BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Grid Magazine - ECPv6.15.19//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://gridphilly.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Grid Magazine
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250521T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073530
CREATED:20250519T174021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250519T174021Z
UID:10019014-1747854000-1747861200@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Uncle Bobbie's X Tourmaline - Marsha Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Uncle Bobbie’s as we welcome activist\, writer and filmmaker\, Tourmaline for the release of her book\, Marsha.\n\n\n“Thank god the revolution has begun\, honey.” \nMarsha P. Johnson was a trailblazer\, a revolutionary and an absolute force of nature. Her impact is woven into the fabric of Uncle Bobbie’s so we are excited and honored to host an event dedicated to telling her story. \nJoin us as we welcome\, activist\, writer and filmaker Tourmaline for the release of Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson. \nTourmaline will be in conversation with poet\, visual artist and Operations Manager of Uncle Bobbie’s\, Van Brooks! \nThis will be an amazing night full of joy and community. \nAll copies of Marsha will be signed. \nSee you there! \n****** \nAbout the book: \nRumor has it that after Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising\, she picked up a shard of broken mirror to fix her makeup. Marsha\, a legendary Black transgender activist\, embodied both the beauty and the struggle of the early gay rights movement. Her work sparked the progress we see today\, yet there has never been a definitive record of her life. Until now. \nWritten with sparkling prose\, Tourmaline’s richly researched biography Marsha finally brings this iconic figure to life\, in full color. We vividly meet Marsha as both an activist and artist: She performed with RuPaul and with the internationally renowned drag troupe The Hot Peaches. She was a muse to countless artists from Andy Warhol to the band Earth\, Wind & Fire. And she continues to inspire people today. \nMarsha didn’t wait to be freed; she declared herself free and told the world to catch up. Her story promises to inspire readers to live as their most liberated\, unruly\, vibrant\, and whole selves. \n \nAbout the author: \nTourmaline is an award-winning artist\, filmmaker\, writer\, and activist whose work is dedicated to Black trans joy and freedom. She is a TIME 100 Most Influential Person in the World awardee and a Guggenheim Fellow. She has frequently appeared on ABC News\, as well as in the New York Times and Vogue. Her art is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Tate\, and the Getty Museum. She created the critically acclaimed film Happy Birthday\, Marsha!\, and she has directed Pride campaigns for Dove\, Marc Jacobs\, and Reebok. She previously worked with Queers for Economic Justice and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. \n… \nDoors open at 6:00pm. \nBuy your book now and save on the General Admission fee! \nAll tickets are non-refundable. \nStreet parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot. \nChildren older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/uncle-bobbies-x-tourmaline-marsha-book-tour/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church of Germantown\, 6001 Germantown Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/d1af5175516d01aa8ffa2f6884954d7d.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073530
CREATED:20250324T174957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T174957Z
UID:10017833-1743534000-1743541200@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Uncle Bobbie's X Kiese Laymon - City Summer\, Country Summer Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Uncle Bobbie’s as we welcome award-winning author\, Kiese Laymon for the launch of his new book\, “City Summer\, Country Summer”.\n\n\nWhile the DJ’s spinnin’ a tune as the old folks dance at your family reunion – Fresh Prince \nAward-winning writer and professor\, Kiese Laymon joins us for a discussion about the importance of connecting with our family and how transformative it can be to spend a summer down South (or up North). \nKiese will be joined in conversation by Marc Lamont Hill. Come through for this amazing talk and then read or gift this book to that next generation of siblings and cousins. \nAll copies of City Summer\, Country Summer will be signed. \nSee you there! \n****** \nAbout the book: \nA lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy\, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family. \nOn the ground of that garden\, covered in vegetables and dirt\, coated in laughter\, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable. \nThree Black boys spend one special summer exploring the Mississippi woods and woulds and coulds of sharing the kind of freeing friendship that is love. \nWatched over and given space to discover by Grandmama and Mama Lara\, New York\, Country\, and little C find camaraderie in their contrasts and all the unspoken things between them while playing games of marco polo in