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SUMMARY:Black Excellence in Action with Reef the Lost Cauze
DESCRIPTION:Student Ticket $5 (with student ID) $10 at the door \nSliding-Scale Ticket $10 \nGeneral Admission Tickets $20\, $25 at the door \nSolidarity Ticket $30 (Help support our mission of giving) \nAfter 2pm on the day of the show\, tickets are only available at the door.\nIn celebration of 100 years of Black History Month\, The Fallser Club is recognizing the rich talent and variety of our Black artists. This is the kick-off to a month of Black-led programming. \nFeb 1st is a mindful celebration of Black Culture and Black history. Allowing for a closer community by elevating local black businesses\, showcasing local Black artists\, and promoting local community organizations. We will unite and ignite the month-long celebration of Black Excellence with the themes of Resistance\, Pride\, and Joy. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Fallser Club and young activist\, Nigel Ousey. We want to support and highlight wonderful local businesses and encourage the community to get involved in activism. \nWe will have many nonprofit organizations and local businesses tabling\, so you can find ways to get involved in your community and make a positive impact. \n 
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LOCATION:The Fallser Club\, 3721 Midvale Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Documentary Screening: Earth's Greatest Enemy
DESCRIPTION:Join Abby Martin for the Philadelphia premiere of her new documentary film on the environmental impact of the US military! \nEarth’s Greatest Enemy is the second documentary from journalist Abby Martin that uncovers a shocking blind spot in the climate conversation: the U.S. military. \nExempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting\, the Pentagon is revealed here as the world’s single largest institutional polluter—spewing carbon\, contaminating water\, and scarring landscapes across the globe. Combining investigative journalism\, striking visuals\, and stories from impacted communities\, the film challenges audiences to rethink the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences. Provocative\, urgent\, and eye-opening\, this is a documentary that will change how you see both the military and environmentalism. \nFeaturing Q&A with Abby Martin following the film. \nLearn more about the film go to EarthsGreatestEnemy.com \nBy Car or By Train \nThe East Falls Train Station is a short walk from the Fallser Club. Parking in East Falls is no problem! There is ample free on-street parking near the East Falls train station driveway at 3610 Midvale Ave and a paid municipal lot three blocks away at 4100 Ridge Ave.  Midvale Ave and Ridge Ave are both well-lit!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/documentary-screening-earths-greatest-enemy/
LOCATION:The Fallser Club\, 3721 Midvale Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19129\, United States
CATEGORIES:Activism
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SUMMARY:Concert with Farah Siraj
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a concert with musician and humanitarian Farah Saraj\, featuring special guest Susan Abulhawa (Founder\, Playgrounds for Palestine) on Sunday\, October 5th\, 8PM. This event will take place at The Fallser Club 3721 Midvale Avenue\, Philadelphia PA. Tickets are available for purchase here. Books will be available for purchase by Mavey Books at the event. \nFarah Siraj Named Jordan’s Musical Ambassadress\, Jordanian virtuoso Farah Siraj balances a career that spans the United States\, Europe and the Middle East. Farah has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious platforms\, including the United Nations\, Nobel Prize Hall\, the World Economic Forum\, The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC\, Lincoln Center in New York\, MTV\, Coke Studio\, the TV show Good Morning Live in the USA and MBC TV in the Middle East. Additionally\, Farah represents Jordan annually at the United Nations’ World Peace Day. \nAfter expenses\, proceeds go to playgroundsforpalestine.org (which has pivoted to humanitarian work in Gaza)\, PlaygroundsforPalestine.org\, the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund https://www.pcrf.net and We are Not Numbers www.wearenotnumbers.org.
