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The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets, Louis Massiah
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Concert featuring Black Buttafly and The Epiphanies at The Yard On John Coltrane Street
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it be your own people, muthi reed
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Tanner House Installation, Friends of the Tanner House
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Historic Preservation Panel, Dox Thrash House and Brewerytown-Sharswood Neighborhood Coalition
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My Story, My Block, Screening of Oral History Films by Jacquline Wiggins
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SlowDrag by Mendi+Keith Obadike
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In 2025, Scribe Video Center presented the first-ever North Philadelphia History Festival (NPHF) to celebrate the history of the African American and Puerto Rican communities in this region of the city. Across four-days, sixteen historic sites along Ridge Avenue, North Broad Street and other locales were transformed into living exhibits created by artists, historians, curators and other cultural workers. Revisit these multimedia projects and events by exploring the pages and resources below.
Festival Map
Full Schedule
Lead support for the North Philadelphia History Festival is provided by the William Penn Foundation.
Archival images courtesy of the John W. Mosley Photograph Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries; and the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA.
The North Philadelphia History Festival is organized by Scribe Video Center. Since 1982, Scribe has used electronic media to document issues and ideas affecting diverse economic and cultural communities; create media works that comment on the human condition, and celebrate cultural diversity. Scribe Video Center facilitates new approaches to visual form and language in an effort to further the aesthetics of video making. Through workshops, screenings, and collaborative productions, Scribe empowers underrepresented voices and documents untold histories.
