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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-26/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Performance
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-25/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Performance
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-24/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Performance
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-23/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Performance
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SUMMARY:Philly Asian Futures
DESCRIPTION:Philly Asian Futures (PAF) is a community-engaged multi-disciplinary theatrical project that seeks to bring together local Pan-Asian artists and elders to dream about our community’s future in Philadelphia. Join us October 22nd – 26th for the theatrical presentation styled as a “Living Museum” at Asian Arts Initiative 3rd Floor\, featuring eight installation-style performances. These pieces were crafted through engaging with story circles with different Asian Diasporic Communities within Philadelphia\, including SEAMAAC\, Al-Bustan\, and the Chinatown Friends Senior Care Center; by attending and engaging these story circles\, our musicians\, writers\, dancers\, and actors seek to connect their own artistic and cultural backgrounds to the stories and experiences shared by our community elders. \nPlease note: our performance on Wednesday the 22nd will be a Preview performance!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-asian-futures/2025-10-22/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Performance
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SUMMARY:Community Book Launch for Sarah Aziza’s "THE HOLLOW HALF" (Philly)
DESCRIPTION:Conversation with author Sarah Aziza and book launch for “The Hollow Half.” The evening will open with 2 poetry acts.\n\n\nLa La Lil Jidar presents a community celebration of Sarah Aziza’s debut memoir The Hollow Half (Catapult Books) followed by a post-reading conversation moderated by Camonghne Felix. Joining Aziza will be special guest readers Candice Iloh and Angbeen Saleem. Hosted by: Denice Frohman and Jess X. Snow. Books will be for sale and all proceeds will be donated to support Sarah Aziza’s family in Gaza. \nFundraising for Sarah Aziza’s family in Gaza: Our goal is to raise $5\,000 to support Sarah’s family in Gaza who face a lack of food and adequate shelter after having been displaced multiple times because of the ongoing genocide. We will also have La La Lil Jidar posters\, Palestine art\, and shirts for sale. \nFood will be provided by Renata’s Kitchen. We encourage attendees to come early (6PM) before the event begins (6:30PM) to eat\, mingle and buy merch. \nLimited tickets @ $45+ reserve a copy of The Hollow Half. \nAll other tickets sliding scale. \n\n\nAbout “The Hollow Half” \nThe Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza is a searing\, genre-bending memoir tracing three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City—and back. In October 2019\, Sarah Aziza\, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees\, was narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body\, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria\, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother. \nAs she responds to a series of ghostly dreams\, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure—and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves towards this legacy\, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization\, denial\, and patriarchy both within and outside her. \nBreathtaking\, fiercely honest. . .Sarah Aziza weaves a genre-bending memoir of body and land\, an unflinching look at the tyranny of emotional\, physical\, and intrapsychic hunger. These hungerings—complex\, visceral\, ever-present—frame a story of hauntings\, erasures\, colonization\, and the metaphor and reality of Palestine. But The Hollow Half is not merely a dissection of absence; it is an expansion of genre itself\, gorgeously blending memoir with dreamwork\, ancestral secrets with reclaimed history. Through stunning\, transformative prose\, Aziza writes both herself—and the reader—towards liberation.” —Hala Alyan\, author of The Moon That Turns You Back \n\n\nAbout Sarah Aziza (author) \nSarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer\, translator\, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah\, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half\, a genre-bending work of memoir\, lyricism\, and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora\, colonialism\, and the American dream. \nSarah’s award-winning journalism\, poetry\, essays\, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Best American Essays\, The Baffler\, Harper’s Magazine\, Mizna\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, and The Nation\, among other publications. \n\n\nAbout Asian Arts Initiative \nAccessibility note: this event is on the ground floor and do not need stairs to enter \nConnecting cultural expression and social change\, Asian Arts Initiative uses art as a vehicle to explore the diverse experiences of all communities which include Asian Americans. Located in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North\, Asian Arts Initiative is a multidisciplinary arts center offering exhibitions\, performances\, artist residencies\, youth workshops\, and a community gathering space. Here\, all of us can view and create art that reflects our lives\, and think critically\, creatively about the future we want to build for our communities. \nhttps://asianartsinitiative.org/
