April 2, 2026 • 29 mins
This week on Insight, we explore justice, education, and creativity shaping our communities.
First, we discuss a major legal decision with Quinn Cozzens of the Abolitionist Law Center. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling in Commonwealth v. Lee has declared mandatory life-without-parole sentences for second-degree murder unconstitutional—impacting more than 1,000 people across the state and raising critical questions about sentencing and reform.
Learn more at 🌐 abolitionistlawcenter.org
Follow: Instagram @AbolitionistLC | Facebook: Abolitionist Law Center | Bluesky: Abolitionist Law Center | X: @AbolitionistLC
Then, Darryl Bundrige of City Year Philadelphia joins us to talk about supporting students in under-resourced schools and the upcoming Red Jacket Gala.
📍 Wednesday, April 29
📍 VIE, North Broad Street, Philadelphia
🌐 cityyear.org/philadelphia
Follow: Instagram @cityyearphilly | LinkedIn: City Year Philadelphia
And finally, we highlight Philadelphia’s creative scene with Emerald “Emmy” Capers, creator of The Regency Ball, a Bridgerton-inspired immersive experience.
📍 Sunday, April 12 | 5–9 PM
📍 Midnight at Wicked, Philadelphia
🎟️ Tickets: https://bucketlisters.com/experience/the-regency-ball
Follow: Instagram & TikTok @the_emmyaward Three powerful conversations—on justice, opportunity, and imagination—all coming together to empower our community.
First, we discuss a major legal decision with Quinn Cozzens of the Abolitionist Law Center. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling in Commonwealth v. Lee has declared mandatory life-without-parole sentences for second-degree murder unconstitutional—impacting more than 1,000 people across the state and raising critical questions about sentencing and reform.
Learn more at 🌐 abolitionistlawcenter.org
Follow: Instagram @AbolitionistLC | Facebook: Abolitionist Law Center | Bluesky: Abolitionist Law Center | X: @AbolitionistLC
Then, Darryl Bundrige of City Year Philadelphia joins us to talk about supporting students in under-resourced schools and the upcoming Red Jacket Gala.
📍 Wednesday, April 29
📍 VIE, North Broad Street, Philadelphia
🌐 cityyear.org/philadelphia
Follow: Instagram @cityyearphilly | LinkedIn: City Year Philadelphia
And finally, we highlight Philadelphia’s creative scene with Emerald “Emmy” Capers, creator of The Regency Ball, a Bridgerton-inspired immersive experience.
📍 Sunday, April 12 | 5–9 PM
📍 Midnight at Wicked, Philadelphia
🎟️ Tickets: https://bucketlisters.com/experience/the-regency-ball
Follow: Instagram & TikTok @the_emmyaward Three powerful conversations—on justice, opportunity, and imagination—all coming together to empower our community.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. You're listening to Insight, a show about empowering
our community. I'm Lorraine Balladmorrow. We have three conversations at
Highlight Opportunity, legacy, and creativity right here in our community.
This week we explore a major Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling
that could impact more than a thousand lives. Highlight House
City Year Philadelphia is supporting students and gearing up for
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their Red Jacket gala, and we take you inside a
one of a kind Regency ball ringing elegance and imagination
to the city. It's all ahead on Insight. Today. We're
talking about a major legal decision that could impact more
than a thousand people across Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's
ruling in Commonwealth versus Lee has declared mandatory life without
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parole's sentences for a second degree murder unconstitutional, raising important
questions about justice, sentencing, and what happens next. Joining us
as Quinn Cousins, staff attorney with the Abolitionist Law Center,
an organization working to end class and race based mass incarceration.
So Quinn, let's start with the basics. What is second
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degree murder often called felony murder? And why is Pennsylvania
considered an outlier and how it has sentenced these cases.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Great, yeah, thank you so much for having me to
discuss this. A second degree murder, like I said, also
known as felony murder, is essentially an offense that holds
everyone that participates in a felony responsible for murder whenever
somebody dies during the course of that felony. So there's
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no requirement that somebody has to be the person who
actually causes somebody else's death. There's no requirement that the
person who does cause the death actually take any criminal
action to cause that death. There can be purely accidental
circumstances or something that would not otherwise qualify as murder
under the law, but solely because people are participating in
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a felony and a death happens in the course of
that felony, they're held response as though they were committing
a murder. So what that means in Pennsylvania, and what
makes Pennsylvania particularly unique, is that everybody convicted of felony
murder up until March sixth, twenty twenty six was automatically
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sentenced to life without parole, So that's no possibility of
ever being released from prison. That's why we and many
others in our movement call it death by incarceration. Pennsylvania
is really unique in this respect. There are only a
few other states that mandate death by incarceration sentences in
all cases of felony murder. These sentences are almost unheard
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of in the rest of the world. Felony murder itself
as an offense, because it kind of doesn't adhere to
the traditional principles of holding somebody responsible for their own
conduct as well as their intended conduct, is not really
a criminal offense in much of the rest of the world.
It originated in England, where it was abolished well over
fifty years ago. Canada has about several states in the
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US have gotten rid of it altogether, and many others
have completely limited it in some way to require either
some level of intent or action by a person who
engages in a felony where a death results. Pennsylvania is
not one of those states. So really it's a combination
of how broad of a scope that second degree of
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felony murder encompasses, as well as the mandatory nature of
sentencing people to life without parole automatically makes it really
one of the harshest states in the country and therefore
the world. In terms of imposing the sentence.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
This ruling could affect over a thousand people currently serving
life without parole sentences. What does this decision mean for them?
In practical terms.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
We don't know the exact number of people who are
serving the sentence currently, but it is certainly over a thousand.
