NPHF Visual Identity & Design: Hanna Karrabi
Producer, Scribe Video Center
(Oct. 2024-Present)
The North Philadelphia History Festival (July 24-27, 2025) is a four day celebration of African American and Puetro Rican heritage, featuring events, exhibitions, and installations along Ridge Avenue, North Broad Street, and beyond. Led by artists, historians, and curators, the festival explores the rise and impact of these communities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Projects took the form of video installations, exhibitions, live performances, film screenings, walking tours, and more across 15 different historic sites in North Philadelphia, attracting over 1,200 visitors over the course of four days.
Press:
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Scribe Video Center’s Louis Massiah wants you to see North Philly in a new light
The Download: First of its Kind: North Philadelphia History Festival Comes to the City
Fox29’s Good Day Uncut: Featuring interviews with Dr. William Dodd, Malkia Lydia, and Ryan Saunders
6ABC Action News: Spotlight on the 1838 Black Metropolis Walking Tour
WHYY: First celebration of North Philadelphia history comes this weekend
Metro Philly: Inaugural North Philadelphia History Festival celebrates the spirit of its community
Billy Penn: “We can never say we cannot do anything”: Lessons from the North Philadelphia Historical Festival
Broad St. Review: Scribe Video Center presents the North Philadelphia History Festival
City Cast Philly: North Philly’s Art, Culture, and Contributions Spotlighted in New Festival
WURD Radio: Louis Massiah, Morgan Lloyd, & Michiko Quinones | The Midday Break Room w/ Tiffany Bacon
Scoop USA News: North Philadelphia History Festival set to celebrate Arts, Culture, Music, and History
Philly Voice: Inaugural North Philadelphia History Festival to honor the area's cultural past
Wooder Ice: North Philadelphia History Festival
Next City: The Many Faces of North Philadelphia
Cultural Workers & Presenting Artists / Projects:
Christopher Rogers / Black Buttafly & The Nu School Collective: Jam Session Tribute to Grover Washington Jr., Strawberry Mansion Through the Years (Neighborhood Storyshare Exhibition), and (Return Home) Installation with Friends of the Tanner House
1838 Black Metropolis / Extraordinary Ordinary: Black People in Northern Liberties before 1860
Malkia Lydia & Ryan Saunders / Old School Philly: Reminiscing with Dottie Smith Gayle's Jazz Community
Jacqueline Wiggins / My Story, My Block
Dr. Diane D. Turner and Serkaddis Alemayehu / We Recall and We Remember: Oral History Listening Room
Iris Brown, Norris Square Neighborhood Project & Anula Shetty and Mike Kuetemeyer, Termite TV Collective / Places of Power at Villa Africana Colobó Garden
Louis Massiah & Scribe Video Center / Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets
Mendi+Keith Obadike / SlowDrag
muthi reed / it be your own people
Pepón Osorio / Jacob (Video detail of the installation reForm)
The Dox Thrash House Project, Brewerytown-Sharswood Neighborhood Coalition, and Community Design Collaborative / In Pursuit of Preservation: A Community Conversation for our Black Historic District
Jubilee School Students / Return of the Freedom Library
Lower North Philadelphia CDC / Jazzing on Ridge
Field Producer & Programmer,
Scribe Video Center
(Apr. 2024-Sep. 2025)
Street Movies! is a film screening and performance series presented by Scribe Video Center that tours outdoor community spaces across Philadelphia every August with a program of independent short films from local, international, and award-winning filmmakers. Curated in partnership with neighborhood-based organizations, all events are free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Street Movies! has been an important part of Philadelphia’s regional cultural calendar for over 28 years, I programmed and produced the 27 and 28th* annual years of the series.
* with Kiera Abdur-Rahman, co-programmer
Partnerships/Locations:
Press: Chestnut Hill Local: Scribe Video’s 28th annual Street Movies! screening |
Project Manager, REC Philly
(2021-2023)
Founded in 2019 by Independence Blue Cross, B. PHL Innovation Festival brings international talent together with Philadelphia’s creative and business leaders to highlight innovation and to spotlight Philadelphia as a fantastic place to live, work, and play.
In 2021 and 2022, REC Philly was contracted to program and produce B.PHL Festival in collaboration with Witty Gritty. As a project manager, I was responsible for developing the topics and direction for the festivals programming, based on a strategy that targeted the core creative displines of our target audience. Highlights include attendence by over 400 people and keynotes featuring Grammy-Award Winning Producer Timbaland, Shannon Maldonado (Founder & Art Director of boutique store and hotel YOWIE), and Maori Karmael Holmes (Chief Executive and Artistic Officer of BlackStar Projects).
- Managed a $100k talent booking budget to develop six programming sessions, three interactive workshops, and two performances featuring talent across the music, film, hospitality, and design industries.
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Wrote marketing copy and
collaborated with a design agency to develop promotional materials for all programs
- Hired and directed a freelance media team to shoot candid photography, short-form video content, and attendee testimonials capturing the energy of the festival.
Project Manager, REC Philly
(2021-2023)
Led a strong partnership with Center City District over three years to manage talent booking and audio production for Center City District’s public programming series in Dilworth Park at City Hall, Philadelphia.
- Served as a point of contact and production manager for on-site event logistics
- Set-up and breakdown of A/V equipment
- Stage manage live performances
Flux, President
(2021-2022)
Flux is a student-run music event production club at Drexel University. It organizes and promotes shows in various locations around campus, championing local live music and student bands/artists. Invited on part of The Teal Chronicles, a week-long initiative engaging student groups at Drexel to facilitate programming around sexual harassment and awareness, I conceptualized the idea for a benefit show to facilitate conversation, share resources, and empower survivors of sexual violence on Drexel’s campus. The concert was attended by over 200 people and raised $3,553 in donations through ticket and t-shirt sales.
- Developed partnership with WOAR and World Cafe Live
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Secured sponsored budget from the presidents office to cover talent and production costs
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Designed marketing materials and communications, print and digital media
- Attended by over 200 people and raised $3,553 in donations through ticket and t-shirt sales, donated directly to WOAR