of Power project.Termite TV’s community based “Places of Power” Augmented Reality/ VR exhibition will be on view at Studio 1 Cherry Street Pier from May 1-May 30 2026. Join us on Thursday May 7 from 3p-8pm as part of Philly Tech Week. "Places of Power” aims to inspire participatory, community-driven, technology-enabled media arts production in communities that face cultural erasure across Philadelphia, strengthening community bonds, prompting intergenerational sharing, and preserving stories and memories among the city’s underserved communities.Through a process of co-creation, Termite TV artists lead workshops in visual