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Thank you for coming to the
Understories-Undergrowth Screening
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The Understories-Undergrowth screening at Cherry Street Pier was a successful reunion of participating contributors to the PhillyCAM and Termite TV Show.
Participants shared their post-production process and first reactions on the films their personal films were in conversation with through the curation that gabe castro, Deb Rudman, and Joy Waldinger put together.
We will soon have the programs available to watch online, and in the meantime — please come to our studio space at Cherry Street Pier where you can watch them on our monitor outside of our studio.
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Understories Exhibit is a wrap!
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Thank you for joining us for our month-long exhibit Understories at Cherry Street Pier.
We want to thank all participating artists and workshop facilitators for this show!
Participating Artists
Nicole Duprée, Emily Fisher, Diane George, William Hazard, Sadie Hicks, Michael Kuetemeyer, Karen Lefkovitz, Warren C. Longmire, Julia Lopez, Chloe Marie, Dominique Matti, Katerina Pate, Gabrielle Patterson, Alan Powell, Ingrid Raphaël, Craig Scheihing, Anula Shetty, Kathleen Sweeney.
Frances Almodovar, the Ghouls Next Door, Tamara R. Jackson, Dr. Jenine Lowery, Michael O’Reilly, Francesca Lally, María Teresa Rodriguez, Natalie Thomas, Joy Waldinger. Lee Clawson, Adam Cooper-Terán, Betty’s Eyes, Laura Deutch, Jamie Goetz, Lorne Peart, Deborah Rudman, Jake Smith, Lily Xie & Workshop Participants.
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Join us for First Friday !
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See you this Friday, September 5th from 6-8pm for First Friday at Cherry Street Pier!
We have a photo exhibit at the Termite TV Studio and we’re excited to have you there.
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Build Your Own FM Transmitter Workshop
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Saturday, September 13
1-3pm
Cherry Street Pier
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This is a beginner friendly workshop that will teach attendees how to build a small FM radio transmitter while [hopefully] breaking the assumption that you need an engineering degree to start building your own electronics. In addition to teaching technical skills, we will be offering a brief political context of radical radio organizing, past and present, and how people can start to think about building their own communication networks to keep themselves and their neighbors safe. Understanding radio is a great first step in demystifying networked communication.
This workshop requires no previous electronics experience and will consist of actions like hand-placing small components and wires and placing them in a breadboard. Participants will leave with a working radio transmitter that is powerful enough to transmit about one city block and a small publication with instructions for building the circuit and some examples of how radio and DIY networks can be used for radical organizing.
Through the process of building electronics and learning together, we hope that this technology will inspire folks to explore radio as a form of communication and experiment with broadcasting as a radical medium.
We hope participants will leave the workshop feeling more empowered to take control of their online presence and potential to broadcast.
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Staff Update:
Thank You to our Director of Programs, Ingrid!
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Ingrid Raphaël is transitioning out of their role as Director of Programs with Termite TV!
Ingrid joined Termite TV as Programs Manager in January 2024 and managed and oversaw our Understories Fungus Gardens Workshops, monthly First Fridays, Artist exhibits, coordinating with participating artists and Cherry Street Pier staff, creating our newsletters, and representing Termite TV at our public programming and conferences.
Here’s a message from them:
“In my time at Termite TV, I expanded my capacity to serve, support and co-shape ways of making that are community rooted, experimental, non-linear, playful, and collaborative in nature and I am honored to have shared this with Laura, Deb, Alan, Mike, Anula, Aggie and gabe.
This role has made me a wiser collaborator and deepened my appreciation and respect for the creative pathways across Philadelphia specifically through experimental video, documentary and soundscapes as tools for community storytelling — and I thank the collective for their grace, trust, excitement, imagination, and vision to invite me to lead the operational and management of their programs.
My highlights are many though they are all rooted in meeting and developing genuine relationships of mutual respect and camaraderie with participating facilitators, artists, termites, garden stewards, elders, and community neighbors across the gardens that Termite TV has ongoing projects like Places of Power at the Puerto Rican Africana Colobo Garden, Dunu On the Road residency at the Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden, and other lovely projects like projecting on a dome at the Oval near the Philadelphia Museum of the Art, activating our studio space at Cherry Street Pier with amazing artists that I deeply respect, and gathering to watch Understories-Undergrowth films that community co-envisioned together.
Lastly, though not least, the amazing Understories exhibit at Cherry Street Pier was a feat to organize and a beautiful testament to the exploration of that theme: culminating in an immersive group show while having an artistic and professional contribution to this amazing collective that’s been around for 30 years was an honor to oversee and produce!
I look forward to deepening the termite pathways and ‘eating our own boundaries’ in collaboration! And thank all whom I met and collaborated with during my time with Termite TV.”
— always a Termite ~ Ingrid
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Save the Date: El Bembé Celebration
October 18, 2025
Las Parcelas Garden and the Colobó
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The fourth annual El Bembé celebration will be taking place October 18th at Las Parcelas Garden and the Villa Africana Colobó Garden where you can experience the augmented reality exhibit at the garden and enjoy food and music and dancing!
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People Power Media Fest
Saturday, October 25, 2025 – 10:00am to 5:00pm
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People Power Media Fest (PPMFest) is an annual event that brings together media makers, activists, and community leaders to uplift underrepresented voices and spark meaningful dialogue. Featuring panels, workshops, screenings, and networking, it focuses on using media for social change, creativity, and community empowerment.
Theme & Focus
PPMFest 2025 will center on the intersection of media, technology, and social justice, exploring how independent creators and grassroots media organizations can navigate the ever-evolving media landscape while staying true to community-driven storytelling. With the rapid rise of digital platforms, AI-driven content, and shifting audience engagement, this year’s event will dive deep into strategies for sustaining impactful media production, building engaged audiences, and advocating for media equity.
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Want to Host a Workshop with Termite TV?
We have a studio at Cherry Street Pier where we host a myriad of workshops interpreting the theme of Understories with one’s practice. We’ve hosted poetry coding workshops, flower essence-making, body-movement, sound art-making, sunprints and more…
Want to host a workshop with us? Fill out our form and propose a workshop idea!
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As always, take it easy this week ~
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