WEIRDO: The East Kensington Arts and Oddities Festival 2023
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Below is the schedule from our 2023 WEIRDO!
WEIRDO
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
There are MANY performance areas this year. See the schedule below for details on each:
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3:05PM - 4:05PM | An Afternoon with Benjamin and Thom: Masters of Variety
4:20PM - 4:50PM | Salina Kuo (solo guzheng)
5:00PM - 5:30PM | Luther Bangert: Juggling and Movement
6PM - 7PM | An Evening with Benjamin and Thom: Masters of Variety(more details on each below)
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2:30PM - 3PM | Those Troublemakers
3:15PM - 5PM | Modular On The Spot
5:30PM - 6:15PM | PJ Brown & Her Resistance
6:15 - 7PM | Live Projection Art collaboration with Great Circles by Grant Bouvier and .movment
7PM - 9PM | AWFUL Wrestling(more details on each below)
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ArcheDream for Humankind
4:05PM — 4:20PM
4:40PM — 4:55PM
5:35PM — 5:50PM -
A bazaar of wonders, outsider art, projects and community. Feed your brain, feed your gut, find a treasure, get inspired!
(more details on each below)
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All Day
Gallery show by local artists
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6 - 9PM
Live performances of originals, instrumentals and 80’s/90’s songs by local musicians.
Headlined by Cvgebird -
2:30PM
Layer Meat
3:30PM
Pureply
4:30PM
The Great Cackler
5:30PM
Spectral Forces6:30PM
Bark Culture -
Hosting tabling WEIRDO artists along with OG Pizza across the street
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ALL DAY
Mini Market Outside the Studio -
Live Great Circles Radio All Day!
2-4PM | VIAJANDO with DJ Rahsaan4-6PM | SUBVERSION with DJ Ripley & Sideswipe
6:15 - 7PM | Live Projection Art Collaboration With Great Circles by Grant Bouvier and .movment (over at the Philadelphia Brewing Company front lot)
All Day | tarot readings by The Pragmatic Witch
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Performances from 2 — 5PM
Madbeatz
The School of Rock House Band
Interactive session by Philly Talking DrumsFree Face Painting and crafts by NLArts!
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2:20PM - 3:05PM | Cotton Candy Circus Arts Presents: Roller Circus
3:30 - 4:00PM | Upholstery
4:15PM - 5PM | Cotton Candy Circus Arts Presents: Roller Circus
5:10PM - 5:30PM | Performance by Fidget: Megan Bridge & Peter Price, experimental dance/electronic music5:30PM | Tanooki Twirls Pop Up Hula Hoop Demo
(more details on each below)
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ALL DAY INSIDE | “Patchy Playground”
Interactive Tech Art Playspace
ALL DAY OUTSIDE | The Big Top Vintage Corner(more details on each below)
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Sounds from:
BB Minor • Shady Monk • Sub Sober • Johann Sebastian • Hectic Zeniths • Tygerstrype
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Now + Then Marketplace & Geoffrey the Giraffe outside Thunderbird Salvage
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5PM
Two Sh*theads Paint Live
Philadelphia Brewing
Company Courtyard Stage
2:00PM — 2:45PM
TBD
3:05PM — 4:05PM
An Afternoon with Benjamin and Thom: Masters of Variety
Benjamin and Thom are masters of Varieté... which means a lot of different things! In this case, it means dazzling dining, eccentric entreés, and jubilant juggling. Thom Wall and Benjamin Domask-Ruh are back at it, again, to present an afternoon of friendship and fine juggling. This duo dares to bring an audience together through juggling, comedy, and object manipulation, asking the question: Can they get an audience of strangers to wave a heartfelt goodbye to one another when they're leaving the theater?
