Our residents, members, and visitors have come to know IHP’ s Fall and Spring Previews over the past few years as highlights of the season: fun parties with beer, snacks, and engaging performances, all in the name of getting you back in the door for the incredible programming lined up over the subsequent months. These previews come at a cost, and sometimes its worth reinventing the wheel. With that in mind, this Fall we are switching things up! As has been mentioned time and time again( but bears repeating still), International House is a non-profit that depends on the generous support of members, donors, grants, and other contributors to continue its long-standing tradition of bringing arts and culture to the Philadelphia area.
We have plenty of exciting things in store for you from this July until next June, and we are so excited to announce some of our line up by way of hosting our first-ever arts benefit: IHP’ s Benefit Art Auction and Season Kick-Off. The Benefit is a ticketed event this year, but admission gets you all the things you’ ve come to expect( drinks and food!), plus the opportunity to bid on some highly collectible and impressive fine art from both regional and international artists, as well as a rare, live performance by the internationally acclaimed Zola Jesus + JG Thirlwell. A musician who straddles the Goth-rock and lo-fi genres incorporating a blend of orchestral instrumentals, ambient electronic sounds and strong diva-esque vocals, Zola Jesus has developed an incredible and not-to-be-missed collaboration with JG Thirlwell, an Australian
composer and pioneer of the No Wave and industrial music scenes. Thirlwell has also collaborated with Coil, Sonic Youth, Nice Cave, and Nine Inch Nails, and has arranged the music of Zola Jesus for electronics and a string quartet.
This is sure to be a hypnotic performance by Zola Jesus, who has played in venues as venerable as the Guggenheim Museum in NY, and collaborated with artists as varied as Stephen Prutsman( internationally recognized as one of the finest American pianists of his generation) and Jim Jarmusch( who needs no introduction). To welcome Zola Jesus to IHP is to welcome international talent and high-art to Philadelphia... what better way to toast IHP’ s programming and place in the community!
Please join us on September 12 at 7pm to check out the silent fine art auction, season preview, and live performance. To say this will be a memorable evening would be an understatement. You don’ t want to miss your chance to be a part of it, and of course, to support this fine institution we all know, love, and have come to rely on for introducing new perspectives, and keeping the Greater Philadelphia area up to speed on moving image culture and art.
Sixpoint Brewery Proudly Sponsors International House Philadelphia’ s Benefit Art Auction and Season Opening
Photo of Zola Jesus by Angel Ceballos. Photo of JG Thirlwell by Sebastian Mlynarski
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