Artist Talk: Archival Stories - How Contemporary Design Can Illuminate the Past
2024-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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 domestic archives through design. The event includes prints and illuminated art panels from Chromatographic Landscapes by Lisa Marie Patzer as well as the video Sample Portrait by Deb Rudman and a 35mm slide show of Ben Kabakow’s photographic archives.
Location: Cherry Street Pier 121 N. Columbus Boulevard, Studio 1, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Register: Space and tickets are limited. The program will be recorded and shared with folks on the waitlist after the event.
Event Program

6:00 PM – Screening of Sample Portrait (video by Deb Rudman)
6:30 PM – Conversation moderated by Chase Dougherty, The Delaware Contemporary, Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art
7:30 PM – Slide show and Q&A

About The Artists
Lisa Marie Patzer is a digital media artist, designer, and entrepreneur whose work integrates light, pattern, historic imagery, and color to evoke site-specific stories for a contemporary audience. Trained in film and media arts, Patzer is interested in the power of storytelling as a way to connect with place. Based in the Greater Philadelphia region, Lisa Marie Patzer works out of a studio in the Delaware Contemporary Art Museum and a wood shop in Media, Pennsylvania.
Deb Rudman is a media arts curator and maker, with active engagement in social justice issues and a passion for creativity, integrity, equity and sustainability. Based in Philadelphia, Rudman is the TV Programming Director at Philly CAM, the non-profit designated by the City of Philadelphia to operate its public access television network. Rudman is also a member of Termite TV Collective.

Places of Power: El Bembé Celebration
2024-10-19 14:00 - 18:00
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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 a celebration of the community-based Augmented and Virtual Reality project, “Places of Power: Villa Africana Colobó Garden.” Come and experience AR/VR installations in a community garden celebrating African heritage and the West African diaspora in Puerto Rican culture. Project directors Iris Brown of Grupo Motivos / Norris Square Neighborhood Project and Anula Shetty and Michael Kuetemeyer of Termite TV Collective have been facilitating workshops with long-term residents to share the memories and stories of this Latinx neighborhood in Norris Square.

We will also be celebrating the new Grupo Motivos mural by artist Celso Gonzales. There will be musical performances by Youba Cissokho and El Junte.

“Places of Power: Villa Africana Colobó Garden” is funded in part by Independence Public Media Foundation, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund and Temple University

First Friday: Plant Imprint & Tea Ritual
2024-11-01 17:00 - 20:00
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.

Inciting the Body Workshop
2024-12-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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 workshop is open to individuals of any and all movement experience, notebooks or writing materials are highly encouraged.
The class will focus on gently reconnecting with our bodies through a sensory meditation, exploring how our senses engage with ourselves and the environment. Participants will be guided through a meditation that encourages self-inquiry: How is our body feeling? How does it want to move, or remain still? We will explore sensations such as scent, or how our eyes feel when we deeply direct our attention to how they move.
Led by Chloe Marie – RSVP Here

Termite TV Toolkit Release Party
2024-12-06 18:00 - 20:30
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 shows in the past have reflected on themes as malleable as water, consumerism, habits, the war on terror, and others. Show themes are designed to be spacious enough for artists to interpret them uniquely as a means of fostering creative dialogue around pressing social issues. Through individual expression radiating out from common themes, Termite contributors co-create space for idea sharing and collective world-building.
We are interested in hosting this toolkit at your local library, independent bookstores, classrooms, media institutions, community organizing spaces and creative projects who could benefit from an outlined documented process of video and exhibit making that we like to call ‘video jazz.’
We invite you to join us for the release of our Termite TV Toolkit on Friday, December 6th from 6-8:00p : we’ll have copies available for sale and a communal packing station where we’ll pack, stamp, and sort copies to send out to the community.
To Order:
If you’re interested in a hard copy, fill out our pre-order form for a copy for $10 and $5 shipping. Inquire for bulk order discount.
For a preview of the toolkit visit: https://termite.org/mound/termite-tv-toolkit/

Amplifying the Undercurrent: Poetry & Essence Making
2024-12-11 18:00 - 20:00
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 fire pit? What is the essence of a view of the bridge or the breeze over the water?
The result were physical essences that participants both kept & shared, and poetry on the various experiences participants have with what populates the immediate environment with inspiration from Black women poets.

