Black Box Presents: MAKIBAKA
Black Box Presents: MAKIBAKA
In Partnership with Anakbayan Philadelphia
October is Filipino American History Month, and in celebration, we want to uplift Filipino migrants and migrant workers who come to America in order to support their families back home. From family separation to worker exploitation, they continue to fight through the struggle! Makibaka means dare to struggle, and through this art show, we highlight the courage, bravery, and power it takes to face struggle and continue to push forward.
New Member Show Piece - Liam Paris
For SURPLUS, the New Member Show @ Vox, Liam asked for advice on being a new member in the collective, how to make it worth it, and how to know when it may not be. All of this advice was followed, and will be presented live! In the Blackbox!
The Bacchae: A Staged Reading
Join us for a staged reading of a new version of Euripides's freakiest tragedy, The Bacchae. Written by Lindsey Griffith, directed by Evan Moritz, and starring all your favorite Philly weirdos.
'Partners' Documentary Screening
Philly DSA, in partnership with Working Films invite community members to a free screening of Partners. Featuring on-the-ground footage from workers and organizers, Partners takes us to the front lines of the historic union campaign that catalyzed America’s Gen Z labor revival.
Preview Night- Huddle: A $99 Exhibition
Join us for one of Vox Populi’s biggest nights of the year, our Preview Night for Huddle: A $99 Exhibition. For the past three years, this event has brought together 200+ attendees, and we’re expecting an even bigger turnout in 2025.
Be the first to see and collect works from 100+ artists from across the country, all donated to celebrate the vibrancy of DIY and experimental art spaces. Every artwork is priced at $99, and artist names are revealed only after purchase—so come ready to discover your next favorite piece.
“We want you listening for a lifetime…”
Come out on a school night for an evening of sound and poetry. There will be tapes, radios, synthesizers, televisions, teddies, discussion of aliens, top 40 hits, and the co-release of two limited edition cassettes from Living Mind. We want you listening for a lifetime...
aura of after progress
Join us at Vox Populi for a screening of artist Yolanda Yang’s newly produced video, which explores the intersection of dust, labor, and consumption behind the scenes at RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residence). The program features a post-screening conversation with Joyce Chung, Connie Yu, and Ricky Yanas, reflecting on how artists and thinkers engage with urban ruins and waste during moments of structural crisis.
Shrapknel with sleepingdogs, ialive and Grief Club
Shrapknel fresh off the heels of the triple steel beam collection touch down in Philly for a family affair. sleepingdogs, ialive and Grief Club in tow.
Lessons in Drag with LaWhore Vagistan
Dr. Vagistan, your favorite South Asian drag auntie, brings the nightclub to the classroom (and vice versa).
Top Surgery Party Fundraiser for Soso
Top Surgery Party Fundraiser for Soso
With DJs 6L0V3, iiinfinite and miipmiip, drag performance from Boi Boy, facepainting, live raffle drawing, spanking booth and MORE
Long Shot
Anya Heart, Clay Sublett, and Nikki A lead the audience through ANYACON2025: Mandatory Corporate Retreat, a tongue-in-cheek comedy where synergy meets the bottom line. Expect toxic team-building, questionable leadership tips, and the shocking reveal that your boss has been hiding all along.
Chrysalis
Chrysalis invites Berlin-based Objekt to flex a high-wire set that oscillates between techno, electro and UK styles alongside Lady Prowl’s wide-ranging selections.
Trying by Kyle Turgeon
A night of live film, music, and memory. Kyle Turgeon will perform his latest audio-visual show "Trying" and Sohme will open will a live ambient set steeped in field recording.
Black Box Presents: Sounding Bodies
Join artist Maya Yu Zhang for Sounding Bodies — Collective Utterance in Darkness, an evening workshop in Vox Populi’s Black Box that explores collective somatic research through movement, breath, writing, and shared inquiry. Presented by FORTUNE, the program invites participants into darkness as a container for deep listening and emergent wisdom.
Bye, Buddy: The Game Show Where Friendships Fail for Good!
Part of the Cannonball Hub, Vox members Lea Devon Sorrentino and Liam Paris bring you Bye, Buddy, a chaotic, laugh-out-loud game show about the messy ways friendships end. Inspired by The Price Is Right, audience members get pulled into the action as contestants face off through ghosting, slow fades, and more.
Bye, Buddy: The Game Show Where Friendships Fail for Good!
Part of the Cannonball Hub, Vox members Lea Devon Sorrentino and Liam Paris bring you Bye, Buddy, a chaotic, laugh-out-loud game show about the messy ways friendships end. Inspired by The Price Is Right, audience members get pulled into the action as contestants face off through ghosting, slow fades, and more.
