Long Shot - A Town Without Pity: Performance from Glory West!
In a collapsing landscape of inflatable barns and artificial snow, Glory West returns to mourn what she has lost, and what she may have created.
Part performance, part live taping, A Town Without Pity unfolds inside a synthetic Americana dream: a looping farm, a blizzard on command, a world where nature, memory, and morality have all been outsourced. Here, Glory delivers a fractured soliloquy for her dead husband, Dale, and the child she tore from her own body. She is recounting, revising, and replaying the story until it no longer holds.
DISCORRELATED VIOLENCE
Discorrelated Violence is a noise/industrial performance event featuring CIVILIAN BOMBING CAMPAIGN, PISSSHITTER, Gregg Bielski, Adabesi Lives, and Coupon for a Coffin, presenting new works with accompanying video pieces. Curated by Drexel University PhD candidate Gene Anthony Santiago-Holt, the program frames noise and performance as sites of research into decolonial theory and harsh electronics.
Cuba After Castro
In the first and only American interview with President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba After Castro explores the island’s revolutionary history and turbulent present while revealing a portrait of the man tasked with steering its future. Post-film discussion led by Dr. Gabriel Rockhill, founding director of the Critical Theory Workshop.
Nina & Julia & Sacha & Rose & John (!!)
Monday June 1st 7-9pm at VOX Populi there will be some shapeshifting ASMR powerpoint antacid from Nina & Julia & Sacha & James & Rose & John (!!) Come get your mind stroked and boundaries poked and still get to bed by 9:30. There will be video, live music, bodies moving, humiliation, maybe jokes. Your friends will all be talking about how extremely on time it was.
MOUTHFUL Reception and Performances
Join us for First Friday on June 5th for a special night of performances!
“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 Cait O’Kane, olga mikolaivna and Jordan Burgis, alongmirewriter, and ENAensemble (feat. Chelsea Meynig + Evan Kassof).
“Recursive Apologies” Book Launch
Book Launch for Recursive Apologies: Janet Zweig's Text Generating Sculpture 1990-2010
with readings by
Jena Osman and Thyrza Goodeve
published by Inventory Press
Designed by Ben Denzer
2026 Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival: Doc. Through Perspective Block
Doc. Through Perspective Block - five documentary shorts!
Queer Cinema for Palestine
Queer Cinema for Palestine (QCP) announces No Pride in Genocide (June 2026), a global film event, co-organized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). The fourth edition of QCP invites grassroots, solidarity and arts organizations across the world to host screenings of a stellar collectively curated short film program throughout the month of June 2026.
2026 Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival: Libertad
Doc. Through Perspective Block - five documentary shorts!
$Room4Rent
Room4Rent is a Boiler Room–style mixer and fundraiser featuring four consecutive hours of high-energy sets. DJs will navigate through a vibrant blend of Afro house, Baile funk, Jersey club, and Dancehall. In true boiler room fashion, the entire event will be live-streamed.
What's a Crown to the Clouds
Come join Ser Kause and Partlytruth for the premiere of the short film “Whats a Crown to the Clouds?”. Based on the Album and the music videos released early this year, Kause seeks to close this chapter of his artistic journey and move onto DRAGO.
Black Box Presents - Art in Action with SEAMAAC
As part of Black Box Presents: Arts in Action, SEAMAAC brings a day of community, creativity, and dialogue to Vox Populi. The program features a documentary screening, a panel discussion, and multimedia presentations highlighting SEAMAAC’s arts initiatives and community programs.
New Member Information Session
Interested in joining Vox Populi or just want to learn more about the collective? Join us for our info sessions where current members will talk about the history of Vox Populi, current projects and answer questions related to the New Member Call.
K-HOLE: an Evening of Film, Poetry, and Music
Dysphoria Dimes and exploding.grrl present an evening of film, poetry and music featuring DMOFF award winner, “K-HOLE” by writer/director Chris Hale and executive producer Maxelle Telena, followed by a Q+A panel. Opening the event we have performances by Adaa, Lust Orchid, and a poetry reading by Maxelle Telana, Chris Hale, and Nelly Connor.
First Friday : MOUTHFUL Opening Reception
Join us for the opening reception of MOUTHFUL from 6-10pm! Free!
AFRO BEAST
Our first Afro Beast was a wonderful celebration of joy, music, and community! Join us as we continue to build momentum at Vox Populi on April 25th from 8pm-1 am.
Black Box Presents: Art in Action with Asian Americans United
Join Asian Americans United and Vox Populi for a screening of video works exploring community organizing, migration histories, and the ongoing impacts of U.S. imperialism across Asian American communities in Philadelphia and beyond.
Biotic (Shawn Lovato/Ingrid Laubrock/Henry Mermer), Killick Hinds/Mark Ettingoff/Jeanne Lyons trio & Bhob Rainey/John Moran/Joey Sullivan trio
Biotic (Shawn Lovato/Ingrid Laubrock/Henry Mermer), Killick Hinds/Mark Ettingoff/Jeanne Lyons trio & Bhob Rainey/John Moran/Joey Sullivan trio perform at Vox Populi
Read Aloud
Please join us on April 18 from around 12 -2 pm for the 3rd installment of "Read Aloud," a storytelling series organized by Eve Greensweig and Lane Timothy Speidel.
The People Rise Up: Third World Newsreel Retrospective (1968-72)
We're thrilled to announce a new year-long collaboration: cinéSPEAK x Vox Populi present 3rd Thursdays!
