PHonk! 2022
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We currently have a 1:1 match - ALL DONATIONS WILL BE DOUBLED!
Help bring a free, all-ages arts and music festival to FDR Park!
All funds go toward honoraria for artists, art and event supplies, and travel and housing for our visiting band from Chile.
$20 donations get you a PHonk! swag bundle available for pick up at the merch table the day of the event.
This year's PHonk!Philly festival will take place at FDR Park on Sunday, October 23, 2022 from 12pm to 6pm. A main stage will host performances from Afro-Latinx, Chinese, Chilean, Brazilian, Klezmer, Korean, Filipino, and LGBTQ+ community groups. An Arts & Crafts tent organized by University City Arts League will provide all-ages art activities and demos throughout the day alongside environmental demonstrations by community partners. Live mural painting by local artists will be incorporated throughout the physical space, and a satellite Southeast Asian Food Market will offer tasty refreshments.
Location: FDR Park, picnic areas 19, 20, 21
Food: Southeast Asian Food Market and Satellite Market, produced by LiSmith Dumplings
Themes: International Harvest Celebrations, Environmental Justice and Sustainability, and Food Sovereignty
Community Partners
- Friends of FDR Park
- University City Arts League
- Audubon Mid-Atlantic, The Discovery Center
- Headlong Performance Institute
- Disability Pride PA
- LiSmith Dumplings
- Honeysuckle Projects
- Hinge Collective
Performances (subject to change)
- The Marching Orange & Blue Band - West Philadelphia High School Marching Band, Philadelphia
- PHonk! PHamily Band, led by Elaine Holton & Dan Blacksberg with KT Simcha Band - Second line/multicultural, Philadelphia
- Uriol Korean Percussion Ensemble - Traditional Korean drumming, Philadelphia
- Penn Lions - Traditional Chinese Lion Dance Troupe, Philadelphia
- Jan Jeffries Ensemble - Percussion, Philadelphia
- Mutya Philippine Dance Company - Filipino dance, Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Freedom Band - Community band, Philadelphia
- Wig Wag - Interactive Vocal/Theater, Philadelphia
- Banda Rim Bam Bum - Brass and Percussion, Santiago, Chile
- Fly by Brass Band - Street/brass band, Boston
Arts & Crafts Zone curated by University City Arts League
Art & Environmental Demonstrations (subject to change)
- Ampersand Textile
- Bahay215
- Breah Banks (Deaver Wellness Farm)
- Bria Wimberly (Discovery Center)
- De’von Downes
- Hinge Collective
- Maisie O’Brien
- Philly Tree Plan
About PHonk!Philly:
PHonk!Philly is the Philadelphia flavor of the HONK! concept, started by a group of community bands in Massachusetts. Since 2006, HONK!-style events have been organized across the globe. No matter the location, HONK! events are guided by a core set of Unifying Principles that promote collaborative planning processes and prioritize solidarity and healing.
PHonk!Philly Unifying Principles:
- We believe that music in the streets helps to reclaim and redefine the use of public space.
- We believe that music brings elements of power, energy and healing to struggles for collective liberation.
- We stand in solidarity with struggles that challenge all forms of individual and institutional domination, inequality and oppression.
- We wish for PHonk! to be a community in which we uplift each other with the energy to continue fighting for collective liberation.
PHonk!Philly is produced by Elaine Holton with fiscal sponsorship provided by Headlong Dance Theater, a 501c3 organization. PHonk! produces a free all ages art and music festival, offers workshops and pop-up performances in public spaces, provides artistic support to community actions, and contributes a values-based, grassroots platform to Philadelphia’s rich cultural ecosystem where chefs, makers, musicians, and all those with curious minds and open hearts can share moments of joy and build connections to each other, to their culture, and to the land.
PHonk On!
Organizer
Elaine Holton
Organizer
Philadelphia, PA
