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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for First Fridays at Cherry Street Pier for an open-to-the-public Slow Scan activity at our Termite Studio. RSVP Here
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/
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) […]
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 […]
This workshop was a guided experimentation on the process of essence-making utilizing flowers and the natural environment — and poetry led by Dominique Matti. A flower essence is an energetic medicine intended to replicate a portion of the essential nature of a plant in a clear bowl of water. What is the essence of a […]
Termite TV Collective is excited to announce the print version of our Termite TV Toolkit: How to Make a Termite Show. The Toolkit is meant for teachers and creative facilitators interested in integrating the Termite model of making thematic 30-minute, multivocal shows in which multiple creators uniquely interpret one central theme. into their curriculum. Termite […]
Continuing our Understories Workshop series, this workshop will focus on awakening, enlivening, and thanking the body for the many ways it supports and moves us. The goal is for everyone to be in a deep state of observing their bodies and how they are always in dialogue with others, and the environment around them. **This […]
The Plant Imprints workshop continued with turmeric plant rubbings, a collective anthotype and tea meditation. The collective anthotypes were on display alongside a plant rubbings for the public to make. A tea ritual and meditation guided folks to create a collective anthotype together.
Watch our celebration of El Bembé! A gathering of friends to celebrate “Places of Power: Villa Africana Colobó Garden” A project of Termite TV Collective & Norris Square Neighborhood Project Presented by the 2024 Philadelphia Latino Arts and Film Festival, Leeway Foundation Media Artist + Activist Residency and Mural Arts Philadelphia El Bembé is […]
In honor of American Archives Month and DesignPhiladelphia, Lisa Marie Patzer and Deb Rudman share about their creative work incorporating archival material in contemporary design and multimedia storytelling. The conversation, moderated by Chase Dougherty, The Delaware Contemporary, Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art, will touch on themes of storytelling, memory, technology, and preservation of […]
Craig Scheihing, artist in residence at the Dunu On The Road, instructed a series of 16mm filmmaking workshops exploring direct and photographic approaches to the medium, alternative non-toxic development, and various botanical interventions. As a part two, Craig led participants in a one-day workshop using plant materials harvested from the garden and the sun to […]
