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"Dreams of a City: Creating East Palo Alto "Screening with Kameelah Janan Rasheed October 27th at 6:30pm, Free!Join us o...
10/13/2026

"Dreams of a City: Creating East Palo Alto "
Screening with Kameelah Janan Rasheed
October 27th at 6:30pm, Free!

Join us on October 27 at 6:30 PM for a free screening of the 1996 documentary "Dreams of a City," presented by artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed in conjunction with her current installation in Vox’s An Endless Meeting exhibition.

Rasheed’s "Study: East Palo Alto" is an evolving spatial diagram featuring materials examining Nairobi College, her hometown’s Black experimental schooling system organized, designed, and sustained by East Palo Alto community members.

Presented as part of "An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together" and .info

Made possible by generous funding from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

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Join cinéSPEAK and National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) at North Chinatown's beloved artist collective run gallery,...
10/10/2026

Join cinéSPEAK and National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) at North Chinatown's beloved artist collective run gallery, Vox Populi, for a special work-in-progress presentation of American Worker: The Labor to Belong with Director Thien Dinh and NDWA!

This screening is a part of our series for Collective Futures—a six-week, citywide project activating Philadelphia’s network of artist-run spaces, DIY venues, and community-based initiatives. Throughout the month of October, cinéSPEAK is exploring and uplifting the American worker and the role of artists as workers supporting grassroots labor movements.

Thien Dinh and NDWA PA's collaboration is made possible with the support of Leeway Foundation.

Event Flow:

—Doors open and community gathering at 6:30 PM (enjoy light refreshments!)
—Film screening at 7:00 PM (40 min excerpt)
—Community dialogue with the filmmaker and organizers at 7:40 - 8:10 PM

American Worker: The Labor to Belong (Work in Progress)

Set within today’s political upheaval and economic instability, with "protecting American Workers" as the driving rhetoric for xenophobia, an AAPI immigrant filmmaker examines a pivotal cultural question: Who counts as an American worker, and how has that definition been constructed and enforced over time?

Year: 2027
Runtime: 40 min
Language: Tagalog, English
Country: United States
Subtitle Language: English

Darkness falls across the landThe midnight hour is close at handCreatures call in search of bloodParty it up with your i...
10/01/2026

Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures call in search of blood
Party it up with your improv buds!

"What kind of goat sorcery is this??" This event has it all - costume party, otherworldly atmosphere, drinks, candy, cake, DJ Slashly, and all your besties.

DJ Slashly spins house, hyper pop, hardcore, and various genres that don’t begin with H. Also likes hockey, Hemingway, and Halloween.

Oct 31 | 8pm - 12am | $15
Seal Your Doom!
Presale Tix on Eventbrite

Presented by Cake and Fiona Improv Collective

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Today is the final day to apply for Wooden Nickel: A $99 Exhibition, the fifth anniversary of Vox Populi’s annual juried...
09/27/2026

Today is the final day to apply for Wooden Nickel: A $99 Exhibition, the fifth anniversary of Vox Populi’s annual juried exhibition and fundraiser.

Artists living within 90 miles of Philadelphia can submit up to two works measuring exactly 8 x 10 inches. Selected works will be exhibited at Vox Populi from December 4th–20th, 2026, with every piece priced at $99 and the artist’s identity revealed only after purchase.

No application fee
Open to artists within 90 miles of Philadelphia
Submit up to 2 works that are roughly 8 x 10 in
Deadline: TONIGHT, September 27th at 11:59 PM
Preview Event: December 2nd, 6–8 PM
Exhibition: December 4th–20th

Don’t miss it. Apply by 11:59 PM tonight through the link in bio.

An Endless Meeting: Still Taking MinutesFriday, October 2, 2026 - Sunday, November 15, 2026Opening Reception: Friday, Oc...
09/23/2026

An Endless Meeting: Still Taking Minutes
Friday, October 2, 2026 - Sunday, November 15, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 2026 6pm-10pm

Still Taking Minutes, curated by Logan Cryer , is a interview-based exhibition that explores how Philadelphia artists build, sustain and leave collectives. Cryer interviewed over 13 artists based in Philadelphia about their experience as current or past members of artist collectives. Subsequently, four Vox Members — Aaron Terry , Ollie Goss , Gregory Donnell Parker .etc, and catia colagioia — met to discuss the conflicts, triumphs and reflections shared those conversations. The resulting exhibition consists of commissioned works from these four artists that reflect some complicated truths about the history of artist collectives and the future of the DIY artist community in our city.

Presented as part of An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together and .info

Made possible by generous funding from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

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Opening October 2nd! Join us for the First Friday reception from 6-10pm!An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic...
09/21/2026

Opening October 2nd! Join us for the First Friday reception from 6-10pm!

An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together
Featuring New Red Order, Kameelah Janan Rasheed , and Caroline Woolard
curated by Maia Chao .pologies

An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together brings together work by nationally recognized artists and collectives exploring collective process as both a method and a subject.

