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ArtsFlash: Rotunda's 10th Birthday Celebration kicks off tonight

POSTED: Friday, September 25, 2009, 8:13 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Events | Arts Events | Philly Artists Party

Neal Santos

As Lauren F. Friedman told us in this week's Agenda, West Philly's The Rotunda is turning 10, and they've got a whole weekend worth of activities lined up to celebrate. Tonight, for example, features VJ Yakov, Dime Universal and HipHop Poeticz, plus a silent art auction (which ends Sunday) featuring pieces from more than 20 artists.

Here's more from man-about-town Shaun Brady:

Who the hell do you invite to a party that features hip-hop and silent films, screaming experimental rock and a silent auction, poetry and ' live screen printing? Well, the Rotunda's essentially been inviting everyone in West Philly and beyond to that party for 10 years now, so a mash-up of celebratory art-making makes perfect sense. In fact, it's about the only way to honor a decade spent hosting sequin-clad musicians from Saturn jamming with Tuvan throat singers, monthly packed-to-the-gills gatherings of sweat-drenched B-boys and law-abiding graffiti writers, free-jazz freakouts and flea markets, puppets and punks. Happy birthday to a venue that not only embodies a certain funky, communal neighborhood vibe, but has done much to define it.

Rotunda Tenth Birthday Celebration, Fri.-Sun., Sep. 25-27, $3-$10, The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, therotunda.org.

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