Upcoming events
In-Gallery Poetry Readings presented by Blue Stoop - Later @ ICA
Kick off the autumn season at ICA’s newly launched monthly after-hours night, Later @ ICA!
Join us for a lively mix of cocktails and light snacks, all on the house, as you explore our Summer/Fall 2024 exhibitions during exclusive late-night hours. Enjoy art-inspired games on our Terrace, catch short in-gallery poetry readings from our friends at Blue Stoop, and groove to the beats of Philly-based electronic artist and DJ JEWELSSEA.
A fantastic way to unwind, make new friends, and kick off the back-to-school season!
FREE & OPEN TO ALL (Poetry readings begin at 7PM)
Performers:
Cam Simmons is a Philly based water justice advocate and poet. They’ve been writing poetry for most of their life, moving between spoken word, slam, and the written form. Poetry has taken on many different roles in Cam’s life, from a casual hobby to an academic pursuit to a deeply beloved side hustle. But through all its forms, poetry has been their way of making sense of themself and the world around them. They cannot remember a time before they were a poet. Since moving to Philly, they’ve been attending and sharing at local readings and are ever grateful for how the Philly poetry community has embraced them.
rough draft is a poet, mixed media artist, teacher, storyteller, and community organizer born and raised in Philadelphia. With a passion for fostering spaces of collective creativity and healing, she currently works as a Co-Director for Blue Stoop, a home for Philly writers. She shares her poetry on custom clothing with her brand Poetry for the Streets, is a creative lead on a digital healing project with Cry Collective, a project of Asian Arts Initiative, and is part of Voices in Power’s 2023 Millionaire’s Club for surpassing 3 Million Views across social platforms on her Spoken Word Performance “lay up”. She is a Philly Typewriter sponsored poet, recipient of the 2022 Judith Star Writing Award, and hopes to finally finish her first chapbook of poetry (eventually).
Philipe AbiYouness is a Lebanese-American poet and teaching artist from New Jersey. His work has been published in New England Review, Mizna, Gulf Coast, Pigeon Pages, Muzzle, and the anthologies “Best of the Net 2020” published by Sundress Publications and “We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent.” He is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark and has received support and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Brooklyn Poets, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
Creative Coworking: Live @ Indy Hall
You asked and we listened! Join Blue Stoop for a full day of drop-in coworking, in-person at Indy Hall Clubhouse. Indy Hall has generously provided a pay-what-you-wish option: $0–30. Just type in the amount you wish to pay during checkout.
All proceeds from ticket sales support Indy Hall. If you’d like to support Blue Stoop, consider buying a yummy snack from us on site, or making a donation through our website.
Coworking starts at 9:00am and continues until 6:00pm. Join us for some writing, editing, reading, daydreaming, freelancing, or anything else you’d like to work on, whether it be for a few minutes, an hour or two, or even the full day. See you there!
Accessibility: Face masks are recommended by us, but not required by our hosts. The space is ADA compliant (elevator available) and all bathrooms are gender neutral.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative Co-working
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (4:10-5:50 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative Co-working
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (4:10-5:50 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative co-working
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (4:10-5:50 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative co-working
Note: This week’s session will run from 3:30-5:30pm due to a class that starts at 6:00pm.
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (3:40-5:20 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
FRIDAY on the Stoop — Creative co-working
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (4:10-5:50 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative co-working
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (4:10-5:50 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative co-working
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (4:10-5:50 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative co-working
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (4:10-5:50 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative co-working
Note: This week’s session will start and end earlier than usual due to a 6:00 pm ET class with Madeline Miller.
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (3:40-5:20 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.
Thursdays on the Stoop — Creative co-working
Note: This week’s session will start and end earlier than usual due to a 6:00 pm ET class with Jennifer Wilson.
Drop-in, creative co-working with peers over Zoom.
Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the whole session — it’s totally up to you. You can use this time to write, edit, read, daydream, or whatever best serves your literary life.
We will open and close the session with 10 minutes to check-in about our writing goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. Mics will stay off during the silent working portion of the event (3:40-5:20 pm ET). Please note that we will not workshop or read our work aloud to the group.
This event is free and open to all.