Posted inDISABILITY Education ENVIRONMENT
Come volunteer! Northwest Philadelphia
A neighborhood church hosts an event to connect volunteers with community, social service and environmental organizations in Germantown and Mt. Airy.
Posted inART BUILDINGS Construction
We build a mudhif
Iraqi refugees, U.S. Iraqi war vets, nature and peace lovers combine forces to build a mudhif, a traditional community gathering place and guest house of the swamp Arabs of Iraq.
Posted inANIMALS Education Life and Death
Ewe lamb – just 10 minutes old! 🐑
As your correspondent was taking a break from some landscaping work at the Weavers Way Farm located at W.B. Saul Agricultural high school, Gail Koskela, a large animal science teacher…
Dance movement therapist helps kids
Dancer and dance therapist Morgan Rakay defines dance movement therapy as the psychotherapeutic use of movement or integration of the mind, body and perhaps, spirit. In different contexts, it looks…
Posted inAfrican-American Education ENTERTAINMENT
Germantown celebrates Juneteenth freedom from slavery
At Philadelphia's Juneteenth celebration in Germantown, Iraina Salaam performs a libation ceremony in honor of African ancestors as members and Boy Scout Troop 1719 and the Tyehimba drum group also take part in the street festival celebration
Posted inCHESTNUT HILL Education HEALTH
Eye surgeon walks through cataract surgery
An eye surgeon walks through the modern procedure of removing a cataract and implanting a new lens.
Posted inAfrican-American Current Affairs Education
Palestine Teach-In draws hundreds in Philly
From the Facebook Event Page "Join us on June 30 for our Palestine teach-in! This event brings together an amazing group of scholars, organizers, activists, and teachers for a day…
Posted inAfrican-American ART Children
Painting like Pollock, campers have fun
Campers, young and old, splash, throw and blow paint on large canvases in the style of abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock.
TCNJ alumni day, 104 year old + the Travers 5
The “Travers 5” students at Trenton State College in Ewing, New Jersey were an “intentional democratic community” of young men and women on the fifth floor of the Travers dorm…
Career day features sound engineer, pet groomer, funeral director and more
On career day school students were visited by representatives from many professions including a live concert sound engineer, a funeral director and a pet groomer