What this means for them is a little bit unclear
at the moment. But what the PA Supreme Court did
is a rule that our client, Derek Lee, his specific
sentence was unconstitutional and that essentially, going forward, there will
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be no more mandatory life without parole sentences for people
convicted of second degree murder. The court did explicitly say
that it was declining at this time to rule whether
or not it would apply to the thousand or so
people who are already serving this sentence, But based on
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the reasoning that the court used to reach its decision,
it was very similar to other cases ruling that certain
life without parole sentences are unconstitutional which were eventually held
or ruled that they would apply retroactively. That is to say,
it applies to people who are already serving the sentence.
So we do have good reason to be confident that
it will eventually apply to those thousand plus people who
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are already serving the sentence, and that they will potentially
need to go back to their trial courts and get
new sentences something that either takes into account their individual
culpability and all of the other traditional sentencing factors that
judges usually go through in virtually every other context when
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a mandatory sentence isn't required, but there will be further
legal action that's required, further litigation or court rulings to
make sure that that does apply to those thousand plus people,
or the legislature could pass a law to provide parole
eligibility for people who are already serving the sentence, So
that's another way that this could be addressed. In its ruling,
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the court did specifically delay implementation of its ruling for
four months to allow the legislature to do that. So
there is a process in the works for the legislature
to pass a law to allow parole eligibility for people.
There are a few bills currently pending to do that,
but it will take some further steps for this to
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make sure that this will apply to more people than
just those that are either currently facing charges or will
be charged in the future.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Have you heard any response from the legislature, the Pennsylvania
legislature responding to this ruling about maybe some legislation that
might allow for resentencing or paral consideration.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Even before this ruling came down, there was one bill
in the state Senate and one bill in the State House,
both of which would enable people who are already serving
a sentence to go before the parole board after twenty
five years, and then the parole board would be the
one making a decision as to whether they would ultimately
be released, but it would set that date at twenty
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five years. Both the House bill and the Senate bill.
So those are currently, I believe, the only two bills
that would address this that are in the legislature, and
as far as I understand it, people are moving forward
on working to pass those as quickly as possible within
the timeframe set forth by the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Quhen your organization, Abolitionist Law Center has been on the
forefront of working to end class and race base mass incarceration.
Are there any other cases that you're working on that
we should know about?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So this is I think the main one that has
a large impact over criminal sentencing in Pennsylvania. And I
do also want to mention we were joined by another
Philadelphia based organization, Amistad Law Project, as well as a
national and international organization, the Center for Constitutional Rights, in
representing mister Lee.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
In this case.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
But really this case is just one challenge that comes
from a long line of challenges aimed at death buy
incarceration sentences, and these are really growing out of a
longstanding and growing movement in Pennsylvania, primarily led by people
in prison and their family members to roll back these
sentences and really address what we believe our human rights
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violations in death buy incarceration sentences. So without their work,
this ruling certainly wouldn't have been possible, both in terms
of getting people out to put pressure of public officials
to educate the public as well as the courts that
includes them to know how important these issues are to them.
And it really involved a large coalition of groups and
people to make this possible. Otherwise, we have a number
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of cases challenging primarily prison in jail practices, cases against
the Philadelphia jails that are aiming to reform some conditions there,
as well as in Allegheny county where we want to
a court monitor order over medical treatment there. And then
some at the state level, some cases challenging long term
solitary confinement and some of the practices that are going
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along with that in the state correctional institutions as well.
So feel free to learn a little bit more about
our work and our website are on social media or
Abolitionist Law Center on most of our social pages at
our websites Abolitionist Law Center dot org.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
All right, well, Quinn Cousins, staff attorney with the Abolitionist
Law Center, Thank you for joining us. This organization is
working to end class and race based mass incarceration. Thank
you Quinn for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Across Philadelphia. Students in under resourced schools are getting extra
support that they need to succeed thanks to the work
of City or Philadelphia joining us as Darryl Bundridge, Executive
Director and senior vice president to talk about their impact
and an exciting upcoming event, the Red Jacket Gala, happening
on Wednesday evening, April twenty ninth, at v on North
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broad Street. The event will honor former Governor Ed Brandell
as idealist of the Year, with former US Ambassador to
Canada David Cohen serving his chair, they'll celebrate the power
of investing in our young people. Well, Darryl City he
has always had a special place in my heart because
my son was a part of the Young Heroes program,
which is a middle school program that you used to
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have back in the day. And he actually went to Siziggy,
which is her big convention that was happening, I think
it in Boston at that time, and he actually spoke,
and so I just love it. I love that he
enjoyed it so much. He enjoyed the opportunity to learn,
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to give, to learn leadership skills, and to be helpful
to the community. Citier has evolved a lot since then,
and your mission has changed a little bit. But for
those who are not so familiar with City, heere in
its current incarnation. Fill us in what city you're all
about these days?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
One.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm glad your son had that opportunity, and we certainly
missed the Young Heroes program which it was still in play.
But City here is really focusing on two things right now.
How we continue to help young people realize their potential.
We believe in the idea of a coach for every student,
a success coach. That's what we now refer to our
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eighteen to twenty five year old America members as student
success coaches, doing whatever they can to help students become
successful in the academic space, in the self confidence and
awareness space, and then just navigating life in elementary school
through high school. But we're also invested in the idea
of the eighteen to twenty five year olds leaving City
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year with enhanced skills and experiences that will bode well
for them as they enter workspace, additional higher education space,
continued service, or whatever other pathway they choose. We really
want our eighteen to twenty five year olds to remain
civically engaged, be aware of the issues and the needs
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in their cities and communities, and leading in those spaces
whenever possible.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Now you've been with City here for a number of years.
