Cultural june in Philly

For most of the year, Philadelphia keeps its culture politely indoors — in galleries with measured light, in theaters that ask you to silence your phone, in the particular hush of a museum on a slow Tuesday afternoon. Then June arrives, props the doors open, and the city quietly forgets all of that.

This is the month the calendar spills into the street. ODUNDE, now in its fifty-first year, hands sixteen blocks of South Philadelphia over to the largest African American festival in the country, complete with a procession to the Schuylkill. Pride walks out of the Gayborhood and onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the first time, under a banner that reads, with no particular modesty, "Pride is Power." In a grassy bowl in Clark Park, cinéSPEAK waits for the light to give up and throws independent films against the dark. Down on the Delaware, the waterfront turns itself into an open-air gallery: a six-hundred-pound bell you finish ringing yourself, three schooner sails sewn in memory of a woman who escaped Martha Washington's household.

Indoors, the season refuses to be quieter. At the Art Museum, a single Van Gogh sunflower gets a whole room built around the argument between blue and yellow, while a few halls away the Rocky statue stands inside the building for the first time, surrounded by two thousand years of monuments asking what monuments are even for. On the first Friday of the month, more than thirty Old City galleries open new work at once and stay open late. At the Free Library, a federal prosecutor and a Booker-shortlisted novelist take the same stage on different nights. And underneath nearly all of it runs the same low hum — the country turning two hundred and fifty, and the city that started the whole argument deciding, again, what that's worth.

There is, as ever, more here than the guidebooks let on. A bilingual musical getting its first public reading before it becomes a season headliner two years from now. A choir premiering a cantata about the history of drag. A free drop-in clay workshop where the only requirement is your hands. A roving beer garden that picks a different park each week and pretends, for an evening, to be the countryside.
We gathered the whole month into one place — sorted by category and by date, and checked against the source, because the worst thing a city guide can do is send you somewhere that closed last spring.

So this is June in Philadelphia: the doors off their hinges, the city outside, and more happening than any one person could possibly attend. Which has never once stopped us from trying.

Cultural june in Philly

For most of the year, Philadelphia keeps its culture politely indoors — in galleries with measured light, in theaters that ask you to silence your phone, in the particular hush of a museum on a slow Tuesday afternoon. Then June arrives, props the doors open, and the city quietly forgets all of that.

This is the month the calendar spills into the street. ODUNDE, now in its fifty-first year, hands sixteen blocks of South Philadelphia over to the largest African American festival in the country, complete with a procession to the Schuylkill. Pride walks out of the Gayborhood and onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the first time, under a banner that reads, with no particular modesty, "Pride is Power." In a grassy bowl in Clark Park, cinéSPEAK waits for the light to give up and throws independent films against the dark. Down on the Delaware, the waterfront turns itself into an open-air gallery: a six-hundred-pound bell you finish ringing yourself, three schooner sails sewn in memory of a woman who escaped Martha Washington's household.

Indoors, the season refuses to be quieter. At the Art Museum, a single Van Gogh sunflower gets a whole room built around the argument between blue and yellow, while a few halls away the Rocky statue stands inside the building for the first time, surrounded by two thousand years of monuments asking what monuments are even for. On the first Friday of the month, more than thirty Old City galleries open new work at once and stay open late. At the Free Library, a federal prosecutor and a Booker-shortlisted novelist take the same stage on different nights. And underneath nearly all of it runs the same low hum — the country turning two hundred and fifty, and the city that started the whole argument deciding, again, what that's worth.

There is, as ever, more here than the guidebooks let on. A bilingual musical getting its first public reading before it becomes a season headliner two years from now. A choir premiering a cantata about the history of drag. A free drop-in clay workshop where the only requirement is your hands. A roving beer garden that picks a different park each week and pretends, for an evening, to be the countryside.
We gathered the whole month into one place — sorted by category and by date, and checked against the source, because the worst thing a city guide can do is send you somewhere that closed last spring.

So this is June in Philadelphia: the doors off their hinges, the city outside, and more happening than any one person could possibly attend. Which has never once stopped us from trying.
Art Shows
Jun 5
Jun 5
Free (galleries open late)
17:00–21:00

The city's monthly art night: on the first Friday of June, more than 30 Old City galleries open new exhibitions and stay open late, doors propped and the streets full. The simplest answer to whether anything is opening this month.

