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Featured Events

	Tell-a-friend Great Archaeological Discoveries of the World University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology October 7, 2009-June 2, 2010 From the intact tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh to the enigmatic ancient sculptures of Easter Island, some of the world’s greatest archaeological discoveries are featured at the More
	Tell-a-friend Odili Donald Odita: Third Space Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) September 5, 2008-December 6, 2009 Odili Donald Odita's large-scale, abstract wall paintings operate at the intersection of Western modernism and African culture. Borrowing strategies of destabilized perception from Op More
	Tell-a-friend Video Art: Replay, Part 1, Asking Not Telling Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) September 10-December 6, 2009 ICA is pleased to present Video Art: Replay, a year-long, three-part exhibition offering a snapshot of current video art. On view September 11, 2009-August 1, 2010 in ICA's Project More
	Tell-a-friend XPN Welcomes Erin McKeown with Jill Sobule WXPN December 5, 2009 Erin McKeown has packed a ton of music into a substantial career. With 6 albums, 2 EPs, and numerous soundtracks and compilations to her credit, the 31-year-old More
	Tell-a-friend Winged Woman Dance: Residue Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts February 6, 2010 Join Winged Woman Dance for a provocative experience in which intimate and emotionally wrought segments of movement investigate the complexity of the human condition that compels us More

More Events

Event	Organization	Dates
Painted Metaphors: The Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	04/05/09- 01/31/10
WXPN's Free At Noon	WXPN	04/27/09- Ongoing
Tree Adventure	Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania	07/04/09- Ongoing
Go Out on a Limb	Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania	07/27/09- Ongoing
Werner Pfeiffer: Book-Objects & Artist Books	University of Pennsylvania	09/08/09- 02/12/10
Dance with Camera	Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)	09/10/09- 03/21/10
XPN Welcomes Music Friday	Lancaster Arts	09/18/09- 12/18/09
Kinetic Cinema	Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)	10/21/09- 03/10/10
XPN Welcomes Ani DiFranco	Electric Factory	11/20/09
40 Winks with the Sphinx for Girl Scouts	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	11/20/09- 11/21/09
Campus Arts Crawl	University of Pennsylvania	11/20/09
XPN & Y-Rock's Land of the Lost Wecome Echo & the Bunnymen	WXPN	11/20/09
XPN Welcomes Langhorn Slim	Chameleon Club	11/20/09
XPN Welcomes Grace Potter and the Nocturnals/Brett Dennen	Trocadero Theatre	11/21/09
The University of Pennsylvania Choir	University of Pennsylvania	11/21/09
XPN Welcomes Patty Larkin and Catie Curtis	Carlisle Theatre	11/21/09
XPN Welcomes Ray Davies	Live Nation	11/21/09
Harry Potter and the Magical Muggle Museum	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	11/22/09
Poetry Reading by Juian T. Broaski & Thom Donovan	University of Pennsylvania	11/24/09
XPN & Y-Rock Welcome Devendra Banhart	Live Nation	11/24/09
Speakeasy	University of Pennsylvania	11/25/09
XPN & Y-Rock Welcome Metric	Live Nation	11/25/09
XPN Welcomes Andrew Lipke & The Prospects	Tin Angel	11/25/09
Holiday Garden Railway Display	Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania	11/27/09- 01/03/10
XPN Welcomes Back Door Slam	Chameleon Club	11/27/09
XPN Welcomes The Brakes	Johnny Brendas	11/27/09
XPN Welcomes The Meat Puppets	WXPN	11/28/09
XPN Welcomes Brian Setzer Orchestra	Keswick Theatre	11/29/09
On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell	Penn Bookstore	12/01/09
On Dance with Camera	Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)	12/02/09
XPN Welcomes Raphael Saadiq	WXPN	12/02/09
XPN Welcomes Josh Ritter	WXPN	12/02/09
XPN Welcomes The Subdudes	WXPN	12/02/09
Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams	Penn Bookstore	12/02/09
Cassandra Float Can	Penn Humanities Forum	12/02/09
The Entrepreneurial Mind w/ Small Business Professor Bruce Freeman	Penn Bookstore	12/03/09
Making Reform Work: The Case for Transforming American Higher Education	Penn Bookstore	12/03/09
A Grand Bargain for Education Reform	Penn Bookstore	12/03/09
40 Winks with the Sphinx	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	12/04/09- 12/05/09
XPN Welcomes Jim Boggia	WXPN	12/04/09
XPN Welcomes Good Old War	WXPN	12/04/09
XPN Welcomes Francis Dunnery	WXPN	12/05/09
Annual Peace Around the World: Passport to Culture	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	12/06/09
Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans: Blessings and Battles	Penn Bookstore	12/07/09
Reports from the Field	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	12/08/09
Dance with Camera Cinema Program	Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)	12/09/09
Pieris Music - Fountain	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	12/10/09
Irish Christmas in America	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	12/11/09
XPN Welcomes Mutlu	WXPN	12/11/09
XPN Welcomes the 4th annual Lizanne Knott and Friends Philabundance Benefit	WXPN	12/11/09
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: A Creole Christmas	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	12/12/09
Art and Artifact Workshop: An Ancient Mediterranean Expedition	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology	12/12/09
Caroling by the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club	Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania	12/13/09
River North Dance Chicago	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	01/14/10- 01/16/10
Silence Dogood: Miler Lagos	University of Pennsylvania - Arthur Ross Gallery	01/27/10- 03/21/10
American Composers Orchestra: Orchestra Underground	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	01/30/10
Soweto Gospel Choir	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	01/30/10
Streb	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	02/04/10- 02/06/10
Dee Dee Bridgewater	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	02/11/10
Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies - the mentalist	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	02/14/10
Habib Koité	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	03/14/10
Natalie MacMaster	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	03/17/10
Bad Boys of Dance	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	04/15/10- 04/17/10
Romeo and Juliet	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	04/20/10- 04/24/10
Penn Relays	University of Pennsylvania	04/22/10- 04/24/10
Music From the Crooked Road: Mountain Music of Virginia	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	04/22/10
Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	04/30/10
MOMIX: Botanica	Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	05/20/10- 05/22/10