Fidget Space
1714 N. Mascher Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Max Meetup Philadelphia is a regular meeting to share ideas and strengthen the connections of the Philadelphia community of Max users, digital artists and musicians. Each meetup will feature workshops, conversations, and open work-shares focusing on art-making, Max, and digital technologies. All experience levels are welcome to attend. Attendees are encouraged to bring their computers if they wish to patch along with the workshops.
The December meetup will feature a workshop led by Sam Wells that focuses on working with RNBO in Max and exporting RNBO code to VST~ plugins, Web Audio, and Raspberry Pi. Additionally, there will be time for collaboration and work sharing by attendees.
This event is free and open to the public.
Max Meetup Philadelphia is organized by Sam Wells, a musician, video artist, and Max Certified Trainer based in Philadelphia.
Support provided by Fidget and Cycling ’74.
Register here
SHARE is a place to communicate and collaborate in a group sound and dance improvisation. Electronic musicians, dancers, media and sound artists and curious observers are all welcome. Bring your gear and plug into the mix, come jam with other improvisers, or just watch and listen.
More info here.
UPDATE 12/2: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Process Project is canceled. We hope to reschedule this event in early 2023. Please check back for details!
Get inside our creative process! This December Fidget Co-Directors, Megan Bridge and Peter Price, will investigate their collaborative artistic process through sound and movement improvisation. Each performance will conclude with an intimate conversation, where feedback from the audience will inform the next evening's performance.
More info here.
Can psychoanalytic discourse bring anything to the heated debates on breath? Working with the hypothesis of a respiratory drive, we will elaborate the question of breathing in psychoanalytic thought. We will begin tackling the crucial role of breath in psychic life in three films that we will discuss.
More info here.
SHARE Philly meets Philadelphia Open Studio Tours! Join us for an open studio as well as an artist jam with Artist in Residence, Grant Bouvier. This event is open to audiences as well as participants: Come watch, listen, or join in!
More info here.
Join us for a free screening of A Joyful Noise (dir. Robert Mugge, 1980), a film which documents performances by the legendary composer and bandleader Sun Ra and his Arkestra in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Baltimore. The film also includes interviews and rehearsal footage. The screening will be introduced by composer and guitarist DM Hotep, who has performed with the Arkestra for over 20 years, and will be followed by a Fidget Forum style Q & A.
More info here.
Fidget Co-director Megan Bridge, who met Jerome Bel in 2006, now has the opportunity to play him in a solo that Bel calls an “Auto-bio-choreography” in this year’s Fringe Festival.
More info here.
We’re partnering with Great Marsh Institute again this September to bring you our second annual Arts at the Great Marsh.
Tickets and more info here.
Join us for an online reading group to discuss excerpts from Erin Manning’s Always More Than One, led by Fidget Co-Director, Megan Bridge.
Registration and more info here.
Michael Nyman is best known for his work as a soundtrack composer. Less known until recently was Nyman’s work as a photographer and filmmaker. Join us for a screening of his film War Work: 8 Songs with Film with lecture and discussion by Peter Price.
More info here.
*NOW BEING HELD ON ZOOM ONLY
This talk by Sabatini will recount and illustrate the extraordinary work, ideas and life of Annson Kenney. Click here for more information.
Join Fidget for The Alt.terre: a work in progress showing and open studio event from 4-7pm on Sunday April 24.
The space will be open from 4pm-6pm prior to the performance for light refreshments and an open studio. Choreographer Megan Bridge and the dancers will be on-site, warming up and answering questions. The showing will begin at 6pm, followed by a discussion with the artists.
This event is open to the public and free!
This April, Megan and Peter are traveling to the Your Brain and Dance Conference at Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia to present their work Morphic Resonance.
This program includes dances for the camera by four Palestinian and Palestinian-American artists and companies who live and work in the U.S. and The Levant. During the pandemic many choreographers began making dance films as a way to share their work. Palestinian artists––who often don't have access to their collaborators or audiences due to frequently closed checkpoints and denied visas––have been experts at remote and digital collaborations for years.
SHARE Philly is a place to communicate and collaborate. Come bring your gear and plug in. Dancers, electronic media and sound artists are welcome. Come jam with us!
Join us for our first Fidget Forum of 2022! We’ll be discussing In Praise of Love by French philosopher Alain Badiou.
Join us for a lecture by Swiss literary scholar, Christian Hänggi, on the change South Park has undergone in its depiction of the working class.
Join us for a one-week intensive, with a warming technique class every morning from 10-12, and an improvisation and creative process class each afternoon from 1-3. You can sign up for the whole week, a full day, or individual classes!
