Natural Creativity Center

Summer of Imagination — A Community Movie Night featuring SUPER MARIO BROS on the big screen! 🍄⭐

Friday, August 7 · 5:30–8 PM
5534 Pulaski Ave, Suite 202 (enter from the alley on Woodlawn)
$5 at the door (cash or Venmo) · Tickets: link in bio!

And listen — this is not just a movie. This is a whole EVENING:

🍽 Plates for sale by Mia from Mia Ormes | Sacred Kitchen™️ — come hungry
🍿 POPCORN! For sale before, during, and after the event — in person AND online (our Double Good fundraiser runs Aug 3–10, shipped fresh to your door)
🛍 A marketplace full of local artists and young vendors selling their creations
📚 FREE books from the Tree House Books Bookmobile
🎨 A hands-on art activity with Teaching Artist Iris
🌿 A quiet room for anyone who wants to step away and relax — because every kind of movie-goer belongs here

Every single dollar supports our Scholarship Fund — $12K raised, $25K goal — keeping Natural Creativity accessible to EVERY young person. 💜

We’ll be posting every day this week with more details, so keep your eyes here. Bring your people. Bring your appetite. See you on the 7th!! 🍿✨

Something big is taking root. 🌱

For over ten years, Natural Creativity has grown alongside the young people of Germantown — and now we’re growing again. We can’t say much yet. What we can say: more room to build, to make, to gather, to be.

The seed is planted. The announcement is coming.

Stay close. 💜

Registration is open for the School House Lane Arts program on Tuesdays from 3:30-5:30. The first semester arts session runs for 12 weeks from 9/15 - 12/8.

Calling all performing and visual artists ages 9-14 who want to create new ensemble work with friends and passionate teaching artists!

There is no script (yet). The adults won’t dictate what skills should be learned or what the final performance should look like. This is also not a free-for-all where chaos reigns! Instead, we’ll trust the process. We’ll play, experiment, practice, revise, and continually ask ourselves: What do we want to say through art? What stories, questions, or ideas matter to us? And how can we use the arts to express them?

Maybe it will be a poetry slam with interpretive dance and a watercolors exhibit. Maybe it will be an a ca****la concert featuring handmade masks. Maybe it will be original monologues with life-size puppets. There really are so many possibilities.

The 12-week journey will look something like this:

Play → Let loose, have fun, and create the space for ideas to emerge.

Explore → Pull those ideas apart, experiment with them, and discover what has potential.

Workshop → Shape those possibilities into artistic work while developing the skills and confidence needed to bring them to life.

Rehearse → Refine, revise, and continually weave individual ideas into a collaborative whole.

Perform & Exhibit → Share what we’ve created together with family and friends on December 8th!

Throughout it all, we’ll operate from the assumption that THE WORLD NEEDS US TO CREATE, because it truly does.
Sign up: https://forms.gle/wdBPHn51zwLnxk4f6
Full description, tuition & teacher bios: schoolhouselanephilly.com
Questions? Melissa Church — [email protected]

In joyful partnership with 💜

NC families: this pairs beautifully with our week, and SHL arranges walking accompaniment from NC.

Come hungry, come ready to play. 🍿🎬
Summer of Imagination is our big movie night fundraiser — and it’s going to be fun, fun, fun. Friday, August 7 · 5:30–8 PM.
Here’s what’s waiting for you: a movie projected on a wall, Meals by Mia from serving up something special, free books from our friends at , a hands-on art project led by teaching artist Iris .ris.ee.lay.nah, a youth marketplace, a bake sale, and vending from and — plus our own young vendors showing what they’ve made.
🎟️ Just $5 — pay at the door or ahead of time via the link in our bio. Every dollar supports our Scholarship Fund ($12K toward our $25K goal).
📣 Still looking for a few more vendors! Want a table? The sign-up’s in our bio too.
A special shout-out to for helping us spread the word far and wide. 💜
📍 5534 Pulaski Ave · Enter from the alley on Woodlawn St.

Something new is growing at NC Academy this fall. 🌱

Introducing The Art of Biology — a new Friday course where living systems meet creative expression. Young people won’t memorize life for a test. They’ll explore how it actually works, then make meaning of it through art, observation, and hands-on inquiry.

Friday mornings this fall, for teens (ages 13–18).

And the person leading it? Someone we can’t wait for you to meet. Instructor reveal coming soon. 👀

Enrollment for 2026–27 is open now. Every young person who joins helps us build something rare in Philadelphia — and our scholarship fund (now $12K toward our $25K goal) keeps these doors open to families who need it. Chip in or enroll: both move us forward.

Curious? Book a 15-minute call

📍 Germantown, Philadelphia
🔗 calendly.com/krystald-1/initial-call

It’s happening! 🎉 Our very first community movie night is Friday, August 7th—and you’re invited.

And just for fun: we’re throwing a Mario costume contest and every young person who dresses up scores a gold chocolate coin. So dig out those overalls, red hats, green hats, princess costumes or your best Bowzer look. 🍄⭐

Plus free books from our friends at , create art, and visit our marketplace full of community makers including young people. Our campers are running a bake sale, with snacks and drinks available too—every dollar goes to the NC scholarship fund.

Just $5 at the door—every dollar goes to our scholarship fund so more young people can learn with us.

Want in on the fun? We’d love a hand the night of—setup, welcoming folks, running the photo booth—and we’re collecting art supplies (paint, markers, paper, whatever you’ve got). Comment or send us a message!

Swipe for details and come hang out with us. 💜 Link for tickets available in bio.

📍 5534 Pulaski Ave · enter from the alley on Woodlawn St.

Summer meals are on us. 🍎
Every weekday through August 14, NC serves free breakfast and lunch to any young person 18 and under — no sign-up, no cost, no catch. Just come in and eat with us.
🥣 Breakfast: 9:00–10:30 AM
🥪 Lunch: 11:30–1:30 PM
📍 5534 Pulaski Ave, Suite 202, Germantown (enter through the alley door off Woodlawn Ave)
Bring your young people, tell a neighbor, spread the word. Everyone’s welcome at the table.
Provided through Nutritional Development Services, funded by the USDA.

We asked our families to tell us, honestly, what this year at NC was like. Here’s some of what they said. 💛
From a five-year-old’s first learning community to a teen who feels fully accepted for who they are — this is what self-directed learning looks like in Germantown.
Enrollment for 2026–27 is open now for young people ages 5–18. Curious if NC is the right fit for your family? Link in bio to start a conversation.
And thanks to our community, our scholarship fund is at $12K toward our $25K goal — helping keep NC within reach for every family who wants in. 🌱