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Happy New Year! We have some exciting announcements and updates
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Mending – Sat Feb 7 @ 1pm Planning Meeting
and Call for Work / Workshops
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After a successful year-long studio residency at Cherry Street Pier exploring the theme of “Understories,” and after decades of having created dozens of collaborative programs, working across multiple media platforms, we’re launching our second year-long residency to explore the theme of MENDING.
We want to explore the theme from a variety of angles. Ideas such as video splicing, archival footage, poetry, kintsugi, time travel and more are welcome.
We invite you to a planning workshop at our studio in Cherry Street Pier on Saturday, February 7 from 1-3pm with Julie Woodward, a multimedia artist and doula of discarded things who will introduce the theme of Mending and catapult us in generating ideas for your TV show segments.
Workshops of many shapes are also encouraged from skill-shares, screenings, performances, and hands-on creation. If you think your workshop aligns with this theme in any way, please let us know! We are excited about all the possible creative intersections with this idea.
Submit to our Fungus Garden below. We use the term Fungus Garden to encourage workshops and sessions that are exploratory, cultivate new ideas, collaborative and interactive. Think of it as a lab for creativity.
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Meet our new Staff and Board members
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GABE CASTRO, Board Member
Gabe Castro is a nonbinary, Latine, Philadelphia-based multimedia creator specializing in the horror genre. Gabe’s work focuses on dissecting horror media, exploring the real world influences behind our cinematic fears. She works at PhillyCAM as Member Programming Manager helping her community make people-powered media.
“I would love to become a thought partner on new projects and workshops. This past year of workshops and events around the Understories topic has been exciting. I am eager to see what we develop next and which artists in the city we can connect to.
I have been a termite fan for some time and it’s an honor to be a part of the team as a creator!“
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NASHA TAYLOR, Program Manager
Nasha is an explorer and caregiver. She is interested in curiosity as an organizing principle to connect and strengthen relationships – from embodiment to community. Her identities as a Black biracial, Xennial, queer and gender nonconforming, intuitive synergist shape her personal support for Black and Indigenous liberation. Nasha’s project management skills are shaped by training, study, and experience across community organizing, nonprofit leadership, emergent strategy, Black feminism, Zen buddhism, and cooperative economics. Creatively, she experiments with how intention guides perspective and invites form.
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EMILY FISHER, Gallery Manager
“My name is Emily Fisher, and I am a recent graduate from Arcadia University. I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with a concentration in Photography, where I received Departmental Honors. As a photographer, my primary objective is to collaborate with clients to capture cherished life moments. I am a native of Sussex County, Delaware, and have had the privilege of working with clients in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, as well as wherever my camera leads me.“
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Thank you for joining us at the El Bembé festival!
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Through our community-based project, “Places of Power,” Termite TV led community media workshops with an inter-generational group of Latine residents in Norris Square. The workshops taught participants how to develop media projects on a collectively chosen theme. In 2025, participants focused on creating a colcha — a traditional Puerto Rican bedspread/quilt — and shared their memories of sewing. The artwork, videos, and stories that result from the workshops were then installed on-site
as Augmented Reality installations in Norris Square Neighborhood Project’s gardens. The El Bembé festival in November 2025 celebrated the artwork of community participants with food music and art. Many thanks to our collaborators Norris Square Neighborhood Project and the Philadelphia Latino Film and Arts festival!
Photos by Luiza Barreto, courtesy of People’s Media Record.
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We are thrilled to be participating in Collective Futures! Collective Futures is a citywide celebration of Philadelphia’s vibrant ecosystem of artist-run spaces, DIY venues, and community-driven art initiatives.
Launching Fall 2026, the six-week festival will activate neighborhoods across Kensington, North Chinatown, West Philly, Fishtown, Old City, and beyond with exhibitions, performances, workshops, and public programs exploring the creative power of collectivity.
Bringing together 25+ independent spaces and organizations, Collective Futures highlights how grassroots art spaces shape civic dialogue, support underrepresented artists, and imagine more connected cultural futures.
Follow@collectivefutures.info to stay tuned for partner announcements, artist highlights, and ways to get involved
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As always, take it easy this week ~
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