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Minisode feat. Robert Marsch + Lucinda Degerlund · philly has heART

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  Hey Lucinda. How's it going? Very well. How are
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  you today? Good. How was your weekend? It's always
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  good when it starts off with a party, right?
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  Right. We really kicked that off. Even if we
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  were in bed by 11 p .m. Those are the best parties
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  to me. I mean, thirties are when you're like
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  in bed before midnight. We'll take it. We'll
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  take it. Who's still in their 30s? I'm 22. All
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  right, perfect. Yes. A great dance party comes
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  with food, comes with great people, great friends.
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  OK, tell us about it. OK, so we went to Gallery
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  Groove. It was at the Museum for Art in Wood.
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  our first conversation, and it was a great time.
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  They were in between two exhibitions, and so
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  they cleared out the entire exhibition space
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  and threw a giant party, and it was a great party.
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  The partitions were up against the walls. It
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  was a huge space. I've never experienced it like
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  that before. And you could move freely in there,
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  which people did. We watched... We watched a
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  woman, an artist probably in her own mind, just
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  having a grand old time dancing probably the
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  entire time we were there. Just vibing with the
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  music. Also... I was ever impressed with Katie's
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  ensemble as well. She looks like... I wouldn't
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  say a disco ball because she's skinny. Self -described.
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  She looked great. She looked amazing. Absolutely
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  amazing. She really pulled that all together.
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  As did you. You were also wearing sequins. We
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  tried to stay shimmery. Your outfit was also
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  lovely. Oh, thank you. Yes. Very sheer. I was
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  wearing a slip, excuse me. Yes. But it was a
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  great time to see the community out to support
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  the arts and to support the museum itself and
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  to... be able to meet other artists that evening.
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  We don't want to give away, you know, a big name
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  that we might have been able to speak to. We
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  did meet a big name, at least in terms of Philadelphia
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  names. Yes. And she will be on the podcast soon.
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  And that's your hint. It says she. Yes. And then
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  we also got to speak with a couple emerging artists.
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  And so it was a really great time and a good,
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  a good sense of... the community and the arts
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  community. So, you know, that being said, you
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  know, go and see the new exhibition when it opens.
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  That will be on March 7th. Perfect, perfect.
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  So it'll move pretty quickly. And I believe it'll
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  be like a moving wood piece. It's very mechanical,
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  I believe Katie was saying. So that'll be moving
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  into that space. Yep. Stay tuned. And now we're
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  doing something a little different today. On
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  to the conversation. On to the conversation.
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  Okay, and we're back. Today we'll be doing a
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  mini -sode between myself and Robert. Rapid fire
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  questions only, so let's hit it. Robert, Philly
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  art scene in one word. Oh, the Philly art scene
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  in one... word, spontaneous. Unlike your uptake
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  in answering that. OK, if you could have any
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  piece in your home. If I could have any piece
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  in my home, oh, wow. So I would, I absolutely
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  love. Bruce Weber photography as a young man
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  growing up in retail. Did you work at Abercrombie
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  and Fitch? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. I was surrounded
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  by his artwork and photography every single day
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  from the retail bags to the new posters that
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  were going on the wall. And it was It was incredible.
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  And they had these, like, forbidden books. Oh
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  my. And, like, magazines that you could buy that
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  were, like, super racy. Didn't they have to come,
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  like, in a plastic? Yes. Sulfane. Yes, exactly.
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  And you had to be like over 18 to buy at the
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  time. And oh, yeah, yeah, it was a little life
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  changing for me at the time. So but, you know,
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  as I grew up, I still really appreciate his photography,
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  too. And I always wanted to be able to fill a
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  like. entire bathroom with his black and whites.
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  Okay. Current artist people are sleeping on.
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  Oh, an artist that people are sleeping on. So
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  I do have an artist. I don't know if people are
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  sleeping on her, but I absolutely love Lisa Roberts.
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  Lisa Roberts is one of the Roberts siblings of
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  Comcast family Roberts and is an amazing artist.
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  uh and um has been her entire life and is one
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  of the um trustees or i don't want to say trustees
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  but the committee members at um colab which is
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  a subgroup of a friends group at the pma and
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  she does beautiful works herself as an artist.
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  And what medium does she work in? Paper cutting.
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  Gotcha. Yes. And she puts those prints or those
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  pieces together and then frames them and they're
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  absolutely beautiful. How she can take a picture
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  or and yeah basically she takes like a picture
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  and then she recreates it with cuts of paper.
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  It's really really cool. Amazing. All right,
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  next question. Favorite beverage? Favorite beverage?
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  I mean, I normally would love a Grey Goose dirty
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  martini, blue cheese, hand stuffed blue cheese
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  stuffed olives. Really ice cold. Like little
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  ice chips still floating on top. Extra shaken.
