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Philadelphia Assembled

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When

Sep 9, 2017 – Dec 10, 2017

Where

Perelman Building, ground floor

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Collectively imagining our futures.

Philadelphia Assembled joins art and civic engagement. Initiated by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and shaped by hundreds of collaborators, it tells a story of radical community building and active resistance. Challenging, inspiring, and as big as the city, Philadelphia Assembled asks: how can we collectively shape our futures?

This project articulates a collective narrative about our city around five principles:

  • Reconstructions: How do we rewrite our histories?
  • Sovereignty: How do we define self-determination & unity?
  • Sanctuary: How do we create safe spaces?
  • Futures: How do we reimagine our tomorrow?
  • Movement: How do we share knowledge?

What began in 2013 as conversations and gatherings manifested in spring 2017 as programs, meals, and installations throughout Philadelphia. Now reuniting the works and ideas that emerged in these public actions, Philadelphia Assembled transforms the Perelman Building into a civic stage where the city is performed.

Philadelphia Assembled Kitchen

Philadelphia Assembled Kitchen

Through December 10
Tuesday–Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Lunch available 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Perelman Café

Local cooks and storytellers share their culinary interpretation of survival, resistance, and victory. Presented in partnership with W/N W/N Coffee Bar. Additional community partners include Sunday Suppers, Sweet Nectar Dessert Kitchen, Epicurean Jerk Sauce, and TOT's Hot Sauce.

Curated Menus

Lunch available 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Menus subject to change

Survival Menu (available September 9–October 8)

  • Survival platter (sampling of dishes below) $12
  • Turmeric grits & greens (plus some prawns) by Khaliah D. Pitts (Our Mothers' Kitchens) $12
  • Mieng Lao sticky rice lettuce wraps by Catzie Vilayphonh (Laos in the House) $10
  • The People's Peas (black-eyed peas) over grits by Shivon Love (Our Mothers' Kitchens) $5
  • Pumpkin bread with seeds by Saigay Sherriff $2

Resistance Menu (available October 10–November 5)

  • Resistance platter (sampling of dishes below) $12
  • Jerk chicken with a side by Gorman and Baldwin Bright (Epicurean Jerk Sauce) $10
  • Shepherd(less) pie by Sulaiha Olatunji (PplFood) $5
  • Red cabbage & apple salad by Kristin Schwab $7
  • Mixed greens by Taylor Johnson-Gordon (Sistah of the Yam) $3
  • Basbousa by Ailbhe Pascal (Fikira Bakery) $2

Victory Menu (available November 7–December 10)

  • Victory platter (sampling of dishes below) $12
  • Mississippi hot tamales and sucker's succotash by Nia Minard (Bite Curious) $10
  • Shiktay Moru by Pascale Boucicaut $8
  • ‘Between the Worlds' coconut rice & beans by Frances Rose (K Is for Kitchen & West Philly's Community Supported Kitchen) $6
  • Sucker's succotash by Nia Minard (Bite Curious) $4
  • Coconut sea-salt roll (optional drizzle of warm clarified butter) by Acorn (K Is for Kitchen & West Philly's Community Supported Kitchen) $2
  • Coconut-lime cupcakes by Robin Broughton-Smith (Sweet Nectar Dessert Kitchen) $3.50
  • Butternut squash pies by Sister Nefertari Muhammad and her daughters (Sister's Original Supreme Pies) $3

Philadelphia Assembled Collaborators

Hundreds of collaborators shaped the works, ideas, and programs presented in Philadelphia Assembled. Visit their website to hear from them directly.

Artistic Team
Philadelphia Assembled is initiated by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and organized alongside Phoebe Bachman, Carlos Basualdo, Kirtrina Baxter, Shari Hersh, Nehad Khader, Mabel Negrete (CNS), Damon Reaves, Amanda Sroka, and Denise Valentine.