the thick garden and sledding on cardboard by the underpass. \nWith text brimming with love by award-winning author Kiese Laymon and deeply evocative illustrations by Ashley Franklin\, City Summer\, Country Summer illuminates the tenuous and tender bonds of friendship Black boys forge with one another. \n \nAbout the author: \nKiese Laymon is a Black Southern writer from Jackson\, Mississippi. He is the author of the novel Long Division\, the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and the award winning Heavy: An American Memoir. Laymon\, named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2022\, is the Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Visit him online at KieseLaymon.com. \n… \nDoors open at 6:00pm. \nBuy your book now and save on the General Admission fee! \nAll tickets are non-refundable. \nStreet parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot. \nChildren older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/uncle-bobbies-x-kiese-laymon-city-summer-country-summer-book-tour/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church of Germantown\, 6001 Germantown Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/54ffa0ec6d39d9f615812d0f9d6bd367.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250310T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073530
CREATED:20250217T180437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T182857Z
UID:10017234-1741633200-1741640400@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Uncle Bobbie's X Mohammed El-Kurd - Perfect Victims Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Uncle Bobbie’s as we welcome award-winning poet and journalist Mohammad El-Kurd for the release of his book\, Perfect Victims.\n\n\nRESCHEDULED TO MONDAY\, MARCH 10TH AT 7:00PM \nWe are thrilled to welcome poet\, journalist\, and organizer\, Mohammed El-Kurd for the release of his newest book\, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. \nMohammed will be in conversation with author\, activist and Uncle Bobbie’s owner\, Marc Lamont Hill. The need for this discussion couldn’t be greater and will be followed by a Q&A with the community. \nAll copies of Perfect Victims will be signed. \nSee you all there for this important event. \n****** \nAbout the book: \nPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. \nPalestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire\, stubborn\, fragmented\, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence\, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial. \nWhy must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision\, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood\, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye\, forgoing both deference and condemnation. \nHow we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony\, history\, and reportage\, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian. \n \nAbout the author: \nMohammed El-Kurd is a writer\, poet\, journalist\, and organizer from Jerusalem\, occupied Palestine. He is the Nation’s first-ever Palestine Correspondent and editor-at-large at Mondoweiss\, the recipient of numerous honors and awards\, and the author of the highly-acclaimed poetry collection Rifqa\, which has been translated into several languages. \n… \nDoors open at 6:00pm. \nBuy your book now and save on the General Admission fee! \nAll tickets are non-refundable. \nStreet parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot. \nChildren older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/uncle-bobbies-x-mohammed-el-kurd-perfect-victims-book-tour/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church of Germantown\, 6001 Germantown Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/8349f94bc2ed3808ffef0949b566c614.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073530
CREATED:20250224T130617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T163215Z
UID:10017312-1740769200-1740776400@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Uncle Bobbie's X Eve L. Ewing - Original Sins Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join Uncle Bobbie’s as we welcome award-winning author\, Eve L. Ewing for the launch of her latest book\, “Original Sins”.\n\n\nWhat if instead of asking\, “why don’t our schools work?” we asked\, “what if they’re actually doing what they were built to do?“ \nGot your attention yet? \nThe brilliant\, award-wining author\, Eve L. Ewing will tackle this question and so much more when we welcome her for the launch of her latest book\, “Original Sins”. Eve will be in conversation with writer and sociologist\, Janine de Novais. \nQ&A will follow the discussion. \nAll copies of Original Sins will be signed. \nSee you there! \n****** \nAbout the book: \nIf all children could just get an education\, the logic goes\, they would have the same opportunities later in life. But this historical tour de force makes it clear that the opposite is true: The U.S. school system has played an instrumental role in creating and upholding racial hierarchies\, preparing children to expect unequal treatment throughout their lives. \nIn Original Sins\, Ewing demonstrates that our schools were designed to propagate the idea of