Tagged House and Home

Stakeholder and Influence Mapping: Strengthening Collaboration Skills Workshop Series

In this session, determine how best to effect a positive change in your community by analyzing your sphere of influence and strategizing on who to engage and how. Strengthening Collaboration Skills and Advancing Community Engagement in…

Free COVID-19 At-Home Test Giveaway

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health will be at Whitman Library once a month with free at-home COVID tests, face masks, hand sanitizers, and other free hygiene supplies. No insurance or ID is required. 2:00-4:00 p.m. while…

West Philly Skill Share: Build a Honeycomb Shelf

In partnership with the West Philly Tool Library, come assemble your very own honeycomb shelf with woodworker John Creighton, a teacher at the West Philly Tool Library. This hexagonal shaped shelf is great for decoration. Walk away with…

Media Manipulation and Polarization: Strengthening Collaboration Skills Workshop Series

In this session, we’ll discuss how we can spot the types of biases and manipulation strategies common in online content, and learn and apply proven strategies for countering these manipulation tactics to prevent and reduce harm to…

Free COVID-19 At-Home Test Giveaway

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health will be at Whitman Library once a month with free at-home COVID tests, face masks, hand sanitizers, and other free hygiene supplies. No insurance or ID is required. 2:00-4:00 p.m. while…

Trans Free Clothing Swap

Come find or release clothing to suite your gender or other needs. Hosted by Trans United Front, an affinity group of Philly Socialists. Clean donations accepted until 2:30, after that just browsing & swapping.

GET ORGANIZED and GET SHREDDING

Looking to get more organized? Join us on Thursday, September 25, 2025, when Yasmine Goodman will share helpful tips on decluttering and organizing. After the talk, a shredder truck will be on Wood Street from noon to 4 PM—a great…

West Philly Skill Share: Sashiko Mending

Come learn the Japanese art of mending with Sarah Tremain, a local textile artist and seamstress. Sarah Culbertson, founder of sustainable fashion brand Sarah Tremain, transforms mending into a practice of healing, creativity, and…

Handy Around the House

Do it yourself home repair, plumbing, painting, etc.

Fix your ride

Repair tips for cars, bikes, boats, and more!

Cut and Stitch

Grab the scissors for sewing projects, drapery, upholstery – even how to give a haircut!

Cutting Clutter - Home Storage

If you can't toss it, learn how to stow it.

Cutting Clutter - Clean House

Cut the clutter and keep it that way.

Cate Doty | Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages

In conversation with Selena Coppock, standup comedian, writer, author, and creator and voice of @NYTVows , the parody Twitter and Instagram account that lampoons the New York Times Wedding section A former writer and editor at the New…

Melinda Gates | The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
In conversation with John Green

Ranked by  Forbes  as the third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates has been on a 20-year mission to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Through her work as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—the…

Lidia Bastianich | My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food

Renowned chef and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich is the owner and co-owner of celebrated Italian restaurants in Manhattan, Pittsburgh, and Kansas City. The author of a baker’s dozen cookbooks, a judge on Masterchef Jr. Italy , and a…

Matthew Desmond | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

A sociologist and co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard, Matthew Desmond won a 2015 MacArthur fellowship for his groundbreaking research into the root causes and far-reaching effects of American poverty. He is the…