ERASERHOOD

We’re preparing our Inch by Inch Garden so children in AAU’s Summer Program and in FACT Charter School can help green their environment and in the process learn important lessons about nature and growing things.

On Saturday, May 4, we will haul wood chips, rebuild part of a wall, dig up some old raised beds, weed, mix dirt, and plant some seeds. It’s a chance to work side by side with other AAUers (including our Chinese Youth Organizing Project) to make positive change. RSVP to [email protected]. — with Ellen Somekawa, Wei Chen, Xu Lin, Lai Har Cheung, Betty Lui, Maxine J Chang, Alice Vuong, Masaru Edmund Nakawatase, Mia-lia B Kiernan and Helen Gym.

(via Asian Americans United)

HOT TEA Opening Event
11th and Wood Streets

Learn about upcoming HOT TEA events in Chinatown North/Callowhill throughout Spring and Summer 2013 at http://hotteacart.tumblr.com/

 

HOT TEA is a project by Laura Deutch, Katya Gorker, Kathryn Sclavi and Lee Tusman

(via Asian Arts Initiative’s Social Practice Lab)

We sampled three pizzas and three appetizers and were quite impressed with the food.  It is definitely a recommended venue in center city.  It is also a good BYOB for all of you BYOB aficionados.

(via And Angus Was All Like / iAngus: Bufad Pizza (Spring Garden, Philadelphia))

CFF: THE LOST MAN (1969) Special Rare Screening

THE CINEDELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL presents

Friday, April 26, 2013, 7:30 PM
THE LOST MAN (1969)
Rare screening of this Philly-shot film with an introduction by Irv Slifkin.

Sidney Poitier, wearing sunglasses with a dour look on his face, stars in this reworking of Carol Reed’s classic Irish Republican Army thriller Odd Man Out.  Here Poitier is Jason Higgs (sounds a little like Tibbs from In the Heat of the Night, doesn’t it?), a cool-as-a-cucumber black revolutionary, who tries to swipe $200,000 from the payroll of a factory reputedly owned by racists.  The heist goes bad when a cop and Higgs are shot, forcing Higgs to try to elude the fuzz in the wilds of North Philly.  In support of his cause are a former partner (Al Freeman, Jr.) and a white widowed social worker (Joanna Shimkus, soon-to-be Mrs. Poitier).  While dodging the law amidst burned-out houses, abandoned cars, unruly foliage, and an ugly rural landscape close to Temple University, it’s revealed that Higgs, in fact, really wants the money to go to the kids of black revolutionaries in prison.

A valuable peek at Philadelphia’s urban blight in the late 1960s, THE LOST MAN is a must-see Philly film.

Advance tix are $10, no refunds or exchanges.

The Cinedelphia Film Festival is a Philly-centric celebration of Philly film running from April 4-27, 2013.
http://www.cinedelphiafilmfestival.com

(via CFF: THE LOST MAN (1969) Special Rare Screening)

Cerulean Arts’ Objet of the Day:
Green glazed flower pot 
7″ x 9″, $32

(via Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio)

(( (the) Melvins ))

tickets on-sale Friday…

(via Underground Arts)

The real honey locusts have a certain feature to them, a characteristic trait that would make them the perfect Hallowe’en tree…the kind of tree that belongs in a Poe story.

I know where such a honey locust stand exists…and it’s not far at all from the Poe house on 8th and Spring Garden.

I decided to walk there…and, while I was headed there anyway, I decided to wend my way through the surrounding neighborhood….this neighborhood between 8th Street and Broad Street, between Spring Garden and the Vine Street Expressway.

What’s this neighborhood called?  It’s sometimes called the Loft District.  Sometimes you’ll see it called North Chinatown.  Most of the time, it’s just called Callowhill, named after Callowhill Street, which itself is named after William Penn’s second wife, Hannah Callowhill.

But I prefer its new name.

(Full article at: PHILLY TREES: ERASERHOOD)