Back and Song Tour

Join Back and Song artists Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young for an exclusive tour of their film installation, currently on view at Girard College.

Back and Song is a meditative four-channel film and art installation by filmmakers Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young, produced by Philadelphia Contemporary and Thomas Jefferson University. This kaleidoscopic installation reflects on the complex and profound connections between health, wellness, and the Black experience in America. Working with archivists from around the world, Moorhead and Young have synthesized photographs of quotidian Black family life and new footage into a time-based archive of expression.

Back and Song is presented at Girard College, originally chartered in 1833 as a school for “white, male orphans” and later a pivotal site in the movement to legally desegregate all Philadelphia schools. Filling its central auditorium with sound and moving image, Back and Song transforms the Chapel at Girard College into a space of rejuvenation. Back and Song will be on view on Saturdays and Sundays, from 12-6 p.m., between October 5 and October 27.