An inspiring evening of celebration, connection, and community impact bringing together leaders in architecture, design, development, and community building. Guests will enjoy food and drinks, networking, storytelling, immersive design displays, and special remarks.

This year’s theme, 35 Years of Design, Partnership, and Possibility, reflects on 35 years of proving that when communities lead and designers listen, meaningful, lasting change is possible. Your ticket supports the Collaborative’s mission to turn community vision into design solutions.

Come to VIA to see the C.Plot studio with drinks and new work on view!

Have you ever wondered what it's like to spin certain fibers types? This is a fiber social where you get to taste test a fight of many different fibers. You can feel how they spin, what they are used for, their tactile qualities and learn from the conversation with others in the spinning community!

Join us for a welcome-back gathering at 320 S. Broad. Reconnect with the UArts community, explore open studios, meet the growing community of artists, makers, designers, and small businesses now shaping VIA, and spend some time back in the building together. Enjoy drinks + bites at Frankie’s Summer Club, DJ Lady Problems, casual crafting, and an open-door atmosphere rooted in creativity, community, and connection.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to spin certain fibers types? This is a fiber social where you get to taste test a fight of many different fibers. You can feel how they spin, what they are used for, their tactile qualities and learn from the conversation with others in the spinning community!

Have you ever wondered what it's like to spin certain fibers types? This is a fiber social where you get to taste test a fight of many different fibers. You can feel how they spin, what they are used for, their tactile qualities and learn from the conversation with others in the spinning community!

Have you ever wondered what it's like to spin certain fibers types? This is a fiber social where you get to taste test a fight of many different fibers. You can feel how they spin, what they are used for, their tactile qualities and learn from the conversation with others in the spinning community!

Presented by Lightbox Film Center: Werner Herzog’s Stroszek follows an ex-mental patient who travels from Berlin to Wisconsin chasing the promise of America, only to find a different kind of isolation awaiting him. Starring Bruno S., Eva Mattes, and Clemens Scheitz, the film cemented Herzog’s reputation as a master of uncompromising cinematic realism. (Werner Herzog, Germany, 1977, 115 min.) In English and German with English subtitles.

Brought to you by DAG, Leslie Richards—former CEO of SEPTA and PennDOT Secretary—recently launched the Transportation Initiative at Penn (TRIP), bringing together researchers, students, agencies, and private partners to address today’s mobility challenges. TRIP aims to translate academic research into practical solutions that improve transit efficiency, access, and sustainability across Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and beyond.

She will also reflect on TRIP’s first year, including how to speed up adoption of transportation technologies, the value of interdisciplinary approaches to governance, and how to better connect research with real-world practice.

Presented by Lightbox Film Center: Juraj Herz’s Czechoslovak New Wave masterpiece follows Karel Kopfrkingl, a crematorium director in 1930s Prague whose morbid worldview is amplified after he is recruited by the Nazis, leading him into a chilling descent shaped by ideology and delusion. Starring Rudolf Hrušínský, the film blends dark satire with expressionist style to create a disturbing portrait of moral collapse. (Juraj Herz, Czechoslovakia, 1969, 100 min.) In Czech with English subtitles.

Presented by Lightbox Film Center: Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. This footage, shot by filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, is now a testament to a place and time that no longer exists. What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989—a man lost to time and war—led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. As the camera moves through Gaza’s streets and landscapes, it records fleeting moments of everyday life—fragments of a reality now irreversibly altered. With Hasan in Gaza transforms this forgotten footage into a cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again. (Kamal Aljafari, Palestine/Germany/France, 2025, 112 min.) In Arabic with English subtitles

Presented by Lightbox Film Center: A group of monkeys, including a director loosely inspired by Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider persona, struggle through various trials and tribulations while making an epic adventure film in this psychedelic and satirical look at the Hollywood counterculture of the early ’70s. Directed by celebrated animator Gerald Potterton – who earned multiple Oscar nominations for his work at National Film Board of Canada, contributed to Yellow Submarine, and later directed Heavy Metal – this is an outrageous and inspired feat of cinematic imagination.

An unlikely hybrid of analogue animation and live action Soviet fantasy film, Tiki Tiki repurposes extended passages from Rolan Bykov’s eye-popping 1967 phantasmagoria Aybolit-66 as the film within the film, adding irreverent comic dubbing and cutting to subvert the original intent. The result puzzled and thrilled 70s audiences in equal measure and turned heads by winning Mosfilm art director Aleksandr Kuznetsov a Canadian Film Award. An unapologetically eccentric experience that has earned comparisons to H.C. Potter’s Hellzapoppin', Tiki Tiki remains one of the most sought-after animated enigmas of its era. (Gerald Potterton, Canada, 1971, 71 min.)

Presented by Lightbox Film Center: One of a handful of female outsider artists to earn praise from the early exponents of art brut, Aloïse Corbaz—born in modest circumstances in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1886; institutionalized as a schizophrenic in 1918; and kept under psychiatric observation until her death in 1964—is portrayed here by two of the premiere European actresses of their respective generations: Isabelle Huppert, who plays Corbaz as a ruminative, searching young woman, and Delphine Seyrig, astonishingly committed as the elder artist.

Produced by Paul Vecchiali, de Kermadec’s sophomore feature, newly restored by Cinémathèque Française, is an ideal introduction to an unjustly forgotten giant of post–New Wave French cinema, who in the same year of its release would serve as one of the producers on Seyrig and Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman. (Liliane de Kermadec, France, 1975, 115 min.) In French with English subtitles

Restored in 4K by TF1 Studio, La Cinémathèque française and Cinémathèque suisse…