Events
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A Conversation with Anne Rice: The Wolf Gift
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library February 14, 2012 Anne Rice gained notoriety and a vast cult readership for her Vampire Chronicles series, which the Washington Post called "unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable." The first and most popular book, Interview With the Vampire (1976) reinvented and refreshed the archetypal vampire myth, and was later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. It was followed by The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, which the San Francisco... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
02/14/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
Valentine's Day at Eastern State Penitentiary
Presented by Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site February 11-February 14, 2012 Break out of the ordinary and celebrate Valentine’s Day with special Winter Adventure Tours. Bring your valentine to receive "Buy One, Get One Free" admission and experience the history of Eastern State with a focus on love stories throughout the prison’s history.
Eastern State Penitentiary is beautiful in the stark, cold months of winter and makes for a perfect setting for romance. The BOGO offer to bring your valentine on February 11-14 is valid for one... |
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site |
02/11/12 -
02/14/12 |
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia |
High Tunnels: A Sustainable Solution for Local Urban Agriculture
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences February 15, 2012 At this Urban Sustainability Forum, find out how high tunnels could help improve access to affordable, nutritious foods in Philadelphia. High tunnels are nonelectric, temporary structures that consist of a layer of plastic over a pipe frame. These structures, however, are not greenhouses. They do not require a permanent heating or ventilation system, ventilation is accomplished manually, and there are no furnaces or fans. High tunnels can extend the growing season and improve the yield and... |
Academy of Natural Sciences |
02/15/12 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
Talk About It: How Fair is Fair Trade
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library February 15, 2012 Join Numa St. Louis, Vice President of Haitian Professionals of Philadelphia, Darlene DeLaPaz of Ten Thousand Villages Center City, and Dr. Sharon Ravitch of the University of Pennsylvania for a discussion on whether or not fair trade policies improve the economic independence of farmers and artisans in Haiti and other developing nations. The discussion will be moderated by Tamara Walker, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
This event is part of the... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
02/15/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
Art at Lunch - Clocks, Calendars, and Conversion Charts
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 15, 2012 This talk explores how the first modern globalization wave around 1900 profoundly altered notions of time, space, and simultaneity. In 1884, Greenwich Mean Time was adopted as a new universal time standard. Clocks and watches became more affordable and proliferated among ordinary people and as a consequence, new understandings of personal time management, punctuality and time efficiency emerged. Vanessa Ogle, from the University of Pennsvlvania, traces these heated and controversial debates... |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/15/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
A Conversation with Edmund White and Christopher Bram
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library February 16, 2012 Called a literary lion of the gay world, Edmund White is best known for his autobiographical novels in which unabashed hedonism thrives, including A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty. A chronicler of gay life since the 1970s, White helped define the nascent parameters of gay culture. He is the author of the novel Hotel de Dream, several essays and biographies—including Jean Genet's—and the 1980 travelogue States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, which crystallized... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
02/16/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
Network: Launch into Fashion
Presented by Moore College of Art & Design at Moore College of Art & Design February 17, 2012 Rock your favorite style and accessories for a night of cocktails, local DJ, and the chance to meet some of Philadelphia’s top designers and fashion experts.
Featured speakers:
- Elissa Bloom, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator, launching this spring at Macy’s Center City
- Jay McCarroll, Philadelphia-based designer and winner of Project Runway, season one. Currently Jay is Chief Creative Officer for Jay...
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Moore College of Art & Design |
02/17/12 |
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia |
Paleopalooza
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences February 18-February 19, 2012 Paleopalooza, a two-day festival of gigantic proportions, features rarely seen specimens from the Academy’s world-famous collection, including dinosaur fossils. Meet Academy of Natural Sciences' scientists and learn what it’s like to reconstruct the past using fossils, imagination and sound science. Enjoy hands-on activities, crafts, guest speakers and interactive presentations. |
Academy of Natural Sciences |
02/18/12 -
02/19/12 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
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Family Arts Academy: Dance of Color
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/19/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
A Conversation with Jamal Joseph, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library February 21, 2012 As a teenager in the Bronx ghetto of the 1960s, Eddie Joseph was introduced to the tenets of the Black Panther Party just as it gained a national foothold. The cause swallowed him into one of the most emblematic criminal cases of the '60s. After his stint at Rikers, Eddie—now called Jamal—joined the Revolutionary Black Underground and eventually landed back in prison—where he founded a prison theater and earned two degrees. In his memoir, Panther Baby, he vividly recounts... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
02/21/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
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Fair Trade Coffee Fair
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Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
02/22/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
Art at Lunch - Moe Brooker: Start to Finish
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 22, 2012 Artist and PAFA faculty member Moe Brooker has been instructing young artists for almost forty years. Brooker’s philosophy of art-making includes the belief that process determines product, focusing specifically on how studio practices and choice of materials determines the types of images that an artist creates. This talk by Brooker, at the same time that an exhibition of his work is on view in PAFA’s Alumni Gallery, highlights his own process of creation and tracks the... |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/22/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Reimagining Urban Highways
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences February 23, 2012 After decades of disinvestment, many American cities are rebounding and growing their cultural, economic, and environmental assets. Despite their renewal, cities such as Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, and St. Louis are saddled with highways located in their increasingly popular downtowns.