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/community-book-launch-for-sarah-azizas-the-hollow-half-philly/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crescendo Symposium: on Afro-Asian Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:This special all day symposium coincides with the exhibition Crescendo: How Art Makes Movements (1981-1999)\, and will feature a diverse array of programming\, such as artist presentations\, panel discussions\, performances\, and community-driven projects that highlight the shared experiences and struggles of Black and Asian communities.\nAsian Arts Initiative was founded in the wake of the LA Uprisings to address afro-asian solidarity. \nThe Crescendo Symposium will explore the evolution of Afro-Asian solidarity from historical movements like the Black Panther Party to contemporary grassroots efforts. Artists and activists will reflect on how solidarity has been built through the arts\, and how these communities continue to support each other in the ongoing fight for justice and equality.\nAdditionally\, the symposium will feature a catered community meal and ample time for networking and reflection on how art can foster solidarity and collaboration between marginalized communities. \nFeatured speakers & performers: \n+ Keynote Address by Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe\n+ Presentations from Artist/Activist Fellows Lauren Lowe and Memory Workers Guild\n+ Presentations from Bandung Resident artists: Sunnie Liu & Malaika Temba\, and Louise Yeung\n+ Hear from Panelist Reverend Gregory Holston from BlackPhilly4Chinatown\n+ Hear from Panelist Amy Andrieux of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art (MoCADA)\n+ Hear from Panelist Michelle Myers of Black + Gold Artists Exchange\n+ Artistic Performances by Jungwoong Kim & Germaine Ingram\n+ Live Music from Rachel Chang & Mel Hsu of the No Arena Flash Chorus \nThis event is open to public and pay what you wish. RSVP is strongly encouraged.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/crescendo-symposium-on-afro-asian-solidarity/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concert + Performance: OHYUNG
DESCRIPTION:OHYUNG\, an alter ego and solo project of composer/ musician/artist Lia Ouyang Rusli\, will present a performance featuring their new album You Are Always On My Mind. As a conversation between her trans self and her former self\, the unstructured performance pushes boundaries\, turning AAI’s theater into a spectacle of excessive emotion that drives audiences to derangement. The performance’s intense self-focus with full dopamine release offers transformative relaxation.\nThe performance opens with two acts\, Anne Ishii x Clint Takeda and Asphalt Savannahs. You are on your feet all throughout the night.\nYou Are Always On My Mind came out March 28th co-released by Brooklyn’s NNA Tapes and the UK’s Phantom Limb.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/concert-performance-ohyung/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Memory Piece: A Conversation between Lisa Ko & Emma Eisenberg
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between two bestselling authors Lisa Ko and Emma Eisenberg on Ko’s recently published Memory Piece\, a visionary novel of friendship\, art\, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life? \nLisa Ko is the author of the nationally bestselling novel The Leavers\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award\, and winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Ko’s short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and her essays and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times and The Believer. \nEmma Copley Eisenberg is the author of the novel Housemates\, which was a national bestseller and named a best book of the year by The Boston Globe\, People\, NBC\, Them.Us\, Autostraddle\, and Kirkus Reviews as well as one of Electric Literature’s “Top 5 Novels of 2024” and Time Magazine’s “16 Best Books to Read for Pride.” Her narrative nonfiction book\, The Third Rainbow Girl\, was a New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice as well as a finalist for an Edgar Award\, a Lambda Literary Award\, and an Anthony Award\, among other honors. Her fiction\, essays\, and criticism have appeared in Granta\, Esquire\, The New Republic\, Lux\, The Washington Post Magazine\, VQR\, and many other publications. She lives in Philadelphia\, where she co-founded Blue Stoop\, a community hub for the literary arts. Her short story collection\, Fat Swim\, is forthcoming from Hogarth in 2026.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/memory-piece-a-conversation-between-lisa-ko-emma-eisenberg/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:de>crescendo: Trusting Our Dynamic Selves Through Change
DESCRIPTION:de>crescendo: Trusting Our Dynamic Selves Through Change is a trauma-informed workshop exploring music and embodied sound as tools for resourcing ourselves through change\, facilitated by Mel Hsu\, in partnership with Bartol Foundation. Vocal\, percussive and movement exercises will be offered\, but no musical experience is required. Bodies of all abilities are encouraged to register. Content most appropriate for ages 18+. Organizers will send out a “Know Before You Go Guide” one week before the workshop. A therapist from our community partner\, Mango Tree Counseling\, will be available on site as a resource during the workshop. \n*Registration is free with limited to 30 due to the interactive nature of the workshop. \nde>crescendo is a series of workshops offered this Spring season. This is the first workshop from the series. The second session will take place in June\, led by Hanna Lee\, an art therapist from Mango Tree Counseling & Consulting.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/decrescendo-trusting-our-dynamic-selves-through-change/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Revival! Performance + Curator Talk with Joyce Chung & Maori Karmael Holmes
