The Philadelphia Thing

The Philadelphia Thing The Philadelphia Thing (founded 2019 by Sarah Bishop-Stone) is an advocacy and producing structure d

Join Trade School artists tonight to dance, rage, cry it out, and raise funds in solidarity with our friends in Michigan...
06/24/2022

Join Trade School artists tonight to dance, rage, cry it out, and raise funds in solidarity with our friends in Michigan, a trigger state. Hosted by with holding it down, and you can always take a break for Tarot and Oracle readings from 💜🖤❤️‍🔥

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06/24/2022

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A Host of People's CLEOPATRA BOY is part courtroom drama, part theatrical reclamation and celebration. This play explore...
06/23/2022

A Host of People's CLEOPATRA BOY is part courtroom drama, part theatrical reclamation and celebration. This play explores justice in representation—in our past, present, and future. Cleopatra Boy is provocative, but, as with all of AHOP's shows, it is also warm, funny, poetic, and silly in one moment, deadly serious in the next, and ultimately uplifting.
Tix for all performances here: https://loom.ly/O-KIPm8

Head back to Trade School: PHL + Detroit this week! See bold new work from Applied Mechanics , Team Sunshine Performance...
06/22/2022

Head back to Trade School: PHL + Detroit this week! See bold new work from Applied Mechanics , Team Sunshine Performance Corporation , A Host of People, Propelled Animals, Jennifer Harge and more!
Tickets for all shows at: philadelphiathing.org/Festival

TODAY! At Poetic Societies/Ava Ansari's How to Make a Bouquet in a Voting Box?, guests will be received one by one, and ...
06/21/2022

TODAY! At Poetic Societies/Ava Ansari's How to Make a Bouquet in a Voting Box?, guests will be received one by one, and work with Ansari to draft a personal body contract for themselves around the act of voting. Working from a space of delicacy, using flowers and the body, and rooted in multiple body-mind modalities, including Iyengar yoga, viewpoints, Suzuki, and Persian poetry, trance, and dance. Appointments will last up to 45 minutes, enough time to ground the body, do breathing practice, and create enough foundation to do the expressive writing. The act of voting is deeply personal and touch-based, and therefore rooted in poetic legalities and personal and collective body contracts.

Make an appointment via: https://loom.ly/QoFIBQk

HAPPY TRADE SCHOOL! We're so excited to launch Trade School: PHL + Detroit today, and hope that you'll join us this week...
06/16/2022

HAPPY TRADE SCHOOL! We're so excited to launch Trade School: PHL + Detroit today, and hope that you'll join us this week for amazing, groundbreaking new work from Emily Bate, Ahya Simone and Propelled Animals. If you're joining us tonight, feel free to meet up PHS Pop-Up Garden South Street for our opening night after-show hang!
Tickets for all shows still remain at: https://philadelphiathing.org/Festival

Emily Bate's WIG WAG is an interactive theater piece where the audience and performers explore communal music-making. Th...
06/10/2022

Emily Bate's WIG WAG is an interactive theater piece where the audience and performers explore communal music-making. The piece unfolds as a secular "church service" that uses group singing, group text recitation, and music performed by a vocal quartet to explore the tension and pleasure of co-existing with others. Tickets here: https://loom.ly/k-daA-U

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Working across myriad disciplines, Ahya Simone is a Detroit-based artist, performer, filmmaker, and harpist. Simone’s ma...
06/07/2022

Working across myriad disciplines, Ahya Simone is a Detroit-based artist, performer, filmmaker, and harpist. Simone’s many pronged practice is bound by an exploration of Black identity, aesthetic, and community building.

IRIDESCENCE is a live-scored abstract short film around revealing one’s self and autonomy of storytelling. "Using my body as a main visual subject, I explore my universe of interests – visually and sonically. I am always fascinated with time, clocks, and astrological natal chart geometry as symbols of measurement of existence. This work is a visual representation and celebration of my body in the midst of dysphoria, the beauty of time in cycles (astrology)."

Tickets here: https://loom.ly/Q0QyZ-Q

06/03/2022

🗣️ALL RISE: Individual tickets *and* festival passes are now on sale for Trade School PHL + Detroit! 🗣️ It's the one-of-a-kind performing arts fest that's also a conversation between two great American cities.

Buy tickets today at: https://philadelphiathing.ticketleap.com/
🎥: A Host of People

05/26/2022

🚨 Tickets are now on sale for Trade School PHL + Detroit! 🚨 It's the one-of-a-kind performing arts fest that's also a conversation between two great American cities. Buy tickets today at: philadelphiathing.ticketleap.com/

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What is The Philadelphia Thing?

The Philadelphia Thing is an advocacy and producing structure dedicated to the support and promotion of independent performing artists in Philadelphia. Using an artist-centered practice, The Philadelphia Thing connects artists with performance development resources, producing consultation, and marketplace advocacy, inside and outside of Philadelphia. By strengthening and enriching the ecosystem for the creation of performance work within the city, TPT builds connections among and between artists and audiences in Philadelphia and beyond.

The first initiative of The Philadelphia Thing is Trade School, a festival and exchange platform celebrating the work of Philadelphia performing artists as well as creating connections with artist peers across the country.

This endeavor is named with love, gratitude, and apologies to Mark Lord, who coined the title “The Philadelphia Thing” for a Headlong Performance eXchange conversation in the summer of 2015.

Image: From jumatatu m. poe and Jerome “Donte” Beacham’s Let ‘im Move You series, taken by Gema Galiana.