What continues to inspire you about this work and the
students that you serve.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well to your point, yes, it's been seventeen years in total,
and I'll tell you nothing inspires like being around a
young person. So whether it's getting to go into schools
and watch the interactions between our student success coaches and
the students that we're working with, or whether it's getting
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to sit down with a team serving in a school
to hear their thoughts, hear about the wins, the challenges
and how they're navigating them, and to really watch their
evolution and their growth from the time that they join
us in August through graduation in June. It's always inspiring,
it's always uplifting, and it helps center me on why
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we do what we do and helps with pushing harder
to make sure we do it as well as possible.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, and having that many city Er individuals, I have
always been impressed by the nature of their attitude about life.
They seem to be the idealists that I think that
you try to promote that they have a positive attitude
about the world. They seem to believe that they can
make a difference in the world, and I know that
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they are. And I'd like to talk a little bit
about that concept of idealism because you are actually honoring
former Governor Ed Rondell as an Idealist of the Year.
Why is he a fitting choice for this recognition and
how does that reflect really some of the core mission
of what City Year is all about.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Thanks for that question, Lorraine. So in city your terms,
we see being an idealist as a person who sees
a situation for what it is, but also sees the
possibility of a different and a better situation and working
towards achieving that better situation. So it's not just being
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happy and upbeats for the sake of being happy and upbeat.
It's bringing that positive activity because we know through teamwork,
through bringing skills that different people have from the verse
background and understanding and working together, we can achieve something
greater and we can achieve a better outcome than our
current standing. I think this ties really well to former
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governor because, particularly in his time as mayor of Philadelphia,
I think he really epitomized idealism, the idea of what
Philadelphia could be, the moves that he made during his
administration to bring greater awareness and tourism into Center City
and its vitality. And he was the mayor who approved
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Citier coming to Philadelphia. It was during his watch, when
David Cohen was his chief of staff that Joe Banner,
then President of the Eagles, who had spent time living
and volunteering in Boston with Citi, here brought this idea
of what if we had young people in Philadelphia who
were helping to address needs and issues. And so I
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think this was again part of Governor Rendell's invigoration of
the city, of helping the city see itself for more
than it could be and helping work towards that. It
was wild to me to realize that we hadn't recognized
Governor Rendell in all of this time, and so we
wanted to make sure that we took some time to
do that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, we certainly need more idealists in this world today,
and not only you are you honoring a season idealist,
but you're also honoring a young idealist.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Tell us about that we are, So we're going to
keep it secret who it is, but it is a
young person in one of the thirteen schools in which
we serve. It's a highly competitive process in terms of
schools nominating students who are doing incredible things. So it's
not just about being a good student academically or being
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a good peer to their friends or whatnot, but they're
taking upon themselves to address needs and to make things
better in their school or in their community or otherwise.
And so I think it's again a constant reminder that
anyone can have that positive impact, and the younger you are,
the more exciting it is in some ways because you
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are just running with the possibility and being able to
grow and navigate with that as you learn. So we're
particularly excited to announce and celebrate our young idealists along
with former Governor in Dell Well.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Let's circle back to city here itself. For those young
people that might be out there listening, it is an
incredible opportunity, especially for those who are looking to do
something before either entering college or before entering the workforce
or their careers, whatever they decide to do. It's kind
of a wonderful head start, right, So tell us how
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that works and who you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Sure, So we're looking for eighteen to twenty five year olds.
As you said, they could just be out of high school,
graduating and wanting to take some time before they choose
their next step. They could perhaps need to take a
short break in their education process for various reasons, or
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they could have finished education process and before taking the
next step into the workforce or additional education, decide to
do it. So there are several different entry points in
which we welcome these young people. What they need to
have is this spirit again of idealism of I'm willing
to help make things better and I'm also willing to
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grow and change in the best version of myself at
the end of this experience, and we invest in them
through our learning and development, through our coaching, through the
staff support we provide them. They need to be willing
to do at least a year with us. We start
in August with training and goes through the entire school year.
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It's a full learning experience. They're in schools five days
a week for about nine and a half hours a day,
so it's a rigorous but rewarding experience. And we also
work with them on their steps after city years, so
everything from helping them consider job opportunities and introduce them
to our corporate sponsors, our nonprofit partners, our higher education
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collaborators who in many cases will recognize city or service
with a scholarship opportunities or discounts, intuition and whatnot. So
it's really a great opportunity to help leverage both in
the year of learning and growth and support of other
students as well as in what comes afterwards.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Well, you are celebrating a City Year with this Red
Jacket gala, which any kind of City Year event that
I've been to has been so uplifting, just the spirit
and seeing the young people bound to the stage and
just send out that positive energy that is really emblematic
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of City Here. It's definitely an event that is very empowering.
So if people would like to know more about this
event that's happening Wednesday evening, April twenty ninth and V
on North Broad Street, how do they get tickets, how
do they find out more about City Aere, and how
can they also support City Here?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, I would encourage them to go to our website
which is www dot City Year so c y y
e ar dot org backslash Philadelphia, and that will take
you to our site to learn more about the event itself.
You can also check out our Instagram page and certainly
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reach out to any of us for ticket purchases, sponsorships,
or any of the other options for getting involved.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
City Heere is a very positive organization making a huge
difference not only for the young people involved in Cityhear,
but certainly the young people that they are nurturing and
help to educate by being these success coaches in the schools.
The kids need that and cityear provides it. Darryl Bundridge,
Executive director and Senior VP of City Or Philadelphia, thank
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you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Thank you so much for having We would look forward
to hosting everyone and having a wonderful time on April
twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Wonderful. Philadelphia's creative scene continues to embrace immersive experiences that
bring imagination, fashion, and community together. One of the most
unique upcoming events is the Regency Ball, a Bridgeton and
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Gilded Age inspired black tie soiree designed to transport guests
into the world of romance elegance in high society. The
evening blend's live music, curity, dining, fashion, and interactive experiences
to create a cinematic night out. Joining us now is
Emerald Emmy Capers, a Philadelphia based event curator, wedding and
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event designer, digital marketing executive, and founder of Alchemy and
Aisles by Emerald Capers. She's the visionary behind the Regency Ball,
which is happening on Sunday, April twelve. Wealth So Emmy.
