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Fairmount

Fairmount: Joining the Global Conversation on Water Sustainability

March 20, 2023Elizabeth DeOrnellas and George W. Miller

World Water Day 2023 brought together academics, city officials, historians and nonprofit workers who believe Philadelphia’s cultural heritage as a port city makes it an important place to talk about the future of water infrastructure. 

Center City

Spring Garden: Library Exhibit Highlights Photography, Humanity of Prisoners

August 5, 2022Eden MacDougall

Howard Zehr photographed and interviewed Pennsylvania prisoners with life sentences in the 90s and returned 25 years later to find out how their perspectives on their sentences changed.

Arts and Entertainment

Arts: Germantown-native Kambel Smith Debuts Sculpture Exhibition At Fleisher/Ollman Gallery

May 9, 2022Christine Danielle Jean-Baptiste

Germantown native Kambel Smith is showing his second solo exhibition at Fleisher/Ollman, on display now until May 26th.

Education

Spring Garden: Students March to Protest Racism in Philadelphia Schools

August 12, 2020Eden MacDougall

Youth for Black Lives, an independent Philadelphia activist group, marched from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to City Hall on Sunday, Aug. 2 to protest racism in Philadelphia schools.

Center City

Spring Garden: Community Protests in Advance of Belarus Election

August 6, 2020Jarek Rutz

In anticipation of the presidential election on Aug. 9 in Belarus, protestors assembled at the Art Museum to protest the Belarusian government.

Business

Spring Garden: Mayor’s Office Of Black Male Engagement Hosts Community Conversation

December 21, 2018Hadiyah Weaver

On Thursday, Nov. 29, the Mayor’s Office of Black Male Engagement (OBME) hosted its My Brother’s Keeper event which featured a conversation on Economic, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship. The event was a part of the City’s Community

Fairmount

Food: Five Community Gardens Enriching Philadelphia

June 19, 2018Pukanecz Savannah and

Community gardens are spreading like weeds throughout Philadelphia. These beautiful green spaces ensure sustainable, fresh produce in a concrete jungle and provide a refreshing feel to a metropolitan area. Not only do these open spaces

Spring Garden

Spring Garden: Green Street Church Adapted into Chapel Lofts

May 25, 2018Perez Maryvic

When Isaac and Rose Miller arrived to Philadelphia in 1986, they were originally looking for a historic district to buy a home from. After seeing the Spring Garden neighborhood in a book about restored historic

Business

North Philadelphia: Infrastructure of The Internet Highlights Digital Divide

May 11, 2016Daniel T. Pelligrine and

Just a few feet beneath every Philadelphian exists a web of veins responsible for carrying precious information, like the oxygen carried by our blood, to and from the city.  Just as oxygen is needed by

Francisville

North Philadelphia: Neighborhoods’ History Has Not Been Forgotten

February 1, 2016Paige C Gross

The neighborhoods of North Philadelphia are home to a number of historical landmarks. Reminders of the area’s 17th- and 18th-century history are scattered across the changing neighborhoods of Francisville, Sharswood, Spring Garden and North Central.

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