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The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts gives the following descriptive information:

The citywide Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) returns in 2016 to showcase this city’s phenomenal performing and visual arts scene.

Throughout 16 days, Philadelphia stages and places will host more than 60 performances of dance, theater and visual arts, amounting to one huge international celebration of the arts and the arts community in Philly.

Curated by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, or PIFA, reappears for its third edition in 2016 to build on its events in 2011 and 2013.

At the heart of the festival, the Kimmel Center’s soaring lobby will be home to an enormous installation by Mimi Lien, recipient of a 2015 MacArthur Genius Award.

Additionally, the 16-day fest will be bookended by two huge events. At the festival’s start, the huge and free fire and sand installation Article 13 will serve as the grand opening to the festival, running April 8-10 on the Delaware River Waterfront at Penn Treaty Park.

To close out the festival, the PIFA Street Fair will return, as well, taking over Broad Street for a massive and free day-long party.

In The News

Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts Convenes, Huffington Post, April 20, 2016.
Multimedia tales of migration to have U.S. premiere in Phila., Philadelphia Inquirer, January 21, 2016.

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-The '''Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts''' gives the following descriptive information:<blockquote>The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts announces the return of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), taking place across the venues of the Kimmel Center’s campus, as well as select locations throughout the city, from April 8 through April 23, 2016. A 15-day celebration of art and community, PIFA showcases innovation and a breadth of local and international performances and installations, all curated by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. With more than 60 events across genres and art forms, PIFA is bookended by Article 13 – a grand-scale fire and sand installation that tells the story of immigrants around the world – which serves as the grand opening of the Festival and culminates with the celebrated PIFA Street Fair.<br><br>In this third installment of PIFA, the curatorial vision illustrates the concept “We Are What We Make.” The Festival will explore how our humanity is shaped, changed, inspired, and challenged by the world we create, all displayed through a variety of performing and visual arts. A massive installation by Mimi Lien – recipient of a 2015 MacArthur Genius Award – will consume the lobby of the Kimmel Center, bringing this vision to life and will be on display throughout the Festival.<br><br>“We are thrilled to once again produce PIFA, the perfect manifestation of The Kimmel Center’s mission to introduce broad and diverse audiences to world-class, ground-breaking programming,” said Kimmel Center President and CEO, Anne Ewers. “To see our local arts organizations coming together in collaboration with one another, as well as with the renowned international artists joining us from around the world, is sure to be an extraordinary experience for the hundreds of thousands touched by PIFA.</blockquote>
 ==In The News==
-*[http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20160121_Multimedia_tales_of_migration_to_have_U_S__premiere_in_Phila_.html Multimedia tales of migration to have U.S. premiere in Phila.], Philadelphia Inquirer, January 21, 2016.<br><br><br>[[Category:Issue-The_Arts]][[Category:Is-Recurring_Event]][[Category:Is-Annual_Event]][[Category:Frequency-Annual]][[Category:Issue-Performing_Arts]]
+*[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lew-whittington/pifas-we-are-what-we-make_b_9721346.html Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts Convenes], Huffington Post, April 20, 2016.
+*[http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20160121_Multimedia_tales_of_migration_to_have_U_S__premiere_in_Phila_.html Multimedia tales of migration to have U.S. premiere in Phila.], Philadelphia Inquirer, January 21, 2016.
+<br><br>[[Category:Issue-The_Arts]][[Category:Is-Recurring_Event]][[Category:Is-Annual_Event]][[Category:Frequency-Annual]][[Category:Issue-Performing_Arts]]