white intellectual superiority\, to “civilize” Native students and to prepare Black students for menial labor. Education was not an afterthought for the Founding Fathers; it was envisioned by Thomas Jefferson as an institution that would fortify the country’s racial hierarchy. Ewing argues that these dynamics persist in a curriculum that continues to minimize the horrors of American history. The most insidious aspects of this system fall below the radar in the forms of standardized testing\, academic tracking\, disciplinary policies\, and uneven access to resources. \nBy demonstrating that it’s in the DNA of American schools to serve as an effective and underacknowledged mechanism maintaining inequality in this country today\, Ewing makes the case that we need a profound reevaluation of what schools are supposed to do\, and for whom. This book will change the way people understand the place we send our children for eight hours a day. \n \nAbout the author: \nEve L. Ewing is a writer\, scholar\, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919\, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side\, and a novel for young readers\, Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She has written several projects for Marvel Comics\, most notably the Ironheart series\, and is currently writing Black Panther. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race\, Diaspora\, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Her work has been published in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, and many other venues. \n… \nDoors open at 6:00pm. \nBuy your book now and save on the General Admission fee! \nAll tickets are non-refundable. \nStreet parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot. \nChildren older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/uncle-bobbies-x-eve-l-ewing-original-sins-book-tour/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church of Germantown\, 6001 Germantown Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/b6cac5d313ae91d030b432505ed0b659.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073530
CREATED:20241105T170829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T183132Z
UID:10015545-1731351600-1731358800@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Uncle Bobbie's X Mike Africa Jr. - On A Move
DESCRIPTION:Join Uncle Bobbie’s as we welcome activist and writer\, Mike Africa Jr. to discuss his book\, “On A Move”\n\n\nMay 13\, 1985 – a city bombed it’s own people. \nJoin us for an important discussion with with activist and writer whose family was targeted in the MOVE bombings\, Mike Africa Jr. Mike is the author of\, On A Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice. \nHe will be in conversation with our own Marc Lamont Hill to discuss the book\, and his incredible journey since the bombing almost 40 years ago. You do not want to miss this important event. \nA community Q&A will follow the discussion. \nIn addition\, all copies of On A Move will be signed. \nMake sure you’re a part of this one. \n****** \nAbout the book: \nThe incredible story of MOVE\, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985\, killing 11 civilians—by one of the few people born into the organization\, raised during the bombing’s tumultuous aftermath\, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family. \nOn a Move is one of the most unimaginable stories of injustice and resilience in recent American history. But it is not only one of tragedy. It is about coming-of-age for a young activist\, the strong ties of family\, and\, against all odds\, learning how to take indignities on the chin and to work within the very system that created them. At once a harrowing personal account and an impassioned examination of racism and police violence\, On a Move testifies to the power of love and hope\, in the face of astonishing wrongdoing. \nAbout the author: \nMike Africa Jr. is a sought-after speaker and writer who has been featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian and on NPR. He starred in the HBO documentary 40 Years a Prisoner and was featured in the Audible original docu-series about the MOVE bombing\, Summer of ’85\, produced by Kevin Hart and Charlamagne tha God\, and narrated by Hart. As a keynote speaker\, Mike has been invited to speak everywhere from the Smithsonian and the University of Pennsylvania to the 55 Year Anniversary of the Black Panther Party. \n… \nDoors open at 6:00pm. \nBuy your book now and save on the General Admission fee! \nAll tickets are non-refundable. \nStreet parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot. \nChildren older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/uncle-bobbies-x-mike-africa-jr-on-a-move/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church of Germantown\, 6001 Germantown Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/eae3c0bfa078123d5a7e3739df0b3923.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073530
CREATED:20240121T192554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240121T192554Z
UID:10010627-1707332400-1707339600@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Uncle Bobbie's X Joy-Ann Reid - Medgar & Myrlie
