Asian Arts Initiative

Accompanying Uses of the Ironic, the first solo exhibition of Rashid Zakat, will be a performance based off of the artist's popular Revival!, an audio-visual and now performance meditation celebrating the visual and sonic culture of shared Black spiritual experience Following the performance will be a conversation with curators Joyce Chung (Asian Arts Initiative) and Maori Karmael Holmes (Blackstar Projects). @AsianArtsPhilly @rashidzakat

Asian Arts Initiative's Artist Town Hall invites artists to come together to share their latest projects, make a pitch, and exchange resources. This iteration of the Town Hall invites BIPOC, Palestinian, and SWANA artists whose practice or current projects engage restorative justice and anti-oppression efforts. Artists that join the Town Hall will share their work alongside two invited presenters, including the Memory Workers’ Guild (MWG) and theater director Zaina Yasmin Dana. We hope to spark conversation and collaboration of artists and culture workers across anti-apartheid, abolition, and restorative justice movements. Tafari Diop (@tafaridiop) of Memory Workers’ Guild is a decentralized

Join us for a community screening and conversation with local organizers leading the fight for housing rights and climate justice!**EVENT FLOW**6 PM: Doors & Meet & Greet with community organizers7 PM: Film Screening: What Needs to Be Done: Six Stories of Built to Last (short film) and Razing Liberty Square (feature film)9:30 PM: Post-Screening Community Conversation facilitated by Gabe Castro (‘Reel Impact: From Streets to Screens’ columnist, cinéSPEAK journal and member programming manager at PhillyCAM) and featuring lead organizers from—Philly ThriveSave Chinatown CoalitionHERE 4 Climate Justice Coalition (Housing Equity, Repair, and Electrification for Climate Justice)Hunting Park Neighborhood Association—**TICKETING**Suggested donation of

Meet 1-on-1 with a Leeway staffer for in-person application support before the May 15th Stage 1 deadline.Meet 1-on-1 with a Leeway staffer to receive direct feedback on your Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR) application before the June 24th deadline.Leeway staff will be available from 10am-3pm to meet with applicants on a first come, first serve basis. While advance registration is not required, we encourage you to RSVP so we have a sense of how many folks might join us.Snacks and light refreshments will be available.THERE WILL BE A SPANISH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER ON SITE.HABRÁ UN INTÉRPRETE DE ESPAÑOL DISPONIBLE.Can’t make

Housing Futures Month Philadelphia Activation celebrating bold and creative housing models and policies for Philadelphia's #HousingFuturesYou are invited to a Housing Futures Month Activation on April 19, 2023 at the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia to celebrate Housing Futures Month and the bold, creative housing models and policies that are shaping Philadelphia’s #HousingFutures! Housing as health, housing as community, housing as liberatory — that is the future we are working toward. More than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, we continue to build on the promises of this groundbreaking policy to dream, vision, explore,