Sovereignty
Kamara Abdur-Rahim, Khdir Abdur-Rahim, Sharif Abdur-Rahim, Chad Africa, Ramona Africa, Aldolphe Alexander, Brianna Barton, Kamau Blakney, Tony Brooks, Eddie Brown, Rodney Camarce, Tempest Carter, Sunshine Coffee, Marian Dalke, Jenni Drozdek, Christopher Eads, Alex Epstein, Sonia Galiber, Cassandra Green, Charlyn Griffith, Jasmine Hamilton, Dusty Heinz, Amber Henry, Russell Anthony Hicks of Ebony Suns Enterprises LLC, Michaela Holmes, Miguel Huerta, Jeannine Kayembe, Annette Medford-Griffin, Stanley Morgan, Pedro Ospina, German Parodi, Dozi Pate, Fred Riley, Christian Rodriguez, Pat Ruger, Tinamarie Russell, Rashie Abdul Samad, Amanda Spitfire, Theresa Stigale, Gabriela Sanchez, Diana Larisgoitia

Reconstructions
Lisa Adjei, Hakim ‘Ali, Ali Braxton, Erin Bernard, Alden Blyth, Kiki Bolender, Christi Clark, Despina Costalas, Herman Davis, Brujo De la Mancha, Mary Dewitt, Jorge Galvan, Maggie Gynestra, Hakeem Fulton, William Goldsby, Jim “Bear” Katona, Jessi Koch, Atiba Kwesi, Betty Leacraft, Nora Lichtash, Kevin Maguire, Kariymah McClary, John McMillin, Staci Moore, Ariel Morales, Deion F. Morrison, Nadiyyah Morrison, Talib Morrison, Michaela Pommells, Naomi Roberson Reid, CR Robinson, Judith Robinson, Raheim Taylor, Holly Trnka, Tieshka Smith, Denise Valentine, Lisa Volta, Mona Washington, Jared Wood

Sanctuary
Ask Nicely, Sheldon Abba, Mayyadah Alhumssi, Chantelle Bateman, Emily Chow Bluck, Daniel de JesĂșs, Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Lynda Grace, Hakan Graf, Charlyn Griffith, Willow Krake, Trapeta B. Mayson, Brenna McGinnis, Aisha Mohammed, Michael O’Bryan, Peter Pedimonti, Clayton Ruley, Ellen Skilton, Frances Rose Subbiondo, Acorn Swiggum, Catzie Vilayphonh, Phantazia Washington, Ron Whyte, Laurent Widjaya, Ricky Yanas

Futures
Alberto Oro Ayala, Howard Bailey, Priscilla Anacakuyani Bell, Ira Bond, Angelina Conti, Patricia De Carlo, Camae Dennis, Cassandra Green, Jondhi Harrell, Jean Haskell, Samantha Heth, Johannad Jones, Lamarr Kendrick, Nate Kleinman, Kevin Lee, Marlon MacAllister‎, Stephanie Mach, Erica Mines, Michael Muehlbauer, Sarah Muehlbauer, Rasheedah Phillips, Stan Pokras, Julie Rainbow, Chris Rogers, Patricia Sills, Gary Smalls, Brandon Stokes, RubĂ©n Chicomeocel Tezcatl, Ron Whyte, Brittany Wood

