On this particular night, Rumba will begin right after the Opening reception (6-9pm) for the new exhibition by Philly Latina Artists.

Rumbas are held the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month. They are Afro-Cuban percussion jam sessions that keep this tradition that celebrates life through song and dance, alive. Rumbas are NOT performances, they're an immersive experience, we share food, drinks and joy!

$10 Suggested Donations are appreciated.

“LATINAS IN PHILLY: These are our stories

Join us for the Opening Reception for this new group exhibition by 14 fierce Philly Latina artists, curated by guest curator Ayiana Viviana.

There will be Rumba after the reception.

More info soon…

Rumbas are held the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.

They are Afro-Cuban percussion jam sessions that keep this tradition that celebrates life through song and dance, alive. Rumbas are NOT performances, they're an immersive experience, we share food, drinks and joy!

$10 Suggested Donations are appreciated.

More information on this event coming soon. Timing might change, please check in again.

Panel discussion with NO TIME curator Martha Knox, Clan Mother Teri Hislop, teaching artist Sarah Kolker, and founders of the artists collective WOMEN HOLLER! Sheena Garcia and Pauline Houston McCall. The panel will discuss not only the NO TIME exhibition, but also share each of their unique and personal experiences working in the arts. More info soon…

SPIRITUAL THUNDER: PHILADELPHIA's FAVORITE DUO!

GROUND BREAKING, EARTH SHAKING... TAKE NO PRISONERS... ROOTS, FREAK-FOLK, SOUL and BLUES like you've never experienced.

“Spiritual Thunder, a local duo that gives the raw emotion of soul an ultracool alternative spin. The secret's in the vocals: Lead singer Pauline Houston has a towering set of pipes, and on the pair's accomplished debut disc, "Birth," she wails and moans with such authority that it neatly explains why more musicians don't attempt this style. The production and guitar-work of her partner, Robb McCall, are equally strong.”

Ramsey Pennypacker, Philadelphia Weekly

$15 Donation

Pull Up With Pen & Good Vibes and join us!

With her prompts, Khaliah D. Pitts will lead you to write, inspired by the new exhibition “NO TIME”.

420 Friendly, byo
Donations are appreciated 💖

Rumbas are held the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.

They are Afro-Cuban percussion jam sessions that keep this tradition that celebrates life through song and dance, alive. Rumbas are NOT performances, they're an immersive experience, we share food, drinks and joy!

$10 Suggested Donations are appreciated.

Featuring TONI LOVE & SABRIAYA SHIPLEY (She/They)

Toni Love 
Tonita Austin, also known as “Toni Love,” is a gifted poet, singer, activist and writer born in West Philadelphia. While attending Columbia University, Tonita was a student of Amiri Baraka and performed in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls” as the Lady in Orange. Her writing is influenced by both experiences. She is a contributor to the anthology The Black Body and featured poet in the 2018 and 2020 Winter/Fall edition of the Philadelphia Arts and Urban Literary magazine.  The Mad Poets Society named her Mad Poet of the Year 2023. The Restoration EP is her first published recording; Toni’s Room is her first published book. 

Sabriaya Shipley (She/They) 

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Sabriaya is a Philadelphia-based poet, educator, and community ethnographer determined to study, receive, and cultivate nontraditional performance/ art spaces centered around the expressive freedom of Black & Brown youth. Named a 2019 A+ Educator by Philadelphia Family Magazine and a 2021 Black Lives Matter Philly Educator /Fellow, Sabriaya holds a BA in Theatre from Temple University with concentrations in poetry as performance and poetic ethnography and a MA in Social Justice and Community Organizing from Prescott College. Sabriaya has collaborated as an educator, artist, and artistic advisor with several community based organizations and art spaces such as Theatre Exile,  Power Street Theatre, the Painted Bride Art Center, the Colored Girls Museum, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia Young Playwrights and others They are a co-founder of Griot Girls, a youth writing collective for young Black girls. A recipient of the 2021-2022 Philadelphia Foundation and Forman Art's Initiative Art Works grant, Sabriaya is a citizen artist determined to represent the intersections of their community.

NO TIME*  An Exhibition of Work by Women and Non Binary Artists

Not a statement so much as a provocation. No time for what? No time left? No time like the present? Or perhaps time does not really exist beyond being a psychological experience. 

Curated by Martha Knox and Meri Adelman.

Work by C. W. Brooks, Gail Lloyd, Grue, June Terrell, Kata Mejia, Kathran Siegal, Pauline Houston-McCall, Sarah Kolker, Shinobu Habauchi, and a collaborative installation featuring local creatives. 

Rumbas are held the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.

They are Afro-Cuban percussion jam sessions that keep this tradition that celebrates life through song and dance, alive. Rumbas are NOT performances, they're an immersive experience, we share food, drinks and joy!

$10 Suggested Donations are appreciated.

Where paint meets Love. And Hearts warm Pussii’s. Come express your imagination. Through brush. Workshop led by Kaang Groviin. More info soon

The Karen Smith Experience is a vibe that is Omazingly Up-lifting and Awesomenessly Inclusive!  Spreading Love, Joy and Soulful sounds thru rhythms, instrumentation, vocals and stories.