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  Last question. Are you a Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte,
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  or Samantha? I am probably a mix between Miranda
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  and Charlotte. I can see that. Yeah. All right,
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  Lucinda, some rapid fire questions for you. Let's
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  go. If you can describe the Philly art scene
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  in one word, what would it be? Inspiring. Next.
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  Oh, perfect. If you could have any piece of art
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  in your home, what would it be? It would have
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  to be, and this is going to sound basic, but
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  it would have to be a Matisse. I can't narrow
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  down which one or which medium or which series
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  because I love them all. I think they send me
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  back to a, they give me some sense of nostalgia.
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  Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful. A current artist
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  that people are sleeping on. I really enjoy the
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  Tony LaSalle pieces. He has a storefront on Pine
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  Street around 9th and 10th, but I think he's
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  actually New Jersey based. I specifically like
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  his abstracts, but he also has a sunflower series
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  and I think he does, he has like a water series.
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  Ooh, beautiful, okay. Favorite beverage at the
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  moment. Either black coffee or... I like a gin
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  martini as made by my husband. It's gin, the
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  tiniest bit of vermouth, and an onion. And I
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  know some people call that a Gibson. It's the
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  absolute opposite of a dirty martini. Do not
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  sully my gin with olive juice. Oh my goodness,
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  okay. And if you could be one of the four, are
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  you a Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, or Samantha?
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  OK, this question has come up before in our friend
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  group. I am a Charlotte with the Samantha rising.
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  Before anyone thinks that it's like the more
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  scandalous side of Samantha. It's the side of
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  Samantha. that always says yes to non -sexual
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  experience. Nice. Okay. Okay. She's outgoing.
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  She encouraged Carrie to walk in the fashion
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  show. She's like, I am single and I'm most definitely
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  fabulous. Why aren't I in the magazine? And as
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  we all find out, that did not end as well as
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  we thought it would. So I applied that thinking
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  to my graduate school experience, and I applied
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  for every fellowship, every internship, every
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  funding source if I thought that there was a
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  chance in hell of getting it. As long as it was
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  applicable to my studies, I gave it a shot. No
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  regrets. It's beautiful. All right, guys, and
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  that's it for the meat of our mini -sode. Thank
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  you all for joining us. Hey Robert, what are
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  we getting into this weekend? Oh, Lucinda, we
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  are heading south this weekend. So we're going
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  to St. Michael's, Maryland, and going to stay
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  a little coastal. St. Michael's has a beautiful
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  art scene in their main drag, Main Street down
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  there, and they have a bunch of different little...
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  galleries. It's very coastal, right? Very coastal
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  theme, very like beachy but also a lot of sailboats
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  and boating and also crabs and seashells and...
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  Okay nautical. Right, exactly. Very nautical
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  theme pulled throughout so it's gonna be a little
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  getaway weekend. Yes. How about yourself, Lucinda?
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  What are you getting up to this weekend? So glad
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  you asked. Staying in the city? I'm staying in
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  the city. After I tote the big kid around to
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  his Saturday activities, I'm going to go to the
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  opening of the Female Gays at the Da Vinci Art
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  Alliance. You might remember last week... Sam
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  Conner's executive director of DVAA mentioned
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  this opening a little bit about the exhibition.
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  The Female Gaze is an exhibition dedicated to
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  self -portraits by female artists from diverse
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  backgrounds, cultures, and ages. I believe Sam
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  mentioned a lot of times we get portraits of
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  women from the male perspective, but this will
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  kind of turn it on its head. Excellent. Yeah.
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  Excited to go. Also, up on the calendar on Friday,
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  there's the Jelly Printing Program at the People's
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  Gallery Project. It is an immersive art program
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  for adults hosted at the People's Gallery Project
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  in collaboration with their good friends at Walls
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  for Justice. It's free. It's going Friday from
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  6 .30 p .m. to 8 .30 p .m. People's Gallery Project
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  also has a workshop on Saturday. It goes from
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  11 a .m. to 12 p .m. and it's a guided watercolor
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  with tiger horse art and there is a $5 suggested
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  donation with that. I think we mentioned this
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  last week, People's Gallery Project is located
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  in Washington Square West between 10th and 11th
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  on Pine. We are excited to share that www .phillyhasheart
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  .com is live online and we're also live on Instagram
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  at Philly has heart. I don't know how that handle
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  or that domain was available. We're happy to
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  have it though. I'm never giving it up. Yes.
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  With that, we'll be here again next week. Yeah,
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  we have an amazing guest for you next week. And
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  so thank you all for joining us. And as always,
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  Philly has heart. And heart. I absolutely love
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  Bruce Weber photography as a child. A child?
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  Excuse me? As a young man, growing up in retail.
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  Did you work at Abercrombie and Fitch? Yes I
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  did. Yes I did.