The Philadelphia Thing

TODAY! At Poetic Societies/Ava Ansari's How to Make a Bouquet in a Voting Box?, guests will be received one by one, and work with Ansari to draft a personal body contract for themselves around the act of voting. Working from a space of delicacy, using flowers and the body, and rooted in multiple body-mind modalities, including Iyengar yoga, viewpoints, Suzuki, and Persian poetry, trance, and dance. Appointments will last up to 45 minutes, enough time to ground the body, do breathing practice, and create enough foundation to do the expressive writing. The act of voting is deeply personal and touch-based, and therefore rooted in poetic legalities and personal and collective body contracts.

Make an appointment via: https://loom.ly/QoFIBQk

HAPPY TRADE SCHOOL! We're so excited to launch Trade School: PHL + Detroit today, and hope that you'll join us this week for amazing, groundbreaking new work from Emily Bate, Ahya Simone and Propelled Animals. If you're joining us tonight, feel free to meet up PHS Pop-Up Garden South Street for our opening night after-show hang!
Tickets for all shows still remain at: https://philadelphiathing.org/Festival

Working across myriad disciplines, Ahya Simone is a Detroit-based artist, performer, filmmaker, and harpist. Simone’s many pronged practice is bound by an exploration of Black identity, aesthetic, and community building.

IRIDESCENCE is a live-scored abstract short film around revealing one’s self and autonomy of storytelling. "Using my body as a main visual subject, I explore my universe of interests – visually and sonically. I am always fascinated with time, clocks, and astrological natal chart geometry as symbols of measurement of existence. This work is a visual representation and celebration of my body in the midst of dysphoria, the beauty of time in cycles (astrology)."

Tickets here: https://loom.ly/Q0QyZ-Q