Venue: Old City Arts District
Address: N 2nd & Market Streets
from June
from June
Free
Pier hours

A towering interactive bell tower that plays “My Country ’Tis of Thee” — up to the very last note, which you complete by pulling a lever to ring the 600-pound bell. Part of the waterfront's free open-air gallery for the Semiquincentennial, from the Association for Public Art.

Venue: Cherry Street Pier
Adress: 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd
through Jul 30
through Jul 30
Free
Pier hours

Indira Allegra sews three schooner sails from historic fabrics and techniques, tracing the lives of Ona Judge — Martha Washington's enslaved seamstress — and late Philadelphia designer Rem’mie Fells. A community procession retraced Judge's escape route; the sails remain on view through summer. (ArtPhilly.)

Venue: Cherry Street Pier / Delaware waterfront
Address: 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd
through Jun 14
through Jun 14
Free
Gallery hours

A large group show at the artist-run Vox Populi where words themselves are the subject — built around Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's “Mouth to Mouth” and Janet Zweig, in dialogue with new work by fourteen regional and international artists.

Venue: Vox Populi
Address: 319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor
through Jun 16
through Jun 16
Free
Gallery hours

A three-person show at the artist-run FJORD where the grid and craft traditions meet a critique of technology on body and place — handmade materials (dyed fabric, tea bags, riso prints) used to question the digital. Grew slowly out of the gallery's open call.

Venue: FJORD (artist-run gallery)
Address: Philadelphia, PA
through Jul 10
through Jul 10
Free
Gallery hours

Blah Blah Gallery's first all-male group show — eleven artists, from Charles Hickey's 3D-pen riffs on art history to Nasir Young's painted storefront church. A deliberate inversion for a gallery that has centered women, queer and gender non-conforming work.

Venue: Blah Blah Gallery
Address: Philadelphia, PA
through Jun 27
through Jun 27
Free
Gallery hours

A research-driven show at Temple Contemporary on cultural literacy in the built environment and the impact of place on American life — 21 artifacts and works across image, audio and data, conceived by public-art researcher Danicia Monét Malone.

Venue: Temple Contemporary · Tyler School of Art
Address: 2001 N 13th Street
from Jun 6
from Jun 6
Included in museum admission · $30 / $26 / $14 · under 18 free · pay-what-you-wish first Sundays & Wednesday evenings

Thu–Sun 10:00–17:00; Fri until 20:45

An intimate exhibition built around one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers — a whole room held together by the dialogue of blue and yellow. Opening right at the start of summer.

Venue: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
through Aug 2
through Aug 2
Included in museum admission · $30 / $26 / $14 · under 18 free

Thu–Sun 10:00–17:00

Curated by Paul Farber of Monument Lab. Over 150 works by 50+ artists across 2,000 years — from ancient sculpture to Warhol, Basquiat and Hank Willis Thomas. The Rocky statue inside the museum for the first time, marking the franchise's 50th anniversary.

Venue: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
through Aug 16
through Aug 16
Included in museum admission · $30 / $26 / $14 · under 18 free

Thu–Sun 10:00–17:00; Fri until 20:45

Sebastian Errazuriz's practice at the intersection of art, craft, design and technology.

Venue: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
through Jul 2027
through Jul 2027
Included in museum admission · $30 / $26 / $14 · under 18 free

Thu–Sun 10:00–17:00; Fri until 20:45

A sweeping show for the country's 250th: three collections of American art (PMA, PAFA and the Middleton Family) trace the story of American making across three centuries.

Venue: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
through Aug 9
through Aug 9
Standard Barnes admission (valid for two days)

Tue–Sun 11:00–17:00

A meditation on memory, dreams and the history of Black America in film, video and installation. Arthur Jafa, David Hartt, Garrett Bradley, Ja'Tovia Gary and Tourmaline. Timed to the Semiquincentennial.

Venue: The Barnes Foundation
Address: 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
through Jan 2027
through Jan 2027
Free (Annenberg Court)

Tue–Sun 11:00–17:00

An 11-panel site-specific installation by Indigenous artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk / Pechanga). Photographic landscapes and copper sheets explore American history and Native land.

Venue: The Barnes Foundation
Address: 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
through Jun 13
through Jun 13
Gallery hours

A solo project by Dan Gunn. Pentimenti remains one of the few places in the city where contemporary art speaks the language of material and experiment. June is the last month to catch it.