Multiscreen Film Installations Opening: Unity Island (2023) and Last House (2010) by Carl Lee
2025-01-18 17:00 - 19:30
Please join Termite TV at [location] 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 16mm film to digital projection, 13:30 loop, stereo sound)
Unity Island is a landscape study of a ¼ mile stretch of land between Niagara River and Black Rock Canal at the border of Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ontario. A railroad crosses the island from Canada to the US passing by a park visited by picnickers, bicyclists, and fishermen. Freight trains cross the canal lock via a swing bridge which rotates open for boats and the occasional freight ship. The 19th century infrastructure of railroad and swing bridge and the placid public park belie the island’s past as a garbage dump for the city of Buffalo. A hill, from which you can get a 360° view of the island, the city, the river, and the highway, is located on the former site of the incineration plant. I’ve been taking my dog, Augie, for walks there for years. Time frames overlap and his in-the-moment wanderings act as a guide.
Last House (2010, 16:30 loop, 3-channel projection, stereo audio)
When I first moved to Buffalo I was struck by the everyday beauty of the many single-family homes that make up a large part of the city. The iconic image of the house seemed to have endless variation, each a unique instance with their own histories. If houses are containers for our memories, the structures within which so many minor and major domestic events take place, then each week in this city a collective amnesia grows block by block: a city disappears before our eyes. The demolition of these structures – by design or accident – and the speed, indifference, and violence with which it takes place; the transmutations of scale, space, and time – is breathtaking, tragic, and full of contradictions. Last House is an inquiry, part document, part memorial, to this changing built environment.
Carl Lee, an early member of Termite TV, is a media artist living in Buffalo, NY. More information can be found at carljlee.com.

First Friday: Carl Lee Multi Installation Exhibit
2025-02-07 17:00 - 20:00
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)
Unity Island is a landscape study of a ¼ mile stretch of land between Niagara River and Black Rock Canal at the border of Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ontario. A railroad crosses the island from Canada to the US passing by a park visited by picnickers, bicyclists, and fishermen. Freight trains cross the canal lock via a swing bridge which rotates open for boats and the occasional freight ship. The 19th century infrastructure of railroad and swing bridge and the placid public park belie the island’s past as a garbage dump for the city of Buffalo. A hill, from which you can get a 360° view of the island, the city, the river, and the highway, is located on the former site of the incineration plant. I’ve been taking my dog, Augie, for walks there for years. Time frames overlap and his in-the-moment wanderings act as a guide.
Last House (2010, 16:30 loop, 3-channel projection, stereo audio)
When I first moved to Buffalo I was struck by the everyday beauty of the many single-family homes that make up a large part of the city. The iconic image of the house seemed to have endless variation, each a unique instance with their own histories. If houses are containers for our memories, the structures within which so many minor and major domestic events take place, then each week in this city a collective amnesia grows block by block: a city disappears before our eyes. The demolition of these structures – by design or accident – and the speed, indifference, and violence with which it takes place; the transmutations of scale, space, and time – is breathtaking, tragic, and full of contradictions. Last House is an inquiry, part document, part memorial, to this changing built environment.
Carl Lee, an early member of Termite TV, is a media artist living in Buffalo, NY. More information can be found at carljlee.com.

Mapping Our Interconnectedness with Cara Judea Alhadeff
2025-03-30 13:00 - 15:00
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:
Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD

First Fridays: Slow Scan
2025-04-04 17:00 - 20:00
Join us for First Fridays at Cherry Street Pier for an open-to-the-public Slow Scan activity at our Termite Studio.
RSVP Here

Understories Video Program
2025-04-19 19:00 - 20:30
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 project video at night and then create plant imprints under the sun – all under the theme of Understories: we are growing and evolving through our network.

