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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6 Sessions - Mondays, January 5, 12 & 26 and February 2, 9 & 16, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
This workshop teaches participants how to skillfully navigate Premiere’s workflow to make use of its powerful editing tools, from importing, managing, and editing media to creating sequences, applying transitions and effects, and exporting their completed projects.
Cost: $135, $100 for Scribe members
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4 Sessions - Wednesdays, January 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Explore how emerging AI tools can expand access and possibilities within video art and filmmaking, from writing and ideating using ChatGPT and Claude to mood boarding and visual experimentation with Midjourney, developing soundscapes with Suno, and full scene generation with platforms like Runway. This workshop invites participants to play, prototype, and explore AI as a collaborator and also discuss the ethical, environmental, and cultural implications of these technologies.
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Friday, January 23, 2026, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Joie Lee, celebrated actress, director, producer, and screenwriter, will join us at Scribe to discuss her career and artistic evolution. The evening will include reflections on writing the autobiographical Spike Lee classic, Crooklyn (1994), and a rare screening of her newest short films.
Cost: $8, $5 Students/Seniors, $4 for Scribe Members
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4 Sessions - Saturdays, January 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2026, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
In dreams, and in animation, anything is possible. In this workshop, you will be encouraged to visualize a dream (in the broadest sense) through animation. Animator, filmmaker, and college professor Lowell Boston will guide participants through the different techniques of stop motion animation, including mixed media, hand-drawn, cut paper, and collage.
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WPEB 88.1FM is a member-supported, noncommercial, community radio station that provides West Philadelphia with a much-needed local, progressive, and accountable media outlet serving as a voice for its many diverse communities.
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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.