Venue: Pentimenti Gallery
Address: 145 N 2nd Street
through Jun 13
through Jun 13
Gallery hours

A group show from the gallery's collection, running alongside Dan Gunn's solo project.

Venue: Pentimenti Gallery
Address: 145 N 2nd Street
through Jul 25
through Jul 25
Free admission · extended hours in June
Gallery hours

37 artists and 42 prints reflect on the state of democracy in the anniversary year. Among them, five masters from Philadelphia's Brandywine Workshop.

Venue: The Print Center
Address: 1614 Latimer Street
through Jun 14
through Jun 14
Free (suggested $10 donation)
Museum hours

27 works by 20 FWM artists-in-residence across four decades — furniture, sculpture, textile, video, photography. A reflection on the complexity of Americanness. The title comes from June Jordan's 1986 essay.

Venue: The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Address: 1214 Arch Street
May 1 – Nov 1
May 1 – Nov 1
Free (suggested $10 donation)
Museum hours

The Elegy Quilts series: personal belongings of people inside the carceral system become portraits of domestic spaces. Debut of the new Riverside quilt, made with Mural Arts Philadelphia.

Venue: The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Address: 1214 Arch Street
through Jul 5
through Jul 5
Free
Studio hours (open seven days a week)

A solo show by Philadelphia's Roberto Lugo: ceramics as a language mixing historical tradition with hip-hop, graffiti and Black history. An apartment-like space where you can sit and leaf through books. Part of Radical Americana.

Venue: The Clay Studio
Address: 1425 N American Street
Jun 11 – Jul 3
Jun 11 – Jul 3
Venue hours

A return to the LGBTQ+ activism, protest and cultural resistance of 1976, the nation's Bicentennial. Photography, ceramics, print and textile by local artists. From the William Way LGBTQ Community Center.

Venue: Huddle 215
Address: 1227 N 4th Street
through Jul 12
through Jul 12
PAFA admission · Woodmere free (donation)
Museum hours

A two-venue figurative-art show organized by curator Robert Cozzolino from the Kohler collection — late 20th- and early 21st-century painting, drawing and sculpture that assert the body as relational, vulnerable and resilient. Woodmere tells the local story (through Jun 7), PAFA the national one (through Jul 12).

Venue: PAFA & Woodmere Art Museum
Address: 128 N Broad Street (PAFA) · 9201 Germantown Ave (Woodmere)
Theatre & Music
through Jul 5
through Jul 5
From $35 (price varies by date) · Young Friends Night Jun 4 · talkbacks Jun 7 & 25

A reimagined staging of the six-Tony-winning musical. Dir. Terrence J. Nolen. Projections and screens show how a single moment grows into a story beyond control. In partnership with NAMI Philadelphia.

Venue: F. Otto Haas Stage, Arden Theatre Company
Address: 40 N 2nd Street
June 14-15
June 14-15
Adults $10 Families $15 · Students $5

Artcinia's community concert series brings high-quality live music directly into Philadelphia neighborhoods, making classical and jazz performances accessible and affordable for everyone. This June marks the organization's 5th Anniversary Season, while the June 14 performance celebrates an important milestone — Artcinia's 200th concert.
What to expect:
  • Intimate community atmosphere
  • Professional musicians
  • Classical and jazz repertoire
  • Neighborhood-focused cultural programming
  • Accessible and welcoming environment for all ages


Venue: F. Otto Haas Stage, Arden Theatre Company
Address:
Germantown, Philadelphia (June 13)
Center City, Philadelphia (June 14)
through Jun 14
through Jun 14
≈ from $30

An Inis Nua Theatre Company production ahead of the FIFA World Cup 26 matches: five very different women build a team for the Homeless World Cup for Scotland — with the speed and thrill of a football match.

Venue: The Proscenium Theatre at The Drake
Address: 302 S Hicks Street
Jun 18–28
Jun 18–28
≈ from $20

Kaged Tiger Productions stages one of Shakespeare's darkest tragedies — what happens when a king divides his kingdom among three daughters.

Venue: The Drake
Address: 302 S Hicks Street
through Jun 28
through Jun 28
≈ from $30

The historical musical classic about the signing of the Declaration of Independence — especially resonant in the country's 250th year. On the stage of the oldest operating theatre in the US.

Venue: Walnut Street Theatre
Address: 825 Walnut Street
Jun 20
Jun 20
≈ from $25

19:00

Alba Martinez's vivid bilingual musical about community, identity and belonging. A concert reading ahead of a full premiere in the 2027/28 season.

