FOR GRANDMA’S HOUSE: POP UP ART SHOW FUNDRAISER 🎨 | Saturday, April 11th 📆 | Vox Populi – 319 N 11th (3rd Floor) 📍 | 7PM-9:30PM ⌚
For Grandma’s House is a pop up art show fundraiser featuring the work of Kevelis Matthews-Alvarado in various forms including analog work, prints, zines, stickers, and more! 🌀✨
There will be a special curated food menu and drinks available for purchase. 🫓🍗🍻
All proceeds will directly support repairing the walls and roof of their grandma's house prior to the rainy season.
Join us for a night of art, music, poetry, and community in support of a tender cause. 🖼️💗🥁🎶
Doors open at 7pm with special poetry performances starting at 8pm.
Early RSVP - $5 Door - $10
Venmo: @Kevelis
Cashapp: $Kevelis
To RSVP please submit your $5 donation with a “🚪” or “🏠”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kevelis Matthews-Alvarado (they/he) is a queer Afro-latine mixed media artist, curator, and poet originally from Pittsburgh, PA. Their creative practice is inextricably invested in radical imagination and located along a continuum of other radical black queer artists who use(d) their work as catalysts for resistance, healing, and imagining liberation.
In 2025, they worked with a small group of friends, curating and organizing various community events in order to fundraise for the immediate evacuation of an undocumented community member. Now, they are rallying community support to repair their grandma’s house to endure the upcoming stormy season. (@kevelis)
Mateo Souada (they/them) is a Moroccan, Venezuelan, and Costa Rican Queer Muslim poet whose experiences as a gender non-conforming child of immigrants, eldest daughter, and survivor color their work. Using poetry, Mateo asserts the fact that QTBIPOC often work tirelessly to curate safe environments and provide space for the marginalized to move beyond survival. Mateo is a 2019 Pink Door fellow, Collegiate Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) 2017 Co-Champion, Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam 2018 Runner-Up, and currently performs with the Philly Pigeon poetry collective. They have been published in What Are Birds Journal, Rigorous Journal, Ghost Heart Literary Journal, Colorbloq Mag, and more. In 2024, Mateo won the Leeway Transformation Award for Literary Arts advocating for social justice. (@aguaamazigh)
Georjelis Rujano (she/they) born in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in Philadelphia. Poet and dancer intertwining love, earth, politics, and self. Involved in Philadelphia organizing and an educator. (@venezuelan_babe)
