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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

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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

Listen 1:29
Concertgoers at People's Light
Community Events
Pennsylvania
Performing Arts

‘It’s the new normal’: Drive-in concertgoers embrace a new summer venue

Drive-ins are the socially distant live music venues of the summer of 2020. “I don’t ever want it to stop,” said one concertgoer at People’s Light in Malvern.

6 years ago

Listen 1:50
Members of the Live Events Coalition push roadie cases around City Hall to draw attention to their plight. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Public Health

Out of work for months, Philly event staff rally for more federal aid

“The live event industry was hit first, it was hit hardest, and will be the last to return,” said the head of the stagehands’ union.

6 years ago

Workers set up for Parking Lot Social, a series of drive-in shows taking place at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community Events
Music
Public Health

Drive-in concerts arrive in Philadelphia

Parking lots in the region are gearing up to host in-person, on-stage performances.

6 years ago

Listen 1:50
The Annenberg Space for Photography closed permanently in June. In a survey of museum directors, 33% said there was either a
NPR
Business
Public Health
Visual Arts

One-third of U.S. museums may not survive the year, survey finds

In a survey released Wednesday of 760 museum directors, 33% of them said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently by next fall.

6 years ago

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