A skill-share workshop where observation becomes inspiration. Edith Zapata, (bio below) our Cherry Street Pier studio neighbor, brings us a custom workshop: Abstract Mind – Develop an understanding of your visual preferences in everyday life. Experiment with techniques that will translate your surroundings into abstract art. Through guided observation and reflection, you will explore how […]
Termite TV’s community-based “Places of Power” Augmented Reality / VR exhibition will be on view at Studio 1, Cherry Street Pier from June 1 to 15, 2026. “Places of Power” aims to inspire participatory, community-driven, technology-enabled media arts production in Philadelphia communities facing cultural erasure, strengthening community bonds, prompting intergenerational sharing, and preserving stories and […]
Visual art play with two different mediums! Sam Jacona brings us a custom workshop: Watercolor Undercover – With Watercolor Undercover, we can connect to the sense of playfulness and spontaneity with TermiteTV. This is a workshop that creates a way to play with multiple different materials to use the spontaneous effect of water and the […]
Collaborative Filmmaking Screening Presented By Termite TV & PhillyCAM Over nine inspiring weeks, a dynamic group of community filmmakers from PhillyCAM and Termite TV collaborated to produce a powerful collection of short films exploring the theme of MENDING. Now, your’re invited to see their work come to life. Join us for a special Premiere Screening and Talk Back […]
Termite TV’s community-based “Places of Power” Augmented Reality / VR exhibition will be on view at Studio 1, Cherry Street Pier from May 1 to May 30, 2026. Join us on Thursday, May 7, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. as part of Philly Tech Week. “Places of Power” aims to inspire participatory, community-driven, technology-enabled […]
Screening of Las Parcelas Garden (2004) and Villa Africana Colobó Garden (2006) videos and discussion of current and upcoming community media projects in the Norris Square Neighborhood.
Using the technique of embroidery on photos, mixed with fabric and mixed media collage, participants will be invited to bring a photo or send one in advance of an image that represents something they would like to mend in their life-a memory, relationship or experience. Participants individuals pieces will be become part of a collaborative […]
This collection threads together four years of mourning, curiosity, practice, and play. Stains, holes, and history are stitched behind windowsills, stuffed into birds, woven among ocean waves, and painted above mountain ranges. My work reflects a constellation of ways that mending may manifest in our minds, bodies, environment, and communities. Artifacts from lost loved ones, […]
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 […]
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”
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 […]
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:
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
