News

December 8, 2013

Emergent Strategies: Speculative Fiction & Radical Organizing

Join Leeway Foundation on December 8 to welcome writer and cultural organizer Adrienne Maree Brown for a lively conversation inspired by the work of...
December 6, 2013

Sara Zia Ebrahimi Featured in Chestnut Hill Local

Sara (Zia Ebrahimi) Hughes, 36, who lives in Wyndmoor with her husband, Gralin Hughes (www.gralinhughes.com), a video artist and freelance...
November 20, 2013

Fruitvale Station, Trayvon and Beyond: Black Male Storytelling, Movies, Media

On Saturday, August 17 at 4:00pm at Scribe Video Center (4212 Chestnut Street) join GriotWorks, ReelBlack Presents and Scribe Video Center for a panel...
November 13, 2013

Yaba Blay featured in Philly Weekly and Totally Biased

Drexel prof Yaba Blay's striking new photo book "One Drop" explores how a wide range of different skin tones affects Americans' personal identities...
November 4, 2013

Ethics And Values Of Community Arts Practice Workshop

Led by renown author and practitioner, Arlene Goldbard, this hands-on workshop will help participants identify their own values and ethical...
October 18, 2013

August 2013 Art and Change Grants Announced

The Leeway Foundation announces today $52,500 in grants to 21 women and transgender artists and cultural producers living in the six-county...
October 5, 2013

REVOLVE: An Art for Social Change Symposium

In honor of Leeway’s 20th anniversary and Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) coming to Philadelphia, we invite you to join us on Saturday, October 5, for a...
October 5, 2013

Race Peace Philly

Leeway Foundation co-presents "Race Peace," a multi-generational performance project that deals with the debilitating fog of racism in an attempt to...
September 13, 2013

The Visibility Project review in Huffington Post by Aja Beech

A common thread in the production and appreciation of all art is a singular idea with many facets and applications: perception. The Visibility Project...
September 7, 2013

MamaCITA Collective featured in Inquirer

No one believes that they have found the cure for violence. Certainly not the hundreds of women who earned membership in Mothers in Charge by losing...