Scribe Video Center’s Street Movies! program returns this month for its 20th season with free outdoor film screenings and live performances. All events are family-friendly and take place in neighborhoods across Philadelphia, including in West Philly.

Scribe Video Center partners with local organizations for Street Movies! to guide the selection process and choose the best film programs for their communities. This August, the traveling series will feature a range of short films, from internationally recognized award-winning fiction, documentary, and animation to local community- and youth-produced works. 

Live performances will feature some of our region’s most talented artists, such as world renown poet and recording artist Ursula Rucker, groundbreaking bomba and plena group Los Bomberos De La Calle, Afro-Cuban new wave ensemble Sonic Liberation 8, Hip Hop Fundamentals, and more.

Live performances start between 7:45 and 8:00 p.m. with the screenings starting when the sun goes down at 8:30 p.m.

The program kicked off on August 2 in Chester, PA. The West Philly show with Hip Hop Fundamentals will take place on Saturday, Aug. 12, at Malcolm X Park (rain location: Scribe Video Center, 4035 Walnut St.). Here are more details about the remaining shows:

Thursday, August 10, 7:45 p.m.
SOUTH PHILLY
Hosts: Friends of Mifflin Square Park & SEAMAAC
Location: Mifflin Square Park – 6th & Ritner Streets
Rain Date: Thursday, August 17
Opening Performance: CAGE

Friday, August 11, 7:45 p.m.
NORTH PHILLY
Hosts: Uptown Entertainment & Development Corporation &
African American United Fund
Location: Baba Yaya’s Garden – 2229 N. Broad Street
Rain Location: 2227 N. Broad Street
Opening Performance: Ursula Rucker

Saturday August 12, 7:45 p.m.
WEST PHILLY
Host: Friends of Malcolm X Park & WPEB 88.1FM
Location: Malcolm X Park – 52nd & Pine Streets
Rain Location: Scribe Video Center
Opening Performance: Hip Hop Fundamentals

Friday, August 18, 7:45 p.m.
WEST KENSINGTON
Hosts: Norris Square Neighborhood Project
Location: Las Parcelas Garden
Rain Location: NSNP Building – 2141 N. Howard Street
Opening Performance: Los Bomberos de la Calle

Thursday, August 24, 7:45 p.m.
TACONY
Hosts: Tacony Civic Association & Historical Society of Tacony
Location: Disston Recreation Center – 4423 Longshore Avenue
Rain Location: Disston Recreation Center

Saturday, August 26, 7:45 p.m.
GERMANTOWN
Hosts: Kelly Green Project
Location: Kelly Green – 5116 Pulaski Avenue
Rain Location: John B. Kelly School – 5116 Pulaski Avenue
Opening Performance: M. Nzadi Keita

For more information, visit the Scribe Video Center website.