Improv'o'ween
A Halloween party for the improv community! This event has it all — costume party, otherworldly atmosphere, drinks, candy, DJ, and all your besties. Seal your doom Oct 31, 8pm-midnight, at Vox Populi, $15
Palestine Cinema Days 2026: The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing & Foragers
Join cinéSPEAK at Vox Populi for Palestine Cinema Days 2026 presented by Filmlab Palestine!
The Black Girl Lives!
Survive the night with Dusky Projects at the screening showcase that celebrates short horror films written, directed, or produced by Black women. All proceeds go to the Black/Latine independently run Dusky Projects, and the artists who made this event possible. Don’t be scurred!
Tying the Knot
Tying the Knot
Directed by Rah Gerg and performed by Phenon Grace Murphy and Annie Peterson
Presented in An Endless Meeting: 變 SLOW BURN curated by Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草
Plain Language by Teils Studio
Teils Studio presents Plain Language, a film series boldfacing local stories and everyday life in the Philadelphia area. The film blends video, photography, poetry & interviews to create an episodic series and video-based collage of underground creatives, workers, and communities.
New Red Order Presents: Crimes Against Reality
Join us at Vox for New Red Order Presents: Crimes Against Reality, a film program presented in tandem with New Red Order’s installation on view in An Endless Meeting.
Horror From Around the World
Horror From Around the World is a film event showcasing four short films and one feature film (El Olvido, Missing Parts, Haiku 27, Proyecto Alma, and La Fotógrafa.)
AWFUL Wrestling Auditions
Ever dream of becoming an AWFUL Wrestler? Apply to audition for your chance to debut at Miracle on 12th Street at PhilaMOCA on December 13, or join us at VOX on November 19 to watch the auditions, ask questions, and see who has what it takes to step into the squared circle!
Handful & Heartful: Queer Arm Wrestling at Vox Populi
Big arms. Big hearts. Can’t lose.
Queer Arm Wrestling is back at Vox Populi for Handful & Heartful, a night of friendly competition, big feelings, strong arms, and queer joy, all in support of experimental art in Philadelphia.
Wooden Nickel: Vox Populi’s $99 Exhibition Preview Event
Join us for an evening of art, live music, small bites, and a free champagne toast for the first 99 guests. Held the Wednesday before First Friday, the Preview Event is also the first opportunity to see and purchase work from the exhibition.
Dreams of a City: Creating East Palo Alto
Join us on October 27 at 6:30 PM for a free screening of the 1996 documentary "Dreams of a City," presented by artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed in conjunction with her current installation in Vox’s An Endless Meeting exhibition.
Parallel Play Symposium
The Parallel Play Symposium, presented as part of the six-week Collective Futures festival, is a two-day gathering of artists, scholars, organizers, and cultural workers exploring the practices, histories, and conditions that sustain collective cultural production.
Our Tactics Were Simple
Beginning from the elemental premise of togetherness, Sacha Vega and her collaborators devised a performance work where group relations erode, remold and recast.
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Rudy Gerson and Jonathan González present an ongoing movement and filmmaking practice developed through black-and-white 16mm film.
Welcome to the Jungle or A Microphone is Power (Work in Progress)
Miguel Gutierrez will return to Vox Populi to present a new solo-in-progress, Welcome to the Jungle or A Microphone is Power, inspired by recent travels in Latin America, where he spent time learning about the fraught political histories of repression and conflict.
cinéSPEAK presents American Worker: The Labor to Belong (Work in Progress)
Join cinéSPEAK and National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) at North Chinatown's beloved artist collective run gallery, Vox Populi, for a special work-in-progress presentation of American Worker: The Labor to Belong with Director Thien Dinh and NDWA!
Series II. Minutes, r. 2. b. 3 f. 1-10, 1987 March – 1988 March (ACT UP New York Records, Archives and Manuscripts Division, The New York Public Library)
Series II. Minutes, r. 2. b. 3 f. 1-10, 1987 March – 1988 March (ACT UP New York Records, Archives and Manuscripts Division, The New York Public Library) is a vocal performance by the artist and writer Ethan Philbrick that uses meeting minutes from ACT UP New York’s first year of weekly general meetings as its sole textual material.
Two Performances:
Doors at 6:30pm Performance at 7 pm
Doors at 8:30pm Performance at 9pm
How to Do Things with Groups
This deep study session will provide opportunities for participants to reflect on various dimensions of institutional and group life. How do groups come together and come apart? What dynamics contribute to group breakdown? In what ways do unconscious processes shape group norms?
Curator Talk + Social
Exhibition in-progress talk and social with Vox’s curators in residence huiyin zhou 徽音 and laura 嘟嘟
Situational Beaver
From the perverse minds that brought you Jake Symbol’s Bing Crosby’s Christmas Revival: Live! comes a new play that seeks to answer, “what’s Left of Beaver?” Inspired equally by Hi Honey, I’m Homo by Matt Baume and niche Twitter porn, Jake Symbol, Lea Devon Sorrentino, and Chip Sinton dare to ask.
