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@phillyreincarnated 2025 slam team performing their poem “Submit” at southern fried 2025 poetry festival

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@thesanguinesage
@mafiakiyah
@safiniara

#phillypoetry #southernfried #slampoetry

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Our team is full of talented artists! Make sure to check out our staff spotlight in the Project Space. Not pictured, animations by Jacob Bruckheim, our Business Development intern.

1. Intisar Hamilton @iamintisar , Membership Coordinator, (left) stands by their install
2. Photos by Keith Yahrling @keithyahrling , Director of Fine Art Services
3. Drawings by Janine Wheatley, Administrative Assistant
4. Weavings by Corinne Frankenfield @hey_corinne , Development Director
5. Artwork By Makiyah Adams @mafiakiyah , Curatorial Assistant/Fellow

#tiltinstitute #artistssupportartists #phillyartscene #secondthursdayphilly

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Thank you to everyone who made it out to our family portrait day @iloveourhouse! Check out these beautiful photos and tintypes taken by @yeahmanphotos and @elizabethkelly_art. Our final event in the community artist partnership series is this Sunday at the Tanner House from noon til 3PM. We’ll be screen-printing t-shirts and tote bags uplifting contemporary social movements with @justinjkellerart and @ummyesiwouldlikethatone! There’ll also be interactive activities exploring land justice with @decolonizephilly and @saudeeahh, as well as free pizza and wings from @downnorth_pizza. Link in our bio to register!

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i decided to abandon trying to post in chronological order. too many of the pictures from my senior year still make me sad to look at. so instead lets talk about summer. how the hurt oozed out of me and the light seeped through. these were taken on two beautiful days in early june or late may. i remember what it felt like being in my mother’s house trying to teach myself how to breathe again after graduating. i taught myself for maybe 2 days straight, until it turned into a week, until i could finally go back into the world and feel like a weight lifted.

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this summer was so damn chaotic we forgot to share the things we got into 🤭 here’s some pics from porch fest back in June! thank you to everyone who came to our sun-printing workshop or listened to @sade_abiodun perform a really sweet balcony set ❤️

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(Please note I was violently sick on graduation day when these pictures were taken)

I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Ithaca 2023.

It feels strange to write an epilogue to my adolescence….having only spent 3 semesters on the campus of Ithaca. During the past four years I’ve been re-shaped by my surroundings(people + places) and constantly my surroundings have changed. I attempted to build stability with a ladder made of tadpoles.

When you find solace with a face full of vomit homeless on a beach in Barcelona, then the impossible feels slightly more achievable on an elliptical.

I lived in an apartment alone eating nothing but free cake from PB for a year and met two step sisters in NYC before getting kicked out of a Christmas party because of a wet bath mat. I kicked a hole in a wall and blamed a dégagé. I learned my parents are only human.
I learned CEEF.

Before this existed, I’d sit with the country lesbian(who taught me acceptance), Jewish writer(who taught me resilience), and competitive sophisticate(who taught me class) in the Cornell bathrooms planning when I’d transfer. I couldn’t transfer; the world ended. I took on a second major.
Jeanette stayed constant.

I found my first community in Hillel(Birthright, Bo-Nitzor, and Rye Bread) then APoA(115 person staffed mini-series) in hopes of finding the found family I’d had in theatre for years. It appeared in the form it appeared and thank you for that. I’m so mad I didn’t get to see In Absentina. I grew. I got to act again, direct, and was forced to produce through a need to create.

In film, it was an educational science and leading the education forefront was the NYU pants genius and the ever impressive LC. I am not cinematically me without knowing what I know from you.

I scattered myself in Europe with the theatre department before learning to believe in my abilities in LA. I will always be scattered and nervous, but it comes from a confident excitement. I learned there isn’t always a “right” answer while in Israel and found “love” in Paris. I rode an electronic unicorn while drinking Kava in Ithaca.

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Senior week, survivor, season finale. Words cannot express….☔️🏴‍☠️🫣🫡😮‍💨🫠😏🙃🦘❄️🌨️🍑🛵🧩not the graduation post.

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Thank you for being one of my favorites, 2022 :)
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I have so many other pictures that I wanted to include (some that I’ve already posted) but I want to say how grateful I am for my family, friends, and for the people I’ve met along the way. 2022 has been one of my favorite years (each year seems to get better). I love you all. I suppose I should also thank myself for not giving up and always striving to try something new. I have to say I’m proud of myself and wanted to reflect that in this fun lil post. Looking forward to 2023 🤍🪩

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an eventful semester some would say😏😋

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My least favorite part of aging is the ability to form thoughts novel to myself…..for example: 4 years ago I didn’t know he existed. I could have never fathomed his existence. It starts from the fact that the girl who I sometimes spoke to, who did the scene with Burke in acting 1, is my current housemate….reality is shattered as the security of friend groups I forcefully erected no longer survive. I forgot to water them. The concept sourly lives in my head; just there. A trio of three was repeated in the form of a clown noir and almost instantly reversed skin and bone. She can be a bully and they ground me without intention. He was she was? A walk to Cornell or a boba trip. Kava. The fox sign. He wears pearls. He punched a hole in his wall and understands his lack of connection. Bath Matt’s and 2 hour drives. I lived alone and sold the house. The fridge was full of cake. It had first felt as if we just left high school, then a hiccup, and a hiccup, and an attempt, and I escaped to London, and now I need to face the fact it ends. I still am waiting for it to start. In conclusion, I don’t want to leave. I did not know he existed. I could never have expected this. My perception of self is irrationally malleable and that terrifies me. I always assumed I could hang onto my rational stability as a life line while the world re-shaped; yet he also transforms moment to moment. If he changes in the moment then he disappears in the long run. He threw up in the Turkey trot. He did it again…he was a first year last time. What is stable? Please. He a chameleon.
The mid-season 4 finale saw the departure of self proclaimed fan favorite…it was a fun.

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Four Green Wall’s mask the Star and the Space Around Thalia’s anniversary. Thalia, Four Green Walls, The Star and the Black Space Around It, and Anniversary. 4 amazing weeks of four amazing films with incredible teams!!! Excited for the next one….rain is good for corn….Do you feel Anger? Sponsored by CTB.

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I left Ogygia for a reason….Season four is a sitcom. Jacob makes a compelling Kramer…Joji is a nuisance and Quack House represent! Liz R is a blessing and the dog/basement locked up. Do you ever just wear a “White crop top, Jean shorts, and boots.” Thesis progress? Wear blue on Friday. My electric bike lights on fire when I plug it in. President Coado is using OUR money to build an oil pipeline in the middle of Ithaca College and Homer did us dirty.

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