"I dare you to stay in your seat with all those electrifying beats!!" KS

Suggested Donation $20 or what you can afford

Karen "Magic Fingaz" Smith, Brooklyn Native, Philly Resident, is a Professional Percussionist, Playwright, Poet, Director, Teaching Artist, Curator and now Pie-Maker!!! Karen is a recipient of several grants including  Leeway Foundation's  Art and Change and Illuminate the Arts Grants .  Ms. Smith is the Founder, Artistic Director and Lead Percussionist of The Karen Smith Experience (formerly called Weez the Peeples) and Sistahs Laying Down Hands Collectives.  Called "Sounds of Freedom" by Philadelphia Inquirer, Ms. Smith has worked with many individual artists, groups, theatrical production companies, studio recordings and this past October of 2023, a week long of artistic events, Breast Cancer Awareness festival featuring Breast Cancer Surgeon, Dr. Monique Gary. As of August 1, 2023, I’m delighted to share that I’ve received a Pew Fellowship from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage!!  "Collaborations are the essence of my creative Journey and I am sure so many to come.  It definitely feel like a highlight sharing OMAZING energies with various communities, organizations and individual artists! Truly One Nation Under a Drumbeat!! Possible is Possible  is my daily mantra!"

 

www.karensmithdrums.com 

IG @karensmithdrums

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Rumbas are held the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.

They are Afro-Cuban percussion jam sessions that keep this tradition that celebrates life through song and dance, alive. Rumbas are NOT performances, they're an immersive experience, we share food, drinks and joy!

$10 Suggested Donations are appreciated.

Pull Up With Pen & Good Vibes

Khaliah D. Pitts will lead us into temptation… and deliver you to inspire yourself and to write surrounded by the new exhibition “you bring me joy!”, curated by Wit Lopez.

420 Friendly, byo
Donations are appreciated 💖

Rumbas are held the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.

They are Afro-Cuban percussion jam sessions that keep this tradition that celebrates life through song and dance, alive. Rumbas are NOT performances, they're an immersive experience, we share food, drinks and joy! Suggested Donation $10

THIS EVENT IS NOT HELD AT IMPERFECT (Scroll for location)

Join us at this Dance Party organized by “Not Safe” for teens, an art initiative + safe space for teens by teens in Philadelphia, who are raising funds to mount a citywide youth art show in June 2024.

Philly-based, international producer DJ Ben Arsenal (Departed Together / Travel By Map / Worldtown) will spin a special set for this fundraiser from 9 PM - 12 AM. Get ready to move with the deep rhythms of soulful house and global music and percussion.

• DJ Matthew Law will follow from 12-3 AM.

• Vogue and Magnum Foundation photographer Naomieh Jovin will offer portrait sessions from 9-11:30 PM.

Doors open at 9 PM. Tickets cover the entire night 9 PM - 3 AM.

Minimum Admission: $20 (online until January 27 at 9 PM) + $25 (at the door)

(Student / Artist Discount Available online)

For Tickets: Click Here

Location: The Ruby Room at The Winston Social Club

461 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123

“YOU BRING ME JOY” A Black QT Experience

Curated by Wit Lopez

Please join us for the Opening Reception of “You bring me joy!”: A Black QT Experience, a group exhibition intended to celebrate and uplift the talent of LGBTQ+ creatives. This group show makes space for each artist to interpret the question “What does Black LGBTQ+ joy look like to you?”

Participating Artists: Petra Floyd, Brian Bazemore, Jennifer Turnbull, Milez Estelle, Brittany Chanel Johnson, Anthony Folks, Wripley Bennet, Sunyah Abdul-Aziz, Lois Cheaye, Apollo Domenech, and Marrita Richardson Rowe.

“YOU BRING ME JOY” A Black QT Experience

Curated by Wit Lopez

Please join us for the Opening Reception of “You bring me joy!”: A Black QT Experience, a group exhibition intended to celebrate and uplift the talent of LGBTQ+ creatives. This group show makes space for each artist to interpret the question “What does Black LGBTQ+ joy look like to you?”

Participating Artists: Petra Floyd, Brian Bazemore, Jennifer Turnbull, Milez Estelle, Brittany Chanel Johnson, Anthony Folks, Wripley Bennet, Sunyah Abdul-Aziz, Lois Cheaye, Apollo Domenech, and Marrita Richardson Rowe.

This Friday is the night before an exhibition Opening, therefore there is NO RUMBA.

Rumbas are held the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.

They are Afro-Cuban percussion jam sessions that keep this tradition that celebrates life through song and dance, alive. Rumbas are NOT performances, they're an immersive experience, we share food, drinks and joy! Donations are appreciated.

TBA

Our friends guitarist @paulitomuse and poet Michael Angelo Abreu come back to iMPeRFeCT for Volume Two of their "Voices of the Earthmind" series, a mystical, poetic exploration of the themes of beauty and truth, friendship, hope and nature. Featuring soulful vocals of @zen.den.of.lynn (Braylynn Nahja) and final poem by Elijah B. Pringle III.
Wanna feel your connection with nature? Join us next Thursday…

$10 Donation

Every Tuesday   7-10pm at iMPeRFeCT Studio (address below)
$20 A Session (Drop in)
No Pre-Registration Required
 

The Open Studio Groove is a chill, 420 environment for artists and other creatives to work independently but in community. Bring your supplies and some goodies... and spend some quality time with us, in a fun and hopefully inspiring atmosphere.

iMPeRFeCT Studio   (2 doors from the gallery)
5547 Germantown Ave.  #2A
Philadelphia PA 19144.

Failure creates success
the lessons we learned thru art 

KAANG 

Join us for an Artist Talk with some of the exhibiting artists, stick around afterwards for OLUWAFEMI's  chill tunes, catch some grooves and finger foods

Paint session led by KAANG, the curator of the current exhibition Unlock Key. Hands-on lesson where he will show you his unique painting during an art gallery installation so you’ll be surrounded by art, moss and black lights.

Arrival at 7pm to collectively select paint subject.

$25 Tickets available HERE.

Tickets include one (1) free cup of Groovii Juice.

This is a 4/20 friendly event.

To hear Kaang talk for a minute about Unlock Key and his process CLICK HERE