Scribe Video Center is a non-profit media arts center founded in 1982, with a focus on participatory community filmmaking
We are located in West Philadelphia at 3908 Lancaster Avenue
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August 2nd - August 23, 2025
Scribe Video Center presents the 28th annual year of Street Movies! This film screening and performance series tours outdoor community spaces across Philadelphia every August with a program of independent short films from local, national, and international filmmakers, curated in partnership with neighborhood-based organizations. All events are free, family-friendly, and open to the public.
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4 Sessions: Saturdays, August 9- 30, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Cost:$120, $95 Scribe members
Every documentary is composed of scenes. This Workshop is designed for filmmakers with active projects to learn about different types of scenes and ways they can be sequenced to tell a coherent and compelling story.
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3 Sessions: Tuesdays, August 12 - 26, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost: $100, $75 Scribe members
This workshop offers an entry point into the world of Augmented Reality, focusing on storytelling, cultural preservation, and collaborative creation. Explore how mixed reality has evolved into an accessible and expressive tool — one that doesn’t require an expensive headset - just a phone and some imagination.
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Friday, August 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Cost: $5, $3 for Scribe Members
This documentary will explore the Afro-Caribbean dance, ‘whining’ alongside the practice of twerking to analyze respectability politics, pressures to accommodate whiteness, and gendered criticism of sexual expression within the Black diaspora.
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North Philadelphia History FestivalJuly 24-27, 2025
Join us for 4 days of FREE events celebrating the incredible African American and Puerto Rican cultural legacy of North Philadelphia. From student stories to oral histories recounted by elders to screenings and live performances, this festival transforms neighborhood blocks from Ridge Ave to North Broad and beyond.
Learn more:http://scribe.org/NPHF
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From July 24–27, 2025, Scribe Video Center presents the inaugural North Philly History Festival—a four-day, free public celebration activating historic sites with photography exhibitions, video installations, film screenings, panel discussions, walking tours, and live performances.
North Philadelphia History Festival
Through the Precious Places Community History Project, each group will plan, shoot, and edit a video about their “precious place” with the help of a filmmaker and a research scholar hired by Scribe. While these facilitators will work closely with participants throughout the course of production, the work itself—the planning, writing, and filming—will be done by members of the community groups.
Precious Places
The Documentary History Project for Youth is an annual after-school, weekend, and summertime digital media production workshop for middle and high school students. Each year, youth participants create short documentary films as a way to explore some aspect of the social, political, and cultural history of Philadelphia.
Documentary History Project for Youth
Power Politics is an oral history project organized by Scribe Video Center, exploring strategies for political empowerment by historically disenfranchised communities, specifically interviewing organizers, activists, strategists, and leaders in the Black, Puerto Rican, Asian-American, and other economically disadvantaged communities.
Power Politics
WPEB - West Philadelphia’s Community Radio Station
Broadcasting live from Scribe, WPEB is an independent, noncommercial community radio station dedicated to reflecting, representing, incorporating, empowering, and serving West Philadelphia. Tune in on 88.1 FM, 95.1 FM, or here on the live stream.
