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      <image:title>gallery - Healing Verse Germantown Poetry Workshop Recap</image:title>
      <image:caption>Healing Verse Germantown: The Streets Are Talking transforms the voices of those touched by gun violence into healing verses of poetry and public art in a powerful outlet for collective expression against violence in Germantown and throughout Philadelphia. The temporary poetry and public art project is supported by the City of Philadelphia through Creative Philadelphia and a winner of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge grant. Healing Verse Germantown began with a series of 10 community poetry workshops in Germantown. Stewarded by lead artists/curators Trapeta B. Mayson and Yolanda Wisher and a licensed social worker/trauma specialist team, the workshops offered a safe and creative place for participants to translate their experiences with gun violence into healing verses of poetry.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - Healing Verse Germantown Poetry Workshop Recap</image:title>
      <image:caption>Healing Verse Germantown: The Streets Are Talking transforms the voices of those touched by gun violence into healing verses of poetry and public art in a powerful outlet for collective expression against violence in Germantown and throughout Philadelphia. The temporary poetry and public art project is supported by the City of Philadelphia through Creative Philadelphia and a winner of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge grant. Healing Verse Germantown began with a series of 10 community poetry workshops in Germantown. Stewarded by lead artists/curators Trapeta B. Mayson and Yolanda Wisher and a licensed social worker/trauma specialist team, the workshops offered a safe and creative place for participants to translate their experiences with gun violence into healing verses of poetry.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - The Re-Emancipation of Social Dance</image:title>
      <image:caption>A film by Aidan Un and Raishad Momar about The Re-Emancipation of Social Dance, a house party where five Philadelphia-based dancers told the story of social dance and its impact on people and culture. Created by Raja Feather Kelly and Yolanda Wisher in June 2024.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - The Healing Verse: Trapeta B. Mayson, Poet Laureate</image:title>
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      <image:title>gallery - Sonya Clark, "The Descendants of Monticello," Declaration House (Preview) I Monument Lab</image:title>
      <image:caption>Declaration House was a public art and history exhibition presented by Monument Lab at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia featuring Sonya Clark’s public artwork “The Descendants of Monticello,” public programs, and a pop-up Welcome Station outside the historic house throughout summer 2024. Declaration House was curated by Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Paul Farber, and Yolanda Wisher. Film features voiceover by Wisher.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A visual companion to Yolanda Wisher &amp; The Afroeaters' 2022 album Doublehanded Suite created by Aidan Un and Raishad Momar. Featuring Jenesis E., Briana Bolden, and Yolanda Wisher &amp; The Afroeaters (V. Shayne Frederick, Sirlance Gamble, Paul Giess, and Mark Anthony Palacio).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - Mental Health &amp; Poetry with Poet Yolanda Wisher | The Healing Verse Poetry Line</image:title>
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      <image:title>gallery - Beardmobile: Love Jawns with Philadelphia Contemporary</image:title>
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      <image:title>gallery - Philadelphia Voices of Freedom-Liberty: Yolanda Wisher - "Leave My Name"</image:title>
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      <image:title>gallery - Yolanda Wisher - Movers &amp; Makers (2020)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Yolanda Wisher’s work with women of color poets and entrepreneurs in Germantown is featured.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - LOVE JAWNS: A Mixtape</image:title>
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      <image:title>gallery - Intercultural Journeys: Poetry Across Boundaries</image:title>
      <image:caption>In Spring 2018, Intercultural Journeys artists worked in residency with students from Bodine High School.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - Ode to Cherry Street Pier</image:title>
      <image:caption>Poem by Yolanda Wisher written for the November 2018 dedication of Cherry Street Pier, a century-old municipal pier converted into a year-round, mixed-use public space on the central Delaware River waterfront.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - Yolanda Wisher: A Poet of People and Place</image:title>
      <image:caption>At the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) Summit, 500 people come together in a historic theater to hear 15-minute stories of transformation, as 32 people from many different industries and sectors tell the stories of their creative processes, their struggles, and where they’re going in the future.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wisher with sisters Yshonda &amp; Yvette in North Wales, PA, Xmas circa 1987.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This poem was an inspiration for Mat Tomezsko’s 14 Movements: A Symphony in Color and Words was a brightly colored, mile-long temporary mural that served as a vibrant gateway between City Hall and South Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention, July 2016.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yolanda Wisher &amp; The Quick Fixx (Mark Palacio on bass, Karen L. Smith on percussion) perform at FICA, Washington, DC. Video by Pai da Olivia, 2014.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yolanda Wisher &amp; The Quick Fixx (Mark Palacio on bass, Karen L. Smith on percussion, Carol Moog on harmonica, Wale Brickley on flute) perform "Gangsta Birth" at Re-imagining Maplewood Mall Festival, Philadelphia, PA. Video by Ron Dove, 2015.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As Germantown prepared for the Philadelphia region's Imagining event in summer of 2014, Cultural Agent Yolanda Wisher spoke to what she hoped would come of #Imagining2034. "How can the power of art create progress that doesn't involve displacing people or dismissing local culture?"</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - Yolanda Wisher and the Quick Fixx — Crosswoman Blues</image:title>
