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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Exhibitions

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form Film Series

As part of its exhibition Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form, the James A. Michener Art Museum presents a series of films from the 1920s.

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(ex)CHANGE: History Place Presence Artist Installations

Asian Arts Initiative's (ex)Change: History Place Presence project has comissioned six Asian American artists to create site-specific artworks.

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Unity Within the Initiative Capsule Exhibition

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Astria Suparak

Astria Suparak is an independent curator and former director and curator of Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery.

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Alien She: Self-Defense Workshop

As part of its ancillary programming, Vox Populi will hold a self-defense workshop at Philadelphia's First Unitarian Church.

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Shofuso and Modernism Documentary Premiere

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Questions of Practice

Just Say It or Think It and It Is So

Artist Barkley L. Hendricks suggested that whether or not an artist is deemed contemporary is really about who is doing the talking.

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

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Francis Kéré on Architecture and Community Collaboration

Francis Kéré on why every architecture project is “a product of collaboration.”

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Designing Museum Galleries for Contemporary Audiences: Darielle Mason & Dan Spock in Conversation

Darielle Mason and Dan Spock discuss issues of museum accessibility, experiential design, and the influence of digital culture on visitor engagement.

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Grants & Grantees

Quadruple-Consciousness

Vox Populi presented a group exhibition with guest-curator Malik Gaines that explored various tactics for representing the complex, contradictory legacies of cultural difference.

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Opening Reception for SPACES International Artist in Residence Exhibition

The Village holds an opening reception for its SPACES International Artist in Residence exhibition.

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The Border Is An Invitation: An Exhibition of Photography Around Graffiti and Psychylustro

Mural Arts hosts an exhibition of photojournalist Martha Cooper's photographic preservation of graffiti and Steve Weinik's documentation of psychylustro by Katharina Grosse.

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reFORM

Temple Contemporary commissioned 2006 Pew Fellow and MacArthur Fellow Pepón Osorio to create a new installation that responds to recent closings of Philadelphia public schools.

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Questions of Practice: Poet and Performer Tracie Morris on Preserving a “Feeling of Liveness” in a Museum Setting

Poet, performer, and scholar Tracie Morris shares the impact and challenges of presenting time-based art in museums.

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Philadelphia Assembled Opening Celebration

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an opening celebration for its Philadelphia Assembled exhibition.

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Grants & Grantees

Dead Flowers

Vox Populi's exhibition mined historical notions of "the underground" in relationship to the work of director and cult legend Timothy Carey, and explored his legacy.

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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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Maternity Care Coalition

The Maternity Care Coalition (MCC) was founded in 1980 to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women and parenting families and enhance school readiness for children three and under.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Miranda July

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer whose videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and in two Whitney Biennials.

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