For April, we’re presenting powerful short films from the Third World Newsreel retrospective (1968-1972), documenting grassroots movements for land sovereignty both domestically and around the world. This program showcases movements in the Dominican Republic, Palestine and New York City.
Behind Her Eyes
Through guided conversation, “Behind Her Eyes” is an opportunity to engage with the artists as they reflect on their journey from idea to execution—sharing early concepts, challenges, and moments of clarity along the way. This event offers an intimate look into the process behind each body of work.
For Grandma's House
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, more! With a curated food and drinks menu and special poetry performances at 8pm, join us for a night of art, music, poetry, and community in support of a tender cause; all proceeds will directly support repairing the walls and roof of their grandma's house prior to the stormy season– pay what you can!
Artist Talk
Join us for an afternoon of artist talks from the current exhibitions! Masina Frank & Ella Konefal will discuss their collaborative exhibition GOD’S WORK, Suzanne Seesman will moderate a discussion with Lane Timothy Speidel about their solo exhibition Practice Patience: An Exhibition of Slow Works, and there will be a special viewing with remarks of Until Next Time by KT Pe Benito.
SWEEPERS, ROPE TRICK, SPECTRAL FORCES, SUN WITHIN
RIPpperrr ahead ‼️ FRIDAY APRIL 10 at @voxpopuligallery 👽☠️
@sweepers_usa no wave punk
@ropetrickband cosmic crunch
#spectralforces sci fi free jazz
@sunwithinband witch sludge
New Member Information Session
Interested in joining Vox Populi or just want to learn more about the collective? Join us for our info sessions where current members will talk about the history of Vox Populi, current projects and answer questions related to the New Member Call.
Under the Influence Film Screening: Horrors of Social Media
A screening where the horrors of social media are explored through independent short horror films. Films are followed by IRL activities to bring us off screen and into the room.
Presented by South Philly Autonomous Cinema, Dusky Projects and the Ghouls Next Door.
New Member Information Session
Interested in joining Vox Populi or just want to learn more about the collective? Join us for our info sessions where current members will talk about the history of Vox Populi, current projects and answer questions related to the New Member Call.
April First Friday
We have our newest exhibition: Where We Begin Again, a collaboration between In Her Eyes and Vox Populi opening on April 3rd. Our First Friday event will commemorate it’s opening in our space.
You Know What You Are: Film Screening
Filmmakers Shayna Davis and Cody Sooy present YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE, the feature film debut of Rose Trimboli, fresh off its film festival run! The teaser for their upcoming project PINEYS will be shown beforehand, along with short film DETACHED by Elise Brady.
WE MAKE THE ROAD Closing Reception
Please join us for the closing reception of WE MAKE THE ROAD, a benefit show supporting Abolition School. Last chance to buy raffle tickets to win each of the artworks!!! There will be food and refreshments. Come eat together, celebrate all the artists who contributed their work to this project, and enjoy each other’s company as we come to
Anti-imperialism Resistance and Solidarity Organizing, Lessons for Philadelphia: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Film screening and panel discussion focused on anti-imperialist resistance and solidarity organizing. Third screening of a series.
Long Shot - MarZ: A Menstrual Musical
A duet for one body*, MarZ: A Menstrual Musical is part stand-up, part-experimental dance, and always a reckoning between AZ and the maps he has made to defend against the discomforts of dysphoria. The question is, can he read them? (*A solo performance perennially helped by friends along the way, most especially imaginary ones.)
Spindrift with bambinodj, Coldsteel & JEWELSSEA live, support from Spindrift DJs
With the launch of our Spring/Summer 2026 season, Spindrift is back with a special dance-forward edition like you’ve never seen us before! We’re joined by Germany’s bambinodj, NYC’s Coldsteel, and our own Philly icon Jewelssea, who will traverse ultra contemporary modes of mangled pop, leftfield club beats, and global ethereal dance music. This one’s for the coffee ravers, the laptop heads, the spiritual baddies, the jet setters, the gym rats, the art school dropouts, the melbourne shufflers, the creative anachronists, the soundcloud rappers, and everyone in between. Join us at Vox Populi. Something truly significant will occur.
We Call The Moon The People's Wife: Live Performance & Panel Discussion
Pentimenti, in partnership with Vox Populi, invites you to a special public program featuring a collaborative performance by Vox Populi artists.
Saturday, March 21, 2026 | 1–2 PM.
Location: Pentimenti
145 North Second Street, Philadelphia, PA.
cinéSPEAK x Vox Populi Third Thursdays: Coexistence, My Ass!
New Year! New Series! We're thrilled to announce a new year-long collaboration: cinéSPEAK x Vox Populi present 3rd Thursdays!
Join us for Coexistence, My Ass!
Fundraiser For a Palestinian Family
Come join us for a dance party that is raising funds for a Palestinian family!
While You Wait - A Day of Workshops - Presented by Lane Speidel
A day of skill shares taught by artists about what they like to do while they are waiting. All skillshares are free to attend, with a $5 suggested donation per skillshare. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Light snacks will be provided. This day of workshops is being held in connection to Practice Patience: An Exhibition of Slow Works by Lane Timothy Speidel.
Dog Funeral
Take the “fun” out of “funeral” and throw the rest away! Zoe Wohlfeld is holding a funeral for her childhood dog, Twinkles.
Chrysalis with Jan Loup, Chewlie and No Sir
Our chrysalises shake wildly as a primordial sub-bass sound rattles up from deep beneath the earth’s crust… We’ve invited France’s Jan Loup, Switzerland’s Chewlie, and New York’s No Sir to Philly’s home of Flinta-forward dancefloor metamorphosis.