11OCT

ARTZ Notes: Fun in the Sun with MB Singley

Event Registration Link: Register here.
Locations Details: In-person
Name of Venue: Woodmere Art Museum
 9201 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118
Date and Time: 10/11/2025 1:30 PM
Brief Description of Event: Join us on October 11th at 1:30 pm (ET) at Woodmere for a special in-person ARTZ Notes program! After you register, we will send you information and instructions.

Please note: If we have inclement weather on the 11th, this program will be rescheduled for the following week, October 18th, at the same time.

Join ARTZ Notes curator and lead facilitator Keisha Hutchins Hirlinger and Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist and musician MB Singley (an ARTZ Notes favorite!) for a very special in-person ARTZ Notes program in the outdoor classroom at Woodmere.

This workshop is all about having fun in the sun while singing along to some of your favorite tunes. We’ll take a stroll on the boardwalk, and get some ice cream…or maybe dip our toes in the sand after we do a little surfing! All you need for this workshop is a willingness to have a good time, so grab your sunglasses and I’ll meet you on the sunny side of the street!

MB explores the human condition through story, song and audience engagement. She has self-produced three albums of original music and she can be heard on John Legend’s Grammy-nominated debut album, Get Lifted. In 2020, MB premiered her one-woman show about growing up as a black woman in the United States, Turn, at the Kimmel Center.

ARTZ Notes invites you to come together with other participants to listen to music, make your own, and engage with each other and the performers. ARTZ Notes offers music and experiences as diverse as our participants. We are exploring different options including facilitating live performances paired with conversations, interactive improvisation and sing-alongs, and conversations and movement around pre-recorded music of all genres.

Admission is free with RSVP!

But we ask that you make your reservation(s) as early as possible. We keep our programs small and intimate in scale so that everyone feels comfortable and at ease. Reservations are first come, first served.

Accessibility, transit and parking:
Woodmere is wheelchair accessible, and there is parking onsite.

The Museum is also accessible via public transit:

By train: From 30th Street Station, Center City Philadelphia, take the R8 Chestnut Hill West train to the end of the line. This leaves you on Germantown Avenue. Go left up Germantown Ave. for about 1 mile to Woodmere (on your right).

By bus: The L bus will take you from the Chestnut Hill West train station to within a 3 minute walk of Woodmere’s doors. Visit septa.org to find updated schedules and information.

For additional directions and information about visiting Woodmere: https://woodmereartmuseum.org/visit
Type of Event: Social
For more information or questions about this event, please contact: ARTZ Philadelphia

1NOV

ARTZ Notes: Music is Medicine Visualization and Instrumental Acoustic Guitar with Raji Malik

Event Registration Link: Register here.
Locations Details: In-person
Name of Venue: Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
 8000 St Martins Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19118
Date and Time: 11/01/2025 1:30 PM
Brief Description of Event: Join us on November 1st at 1:30 pm (ET) for a special in-person ARTZ Notes program at the Houston Room at Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. After you register, we will send you information and instructions.

Raji Malik is a self-taught guitarist/musician who has been playing and performing in the Philadelphia area for over 30 years, with influences ranging from Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) to David Gilmore (Pink Floyd) , to Indian Classical music traditions and finger styles of yesterday and today. Raji believes in the power of music to heal and bring centering and peace. He writes,“All of our actions ripple out into the world, and kindness has medicinal powers just like music. These sound waves are intended to reduce stress and create a sense of spaciousness in our interior world so that we may more easily recognize our interconnection.”

This program will combine performance and interactive elements where participants can share their thoughts and feelings about the music. Each musical piece has an invitation to engage in a physical, emotional, or spiritual healing visualization.

This will be a calming and heart opening musical experience.

ARTZ Notes invites you to come together with other participants to listen to music, make your own, and engage with each other and the performers. ARTZ Notes offers music and experiences as diverse as our participants. We are exploring different options including facilitating live performances paired with conversations, interactive improvisation and sing-alongs, and conversations and movement around pre-recorded music of all genres.

Admission is free with RSVP!

But we ask that you make your reservation(s) as early as possible. We keep our programs small and intimate in scale so that everyone feels comfortable and at ease. Reservations are first come, first served.

Accessibility, Transit, and Parking

The Houston Room at St. Martin’s is fully ADA accessible. An ADA accessible bathroom is also available on the St. martin’s campus.

Parking is available in a gravel lot at across the street from the church building at Willow Grove & St. Martin’s Lane. There are some handicap spaces out front and participants are also welcome to use the driveway to get dropped off right at the front door. There is also parking available at SEPTA’s St. Martin station (1/2 block away on Willow Grove Ave.), in the science building lot at SCH Academy, and on the streets surrounding St. Martin’s.

St. Martin’s is just a few steps from the St. Martin’s stop of SEPTA’s Chestnut Hill West line (formerly the R8 line). Walk up the hill, toward the overpass, and make a left. The church is ahead on your right at the first intersection.
Type of Event: Social
For more information or questions about this event, please contact: ARTZ Philadelphia