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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

Community collaborators working on Olanre Tejuoso’s Material Memory. Photo by Breanne Furlong.
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SPACES: International Artist Residency Initiative at The Village of Arts and Humanities

The Woodlands grounds during a summer event. Photo by Molly Dixon.
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Not Your Typical 18th Century Gentleman

1812 Productions’ *This is the Week That Is: Political Humor for the Holidays*. Photo by Jacque-Jean Tiziou.
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This Is the Week That Is: Political Humor for the Holidays

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Sweetie Pie

Sara Felder’s Out of Sight. Photo by Robert Corwin.
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Out of Sight: A Blind Comedy about God, Israel, and My Mom

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The Emperor Jones

Christ Church, Philadelphia. Photo by Tom Crane. 
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The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020

Curtis students Abigail Fayette and Jean Kim in a Curtis 20/21 performance. Photo by Pete Checchia.
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Rehearsing Philadelphia, new commission by Ari Benjamin Meyers

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Rand/Goop, 2019, painted wood, found objects, embedded video. Photo courtesy of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. 
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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Blood Moon

Nichole Canuso, The Garden, 2013. Photo by Yi Zhao.
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Being/With: Live

Soprano Kiera Duffy in Breaking the Waves, 2016, composed by Missy Mazzoli and produced by Opera Philadelphia. Photo by Dominic M. Mercier.
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The Listeners

Mushroom playwright Eisa Davis with a community stakeholder in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, mushroom growing house. Photo by Bobby Plasencia.
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Mushroom

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Photo by Jessica Griffin.
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Beethoven: Missa solemnis 2.0

Haitian band Lakou Mizik, part of WXPN's Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans project. Photo by Maxence Bradley.
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Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans

Polly Apfelbaum, Waiting for the UFOs (a space between a landscape and a bunch of flowers), 2019, installation view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Courtesy of the artist; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Frith Street Gallery, London, England; and Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria. Photo by E.G. Schempf.
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Polly Apfelbaum: For the Love of Una Hale

Jeffrey Cheung, Untitled.
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Unity at the Initiative

Douglas Dunn (left), Carolyn Brown (rear), and Merce Cunningham (far right), Persepolis Event, Shiraz Arts Festival, 1972. Photo courtesy Cunningham Dance Foundation archive.
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Beyond Borders research and development

Rendering of The Clay Studio's new building, exterior. Image courtesy of The Clay Studio.
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Making Place Matter