Located in Philadelphia’s burgeoning Chinatown North neighborhood, Asian Arts Initiative is a multidisciplinary arts center where all people — across experience and skill levels, age, race, and class backgrounds — can view and create art that reflects our lives, as well as think critically and creatively about the future we want to build for our communities.
Our multi-tenant arts facility, situated in a former Warner Brothers screening house, serves as a resource for the broader cultural community, with individual artist studios as well as organizational and program space — including room for workshops and meetings; gallery and exhibition areas; and a black-box-style theater. Our building community is comprised of long-term and short-term tenants: mission-aligned service and arts organizations, artists, community groups, and more.
Located on the first floor of Asian Arts Initiative, the Theater is an ADA-accessible multi-use black box space ideal for presentations, panel discussions, community meetings, theatrical productions, variety performances, film screenings, and special celebrations
864 sq ft (48' x 18') | more...
Located on the second floor of Asian Arts Initiative, Studio B is an ADA-accessible multi-use space ideal for meetings, staff retreats, rehearsals, auditions, intimate performances, pop-up exhibitions, and small celebrations
850 sq ft (49'9" x 19') | more...
Studio D, located on the second floor of Asian Arts Initiative, is a multi-use space ideal for meetings, staff retreats, rehearsals, auditions, pop-up exhibitions, and small celebrations
1,211 sq ft (33' 4" x 32' 6" + 16' x 8') | more...
Located on the third floor of Asian Arts Initiative, the Event Hall is an ADA-accessible multi-use space ideal for large-scale events like banquets, receptions, fundraisers, weddings, bat/bar mitzvahs, fashion shows, and theatrical productions
3,524 sq ft (75'8" x 46'7") | more...
