S/He Speaks 2:                            

Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx

Book Release & Open Reading

Hosted by co-editor Cassendre Xavier

Contributors to this new anthology from Moonstone Press – to be released at the event -- will read and discuss their writing

Featuring: 

Tamir Nubia Brisport, Shreya Datta, Denise Delgado,Jeanne DiGrazio, Eliza Fisherman, Samantha Hollins, Dana Kinsey, Jessica Kratzer, L. Lois, Maureen Martinez, April McCloud, Susannah Miller, Ada Pendill, Bella Piacentino, Brie Sheridan, Sarah Tachau, Rebecca Thrush, Alyssa Velazquez

with an OPEN READING TO FOLLOW!  

Bring your poems/essays and join in!

FREE & Open to the public

Creatives Chat Series 2024The Women's Coalition for Empowerment, Inc. in partnership with The Rotunda, presents the Creatives Chat Series 2024, a pop-up series for curated discussions merging creative industry topics, best practices, complimentary food, networking, and live music—an immersive experience for all.

Moderated by Shekhinah B., author of the Art Economic Empowerment Workbook, an artistic multi-hyphenate, arts administrator, Edutainer, and vocal performer.

Artists of all disciplines are invited to explore innovative approaches to creativity in a safe and non-judgmental environment. Join us for an enriching experience and be part of a community that values and encourages creativity in all forms.

Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3pm - Women's Month

Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 3pm - Creative Business

Sunday, June 2, 2023 at 3pm - Black Music Month

Free | Open to the Public | Live Music | Free Food | Networking(Guest panelists will be announced soon....)

Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creatives-chat-series-2024-registration-775240664697

A night of spontaneous composition and FREE music! Doors will open at 7:30 PM, Show at 8 PM.

Rocío Díaz de Cossío (they/them) is a Mexican cellist, composer, and improviser. They are dedicated to exploring the sonic possibilities of their instrument, implementing prepared cello and live electronics. Their performances encompass improvisation, solo and ensemble acoustic and electroacoustic pieces, collective compositions, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Rocío has participated in the Darmstadt Summer Course, the International Ensemble Modern Academy, Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas, The Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale, and Red Ecología Acústica México. Recent commissions include works by Anne Lebaron, Guadalupe Perales, and a solo/duo piece for them and Madison Greenstone by Wilfrido Terrazas. Rocío concentrates their practice in New York City and México, focusing on performer-composer practices and teaching cello.

Jose F. Solares is a Mexican improviser, saxophonist, composer, and sound artist. His main focus is on improvisationalperspectives that go beyond listening. Perception and awareness of the time-space continuum, Improvisation as a way of existing in this reality, and letting the unconscious take over, are a few of his approaches to improvisation.

Carrie DeCunzo has performed and released music under the monikers beautywork, Natural Pleasures, and Carrie Ford. She collaborates with Rose Actor-Engel in 500 Club. She has released her music on her self-run, small-scale imprint KSX Solutions and with No Rent Records, Love is the Law, Sprawl Tapes, and American Damage.

Kyle Motl is a bassist, composer, and improviser whose playing is noted for both “iridescent delicacy as well as abrasive force” (The Wire). His music “promise[s] to change us by revealing things we could never have imagined” (Free Jazz Collective). Kyle’s work inhabits territories composed and improvised, including projects with Treesearch, Patrick Shiroishi, Clucas/Motl/Hubbard, a trio with Anthony Davis and Kjell Nordeson, and work with contemporary music ensembles including the International Contemporary Ensemble and Ghost Ensemble.

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Philly Juneteenth Celebration Featuring: Dr. Leonard & Rosalind Jeffries5pm-9pm

A CULTURAL EXPERIENCE Family Fun, Guest Speakers, Fashion & Talent Showcase Vendors,Food, EDUTAINMENT Hosted by: Bigga Dre "Amun Sen Hotep Re"

Over 60 years, first beginning as individuals and later in marriage, Dr. Rosalind and Leonard Jeffries have began their Great and Majestic Walk with African Peoples and our Great Culture. Their Walk has spanned more than 25 African Countries and Hundreds of African Leaders and at the same time they were instrumental in fusing the African American Experience with their African Continental Experience !

