2022 Everyday Future Fest Block Party
Each year, The Everyday Futures Fest culminates in a Block Party on the 700 block of Catharine St. in South Philly. DVAA and our partnering organizations and artists celebrate the end of the festival by hosting temporary installations, performances and interactive experiences.
Block Party Navigation:
2022 Featured Artists and Immersive workshops
Andrea Krupp
Andrea Krupp will be leading an ephemeral sidewalk drawing using anthracite in multiple fashions. This project aims to help the public find new ways to think about coal other than as a dirty fuel, reframing it as a historical source of black pigment, and as a precious carbon rich material that is aesthetic and charismatic. Thinking about coal in other ways helps us imagine a post-carbon fuel world.
Paying attention to Earths materials helps us to connect to nature, and see the impacts of extraction on other lives and other ecosystems.
Philly City Repair Project
Hosting a design charrette from 2pm-4pm that will feature different community-designed beautification projects that will get installed at the 4th Annual Philly Village Building Convergence in May. Participating community gardens and green spaces will share their stories, visions, dreams, and concerns for their sites. We will also encourage attendees to dream and think about how they would reclaim their streets and neighborhoods if they could be the ones to design it.
Laura Deutch
Exploring the concept of rituals in community with others opens up ways to think about passing on values of sustainability, and sustaining that which we hold sacred.
Laura will be facilitating multiple workshops and activities helping participants explore and develop rituals in their lives.
Patricia Moss-Vreeland + Monell Chemical Senses Center
Patricia Moss-Vreeland and Monell Chemical Senses Center have teamed up to conduct workshop relating to taste, smell, and memory in human health and disease.
Mackenzie Williams
1-3pm
Group walk to Bel Arbor: 1pm & 3pm.
“After a year of loss, I would like to invite the community to answer a question that grief has put on my heart. What do we do with the love we still have left in our hearts?”
Mackenzie will facilitate a compostable art workshop, of which the resulting artwork will be released to the earth at the end of the block party.
sunshine
“I am an artist who's creative practice is rooted in togetherness and the celebration of collectivity through creation. I facilitate space for communal making, as an act of resistance to defy individualistic and divisive culture. Through collaborative art, we can deeply feel honesty, compromise, resilience, healing, and the truth of our own unique gifts contributing to a thriving collective.”
sunshine will be assisting with a collaborative sustainable art workshop run by W.B. Saul students, as well as leading a collaborative poetry workshop and poetry reading (6pm on the stage) at the block party.
African American Museum of Philadelphia
We invite you to join us for two fun children's program called "Children are the Seeds"!
2022 Tabling Programs and Displays
Rabbit Recycling
Bringing information materials that raise awareness about their business, and how we work to keep hard-to-recycling materials out of landfills, as well as upcoming events and how the public can get involved!
Monument Lab
Monument Lab collaborates with the public to make generational change in the ways art and history live in public. They will be presenting an activity centered on monument creation.
Spruce Hollow Designs
Sharing information about working in harmony with Nature.
NextFab
Nextfab will be answering questions and sharing info about their organization!
Iffy Books
A representative from Iffy books will be tabling and selling their 2022 zine’s centered on gardening, free culture, and hacking.
PhotoLounge
PhotoLounge is a local photo lab celebrating 25 years of printing, processing films, and preserving and digitizing analog memories for local families.
They will be answering questions that families have about pictures and memories, from the very technical to the aspirational.
Fleisher Art Memorial
Fleisher will be sharing information on their organization, and will host DVAA for the Art Market in their History Sanctuary.
We Are the Seeds
Amplifying Indigenous voices through the arts.
Catch Tchin presenting the Magic of Storytelling on the block party stage from 1-1:45pm.
Gigi McGraw
“I believe social practice artistry is a powerful way to push art beyond the mere aesthetics into a vehicle for change."
Gigi McGraw is a performance artist and cultural preservationist who will be tabling her latest exhibition pieces, as well as performing The Thing About Philly—a reading will use humor, history, and personal anecdotes to talk about local Philadelphia venues, events, or people that are no longer around, but the stories should be remembered, known, and preserved.
Taller Puertorriqueño
Taller Puertorriqueño uses art to promote development within its community and the Latino Diaspora and build bridges to the Greater Philadelphia region.
University City Arts League
The culmination of their collaborative 4-week free public workshop series from throughout the month will be displayed at the Block Party.
PlayArts
In addition to our sensory and art bins table for children, we will host on the stage:
Music Class 3pm-3:30pm on the stage, ages 5 and under, this is a class for babies and toddlers.
Sophon
We are a small design team working to bring human centered design to the built environment and make cities better serve the people that live in them. From enhancing bicycle infrastructure to art spaces we hope to drive change in the way we think about how we interact with our environment.
Seen Heard Connected
Artist Mickayel Thurin will be sharing information about her organization that helps marginalized individuals connect with their community, and helping the public develop deeper compassion through art.