Deb Rudman and gabe castro introducing the program

Participants gathering for a picture

PCAM Participants:
Hope and ANTS by Natalie Thomas
The Fire Inside by Tamara Jackson
Stand Tall With Coping Skills: Ava’s Giraffe Journey by Dr. Jenine Lowery, LPC Featuring: Ava Brown and Shelby-Animal Care Specialist at Longneck Manor
Welcome to the Understory by Gabrielle Patterson
The Susurrus between Light and Shadow by Nicole Dupree
Rewild by Joy Elisabeth Waldinger (J. Eliza Wall)
Mariposas by Frances Almodovar
Incubator of Life by Gabrielle Patterson

Termite TV Collective Participants:
Oyster Spells by Ingrid Raphaël – A Meditation on Oysters
The Food of the Yard by Michael O’Reilly – Explores the understory of the maker, his family and their backyard.
Tunnel Under World by Anula Shetty – A subway journey exploring underground abandoned tunnels
Lava Tubes by Michael Kuetemeyer – Cooling from the top forms an insulating skin. The heat, now contained, allows the inside to stay molten, flowing forward.
The Moray Dance by Francesca Lally – A rotoscoped underwater ballet, a sinuous manifesto.The eels have been watching us and this is what they have to say.
Shrooms by the Ghouls Next Door – Two friends conduct a ritual in hopes of making a meaningful connection with the spirit realm.
Tiny Worlds by Karen Lefkovitz – Utilizes macro photography to reveal hidden worlds, which are a gateway to larger questions about human perception.
What is Mycelium by Alan Powell – Mushroom Talk/Dance
Alda and the Fungi by María Teresa Rodríguez and Lily Xie – For over two decades, Dr. Alda Rodríguez has harnessed the power of soil fungi to combat pests and diseases in plants and livestock. These microscopic allies are at the heart of her mission to eliminate agrotoxins from our food and to regenerate our soil and ecosystems.
Ice Cocoon by Kathleen Sweeney – Explores winter wandering in open sensory symbiosis with nature, a rewilding search for refuge within breathing cycles of bird song, coyote calls, snow, ice and melt. “Ice Cocoon” seeks, scans and discovers, traversing woodland transitions, a metaphoric metamorphosis in cycles of seasonal transformation.

First Fridays: Signal Culture Demo
2025-05-02 18:00 - 20:00
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 to the public with special interests to filmmakers, media enthusiasts, video experimentalists who want to learn a new skill!
RSVP at our eventbrite

First Friday with Test Patterns: Video Synth & Vintage Gear
2025-06-06 17:00 - 20:00
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 Patterns is an experiment in form. The project pairs video art with live performances representing a range of artistic mediums, building on the lineage of experimental video art and bringing it to new audiences.
Bios:
Nia Benjamin is a Black, queer, multidisciplinary artist, a projection/installation/video designer, a director of experimental theater, and the co-artistic director/co-founder of Ninth Planet. Well known on the experimental electronic music scene, Chaka Benson uses modular and video synthesis to capture his aesthetic as informed by Philadelphia’s streets, raw soul, and DIY spirit. Blush Something is a musician, performer, video artist, and organizer living in West Philly. Her work centers on education, collaboration, and connection across communities. Gralin Hughes, Jr. (aka Television Sky) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound and visuals, merging these forms through projection mapping, audio/visual live performance, and installation art. Sarah Milinksi is a queer/non-binary multidisciplinary artist, educator, and designer based in West Philadelphia, With over a decade of experience in community media education. These five artists are the core collaborators and organizers of Test Patterns, an experimental video art television show and educational project aimed at preserving, expanding, and challenging the uses and possibilities of video art and synthesis.

Places of Power: North Philadelphia History Festival
2025-07-26 11:00 - 18:00
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 four days, historic sites along Ridge Avenue, North Broad Street and other locales will be transformed into living exhibits created by artists, historians, curators and other cultural workers.
These multimedia projects and events will explore the emergence and impact of these communities in the 19th and 20th century. All events will be free and open to the public.
Places of Power is an immersive AR/VR documentary, public art, and community media project that celebrates the West African diaspora in Puerto Rican culture and the legacy of Grupo Motivos, a group of Puerto Rican women who transformed vacant city lots into vibrant community gardens. Project Directors Anula Shetty, Iris Brown, and Michael Kuetemeyer facilitated workshops with long-term residents to share the oral histories and memories of the Latine community in North Philadelphia. Come and explore the augmented reality artwork and stories embedded in this special garden. The project is a collaboration of Termite TV Collective and the Norris Square Neighborhood Project. Visit the interactive virtual tour at https://termite.org/colobo

Understories Exhibit at Cherry Street Pier
2025-08-01 12:00 - 2025-08-31 18:00
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 synapses of mycellium activating their communication channels, and the invisible tunnels that Termites create within rings of tree trunks.