Movement
75B, Amber Arts and Design (Keir Johnston, Ernel Martinez), People’s Paper Co-op (Courtney Bowles, Mark Strandquist), Traction Company (Steven Dailey, Miguel Horn, Sedakial Gebremedhin, John Greig), in‱sitecollaborative (Larissa Begault, Julia Borowicz, Rania Dalloul, Nora Elmarzouky, Nadia Elokdah, Sara Minard), Janneke Absil, Nicole Allen White, Yana Balson, Eric Battle, Poetica Bey, Jeffrey Blair, Pascale Boucicaut, Maurits de Bruijn, James Cincotta, Helen Cunningham, Kate Cuffari, Abigail Dangler, Kerry DiGiacomo, Alexis Dixon, Olivia Dudnik, Gretchen Dykstra, Mahdi Sufi El, Nadia Elokdah, Jorge Galvan, Morgan Gengo, Taylor Johnson-Gordon, Jacob C. Hammes, Virginia Hansen, Adele Hayer, Chessia Kelley, Norman Keyes, Jason Killinger, Shelley Langdale, Dianne Loftis, Shivon Love, Charlotte Lowrey, Eric Marsh, Shanti Mayers, Marcel van der Meijs, Andrea Metz, Nia Danielle Minard, Jamie Montgomery, Bernice Morris, Femi Olatunji, Sulaiha Olatunji, Zein Nakhoda, Ailbhe Pascal, Elisabeth Perez-Luna, Andrienne Palchick, Miki Palchik, Khaliah D. Pitts, Nisa Qazi, Zachary Rawe, Les Rivera, Hiro Sakaguchi, Jack Schlechter, Kristin Schwab, Ariel Schwartz, Saigay Sherrif, Daniel Tucker, A.M. Weaver, Gee Wesley, Karina Wratschko, Billy Yalowitz, Josh Yoder, Youth Dream Trust, Linda Yun, Rashid Zakat, Ms. Nandi

Community Partners & Program Hosts
A & Associates, Ahimsa House, African Cultural Art Forum, Alumni Ex-Offenders Association, AORTA, Attic Youth Center, Black Quantum Futurism, The BLOC Party, Broad Street Ministry, The Center for Returning Citizens (TCRC), Coalition for Racial Justice, Counter Narrative Society (CNS), Deep Green Philly, Disabled in Action, The Dorrance H. Hamilton Center for Culinary Enterprises, Drueding Center, Epicurean Jerk Sauce, Experimental Farm Network, Fair-Amount-Forest, FICA Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia Culinary Literacy Center, Granny Peace Brigade Philadelphia, Healthy Rowhouse Project, Historic Fair Hill, Illuminator Collective, Indigenous 215, K Is for Kitchen, Laos in the House, Lest We Forget Slavery Museum, Mighty Writers, MOVE, Mural Arts Philadelphia, New Sanctuary Movement Philadelphia, North Philly Peace Park, Norris Square Neighborhood Project, Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac, Partners of the Americas Pennsylvania Chapter, Paul Robeson House and Museum, People’s Emergency Center, Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance, Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC), Philadelphia Coalition for Affordable Communities, Philadelphia Middle Passage Ceremony & Port Marker Project, Philadelphia Radical Faeries, Philly Coalition for R.E.A.L. Justice, Philly with Standing Rock/Philly NoDAPL, Power Street Theater Company, Prevention Point Philadelphia, Project SAFE, Public Interest Law Center, Puzzlement Laboratory, Reanimator Coffee, Reclaim Printing, Reconstruction Inc., Sister’s Original Supreme Pies, Soil Generation, SPARKmakers, Stretch and Fly Youth Business Garden, Sunday Suppers, Sweet Nectar Dessert Kitchen, Taino Cultural Workshop–Philly, Take Back the Night, Teacher Action Group Philadelphia (TAGP), Thomas Jefferson University, Tillmon Community Garden, TOT’s Hot Sauce, Ulises, Urban Art Gallery, Urban Creators, Vietlead, The Village of Arts and Humanities, Voces del Barrio, Walnut Hill Association, West Philly’s Community Supported Kitchen, Wholistic Arts, Wikidelphia, W/N W/N Coffee Bar, Womanist Working Collective, Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP), Wooden Shoe Bookshop, YMCA–West Philadelphia

Sponsors

Philadelphia Assembled is made possible by the William Penn Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, The Daniel W. Dietrich II Fund for Contemporary Art, Wyncote Foundation, The Arlin and Neysa Adams Endowment Fund, Nancy M. Berman and Alan Bloch, Lynne and Harold Honickman, Mr. and Mrs. Milton S. Schneider, Constance and Sankey Williams, the Mondriaan Fund, Lyn M. Ross, and The Netherland-America Foundation.

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