Yoga instructor and Mariposa Food Co-op member Michal Waldfogel will be teaching a donation Vinyasa yoga class at Wake Up Yoga (4916 Baltimore Ave) to raise funds for the Mariposa Co-op expansion. The class will be held on Saturday, March 31, 1-2:30 p.m. Bring a monetary donation, or sign up on this afternoon to become a member of Mariposa. No pre-registration is required.
This is an open level vinyasa class, appropriate for all levels of practitioners. For more information on the class, visit this page. To read more about the Mariposa Expansion Project, click here.
Here’s one delicious way to help stray cats and kittens in West Philadelphia. City Kitties, a local non-profit volunteer-run feline rescue organization, are bringing back their favorite fundraising event – Cooking with Cat Ladies. The event will take place the evening of Saturday, March 10, at a volunteer’s home.
The hostess, who is an extraordinary cook, will prepare a mouth-watering five-course feast for the event guests. A $50 ticket purchase reserves your seat at the table, where you will enjoy the dinner and the company of other City Kitties volunteers and cat lovers. The menu is not yet finalized, but it will be vegetarian with vegan and gluten-free options.
Seats are limited and City Kitties would like to fill up the table by this Thursday, March 1, so don’t delay in purchasing your ticket. To check out the menu and to reserve your seat, visit this page.
Where does the food we eat come from? Two 11-year-olds are trying to find the answer to this question in a provocative and witty documentary about kids and food politics. What’s On Your Plate? is screening tonight at 6:30 p.m. at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street). Two girls, Sadie and Safiyah, take a close look at food systems in New York City and its surrounding areas. With the camera as their companion, the kids visit supermarkets, fast food chains, school lunchrooms and talk to their families, food activists, farmers, and the viewer in their quest to understand what’s on all our plates.
The film screening is part of monthly Food Justice Movie Night presented by The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (AUNI). A free dinner and discussion about the food system in urban areas begin at 6 p.m.
This Thursday, Feb. 23, Drexel University’s Kal & Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies is hosting a special event celebrating the 25th anniversary of WHYY’s Radio Times, one of Philadelphia’s most longstanding talk radio programs. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. at Ruth Auditorium (125 Nesbitt Hall, 3215 Market Street) and is free and open to the public.
The institute welcomes Radio Times host and executive producer Marty Moss-Coane for a talk discussing how you put together two hours of compelling talk radio five days a week and about the highs and lows of the past twenty five years of the show. Over these years, Marty Moss-Coane has interviewed more than twenty thousand guests – everyone from Salman Rushdie to Bobbie Mcferrin to Jane Fonda and countless politicians, educators, celebrities and opinion leaders.
Radio Times is one of the region’s most respected local, FM interview and call-in programs. For her work Marty Moss-Coane has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists for Excellence in a Talk Show on radio; the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association for Excellence in Public Affairs; the American Women in Radio and Television for Excellence in focusing on the Women’s Movement; and by Philadelphia magazine for hosting the Best Radio Program in Philadelphia.
Radio Times airs weekday 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on WHYY 90.9 FM.
We are passing along information about two events happening at Dock Street Brewery.
Local artists are welcome to participate in the West Philly T-Shirt Design Contest that is currently underway at the pub. The competition is running until March 17 and the winners will be announced on March 20. Any West Philly artist, illustrator or designer can enter and there are no entry fees. The design can be based around the pub, a specific beer or Dock Street beers in general. For more information, check out this page.
The Books Through Bars fundraiser will be held at the pub on Wednesday, Feb. 22, beginning at 8:30 p.m. This fundraiser will help get dictionaries for incarcerated people. The most fundamental tool for self-education and empowerment, the dictionary is the single most requested book by prisoners across the country.
$10 donation will get you a beer, a slice of pizza and a dictionary for BTB. Live music from Sour Mash and Cask & Co is starting at 9 p.m.
Named after the New York-based avant-garde film society started in 1947 and inspired by Maya Deren’s Greenwich Village exhibition of experimental films, Cinema 16 is a new series of film experiences based at the International House that “seeks to confirm the relevance of the historic avantgarde by pairing it with contemporary sound.” For its opening night event this Friday, Feb. 17 artist and curator Molly Surno has commissioned musicians as varied as the internationally recognized pop rock band Yeah Yeah Yeah’s to the locally Brooklyn favorite krautrock group FORMA to create original music that will accompany a series of historic short, experimental films to create a mixed media performance that “remove film from the conventional big screen theater.”
This edition of Cinema 16 at IHP will explore themes of perversity, flesh, and the female form. The films are:
Asparagus dir. Suzan Pitt, US, 1979, 16mm, 18 mins, color
Kusama’s Self Obliteration dir. Jud Yalkut, US, 1967, 16mm, 24 mins, color
Lusting Hours (excerpt) dir. John and Lem Amero, US, 1967, 10 mins, b/w
8:00 p.m. International House Philadelphia (3701 Chestnut Street). $9 general admission, $7 students & seniors. For more information or if you want to buy tickets online, go here.
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