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LOCATION:The Fallser Club\, 3721 Midvale Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19129\, United States
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SUMMARY:Solutionary Living Series: Earth Day Celebration with Judy Wicks & Journeywork
DESCRIPTION:This is a free event. Please sign up so we can gauge our crowd.\nDonations are graciously accepted so we can continue offering programs like this to the community. \n10% off  Taqueria Cresta with your Fallser Club ticket!!\n  \nLive Music by Jeff Alexander\nFrom flower pots to meadows\, we will discuss how you can add essential pollinators to your world. \nJudy Wicks will talk about her personal commitment to sustainable living and why she turned her yard into a meadow.\nBackyard Biome Design will give a presentation about their work creating Judy’s meadow and other important sustainable land projects. \nPaige Menton from Journey Works will explain her community outreach method to get you started on your path to pollinators. \nLizaette Apy will share her experience of keeping bees in her small Germantown backyard.\n  \nPlants for sale by John Janick with Good Host Plants and Margaret Kramaric with 2 Hounds Flower Garden\n \nNo Mow Solutions for Your Yard\nThe Fallser Club and Solutionary Coaching present the first event in our Solutionary Living Series. \nA Solutionary ( coined by Zoe Weil) is someone who makes decisions and life choices by considering what would do the most good and the least harm for themselves\, other people\, animals\, and the environment. \n  \n \nYou wake up on a beautiful spring weekend to the sound of birds\, and then\, overpowering the robins and sparrows\, is the endless droning of lawnmowers and weed whackers. Why do we have lawns? They were at first a symbol of wealth and only became commonplace after the Industrial Revolution. But lawns are an invasive species!  They require large amounts of water consumption and chemicals to keep pristine and green\, killing off the beneficial insects (bees!!)\, and endless mowing contributes to unnecessary carbon emissions. \n     \nJudy Wicks and Paige Menton will offer you alternatives that are easier to care for and better for the environment. Native plants attract beneficial insects and other pollinators and are drought-tolerant. \nOur lives depend on our little pollinator friends. There is no us without them. Come enjoy Earth Day with friends\, listen to live music\, and hear about alternatives to traditional lawns. Learn how to turn your yard into a meadow\, add a few pollinator garden beds to your yard\, or add some native pots to your stoop. No matter the size of your property\, your budget\, or your gardening expertise\, you can make whatever changes work for you. We will have native plants for sale.  \n \nJudy Wicks\n \nJudy Wicks grew up on the outskirts of Ingomar\, Pennsylvania\, where she developed a love for nature and an appreciation for the role of small businesses in community life. After earning a BA in English in 1969\, she spent a year as a VISTA volunteer in Chefornak\, Alaska\, where she experienced a culture rooted in sharing and cooperation. This insight deepened during the 1990s when she worked with Zapatista revolutionaries in Chiapas\, Mexico\, to establish a fair-trade coffee initiative. Her work with small farmers in Chiapas and Pennsylvania helped shape her vision of a global economy based on self-reliant\, sustainable local economies connected through fair trade relationships. \nIn pursuit of this vision\, Judy founded the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia in 2001 and co-founded the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)\, now Common Future. She is best known as the founder of Philadelphia’s landmark White Dog Cafe\, a pioneer in the farm-to-table movement\, which she ran for 26 years. Under her leadership\, White Dog gained national recognition for its commitment to local food sourcing\, sustainability\, and community engagement. The restaurant set industry standards by purchasing only humanely raised meats\, sustainably harvested seafood\, and fair-trade products while also implementing eco-friendly practices like composting\, solar heating\, and 100% renewable energy use. \nBeyond the restaurant industry\, Judy launched initiatives to support sustainable local economies. She founded Fair Food Philly to connect local family farms with urban markets and operated Black Cat\, a fair-trade gift shop. In 2015\, she established the Circle of Aunts & Uncles\, a microloan fund providing low-interest loans to entrepreneurs lacking traditional startup capital. Responding to the climate crisis\, she founded All Together Now Pennsylvania in 2019 to build resilient\, just\, and regenerative regional economies. After retiring from organizational leadership in 2023\, she passed the torch to her successors\, who rebranded the initiative as PA Fibershed to focus on sustainable regional textiles. \nCurrently\, Judy and her daughter\, Grace\, are creating a sustainable\, solar-powered homestead\, transforming a two-acre lawn into a thriving meadow\, orchard\, and vegetable garden. The homestead will serve as an educational and community gathering space. Throughout her career\, Judy has received numerous accolades\, including the James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award and recognition from Oprah Magazine\, Inc.