Venue: Philadelphia Theatre Company
Address: 480 S Broad Street
Jun 4–7
Jun 4–7
≈ from $35

Jun 4 (19:30), Jun 5 (14:00), Jun 6 (20:00), Jun 7 (14:00)

Yannick Nezet-Seguin closes the orchestra's anniversary season (125 years). Gershwin's Piano Concerto and Bernstein's Jeremiah symphony with West Side Story. Helene Grimaud at the piano.

Venue: Marian Anderson Hall (Kimmel Center)
Address: 300 S Broad Street
Jun 17
Jun 17
≈ from $25 (lawn)

20:00

The orchestra joins Philadelphia's Grammy-winning new-music choir The Crossing for an open-air evening at the Mann — choral and orchestral music under a summer sky.

Venue: TD Pavilion at The Mann
Address: 5201 Parkside Avenue
Jun 26–27
Jun 26–27
From $38

Jun 26 (19:30), Jun 27 (14:00 & 19:30)

The orchestra performs the score live as the film plays on the big screen in Marian Anderson Hall — a format in which familiar cinema sounds entirely new.

Venue: Marian Anderson Hall (Kimmel Center)
Address: 300 S Broad Street
Jun 5
Jun 5
≈ from $35

An evening with well-known drag performers as part of the Ensemble Arts Philly Presents program.

Venue: Kimmel Center
Address: 300 S Broad Street
Jun 5 & 19
Jun 5 & 19
Free

19:00–22:00

A free waterfront jazz series on select Friday evenings under the lights: Hiruy Tirfe on June 5, Mervin Toussaint on June 19, with select dates curated by Jazz Philadelphia.

Venue: Spruce Street Harbor Park
Address: 301 S Columbus Blvd
Jun 18–20
Jun 18–20
≈ from $25

19:00

Philadelphia's LGBTQ+ choir premieres a genre-defying cantata by drag artist Cookie Diorio and composer Andrea Clearfield — a meditation on the history of drag and its power to challenge systems and spark change.

Venue: Wilma Theater
Address: 265 S Broad Street
Cinema
Jun 5
Jun 5
Free (suggested $10 donation) · rain date Jun 6

19:00 music & DJ; 21:00 screening

An evening on independent journalism with Video Consortium Philly: the world premiere of Abolition Conversations: Episode 1 and Amy Goodman's documentary Steal This Story, Please! Open-air cinema at Clark Park.

Venue: The Bowl at Clark Park (cinéSPEAK)
Address: 4350 Chester Avenue
Jun 12
Jun 12
Free (suggested $10 donation) · rain date Saturday

19:00 music & DJ; 21:00 screening

Week three of the open-air summer film series. Independent cinema, live music, food trucks and neighborhood initiatives. This year's theme is community resilience.

Venue: The Bowl at Clark Park (cinéSPEAK)
Address: 4350 Chester Avenue
Jun 16
Jun 16
≈ $12–$15

19:00–21:00

Late Herzog: a misfit flees Berlin for the American backwoods of Wisconsin, where the new world proves cruel in its own way. One of the director's strangest and most aching films.

Venue: Lightbox Film Center (Bok Building)
Address: 320 S Broad Street
Jun 18
Jun 18
≈ $12–$15

19:00–21:00

Czechoslovak New Wave icon Juraj Herz: an eerie, darkly comic vision of the horrors of Nazi ideology. A 1930s Prague crematorium director becomes convinced death is the only deliverance from suffering.

Venue: Lightbox Film Center (Bok Building)
Address: 320 S Broad Street
Jun 19
Jun 19
Free (suggested $10 donation) · rain date Saturday

19:00 music & DJ; 21:00 screening

The final week of the Under the Stars festival. A season close on the bowl at Clark Park.

Venue: The Bowl at Clark Park (cinéSPEAK)
Address: 4350 Chester Avenue
Festivals & Social
May 27 – July 4
May 27 – July 4
The biggest new arts initiative in Philadelphia's America250 year. More than 30 newly commissioned projects and over 100 events spread throughout the city, including exhibitions, performances, installations, film screenings, music, dance, theater, food projects, and public art. The festival asks one central question: "What Now?" and invites artists to reflect on America's past and future. 

