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SUMMARY:Places of Power: Community based AR/VR projects
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition of A/R and VR work from Termite TV’s Places of Power project.\n\n\nTermite 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. \nThrough a process of co-creation\, Termite TV artists lead workshops in visual storytelling\, Virtual Reality (VR)\, Augmented Reality (AR) and 3D Photogrammetry. Using these emerging media tools allows participants to create immersive works and experiences that amplify the sense of memory\, kinship\, connection and empathy. Through the AR installations created by the participants\, physical landmarks and objects in the neighborhood are transformed into portals\, bringing to life the voices and memories of residents.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/places-of-power-community-based-ar-vr-projects/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Pier\, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Between the threads: Photo embroidery as mending
DESCRIPTION:Workshop with Duwenavue Sante Johnson in the Termite TV Studio on the theme of mending.\n\n\nUsing 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. \n \nThis experience is facilitated by multidisciplinary artist and Senior Hand Embroiderer Duwenavue Sante Johnson. “For Johnson\, a master of the needle trade\, the artistic process is inseparable from the act of survival. “The process of mending a textile is identical to the process of mending a life\,” says Johnson. Her work collapses the distance between vocational expertise and communal storytelling\, turning the technical precision of the stitch into a vehicle for social cohesion within a space of her own creation.” \n \nhttps://www.duwenavuesantejohnson.com/bio# \nhttps://www.instagram.com/sante_artxstitch.art/
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/between-the-threads-photo-embroidery-as-mending/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Pier\, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mending Grounding Session
DESCRIPTION:Termites come together to begin exploring how the theme of mending can be embodied into their projects this year.\n\n\nJoin 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 of a hand-stitched banner)\, and an introduction to local resources that may serve as guideposts this year. \n \nOptional: Termites are invited to bring an item of clothing that is in need or repair\, as well as any fabric scraps that they might wish you experiment with. \n \nAbout the Artist \nUsing salvaged textiles\, found objects\, pigments and thread\, artist Julie Woodard creates impressionistic landscapes\, multimedia installations\, functional sculptures\, and wearable pieces that convey her passion for nature\, memory\, and creative reuse. Current incarnations pay tribute to her late mom and repurpose family heirlooms\, as well as feature vintage goods\, cutting room remnants\, broken furniture\, and street debris. \nJulie’s artistic practice incorporates elements of animation\, applique\, ceramics\, collage\, embroidery\, quilting\, painting\, printmaking\, songwriting\, and sculpture. Every piece has a story. Every material is repurposed with purpose. Learn more at www.juiceboxworkshop.com and @juiceboxworkshop on Instagram and Facebook. \nAbout Termite TV’s process: \nAfter a successful year-long studio residency at Cherry Street Pier exploring the theme of Understories and after decades of having created dozens of collaborative programs\, working across multiple media platforms\, we’re launching our second year-long residency to explore the theme of Mending. Visit Termite TV Collective and sign up for our newsletter.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/mending-grounding-session/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Pier\, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Soup: What's Your Ritual?
