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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Design With Nature Now

Three parallel exhibitions highlight dynamic and visionary approaches to landscape design and development in the face of climate change and urbanization.

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Tone Poems & Light Stories: The Great Migration

The African American Museum in Philadelphia will present an exhibition of works originally commissioned for Scribe Video Center’s Center-funded project The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-30).

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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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Plausible Artworlds

Basekamp examined the emergence of plural artistic environments that exist outside of the commercial or institutional mainstream.

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In Galleries and Neighborhoods This Spring: Horticultural Society Spotlights Urban Farming, Mauricio Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester, Penn Museum’s Reimagined Middle East Galleries, and More

Spring is here, with a range of exciting Center-supported exhibitions and public programs.

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Doing Time/Depth of Surface

Philagrafika followed up its 2010 citywide festival with an artist residency and follow-up exhibition of work by Spanish artists Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González.

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Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science

The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia presents Frankenstein & Dracula, an exhibition highlighting two seminal Gothic works that probe the intersection of scientific literature and social anxieties.

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The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-1930)

Scribe Video Center will explore the history and impact of the Great Migration (1916–30) on Philadelphia, when blacks fled the South for economic opportunities in the Northern states, giving rise to new African-American neighborhoods.

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Interpretation of the Chew Family's History

Cliveden, an 18th-century historic site once owned by the Chew family, envisioned new interpretive strategies and a series of programs based on its history of enslavement.

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Sarah Stolfa

Sarah Stolfa is executive director of Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

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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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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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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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Lace in Translation

Three international designers created new works that reconceptualized conventional notions of lace.

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Ralph Rugoff

Ralph Rugoff is director of the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre in London.

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Vox Populi: Alien She

Alien She is the first exhibition to critically examine the lasting impact of Riot Grrrl, the widely influential but briefly lived global punk feminist movement.

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Mobile Publication Studio

Anthony Smyrski and Dan Murphy, the artist duo that constitutes Megawords, worked with four European artists to plan for the creation of a roving media production lab.

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Valerie Cassel Oliver

Valerie Cassel Oliver is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She has organized numerous exhibitions that have earned national and international acclaim.

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Chester Made Cultural Exploration Zone: City Visionaries: Lessons from Chester, Chicago and Detroit

Pennsylvania Humanities Council presents a community reception and conversation featuring Chicago's Theaster Gates and Detroit's Kimberly Driggins focused on reclaiming, repurposing, and rebuilding cities with arts, culture, and their communities.

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Rowhouse Workshop

This exhibition and website will investigate Philadelphia's long history of row house development as an architectural territory to be mined for physical and social histories, new ideas, and urban innovations.

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