The Philly Puff

Learn what The Philly Puff is all about! Join us to check out a few inflatable sculptures from the 2016 contest! Face painting, free giveaways, raffles and more! Friday, September 23rd 7:00-8:00pm... & Friday, April 7th 7:00-8:00pm Starting in the Fall, our free workshops will be in full swing. Stay tuned!

This year's entries were creative, amazingly well made, and super fun! Thank you to everyone who brought their amazing puffs to life for Philly's only annual inflatable sculpture contest!

The Portside Community Arts Festival is a rain or shine event. The rain is supposed to let up by the early afternoon, so our plan is to wait it out and forge ahead! Our vendors, music, food, and activities are set up and ready. Vendors: please call Jenna at 203-521-1637 with any auestions

Today's the BIG day! Come out and join us in Penn Treaty Park for the Portside Community Arts Fest from 12-5pm for family fun, children and teen arts activities, live performances, food trucks, a moon bounce, 50+ fabulous vendors, and more! If you can't make it out, don't worry-- tomorrow is another big day! Day two of the Portside Community Arts Fest, same place and times, is tomorrow, April 24th!... See you there!

You know it's official when you make it in the Phillyfunguide. #spring #springfestivals #penntreatypark

While we're in the park puffing up this year's larger-than-life inflatable art works, some of city's finest artisan and business craft vendors will be serving up tasty treats, beautiful local art, hand crafted items, info about art programs for college students, games for the whole family, and so much more! Check out our vendor page to take a peek at who you can expect to see at this year's festival! RSVP: tinyurl.com/PCAF2016

The kids of Portside Arts Center's After School Arts Program are excited about displaying their work at the Portside Community Arts Fest in a little over a week! Join us for food trucks, raffles, arts activities, performances, a moon bounce, artisan craft vendors, and so much more! www.portsidecommunityartsfest.org... RSVP: tinyurl.com/PortsideCommunityArtsFest16 See more

Portside Community Arts Fest is front page news! A huge thanks to The Spirit of the Riverwards for the great write-up. #PortRichmond #Fishtown #SpringFestivals #PennTreatyPark

There will be a festival meet-and-greet for all festival volunteers on Friday, April 22nd from 6:00 - 7:00 pm at Portside Arts Center (2531 E. Lehigh ave). There's still plenty of time to volunteer for this excellent cause! Visit www.portsidecommunityartsfest.org/volunteer for all the info and registration!

Portside is getting so pumped up for The Philly Puff! We floated across town to the Philadelphia Museum of Art this weekend, where our puff posed for some fantastic photo ops. Stay tuned for more puff around town-- we'll be hitting the streets again this Saturday!... #iampuffenough #inflatablesculpture #inflatables #pma

The Philly Puff's free inflatable workshop went stupendously this past Thursday! We had a packed room of participants ready and excited about their inflatable sculpture goals. Everyone learned a little about the past year's contests, and then we got to work making baby puff sculptures to practice the process. A huge thanks to everyone who came out to share their ideas.... RSVP to Portside Community Arts Festival and Philly Puff 2016 Proposals: www.phillypuff.org before April 20th. Tag photos of your projects with #Iampuffenough This year's Puff is going to be the best yet!

We are so excited to be partnering once again with the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym for this year's contest! They offer a community studio space, membership to which grants you access to a wood shop, metal shop, small metals shop, forging area, and a mold making and casting area. They also offer classes in various processes from welding and woodworking...and everything in between! Check them out at: ... http://philadelphiasculpturegym.com/ See more

Tonight's the night! Philly Puff presents: A Free Make Your Own Inflatable Sculpture Workshop will take place from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at 2531 E. Lehigh Avenue (aka Portside Arts Center) All materials will be provided-- all you need to bring is yourself and your ideas.... Check out some of these inflatables from around the globe for a little inspiration!