DESCRIPTION: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 \nFollowing the performance will be a conversation with curators Joyce Chung (Asian Arts Initiative) and Maori Karmael Holmes (Blackstar Projects). \n@AsianArtsPhilly\n@rashidzakat
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/revival-performance-curator-talk-with-joyce-chung-maori-karmael-holmes/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T180000
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SUMMARY:Artist Town Hall: On Abolition & Creative Labor
DESCRIPTION: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. \nArtists 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. \nTafari Diop (@tafaridiop) of Memory Workers’ Guild is a decentralized collective of friends\, peers\, and community members dedicated to the preservation\, restoration\, and production of Black cultural legacies\, experiences\, and memories. \nZaina Yasmin Dana (@zainaydana) is a Palestinian Philadelphia-based director striving to create restorative and justice-seeking art (classical\, devised\, and contemporary!) to promote radical love and acceptance at the individual and community level.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/artist-town-hall-on-abolition-creative-labor/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000
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SUMMARY:Philly Climate Works & cinéSPEAK present Razing Liberty Square
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a community screening and conversation with local organizers leading the fight for housing rights and climate justice!\n\n\n**EVENT FLOW** \n6 PM: Doors & Meet & Greet with community organizers \n7 PM: Film Screening: What Needs to Be Done: Six Stories of Built to Last (short film) and Razing Liberty Square (feature film) \n9:30 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— \n\nPhilly Thrive\nSave Chinatown Coalition\nHERE 4 Climate Justice Coalition (Housing Equity\, Repair\, and Electrification for Climate Justice)\nHunting Park Neighborhood Association\n\n— \n**TICKETING** \nSuggested donation of $5-$10\, no one turned away for lack of funds \n \n— \n**ABOUT THE FILM PROGRAM** \nRazing Liberty Square \nDir. Katja Esson / US / 2023 / English with open captions / 1hr 26 min \nEight miles inland of Miami’s beaches\, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land\, sitting on a ridge\, becomes real estate gold. \n \nWhat Needs to Be Done: Six Stories of Built to Last \nDir. Linnea Bond / US / 2023 / English / Excerpt Length: TBD \nSix incredible women from the Hunting Park neighborhood in Philadelphia talk about their experiences with the Built to Last program\, through which they received free essential repairs to their homes\, and bring attention to the widespread need across the city for comprehensive home repair. \n \n— \n**COVID SAFETY** \nThis event is indoors. Masks are requested. If you are feeling sick\, we kindly request that you stay home. \n \n— \n**ABOUT THE VENUE** \nAsian Arts Initiative \nLocated in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North\, Asian Arts Initiative is a multidisciplinary arts center offering exhibitions\, performances\, artist residencies\, youth workshops\, and a community gathering space. \nAccessibility: This venue is ADA accessible and has non gendered restrooms. \nParking/Transportation: Nearby public parking lots are located along Vine Street as well as on Callowhill between 12th and 13th Streets. Street parking is available throughout the neighborhood. AAI is accessible via the Broad Street line (Race-Vine stop)\, Market-Frankford line (13th or 11th Street stops)\, Jefferson Station (Regional Rail)\, and the 22 and 45 SEPTA bus lines. \nLearn More: https://asianartsinitiative.org/ \nFollow: @asianartsphilly \n \n— \nABOUT THE PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: \nPhilly Climate Works: Philly Climate Works (PCW) is a project of Sierra Club PA focused on advancing equity\, justice\, and resilience as the foundation of a safe climate future for Philadelphia. \n \nLearn More: https://phillyclimateworks.org \n \ncinéSPEAK: \ncinéSPEAK is a Philadelphia-based arthouse cinema and journal that uses film as a cultural tool to celebrate and strengthen movements for collective liberation. \nOur multidisciplinary work supports emerging artists and writers and ranges from screenings to salons to cultural reporting–all of which center the stories from those historically-excluded by engrained power structures. We bring independent films to new audiences\, often partnering with community organizations to support grassroots movements and mobilize local cinephilia. \nLearn More: www.instagram.com/cinespeak \n \nPhilly Thrive: \nPhilly Thrive organizes for environmental\, racial\, and economic justice in the poorest big city in the U.S. They work to heal the unmet needs the current extractive economy creates for communities while taking direct action to transform the extractive economy into a regenerative one. \nLearn More: https://www.phillythrive.org \n \nSave Chinatown Coalition: \nDefending Chinatown and the heart of Philadelphia from an exploitive arena. Anchored by @apipennsylvania & @asianamericansunited\, everyone welcome. \nLearn More: https://noarenaphl.org \n \nHERE 4 Climate Justice Coalition (Housing Equity\, Repair\, and Electrification for Climate Justice) \nThe HERE 4 Climate Justice coalition brings together community organizations\, home repair providers\, workforce and community development partners\, and climate justice groups across Philadelphia to fight for safe\, healthy\, affordable\, fossil-free housing for all. \nLearn More: www.here4climatejustice.org \n \nHunting Park NAC: \nThe Hunting Park Neighborhood Advisory Committee (HPNAC) is a 501(c)3 non profit organization\, established to promote the general development\, welfare and well being of all people residing or established in the Hunting Park Community. Their commitment is to develop the Hunting Park Community\, focusing on\, but not limited to the areas of housing\, education\, economic development\, social welfare\, area beautification and recreation\, without displacing residents. \nLearn More: www.huntingparknac.org \n \n— \nGOT QUESTIONS?? Hit us up: info@cineSPEAK.org