This multimedia exhibit presented by Termite TV will feature a stellar slate of artists for a month at Cherry Street Pier from August 1-31.

Featuring artworks, sculpture, videos, sounds, and installations from our collaborators over the past year:
Nicole Duprée, Emily Fisher, William Hazard, Sadie Hicks, Michael Kuetemeyer, Karen Lefkovitz, Warren C. Longmire, Julia Lopez, Chloe Marie, Dominique Matti, 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 Teres Rodriguez, Natalie Thomas, Joy Waldinger. Lee Clawson, Adam Cooper-Terán, Betty’s Eyes, Laura Deutch, Jamie Goetz, Lorne Peart, Deborah Rudman, Jake Smith & Workshop Participants.
Special events:
First Friday Opening: Aug 1st at Cherry Street Pier from 6-8pm
Film Screening of Understories Projects: Aug 15th from 6:30-8:30p at Cherry Street Pier

We’d like to thank our collaborators and funders who made this work possible:
Cherry Street Pier
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Pennsylvania Council of the Arts
Independence Media
Philadelphia Cultural Fund
PhillyCAM TV

Filmmaker Meet Up & Reception with Visible Evidence Conference
2025-08-05 19:00 - 21:00
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 attendees and local filmmakers to meet surrounding art created and organized by Termite TV Collective in effort to bridge our media-makers communities locally and nationally who are invested in community storytelling and pathways of making rooted in values moving beyond the status quo.
We are grateful to Visible Evidence Conference organizers for co-hosting this with us. If you’re a filmmaker looking to meet other filmmakers, video artists and media makers, we welcome you to the opening reception and open house on Tuesday, August 5th from 7-9pm.
This programming is part of our month-long Understories exhibit, screenings and programming at Cherry Street Pier. If you’re interested in attending the Visible Evidence Conference, you can find out more here.

Understories-Undergrowth: Film Screening
2025-08-15 18:30 - 20:30
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:
Gabrielle Patterson, Frances Almodovar, Natalie Thomas, Joy Waldinger, Nicole Duprée, Tamara R. Jackson, Dr. Jenine Lowery, Gabrielle Patterson, Ingrid Raphaël, Michael O Reilly, Anula Shetty, Michael Kuetemeyer, Francesca Lally, the Ghouls Next Door, Karen Lefkovitz, Alan Powell, María Teres Rodriguez, and Kathleen Sweeney.
This is a screening as part of the Understories month-long exhibit at Cherry Street Pier.
This is a ticketed event, please grab your tickets at our Eventbrite.

Photo Exhibit: Masai Shawn Pines-Elliott 'D.E.I.'
2025-09-01 08:00 - 2025-09-30 17:00
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:

Imagining Radical Communication with a DIY FM Transmitter
2025-09-13 13:00 - 15:00
Description:
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. No prior electronics experience is needed!
Register at the eventbrite!
Bios:
Hannah:
Hannah Tardie (they/them) is an artist, educator, and researcher whose work exists as sculpture, installation, essays, event organization, and performance. Tardie views electronics as rich transferential objects through which we can explore intimacy, attachment, and queer relationality. Their work has been shown at La Gaite Lyrique, SPACE Gallery, Westbeth Gallery, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Arts, Letters, & Numbers, Vox Populi, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and online via websites like Artsy.net, maps-dna-and-spam, and p5.js. Tardie has participated in residencies at Arts, Letters, & Numbers, ChaNorth, Alterworks, Crit NYC, and the Media Archaeology Lab (forthcoming). Tardie was on the organizing committee of the 2021 experimental iteration of the Movement and Computing Conference, lovingly termed Slo MoCo. They solely organized Temple University’s first Electronics Faire in 2024, an annual event they continue to steward. Tardie currently manages a makerspace at Temple University Library’s Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio.
Derek:
Derek Schwartz (he/him) is an audio engineer, writer, and technologist practicing the art of weaving networks. His values are rooted in DIY music culture, and prior to coming to Philadelphia, he spent time in St. Louis as a music writer and production assistant at KDHX Radio. In his current audio practice, he produces, mixes, and records audio for film and music, and creates experimental audio projects that play with waveforms, radio, and physical media. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Music Technology at Temple University.

