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Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble performing Yemaya, 2014. Photo by Jaci Downs.
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Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project

John Jarboe. Photo by Malgorzata Kasprzycka.
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John Jarboe

John Jarboe with ensemble members of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Marlene and the Machine. Photo by Kevin Chick and Plate 3 Photography.
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The Poison Cookie Jar

Church of the Holy Apostles and the Mediator in West Philadelphia. Photo by Joe Elliot.
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Partners for Sacred Places

Church of the Holy Apostles and the Mediator in West Philadelphia. Photo by Joe Elliot.
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Playing and Preserving

Farm for the City. Photo courtesy of Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 
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Farm for the City: Growing for Greater Good

Martha McDonald and Billy Dufala in Songs of Memory and Forgetting. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artists Martha McDonald and Billy Dufala on Ephemerality

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Maria Urrutia, Jumatatu Poe, and Kristel Baldoz in rehearsal for Reggie Wilson’s Stamped Stomped Stumped. Photo by Maureen Wellner.
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Questions of Practice: Choreographers Reggie Wilson and Faustin Linyekula on the Concept of Place

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Walking with Trane, Urban Bush Women. Photo by Gennia Cui.
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Questions of Practice: Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar on Artistic Evolution and Risk

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Room 21 at The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Questions of Practice: Curator Lee Tusman on Curating Performance

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Heidi Saman, 2016 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Filmmaker Heidi Saman

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Will Steacy and Layla Perea photographed each other in November, 2015, for the Philly Block Project. Steacy is one of the collaborating artists for the Philly Block Project and Perea is a South Kensington resident. Photo by Jordan Baumgarten/Philly Block Project, 2015.
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Questions of Practice: Artist Hank Willis Thomas on Photography and Framing

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Questions of Practice: Phoenix Art Museum's Amada Cruz on Engaging Bilingual Communities in Museums

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Walking with Trane, Urban Bush Women. Photo by Gennia Cui.
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Questions of Practice: Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar on Art and Social Justice

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Christopher Colucci, 2016 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Sound Designer & Composer Christopher Colucci

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Israel Galván of Nuevo Flamenco: The Galván Legacy, the centerpiece of Pasión y Arte's 2014 Flamenco Festival, performing La Curva. Photo by Luca Fiaccavento.
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Pasión y Arte

Nels Cline in performance at Royce Hall, Los Angeles. Photo by Phinn Sriployrung.
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Ars Nova Workshop

Flutist Jasmine Choi. Photo by Taewook Kang, courtesy of Astral Artists.
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Astral Artists

The Crossing performs Ted Hearne's Sound from the Bench at National Sawdust. Photo by Jill Steinberg.
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The Crossing

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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Curtis Institute of Music

A still from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, directed by Paul Mazursky, 1969, 35mm, 105 min.
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Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia

Taylor Mac, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, “Decade 12 (1886-1896).” Photo by Teddy Wolff.
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Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Mendelssohn Club at Trinity. Photo by John L. Shipman.
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Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia

Ninety Miles. Photo by Jimmy Katz.
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Montgomery County Community College