Upcoming Events

CHARITY STARTS AT HOME NADINE RUFF
This project serves as a bold reminder for artists to remain dangerous while safeguarding their well-being. CHARITY STARTS AT HOME NADINE RUFF exemplifies the intensity of an artist ready to be unleashed, serving as a powerful reminder to remain relentless and unapologetic in pursuing our craft, despite the ways the divisive and cult-like art world encourages us to silo ourselves.

Long Shot
Experimental comedy featuring never before seen pieces from your favorite performers, artists, clowns and comedians.

Black Box Presents: QUEERNOIR III
QUEERNOIR celebrates its third iteration on February 28th! Ishtar Sr. in collaboration with Vox Populi Gallery presents a free night of Philadelphia’s best Black queer music.

Black Future Month Chapter 002: The Voice
Our voice, our power, our future.
On February 15th at 5 PM, join us at the iconic Vox Populi Gallery for an afternoon designed to unify, uplift, and inspire. This Black Future Month event honors the voices of the past, the present, and those shaping the future.

Black Box Presents: Sunset Seduction
Join South Philly Autonomous Cinema at Vox Populi on March 6 for Sunset Seduction, a 45-minute film by Charles de Agustin, followed by an extended discussion. Made amid the 2024 Palestine solidarity movement, the film unpacks the elite capture of radical politics, the seductive contradictions of philanthropy, and the responsibilities of cultural workers in systems of power.


Creative Economies Workshop: How to Book a Tour
Whether you are a musician, a writer or a performance artist, a tour may be a great option for your work to get more exposure than your immediate community. Maybe you’ve received an invitation on the other side of the country and must find a few more performances to make the trip financially viable. These, amongst many others, are amazing reasons to go on tour. The booking of a tour can be a lengthy, tedious process but can be manageable with the right tools and strategies.
Las Cosas Que Brillan Fundraiser
🌊✨ Dive into Marisol’s magical world at the Las Cosas Que Brillan Fundraiser! Join us for a night of dancing, drag, and mermaid magic on Saturday, March 22nd, at Vox Populi—don’t miss the chance to sparkle and support this visionary film! 🎥💃

CHARITY STARTS AT HOME NADINE RUFF
This project serves as a bold reminder for artists to remain dangerous while safeguarding their well-being. CHARITY STARTS AT HOME NADINE RUFF exemplifies the intensity of an artist ready to be unleashed, serving as a powerful reminder to remain relentless and unapologetic in pursuing our craft, despite the ways the divisive and cult-like art world encourages us to silo ourselves.

CHARITY STARTS AT HOME NADINE RUFF
This project serves as a bold reminder for artists to remain dangerous while safeguarding their well-being. CHARITY STARTS AT HOME NADINE RUFF exemplifies the intensity of an artist ready to be unleashed, serving as a powerful reminder to remain relentless and unapologetic in pursuing our craft, despite the ways the divisive and cult-like art world encourages us to silo ourselves.

Valentines’s Gay
Hey baby, got any plans this Valentine’s Day? Come solo or bring your pals to QAW’s Valentine’s Gay at Vox Populi.

live,,evil: poets and sound
live,,evil : poets and sound
poets: myene yanu, olga mikolaivna, colin russell
sound: ceremonial abyss

Every time i speak I shatter the worlds wholeness volume 2
Vox Populi Gallery 2.2.25 welcome Amsterdam-based musician Asa Horvitz and friends performing works from their stunning piece “Ghost” inspired by a fathers memory … Drink Honey that is provided by an art gallery to meditate on the psycho-spiritual effects of nature (*inspired by a commune my dad lived on where they did this) … hear the greatest band, Terra Cotta who are teasing a wonderful new album

The Dumb Show
This show will be an absurd comedy experience. There may be scandal, wrestling, conspiracy, science, jam making, lectures about men named Michael, props, rain, and or more!
It will be dumb.

Benefit for Anakbayan
This Friday in the Black Box! A collection of homies lighting up the night in celebration of the sounds of the underground. All proceeds going to organizing efforts by Anakbayan Philly @anakbayanphilly
Classic house brought to you by @ashana.dj (spice wave) @spicewaveevents & @sea__of__worry (Homies helping homies) @homies.helping.homies
Poster by @celsource_
Doors 9:30
$5-10 notaflof
21+

Healing in Color: A Queer and Trans Survivor Photo Exhibit and Community Building Experience
The exhibition features intimate photographs that capture moments of healing, interactive installations for personal reflection, and compelling research insights about resilience in our communities. Visitors will explore the six dimensions of healing through both artistic expression and scholarly understanding.

World Again presents Bark Culture & Nout Duo (France)
Join us on January 13th for Bark Culture and Nout (French flute & drums duo).
Nout will be in the US playing at NYC Winter Jazz Festival and will be coming through Philadelphia for a free performance alongside Philly’s own Bark Culture.
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sort of Light* [LIVE]
If you’re lost, look up—the Light is your guiding star:)
On January 11, join us for the sort of Light record release party for inutech at Vox Populi, with DJ sets from wrench, HEEMONOMICS, JEWELSSEA, and mt saint michael . Doors at 8:30PM, music at 9 PM!