El Bembé - Las Parcelas & Colobó Gardens
2025-11-01 14:00 - 18:00 | 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”

The Soup: What's Your Ritual
2025-11-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, 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 Ghouls Next Door are screening their new horror-comedy film, The Soup. After the film, participants will share their stories and have an opportunity to build their rituals through candle making, a grief phone installation, and other interactive art practices designed to honor memory.

Perpetual Repair - Julie Woodard Exhibition
2026-03-06 17:00 - 21:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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, scraps from strangers, items purchased secondhand, and materials salvaged from the street are all transformed and intertwined. Remnants have been hand-dyed with indigo, screenprinted with pattern, and stretched to new forms. The process is slow, and the repair is perpetual.
I hope you find a home in this work–something that inspires your own art practice or helps to mend an ache in your heart. Perhaps you’ll be transported to a memory of a walk in the woods, a birdsong that comforts you, or a well-loved stoop down your block. Come and sit for a while. There’s always more mending to do.
Learn more about Julie’s work & follow along at juiceboxworkshop.com and on socials @juiceboxworkshop.

Mending Workshop with Duwenavue Santé Johnson
2026-04-18 11:00 - 14:00
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 exhibit presented at Cherry Street Pier in May.
“For Johnson, a master of the needle trade, the artistic process is inseparable from the act of survival. The process of mending a textile is identical to the process of mending a life,” says Johnson. Her work collapses the distance between vocational expertise and communal storytelling, turning the technical precision of the stitch into a vehicle for social cohesion within a space of her own creation.”
https://www.duwenavuesantejohnson.com/bio#
https://www.instagram.com/sante_artxstitch.art/

Estamos Aqui!: A Film Screening w/ Norris Square Neighborhood Project
2026-04-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Kensington Engagement Center, 3000 Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19134, United States
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.

Philly Tech Week - Places of Power
2026-05-07 15:00 - 20:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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 media arts production in Philadelphia communities facing cultural erasure, strengthening community bonds, prompting intergenerational sharing, and preserving stories and memories among the city’s underserved communities.
Through a process of co-creation, Termite TV artists lead workshops in visual storytelling, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and 3D Photogrammetry. Using these emerging media tools allows participants to create immersive works and experiences that amplify the sense of memory, kinship, connection and empathy. Through the AR installations created by the participants, physical landmarks and objects in the neighborhood are transformed into portals, bringing to life the voices and memories of residents.

Mending - Screening at PhillyCAM
2026-05-15 19:00 - 21:00 | PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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 on Friday, May 15 at PhillyCAM. Meet the creators to hear the stories behind the films, and be part of a lively conversation about the creative process on the meaning of mending in today’s world.

The shows were facilitated and produced by filmmakers Gabe Castro and Ingrid Raphael.

Watercolor Undercover with Sam J
2026-05-23 11:00 - 14:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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 control of crayons or oil pastels to uncover something the artists likes to express. With that said, we are mending the two worlds of water and wax in a way that is similar to oil and water. Finding a way to mend them into a new way to create, design, story-tell.
The goal of this workshop is to show how different mediums can work together. Using oil pastels or crayons to make shapes and uncover them with watercolor. Using a predictable medium with a more unpredictable one. These are great for all ages and can be adjusted to each age group.
About Sam: https://www.samjacona.com/about and @SamJaconaArt

Places of Power - Las Parcelas and Colobó Gardens Exhibition
2026-06-05 17:00 - 2026-07-19 20:00 | Cherry Street Pier, 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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 memories among the city’s underserved communities.
Through a co-creation process, Termite TV artists lead workshops in visual storytelling, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and 3D Photogrammetry. Using these emerging media tools allows participants to create immersive works and experiences that amplify the sense of memory, kinship, connection, and empathy. Through the AR installations created by the participants, physical landmarks and objects in the neighborhood are transformed into portals, bringing the voices and memories of residents to life.