For listeners who may have been hearing about it for
some time, what exactly is the Regency Ball and what
inspired you to create this fantasy inspired experience here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
So the Regency Ball is exactly what it sounds like.
It's actually a Regency inspired ball. I figured, you know,
most people have never in their life experienced a ball.
It's something that we watched on television, we see in
movies as little girls and little boys, and it's something
that we never actually get to experience. It's a thing
of the past, the thing of fantasy. And I am
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a wedding planner my company Alchemy in Isles. I have
been doing weddings for years, and I thought about the
fact that everyone only gets dressed up or wears a
ball gown for their wedding day. What if that wasn't
the case. What if you got to get dressed up
and it wasn't for someone else's wedding, It wasn't for
a work function, it wasn't for a fundraising gala. It
was just so that you could immerse yourself and pretend
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to be a princess or a prince for the day.
That's kind of where the Regency Ball came up. It'll
be our third year, our first year. It was a brunch,
our second year, it was a ball. Now people will
get to come and I don't want to say live
out their fantasy but because it's definitely more mature than that,
but they will get to feel like their childhood self
for a moment.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, so, emmy guess we'll be experiencing live music, including
a candlelight concert with the violinist and harpist, and even
a waltz session and lesson. How do these interactive elements
help make the event feel immersive?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I really wanted for the moment they step in and
them to step into a different world or time period,
so when they arrive, they actually walk right into a
waltz performance, and then they'll actually get to learn the steps.
I know right now trending online our dances from the
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recital that was in a Bridgerton episode. So I think
it'll be really fun for people to get to experience
some of these things for themselves. And then the candlelight concert,
we wanted to keep the music classical but fun, so
we brought in a Faith the violinist that's her Instagram.
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This will be her third year working with us, and
she does classical renditions of popular R and B songs
and the harpist is actually originally a part of a
I guess a classical hip hop duo, but it will
be just her. She will be doing the same thing,
kind of blending a mix of R and B, hip
hop and pop in a classical style.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Oh that sounds great. It sounds like Bridgeton music because
they take basic pop music and translate it into sort
of like quartet during the instrument performances, which are really delightful. Now,
fashion is a big highlight of the night. What are
you encouraging guests to where and how does the style
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element turn the ballroom into a living runway?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, so I actually started in fashion. So I love
love fashion, and I want things to be Regency inspired.
If you want to go out and get full costume,
please do. If you have a dress in the closet
that you can throw a corset and some gloves on,
I think that's always a great economic decision. Plug Amazon.
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And for the guys, if you have a great suit
and you want to maybe buy a shirt that has
like a pup sleeve or like a cumber bun or
extended collar, those are ways that you can incorporate the
regency in it without having to break the bank. We
do have a really cool partnership with Wax Poetic Clothing,
which is a clothing boutique based in Philadelphia, and she
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sells really interesting dresses and some of them lean towards this.
I co'd say like Cottage, core, Regency, even Gothic trendition
styles of clothing. Pairing a dress from her with a
corset would be amazing. She's running some discounts for the ball,
and we even have Brown Sugar Nail Salon doing discounts
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to get your Bridgerton inspired or your Regency inspiredired manicures.
So I want people to really have fun with this.
If they've always wanted to wear a bag out, now
is the time. Now.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Food is a big part of the evening and storytelling
is happening through food. Tell us more about that.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Sure, So we're actually solidifying some elements to the menu,
but the menu is mostly Mediterranean inspired with we will
have some influences during the past appetizers by the other
cultures that are represented and some of these favorite shows
of ours, including both guilded Age and Bridgerton. But we
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will be including some bites that lean towards Indian food
and lean towards even soul food to represent African Americans
and black cultures, and leaning towards some Asian inspired flavors
in the appetizers. So we're really going to run the
gambit in the appetizers so people can experience different types
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of food, and then Mediterranean, Italian and Greek leaning for
the buffet dinner so that it's cohesive.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, that sounds really great, and it sounds like it
reflects the colorblind casting of Bridgiiton, which I absolutely adore.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yes, I think my favorite part about that show.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
One of the big events in the first season and
it kind of continues on in subsequent seasons, is the
Diamond of the season. It's kind of this big in
a way, a competition for the most beautiful person in
the Bridgeton world. You do have a fun moment in
the evening which is the crowning of the Diamond of
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the season, and tell us about this tradition, what it
represents and how the moment will play out during the event.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, so for us, it's our diamond, our bell of
the ball is really how we lean into it, and
our Queen will be able to crown one guest, actually,
one of our guests last year was crowned as our
Bell as our Diamond, and she won a free ticket
to the next ball, so she'll becoming complimentary this year.
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She actually traveled in from Florida last year, so she
will be coming back from Florida and staying at a
room block we have at the Canopy, so she'll be
staying there. And that was her prize, is that she
gets to attend and get her ticket for free. So
we're really excited to have her back. It was a
really special moment that we actually have recorded, and we
went around and asked all of the vendors and all
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of us that were involved in the planning and setup,
and that's how we were able to choose our Diamond
or our Bell this last year, and so this year
we'll do the same. We've a lot of vendors involved,
and so it gets a little difficult to have the
guests vote just because there's just so many people, so
we've left it to all of the different vendors to
kind of throw their vote in the ring.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, it sounds lovely, So if people would like to
attend the Regency Ball, which is happening on Sunday, April twelfth,
from five to nine pm at midnight at Wicket in Philadelphia.
