APRIL 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM

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APRIL 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM +

Note: Procession begins at Freedom Greens + Garden (5200 Pine St), proceeds down 52nd Street, and finishes at Painted Bride (5212 Market St).

Learn more on the Painted Bride Art Center website.

Schedule

• 1:00 – 1:20pm: Event begins at Freedom Greens + Garden (5200 Pine St, in front of the school and across from Malcolm X Park) – Garden Storytelling with Tchin

• 1:20pm – 2:30pm: Procession down 52nd Street, finishes at Painted Bride (5212 Market St)

• 2:30 – 3:30pm: Neighborhood clean-up with Ya Fave Trashman

• 2:30 – 4:00pm: Dance party, performances, and chair massages at the Bride

Lenape Sippu: Call Her By Her Name is a window display, soundscape, and performance that will take place in and around the West Philly neighborhood surrounding Painted Bride. On Saturday, April 20, 2024 the window display will be the backdrop for a performance that will take place in the neighborhood surrounding 52nd Street SEPTA station and Painted Bride. Dancers, line drummers, musicians, storytellers, and performance artists will process to the Painted Bride space where they will be met with music, a dance party, free chair massages, and performances.

This piece will shed light on histories of Black and Indigenous communities who have lived and worked on the southern portion of the Delaware River. Delaware River is a colonial naming of this river and Lenape Sippu is the name of this river.