Miss Rockaway Armada Flotilla Journey and Performances on the Schuylkill River

20 Aug 2011
18:30:00 - 20:30:00

Walnut Street Dock, Schuykill Banks

Saturday, August 20, 2011

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Miss Rockaway Armada Flotilla Journey and Performances on the Schuylkill River

Saturday, August 20, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 21, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Location: Walnut Street Dock, Schuykill Banks, Philadelphia, PA

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Exhibitions

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Swarthmore College Exhibition: Peace

Swarthmore College presents Peace, one of three culminating exhibitions at the Free Library of Philadelphia for Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary.

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Killjoy's Kastle

Curator and co-director of Icebox Project Space Timothy Belknap presents Killjoy's Kastle, an immersive performance and visual art installation.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nato Thompson

Nato Thompson is chief curator at Creative Time. He served as a Center panelist (2008) and evaluator (2010), and contributed to the Center's Pigeons on the Grass, Alas series.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Sarah Crowner

Sarah Crowner’s diverse practice ranges from paintings and ceramics to sculpture and theater curtains.

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Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies Opening Celebration

The Association for Public Art presents a public opening celebration to unveil Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Alien She: Panel Discussion

A panel discussion organized around Alien She, an exhibition examining the lasting impact of the Riot Grrrl movement, currently on view at Vox Populi.

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Grants & Grantees

Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind

Artist-in-residence Teresa Jaynes will curate a multisensory exhibition based on the Library Company's extraordinary collection of pre-Braille texts for the visually impaired.

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Superterranean: Section, Void

Pig Iron Theatre Company's Section, Void installation at Cherry Street Pier serves as a companion piece to Superterranean.

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James Castle: A Retrospective

The first comprehensive museum exhibition of James Castle's work consisted of over 300 drawings, text works, and handmade books.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde

Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual culture in the 1950s through the 1970s are highlighted and explored in an exhibition, a publication, and performances.

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News

Pew Fellows News: James Ijames Wins Kesselring Prize, Susan Lankin-Watts Premieres Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer, Alex Da Corte’s Carnegie International Installation Featured in ARTNEWS, and More

In October, our Pew Fellows news roundup includes a Bessie Award and Kesselring Prize, the premiere of a new musical composition, artists on tour around the country, and more. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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Person of the Crowd Opening Party

The Barnes Foundation presents a 1920s-themed opening party for the multi-part exhibition Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie.

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Mixing Memories – Sharing History Community Exhibition

Cliveden presents an exhibition of kitchen objects and recipes collected from members of the community.

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Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974

The Philadelphia Museum of Art co-organized a multifaceted exhibition devoted to the art of Michelangelo Pistoletto, influential founder of the Arte Povera movement.

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Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art, & Technology 1968-1985 Film Screenings

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents film screenings that survey a generation of pioneering female artists.

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Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp

The Philadelphia Museum of Art traced the influence of Marcel Duchamp on the dance, music, and visual artwork of these four equally protean figures.

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Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents

The history, present, and future of blackness in America is examined in a three-part, multidisciplinary exhibition featuring the work of artists Carolyn Lazard, Cameron Rowland, Sable Elyse Smith, and Martine Syms.

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Farm for the City

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's (PHS) Farm for the City transforms center city Philadelphia’s Thomas Paine Plaza.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Mark Beasley

Mark Beasley is a curator and writer from the United Kingdom who is currently curator-at-large at Performa in New York.

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Questions of Practice

Inside Please Touch Museum: Q&A with President and CEO Patricia Wellenbach

Patricia Wellenbach, President and CEO of the Please Touch Museum, discusses the Museum’s new exhibition on Muslim culture and how children’s museums are uniquely equipped to foster dialogue between kids and adults on complex subjects.

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