What to expect:
  • Large-scale public art
  • Site-specific performances
  • Contemporary dance
  • Experimental theater
  • Artist talks
  • Film screenings
  • Neighborhood-based art projects
  • Strong local artist representation
Location:Citywide across Philadelphia, with hubs in Old City, Kensington, Germantown, University City, Kingsessing, Parkside, and South Broad Street
Jun 2
Jun 2
Free

11:00 (arrivals 10:30)

Philadelphia opens Pride Month with the official kick-off and flag ceremony at the Sofitel, tying this year's celebrations to the nation's 250th — the freedom to be out and proud in the birthplace of America.

Venue: Sofitel Philadelphia at Rittenhouse Square
Address: 120 S 17th Street
Jun 4–7
Jun 4–7
Free admission

The oldest outdoor fine art show in the country, in its 99th year. Over 1,240 professional artists in booths ringing Rittenhouse Square: painting, drawing, print, sculpture.

Venue: Rittenhouse Square
Address: 18th & Walnut Streets
Jun 4
Jun 4
Free entry · $1–$5 deals

17:00–20:00

The 16th year of this beloved stroll along University City's main thoroughfare: $1, $3 and $5 deals from local vendors and businesses between 40th and 51st Streets.

Venue: Baltimore Avenue (University City)
Address: Baltimore Ave, 40th–51st Streets
Jun 5

Jun 5

Free

12:00–13:00

The giant Pride flag goes up on City Hall's north apron to open Pride Weekend, under the banner “Raising Our Pride, Honoring Our Legacy, Building Our Future.”

Venue: City Hall (north apron)
Address: Broad Street & JFK Boulevard
Jun 5

Jun 5

Ticketed (see Philly Pride 365)

19:00–23:00

Philly Pride 365 opens Pride Weekend with its Promenade and L.U.V. Awards at the Art Museum — an evening honoring Legacy, Unity and Valor under the theme “Pride Is Power.”

Venue: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Address: 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy
Jun 6

Jun 6

Free

16:00–20:00

A 21+ Gayborhood-wide evening that turns the neighborhood pedestrian-friendly: bars, restaurants and gardens with curated programming, centered on the Gayborhood itself rather than the Parkway.

Venue: The Gayborhood
Address: 13th & Locust Streets
Jun 7

Jun 7

March free · festival $10

March 11:00; festival 12:00–19:00

Pride under the banner Pride is Power moves onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the first time. Three stages, LGBTQ+ vendors, food trucks, a new Maker's Tent, a Patti LaBelle tribute. The march starts in the Gayborhood.

Venue: Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Address: Benjamin Franklin Pkwy / Eakins Oval
Jun 13

Jun 13

Free

14:00–20:00

The opening of the PECO Multicultural Series season — a celebration of Islamic culture on Cherry Street Pier by the Delaware: music, food, crafts and family activities.

Venue: Cherry Street Pier
Address: 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd
Jun 13–14

Jun 13–14

≈ $10–$15 · see site

A Flag Day celebration: immersive tours, reenactments, a Philadelphia Heritage Chorale concert (Jun 13) and the ceremonial first public unveiling of a new artifact (Jun 14).

Venue: Betsy Ross House
Address: 239 Arch Street
Jun 7–14

Jun 7–14

Free admission

Festival Day Jun 14, 10:00–20:00; week of events Jun 7–13

The largest African American street festival in North America, in its 51st year. 16 blocks, two stages, 100+ vendors, up to 500,000 guests. A sacred procession to the Schuylkill River. Finale headliner: Bell Biv DeVoe.

Venue: 23rd & South Street
Address: 23rd & South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146
Jun 19

Jun 19

Free

12:00–17:00

The opening of the 16-day Wawa Welcome America festival and the African American Museum's 50th anniversary. Headliner: DJ Jazzy Jeff. A vendor village of Black businesses, food trucks, family activities, panels and speakers.

Venue: African American Museum in Philadelphia
Address: 701 Arch Street
Jun 20–22

Jun 20–22

Free

A new three-day festival in the Centennial District — on the site of the 1876 World's Fair. Headliner: Philadelphia's Pink Sweat$. Performances, exhibits, an opening fireworks display.

Venue: Centennial District, Fairmount Park
Address: Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA
Jun 25

Jun 25

Free

A headline concert by the Philadelphia-born, Grammy-winning artist in honor of Black Music Month, with fireworks. Part of Wawa Welcome America.