      <image:caption>Yolanda Wisher performs “Crosswoman Blues” with Mark Palacio on double bass, and Karen Smith on percussion. Recorded by Kettle Pot Tracks in Lafayette Hill, PA, Jan. 2015.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>gallery - 14 Movements: A Symphony in Words &amp; Color</image:title>
      <image:caption>Running down the median of South Broad Street, Mat Tomezsko’s 14 Movements: A Symphony in Color and Words was a brightly colored, mile-long temporary mural that served as a vibrant gateway between City Hall and South Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention, July 2016. The mural featured words and phrases from Wisher's 2014 collection Monk Eats an Afro.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>home - me, mom &amp; the rez</image:title>
      <image:caption>From Maple Street Rag, 2015.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From Maple Street Rag, 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From Maple Street Rag, 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>From Maple Street Rag, 2015</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stellar Masses was a series of site-specific events featuring poetry, video, music, performance and sermons that embraced the sacred and interstellar. philadelphiacontemporary.org/stellar-masses/ May 9, 10, 12, &amp; 16, 2018 At the Free Library of Philadelphia, Iron Gate Theater, and Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute. Philadelphia. Presented with support from the Daniel W. Dietrich II Foundation, and Stellar Mass I was in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stellar Masses — May 9, 10, &amp; 16 Hive Revival: A Stellar Masses Get-Down — Saturday May 12 Tickets: philadelphiacontemporary.eventbrite.com Featuring King Britt presents Fhloston Paradigm, Samuel R. Delany, V. Shayne Frederick, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Husnaa Hashim, Madison McFerrin, Sirius Juju, Moor Mother featuring Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism, Raquel Salas Rivera, Ursula Rucker, and Marvin K. White, among others, and short films by Renee Cox, Terence Nance, Frances Bodomo, Johan Grimonprez, and Saya Woolfalk. Organized as a series of gatherings that explore the sacred roots and interstellar potential of spoken word practices, Stellar Masses upholds the spoken word as at once ancient and futuristic, capable of testifying, time traveling, and spellbinding. The site-specific events will feature writers, musicians, and filmmakers, guiding attendees through a mind-expanding continuum of ritual and performance. Full Festival Schedule and bios here: philadelphiacontemporary.org/stellar-masses/ Video by Ming Media @ming_media</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stellar Masses — May 9, 10, &amp; 16 Hive Revival: A Stellar Masses Get-Down — Saturday May 12 Tickets: philadelphiacontemporary.eventbrite.com Featuring King Britt presents Fhloston Paradigm, Samuel R. Delany, V. Shayne Frederick, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Husnaa Hashim, Madison McFerrin, Sirius Juju, Moor Mother featuring Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism, Raquel Salas Rivera, Ursula Rucker, and Marvin K. White, among others, and short films by Renee Cox, Terence Nance, Frances Bodomo, Johan Grimonprez, and Saya Woolfalk. Organized as a series of gatherings that explore the sacred roots and interstellar potential of spoken word practices, Stellar Masses upholds the spoken word as at once ancient and futuristic, capable of testifying, time traveling, and spellbinding. The site-specific events will feature writers, musicians, and filmmakers, guiding attendees through a mind-expanding continuum of ritual and performance. Full Festival Schedule and bios here: philadelphiacontemporary.org/stellar-masses/ Video by Ming Media @ming_media</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo by Ryan Collerd. Courtesy of The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wisher with sisters Yshonda &amp; Yvette in North Wales, PA, Xmas circa 1987.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wisher with her cello circa 1984.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nasij: Weaving Our Cultures into a Collective Poem. Poetry Station by Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture. Photo by Tieshka Smith.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gri Gri Grab Affirmation Station. Poetry Station by Mizz Lizz. Photo by Tieshka Smith.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wish on Your Neighborhood. Poetry Station by Davy Knittle of City Planning Poetics at PENN. Photo by Tieshka Smith.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Two students from The Jubilee School in West Philadelphia hold City of Poetry passes. Visitors got their passes punched at poetry stations to earn a prize. Photo by Tieshka Smith.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Saint Somebody: Celebrating Love &amp; Struggle. Mini-workshop by Courtney K. Bambrick of Philadelphia Stories in Gallery 206. Photo by Tieshka Smith.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Every Home Needs A Poem. Random Act of Poetry by the Germantown Artists Roundtable. Photo by Tieshka Smith.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Saint Somebody: Celebrating Love &amp; Struggle. Mini-workshop by Courtney K. Bambrick of Philadelphia Stories in Gallery 206. Photo by Tieshka Smith.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Renga Jenga. Random Act of Poetry by Spells Writing Lab. Photo by Tieshka Smith.</image:caption>
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