How should cities change highways to meet 21st-century needs and contemporary urban lifestyles? This panel discussion will look at successful urban highway removal projects in Milwaukee,... |
Academy of Natural Sciences |
02/23/12 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
A Conversation with David Isay, All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library February 23, 2012 As founder of StoryCorps, David Isay has dedicated his career to preserving an oral history of the United States. Modeled—in spirit and in scope—after the interviews of the 1930s Works Progress Administration, StoryCorps seeks out ordinary Americans—more than 60,000 so far—whose stories are preserved in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Isay has won numerous broadcasting honors, including multiple Peabody Awards and Guggenheim, MacArthur, and... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
02/23/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
Avi Wisnia
Presented by Philadelphia Museum of Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art February 24, 2012 A special full-band performance as part of the Art After 5 Series.
Friday evenings take on a whole new groove with Art After 5, The Philadelphia Museum of Art's unique blend of art and entertainment in the Great Stair Hall. With an eclectic mix of internationally recognized and emerging artists performing every week, it’s a stylish and unique way to start the weekend. "I love making music in such a grand alternative space to the regular music venue and night club... |
Philadelphia Museum of Art |
02/24/12 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
Watson Adventures' Murder at the Philadelphia Museum Scavenger Hunt
Presented by Watson Adventures at Philadelphia Museum of Art February 25, 2012 Join Watson Adventures on a unique murder mystery scavenger hunt for adults!
A murdered curator has left behind a cryptic trail of clues connected with secrets in works of art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As your team gathers answers about the art, you begin to piece together a sordid tale about greed, lust, pride, revenge and treachery, all revolving around the museum’s planned multi-million dollar purchase of a Leonardo Da Vinci. The murder victim knew too... |
Watson Adventures |
02/25/12 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
The Young Friends Winter Gala: Van Gogh Up Close
Presented by Philadelphia Museum of Art at Philadelphia Museum of Art February 25, 2012 The Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art invite you to a black tie affair in celebration of the legendary artist Vincent van Gogh, and to enjoy an up close experience in the newly opened exhibition.
Held in the Museum’s Great Stair Hall, guests mix, mingle, and enjoy world-class art, as they sip cocktails, and take their chances on the raffle and silent auction with proceeds supporting art acquisitions, education, conservation, and special projects at the... |
Philadelphia Museum of Art |
02/25/12 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley HArper
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences December 10, 2011-February 26, 2012 American artist Charley Harper (1922-2007) uses distinctive geometric shapes, vivid colors and delightful graphics to depict nature in an inspiring fashion in Beguiled by the Wild. Harper developed a deep love of nature as a child growing up in West Virginia. He went on to provide illustrations for numerous books and organizations, including the National Park Service and National Audubon Society. |
Academy of Natural Sciences |
12/10/11 -
02/26/12 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
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Family Arts Academy: Painted Stories
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/26/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Life Upon These Shores
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library February 28, 2012 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous works of criticism, including The Signifying Monkey, winner of the American Book Award. As the writer and producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary African American Lives, Gates explored the histories of many prominent African Americans. Life Upon These Shores traces African American... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
02/28/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
Art at Lunch - Between Shores: Henry Ossawa Tanner and Transatlanticism
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) February 29, 2012 Henry Ossawa Tanner lived a life between two shores of the Atlantic – America and France – and his navigation of these national boundaries deeply affected his art. Tanner pursued his prolific body of religious paintings solely during this time “in between,” never painting a religious scene on American soil, and in this talk, Jeff Richmond-Moll, a Lecturing Fellow at PAFA, discusses how a Transatlantic vision of space and a precedent of “betweenness” in... |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
02/29/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
A Conversation with Ann Beattie, Mrs. Nixon and with Thomas Mallon, Watergate
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library March 1, 2012 After publishing several stories in The New Yorker, Ann Beattie burst on the literary scene in 1976 with Chilly Scenes of Winter and promptly became the unofficial diarist of a generation, delivering "irony-laced reports from the front line of the baby boomers’ war with themselves" (Vanity Fair). With spare, whip-smart prose, Beattie portrayed the sorts of relationships—the results of divorce, sexual liberation, or youthful aimlessness—that were the norm for those... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
03/01/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
Watson Adventures’ Wizard School Scavenger Hunt
Presented by Watson Adventures at Philadelphia Museum of Art March 3, 2012 Join Watson Adventures on a unique scavenger hunt for Harry Potter fans 10 and up!
