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.

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.

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.

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.

Loud sounds of resistance for these times. Philly’s Moondrift’s + Sun Within proudly host our friends Petrichor from D.C.

Join us on SUNDAY, JULY 26TH 4-6pm @ Vox for an Artist Conversation featuring some of this year’s Juried Show artists!!

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!   

 On July 17th at Vox Populi, FORTUNE presents Moving into Major Heat (大暑)

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 examines the intersectional experience of Black punks from the 90s to present through a collection of artist interviews.

HERE WHERE THE BODY KNOWS IT CAN HURT

XXI Annual Juried Show
Curated by Gregory Donell Parker

Opening Reception: Friday, July 10, 2026

Libertad (60 minutes) - TIX
Libertad - LOLA Award - Features

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. 

Doc. Through Perspective Block - five documentary shorts!

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

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).  

Join us for First Friday on June 5th for a special night of performances!

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Join us for the opening reception of MOUTHFUL from 6-10pm! Free!

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 perform at Vox Populi