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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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A life-size hologram tells the story of 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy Nefrina in the Ancient Civilizations Gallery at the Reading Public Museum
History
Pennsylvania
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Reading Public Museum brings its mummy back to life, as a hologram

The Reading Public Museum knows what the Ancient Egyptian woman named Nefrina looked like in 300 B.C., so it recreated her as a hologram.

5 years ago

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A detail of artist Ebony G. Patterson's mixed media work
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

PAFA invites women to take up space in new feminist exhibition

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has reopened in a big way, with big art on big walls that take your breath away with their sheer size.

5 years ago

Tchin, an internationally showcased jewelry maker who lives in New Jersey, speaks with visitors at the We Are the Seeds festival (Angela Gervasi for WHYY)
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Philadelphia
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Visual Arts

Native American artists offer hope and craft in online workshops

We Are The Seeds, based in Philadelphia, is asking Native American artists from around the country to teach digital workshops open to the public.

5 years ago

The 28th annual African American Children's Book Fair at the Community College of Philadelphia was held pre-pandemic on Feb. 8, 2020
Books
Community Events
Race & Ethnicity

‘Their stories matter’: The nation’s oldest Black children’s book fair goes virtual for 2021

On Feb. 6, the usually Philly-based African American Children's Book Fair, will be online, interactive, and feature more than 30 authors and illustrators.

5 years ago

Mural in West Philadelphia by Paris Stancel and Dave McShane
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Preservation
Visual Arts
Eyes on the Street

Philly needs to protect public art — and the artists that make it too

Philadelphia stands to lose more than murals if the city, employers, and cultural institutions don’t do more to support the artists that create them.

5 years ago

BalletX
Dance
Movies
Performing Arts

BalletX explores interracial romance and post-election anxiety in new dance films

Francesca Harper choreographed 'THAW’ for BalletX, inspired by interracial love, the poetry of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the post-election political crisis.

5 years ago

Artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

Queer and Black at the laundromat: Jonathan Lyndon Chase at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Big Wash explores the laundromat as a site of queer domestic life where the private meets the public, and the idea of cleaning as both ritual and meditation.

5 years ago

Radio Times
Books
History
Music

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Siberia's landscape has long been defined by ice, wind, and darkness. But underneath the region's bleak history and barren geography lives a uniquely Siberian piano culture.

Air Date: January 21, 2021

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Lady Gaga appears on the red carpet
NPR
Music
Politics

Lady Gaga, John Legend, Garth Brooks, Katy Perry and more to perform

Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez will co-headline the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Wed, Jan. 20. The day features a variety of performances from other artists.

5 years ago

Jazmine Sullivan performs at the Pre-Grammy Gala And Salute To Industry Icons
Music
Sports

Philly native Jazmine Sullivan to sing national anthem at Super Bowl

Sullivan rose to the top of the R&B charts in 2008 with her debut album. She’s earned 12 Grammy noms and written songs for Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson and Monica.

5 years ago

'Things That Matter' author and lead Jehmir Nixon (far right) with contributors Jaelynn Pearson and Samuel Smith'THINGS THAT MATTER' ON YOUTUBE
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Philly teen’s music video, a year in the making, carries Dr. King’s message into the future

Jehmir Nixon’s “Things That Matter” urges people to speak out against racial injustice.

5 years ago

Grayce Hoffman, Sara Vanasse, and Taiwo Sokan perform in the Paper Doll Ensemble's production of “Marry, Marry, Quite Contrary.
Media
Performing Arts
Technology

Local theater company got caught in Facebook’s sweep of QAnon

The tiny Paper Doll Ensemble used Facebook to promote an anti-Trump discussion event, triggering an automated ban from the platform.

5 years ago

Jonathan McCullough
Military
Music

Opera Philadelphia uses ‘Soldier Songs’ to explore post-traumatic stress

The opera-turned-film is based on interviews with combatants in five different American wars.

5 years ago

Mural in Philly
Elections
Philadelphia
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

New Philly mural shouts out Black and queer organizers’ role in getting Biden elected

“We Did That” is up near the Pennsylvania Convention Center, at the spot that felt like the center of the universe during ballot counting.

5 years ago

Jericho Brown
Books
Philadelphia

Black, Southern, gay poetry collection selected for One Book, One Philadelphia

Pulitzer-winning “The Tradition” by Jericho Brown has been picked for One Book One Philadelphia, the first time the citywide reading project chose poetry.

5 years ago

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