\, and Conde Nast Traveler. Her book Good Morning Beautiful Business won the Nautilus Book Award for Business Leadership and has been translated into Chinese and Korean. \n  \n\nAbout journeywork\n\n\nJourneywork collaborates with neighborhoods\, schools\, and congregations to give people the tools to enhance the ecological value of their landscapes. They grow and source plants\, provide design guidance\, and engage volunteers to help people improve the habitats they steward. They foster community dialogue\, education\, skill-building & sharing through workshops\, consultations\, and client work. Journeywork meets people where they are and seeks to revitalize the land\, one lawn at a time.  Their mission is to restore the land together\, joyfully.  \n\nPaige Menton\n \nPaige has been growing flowers and food for over twenty years. She took David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet as a call to action and founded Journeywork to offer people hopeful\, energizing ways to respond to climate change together. She has a permaculture design certification\, has taught gardening to children for several years\, and is the land manager at Gwynedd Friends Meeting. She is a former elementary school teacher and has a master’s in environmental education. She grew up in the Cahaba River watershed\, now lives near the headwaters of the Wissahickon\, and enjoys birding in both of those places and everywhere else. \n  \nBackyard Biome Design\nAt Backyard Biome Design\, we specialize in native landscape design and installation\, offering sustainable\, eco-friendly solutions for traditional landscapes. Our designs focus on enhancing local plant communities\, providing habitat and food for pollinators and wildlife. Using resilient native plants\, we create low-maintenance\, seasonally blooming gardens that thrive in harmony with the environment\, contributing meaningful ecological impact\, no matter the size of the space.\n\n \nJulie Britton\n \nJulie’s love for nature began in the rich forests of North Jersey\, which inspired her to earn a degree in Evolutionary Anthropology from Rutgers University. Her academic journey also led her to Kenya\, where she deepened her understanding of conservation and the natural world. Over the past 10+ years in Philadelphia\, Julie has continued to expand her expertise by studying horticulture and ecology at prestigious institutions like Longwood Gardens and Mt. Cuba. Currently she is working towards her Pennsylvania Master Naturalist certification. As a horticulturist\, she combines her knowledge of ecosystems\, sustainability\, and design to create beautiful landscapes that foster a healthier\, more balanced environment.\n\n \nMiles Christenson\n \nWith a diverse background in the arts\, Miles perceives nature not just as a landscape\, but as a vibrant palette from which to craft beautiful and diverse gardens that endure over time. His many years of field experience has led him to create innovative and sustainable landscape management solutions to offer quality service. The deep love and connection to nature inspires his designs and keeps his hands dirty in the field.\n \n \nJeff Alexander \n \n\nJeff Alexander is a seasoned and dynamic musician. His specialties in guitar and vocals showcase Jeff’s personal influences from artists like Jimi Hendrix\, Tommy Emmanuel\, Ritchie Kotzen\, and Al Dimeola\, with his unique flare. He delivers recognizable songs that are proven ‘crowd-pleasers’\, and incorporates climactic originals. \nJeff has organized\, played in and collaborated with multiple Philly-based bands\, cataloging original and cover songs. He has been featured on film\, wedding bands\, played in local festivals such as Roxyunk Porchfest and currently hosts the monthly open mic at The Fallser Club. Currently\, Jeff resides in East Falls and focuses on his solo acoustic performances that punctuate his ability to make one man feel like an entire band. Follow Jeff on Instagram at @Funkandvibe to learn more about upcoming gigs. \n\n  \nBy Car or By Train \nThe East Falls Train Station is a short walk from the Fallser Club. Parking in East Falls is no problem! There is ample free on-street parking near the East Falls train station driveway at 3610 Midvale Ave and a paid municipal lot three blocks away at 4100 Ridge Ave.  Midvale Ave and Ridge Ave are both well-lit!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/solutionary-living-series-earth-day-celebration-with-judy-wicks-journeywork/
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