News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Monday December 15th 2025
September Events
Free Thursday Evenings at ASI
3 PM – 8 PM
American Swedish Institute
2600 Park Avenue South
Free
Explore the ASI galleries and the historic Turnblad Mansion with free admission beginning September 1. https://asimn.org.
There will be live music on select Thursdays, starting with Scott Keever on Sept. 1st. Keever is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist who combines an American roots sound with other far ranging styles. https://asimn.org/event/music-thursdays-at-asi-scott-keever
Noojimo (She Heals)
Through September 17
All My Relations Arts
1414 East Franklin Avenue
Free
Noojimo (She Heals) celebrates the importance of Aunties in Indigenous spaces. In many Indigenous communities, the Auntie serves as an extra parental role – one who provides mental, physical, and spiritual support to younger relatives. http://www.allmyrelationsarts.com/noojimo-she-heals/
Through Our Eyes Festival
September 9 – 18
Open Eye Theatre
506 East 24th Street
Sliding scale, $20 – Free
Open Eye welcomes Exposed Brick Theatre’s Through Our Eyes Festival, featuring the world premiere of two plays, Freeing Assata, by Sterling Miller, and A Love Story in 8 Scenes, by Siddeeqah Shabazz, along with a variety of workshops celebrating the power of storytelling. Both shows are directed by Simone Williams. https://www.openeyetheatre.org/through-our-eyes-festival
East Phillips Improvement Coalition Community Permaculture Trainings
September 9th, 10th, 12th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 22nd, 24th, 26th, 29th
4 PM – 8 PM
East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center, 2307 17th Avenue South
OR
East Phillips 17th Avenue Community Garden, 2428 17th Avenue South
Free
Permaculture promotes the best ways we can mimic nature to live in balance with the earth and not against it.… Read the rest “September Events”
Blooming Together!
By BART BUCH, Director of Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts
This summer Semilla has been busy creating peace through beauty on and around Bloomington Avenue South in the Midtown Phillips neighborhood, our home. Last summer our theme was “Together/Juntos,” as coming together again after being separated from the pandemic was thrilling. This year we take that theme a step further with “Blooming Together.” We hope to reflect and create a wave of new togetherness, with us each trying to bloom anew. You are going to see quite a few flowers in the work that is going on, and amongst this new garden we are in, we acknowledge the persistent hardship, desperation and violence in our midst here in Midtown Phillips, and especially on Bloomington Avenue. The situation we are in is complex in this neighborhood, in this time.… Read the rest “Blooming Together!”
Billboard
“Fragility vs. strength. Who is strong, who is fragile? Who is in greatest danger? In crisis, how do we retain our humanity if we have power or if we do not?” – Constanza Carballo
Billboards for Justice selected the Families Belong Together art piece for the billboard on top of Cup Foods at George Floyd Square at E. 38th St and Chicago. The piece is by local artist Constanza Carballo and collaborating artist Kenneth Rivera. Constanza came to the Phillips Community from Argentina as a young child. She is now a nurse at the Community-University Health Care Center.
Photo credit: Magdalena Kaluza
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