4:20PM — 4:50PM
5:00PM — 5:30PM
Luther Bangert: Juggling and Movement
6:00 — 7:00PM
An Evening with Benjamin and Thom: Masters of Variety
Philadelphia Brewing Company Front Lot
(Frankford Avenue)
2:30PM — 3PM
3:15PM — 5PM
5:30PM — 6:15PM
6:15PM — 7:00PM
Grant Bouvier, .movment and Great Circles
Live projection art collaboration with music from Great Circles artists
7:00PM — 9:00PM
Philadelphia Brewing Company Plume Lounge
(INSIDE)
ArcheDream for Humankind
4:05PM — 4:20PM
4:40PM — 4:55PM
5:35PM — 5:50PM
Martha Bar
(In front | Martha and York)
2:20PM — 3:05PM
Cotton Candy Circus Arts Presents: Roller Circus
3:30PM — 4:00PM
4:15PM — 5:00PM
Cotton Candy Circus Arts Presents: Roller Circus
5:10PM — 5:30PM
Performance by Fidget: Megan Bridge & Peter Price, experimental dance / electronic music
5:30PM
Tanooki Twirls Pop Up Hula Hoop Demo
The Monkey Club
ALL DAY INSIDE
“Patchy Playground” Interactive Tech Art Playspace
ALL DAY OUTSIDE
Baby Got Good (Kelly Braun)
For What Vintage (Robyn Campbell)
Complete Nostalgia (TrueMark Philps)
Allen Studios (Iris Allen)
Dames Vintage Emporium (Alene Dame)
Mouse Trap Vintage (Sarah Hunt)
Big Top Vintage
Fire Museum Presents Zone at OG Pizza
2:30 PM
Layer Meat
Layer Meat is Anna Young. Artist, composer and performer. Born in the midwest, living in Philly performing world wide.
3:30 PM
Pureply
Pureply is a solo experimental electronic project. Based in Philadelphia.
4:30 PM
The Great Cackler
Justin Duerr (Northern Liberties, Hex Nine, et al) and Mandy Slipoj Katz (Invasive Species, Beware The Blunted Needle, Vulgar Remedies, etc) join together as The Great Cackler (fka Geb The Great Cackler), an acoustic duo drawing upon their shared experiences of over a decade, personally, creatively, and both as one.
5:30 PM
Spectral Forces
Ladies and gentlemen introducing the spectral forces, the spectral now sound and cosmic gamelan, traversing octohedronal space time with the rabid dream energy of a child at play after watching Naruto, the slap dance spectral force shambolic tantra.. spectral forced ladies and gentlemen. Spectral Forces are Alex Smith, Julius Masri & Pete Dennis.
6:30 PM
Bark Culture
Bark Culture is a trio out of Philadelphia consisting of Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone, John Moran on bass, and Joey Sullivan on drums.
Plus Vendors! Check ‘em out:
Post Haste
(2519 Frankford Avenue)
Thunderbird Salvage
(2441 Frankford Ave)
ALL DAY
Now + Then Marketplace & Geoffrey the Giraffe outside Thunderbird Salvage
Hagert Street Playground Youth Performance Area
(2040 E Hagert Street)
Performances from 2- 5pm
Mad Beatz
The School of Rock House Band
Interactive session by Philly Talking Drums
Free Face Painting and crafts by NLArts!
Collins Smith Barrick Garden
6:00 — 9:00PM
Live performances of originals, instrumentals and 80’s/90’s songs by local musicians.
Headlined by Cvgebird
Friend and Nemesis (FAN)
(2472 Frankford Avenue)
All Day
Mini Market Outside the Studio
Great Circles
(2427 Frankford Avenue)
Live Great Circles Radio All Day!
2-4PM | VIAJANDO with DJ Rahsaan
4-6PM | SUBVERSION with DJ Ripley & Sideswipe
6:15 - 7PM | Live Projection Art Collaboration With Great Circles by Grant Bouvier and .movment (over at the Philadelphia Brewing Company front lot)
All Day | tarot readings by The Pragmatic Witch
Middle Path Minerals
(2415 Frankford Ave)
All Day
The Wizard of Sage and Sound (singing bowls and saging!)
Deciphering people’s human experiences offering tarot and lenormand hybrid readings and palm readings
Atlantis: The Lost Bar
(2442 Frankford Ave)
All Day
Gallery show by local artists
THE MIDWAY OF WEIRD
Martha Street from York to Hagert
and the beer garden at Philadelphia Brewing Company
Betwixt and between the spectacles lie even more spectacles!
A bazaar of wonders, outsider art, projects and community. Feed your brain, feed your gut, find a treasure, get inspired!
Are these vendors? Performers? Participants in some sort of reality warping group incantation? Only time will tell… 50+ participants await you!
Check ‘Em Out:
Tiffany Tung Pop Up Hula Hoop Demo (at 5:30PM)
Fuzzy Feet Gloves/ Grace Natale
Joseph Hohenstein, Pennsylvania State Representative
Marshall James Kavanaugh: Dream Poet For Hire