PHonk!Philly 2022

***This page will be updated periodically as festival details are confirmed***

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This year's PHonk!Philly festival welcomes 23-piece brass band Banda Rim Bam Bum from Santiago, Chile. See what they were up to at Somerville’s HONK! Festival earlier this month: https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/10/07/banda-rim-bam-bum-honk-fest

PHonk! will take place at FDR Park on Sunday, October 23, 2022 from 12pm to 6pm. A main stage will host performances from Afro-Latinx, Chinese, Chilean, Brazilian, Klezmer, Korean, Filipino, and LGBTQ+ community groups. An Arts & Crafts tent organized by University City Arts League will provide all-ages art activities and demos throughout the day alongside environmental demonstrations by community partners. Live mural painting by local artists will be incorporated throughout the physical space, and a satellite Southeast Asian Food Market will offer tasty refreshments.

PHonk!Philly is FREE and open to all ages. If you are in a position to support the work of our artists and organizers, please click here for our gofundme.

We currently have a 1:1 match means so all contributions are doubled!

Location: FDR Park, picnic areas 19, 20, 21

Food: Southeast Asian Food Market and Satellite Market, produced by LiSmith Dumplings

Themes: International Harvest Celebrations, Environmental Justice and Sustainability, and Food Sovereignty

Performances (subject to change)

Banda Rim Bam Bum - Brass and Percussion, Santiago, Chile

Fly by Brass Band - Street/brass band, Boston, MA

Wig Wag (Emily Bate, Samantha Rise, Sally Louise Polk) - Interactive Vocal/Theater, Philadelphia

Uriol Korean Percussion Ensemble - Traditional Korean drumming, Philadelphia

The Marching Orange & Blue Band (West Philadelphia High School) - Marching Band, Philadelphia

Penn Lions - Traditional Chinese Lion Dance Troupe, Philadelphia

Jan Jeffries Ensemble - Percussion, Philadelphia

Mutya Philippine Dance Company - Filipino dance ensemble, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Freedom Band - Community band, Philadelphia

Closing jam with the PHonk! PHamily Band, led by Elaine Holton & Dan Blacksberg with KT Simcha Band - Second line/multicultural, Philadelphia

Arts & Crafts Zone: curated by University City Arts League

Art & Environmental Demonstrations (subject to change)

• Ampersand Textile
• Bahay215
• Breah Banks (Deaver Wellness Farm)
• Bria Wimberly (Discovery Center)
• De’von Downes
• Hinge Collective
• Maisie O’Brien
• Philly Tree Plan

Community Partners

• Friends of FDR Park
• University City Arts League
• Audubon Mid-Atlantic, The Discovery Center
• Headlong Performance Institute
• Disability Pride PA
• LiSmith Dumplings
• Honeysuckle Projects
• Hinge Collective

About PHonk!Philly:

PHonk!Philly is the Philly flavor of the HONK! concept, started by a group of community bands in Massachusetts. Since 2006, HONK!-style events have been organized across the globe. No matter the location, HONK! events are guided by a core set of Unifying Principles that promote collaborative planning processes and prioritize solidarity and healing.

PHonk!Philly Unifying Principles:

• We believe that music in the streets helps to reclaim and redefine the use of public space.
• We believe that music brings elements of power, energy and healing to struggles for collective liberation.
• We stand in solidarity with struggles that challenge all forms of individual and institutional domination, inequality and oppression.
• We wish for PHonk! to be a community in which we uplift each other with the energy to continue fighting for collective liberation.

PHonk!Philly is produced by Elaine Holton with fiscal sponsorship provided by Headlong Dance Theater, a 501c3 organization. PHonk! produces a free all ages art and music festival, offers workshops and pop-up performances in public spaces, provides artistic support to community actions, and contributes a values-based, grassroots platform to Philadelphia’s rich cultural ecosystem where chefs, makers, musicians, and all those with curious minds and open hearts can share moments of joy and build connections to each other, to their culture, and to the land.