1865 people were not interested in immigration into the United States. In fact, the United States in the 1850's and 1860's had established a Know-Nothing Party; they did not want immigrants; they were against immigrants; and the immigrants that they were against were Papists, German and Irish Catholics. There was no prospect of bringing in immigrants from central, eastern, and southern Europe; these were the unwashed masses. Eighteen-sixty-five was our period. Eighteen-sixty-five was when half a million Black people, a quarter- million of them official Union army, navy troops-participated in the Civil War. The question of Black folks getting into their history, starting to fight for liberty and struggling for what is right is not the question of disuniting America. It has been our struggle that has kept America united. It has been our struggle that has raised anew the liberties that this nation professes. It has been our struggle that has created the 14th Amendment that became the amendment that the women could use and others could use, when they talk about the expansion of liberty in America.

-Dr. Leonard JeffriesAdmission is $19. Tickets can be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philly-juneteenth-celebration-featuring-dr-leonard-rosalind-jeffries-tickets-897244601757

For more information or to vend or perform, please contact trueandfaithful1@hotmail.com or 215-259-8003. 

CANCELLED DUE TO POWER OUTAGE! 

Make Music Philly is an all-day, open-access, free “do it yourself” festival taking place in various neighborhoods in Philadelphia, PA and its surrounding suburbs on June 21st every year. Participation is encouraged from all ages, genres, and abilities…from indie rock to bluegrass to a cappella, from music students to professional artists and everything in-between.

Make Music Philly’s primary goals are to provide an equal platform for musicians of all skill levels, interests, and walks of life, and to inspire the next generation of musicians through innovative outreach programming.

This celebration is not limited to residents of Philly, but invites music enthusiasts from everywhere to come participate by performing, attending, or volunteering.

Join us to ring in the Summer Solstice, as part of an international event with its heart and soul in our local creative community!

There will be performances at The Rotunda starting at 10:15am and ending at 4pm. Read about all of the performers HERE

CANCELLED DUE TO POWER OUTAGE! 

Bowerbird is pleased to present a special screening of John Cage Meets Sun Ra: The Complete Concert at The Rotunda.

Recorded at Sideshows by the Seashore along the Coney Island boardwalk on June 8th, 1986 as documented by John Polizzi under the commission of event producers Rick Russo and Bronwyn Rucker.

From Pitchfork: “John Cage Meets Sun Ra: The Complete Concert gradually emerges as something greater than a footnote. That’s not because the pairing results in an ‘avant super duo.’ As it happens, the two artists tend to trade off soloing, and only play together audibly at one point during this hour-plus set, recorded at Coney Island. Yet despite the arms-length embrace, the overall concert has a surprisingly seamless quality.”

Admission is FREE/donations appreciated. RSVPs are not required but are appreciated. More info: https://www.bowerbird.org/event/screening-john-cage-meets-sun-ra/

Welcome to Nights Out West - Showcase! Join us at The Rotunda for a night filled with amazing performances, Food by All About Chew Catering and entertainment. This is a judged competition where the winners will receive a cash prize of $350, $200, & $100  for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place respectively.

This is primariy a Hip-Hop Showcase but all genres are welcomed if you feel you have what it takes to win the showcase!

There will be interactive games and prizes for the audience to win as well throughout the night as you are becoming apart of the experience and not just a viewer. Food will be availble throughout the night as well!

Get ready to experience talented artists, musicians, and performers in person. This event is your chance to immerse yourself in a vibrant showcase of creativity and talent. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to enjoy a Night Out West with some of Philly's emerging talent. Curated by RiZ - iKonBy25

To buy tickets and/or enter the competition, please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nights-out-west-showcase-tickets-909188135187