• The Soup: What’s Your Ritual

    Cherry Street Pier 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Let’s come together with our community to share and nurture our relationship with grief and loss. What are your rituals for remembrance? Let’s come together with our community to share and nurture our relationship with grief and loss. What are your rituals for remembrance? In collaboration with The Thread, an art and grief collective, The […]

  • El Bembé – Las Parcelas & Colobó Gardens

    Colobó Garden 2263 Palethorp Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join us for El Bembé! A gathering of friends to celebrate the community AR/VR art project, “Places of Power: Las Parcelas and Colobó Garden”

    Free
  • Imagining Radical Communication with a DIY FM Transmitter

    Description: This is a beginner friendly workshop that will teach attendees how to build a small FM radio transmitter while 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 […]

  • Photo Exhibit: Masai Shawn Pines-Elliott ‘D.E.I.’

    Join us for a Photo Exhibit ‘D.E.I.’ by Masai Shawn Pines-Elliott inside of our Studio at Cherry Street Pier. Join us on First Friday for the opening & it will be up for the rest of the month in September. Statement from artist, Masai Shawn Pines-Elliott:  

  • Understories-Undergrowth: Film Screening

    Join us for the public screening of Understories-Undergrowth: a video program of shorts by Termite TV and PhillyCAM participants interpreting and experimenting with the theme of Understories. The film screening will be following by a Q+A with local artist and herbalist, Maebh Aguilar, who grounded participants in the poetic interpretations of the theme. Artists include: […]

  • Filmmaker Meet Up & Reception with Visible Evidence Conference

    Termite TV is hosting an opening reception and open house in collaboration with Visible Evidence Conference taking place at Temple University this year. Our studios will be open and our exhibit Understories will be available for viewing with food trucks and drinks for conference attendees and local filmmakers. This is an opportunity for out-of-town conference […]

  • Understories Exhibit at Cherry Street Pier

    Over the past year at our studio residency at Cherry Street Pier, we invited local artists, herbalists, poets, dancers, media-makers, and collaborators to guide us through our theme ‘Understories,’ what lives underneath the surface unseen to the eye yet still exists; the networks of connection that we make rooted back to the surface, the poetic […]

  • Places of Power: North Philadelphia History Festival

    Join us from 12-2pm with a reception with foods, Puerto Rican sewing demonstrations and our Augmented Reality garden installation at the Africana Colobo Garden as part of the very first North Philadelphia History Festival! The North Philadelphia History Festival (NPHF) is a cultural celebration of the African-American and Puerto Rican communities in North Philadelphia. Across […]

  • First Friday with Test Patterns: Video Synth & Vintage Gear

    Join Artists-in-Residence, Test Patterns, at the Termite TV Collective Studio at Cherry Street Pier on Friday, June 6 for public offerings of workshops learning basic techniques of video synthesis & play with vintage and circuit-bend gear. About Test Patterns Named after the geometric shapes transmitted by early television stations to test their broadcast quality, Test […]

  • First Fridays: Signal Culture Demo

    Join us for a workshop and demo learning how to use Signal Culture: a program that lets you manipulate video inputs live with distorting, delay, mirroring, fisheye, color manipulation and more. Play with projections, videos, and learn the accessible program that you can use in your video projections, installations, mapping and experimentations. Free and open […]

  • Understories Video Program

    As Termite TV embarks on its 4th decade, having created dozens of collaborative programs, working across multiple media platforms, this is the first show to be produced through a year-long studio residency at Cherry Street Pier.  We started with an experimental sound exploration, continued with a poetry workshop, then printed silkscreens and gathered outdoors to […]

  • First Fridays: Slow Scan

    Join us for First Fridays at Cherry Street Pier for an open-to-the-public Slow Scan activity at our Termite Studio. RSVP Here

  • Mapping Our Interconnectedness with Cara Judea Alhadeff

    Join Cara for a dynamic workshop that will combine visual and oral storytelling, interactive activities and discussion. She’ll highlight her work with her eco-art installation repurposed performance-based school bus tiny home and her book, Zazu Dreams, a cross-cultural, climate-justice book and animation. RSVP You can find out more about her work: https://www.carajudea.com/

  • First Friday: Carl Lee Multi Installation Exhibit

    Join us for Cherry Street Pier’s February First Friday for Carl Lee’s multi installation video exhibit. The work Unity Island (2023) and Last House (2010). Both of these three-screen installations take a personal, intimate approach to interpreting the built environment and how it changes over time. Unity Island (2023, 3-channel 16mm film to digital projection, 13:30 loop, stereo sound) […]

  • Multiscreen Film Installations Opening: Unity Island (2023) and Last House (2010) by Carl Lee

    Please join Termite TV at on Sunday, January 13, 2025 from 5-7:30p for the opening of Carl Lee’s multiscreen film installations Unity Island (2023) and Last House (2010). Both of these three-screen installations take a personal, intimate approach to interpreting the built environment and how it changes over time.  RSVP HERE Unity Island (2023, 3-channel […]