1st Annual Graduation: An Audio Visual Experience
Creative collective “FrattHouse U” is curating an art experience showcasing & celebrating some of the works of its members. The multi-media artists invite you to immerse yourself in community, creativity, & energy like no other. There will be exclusives, early access & surprises that you won’t want to miss. Come join us for what will be an unforgettable time.

BARE: Stripped Down Cabaret Performances & Interviews
Moldavite Productions presents BARE. This is cabaret at its most authentic—no masks, no filters, just pure expression. Get ready for a night like no other—where the boundaries between performer and audience, emotion and art, are stripped away.

Queer Speed Dating for Gaza
Join Queers for Palestine Philly at Vox Populi on Friday December 13 from 7PM-9PM for a sweet night of sharing space with fellow queers over drinks, food, and speed dating!

HALLOWEEN IS: CHRISTMAS
Come celebrate the rebirth of chaos, laughter, and a Witch-centric worldview with us— at an immersive Saturnalian party/performance.

The Feast
RUN IT BACK: A Comedy Show of Memories and Eggs
Comedy’s greatest hits (and misses) make a triumphant, yolk-filled return! Betty Smithsonian and pals revisit their most iconic old bits, sharing the backstories and juicy details behind each one. You will want to make sure to stick around for the grand finale!

Chrysalis
Chrysalis returns to Vox Populi with a lineup guaranteed to liquefy the mind and transfigure the body with a genre-defiant night of contemporary bass, techno and club music. We’re thrilled to be joined by Piezo, Italy’s mad scientist of the bass music sphere, and ADAB and Opheliaxz, two deft artisans of the Philadelphia club landscape.

The Feast
The Feast is back November 21st! Hosted By Liam Paris and Leah Sorrentino, Come to Vox Populi for a 100 course meal of Experimental comedy that will leave you stuffed! This month we have a tantalizing play by Liam Paris and Andrew Shearer – Gummo 3: When Gummo met Tár, and New York Sweetheart Ben Wasserman will be debuting a new show, Ben Wasserman: I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This Stuff Out Loud! It’s gonna be a night that leaves you stuffed

Rhythm of Reflection: PAAFF’s closing weekend party
Join PAAFF for their closing weekend party, “Rhythm of Reflection” featuring AANHPI DJ’s from NYC and LA and Philadelphia’s very own drag artist Asia Monroe! You can purchase tickets at www.paaff.org

PAAF: Weeds By The River
Join us for the U.S. Premiere of Ayong Gao’s film “Weeds by the River”. You can purchase tickets at www.paaff.org

PAAF: Daughters of Monster Magnet
Join us for the Philadelphia Premiere of Kosaku Horiwaki’s sci-fi adventure film “Daughters of Monster Magnet”. Kosaku will be present for a post screening Q&A. Purchase tickets at www.paaff.org

Beautiful Sound and Sight
A night to celebrate Philadelphia dance music and night life. Goyle and Scim will kick things off with an extended live set followed by DJ sets from local selector’s Random White Girl and Inna. Sound and light by [sic]

Cabinet Of: Vox’s $99 Exhibition Preview Event
Get the first look at Cabinet Of by reserving your spot at this special preview event!

Charlie Victor Romeo
Just in time for Halloween! Don’t miss the rarely screened, unconventional horror film the New York Times’ A.O. Scott called “one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen.”

Pomological: Poison Apples and Fallen Fruit
We are eating apples in the end of times. Through discussion and producing fruit leather from salvaged fallen apples, this workshop ruminates on apples in mythical, cultural, and biological contexts

NO BREAKFAST presented by Theater By Development (Copy) (Copy)
A bad boy, a mean girl, and the new girl in school are stuck in detention. They are left to their own devices to somehow learn their lessons... except there are no phones allowed. In true high school fashion– anxiety, identity crises, and boners hide between the bookshelves. It’s not another teen movie... it’s the prom night baby of No Exit and the Breakfast Club.

NO BREAKFAST presented by Theater By Development (Copy)
A bad boy, a mean girl, and the new girl in school are stuck in detention. They are left to their own devices to somehow learn their lessons... except there are no phones allowed. In true high school fashion– anxiety, identity crises, and boners hide between the bookshelves. It’s not another teen movie... it’s the prom night baby of No Exit and the Breakfast Club.

NO BREAKFAST presented by Theater By Development
A bad boy, a mean girl, and the new girl in school are stuck in detention. They are left to their own devices to somehow learn their lessons... except there are no phones allowed. In true high school fashion– anxiety, identity crises, and boners hide between the bookshelves. It’s not another teen movie... it’s the prom night baby of No Exit and the Breakfast Club.

Weaving Temporal Realities
Weave Temporal Realities by excavating nonlinear time structures of memory, seashells, water, and textiles through Black & Indigenous liberatory traditions – crafting a personalized time-map and co-creating a manifesto for dismantling oppressive time-systems.

An Oh Yeah Cool Premiere: Green Spaces
Oh Yeah Cool presents the immersive premiere event for their newest short film, the psychological thriller Green Spaces. Down on her luck Ronnie gets the opportunity of a lifetime when her aunt passes away, only to discover that the land she inherits keeps a terrifying secret.