The Gay Divorce
Get in, loser, we’re getting divorced! From the twisted mind of sad award-winning clown Cecilia Corrigan comes a nightmare romcom set in a haunted house of gay wedding planning, bitcrunched horror tropes, and Barbie-doll playhouse rituals.
The Gay Divorce
Get in, loser, we’re getting divorced! From the twisted mind of sad award-winning clown Cecilia Corrigan comes a nightmare romcom set in a haunted house of gay wedding planning, bitcrunched horror tropes, and Barbie-doll playhouse rituals.
LEDA
Vox member Ollie Goss presents Leda, a surreal mix of puppetry, politics, and myth. Dreamlike and strange, the piece considers transformation, property, and ritual—with an ambient score and, yes, a funeral for a sausage.
Rubr Duki Dance Party
Quack Quack ya'll !!! Come on a journey to a parallel universe on a quest to discover your inner rubber ducky !
Core Memory / Array
Part concert, part audio-adaptive media. What Memories made you who you are?
Core Memory / Array
Part concert, part audio-adaptive media. What Memories made you who you are?
Three Short Films for Palestine
South Philly Autonomous Cinema and Philly Socialists invite you to another screening to benefit The Sameer Project! Come to Vox Populi on September 11th for an hour of contemporary shorts that explore Palestinian struggle through the lenses of land, hunger, and memory.
Core Memory / Array
Part concert, part audio-adaptive media. What Memories made you who you are?
Faustine
Faustine is a horror-comedy musical adaptation of the traditional Faustian myth, set in a contemporary academic environment. 16+
LEDA
Vox member Ollie Goss presents Leda, a surreal mix of puppetry, politics, and myth. Dreamlike and strange, the piece considers transformation, property, and ritual—with an ambient score and, yes, a funeral for a sausage.
Faustine
Faustine is a horror-comedy musical adaptation of the traditional Faustian myth, set in a contemporary academic environment. 16+
Black Box Presents: The Philadelphia Asian American Film Foundation
Join us for the next Black Box Presents with Philadelphia Asian American Film Foundation for "Catharsis: Short Films"
August 23rd, Program Starts at 7:30pm
FREE at The Rail Park
Acts of Resistance
Acts of Resistance is a table reading of 3 10-minute plays and an art market fundraiser where all proceeds go to Gaza.
BlackStar: In Memoriam Shorts Program
Vox is proud to be a screening partner for @blackstarfest's In Memoriam Shorts Program! Come out to the Kimmel Center on July 31st or purchase a virtual screening ticket at blackstarfest.org 🎟️
Black Box Presents: Power Collapse Memory
Friday July 25, 2025 | FREE ⏰ Doors 6PM
Black Box Presents: @batikhcollective Batikh Batikh بطيخ بطيخ
Short Film Program: Power Collapse Memory
This free screening features experimental non-fiction and art video made by women and queer artists of the South West Asian North African (SWANA) region and its diaspora.
Sex Sells Issue 2 Release Party & Film Screening
IN ISSUE 2, WE EXPLORE QUEER SEXUALITY THROUGH THE LENS OF KINK. WE WILL BE SCREENING PORN BY DRIP FILMS. THERE WILL BE NEEDLE AND ROPES DEMOS. ATTENDEES MAY CRUISE TO THEIR HEARTS DESIRE <3 SEX SELLS IS A QUEER PORN PUBLICATION MADE BY AN EVER-CHANGING GROUP OF COLLABORATORS BASED IN PHILLY. ZINE INCLUDED WITH TICKET.
Thin Walls by Holden Linton
Recorded between 2021-2025 in North Philadelphia, Thin Walls is a project utilizing the sounds of abandoned apartments, trash, broken game consoles, Cheap Toy instruments, broken instruments, and many other various found objects, to create a conceptual work based around memory, isolation, and space.
Hungry Artist: NIPFLIX
Step into a portal of immediate quality next Sunday at Hungry Artist NIPFLIX—a night of short films and small bites!
Que(e)ry Party
Come enjoy a night of community, drag, disco, and soul with Que(e)ry in support of the William Way Archives!
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Black Box Presents: All Mutable -spasm [embodied resistance]
spasm [embodied resistance] is a two-day performance arts festival featuring POC/QPOC artists along the East Coast. Our intention is to gather disruptive and discordant performances that are singular in vision, emotionally confrontational, and highlights the body as a source of agency and political change.