Bob Bruhin

CFF: UNEDITED PHILADELPHIA – ARCHIVAL NEWS FOOTAGE FROM TEMPLE U.’S LIBRARIES

Public · By Cinedelphia Film Festival

Today

6:00pm

THE CINEDELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL presents

FREE EVENT!

Saturday, April 20, 2013, 6:00 PM

Unedited Philadelphia:

Archival News Footage from Temple U.’s Libraries

Temple University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center presents selections from the Urban Archives collection. Footage spans the late 1940s through early 1980s and highlights the last year of preservation work, research requests, and digitization as part of our Civil Rights in a Northern City web portal. Selections are a mix of unedited news footage and produced public affairs documentaries that offer glimpses of both exceptional and everyday moments in the Philadelphia region’s history.

Temple University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center holds rare and archival materials documenting the history of the university and the region. We share the content to stimulate, enrich, and support research, teaching, and learning and to engage with the larger community of scholars and the general public. Established in 1967, our Urban Archives documents the development of an urban region through a wide variety of organization records including local businesses such as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and nonprofits and community organizations including the Friends Neighborhood Guild and the Housing Association of Delaware Valley. The millions of clippings and images from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Daily News as well as scores of other images collections provide a comprehensive view of life in our region. Here we feature our extensive holdings of local TV newsreel footage from KYW and WPVI which add to our rich record of the social, economic, political, cultural, civic, and physical development of Philadelphia.

The Cinedelphia Film Festival is a Philly-centric celebration of Philly film running from April 4-27, 2013.

http://www.cinedelphiafilmfestival.com/ 

(via CFF: UNEDITED PHILADELPHIA – ARCHIVAL NEWS FOOTAGE FROM TEMPLE U.’S LIBRARIES)

Bob Bruhin

SKATE SHOP: Nin Truong and Youth Arts Workshop

Public · By Asian Arts Initiative

Friday, June 14, 2013

6:00pm

Skate Shop: Nin Truong and Youth Arts Workshop

A Storefront Window Exhibition in partnership with WKND Studio 

Exhibition Dates: June 14 – September 27, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, June 14, 6 p.m.

Asian Arts Initiative is proud to welcome Seattle-based multi-disciplinary designer and artist Nin Truong to develop and create Skate Shop, a youth-generated pop-up skate shop in the storefront window of our Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) space in the middle of the 1200 block of Vine Street in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North/Callowhill neighborhood. YAW’s space, a former hair salon appropriately named “The Salon” since becoming an integral part of AAI’s new permanent home and multi-tenant arts facility on Vine Street, offers an interesting opportunity to address the intersections of urban history and youth access, as well as the dynamism and challenges of the Vine Street Expressway in its front yard – a formerly pedestrian-friendly corridor now split in two by Interstate 676.

Beginning April, 2013 Truong will collaborate with Asian Arts Initiative staff and local teaching artist Nicole Schaller to lead a youth workshop as part of our Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) – a tuition-free afterschool arts program for youth grades 6-8. Youth participants will be invited to design their own skateboards, stickers, t-shirts and ultimately, a “mock skate shop” which will fill the storefront window of “The Salon.” Youth will explore “creative economies” through art and design, print-making, skate culture and aesthetics through field trips and 2-D and 3-D build workshops.

Skate Shop is supported in part through support from the National Performance Network’s Visual Artists Network.

(via SKATE SHOP: Nin Truong and Youth Arts Workshop)

Bob Bruhin
CFF: DANGER AFTER DARK, A Retrospective

THE CINEDELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL presents

Friday, April 19, 2013, 10:00 PM
DANGER AFTER DARK: A RETROSPECTIVE

When I started Danger After Dark in the Philadelphia Film Festival (then still named the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema) back in 2001, I had no idea if the concept would really connect with audiences  I remember walking to a Ritz theater for our first screening, the Japanese classic FEMALE CONVICT SCORPION: JAILHOUSE 41, and expecting to find a dozen or so friends only to see a packed, sold-out house filled with the type of adventurous, enthused cinephiles that have continued to make up the core DAD audience over time.  Throughout those dozen years, the program has seen highs:  SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE gave Park Chan-wook one of his first U.S. festival awards during its premiere here, we’ve bestowed tributes on Alex de la Iglesia and Tobe Hooper, held retrospective screenings on everything from Shaw Bros. martial arts classics to lost Catherine Breillat films and collections of silent French porn reels towell, GONE WITH THE POPE.  And there have been lows too:  for example, if you’ve ever put on 3D glasses before a screening, then please grade those films’ artistic merits on a curve.  The last few years have been rocky ones  I was not involved with Danger After Dark in 2008 and ‘09 while the two film societies and festivals experienced their division, and when I returned to program in ‘10 and ‘11, the series was shifted to July to function alongside that season’s QFest instead.  Last year, Danger After Dark had to take a complete hiatus while I worked to help establish the new, Philly-based distributor Artsploitation Films, but this summer, the program will be returningin a new, expanded form that will also serve as a taste of even greater things to come next year.  So, if you’ve appreciated this series in years past, please join us for a look back at a dozen years of Danger After Dark, its ups and downs, and enjoy a secret film that represents the program at its wildest.  While we won’t reveal the surprise film in advance, I’ll tell you that it was one of my favorite films I ever programmed, and that it also never received any sort of U.S. release (theatrical or video) after we screened it that year.  So begin guessing! — Travis Crawford

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: DANGER AFTER DARK, A Retrospective)