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Jumpstart Your Engines: Public Writing Workshop with Jericho Brown
Thu, April 15, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Online
In the Jumpstart Your Engines Poetry Workshop, One Book, One Philadelphia 2021 author Jericho Brown helps us generate new work through a set of unconventional exercises that train us to focus and connect our bodies to our artistic process. This poetry workshop engenders new ideas about…
Virtual Course | Zora Neale Hurston and an Introduction to African American Folklore
Thu, April 15, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Zoom
Registration Tuition for this course is $200. Rosenbach members receive a 10% discount on tuition. If you have questions about discounted tuition please call (215) 732-1600 x 138 or email gdonahue@rosenbach.org. Not a member? We invite you to join upon…
VIRTUAL - Phillip Lopate | The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970
Thu, April 15, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with novelist, screenwriter, and creative writing teacher Max Apple Phillip Lopate’s “observant, elegiac, and far-reaching” ( New York Times ) essay collections include Bachelorhood , Against Joie de Vivre , and Portrait Inside My Head . His…
Anime, Manga, & Gaming Meetup for Adults & Older Teens
Sat, April 17, 2021
3:30 P.M.
Kensington Library
Adults and teens 16 and up are invited to hang out on Discord with fellow fans, chat, watch anime! Held every other Saturday. For more information, visit here: fb.me/e/1KUAsvIOo
Sundays with Frankenstein
Sun, April 18, 2021
2:00 P.M.
Zoom
Following our very successful series, Sundays with Dracula, which ran from May 3–November 15, 2020 (you can watch past episodes here!) we now bring to you a fifteen week exploration of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Shelley’s landmark monster novel was a…
FIT for ALL with Overbrook Park Library
Mon, April 19, 2021
7:00 A.M.
Virtual
Fitness where you are, with what you have. Exercise and strengthen your body with Healthy Communities and UliftU on Monday mornings from 7-8 a.m. from March 1 to May 3, 2021. Join us on Facebook @ OverbrookParkLibrary . Please note that…
Virtual Course | Read the Blood of Dracula: Fledgling by Octavia Butler
Mon, April 19, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Zoom
Registration Tuition for this course is $35 per session Rosenbach members receive a 10% discount on tuition. If you have questions about discounted tuition please call (215) 732-1600 x 138 or email gdonahue@rosenbach.org. Not a member? We invite you to join upon…
Virtual Full Circle Career Workshop: Over 50? Learn How to Jump Over Age Barriers
Tue, April 20, 2021
12:00 P.M.
Workplace
at
Parkway Central Library
Age can be a barrier or just a speed bump! Mature workers face job search challenges that younger workers don’t. However, they also provide important workplace advantages that are becoming more valuable every day. Savvy mature workers are landing good high paying jobs because they…
Virtual Course | Why We’re Still Wilde About Oscar
Tue, April 20, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Zoom
Registration Tuition for this course is $200. Rosenbach members receive a 10% discount on tuition. If you have questions about discounted tuition please call (215) 732-1600 x 138 or email gdonahue@rosenbach.org. Not a member? We invite you to join upon…
VIRTUAL - Larry Krasner | For the People: A Story of Justice and Power
Tue, April 20, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Winning on a platform of prison reform in a city notorious for its high incarceration rates, Larry Krasner was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia in 2018 with more than 50% of the vote. He worked as a public defender and civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia for more than…
Black Invention: Imagining New Ways to Speak
Wed, April 21, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Online
Presented in collaboration with Paul Robeson House & Museum and Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library. One of the many hallmarks of Jericho Brown's collection, The Tradition, is the original poetic form Brown invented called the duplex. The form is a…
Mary Shelley and Her Creation
Wed, April 21, 2021
7:00 P.M.
Zoom
Mary Shelley and her creation, as viewed through the artistic lens of two Philadelphia theatre artists, Jennifer Summerfield and Josh Hitchens. In these two solo performances — Summerfield as Mary Shelley and Hitchens with extracts from the novel — the struggles of…
VIRTUAL - Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem with Denice Frohman
Wed, April 21, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Natalie Diaz is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec , an “ambitious . . . beautiful” ( New York Times ) American Book Award–winning poetry collection that ruminates on her sibling’s drug addiction. A former professional basketball player, an enrolled…
Virtual Full Circle Career Workshop: Excel Simple Formula Writing and Page Set-up
Thu, April 22, 2021
4:30 P.M.
Workplace
at
Parkway Central Library
Interested in learning Excel Basics? This session can introduce you to some of the most commonly used features! Starting with an overview of Excel interface elements, moving into selection of cell ranges, and progressing to how to build simple formulas. After that, you’ll…
Tongues Untied Screening and Accessing Archives with Steven G. Fullwood
Thu, April 22, 2021
7:00 P.M.
Online
Presented in collaboration with Scribe Video Center. Screening at 7:00 p.m., Accessing Archives Presentation at 8:00 p.m. “Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act *snap!”–Marlon Riggs (1957–1994). Riggs’s groundbreaking film Tongues…
Spoken Word Workshop with Jaylene Clark Owens
Fri, April 23, 2021
7:00 P.M.
Online
Presented with the North Central Philadelphia Libraries. Join poet, playwright, and actress Jaylene Clark Owens as she guides us through the process of creating a spoken word poem. The workshop will include tools, examples, prompts, and the option to perform for the group. No experience…
Sundays with Frankenstein
Sun, April 25, 2021
2:00 P.M.
Zoom
Following our very successful series, Sundays with Dracula, which ran from May 3–November 15, 2020 (you can watch past episodes here!) we now bring to you a fifteen week exploration of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Shelley’s landmark monster novel was a…
Virtual Sundays on Stage: Dreams of Land with Hua Hua Zhang
Sun, April 25, 2021
2:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
In this series of dream vignettes, puppet artist Hua Hua Zhang uses puppets, shadows, living sculptures, and stylized movement to explore relationships, emotional states, and how we process them using her own unique lens of both Asian and Western viewpoints and attitudes. We will learn…
FIT for ALL with Overbrook Park Library
Mon, April 26, 2021
7:00 A.M.
Virtual
Fitness where you are, with what you have. Exercise and strengthen your body with Healthy Communities and UliftU on Monday mornings from 7-8 a.m. from March 1 to May 3, 2021. Join us on Facebook @ OverbrookParkLibrary . Please note that…
VIRTUAL - Senator Mazie K. Hirono | Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story
Mon, April 26, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $10.00-Ticket or $33.00-Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE A “hero on the left” ( Washington Post ) for her vocal support of progressive legislation and issues, Mazie K. Hirono is the only immigrant and the first Asian American woman in the United States Senate. Hawaii’s junior Senator since 2013, she…