My Dog is Dead and You’re the Father
CALLING ALL GOSSIPERS nosey Nellys and loose-lipped-Lennys. Bring your hottest goss and sloppiest secrets, share them anonymously, and watch them be woven into the most dramatic improvised comedy you’ve ever seen in your entire stinkin’ life.
RITUALS
RITUALS - a holy immersive, celebratory, interdisciplinary, religious obstacle experience. Join our sacred coven as we open our doors and offer salvation to anyone bold and joyous enough to rise to the occasion.
Situational Beaver
From the perverse minds that brought you Jake Symbol’s Bing Crosby’s Christmas Revival: Live! comes a new play that seeks to answer, “what’s Left of Beaver?” Inspired equally by Hi Honey, I’m Homo by Matt Baume and niche Twitter porn, Jake Symbol, Lea Devon Sorrentino, and Chip Sinton dare to ask.
My Dog is Dead and You’re the Father
CALLING ALL GOSSIPERS nosey Nellys and loose-lipped-Lennys. Bring your hottest goss and sloppiest secrets, share them anonymously, and watch them be woven into the most dramatic improvised comedy you’ve ever seen in your entire stinkin’ life.
回 • CLOSE TO HOME
Join us at Ulises for readings and a video screening, followed by Q&A, and book signing of huiyin zhou’s nostalgia is the ghost of care (Homie House Press 2026). Light refreshments provided. Donations (of money, mooncakes, memories, and more) are encouraged.
My Dog is Dead and You’re the Father
CALLING ALL GOSSIPERS nosey Nellys and loose-lipped-Lennys. Bring your hottest goss and sloppiest secrets, share them anonymously, and watch them be woven into the most dramatic improvised comedy you’ve ever seen in your entire stinkin’ life.
VOX 3000: SPECULATION MACHINE
Join us for a futuristic fundraising party featuring DJs, performances, drinks, art, and speculative technologies. Come dressed for the future to dance for the future and help us raise the funds we need to keep Vox weird, experimental, artist-driven, and thriving.
Black Box Presents - Arts in Action with Batikh Batikh
The program features a screening of Malak AlSayyad's short documentary I Told You So, followed by a panel with the filmmaker alongside local and international doctors, researchers, and artists.
Black Box Presents - Arts in Action with Hot Bits: Pervert Futurism
As part of Black Box Presents: Arts in Action, Hot Bits Film Fest presents Pervert Futurism; a film screening and panel discussion exploring the overlooked utopian possibilities in communal/shared sexuality amidst trying times
Bark Culture / Blacks’ Myths / Sam Xiao Cody and Will McGoran
Will McGoran + Sam Xiao Cody
Blacks’ Myths ( Luke Stewart + Warren “Trae” Crudup III)
Bark Culture
$10-20
She's the He!
This August, come join cinéSPEAK and Vox Populi for a special screening of Siobhan McCarthy’s She’s the He! She’s the He! laughs at gender constructs and shows what it means to come of age as a trans woman.
“We Want You Listening for a Lifetime …”
Constant Exposure is an event series interested in the intersections of sound and poetry. This edition will showcase happygroupppp, kathy wu, Ryan Bell and ebs sanders, Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez, and unname.
Before the Next Act
Experience an intimate evening of live theater featuring compelling scene work performed by emerging Philadelphia actors. Celebrate the city's vibrant theater community while supporting multidisciplinary artist and actor Jazmyn Jamil as she embarks on her next chapter at A.C.T. San Francisco.
Philadelphia for Cuba presents: ¡QUBA!
SATURDAY, 1 AUGUST: Philadelphia for Cuba presents ¡QUBA!, a film about the struggle for LGBTQ equality and rights on the island. Its director, Kim Anno, will join us in conversation following the film to discuss her work.
Moondrifts, Petrichor, Sun Within
Loud sounds of resistance for these times. Philly’s Moondrift’s + Sun Within proudly host our friends Petrichor from D.C.
Artist Talk
Join us on SUNDAY, JULY 26TH 4-6pm @ Vox for an Artist Conversation featuring some of this year’s Juried Show artists!!
Long Shot: The Ellen Degeneres Show One-Night-Only Live Taping
She’s baaaaaack! And better than ever! And wants YOU to be part of the live taping of the reboot of The Ellen Degeneres Show! The dance moves you know and love, the games you giggle at, and a brand new sexuality! Be kind, be kind, be kind!
Moving into Major Heat (大暑)
On July 17th at Vox Populi, FORTUNE presents Moving into Major Heat (大暑)
FUCKTOYS
Join us on Thursday, July 16 at North Chinatown's beloved artist collective run gallery, Vox Populi, for Annapurna Sriram's Fucktoys. A cursed young woman sets out on a wild fundraising adventure through Trashtown, USA, after she's told by multiple psychics that she can break the curse by paying them $1000.
Upfront w/Black Punks Philly Documentary Screening
Upfront w/Black Punks examines the intersectional experience of Black punks from the 90s to present through a collection of artist interviews.