Come Move With Me! is not your average dance + movement experience. It’s an inclusive, interactive, and judgment-free space for ages 12–18 of all shapes, sizes, colors, and dance abilities. Led by Sanovia — a talented, trauma-informed artist — this live movement experience will leave you feeling refreshed and uplifted.

What makes it special? You get to help create the playlist! Share your favorite clean-version songs so we can make it our very own dance party. Bring a friend — the more, the merrier! 

Light snacks will be available.

Session Dates: Sept 16, 23, 30 • Oct 7, 14 • Nov 11, 18, 25 • Dec 2, 9

Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Cost: Pay What You Wish

Registration is HIGHLY encouraged and appreciated, though not required. Register HERE

THIS WILL BE THE MOST MUSICAL INVITATION.YOU WILL RECEIVE ALL YEAR:

Both the jam and show are FREE, though we're suggesting a $20 donation. (10% of ticket proceeds will go to the All Around This World TiME Fund, supporting international culture-bearers in need.)

RSVP HERE.

PLEASE RSVP, especially for the pre-show jam.

Come Move With Me! is not your average dance + movement experience. It’s an inclusive, interactive, and judgment-free space for ages 12–18 of all shapes, sizes, colors, and dance abilities. Led by Sanovia — a talented, trauma-informed artist — this live movement experience will leave you feeling refreshed and uplifted.

What makes it special? You get to help create the playlist! Share your favorite clean-version songs so we can make it our very own dance party. Bring a friend — the more, the merrier! 

Light snacks will be available.

Session Dates: Sept 16, 23, 30 • Oct 7, 14 • Nov 11, 18, 25 • Dec 2, 9

Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Cost: Pay What You Wish

Registration is HIGHLY encouraged and appreciated, though not required. Register HERE

Bowerbird is pleased to present a special screening of In The Mirror of Maya Deren at The Rotunda.

“More than anything else, cinema consists of the eye for the magic—that which perceives and reveals the marvelous in whatsoever it looks upon.” –Maya Deren

With In The Mirror of Maya Deren, documentary filmmaker Martina Kudlacek has fashioned not only a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. Crowned “Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body” by the L.A. Weekly, Maya Deren (née Eleanora Derenkovskaya) is arguably the most important and innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American cinema. Using locations from the Hollywood hills to Haiti, Deren made such mesmerizing films as At Land, Ritual in Transfigured Time, and her masterpiece, Meshes of the Afternoon, which won a prestigious international experimental filmmaking prize at the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Starting with excerpts from these films, In The Mirror of Maya Deren seamlessly and effectively interweaves archival footage with observances from acolytes and contemporaries such as filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, dance pioneer Katherine Dunham, and Living Theater founder Judith Malina. With an original score by experimental composer John Zorn.

One of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s, Maya Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.

The function of film, Deren believed, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions, lending her focus to be dynamic and always-evolving. She combined her interests in dance, Haitian culture and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films. Using editing, multiple exposures, jump cutting, superimposition, slow-motion and other camera techniques, Deren created continued motion through discontinued space. She abandoned the established notions of physical space and time turning her vision into a stream of consciousness.

Perhaps one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema was her collaboration with Alexander Hammid on Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). She continued to make several more films of her own, including At Land (1944), A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945), and Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) – writing, producing, directing, editing, and photographing them with help from only one other person, Hella Heyman, as camerawoman. She also appeared in a few of her films but never credited herself as an actress, downplaying her roles as anonymous figures rather than iconic deities.

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn’s recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music. Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City, the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada and composed the associated ‘Masada Songbooks’, written concert music for classical ensembles, and produced music for film and documentary. Zorn has stated that “I’ve got an incredibly short attention span. My music is jam-packed with information that is changing very fast… All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I’m an additive person – the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can’t see the connections, but they are there.”

After releasing albums on several independent US and European labels, Zorn signed with Elektra Nonesuch and attracted wide acclaim in 1985 when he released ”The Big Gundown” with his interpretations of music composed by Ennio Morricone. This was followed by the album ”Spillane” in 1987, and the first album by Naked City in 1989 which all attracted further worldwide attention. Zorn then recorded on the Japanese DIW label and curated the Avant subsidiary label before forming Tzadik in 1995, where he has been prolific, issuing several new recordings each year and releasing works by many other musicians.