How do they find out more? And what's web address
and all your social media?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah, so my social media is at Alchemy and Aisles,
and I guess it's a little confusing sometimes as well,
but it's al ch E m y A N d
AI s l E s Alchemy and Aisles like a
wedding aisle. And they will be able to find the
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ticket link right in my bio. They can also search
bucket list if they type in the Regency Ball bucket list,
it should come right up for them. We are doing
this in conjunction with PHL bucket List, so really really easy.
And then Midnight in the Wicket is right in Center City,
so I apologize about parking. But the address Midnight in
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the Wicket at fifteen hundred Sansum Street. It is a
full immersive buy it of the venue, so you'll get
to experience something different in every single room. And like
I said, don't break the bank buying address, find something
in your closet if you have it, or head on
over to wax Poetic Clothing and Order of course, and
you're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Thank you so much for joining us here today. Emerald
Emmy Capers a Philadelphia based event curator, wedding and event
designer and the founder of Alchemy in Isles by Emerald Capers.
She's behind the Regency Ball happening Sunday, April twelfth from
five to nine pm at midnight at The Wicked in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Thank you so much, Thank you, it was a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You can listen to all of today's interviews by going
to our station website and typing in Keyword Community. You
can also listen on the iHeartRadio app ye Word's Philadelphia
Community Podcast. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Lorraine Ballard.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Morrel and I stand for service to
our community and media that empowers. What will you stand for?
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You've been listening to Insight and thank you.
Good morning. You're listening to Insight, a show about empowering
our community. I'm Lorraine Balladmorrow. We have three conversations at
Highlight Opportunity, legacy, and creativity right here in our community.
This week we explore a major Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling
that could impact more than a thousand lives. Highlight House
City Year Philadelphia is supporting students and gearing up for
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their Red Jacket gala, and we take you inside a
one of a kind Regency ball ringing elegance and imagination
to the city. It's all ahead on Insight. Today. We're
talking about a major legal decision that could impact more
than a thousand people across Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's
ruling in Commonwealth versus Lee has declared mandatory life without
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parole's sentences for a second degree murder unconstitutional, raising important
questions about justice, sentencing, and what happens next. Joining us
as Quinn Cousins, staff attorney with the Abolitionist Law Center,
an organization working to end class and race based mass incarceration.
So Quinn, let's start with the basics. What is second
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degree murder often called felony murder? And why is Pennsylvania
considered an outlier and how it has sentenced these cases.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Great, yeah, thank you so much for having me to
discuss this. A second degree murder, like I said, also
known as felony murder, is essentially an offense that holds
everyone that participates in a felony responsible for murder whenever
somebody dies during the course of that felony. So there's
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no requirement that somebody has to be the person who
actually causes somebody else's death. There's no requirement that the
person who does cause the death actually take any criminal
action to cause that death. There can be purely accidental
circumstances or something that would not otherwise qualify as murder
under the law, but solely because people are participating in
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a felony and a death happens in the course of
that felony, they're held response as though they were committing
a murder. So what that means in Pennsylvania, and what
makes Pennsylvania particularly unique, is that everybody convicted of felony
murder up until March sixth, twenty twenty six was automatically
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sentenced to life without parole, So that's no possibility of
ever being released from prison. That's why we and many
others in our movement call it death by incarceration. Pennsylvania
is really unique in this respect. There are only a
few other states that mandate death by incarceration sentences in
all cases of felony murder. These sentences are almost unheard
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of in the rest of the world. Felony murder itself
as an offense, because it kind of doesn't adhere to
the traditional principles of holding somebody responsible for their own
conduct as well as their intended conduct, is not really
a criminal offense in much of the rest of the world.
It originated in England, where it was abolished well over
fifty years ago. Canada has about several states in the
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US have gotten rid of it altogether, and many others
have completely limited it in some way to require either
some level of intent or action by a person who
engages in a felony where a death results. Pennsylvania is
not one of those states. So really it's a combination
of how broad of a scope that second degree of
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felony murder encompasses, as well as the mandatory nature of
sentencing people to life without parole automatically makes it really
one of the harshest states in the country and therefore
the world. In terms of imposing the sentence.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
This ruling could affect over a thousand people currently serving
life without parole sentences. What does this decision mean for them?
In practical terms.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
We don't know the exact number of people who are
serving the sentence currently, but it is certainly over a thousand.
What this means for them is a little bit unclear
at the moment. But what the PA Supreme Court did
is a rule that our client, Derek Lee, his specific
sentence was unconstitutional and that essentially, going forward, there will
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be no more mandatory life without parole sentences for people
convicted of second degree murder. The court did explicitly say
that it was declining at this time to rule whether
or not it would apply to the thousand or so
people who are already serving this sentence, But based on
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the reasoning that the court used to reach its decision,
it was very similar to other cases ruling that certain
life without parole sentences are unconstitutional which were eventually held
or ruled that they would apply retroactively. That is to say,
it applies to people who are already serving the sentence.
So we do have good reason to be confident that
it will eventually apply to those thousand plus people who
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are already serving the sentence, and that they will potentially
need to go back to their trial courts and get
new sentences something that either takes into account their individual
culpability and all of the other traditional sentencing factors that
judges usually go through in virtually every other context when
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a mandatory sentence isn't required, but there will be further
legal action that's required, further litigation or court rulings to
make sure that that does apply to those thousand plus people,
or the legislature could pass a law to provide parole
eligibility for people who are already serving the sentence, So
that's another way that this could be addressed. In its ruling,
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the court did specifically delay implementation of its ruling for
four months to allow the legislature to do that. So
there is a process in the works for the legislature
to pass a law to allow parole eligibility for people.