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/philly-climate-works-cinespeak-present-razing-liberty-square/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:6/14 Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR) Application Support
DESCRIPTION:Meet 1-on-1 with a Leeway staffer for in-person application support before the May 15th Stage 1 deadline.\n\n\nMeet 1-on-1 with a Leeway staffer to receive direct feedback on your Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR) application before the June 24th deadline. \nLeeway 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. \nSnacks and light refreshments will be available. \nTHERE WILL BE A SPANISH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER ON SITE.HABRÁ UN INTÉRPRETE DE ESPAÑOL DISPONIBLE. \n \nCan’t make this session?\nYou may be able to join us for one of the following Application Support sessions: \n \n\nTuesday\, 6/11 from 10am-3pm\nThursday\, 6/20 from 2pm-7pm\n\n \nAbout the Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR)\nThe Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR) provides grants of $25\,000 to media artists working in close collaboration with social justice/cultural organizations to document\, reframe\, and/or amplify the issues and campaigns addressed by the organization. Learn more about Leeway’s grant programs here. \n \nCOVID-19 Protocol\nMasks are required and must be worn at all times. If you do not have a mask\, one will be provided. Let’s keep each other safe. \n \nVenue Accessibility\nThe session will take place at Asian Arts Initiative in Studio B\, an ADA accessible space. Asian Arts Initiative is designed as a mobility accessible facility\, with access to all public floors and spaces\, and seating accommodations for programmed events. Both non-gendered and individually isolating restrooms are available on each floor\, all equipped with changing stations. \n \nAccommodations\nASL interpretation and childcare available by request when you RSVP at least two weeks ahead of the session date. Please let us know if you require these or any other accommodations in the event registration form. We’ll do our best to accommodate.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/6-14-media-artist-activist-residency-mar-application-support/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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SUMMARY:Port— A Sustainable Fashion Show in Philadelphia PA
DESCRIPTION:Port— A Sustainable Fashion Show in Philadelphia PA ✦ \nJoin us for Port— A Sustainable Fashion Show\, celebrating collections by 7 independent designers with environmentally conscious practices in the Greater Philadelphia area! \nEvent Details: \nDate: December 9th\, 2023\nTime: 6 PM\, show will start at 6:30 PM sharp\nLocation: Asian Arts Initiative\,1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, USA\nMasks are mandatory!\nPort— a sustainable fashion show in Philadelphia\, PA is prioritizing BIPOC\, QUEER\, and independent designers with environmentally conscious practices in the Greater Philadelphia area. Our first iteration of the show will be held on December 9th\, 2023 at 6 PM ET @ Asian Arts Initiative (1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107). \nThis year\, we have 7 participating designers: \nASZANA\nCANARY CANYON\nJASMINE KNITS\nMELTINGPOT.EARTH\nNESSA\nBOKEUM JEON x MEG BECK STUDIO \nOur show is in partnership with FABSCRAP\, a non-profit organization based in New York and Philadelphia that diverts commercial textile waste from landfills and offers educational resources for upcycling. Our designers are each creating a sustainable collection using materials from FABSCRAP and other sustainable resources.This show is partially funded by the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant for Environmental Justice\, LGBTQ+ Social Movement\, and Racial Justice programming. \nWe highly recommend getting a ticket in advance\, as seats are limited!\nWe may add standing tickets at the door if needed. \nTickets are non-refundable. \n***Accessibility Info: Asian Arts Initiative is designed as a mobility-accessible facility\, with access to all public floors and spaces\, and seating accommodations for programmed events. Both non-gendered and individually isolating restrooms are available on each floor\, all equipped with changing stations. If contacted in advance\, we will make every attempt to fulfill requests for reasonable accommodations such as access to assistive technology devices and materials in alternative formats. For more information\, please contact info@asianartsinitiative.org.\nPlease note: Due to most events being attended by the general public\, we cannot guarantee accommodations for those with fragrance sensitivities.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/port-a-sustainable-fashion-show-in-philadelphia-pa/
LOCATION:Asian Arts Initiative\, 1219 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Arts & Performance,Celebrations & Networking,Community Events,Environmental Art,Family-friendly,LGBTQIA+,Sustainable Textiles
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