March features our monthly Happy Hour plus fun and games at RAIL PARK QUIZZO! Enjoy some cocktails and show off your trivia skills! Quizzo categories are Railroads, Parks and Trains in Pop Culture. Build The Rail Park Happy Hour is FREE. Please kindly REGISTER. To sign up for Quizzo, please also kindly REGISTER.  You don’t have to play Quizzo to support The Rail Park. Come and visit with friends, have a drink or two, and 20% of all Happy Hour sales are donated to Phase 1 construction.  GET ON BOARD! In October 2016, the Center City District (CCD) broke ground on Phase 1 of The Rail Park. Stretching from Broad Street at Noble to Callowhill between 11th and 12th Streets, this historic quarter mile will soon become our city’s newest elevated public park, with a distinctive design that celebrates our industrial past and cultural heritage. As the excitement builds, join us on the first Wednesday of every month from 5PM-8PM as we grow awareness of the project and raise funds to close a $700,000 funding gap for Phase 1 construction. 20% of all sales from each monthly Build the Rail Park Happy Hour, hosted at The Trestle Inn, will go directly to support construction. The March 1st event features: $7 Ryed The Rails Cocktail Happy Hour Specials and RAIL PARK QUIZZO! So grab some friends and get on board!

Source: Build The Rail Park Happy Hour Tickets, Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite

Deadline: Monday, February 27

A call for submissions! Asian Arts Initiative invites artists of all forms – performance, visual, theatrical, media, and musical – to take on the role of artist, designer, curator, and/or organizer and work with Asian Arts Initiative!

In 2013, Asian Arts Initiative initiated the Pearl Street Project (more information here), which seeks to transform the Pearl Street alley into a vibrant cultural space that celebrates and connects the diverse constituents in our neighborhood and beyond. At the same time, Asian Arts Initiative launched its Social Practice Lab artist-in-residency program (more information here), which provides artists the opportunity to embed themselves in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North, anchored on Pearl Street, to effect positive change through art within this highly diverse, rapidly changing community.

Please select from one of the following tracks:

PEARL STREET MICRO-PROJECTS

We are seeking project proposals that will transform the Pearl Street alleyway into a more vibrant cultural space that celebrates and connects the diverse constituents of the Chinatown North neighborhood. The micro-project can range from a single performance piece, an outdoor exhibit, a nighttime art installation, and anything between and/or beyond so long as it takes place on the 1100 and/or 1200 Blocks of Pearl Street.

We have a preference for projects that will take place during the late spring through early fall. Asian Arts Initiative can provide anywhere from $100 to $1,000 to cover all project expenses.

SOCIAL PRACTICE LAB

We are seeking artists that will embed themselves with Asian Arts Initiative’s staff and programs, as well as the Chinatown and Chinatown North neighborhood, to push the boundaries of their community and social practices, and the knowledge base of our own programs and neighborhood. We ask that that artists in this self-directed residency be productive, without necessarily producing a work. Instead, we ask that the artist commit to a minimum of 150 hours over a period of 5 weeks to 5 months (with the option of extending the residency as needed) being on site, participating in staff meetings, attending Asian Arts’ programs, and conducting self-directed research. Additionally, artists are expected to generate or participate in at least two Pearl Street micro-projects each month of their residency.

The residency will run during Spring-Summer of 2017. Asian Arts Initiative will provide a $5,000 artist honorarium, and a budget for any project production expenses. A portion of the production budget will be made available for discretionary spending, with a larger portion made available by project proposal. Exhibition and/or work space is also available in the Pearl Street Gallery.

Interested? Please apply by Monday, February 27, 2017

Source: 2017 CALL FOR ARTIST SUBMISSIONS — Asian Arts Initiative