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"The Intermission" is an interactive exhibition that features the work of primarily black female artists from Philadelphia known as the "Company." The exhibition revolves around a 140-year-old house, which serves as the protagonist, along with a Colored Girl's Museum, a widow, and her ordinary colored girl. The story takes place in a parallel universe where the colored girl and her widow self have been evicted from their home, (the 140-year-old house), to make way for a Colored Girls Museum. The characters must navigate through alternate realities to find their way back to each other.
Community Curators - Syd Carpenter, Mz. Icar, Terrell Maurice and Jaclyn Sabree.
Guest Artist appearances by
Shanina Dionna, Toni Kersey, Rosalind Nzinga Vaughn Nicol, Matryce Roach, Yolanda Ward, Debora Powell Wright.
The 2015 Colored Girls Museum exhibit, Open For Business, cast the House (4613 Newhall Street)as a museum in a theatrical memoir born out of a widow's grief. The words museum and colored girl are meant to be ironic. At the time, a museum was how the house felt; it was just a collection of memories and artifacts from a different time—a place one might visit but not Home.
4613 Newhall Street has stood in the exact location for 140 years. She has housed an ever-changing collection of residents. Some came to her as ready-made families, while others arrived as an assortment of mismatched strangers joined only by their shared need for shelter, which the house provided.
In August 2002, Newhall Street welcomed a new family: a couple, a mother and father, with three children, a toddler, and two teens—a boy and a girl. The new residents were lively. The three-story Victorian home was joyful; shouting, laughter, and singing were her soundtrack.
It wasn’t long before the house became attached to her new family, and she worried less about the changing neighborhood, the deterioration or abandonment of her other house friends on the block, a
4613 Newhall Street
General Admission: $25
4613 Newhall Street
General Admission: $25
A MEMOIR MUSEUM
The Colored Girls Museum (TCGM) is a memoir museum founded by Vashti Dubois that honors the stories, experiences, and history of the ordinary colored girl.
The first of its kind, the museum initiates the object—submitted by the Colored Girl herself—as a representative of an aspect of her story and personal history which she finds meaningful. These objects embody her experience and expression of being a Colored Girl.
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Audience Interaction
This event does not require proof of vaccination to attend or masks to be worn