{"id":444287,"date":"2025-12-13T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444287\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:40:12","slug":"philadelphia-neighborhoods-to-show-off-with-bells-on-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444287\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia neighborhoods to show off with bells on in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia bells are part of a statewide initiative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.america250pa.org\/PPE:_Bells_Across_PA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bells Across PA<\/a>, placing over 100 site-specific, artist-designed bells across Pennsylvania. The local bells were coordinated by Mural Arts Philadelphia, which asked artists to engage with neighbors to determine how they would want to be represented.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really about representation and making sure people\u2019s voices are heard and having people be connected to 2026,\u201d said Jane Golden, director of Mural Arts. \u201cThe bell is such an iconic object, a vehicle to capture people\u2019s thoughts about where we are today and how people see their community in 2026.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>For the Ninth Street Market bell, Lozito consulted with Michele Gambino of the <a href=\"https:\/\/italianmarketphilly.org\/business-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S. 9th Street Business Association<\/a>, who appreciates that Lozito lives in the neighborhood she is depicting.\n<\/p>\n<p>Gambino said she nailed it.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted the story of an immigrant community, and we wanted the story of the fact that people shop there for their kitchen, for their table,\u201d Gambino said. \u201cWe\u2019re all about food on Ninth Street. You\u2019re not buying a shirt there. The bell incorporates all that.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia bells are part of a statewide initiative, Bells Across PA, placing over 100 site-specific, artist-designed bells&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,30814,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-444287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-250","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115711837922957162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}