Last winter our POWER TO THE PROMPT project asked the community If you had a magic wand, what's the one thing you would change in your neighborhood? In the months following, artists from varying disciplines have created projects based on your answers and those projects are kicking off this fall!

Heard That!  

Saturday, September 25

11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m. 

East Passyunk Fountain (East Passyunk Avenue & Tasker St.) 

Heard That!, created by Mehgan Abdel-Moneim, is an all-ages, expansive call-and-response using street performance, dance, and collected stories from the Dickinson Narrows neighborhood. Heard That! is about listening to our neighbors and amplifying the perspectives we might be missing.

Community Capital: an Afrofuturism South Philly Walking Experience

Beginning October 7

We speak ourselves into existence. But, what happens when others of the world silence your tones to cacophony their worth? Community Capital: an Afrofuturism South Philly Walking Experience, curated and written by TS Hawkins & Lois Moses, illuminates an intersectional poetic expedition of sound and unearthing through the streets of South Philadelphia. Letting ancestors guide permeable possibilities, this walking tour opens multiple dimensions of storytelling that ignite the expansion of mind, body, and spirit! Journeying fixed and beyond, participants will have the opportunity to connect with intergenerational voices searching for an equitable community one neighborhood at a time!

Call Home: Voices of an Evolving Philadelphia

Saturday, October 30 to Sunday, November 7
(location to be announced)

Call Home: Voices of an Evolving Philadelphia is an interactive multi-media exhibition by street photographer Terrell Halsey and poet/writer Lyrispect. This project uses photography, poetic prose, penmanship, projection, and sound to animate the stories of a diverse sample set of Philadelphians embedded in the landscape of an ever-changing city.  

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THIS FALL!