Equally Informed Philly
Equally Informed is an initiative from that bridges the digital divide through an English and Spanish community-powered print newsletter and free Q&A text line service (Text "Equal Info" to 73224 to get started!)
They will be sharing info about their newsletters and how to get involved.
Circle Compost
Circle compost will be partnering with Mackenzie Williams to help compost her art through a workshop taking place at the Block Party.
University City Science Center
Sharing information about our Building an Understanding of Lab Basics (BULB) workforce program. We will have mini hands on activities for young people and Science Center "give aways" for adults who sign up for communication purposes..
2022 Sustainability Art Market
Vending at the Art Market inside Fleisher Art Memorial’s Sanctuary:
The Rounds
Through our closed loop, two-way delivery logistics, we are able to reduce unnecessary waste and reuse materials that are already in existence. The convenience of our service makes it so that everyday sustainable choices can be effortless, for greener neighborhoods & happier neighbors.
Shop Maggie Mays
Shop Maggie Mays is a collection of vintage and reworked vintage inspired by all things western.
Marcie Ziskind
Felted vessels, "nuno" scarves (wool and silk), handbags and Sticks and Stones from her recent solo exhibit.
Allegra Pronesti
My brand’s mission is to make trans folks feel valid in their gender identity and in turn sustain trans happiness
Anna Claire Canova
My work takes a look at the many ways in which just regular neighbors across Philly creatively (and sustainably) grow food. Wandering the streets and painting little moments, my work strives to capture glimpses of green peaking through the concrete, the efforts of individuals to work with what they've got to grow.
Gloria Klaiman
Small art, reworked collage.
Good Buy Supply
Good Buy Supply is Philadelphia's first retail shop dedicated to low-waste and plastic-free alternatives for everyday life. Located on East Passyunk Avenue, we boast a large selection of wares to live more environmentally friendly including bulk soaps, home goods, and more!
Second State Press
Selling prints and demoing the process!
Town House Alley
Owned and operated by Philly-based artist Jules Marble, Town House Alley provides an evolving selection of handcrafted products including re-loved clothing, original art, natural wax candles, and small batch roasted coffee with a focus on sustainability.
Connie Toll
Fresh flower petals, autumn leaves, and ivy transformed into new floral motifs on note cards, which are blank inside, and also are worthy of being framed!.
Sadie Francis
My work is both an exploration and a meditation of wild nature, and human conceptualization of what wild nature is; I immortalize seeds of invasive plants, putting them in a different context: I pull apart flowers and reconstruct their parts in a new anatomy..
Andromeda Cook
Drawings, collage.
Doriana Diaz
Collage.
On Stage
12:45pm-1:00pm
Colleen Farwell reading I Will Carry You
'I Will Carry You' reflects on the deepest love a mother has for her child. Beautifully written and produced with stunning illustrations, the message of the continuing bond between mom and child is extraordinarily powerful. 'I Will Carry You' takes the reader on a sweet profound journey and resonates with adults and children alike. Recognizing the beauty of contemporary Indigenous art, Colleen Farwell publishing has committed to a collaborative partnership initiative with Native American artists Loren Aragon (ACONAV), Sylvia Farwell, Summer Peters, Katy Isennock & Johnson Taylor, and Tchin.
3:00-3:30pm
PlayArts presents Family Music Class
Aimed for children ages 5 and under, but all are welcome!
Help your child experience the foundations of music education by moving, singing and playing together. Concepts such as tempo, dynamics, rhythm, and pitch exploration are introduced through age appropriate songs, instruments, nursery rhymes, children's literature, interactive games, and dances
5:00pm-5:15pm
Fashion Walk: Allegra Pronesti
Allegra Pronesti fashion line strives to blur the lines between the binary gender expression in the fashion world.
6:00pm-6:30pm
sunshine
Poetry reading showcasing the collaborative poems created throughout the course of the block party between them and visitors.
1:00pm-1:45pm
Tchin: The Magic of Storytelling
Tchin, a part of We Are The Seeds, is a nationally known artist and educator of arts and culture. Through the art of oral tradition, he tells stories portraying the creation of the world and how things came to be.
In his energizing presentation, Tchin addresses important topics including: cultural diversity, music appreciation, and environmental consciousness.
These stories have been passed down through generations. Tchin brings the stories alive with his gift of magic. As part of this program, Tchin will perform and explain the seldom seen or heard courting flute.
4:00pm-4:30pm
Community Empowerment fashion preview
by Taller Puertorriqueño students
5:30pm-6:00pm
Gigi McGraw presents The Thing About Philly
This reading will use humor, history, and personal anecdotes to talk about local Philadelphia venues, events, or people that are no longer around, but the stories should be remembered, known, and preserved. WOW! (What Once Was) will address the intangible assets of sustainability.