Posted on 13 December 2016 by WestPhillyLocal.com
Community members are invited to St. Francis de Sales Church (47th and Springfield) for a candlelight Christmas concert under the dome this Wednesday (Dec. 14). The church’s choir will preview pieces from their annual Midnight Mass carol service, and their lineup this year will showcase pieces by Vaughan-Williams, Victoria, Franck, Garau and others, as well as feature a carol sing-along.
The concert is free and open to the public, but donations are encouraged. All proceeds go toward restoration projects in the church building, which dates to 1907.
“Since the departure of the old pastor, there are a number of cultural and community events that SFDS is looking to relaunch,” writes SFDS sexton Michael Nevadomski. “Most of them are pretty Catholic, but we’re looking to start doing more regular concerts, the first of which is a candlelight Christmas concert by our very talented choir and organist on December 14.” Continue Reading
Posted on 01 December 2016 by Mike Lyons
Here’s a chance to do something kind during the holiday season for a person trying to get back into the workforce after being homeless, incarcerated, in rehabilitation or raising children.
The University City District (UCD) is collecting donations of professional apparel for men and women to benefit the awesome Philly non-profit Career Wardrobe. The clothing goes into one of Career Wardrobe’s boutique where it is provided at no cost to people transitioning into the workforce to help them make a good impression at an interview. Career Wardrobe also offers skills building services. During the past fiscal year, Career Wardrobe outfitted more than 3,000 men and women. Continue Reading
Posted on 23 August 2016 by Mike Lyons
As demand for housing and commercial development in parts of the city increases, historic buildings have come under threat of demolition. The University City Historical Society is holding an important public meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 24 to provide residents and community organizations with tools and information that will help them rally to preserve historic buildings.
The meeting, titled “The State of Preservation in West Philadelphia,” will include Martine Decamp of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission; Penn Professor Aaron Wunsch; Paul Steinke of the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia; and Greg Pastore, a former member of the Zoning Board of Adjustment.
Organizers hope the meeting will help people understand: Continue Reading
Posted on August 5, 2016 8:30 pm by IHP
Forgiving Chris Brown
dir. Marquette Jones Short Narrative United States, 2015,12 min.
PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE
Screens with How To Tell You’re a Douchebag Forgiving Chris Brown is a dark comedy short that follows the follies of “Rihanna”, “Halle”and “Tina”. The film, set in the picturesque landscapes of California–Joshua Tree and Malibu, follows these stylish girlfriends as they hope to heal their battered hearts the old-fashioned way–through revenge. The emotional baggage they carry ties them together and makes for some unorthodox fun. Add one tied-up and unrepentant man and the hot desert and watch them all sizzle on screen. Things take a gut-wrenching turn when Rihanna must decide once and for all what to do with her“Chris”.
How To Tell You’re A Douchebag
dir. Tahir Jetter Feature Narrative United States, 2016, 80 min.
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Preceded by Forgiving Chris Brown
A dark comedy about a misogynist who falls in love.
Marquette Jones and Tahir Jetter will be present for Q&A.
http://ihousephilly.org/
Posted on July 15, 2016 9:00 pm by IHP
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, Italy/France, 1970, DCP, 88 min., French w/ English subtitles
The cinematographer Renato Berta, a frequent collaborator of Straub and Huillet, presents the first film that the partners shot together in Italy (on the Palatine Hill of Rome), which was also the first they made in color. A faithful adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s Othon, the classic tragedy that premiered at the court of Louis XIV at Fontainebleau in 1664 and today is more hallowed than actually performed, Eyes Do Not Want to Close… depicts the power vacuum that followed Emperor Nero’s death. Against a crowd of obsequious and scheming pretenders to the throne, Corneille has Camille as his epic heroine, the mother of all conscientious objectors.
Othon juxtaposes the irreconcilable requirements of a drive for power with the urgencies of tragic love… By placing their film in ancient settings (the Palatine Hill, and later, the Villa Doria Pamphili) that are however surrounded by the sights and sounds of contemporary Rome (traffic is the background noise for the earlier parts of Othon; an unnaturally loud fountain for the later parts) Straub and Huillet have included themselves in the historical time scheme of considerable, multi-layered complexity – including, of course, 17th-century France (and the Rome of 17th-century France) as well as the ancient and modern worlds. Straub himself plays the role of Lacus.]
TICKETS: http://ihousephilly.org/calendar/eyes-do-not-want-to-close-at-all-times-or-perhaps-one-day-rome-will-permit-herself-to-choose-in-her-turn
Posted on 21 April 2016 by WestPhillyLocal.com
Many of you have heard about Neighborhood Bike Works, the West Philly non-profit that offers bike education programs to local youth. The organization recently partnered with theVillage’s foster care program to present 20 new bikes to local foster children (the bikes were donated by AmerisourceBergen).
NBW youth leaders also conducted a workshop with the group of children, ages 6 – 12 years, to teach them about bike safety, personal safety and basic rules of the road through a “Safety Rodeo” obstacle course. Each child left the workshop with a bicycle, helmet, bike lock, and the necessary safety skills to experience the joys of cycling– something they might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience as they transition through the foster care system on their path to find their “forever home.” Continue Reading
Community members are invited to St. Francis de Sales Church (47th and Springfield) for a candlelight Christmas concert under the dome this Wednesday (Dec. 14). The church’s choir will preview pieces from their annual Midnight Mass carol service, and their lineup this year will showcase pieces by Vaughan-Williams, Victoria, Franck, Garau and others, as well as feature a carol sing-along.
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