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Throughout 2025, our Common Ground initiative is centering community resilience – power, purpose, and placemaking. Philadelphians are creating public artworks, exploring public histories, and cultivating public ecologies that unite us across cultures, generations, and localities |
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COSACOSA Workshop Programs 2025
Please call or email for specific dates and times to volunteer! Art & Civic Engagement • Common Ground community-building workshops citywide, ongoing • Past Forward archival project, digitizing 35 years of COSACOSA initiatives, ongoing Art & Health • Healing and Unity Gardens seasonal Art & Health events, ongoing • Workshops at local pediatric healthcare centers, ongoing • Serving Justice Veterans' workshops at the VA Medical Center, the Women's Veterans Center, and Edison 64, ongoing • Communities of Care family-friendly workshops with the Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team, April-October Art & Education • Healhy Foods mosaic project at Vare-Washington School in South Philly, February-May • Growing United painting and mosaic project at McClure School in North Philly, April-May • Coquí for Me painting and history project at Muñoz-Marín School in North Philly, April-May • What Connects Us? literacy learning book distribution to city schools, September-December Art & Technology • Kin/Folk/Lore storytelling collection, audio recordings, and listening events, ongoing • multimedia design at our Manayunk studio, ongoing • publication design at our Manayunk studio, ongoing |
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| COSACOSA Public Events and Exhibitions 2025 Click here, join our email list, or follow us on Facebook for details on current and upcoming presentations! • Friday, January 24, 4 to 6 p.m. - Martin Luther King Day of Sevice with To Our Children's Future with Health at North Philly's Bethune School • Wednesday, February 26, 9 to 11 a.m. - Common Ground project introduction and open mosaic studio for at South Philly's Vare-Washington School. • Friday, March 21, 1 to 3 p.m. - Spring Forward North Philly Gardens seasonal opening – family-friendly spring cleaning, planting, and art-making in our Healing and Unity Gardens • Friday, April 25, 4 to 6 p.m. - Global Youth Service Day youth-led art-making and community planning at the Williams Moore Reed Memorial Park in North Philadelphia with the Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team • Friday, May 9, 3 to 4 p.m. - Healthy Foods mosaic unveiling at South Philly's Vare-Washington School - an intercultural, intercommunity celebration of new public art for Philadelphia schools • Friday, June 6, 12 noon to 1 p.m. - Coquí for Me mural unveiling at North Philly's Muñoz-Marín School - an intercommunity celebration of new public art for Philadelphia schools • Friday, September 19, 4 to 6 p.m. - Common Ground family-friendly art-making, storytelling, and resource sharing at our Healing Garden in North Philadelphia • Friday, October 31, 4 to 6:00 p.m. - Harvest Fest family-friendly mask-making and autumn masquerade at the Williams Moore Reed Memorial Park in North Philadelphia with the Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team • Tuesday, November 17, 5 to 7 p.m. - Coming Home, Giving Thanks harvest celebration and end of season reclamation in our North Philadelphia Healing & Unity Gardens, followed by a community meal • Friday, December 19, 7 p.m. - Common Ground exhibition and story-sharing event at the COSACOSA workshop in Manayunk – a community benefit and project celebration
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