Zorn established himself within the New York City downtown music movement in the early 1980s but has since composed and performed with a wide range of musicians working in diverse musical areas. By the early 1990s Zorn was working extensively in Japan, attracted by that culture’s openness about borrowing and remixing ingredients from elsewhere, where he performed and recorded under the name Dekoboko Hajime, before returning to New York as a permanent base in the mid 1990’s. Zorn has undertaken many tours of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, often performing at festivals with varying ensembles to display his diverse output.

Admission is FREE/Pay-what-you-like

Celebrate the Winter Solstice with Poet-tree En Motion! Join the annual Winter Solstice gathering on Wednesday, Dec. 17th at The Rotunda in West Philadelphia!

6:30–9:00 PM.

Heart-opening cacao ceremony with Isa Flora

Movement meditations & ritual poetry by Plum Dragoness

Singing bowl sound journey with Jenna Dreams

Live painting with Carol Ann Graham

Come welcome the return of the light. All are welcome!

Poet-tree En Motion is dedicated to inspiring artists and audiences alike to connect, collaborate, and cultivate Philadelphia’s vibrant arts community — welcoming all forms of creative expression rooted in local culture and global consciousness.

Admission is FREE. Free-will donations at the door will benefit Survival International.

Artist donations are also welcome and deeply appreciated.

CIRCLE D PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS URBAN RAILS HOLIDAY SHOW – THE HOPPIN’ BOXCARS with JEFFERSON BERRY & the UAC

Doors 7:00 PM / Music 8:00 PM

General Admission: $15 Advance / $20 Door (plus fees)

VIP Seating: $25 (plus fees) LIMITED ( 20 )

Student Discount: $5 off Advance Only – Use code “SD” at checkout (Must present student ID at door)

URBAN RAILS – An evening of music that will provide movement for the mind, body, spirit, and your favorite dancing shoes.

Experience an evening of authentic Americana and rootsy folk rock! The Hoppin’ Boxcars bring their unique blend of hobo music, blending traditional folk, bluegrass, and country influences into an unforgettable live performance at Philadelphia’s historic Rotunda. Opening the night is Jefferson Berry & the UAC with his distinctive Urban Folk sound.

A special dual billing of two amazing local bands!

Featured Artists

Get to Know the Headliners!

The Hoppin’ Boxcars have been on the scene for decades and are revising their infamous “Dust Bowl Opera”, featuring the multiple octave vocals of Matt Cicchetti and his partner in crime, Michael “Ziggy Dotman” Carlton. Expect guitars, banjoes, harmonicas, washboards, spoons, and more as we “Click It Tee Clack” down that ol’ railroad track!

Recommended listening: “I Got Shine” and “By The Light of The Moon”

Connect with The Hoppin’ Boxcars

Facebook: Official Band Page

Instagram: @thehoppinboxcars

Website: www.thehoppinboxcars.com

YouTube Channel: @hoppinboxcars4545

ReverbNation: Listen to 9 Original Songs

Featured Live Performances

“By The Light of The Moon” – The Fallser Club 2024

“The Railman” / “I Got Shine” – The Fallser Club 2024

61st Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival – Full Set

XFest 2022 at Country Creek Winery

Opening Act: Jefferson Berry & the UAC

Jefferson Berry & the UAC (formerly the Urban Acoustic Coalition), has been a staple of the local Phila Folksong Society for many years.

All Links: linktr.ee/jeffersonberry.uac

YouTube: youtube.com/JeffersonBerry

Spotify: Listen on Spotify

Facebook: Facebook Page

Bio

Jefferson Berry combines storytelling in the Urban Folk tradition with the intricacies of JamBand and Roots instrumentation. Berry’s lyrics are informed by his years in corporate media followed by a dozen years teaching African American History, Economics and Government to inner-city Philadelphia high school students. Symeer Woods (aka Lil Uzi Vert) and the late Rasheen Jones (aka Runup Rico) were among his students.

A cadre of unique players performs Jefferson’s songs: The Urban Acoustic Coalition. The virtuosity of Bud Burroughs and the harmonies of Theresa Ratliff anchor the band. While acoustic by nature, never missing is the locked-in bass/drums drive of Uncle Mike and Adam Stranburg. Complementing all this with a variety of guitar styles, Berry’s projects bring a danceable style and contemporary perspective to a unique wing of Philadelphia’s local music scene.

Harnessing legitimate uses of A.I., Jefferson’s music videos have been winning awards at film festivals as they support each album release. Twelve A.I. platforms are used to illustrate finished songs in a way that the technology is merely a tool directed by the song.

More info and tickets HERE