Venue: The Dell Music Center
Address: 2400 Strawberry Mansion Drive
Jun 27

Jun 27

Free

One of the city's largest celebrations of Latin American art and culture. Headliner: Olga Tañón. Part of Wawa Welcome America.

Venue: TBA
Address: Philadelphia, PA
Jun 27–28
Jun 27–28
Free admission

Sat 11:00–19:00; Sun 11:00–17:00

The 37th year of the region's largest outdoor juried art festival. ~300 artists across eight disciplines on Manayunk's Main Street, an Emerging Artist Tent, food and live demos. Rain or shine.

Venue: Main Street, Manayunk
Address: Main Street, Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA
Jun 30

Jun 30

Free

A free orchestra concert as part of the Pride program. Hosted by Trixie Mattel. The closing note of June's celebrations.

Venue: Kimmel Center
Address: 300 S Broad Street
all summer

all summer

Free to enter

Daily (opens May 22)

The waterfront's most colorful summer hangout returns — hammocks, floating gardens, technicolor lights and live music along the Delaware. Free to enter, open daily.

Venue: Spruce Street Harbor Park
Address: 301 S Columbus Blvd
June (roving)

June (roving)

Pay as you go

Evenings (see schedule)

Philadelphia's traveling beer garden moves through a different city park each week — craft beer, food trucks, lawn games and picnic tables in a pop-up bucolic oasis.

Venue: Roving — various Philadelphia parks
Address: Various locations
Skills
Jun 1

Jun 1

Free

17:30

A conversation with Anndee Hochman about her book Parent Trip and 21st-century families — frank, funny and real stories of how all kinds of families come to be.

Venue: Free Library — Falls of Schuylkill Library
Address: 3501 Midvale Avenue
Jun 2

Jun 2

$5

19:00

Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade in conversation with Zane Memeger on how to confront corruption in government. Part of the Author Events Series.

Venue: Free Library — Parkway Central Library
Address: 1901 Vine Street
Jun 4

Jun 4

$35 (includes book)

19:00

The #1 New York Times bestselling author (The Midnight Library) presents a new novel — a magical, time-travelling love story. In conversation with Katy Waldman of The New Yorker.

Venue: Free Library — Parkway Central Library
Address: 1901 Vine Street
Jun 8

Jun 8

Free

18:00

Dr. Brian Kwoba presents his book on Hubert Harrison — winner of the 2026 Frantz Fanon award. On the forgotten genius of Black radicalism.

Venue: Free Library — Parkway Central Library
Address: 1901 Vine Street
Jun 8

Jun 8

%25-40


Dr. Brian Kwoba presents his book on Hubert Harrison — winner of the 2026 Frantz Fanon award. On the forgotten genius of Black radicalism.

FringeArts
140 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA
Jun 9

Jun 9

$5

19:00

Harvard political scientist Danielle Allen on her revisionist study: how an English duke and Thomas Paine nearly brought the American Revolution to Britain. Timed to the 250th.

Venue: Free Library — Parkway Central Library
Address: 1901 Vine Street
Jun 10

Jun 10

Free

12:30

A guided tour of the America Today exhibition: contemporary prints from six mission-driven workshops across the country and their role in the conversation about democracy.

Venue: The Print Center
Address: 1614 Latimer Street
Jun 13

Jun 13

Free

12:30

A Saturday guided tour of America Today. In June the gallery is open Sundays 11:00–18:00 (extended hours).

Venue: The Print Center
Address: 1614 Latimer Street
Jun 17

Jun 17

$5

19:00

The acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh on a new novel where past and present collide. In conversation with Brooke O'Harra.

Venue: Free Library — Parkway Central Library
Address: 1901 Vine Street
Jun 18

Jun 18

Free

11:00

An open house in the Print and Picture Collection: artifacts, maps, photographs and documents that have shaped the country since its founding. Timed to the 250th.

Venue: Free Library — Print and Picture Collection
Address: 1901 Vine Street
Jun 26

Jun 26

Free

17:30

An evening guided tour of the contemporary-print exhibition — easy to drop in after work. Free admission.

Venue: The Print Center
Address: 1614 Latimer Street
all June
all June
Free · drop-in, schedule on site

A free drop-in handbuilding workshop for all ages: teaching artists help you create your own ceramic piece (ready in 2–4 weeks). Supported by PNC Arts Alive.

Venue: The Clay Studio
Address: 1425 N American Street