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Here's a handful of history, language, and healing through movement

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This week, the Scribe Video Center hosts its North Philadelphia History Festival, celebrating and remembering particularly North Philly's Black and Puerto Rican communities and the landmarks and streets they used to make space. From the Uptown Theater to the Tanner House, there are many places to honor on that side of the city. Then, PHILADANCO! dances its 55 years with Founder's Day, and Lumazen Yoga and ADSS team up to bring you Language N' Motion, which blends creative expression and experimenting with accessible yoga.

Kyle V. Hiller
BSR associate editor

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PHILADANCO!'s Founder's Day puts Philly Black dancers in the spotlight. (Photo courtesy of PHILADANCO!.)

Dancing for connection

Camille Bacon-Smith

PHILADANCO! celebrates 55 years on its annual Founder’s Day with a day spotlighting Philly’s Black dance community. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.

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A photo from a 1940s block party. (Photo courtesy of John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries.)

History’s crossroads

Erin Dohony

Scribe Video Center hosts a festival looking at the history of various landmarks in North Philadelphia, honoring its Black and Puerto Rican communities. Erin Dohony previews.

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Tima Ozen of Lumazen Yoga and Armstead Dickerson of ADSS will collaborate to bring an interactive yoga and poetry experience to Clark Park. (Photo by Lumazen Yoga and ADSS.)

Connecting through art and yoga

Dara McBride

Through Language n’ Motion artistic collaboration, the yoga mat becomes space for both movement and written poetic expression. Dara McBride previews.

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'LIFE AFTER' tells the story of Elizabeth Bouvia. (Image courtesy of LA Times.)

I Think It Could Work, Relaunching Mars, and LIFE AFTER

Kyle V. Hiller

Rounding up the last week of July with documentary film LIFE AFTER, music from Opera Philadelphia on the Parkway, a pair of events at FringeArts, and a chance to run away to Mars. Kyle V. Hiller previews.

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1888’s The Smoker (Le Fumeur), by Vincent van Gogh, in view at the Barnes. (Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.)

Putting French artists in their place

Pamela J. Forsythe

With several Barnes galleries closed for refinishing, some of the museum’s 19th- and 20th-century masterpieces get a new configuration in From Paris to Provence: French Painting at the Barnes. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

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Writers and artists lead America’s nonviolent fight for justice.

Cass Lewis

The Trump administration is trying to rewrite reality and history. Cass Lewis says we’re not going to let them if writers and artists have anything to say about it.

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‘Duet For One’ by Martha Anne Toll. (Image courtesy of Martha Anne Toll.)

A book retracing hometown memories

Margaret Hutton

Duet For One by Martha Anne Toll tells a personal Philadelphia music story. Margaret Hutton profiles.

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