New Red Order’s "Give it Back: Crimes Against Realty (Office Edition)" takes the form of a real estate office and recruitment station investigating gestures of land being voluntarily returned to Indigenous people. Kameelah Janan Rasheed's "Study: East Palo Alto" is an evolving library collection examining the histories of Black experimental schooling and learning environments, where visitors can encounter, copy, and circulate research materials, inviting them to participate in the production and sharing of knowledge. Caroline Woolard's "Art of Gravity" uses kinetic sculpture to model the relationships of balance, support, and connection that make collaboration possible. Together, the works ask how collective practices are built, sustained, shared, and put into action.

Join former Vox Member Melissa Langer and Video Store•Age at RAIR — the working recycling & demolition center featu...
09/20/2026

Join former Vox Member Melissa Langer and Video Store•Age at RAIR — the working recycling & demolition center featured in her film IN EXCESS — for an evening of live sound, screen printing and hand-to-hand DIY film distribution featuring:

⦿ Cooling Prongs / (the performance and studio project of field recording artist Christopher Fleeger)
⦿ Jonathan Snipes / (member of clipping)
⦿ Bring an article of clothing destined for the trash and receive an original live screen print by Makeba “Keebs” Rainey /

7–9 PM — come at 7 for a site tour!
**Please wear closed-toe shoes**

✝️ RITUALSMonday, September 21 at 7pmBad news: RITUALS is SOLD OUTGood news: don't lose faith just yet. If you're feelin...
09/19/2026

✝️ RITUALS
Monday, September 21 at 7pm

Bad news: RITUALS is SOLD OUT
Good news: don't lose faith just yet. If you're feeling spiritually adventurous, you may want to come by Vox anyway, sometimes salvation finds a way.

The Church of Perpetual Diet Coke invites you into RITUALS, a holy, immersive, celebratory, interdisciplinary religious obstacle experience featuring salvation and the possibility of total bliss.

Created by Rose Luardo, Liv Chiaravalli, Ingrid Kopisch, Alicia McDaid, Lea Devon Sorrentino and Val Roberta.

Come burdened. Leave saved. Maybe.

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On view Oct 2 - Nov 15, 2026In 變 SLOW BURN, eight artists and collectives explore memory, belonging, grief, q***r kinshi...
09/19/2026

On view Oct 2 - Nov 15, 2026

In 變 SLOW BURN, eight artists and collectives explore memory, belonging, grief, q***r kinship, dreaming, and transformation. Bringing together installation, performance, video, sound, and painting in Vox’s Gallery One and Black Box, this exhibition

Breathing from the mystical creature of fènghuáng – bigender birds that guard the South and Fire – this exhibition centers the slow burning of grief, rage, resistance, and world building. Etymologically, 變 biàn denotes weaving through silk and words with folding hands. Shifting between meanings of movement, chaos, uprising, and change, 變 gathers collective practice into a relational cosmology shaped by tending, where rebirth unfolds not through spectacular sacrifice, but through the act of coming together again and again.

Co-curated laura 嘟嘟 and huiyin zhou 徽音, curators in residence Vox Populi, as part of An Endless Meeting.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Gallery One
Zainab Zulfiqar , Cynthia Zhou , Rah Gerg , Voyo Woo , .tn MengCheng 梦城团 Collective

Black Box
Sarah Trad , Kat Nzingha , CAO Collective 离离草

PROGRAMMING:
Sept 24, Thurs 7-8pm, Curator Talk + Social
Oct 2, Fri 6-10pm, First Friday Opening
Nov 6, Fri 6-10pm First Friday
with 7pm performance by Phenon Murphy and Annie Peterson
in activation directed by Rah Gerg

Presented as part of .info and made possible by generous funding from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

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Series II. Minutes, r. 2. b. 3 f. 1-10, 1987 March – 1988 March (ACT UP New York Records, Archives and Manuscripts Divis...
09/17/2026

Series II. Minutes, r. 2. b. 3 f. 1-10, 1987 March – 1988 March (ACT UP New York Records, Archives and Manuscripts Division, The New York Public Library)
By Ethan Philbrick
Saturday, October 10th 2026

Presented as part of "An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together"

Two Performances:
Doors at 6:30pm Performance at 7 pm
Doors at 8:30pm Performance at 9pm

Series II. Minutes, r. 2. b. 3 f. 1-10, 1987 March – 1988 March (ACT UP New York Records, Archives and Manuscripts Division, The New York Public Library)is a vocal performance bythe artist and writer Ethan Philbrick that uses meeting minutes from ACT UP New York’s first year of weekly general meetings as its sole textual material. While minutes are sometimes overlooked as nothing more than bureaucratic notes, this performance approaches them as collective poetic texts that document the desires and frustrations of trying to get urgent things done together. For audience members, Series II. Minutes will be both a listening and reading experience, as each attendeewill be given a printed reader that contains copies of the original ACT UP New York meeting minutes so that they can read along while listening.

Series II. Minutes will be performed by Philbrick alongside vocalists Maia Chao, Daniel de Jesús, and Nicole Renna, and string players Carlos Santiago (violin), Veronica Mercedes Pazymiño Jurkiewicz (viola), Billy Ray Boyer (viola), and Evan Kassouf (cello), with publication design by spreeeng (Carlos Romo-Melgar and John Philip Sage).

Made possible by generous funding from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

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