There are a few bills currently pending to do that,
but it will take some further steps for this to
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make sure that this will apply to more people than
just those that are either currently facing charges or will
be charged in the future.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Have you heard any response from the legislature, the Pennsylvania
legislature responding to this ruling about maybe some legislation that
might allow for resentencing or paral consideration.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Even before this ruling came down, there was one bill
in the state Senate and one bill in the State House,
both of which would enable people who are already serving
a sentence to go before the parole board after twenty
five years, and then the parole board would be the
one making a decision as to whether they would ultimately
be released, but it would set that date at twenty
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five years. Both the House bill and the Senate bill.
So those are currently, I believe, the only two bills
that would address this that are in the legislature, and
as far as I understand it, people are moving forward
on working to pass those as quickly as possible within
the timeframe set forth by the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Quhen your organization, Abolitionist Law Center has been on the
forefront of working to end class and race base mass incarceration.
Are there any other cases that you're working on that
we should know about?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So this is I think the main one that has
a large impact over criminal sentencing in Pennsylvania. And I
do also want to mention we were joined by another
Philadelphia based organization, Amistad Law Project, as well as a
national and international organization, the Center for Constitutional Rights, in
representing mister Lee.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
In this case.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
But really this case is just one challenge that comes
from a long line of challenges aimed at death buy
incarceration sentences, and these are really growing out of a
longstanding and growing movement in Pennsylvania, primarily led by people
in prison and their family members to roll back these
sentences and really address what we believe our human rights
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violations in death buy incarceration sentences. So without their work,
this ruling certainly wouldn't have been possible, both in terms
of getting people out to put pressure of public officials
to educate the public as well as the courts that
includes them to know how important these issues are to them.
And it really involved a large coalition of groups and
people to make this possible. Otherwise, we have a number
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of cases challenging primarily prison in jail practices, cases against
the Philadelphia jails that are aiming to reform some conditions there,
as well as in Allegheny county where we want to
a court monitor order over medical treatment there. And then
some at the state level, some cases challenging long term
solitary confinement and some of the practices that are going
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along with that in the state correctional institutions as well.
So feel free to learn a little bit more about
our work and our website are on social media or
Abolitionist Law Center on most of our social pages at
our websites Abolitionist Law Center dot org.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
All right, well, Quinn Cousins, staff attorney with the Abolitionist
Law Center, Thank you for joining us. This organization is
working to end class and race based mass incarceration. Thank
you Quinn for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Across Philadelphia. Students in under resourced schools are getting extra
support that they need to succeed thanks to the work
of City or Philadelphia joining us as Darryl Bundridge, Executive
Director and senior vice president to talk about their impact
and an exciting upcoming event, the Red Jacket Gala, happening
on Wednesday evening, April twenty ninth, at v on North
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broad Street. The event will honor former Governor Ed Brandell
as idealist of the Year, with former US Ambassador to
Canada David Cohen serving his chair, they'll celebrate the power
of investing in our young people. Well, Darryl City he
has always had a special place in my heart because
my son was a part of the Young Heroes program,
which is a middle school program that you used to
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have back in the day. And he actually went to Siziggy,
which is her big convention that was happening, I think
it in Boston at that time, and he actually spoke,
and so I just love it. I love that he
enjoyed it so much. He enjoyed the opportunity to learn,
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to give, to learn leadership skills, and to be helpful
to the community. Citier has evolved a lot since then,
and your mission has changed a little bit. But for
those who are not so familiar with City, heere in
its current incarnation. Fill us in what city you're all
about these days?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
One.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I'm glad your son had that opportunity, and we certainly
missed the Young Heroes program which it was still in play.
But City here is really focusing on two things right now.
How we continue to help young people realize their potential.
We believe in the idea of a coach for every student,
a success coach. That's what we now refer to our
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eighteen to twenty five year old America members as student
success coaches, doing whatever they can to help students become
successful in the academic space, in the self confidence and
awareness space, and then just navigating life in elementary school
through high school. But we're also invested in the idea
of the eighteen to twenty five year olds leaving City
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year with enhanced skills and experiences that will bode well
for them as they enter workspace, additional higher education space,
continued service, or whatever other pathway they choose. We really
want our eighteen to twenty five year olds to remain
civically engaged, be aware of the issues and the needs
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in their cities and communities, and leading in those spaces
whenever possible.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Now you've been with City here for a number of years.
What continues to inspire you about this work and the
students that you serve.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Well to your point, yes, it's been seventeen years in total,
and I'll tell you nothing inspires like being around a
young person. So whether it's getting to go into schools
and watch the interactions between our student success coaches and
the students that we're working with, or whether it's getting
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to sit down with a team serving in a school
to hear their thoughts, hear about the wins, the challenges
and how they're navigating them, and to really watch their
evolution and their growth from the time that they join
us in August through graduation in June. It's always inspiring,
it's always uplifting, and it helps center me on why
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we do what we do and helps with pushing harder
to make sure we do it as well as possible.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah, and having that many city Er individuals, I have
always been impressed by the nature of their attitude about life.
They seem to be the idealists that I think that
you try to promote that they have a positive attitude
about the world. They seem to believe that they can
make a difference in the world, and I know that
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they are. And I'd like to talk a little bit
about that concept of idealism because you are actually honoring
former Governor Ed Rondell as an Idealist of the Year.
Why is he a fitting choice for this recognition and
how does that reflect really some of the core mission
of what City Year is all about.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Thanks for that question, Lorraine. So in city your terms,
we see being an idealist as a person who sees
a situation for what it is, but also sees the
possibility of a different and a better situation and working
towards achieving that better situation. So it's not just being
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happy and upbeats for the sake of being happy and upbeat.
