from every river to every sea: screening and artist talk

You are invited to a full screening of interdisciplinary artist Rami George’s from every river to every sea (2026), followed by a post-screening artist talk exploring what it means to archive mass mobilizations for Palestine and the artist’s experimentation with these images as a new artistic endeavor. Samantha Rise will join the artist for a conversation about the intersections of art and community organizing.

This special screening will feature the work’s full sound component, which will not be available during the exhibition’s regular screening hours.

Rami George (b. 1989, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Lenapehoking in what is now called Philadelphia. They have exhibited and screened broadly and remain motivated by political struggles and fractured narratives.

samantha rise (any pronouns) is a black, gender-expansive musician and teaching artist in Philadelphia. Weaving folk, jazz, blues, and americana lineages with the black radical tradition, rise connects art and activism in performances and songs concerned with social justice, joy, and community. From traditional performance venues to community gatherings and direct action and demonstrations, Rise performs as a solo artist, with musical collaborators, and as part of experimental theater and cabaret projects. Rise is a 2023 Pew Fellow.

The Parallel Play Symposium, presented as part of the six-week Collective Futures festival, is a two-day gathering of artists, scholars, organizers, and cultural workers exploring the practices, histories, and conditions that sustain collective cultural production. Through free panels, workshops, and performative presentations, participants will examine the cultural significance of collective art-making and artist-run spaces while sharing strategies for building and maintaining collaborative cultural infrastructures.

Organized around thematic tracks—including How To: Collective Tools & Tactics, Relational Infrastructures, “Have You Seen the ___?”: Memory and Collective Spaces, and Playground: Place, Ecology & Entanglement—the symposium will feature workshops, panels, performances, and conversations presented by ATUOMAT Collective, Luster Gallery + Studio, Obvious Agency, Vox Populi, Termite TV Collective, All Mutable, FORTUNE, FJORD, Big Ramp, Da Vinci Art Alliance, cinéSPEAK, Practice Gallery, and many other collaborators.

Registration is required for each session.

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Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine St, Philadelphia, United States

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