about
Collective Futures
is a six-week, citywide project activating Philadelphia’s network of artist-run spaces, DIY venues, and community-based initiatives. This collaboratively organized project bringing together more than 30 independent spaces and organizations, Collective Futures will unfold across the city through exhibitions, performances, workshops, and public programs from Kensington and North Chinatown to West Philadelphia, Fishtown, and Old City, between October 2 and November 15, 2026.

At its core, Collective Futures centers collective practice as a vital mode of cultural production. Across disciplines and contexts, the project highlights how artists come together to build shared platforms, experiment with new forms, and sustain creative communities.

Taking place during the 250th anniversary of the so-called United States, while many institutions in Philadelphia conjure programming around the complex histories of nation-building and democracy, Collective Futures highlights the artistic experimentation and alternative models that grassroots cultural spaces have long been building

Collective Futures is grounded in the specific conditions of Philadelphia, where a rich ecosystem of artist-run and DIY spaces has made collaborative cultural production possible. As rising costs and development reshape the city, the project affirms the importance of collective cultural life and the infrastructures that sustain it, so that our work can mobilize resources, deepen connections, and envision transformative futures.

Collective Futures is:

  • 2C Books / Marginal Utility
  • 5U Space
  • All Mutable
  • The Arts League
  • Asian Arts Initiative
  • AUTOMAT Collective
  • Batikh Batikh
  • Bearded Ladies
  • Big Ramp
  • Biomaterials Working Group
  • BYO printmaking collaborative
  • Center for Emerging Visual Artists
  • Cherry St Pier
  • cinéSPEAK
  • City Arts Salon LLC
  • Da Vinci Art Alliance
  • Fable Encounters
  • Fairmount House
  • FJORD
  • Future Flower Collective
  • FORTUNE
  • Gravy Studio
  • Grizzly Grizzly
  • The Halide Project
  • Hall Pass
  • Icebox Project Space
  • Jane Gallery
  • Luster Gallery
  • Memory Workers Guild
  • Muse Gallery
  • Obvious Agency
  • Paradigm Gallery + Studio
  • Peep Projects
  • Pentimenti
  • People’s Music Supply
  • Pink Noise Projects
  • Practice
  • Prism Arts
  • Second State Press
  • Space 1026
  • Teils Studio
  • Termite TV Collective
  • Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia
  • Ulises
  • Umbria Arts
  • Vox Populi

Made possible with the support of the Penn Treaty Special Services District (PTSSD).

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Held Together

hall pass

Held Together: Multidisciplinary Art Show Opening reception October 2, 6-9pm, Closing reception October 23, 6-9pm. OPEN CALL June 1st- July 19th. 

Fieldwork: Held Together Registration opens September 1st. Participants of Fieldwork will meet weekly in one of two session cohorts:  Thursdays from 7-9:30pm (10/15, 10/22. 10/29, 11/5), facilitated by Zeze Schorsch  & Sundays 2-4:30pm (10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8), facilitated by Annie Peterson 

319 N 11th st. Third Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107

hall pass is a community-oriented project space
aiming to flexibly support classes, shows, rehearsals, and more.
let us support your vision for public or private events in this
living, growing gathering place.

powered by a collective of multidisciplinary queer
artists, hall pass is somewhere for everyone to make, move,
show, perform and practice in a
space for all things scrappy, special, beautiful, & needed.

Our contribution to Collective Futures is Held Together: A Multidisciplinary Art Show, and Fieldwork: Held Together. The goal of these two offerings is creating opportunities for developing and sharing work with other artists, as well as performance and exhibition that prioritize resource-sharing, process, experimentation, connection, and artistic exchange.

Held Together: Multidisciplinary Art Show opens Oct 2nd, with submissions to our Open Call to local artists due July 19th. This exhibition aims to showcase the internal supports of the Philadelphia DIY art scene, highlighting the systems of care, camaraderie, and active mechanisms that scaffold our multidisciplinary artmaking. hall pass is seeking work which centers activation: completed by interaction, collaboration, or participation, with particular interest in site-specific and temporal works. Held Together: Multidisciplinary Art Show invites viewers to indulge all of their senses, experience live performances, and maybe even leave their own mark. We invite all creatives, and particularly anyone who hasn’t shown work before. This call is not only open to visual art, but also performance, written work, audio, culinary, participatory experiential work, and more. Please fill out this open call form to submit up to 5 works by July 19th: https://forms.gle/RJWN49kB2kc1UEjEA

Fieldwork: Held Together is a place for artists of all disciplines to learn about their work, develop their ability to give feedback, and build a community of artistic peers. Fieldwork supports the development of artistic work without the pressures of producing a finished product. It prioritizes process, providing space to experiment, make with open hands, and to be “in draft” with fellow creatives. Participants show work and exchange objective, non-directorial feedback in a studio setting with a peer artist facilitator.

Participants of Fieldwork will meet weekly in one of two session cohorts:
Thursdays from (7-9:30pm 10/15, 10/22. 10/29, 11/5), facilitated by Zeze Schorsch
Sundays 2-4:30pm (10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8), facilitated by Annie Peterson
Registration opens September 1st.


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https://hallpass.cargo.site/ for more information.