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and NYT bestselling author\, Joy-Ann Reid for the release of her book\, Medgar & Myrlie.\n\n\nWe are excited to welcome\, the host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author\, Joy-Ann Reid to discuss her newest book\, Medgar & Myrlie. \nJoy-Ann will be in conversation with author\, activist and the owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Marc Lamont Hill. Q&A to follow. \nAll copies of Medgar & Myrlie available will be signed. \nYou don’t want to miss this! \n****** \nAbout the Book: \nThe host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers\, situating Medgar Evers’s assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history. \nMyrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight\, married just one year later\, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. \nMedgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP\, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar’s secretary and confidant\, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against public accommodations and school segregation\, lynching\, violence\, and sheer despair within their state’s “black belt.” They fought to desegregate the intractable University of Mississippi\, organized picket lines and boycotts\, despite repeated terroristic threats\, including the 1962 firebombing of their home\, where they lived with their three young children. \nOn June 12\, 1963\, Medgar Evers became the highest profile victim of Klan-related assassination of a black civil rights leader at that time; gunned down in the couple’s driveway in Jackson. In the wake of his tragic death\, Myrlie carried on their civil rights legacy; writing a book about Medgar’s fight\, trying to win a congressional seat\, and becoming a leader of the NAACP in her own right. \nIn this groundbreaking and thrilling account of two heroes of the civil rights movement\, Joy-Ann Reid uses Medgar and Myrlie’s relationship as a lens through which to explore the on-the-ground work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans\, and the repercussions that still resonate today. \n****** \nDoors open at 6:00pm. \nBuy your book now and save on the General Admission fee! A ll tickets are non-refundable. \nStreet parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/uncle-bobbies-x-joy-ann-reid-medgar-myrlie/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church of Germantown\, 6001 Germantown Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/4c50376e6192cb3f5847ba07e9a861be.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073530
CREATED:20231218T204806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T204806Z
UID:10010294-1705431600-1705438800@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Uncle Bobbie's X Cole Arthur Riley - Black Liturgies
DESCRIPTION:Join Uncle Bobbie’s as we welcome award-winning author\, Cole Arthur Riley\n\n\nWe are excited to welcome\, New York Times bestselling author\, Cole Arthur Riley as she launches her latest book\, Black Liturgies. She will be joined in conversation with author and professor Brittney Cooper. A Q&A will follow the discussion. You do not want to miss this! \n****** \nA collection of prayer\, poetry\, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world\, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies \n“A true spiritual balm for our troubled times.”—Michael Eric Dyson\, author of What Truth Sounds Like \nFor years\, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amid ongoing national racial violence\, the isolation of the pandemic\, and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric in many Christian spaces\, she began dreaming of a more human\, more liberating expression of faith. She went on to create Black Liturgies\, a digital project that connects spiritual practice with Black emotion\, Black memory\, and the Black body. \nIn this book\, she brings together hundreds of new prayers\, along with letters\, poems\, meditation questions\, breath practices\, scriptures\, and the writings of Black literary ancestors to offer forty-three liturgies that can be practiced individually or as a community. Inviting readers to reflect on their shared experiences of wonder\, rest\, rage\, and repair\, and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth\, Arthur Riley writes with a poet’s touch and a sensitivity that has made her one of the most important spiritual voices at work today. \nFor anyone healing from communities that were more violent than loving; for anyone who has escaped the trauma of white Christian nationalism\, religious homophobia\, or transphobia; for anyone asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror\, Black Liturgies is a work of healing and empowerment\, and a vision for what might be. \n… \nDoors open at 6:00pm. \nBuy your book now and save on the General Admission fee! A ll tickets are non-refundable. \nStreet parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/uncle-bobbies-x-cole-arthur-riley-black-liturgies/
LOCATION:First United Methodist Church of Germantown\, 6001 Germantown Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/35b479ade9890232ac7f2bbeb15452c6.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR