Opening reception September 15th 2023, 6pm-8pm. Margin/Margin is a multimedia project that highlights QTBIPOC in leather culture. Through film and photo, the featured participants share personal pleasures and challenges as people navigating sexual dynamics within marginalized BDSM communities. It's also a glimpse into a microcosm that reflects larger, systemic issues laden with ism’s and phobia’s. […]

COMMONWEAL’s fall season will open with Containing Multitudes: Anne Minich’s Head Series, 1974 - 2023, which be on view from FRI•SEPT•01 through SAT•OCT•28, with an opening reception on FRI•SEPT•15 from 18:00 to 21:00. For our friends observing Rosh Hashanah on the evening of the 15th, we invite you to please stop by the gallery on […]

In 1974, Anne Minich (b. 1934) crossed the country and found herself sitting in the kitchen of a Berkeley apartment, covered with a towel, while photographer William Bruce Hale proceeded to shave her head and document the results at her request.   This radical act of depersonalization emphasized a break with social norms, while her […]

Join us at this FREE event to enjoy art, pet kittens, and learn about fostering and adoptions as The Cat Collaborative and Paradigm unite for a good cause. Refreshments will be provided! Please visit https://www.shelterluv.com/matchme/adopt/PRR/Cat for pre-approval for adoption and https://www.paradigmarts.org/collections/katherine-fraser to buy Katherine's work.

Oculus by Stuart Rome Solo Exhibition Curated by Christopher Brown Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, September 23, 2023 (2-5 pm) Stuart Rome: Oculus is a solo exhibition of photographs made from with-inside ancient, living redwoods and sequoias in the American west. These giant trees are hollowed-out from millennia of lightning strikes and fires, and […]

Please join us for a very special literary event celebrating ANYBODY HOME? (Blue Edge, 2023), the poetry debut from Kay Cosgrove. This event is made possible thanks to donations from our annual fundraiser. The poems in Kay Cosgrove’s first collection are driven by curiosity – about herself, the world, and her place in it. Witty […]

HEEL: A Performance About Dancer, composer, and movement educator Sigrid Lauren activates exhibiting artist Hannah Levy’s meticulously crafted stainless steel stilts through a choreographed performance. This collaborative performance is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Moveables which brings together the work of five artists — including Levy — who are rethinking functional design and its intimate relationship […]

CADO Market is a celebration of Black creativity and a platform for growth, all captured in a marketplace experience. Explore a carefully curated selection of products from local entrepreneurs, designers, and artists, including home decor, clothing, art, goods, jewelry, apothecary items, and more. During the day-long market, CADO also hosts an array of cultural programming […]

Philly AIDS Thrift presents their 18th Anniversary Block Party and Halloween Kick-Off on Saturday, September 30th from 12:00pm to 6:00pm, on the 700 Block of S. 5th and East Passyunk. Enjoy a celebrity dunk tank, games, face painting, food trucks, carnival games, shopping, pie eating contests, dozens of craft vendors, and more.  Look for Peabody […]

As a part of the La La Lil Jidar: 20 Years Behind the Apartheid Wall programming, InLiquid invites you to join us on Thursday, October 5th, in the InLiquid Gallery for a screening of Walled Citizen, directed and produced by Palestinian filmmaker Sameer Qumsiyeh. Walled Citizen documents Sameer Qumsiyeh as he attempts to explore the […]

Experience Jessica Campbell: Heterodoxy, an exhibition exploring the complex personal, political and professional relationships facilitated by the twentieth century secret radical feminist debate club named Heterodoxy. Produced in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, this presentation will take the form of a gathering space—an interpretation of Polly’s Restaurant in Greenwich Village, NY, an early […]

Join The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) at The Trestle Inn for The Philadelphia Open Studio Tours Season Kickoff and Pick-up Party! Enjoy a cocktail (or two...) with friends and see incredible artwork all night long, by artists opening their studios this fall for the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. Bring your friends, and leave […]