Follow in the footsteps of young wizards on a field trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in search of art that echoes characters, places and enchanted objects in the famed Harry Potter books and movies. Be prepared to track down a powerful sorceress, a Snape-like potions master, flying owls and dragons, Hagrid-like giants, centaurs and unicorns like those you’d see in the Forbidden Forest,... |
Watson Adventures |
03/03/12 |
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
A Conversation with Jodi Picoult: Lone Wolf
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library March 5, 2012 The queen of the book club, Jodi Picoult is known for her fictional page-turners that feature nuanced characters, pitch-perfect descriptions of suburbia—and the darkness it often conceals—and unfettered insight into the shape-shifting terrain of family relationships. Her stories plumb hot-button topics ranging from teenage suicide and stem cell research to date rape and school shootings. She is the author of 18 novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers House Rules,... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
03/05/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
Pen and Paintbrush Club: In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) March 7, 2012 Steinbeck’s socially engaged novel highlights the frustration of a community of fruit pickers and their resulting attempts to organize an ununionized strike in 1930s California. Paintings like Philip Evergood’s Mine Disaster and Alice Neel’s Investigations of Poverty at the Russell Sage Foundation will highlight artist interest in the plight of the working class at a volatile time in American history. |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
03/07/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
A Conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander: New American Haggadah
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library March 8, 2012 Jonathan Safran Foer became a certified literary wunderkind at the age of 25 with his debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which told the story of a young man's search across the obliterated Ukrainian landscape for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. His New York Times bestseller, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, was called "an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11" (Boston Globe). Nathan Englander is the author of The Ministry of Special Cases and For... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
03/08/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
PAFA after Dark: Turned On
Presented by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) March 8, 2012 See PAFA’s biggest exhibition of the year in a totally new light.
View Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit during the artist’s favorite time of day—night—and participate in interactive experiences provided by inventor artists extraordinaire The Hacktory and Hive76.
Fourth Wall Arts curates the guest performances, including percussion group Spoken Hand, opera singer Alicia Mendoza and spoken word poet extraordinaire Nina “Lyrispect” Ball. |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) |
03/08/12 |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia |
Safari Overnight
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences March 9-March 10, 2012 Experience the Academy of Natural Sciences after dark! Bring your 7- to 14-year-old children to enjoy a night of interactive activities and encounters with our live animals. Socialize and enjoy refreshments, then sleep next to the lions, tigers or a Tyrannosaurus rex. Awaken to a light breakfast and more exploration. Each child receives a participation patch. |
Academy of Natural Sciences |
03/09/12 -
03/10/12 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
Sketch-A-Saurus
Presented by Academy of Natural Sciences at Academy of Natural Sciences March 10, 2012 Whether you’re a paleo-Michelangelo or a budding artist, you will learn the fascinating art of dinosaur illustration in this all-day class. Jason Poole, a paleo-illustrator and Dinosaur Hall Manager at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, will share tips and tricks on how to improve your dinosaur sketches by studying dinosaurs’ skeletons, muscles, and other features and examining specimens from Dinosaur Hall and the Paleontology Collection. Poole has had his... |
Academy of Natural Sciences |
03/10/12 |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia |
A Conversation with Alain de Botton: Religion for Atheists
Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library March 11, 2012 Alain de Botton's aphoristic first novel, On Love, was a winking dissertation on romantic love, published when he was just 23. It was followed by several books that explored a philosophy of everyday life, including The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life, which have achieved bestselling status in 30 countries. He also founded and helps to run The School of Life in London, dedicated to a new vision of education on how to live well. In Religion for Atheists, de Botton... |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library |
03/11/12 |
Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia |
