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Mann Center exterior
Movies
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Fairmount Park gets a drive-in showing free movies outside the Mann

The pop-up theater will run for six weeks, and there’ll be food trucks on site.

6 years ago

Llama camper Matt Diamondstein plays guitar in Robert Bralows backyard
Community Events
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Philly Folk Fest goes online, for both music and camping

The digitally streaming music festival offers longtime fans a way to camp through their laptops.

6 years ago

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Philadelphia musicians playing music on a narrow rowhouse block
PlanPhilly
Music
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

How a hidden Center City block became a pop-up concert hall

Philadelphia musicians discovered a narrow rowhouse block offers excellent acoustics for an outdoor chamber orchestra. They plan to pop up again.

6 years ago

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Christopher Jackson
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Public Health

Kimmel Center presents live Broadway concert with Christopher Jackson

Christopher Jackson to stream favorites with a live band to benefit the Kimmel Center and other performing arts centers across the country.

6 years ago

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Maori Karmael Holmes, founder and executive director of BlackStar Film Festival
Movies
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

BlackStar Film Festival finds a new home at Philly’s Annenberg Center

Festival creator Maori Karmael Holmes has been hired to bring cinema back to the Annenberg Performing Arts Center.

6 years ago

A couple in protective masks walk past the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Friday, April 3, 2020. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Philadelphia
Public Health
Visual Arts

Philadelphia Museum of Art announces September reopening

One of the last of the cultural institutions on the Ben Franklin Parkway to reopen, the museum will have been closed for almost six months.

6 years ago

Artwork from Village of Arts and Humanities
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Health
Visual Arts
Eyes on the Street

Pandemics are hard. Investing in community-based artists could help.

Philadelphia is facing a long road to recovery. History shows us that public spending on the arts can bolster the economy — and the health of communities.

6 years ago

Mural Arts
Environment
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Mural Arts goes beyond Philadelphia for environmental justice

The Mural Arts Institute will bring the organization’s Philly model of public engagement to three more cities, the second round to be selected.

6 years ago

Listen 1:32
Martha Graham Cracker
Billy Penn

Why this Philly drag troupe is famous in NYC, Vegas and around the world

15 things you might not know about the iconic Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret.

6 years ago

Children playing in the water play area at Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum
Kids
Philadelphia

Please Touch Museum cuts staff, plans to stay closed until 2021

The Philadelphia children’s museum in Fairmount Park believes the public is not yet ready to come back.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Art Museum
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Employees at Philadelphia Museum of Art vote to unionize

Union organizers said the driving issue was wanting to be involved in decisions like hiring, benefits, diversity and safety as the museum plans to reopen.

6 years ago

The Surflight Theatre's destroyed tent on Tuesday, August 4
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Isaias destroys outdoor venue at Long Beach Island’s Surflight Theatre

Fierce winds from Tropical Storm Isaias destroyed the outdoor venue at Long Beach Island's Surflight Theatre.

6 years ago

People and cars gathered at a parking lot turned into a drive-in during the coronavirus pandemic
The Why
Movies
Outdoors

Drive-ins are making a comeback

Drive-ins are making a comeback as the COVID-19 era's socially distant entertainment venue. It turns out their origin story has a big chapter here in 1930s Camden, N.J.

Air Date: August 3, 2020

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ArtsQuest President and CEO Kassie Hilgert stands on the SteelStacks campus, which sits at the base of the former blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Music
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Musikfest returns to Bethlehem as a 10-day hybrid of live and streaming concerts

As one of the largest free music festivals in the country, Musikfest attempts to recreate the street fair feel at home.

6 years ago

Listen 1:46
Opera Philadelphia
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

As fall theater season collapses, Opera Philadelphia pivots to film

Instead of producing opera for the stage, the company will turn operas into original films and release them on the company’s own online video channel. 

6 years ago

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