June 11, 2013
Every Wednesday night, the Philadelphia Museum of Art welcomes late-night guests with Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesday Nights, staying open for visitors from 5 p.m. until 8:45 p.m. Tomorrow, June 12, the museum brings a cool progressive edge to its Wednesday night series with the Philadelphia premiere of The Triptych, a three-part short-film series co-directed by produced by [...]
Read more»September 6, 2012
Starting this weekend, the Penn Museum is hosting great, free-with-admission programming on Second Sundays. The first series is Family Second Sunday Workshops, 1-4 p.m. from September through May 2013. Geared to families with children ages 5 and up, each Family Second Sunday Workshop features a craft, touchable artifacts and gallery activities. Attendees may drop in [...]
Read more»July 27, 2012
It’s been Springsteen fever ever since the National Constitution Center opened its exhibition From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen this past February. The center will conclude their Springsteen Special Events series with a screening of the documentary film Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Blood Brothers [...]
Read more»July 13, 2012
WHYY’s special 60-minute TV documentary on the Barnes Foundation for the new PBS Arts Summer Festival series is set for broadcast Friday, August 3 at 9 p.m. The Barnes Collection tells the story of Dr. Albert C. Barnes and his priceless art collection, considered among the world’s greatest, now on view in its new home [...]
Read more»February 28, 2012
In conjunction with From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen, the National Constitution Center is planning special interactive programs and events appropriate for visitors of all ages. First up is a special screening on Wednesday, March 14, 5–8 p.m. The center will show The Promise: The Making of [...]
Read more»October 26, 2011
Who has the power to shape our cities and how does the design of our cities affect our lives? These questions are at the center of Urbanized, the final documentary in the design trilogy (remember Helvetica?) by acclaimed filmmaker Gary Hustwit. It makes its Philadelphia premiere on Thursday, November 3 at Drexel University. Two screenings [...]
Read more»September 19, 2011
Make it a night out on the Parkway: this Friday, September 23, 6-10 p.m., is another “TFI After Dark” at the Franklin Institute, an exclusive evening event for adults. The event is filled with music from new area DJ Cool-Out, games, cash bar and snacks from caterer Frog Commissary, raffles, select Planetarium and IMAX® theater [...]
Read more»August 2, 2011
Last month the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) and Philly Homegrown introduced a brand new pop-up garden at 20th and Market Streets in Center City called “PHS Pops Up,” a giant temporary green space growing vegetables, herbs, grains and flowers and hosting special on-site programming open to the public. Once such PHS Pops Up event is [...]
Read more»April 20, 2011
Philadelphia: The Great Experiment is a historical documentary television film and Internet project that tells the story of Philadelphia. The production calls the city “the single most compelling stage for the unfurling and testing of American ideals.” The civic project, spearheaded by local businessman/politician Sam Katz and his company History Making Productions, aims to [...]
Read more»November 2, 2010
The National Constitution Center and the National Geographic Channel are hosting a screening of the award-winning documentary Restrepo at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, November 9. Restrepo chronicles a year in the life of a platoon of U.S. soldiers deployed in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, considered one of the most dangerous outposts in the U.S. military until [...]
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