It's bringing that positive activity because we know through teamwork,
through bringing skills that different people have from the verse
background and understanding and working together, we can achieve something
greater and we can achieve a better outcome than our
current standing. I think this ties really well to former
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governor because, particularly in his time as mayor of Philadelphia,
I think he really epitomized idealism, the idea of what
Philadelphia could be, the moves that he made during his
administration to bring greater awareness and tourism into Center City
and its vitality. And he was the mayor who approved
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Citier coming to Philadelphia. It was during his watch, when
David Cohen was his chief of staff that Joe Banner,
then President of the Eagles, who had spent time living
and volunteering in Boston with Citi, here brought this idea
of what if we had young people in Philadelphia who
were helping to address needs and issues. And so I
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think this was again part of Governor Rendell's invigoration of
the city, of helping the city see itself for more
than it could be and helping work towards that. It
was wild to me to realize that we hadn't recognized
Governor Rendell in all of this time, and so we
wanted to make sure that we took some time to
do that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, we certainly need more idealists in this world today,
and not only you are you honoring a season idealist,
but you're also honoring a young idealist.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Tell us about that we are, So we're going to
keep it secret who it is, but it is a
young person in one of the thirteen schools in which
we serve. It's a highly competitive process in terms of
schools nominating students who are doing incredible things. So it's
not just about being a good student academically or being
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a good peer to their friends or whatnot, but they're
taking upon themselves to address needs and to make things
better in their school or in their community or otherwise.
And so I think it's again a constant reminder that
anyone can have that positive impact, and the younger you are,
the more exciting it is in some ways because you
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are just running with the possibility and being able to
grow and navigate with that as you learn. So we're
particularly excited to announce and celebrate our young idealists along
with former Governor in Dell Well.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Let's circle back to city here itself. For those young
people that might be out there listening, it is an
incredible opportunity, especially for those who are looking to do
something before either entering college or before entering the workforce
or their careers, whatever they decide to do. It's kind
of a wonderful head start, right, So tell us how
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that works and who you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Sure, So we're looking for eighteen to twenty five year olds.
As you said, they could just be out of high school,
graduating and wanting to take some time before they choose
their next step. They could perhaps need to take a
short break in their education process for various reasons, or
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they could have finished education process and before taking the
next step into the workforce or additional education, decide to
do it. So there are several different entry points in
which we welcome these young people. What they need to
have is this spirit again of idealism of I'm willing
to help make things better and I'm also willing to
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grow and change in the best version of myself at
the end of this experience, and we invest in them
through our learning and development, through our coaching, through the
staff support we provide them. They need to be willing
to do at least a year with us. We start
in August with training and goes through the entire school year.
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It's a full learning experience. They're in schools five days
a week for about nine and a half hours a day,
so it's a rigorous but rewarding experience. And we also
work with them on their steps after city years, so
everything from helping them consider job opportunities and introduce them
to our corporate sponsors, our nonprofit partners, our higher education
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collaborators who in many cases will recognize city or service
with a scholarship opportunities or discounts, intuition and whatnot. So
it's really a great opportunity to help leverage both in
the year of learning and growth and support of other
students as well as in what comes afterwards.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Well, you are celebrating a City Year with this Red
Jacket gala, which any kind of City Year event that
I've been to has been so uplifting, just the spirit
and seeing the young people bound to the stage and
just send out that positive energy that is really emblematic
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of City Here. It's definitely an event that is very empowering.
So if people would like to know more about this
event that's happening Wednesday evening, April twenty ninth and V
on North Broad Street, how do they get tickets, how
do they find out more about City Aere, and how
can they also support City Here?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well, I would encourage them to go to our website
which is www dot City Year so c y y
e ar dot org backslash Philadelphia, and that will take
you to our site to learn more about the event itself.
You can also check out our Instagram page and certainly
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reach out to any of us for ticket purchases, sponsorships,
or any of the other options for getting involved.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
City Heere is a very positive organization making a huge
difference not only for the young people involved in Cityhear,
but certainly the young people that they are nurturing and
help to educate by being these success coaches in the schools.
The kids need that and cityear provides it. Darryl Bundridge,
Executive director and Senior VP of City Or Philadelphia, thank
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you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Thank you so much for having We would look forward
to hosting everyone and having a wonderful time on April
twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Wonderful. Philadelphia's creative scene continues to embrace immersive experiences that
bring imagination, fashion, and community together. One of the most
unique upcoming events is the Regency Ball, a Bridgeton and
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Gilded Age inspired black tie soiree designed to transport guests
into the world of romance elegance in high society. The
evening blend's live music, curity, dining, fashion, and interactive experiences
to create a cinematic night out. Joining us now is
Emerald Emmy Capers, a Philadelphia based event curator, wedding and
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event designer, digital marketing executive, and founder of Alchemy and
Aisles by Emerald Capers. She's the visionary behind the Regency Ball,
which is happening on Sunday, April twelve. Wealth So Emmy.
For listeners who may have been hearing about it for
some time, what exactly is the Regency Ball and what
inspired you to create this fantasy inspired experience here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
So the Regency Ball is exactly what it sounds like.
It's actually a Regency inspired ball. I figured, you know,
most people have never in their life experienced a ball.
It's something that we watched on television, we see in
movies as little girls and little boys, and it's something
that we never actually get to experience. It's a thing
of the past, the thing of fantasy. And I am
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a wedding planner my company Alchemy in Isles. I have
been doing weddings for years, and I thought about the
fact that everyone only gets dressed up or wears a
ball gown for their wedding day. What if that wasn't
the case. What if you got to get dressed up
and it wasn't for someone else's wedding, It wasn't for
a work function, it wasn't for a fundraising gala. It
was just so that you could immerse yourself and pretend
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to be a princess or a prince for the day.
