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Sisters in Freedom

Sam Katz’s History Making Productions launches Womens History Month with a look at a little-known story about female abolitionists

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Artist Bash

The Barnes Foundation’s first Artist Bash of 2019 explores the idea of “home”

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The War Against Community

What David Adelman’s new Holocaust Memorial can tell us about last week’s horrors in Pittsburgh

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Digitizing Days at William Way

Time to dig out those old photos, posters, and trinkets to help build Philly’s largest LGBT+ archive.

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Give Us Our Crowns

High schoolers from around the city answered the call for solutions to Philly’s problems. One team takes their project—to halt the schools to prison pipeline—to Aspen

By Jamie Bogert
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Pedal to Porch

The Detroit group tempers the effects of gentrification by connecting newer and older residents through the power of storytelling

By Jill Harkins

A New Twist on Salvation

A design project seeks to save threatened religious spaces by reimagining their use as community hubs—for neighbors new and old

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Mission Story Slam

This time around, the B Corps-hosted event focuses on an issue pertinent to our day: saving democracy

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Sep

27

EVENT:

Las Voces de Maria Opening Gallery

Thursday, Sep 27, 2018
6:00 pm

at The Kelly Writer's House

Join The Citizen to celebrate the launch of the Las Voces de María gallery at the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House.