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The Ardmore Food Pantry is collaborating with The Hello Arts Collective to bring trauma-informed programming to the Pantry's waiting area and expand creative experiences for Pantry guests. Hello Arts engages our deep network of artists to design and implement a creative arts program focused on personal story-telling and community performance. Listening sessions with community members inform the program design and performances are open to the public.
Please reach out to [email protected] by Friday May 3rd to arrange for accessibility services. |
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Audio Description is the verbal depiction of visual images and action used by audiences who are Blind/Low Vision/Visually Impaired to more fully experience cultural events. HelloArts is currently managing the ADLN - part of an existing coalition of Philadelphia area theaters dedicated to improving accessibility services across the sector. Our goal is to expand the use of effective, representative Audio Description in theaters by training new Audio Describers, cultivating audiences, and making our findings more broadly available. Photo Credit: John Flak
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The Bloomberg Arts Summer Internship is an eight-week intensive program administrated by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance connecting rising high school seniors with arts and culture organizations in the Philadelphia region to provide valuable, paid internship opportunities. The Hello Arts Collective collaborates as a Program Partner, designing and delivering professional development curriculum that promotes self-actualization. Creative activities with professional artists and small-group conversations lead interns towards a practice of curiosity and reflection. Together, we build skills that allow them reach their full potential as artists and culture keepers within their communities and professional collaborations.
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In 2023, Hello Arts Festival joined the quality arts programming offered at the Philadelphia Senior Center on The Avenue of the Arts, a member of the New Courtland Network. Featuring access to the talents of music and performing artists Bethlehem Roberson, Voccusionist (Pictured) and Anthony Martinez-Briggs of ildoots, this short workshop series celebrated the melding of theater and music inspired by Roberson's recent EP, A Return to Innocence, https://bethlehemtheartist.com
Hello Arts programming was carefully designed with members in mind and facilitated by professional artists to incorporate creative practices that meet the expressed needs of elders. We fostered active listening, performance and collaboration skills while having fun and building community. |
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.
-Audre Lorde
