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14 VIP event tickets with early admission to cocktail reception at 6pm
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Brand acknowledgement across PC’s digital platforms and printed materials through December 2023 to the extent reasonably possible
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5 raffle tickets to our community and self-care gift baskets
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Curator-led tour of our experiential installation Supine Horizons, on view November through mid-December, 2022
PC NOW 2022: The Art of Care
Our annual fundraising event is back in person after a two-year hiatus and will welcome old friends and new to gather in celebration of the organization’s recent achievements and to raise funds for the upcoming year’s programs.
This year, we want to acknowledge the importance of caring for our communities and self-care while we recognize longtime partners working at the intersection of art and wellness. Your support will directly contribute to our citywide programming, youth education in Mantua, and community partners and artists of Philadelphia.
Enjoy an evening of poetry, raffles, games, drinks and more!
Join us
Thursday, November 10, 2022
The Garden Foyer & Trophy Room at Fitler Club
24 S. 24th Street
6:30pm
Enjoy passed hors d’oeuvres and special cocktails at our open bar until 9:30 pm. Guests will recieve a PC branded gift.
Join us in your best creative cocktail attire!
2022 Honorees
In the sprit of the theme of care, this year we're proud to honor Trapeta B. Mayson, Philadelphia Poet Laureate 2020-21 and licensed clinical social worker who founded the Healing Verse Poetry Line; and Megan Voeller, a curator, educator and writer and Director of Humanities at Thomas Jefferson University.
Host Committee
Trapeta B. Mayson
Megan Voeller
Lindsay Bedford
Alex Connor
Don Millinger
Sam Olshin
Christopher Plant
John Wind
Tickets
Single Ticket: $250
PC Now event admission at 6:30 pm
Pair Ticket: $450
PC Now event admission at 6:30 pm
Supporter $1000
Early admission to champagne reception at 6pm
Curator-led tour of our immersive installation Supine Horizons
What to Expect:
Fun and Games in the Trophy Room
Unwind and get to know fellow guests in the coolest and most unique event space in Philadelphia! Enjoy bowling, shuffle board, billiards, table tennis, pop-a-shot and your favorite old-school arcade games.
Healing Verse Poetry Line Poets
2022 featured Healing Verse Poetry Line poets, Lindo Yes and Marshall James Kavanaugh will provide personalized, typewritten and digital poetry on any theme. Pick a topic, get a poem. A topic could be a word, an idea, or a personal story. Once the request is given, stand back and watch the magical process of your words transmuted into a spontaneous poem.
Silent Auction
During the event bids will be open for four archival inkjets and screenprints on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310 gsmpaper, 16 x 20 inches. Printed by Lower East Side Printshop, New York.
- Erlin Geffrard, le grands-parents
- Jen Wink Hays, Little Thought, 2020
- Jane Irish, Lemon Hill Impression, 2020
- Pepón Osorio, Resist, 2020
Erlin Geffard is a multi-media visual and performance artist whose work merges fine arts and hip hop. Born in Florida to a Haitian American family of the Baptist and Vodoun faiths, Geffrard explores intergenerational, spiritual, and cultural themes around issues of ethnicity, identity and community. Based in Philadelphia, Geffrard was a participating artist in Philadelphia Contemporary’s Festival for the People in 2018.
Jen Wink Hays is a painter and sculptor based in Philadelphia. Interested in the “glimpse” and what might be concealed or revealed, Hays’s layered oil paintings are characterized by a bold, dissonant color palette and idiosyncratic clumped forms. In her work, Hays describes “looking for balance between soft and hard, awkward and refined, clean and dirty elements to set up an unpredictable, dynamic visual field.”
Jane Irish is a painter currently working with the mediums of distemper and oil. Her sumptuous paintings of rococo-style interiors raise socio-political and economic issues around the legacy of colonialism, orientalism, and especially the Vietnam War. Her paintings often incorporate historical protest text. Also a ceramicist, the text on the surface of some of Irish’s sculptures includes poetry by war veterans. Irish lives and works in Philadelphia.
Pepón Osorio is best known for provocative large-scale, multimedia installations that merge conceptual art and community dynamics. His visual language, explosive and elegant, challenges traditional art canons with richly textured monumental assemblages that travel far beyond accepted notions of beauty and aesthetics. He emphasizes the exhibition space as an intermediary between the social architecture of communities and the mainstream art world and incorporates a multiplicity of objects to recreate fantasy-like quotidian environments—from barbershops to home interiors and taxis—that advance critical discussions.
Raffle
Guests will have a chance to enter a raffle to win one of two gift baskets stocked with items generously donated by small/local businesses and partners! We will be featuring a Self-Care basket with some luxurious goods to remind you that taking time for yourself is necessary for everyone, and a Community Care Basket with donations from local, sustainable brands and ecologically focused organizations within Philadelphia.
Donations
If you’d like to show your support but can’t make it to the event, make a donation instead.
Your contribution helps us co-create #artanywhere!
Double the Fund
A special promotion in partnership by RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) and Philadelphia Contemporary
Our friends and longtime partners at RAIR are having their annual benefit, Trash Bash on Wednesday, November 9. In the spirit of giving season, we want to support you in attending both these events and helping fund the arts in Philadelphia by offering a special promotion for friends of both organizations.
Email kristen@rairphilly.org for a special code to get VIP access at Trash Bash.
With VIP tickets guests get early access to the auction both in person and online for those who want to support RAIR from afar, BUY-IT-NOW privileges from 5:30-7pm, and a VIP reception at 5:30pm with champagne toast and gallery tour.
Trash Bash supports RAIR’s flagship artist in residence program, artists, while also drawing attention to the waste stream and thus the environment.
Learn more about Trash Bash.
Thank You to our Sponsors!
The Cynipid Fund, A Donor Advised Fund of Renaissance Charitable Foundation
Sponsorship Opportunities
Deadline: October 15, 2022
We are currently seeking event sponsors, please contact our Director of Advancement, J.J. El-Far at JJ@philadelphiacontemporary.org for more information.
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8 VIP event tickets with early admission to cocktail reception at 6pm
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Brand placement and visibility across all digital platforms and printed materials through August 2023 to the extent reasonably possible
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3 raffle tickets to our community and self-care gift baskets
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Curator-led tour of our experiential installation Supine Horizons, on view November through mid-December, 2022.
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4 VIP event tickets with early admission to cocktail reception at 6pm
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Brand placement and visibility across all digital platforms and printed materials for PC Now 2022 to the extent reasonably possible
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2 raffle tickets to our community and self-care gift baskets
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Curator-led tour of our installation Supine Horizons on view November through mid-December, 2022