DESCRIPTION:Let’s come together with our community to share and nurture our relationship with grief and loss. What are your rituals for remembrance?\n\n\nLet’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. \nLocation:  Termite TV Studio 1 @ Cherry Street Pier
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-soup-whats-your-ritual/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Pier\, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:El Bembé Celebration
DESCRIPTION: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”\n\n\nJoin 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 Philadelphia \nCome 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 of Grupo Motivos / Norris Square Neighborhood Project and Anula Shetty and Michael Kuetemeyer of Termite TV Collective have been facilitating workshops with long-term residents to share the memories and stories of this Latine neighborhood in Norris Square. This year\, workshop participants created a collective colcha – a traditional Puerto Rican bedspread/quilt\, and shared stories about sewing. \nThe event also features \n• An introductory community activation of Norris Square Neighborhood Projectʻs Archive collection. \n• Music by Raíces Boricuas – Johnny & Aida Cruz \nDate: Saturday November 1st from 2-6pm \nLocation: Las Parcelas and Villa Africana Colobó & Las Parcelas Gardens\, 2263 Palethorp St. \n“Places of Power” is funded in part by Independence Public Media Foundation\, Leeway Foundation\, Philadelphia Cultural Fund\, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Temple University
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/el-bembe-celebration/
LOCATION:Las Parcelas (Norris Square Neighborhood Project)\, 2248 North Palethorp Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19133\, United States
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SUMMARY:Imagining Radical Communication with a DIY FM Transmitter
DESCRIPTION:A beginner friendly workshop that will teach attendees how to build a small FM radio transmitter.\n\n\nThis 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 communication. \nThis workshop requires no previous electronics experience and will consist of actions like hand-placing small components and wires and placing them in a breadboard. Participants will leave with a working radio transmitter that is powerful enough to transmit about one city block and a small publication with instructions for building the circuit and some examples of how radio and DIY networks can be used for radical organizing. Through the process of building electronics and learning together\, we hope that this technology will inspire folks to explore radio as a form of communication and experiment with broadcasting as a radical medium. We hope participants will leave the workshop feeling more empowered to take control of their online presence and potential to broadcast. No prior electronics experience is needed! \n \nJoin us at Cherry Street Pier at the Termite TV Studio \n \nFacilitator Bios: \nHannah Tardie (they/them) is an artist\, educator\, and researcher whose work exists as sculpture\, installation\, essays\, event organization\, and performance. Tardie views electronics as rich transferential objects through which we can explore intimacy\, attachment\, and queer relationality. Their work has been shown at La Gaite Lyrique\, SPACE Gallery\, Westbeth Gallery\, One Brooklyn Bridge Park\, Arts\, Letters\, & Numbers\, Vox Populi\, Pig Iron Theatre Company\, and online via websites like Artsy.net\, maps-dna-and-spam\, and p5.js. Tardie has participated in residencies at Arts\, Letters\, & Numbers\, ChaNorth\, Alterworks\, Crit NYC\, and the Media Archaeology Lab (forthcoming). Tardie was on the organizing committee of the 2021 experimental iteration of the Movement and Computing Conference\, lovingly termed Slo MoCo. They solely organized Temple University’s first Electronics Faire in 2024\, an annual event they continue to steward. Tardie currently manages a makerspace at Temple University Library’s Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio. \nDerek Schwartz (he/him) is an audio engineer\, writer\, and technologist practicing the art of weaving networks. His values are rooted in DIY music culture\, and prior to coming to Philadelphia\, he spent time in St. Louis as a music writer and production assistant at KDHX Radio. In his current audio practice\, he produces\, mixes\, and records audio for film and music\, and creates experimental audio projects that play with waveforms\, radio\, and physical media. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Music Technology at Temple University.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/imagining-radical-communication-with-a-diy-fm-transmitter/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Pier\, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Understories-Undergrowth
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a shorts program featuring short experimental\, documentary and narrative films exploring the theme of Understories\n\n\nJoin 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. \nThe 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. \nArtists include: \nFrances 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\, Karen Lefkovitz\, Alan Powell\, María Teres Rodriguez\, and Kathleen Sweeney.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/film-screening-understories-undergrowth/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Pier\, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mapping Our Interconnectedness with Cara Judea Alhadeff
DESCRIPTION:Join Cara for a dynamic workshop that will combine visual and oral storytelling\, interactive activities and discussion\n\n\nJoin Cara for a dynamic workshop that will combine visual and oral storytelling\, interactive activities and discussion. \n \nShe’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. \n \nYou can find out more about her work: \nCara Judea Alhadeff\, PhD
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/mapping-our-interconnectedness-with-cara-judea-alhadeff/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Pier\, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amplifying the Undercurrent: Poetry & Essence-Making
DESCRIPTION:A guided experimentation workshop on the process of essence-making utilizing flowers and  the natural environment — and poetry.\n\n\nA flower essence is an energetic medicine intended to replicate a portion of the essential nature of a plant in a clear bowl of water.  \nWhat is the essence of a fire pit? What is the essence of a view of the bridge or the breeze over the water? \nA guided experimentation workshop on the process of essence-making utilizing flowers and  the natural environment — and poetry. \n The result will be physical essences that participants can both keep & share\, and poetry on the various experiences participants have with what populates the immediate environment.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/amplifying-the-undercurrent-poetry-essence-making/
LOCATION:Cherry Street Pier\, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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