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The Hello Arts Collective consults with and co-facilitates this group of professionals from the arts and culture sector who meet monthly to promote accessibility in our field. We offer strategic planning, project and programming support, and a reciprocal learning community for those working to make their organizations more accessible.
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The Bloomberg Arts Summer Internship is an eight-week intensive program administered 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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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. Hello Arts 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 Hello Arts Collective designed and deliverred trauma-informed programming to the Ardmore Community through collaborations with local organizations like the Ardmore Food Pantry, under the leadership up Beth Tiewater. 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 informed the program design which included public performances. This work created a model that the Food Pantry can continue to use.
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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 and music of 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.
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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
