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Air Alone Closing Reception 5/31 and Penpals for Palestine! Pop-Up Postcards

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Big Ramp
May 21, 2025

Please join us Saturday, May 31st, 1-4 pm for the closing reception of Air Alone (from my dream). Come see the work of Kim Altomare and Melina Ausikaitis and stay for art making events presented by  Penpals for Palestine! We will be working on postcards that will be sent to our collaborator in Palestine, Yaqeen Yamani, for an international correspondence art experiment on the theme of water and ritual. Additionally, there will be a paint making workshop, paper making demos and a collaborative mobile mural. Activities are designed for ages 0-100.

Facilitating artists include Kim Altomare, Cindy Stockton Moore, Tracy Chahwan, Sunny Hsu and Michelle Anne Harris, with directive prompts provided remotely by Yaqeen Yamani and Jericho Cinema Club.

Penpals for Palestine! is an experimental correspondence art exchange highlighting the voices of the youth of Philly and the youth of Jericho facilitated by Michelle Anne Harris and Kim Altomare in collaboration with Jericho based artist Yaqeen Yamani. Throughout 2025, they will facilitate community workshops throughout Philadelphia to create handmade books and paper correspondence art that will be sent back and forth to Yamani for response at community events in Jericho with the Jericho Cinema Club. This project is generously supported by the Velocity Fund.

Air Alone (from my dream) Kim Altomare & Melina Ausikaitis

Closing Event

Saturday May 31st, 1-4 pm 

with Penpals for Palestine! Pop-Up Postcards

Paper making, Paint making, Postcards & Collaborative Mobile Mural

2024 East Westmoreland, Philly 19134

Are you adventurous? Do you like art, comics and writing? Do you like making things with your hands and your brain? Do you wish you could travel and make friends from the other side of the globe to share and learn about each other's lives? Do you like getting snail mail? 

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, Penpals for Palestine! wants YOU to become a member! We are currently recruiting members ages 7-18 for our 2025-26 cycle.  You must be between the ages of 7-18 and have permission from your parent/guardian. Don’t hesitate! Fill out an inquiry form.

Penpals for Palestine! Clubhouse is an art and language meeting space for youths and their families, hosted at the ArtZine Experimental Workshop in Olde Kensington in Philadelphia, Pa. Made possible from support from the Velocity Fund, programming will will run in the form of a long distance alongside our collaborators at the Jericho Cinema Club in the West Bank. Meeting topics include art games, paper making and poetry performances, with the opportunity to have your work exhibited in an international traveling exhibition and printed publication.