Black Box Presents: Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) End of Year Celebration

In Partnership with YASP

Friday, December 12, 2025, FREE Doors at 7PM

Celebrate with the Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project! Create, connect, and recommit to build a world free of youth incarceration at YASP’s Year-End Celebration and Fundraiser.

Please join us for YASP's Year-End Community Celebration at Vox Populi on Friday, December 12th, 7-9:30pm.

It will be an evening filled with artmaking, appetizers, music, and community to honor the impact of YASP’s work. Join us to send letters and love to our incarcerated community members, support our advocacy campaign to end the practice of prosecuting children as adults, and create a collaborative art piece that envisions a world free of youth incarceration.

About YASP

The Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP) was created in 2006 as an offshoot of a project of a series of jail-based art, poetry and music workshops run by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). When AFSC  discontinued their workshops, YASP became an independent, youth-led and youth-staffed organization with a focus on building youth leadership in the movement to end mass incarceration. YASP was founded by four young people who had been prosecuted and incarcerated as adults, and one ally who had previously served as the coordinator for AFSC’s workshops with young people in Philadelphia’s adult jails.

About Black Box Presents

Made possible through lead support by the William Penn Foundation, Black Box Presents is a yearlong series transforming our Black Box Performance Theater into a platform for 12 community arts organizations, each curating their own monthly event. This initiative amplifies experimental music, dance, film, and spoken word while ensuring free, accessible programming that strengthens Philadelphia’s creative networks.