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:

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • All Day

    Gallery show by local artists

  • 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 Forces

    6:30PM
    Bark Culture

  • Hosting tabling WEIRDO artists along with OG Pizza across the street

  • ALL DAY

    Mini Market Outside the Studio

  • 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

  • Performances from 2 — 5PM

    Madbeatz

    The School of Rock House Band

    Interactive session by Philly Talking DrumsFree Face Painting and crafts by NLArts!

  • 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 music

    5:30PM | Tanooki Twirls Pop Up Hula Hoop Demo

    (more details on each below)

  • All Day

    The Wizard of Sage and Sound (singing bowls and saging!)

    Justin The Card Reader

  • ALL DAY INSIDE | “Patchy Playground”
    Interactive Tech Art Playspace

    ALL DAY OUTSIDE | The Big Top Vintage Corner

    (more details on each below)

  • Sounds from:
    BB Minor • Shady Monk • Sub Sober • Johann Sebastian • Hectic Zeniths • Tygerstrype

    (more details on each below)

  • Now + Then Marketplace & Geoffrey the Giraffe outside Thunderbird Salvage

  • 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

Salina Kuo (solo guzheng)

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

Those Troublemakers

3:15PM — 5PM

Modular On The Spot

5:30PM — 6:15PM

PJ Brown & Her Resistance

6:15PM — 7:00PM

Grant Bouvier, .movment and Great Circles
Live projection art collaboration with music from Great Circles artists

7:00PM — 9:00PM

AWFUL Wrestling


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

Upholstery

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

The Big Top Vintage Corner

  • 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:

Lisa Conn

New and Wesley Images

Hiss Art

Strange Little Beast

Alana Bograd

Fox and Flame


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


Zig Zag BBQ

(2111 E York St)

5PM
Two Sh*theads Paint Live


Middle Path Minerals

(2415 Frankford Ave)

All Day

The Wizard of Sage and Sound (singing bowls and saging!)

Justin The Card Reader

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