Guided Search: Arts and Culture

Meet Marian Anderson, the African American contralto and civil rights activist, as portrayed by Jillian Pirtle. 

World Heritage Week is a city-wide celebration of the World Heritage City designation of Philadelphia. This year, we are shaping the program around the idea of Sankofa, a cultural ideology originating in west Africa (Ghana). Sankofa represents the practice of looking into the past for inspiration and taking what is of value into the future. GPA will promote both in-person and virtual events and programs throughout the week to celebrate the global heritages of Philadelphia.

Registration is OPEN for Cultivating Culture: Al-Bustan’s Arab Arts and Culture Camp!

Join us for MLIA's 3rd annual Holi celebration this May. This event promises to be tons of fun for all ages. For more information, visit their website https://www.mainlineindians.org/ . 

A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures is a photography-based exhibition of new work by Carmen Winant as part of a five-component project developed by the artist through intensive research — a hallmark of her category-defying practice. On June 10th, free, in-person guided exhibition tours will be held with the curator.

Exciting, spectacular, dazzling, breathtaking, exhilarating, spirited, soulful, enchanting, captivating, and intriguing – modest words which describe but by no means capture the essence of Ukrainian folk art, music, and dance.