News:
Coming attractions:
May 11 - Save the date
for a special Mother's Day klezmer concert. Drummer Elaine Hoffman Watts and her daughter, trumpeter and vocalist Susan Watts, headline a special PFP concert presenting the distinctive Ukrainian-Jewish klezmer repertoire of the Hoffman family. The amazing Watts women will be joined by guest musicians, among them, descendants of three of the most prominent Philadelphia klezmer families, playing arrangements from folios of music scored by Joseph Hoffman (c. 1910) and newly arranged by Susan Watts. Read more >>
Stay tuned! WHYY-TV 12 is broadcasting our video postcard "We play klezmer" featuring Elaine and Susan Watts. (Or watch it here, on-line at your convenience. Click the green box to the right.)
 In memorium. We are deeply sorry to share the sad news of the passing of two great Philadelphia performers. Veteran tap dancer and teacher LaVaughn Robinson passed on January 22, 2008. His contribution, over a lifetime, to articulating an elegant close-to-the-floor style Philadelphia tap, has been truly great.  Hortense Allen Jordan - dancer, producer, direcstor - passed on March 15, 2008. She was the first woman to put an African American chorus line on Broadway - one of many accomplishments. Both will be missed.
Congratulations. We're pleased to announce that participants in PFP's technical assistance programs have recently received prestigious and well-deserved awards. Congratulations to Dorothy Wilkie of Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble, klezmer musician Elaine Watts, percussionist Nana Korantemaa Ayeboafo and needlework artist Christina Johnson for being named Leeway Transformation award winners. Also congratulations to
Dottie Wilkie for receiving a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in dance, and to Elaine Watts, for being named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts. (Read more about Dottie and Elaine's recognition.)
PFP's membership drive is ON! Become a member and support local cultural heritage! Help us turn 21! We invite your help: join here.
Email us to receive our winter 2008 calendar with exhibition and program information, a calendar of our technical assistance workshops, artist / scholar salons and and more.
Recent awards
"Passing the Torch and Building Legacies" award, "in recognition of commitment and dedication to African rooted dance, arts and culture," from Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble (2007)
David Cohen Award from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (2006)
David P. Richardson Community Service Award from ODUNDE (2005).
Skipping Stones Magazine's 2005 Best Multicultural Children's Books, Walking on Solid Ground.
New initiatives
Folk Arts and Cultural Treasures (FACTS), a new K-5 charter school, organized by Asian Americans United in association with the Philadelphia Folklore Project, opened in a new building for our third year, this fall 2007.» more
|
 |
Programs:
 Exhibition: All that we do: contemporary women, traditional arts is a new show of documentary photographs by James Wasserman, sharing glimpses of the everyday lives of local traditional artists: women, mothers, daughters, artists, neighbors, working people. Read more >>
Exhibition: If these walls could talk: the William and Miriam Crawford dining room is an installation of the actual dining room collage assembled over 40 years by these local activists: a work of living (and alternative) history on permanent display at PFP.  In their Experience series, WHYY is broadcasting a brief piece about Bill and Miriam Crawford's dining room.
Recent Resources
Browse our videos (to the right)!
Thoughts on the digital divide, and how it impacts folk and traditional artists. Part of our planning. » more.
Thoughts on
equity in arts education (also printed in the new issue of Public School Notebook).
Free download: our 20th anniversary magazine: Works in Progress (Winter 2006) with essays on cultural heritage and local folk arts.
Documentary: Plenty of Good Women Dancers: African American Women Hoofers from Philadelphia tell their version of dance history.
Documentary: I choose to stay here, local residents describe their fight to stop city "takings" of homes - the downside of "urban development."
Documentary: Look forward and carry on the past: stories from Chinatown, is a PFP/Asian Americans United documentary about struggles for self-determination (and against land grabs) in Philly's Chinatown.
|
