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Historic Germantown’s Second Saturday Festival. Photo by Jill Saul.
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Elephants on the Avenue: Race, Class and Community in Historic Germantown

A group of activists held the first organized civil rights demonstrations in front of Independence Hall and Liberty Bell in Philadelphia on July 4, 1965. Photo © Mattachine Society.
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The Pursuit: 50 Years In The Fight for LGBT Rights

Raúl de Nieves and gage of the boone, XPRM/E/N/TAL, 2016, performance, video and environmental installations, MoMA P.S.1, New York. Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk, courtesy of the artists.
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Endless Shout

Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), Bobbe Arnst, Vanity Fair, July 1, 1928. © Condé Nast.
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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form

Jungwoong Kim’s SaltSoul. Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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SaltSoul

Holding It Down, Harlem Stage. Photo by Mark Millman Photography. Courtesy of Kimmel Center, Inc.
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Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project

Photo by Max Lakner.
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Room 21

Lembit Beecher, Sophia’s Forest, 2017. Photo by Andrew Bogard.
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Sophia's Forest

Firebird: Reimagined at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts. Photo by Jordan August
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Firebird: Reimagined

Sons of God in performance at the Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland Inaugural Event. Photo by Louise O'Rourke.
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The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland

Flower Face from COLD EMPTY TERRIBLE, 2014. Photo by Mike Hipple.
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An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams

Funk, God, Jazz, & Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, 2014. Brooklyn, NY. Photo courtesy of Creative Time.
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Civic Practice

Kiera Duffy as Bess in Breaking the Waves. Photo by Dominic M. Mercier, courtesy of Opera Philadelphia.
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Breaking the Waves

An overhead view of the PHS Pop Up Garden at the Viaduct Rail Park. Photo by Rob Cardillo.
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Pop Up Garden: An Exploration of the Philadelphia Rail Park

Dulé Hill in Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, presented by People’s Light. Photo by Mark Garvin.
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Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole

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Departure and Discovery: New Directions at the Apex of Creativity

Photo by Hank Willis Thomas and Wyatt Gallery, courtesy of Philly Block Project.
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Hank Willis Thomas: Philly Block Project

Curtis Symphony Orchestra on stage in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, 2014. Photo by David DeBalko.
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Advancement Grant: Curtis Institute of Music

Piffaro, the Renaissance Band in performance in May 2015. Photo by Bill Dicecca.
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The Musical World of Don Quixote

Martha McDonald performs Songs of Memory and Forgetting as part of RAIR: Live at the Dump. Photo by Mike Persico.
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RAIR: Live at the Dump

Pete Brandt. Photo courtesy of Raphael Xavier.
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Raphstravaganza: An Urban Kinetic Experience

Priyadarsini Govind and T. M. Krishna during a rehearsal. Photo by Alaap. Courtesy of Sruti.
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Saayujya (The Merging)

Chopin Without Piano, produced by Centrala, Warsaw, conceived and written by Michał Zadara and Barbara Wysocka, directed by Michał Zadara, Chopin performed by Barbara Wysocka. Photo by Natalia Kabanow.
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Chopin Without Piano

The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science, 2017, installation view. Photo by Kelly & Mass Photography.
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Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters, Modern Science