That's kind of where the Regency Ball came up. It'll
be our third year, our first year. It was a brunch,
our second year, it was a ball. Now people will
get to come and I don't want to say live
out their fantasy but because it's definitely more mature than that,
but they will get to feel like their childhood self
for a moment.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, so, emmy guess we'll be experiencing live music, including
a candlelight concert with the violinist and harpist, and even
a waltz session and lesson. How do these interactive elements
help make the event feel immersive?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I really wanted for the moment they step in and
them to step into a different world or time period,
so when they arrive, they actually walk right into a
waltz performance, and then they'll actually get to learn the steps.
I know right now trending online our dances from the
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recital that was in a Bridgerton episode. So I think
it'll be really fun for people to get to experience
some of these things for themselves. And then the candlelight concert,
we wanted to keep the music classical but fun, so
we brought in a Faith the violinist that's her Instagram.
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This will be her third year working with us, and
she does classical renditions of popular R and B songs
and the harpist is actually originally a part of a
I guess a classical hip hop duo, but it will
be just her. She will be doing the same thing,
kind of blending a mix of R and B, hip
hop and pop in a classical style.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Oh that sounds great. It sounds like Bridgeton music because
they take basic pop music and translate it into sort
of like quartet during the instrument performances, which are really delightful. Now,
fashion is a big highlight of the night. What are
you encouraging guests to where and how does the style
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element turn the ballroom into a living runway?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, so I actually started in fashion. So I love
love fashion, and I want things to be Regency inspired.
If you want to go out and get full costume,
please do. If you have a dress in the closet
that you can throw a corset and some gloves on,
I think that's always a great economic decision. Plug Amazon.
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And for the guys, if you have a great suit
and you want to maybe buy a shirt that has
like a pup sleeve or like a cumber bun or
extended collar, those are ways that you can incorporate the
regency in it without having to break the bank. We
do have a really cool partnership with Wax Poetic Clothing,
which is a clothing boutique based in Philadelphia, and she
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sells really interesting dresses and some of them lean towards this.
I co'd say like Cottage, core, Regency, even Gothic trendition
styles of clothing. Pairing a dress from her with a
corset would be amazing. She's running some discounts for the ball,
and we even have Brown Sugar Nail Salon doing discounts
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to get your Bridgerton inspired or your Regency inspiredired manicures.
So I want people to really have fun with this.
If they've always wanted to wear a bag out, now
is the time. Now.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Food is a big part of the evening and storytelling
is happening through food. Tell us more about that.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Sure, So we're actually solidifying some elements to the menu,
but the menu is mostly Mediterranean inspired with we will
have some influences during the past appetizers by the other
cultures that are represented and some of these favorite shows
of ours, including both guilded Age and Bridgerton. But we
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will be including some bites that lean towards Indian food
and lean towards even soul food to represent African Americans
and black cultures, and leaning towards some Asian inspired flavors
in the appetizers. So we're really going to run the
gambit in the appetizers so people can experience different types
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of food, and then Mediterranean, Italian and Greek leaning for
the buffet dinner so that it's cohesive.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, that sounds really great, and it sounds like it
reflects the colorblind casting of Bridgiiton, which I absolutely adore.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Yes, I think my favorite part about that show.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
One of the big events in the first season and
it kind of continues on in subsequent seasons, is the
Diamond of the season. It's kind of this big in
a way, a competition for the most beautiful person in
the Bridgeton world. You do have a fun moment in
the evening which is the crowning of the Diamond of
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the season, and tell us about this tradition, what it
represents and how the moment will play out during the event.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, so for us, it's our diamond, our bell of
the ball is really how we lean into it, and
our Queen will be able to crown one guest, actually,
one of our guests last year was crowned as our
Bell as our Diamond, and she won a free ticket
to the next ball, so she'll becoming complimentary this year.
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She actually traveled in from Florida last year, so she
will be coming back from Florida and staying at a
room block we have at the Canopy, so she'll be
staying there. And that was her prize, is that she
gets to attend and get her ticket for free. So
we're really excited to have her back. It was a
really special moment that we actually have recorded, and we
went around and asked all of the vendors and all
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of us that were involved in the planning and setup,
and that's how we were able to choose our Diamond
or our Bell this last year, and so this year
we'll do the same. We've a lot of vendors involved,
and so it gets a little difficult to have the
guests vote just because there's just so many people, so
we've left it to all of the different vendors to
kind of throw their vote in the ring.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, it sounds lovely, So if people would like to
attend the Regency Ball, which is happening on Sunday, April twelfth,
from five to nine pm at midnight at Wicket in Philadelphia.
How do they find out more? And what's web address
and all your social media?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah, so my social media is at Alchemy and Aisles,
and I guess it's a little confusing sometimes as well,
but it's al ch E m y A N d
AI s l E s Alchemy and Aisles like a
wedding aisle. And they will be able to find the
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ticket link right in my bio. They can also search
bucket list if they type in the Regency Ball bucket list,
it should come right up for them. We are doing
this in conjunction with PHL bucket List, so really really easy.
And then Midnight in the Wicket is right in Center City,
so I apologize about parking. But the address Midnight in
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the Wicket at fifteen hundred Sansum Street. It is a
full immersive buy it of the venue, so you'll get
to experience something different in every single room. And like
I said, don't break the bank buying address, find something
in your closet if you have it, or head on
over to wax Poetic Clothing and Order of course, and
you're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Thank you so much for joining us here today. Emerald
Emmy Capers a Philadelphia based event curator, wedding and event
designer and the founder of Alchemy in Isles by Emerald Capers.
She's behind the Regency Ball happening Sunday, April twelfth from
five to nine pm at midnight at The Wicked in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Thank you so much, Thank you, it was a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You can listen to all of today's interviews by going
to our station website and typing in Keyword Community. You
can also listen on the iHeartRadio app ye Word's Philadelphia
Community Podcast. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Lorraine Ballard.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Morrel and I stand for service to
our community and media that empowers. What will you stand for?
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