Chronicling Resistance invited a cohort of local activists, cultural organizers, and artists to the same Philadelphia archives that have historically excluded their voices and perspectives. They found enough for a vast exhibition, but there’s only so much an exhibition can hold. Join us as a cross-generational panel of memory workers, activists, and archivists who are …
Powerful resistance movements are nurtured by the possibility of a better future and passionate community members willing to make it happen. Communal imagination is a ritual that seeks to actualize our wildest dreams into reality. The theme of this series is cultivating your own utopia. We will experiment with visuals that curate our ideologies around joy, glory, paradise, and more. Through discussion and artmaking, students will leave …
Powerful resistance movements are nurtured by the possibility of a better future and passionate community members willing to make it happen. Communal imagination is a ritual that seeks to actualize our wildest dreams into reality. The theme of this series is cultivating your own utopia. We will experiment with visuals that curate our ideologies around joy, glory, paradise, and more. Through discussion and artmaking, students will leave …
“How might the information held within archives support community activists and their work?” This is one of the key questions behind Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition. To try to answer that question, the project Chronicling Resistance invited a cohort of activists, cultural organizers, and artists to explore institutional and community archives and to unearth and interpret …
Scholarship By and For the People: Scholar-Activists in Conversation Read More »
How do you tell stories of people who have been erased, silenced or live in the shadows? Join Chronicling Resistance Fellows Katherine Antarikso and Lan Dinh on an in-depth tour of the exhibit as they share their experiences of researching in the archives to look for stories of Indonesian and Vietnamese immigration to the United …
Just like resistance in Philadelphia, the meals we prepare in our Philly homes are rooted in places and traditions that stretch across rivers and oceans. Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition celebrates this rootedness with a cooking demonstration and story exchange connecting Southern and Caribbean culinary traditions. Join us at Blackwell Regional Library for this free program featuring plant-based recipes created …
From the Caribbean to the Carolinas: Celebrating Our Cooking Roots with Chef Shayla Read More »
Powerful resistance movements are nurtured by the possibility of a better future and passionate community members willing to make it happen. Communal imagination is a ritual that seeks to actualize our wildest dreams into reality. The theme of this series is cultivating your own utopia. We will experiment with visuals that curate our ideologies around joy, glory, paradise, and more. Through discussion and artmaking, students will leave …
Stories of Black communities' resistance against and resilience amid state violence abound throughout Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition. Join us for this provocative companion program in which filmmakers Louis Massiah and Deborah A. Thomas will screen and discuss documentaries that explore these stories through infamous incidents of state violence in Philadelphia and West Kingston, Jamaica. Aerial …
May Stories: Black Community Resilience and State Violence from Philadelphia to Jamaica Read More »
When community members come together to help meet one another’s needs, everyday acts like cooking a meal or sharing household supplies can make neighborhoods stronger and more interconnected. They are also less dependent upon systems that have historically exploited them. Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition highlights some ways mutual aid has played a major role in …
Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition asserts that "what was lost can be found again in new poems, stories, songs, and dances." Like the Black queer Philadelphia creatives whose work is presented in the exhibition, Vernon Jordan, III's varied forms of creative expression offer ways to remember, re-envision, and amplify our stories. In the short narrative, afroqueer jazz film, One Magenta Afternoon, a young African American boy, …
Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition closes with a performance by folk and soul singer Talie Cerin. Join us for an evening of music and stories connecting Black resistance in Haiti and Philadelphia. The concert will take place in the Skyline Room, but come early and take one last look at Chronicling Resistance with extended hours in the Dietrich Gallery. Solèy Midi, …
Solèy Midi (or Midday Sun) with Recording Artist Talie Cerin Read More »
Come and experience Black queer Philadelphia’s literary history through voices of today’s Black queer community. In an evening of live readings and performance, members of Philadelphia’s Black queer community revive rare works by prolific Philadelphia writers Anita Cornwell and Adrian Stanford. Published in 1983, Anita Cornwell's Black Lesbian in White America was the first essay collection by a …
