Termite TV Collective

Understories-Undergrowth: Film Screening
2025-08-15 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
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.
