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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Mississippi River Flotilla

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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On the Horizon: 2019 Center-Funded Projects Reimagine Performance Spaces, Illuminate Community Voices, Reinterpret History

The organizations supported by the Center have a wide range of ambitious projects planned for 2019. The sampling below showcases their upcoming performances, exhibitions, and public programs around the region.

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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Photographer Zanele Muholi on What it Means To Be a “Visual Activist”

South African photographer Zanele Muholi describes how visuals are a “means of articulation” on issues of representation and human rights.

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On Tour: Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Billy Dufala

Billy Dufala is the co-founder of RAIR and a Philadelphia-based artist engaged in a variety of creative disciplines, including sculpture, performance, digital media, and drawing.

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Enhancing Views of History: Terracotta Warriors and Augmented Reality

Augmented reality technology brings the burial site of China’s first emperor to life and enhances museum visitors’ understanding of the history and science of ancient artifacts.

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Trenton Doyle Hancock

Trenton Doyle Hancock is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work has, through a variety of media, explored an extended mythology centering on the Mounds, a group of fictional creatures he created.

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Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Ann Hamilton on the Relationship between Production and Consumption

Ann Hamilton on “consuming” versus “having” an experience.

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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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Pati Hill: Photocopier at Lyman Allyn Art Museum

Arcadia University Art Gallery’s 2016 Center-funded exhibition, Pati Hill: Photocopier, will travel to Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Catherine Morris

Catherine Morris is curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

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Mural Arts Presents Katharina Grosse: psychylustro

Berlin-based visual artist Katharina Grosse will transform one of Philadelphia's major transportation thoroughfares with a series of seven bright, bold installations.

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Moundverse Infants

Newly commissioned work by visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock examines the representation of race in material culture, inspired by toy dolls from the artist’s own collection and from Philadelphia’s African American Doll Museum.

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In Terms of Performance at BAM

The online keywords anthology In Terms of Performance is reimagined as an installation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), on view March 6 through May 8.

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La Région Centrale Screening

Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation presents a series of live programs featuring Caribbean, African American, and Jewish music.

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Monument Lab

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents Monument Lab, featuring over 20 temporary public artworks.

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Spit Spreads Death Parade

The Mütter Museum’s Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia begins with a parade to remember those who died and to honor those who keep us safe today.

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Yinka Shonibare: Magic Ladders

The Barnes Foundation presented a major exhibition of work by Nigerian-born, London-based artist Yinka Shonibare, including a new commission, plus works of sculpture, photography, painting, and installation.

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Urban Equilibrium—Planning for New Environmental Art

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education embarked on a comprehensive re-envisioning of its art program to align it more fully with its overall goals.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Robert Storr

Robert Storr has been a professor of painting and dean of the School of Art at Yale University since 2006.

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