For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor

For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor

For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor

Housing Journeys III: Drawing Our Way Home

Can dream Homes live in reality? How do architects turn dreams into buildings we can touch, love, and live in? How can you ensure that your dreams of housing are translated into life completely, not fractionally?

If you have ever asked yourself these questions or thought deeply about what you might do if you had the power to change your built environment, you will find yourself in like-minded community at Housing Journeys III. At this third and final session in the series, third-year architecture student, Jackson Tignor, will lead us through a drawing activity where we will consider home as a set of layers. Layers of people, feelings, memories, and building that come together to create a Home.

Come here to cherish Home in community and explore how we translate our dreams into drawings that tell stories.

This session invites you to reminisce, to map memory, and to sit in community as we expand our understanding of how large Home can be. Join us for the second Creative Kickback in the Housing Journeys series—a space to reflect, create, and live together, if only for a little while.

For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor

Join Blue Stoop for an in-person Creative Coworking session at Writers Room from 6-8 pm. We'll open with a quick round of goal-setting and close with another quick check-in — expect about 90 minutes of actual writing time.

RSVPs are greatly appreciated to ensure we have enough supplies and space for all, please RSVP here!

Creative Coworking is an opportunity for writers and readers of all experience levels to spend time together while working toward their personal goals. Bring a work in progress, start something new, read a book, or just do some daydreaming!

We will have free snacks, wifi, KN-95 masks (optional, but encouraged), and COVID tests available on site. There will be pens and paper but you can bring a notebook or laptop if desired. Headphones or earplugs may also be useful. This is a free event for adults 18+, but if you'd like to support Blue Stoop you can pitch in a few bucks here.

For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor

Come celebrate SPELL Magazine’s printed release, at this open mic!

When: February 27th

Where: Ross Commons (229 N. 34th St.), Second Floor

Come ready to hear some of their published authors read their pieces aloud!

Light bites will be provided!

Join Blue Stoop for an in-person Creative Coworking session at Writers Room, this Wednesday, 2/25, from 6-8 pm. We'll open with a quick round of goal-setting and close with another quick check-in — expect about 90 minutes of actual writing time.

Creative Coworking is an opportunity for writers and readers of all experience levels to spend time together while working toward their personal goals. Bring a work in progress, start something new, read a book, or just do some daydreaming!

We will have free snacks, wifi, KN-95 masks (optional, but encouraged), and COVID tests available on site. There will be pens and paper but you can bring a notebook or laptop if desired. Headphones or earplugs may also be useful. This is a free event for adults 18+, but if you'd like to support Blue Stoop you can pitch in a few bucks here.

For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor

For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor

Housing Journeys II: You and I, Living, Together
Do property lines decide who we live with—or merely who we live next to?
Does Home begin and end at an imaginary line drawn at the edge of a driveway, a party wall, a fence? Or is Home something wider, messier, more human?

What if Home was less about ownership and more about closeness—about who knocks on your door, who you check in on, who fills the space with memory, laughter, tension, care? Could Home be mapped not with streets and parcels, but in relationships, shared time, and proximity?

At this Creative Kickback session, we will gently question the boundaries that shape how we live together. Architecture student and Second Story Collective Homesharer, Jackson Tignor, will guide participants through a reflective workshop that blends art, writing, and conversation. Together, we will probe the question: how do manufactured divisions—property lines, party walls, blocks—support and diminish our sense of Home?

We will take these ideas about home and living together and imagine them in the context of Philadelphia blocks and streets. Using blank maps, we will write, draw, and color to better consider how closeness—physical and emotional—forms quiet constellations of care and experience.

This session invites you to reminisce, to map memory, and to sit in community as we expand our understanding of how large Home can be. Join us for the second Creative Kickback in the Housing Journeys series—a space to reflect, create, and live together, if only for a little while.

For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor

For anyone who wants to study, hang, or chat between classes or work!

229 N. 34th St, 3rd Floor