Happenings
Through our website, newsletter, and alumni quarterly, The Sachs Program highlights events, performances, exhibitions, and other forms of public engagement on and off campus. Most of what we list is neither produced nor directly supported by The Sachs Program. Our intent is to point you to the great things happening at Penn and driven by Penn faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Penn is a destination for the arts. Happenings are what we think you should be experiencing now.
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Thursday 20 FebruaryWe Are the Storm: Activist Poster Art by Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative at Fisher Fine Arts Library
Common Press is pleased to present an exhibit of activist poster art by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative this Winter 2020. With a focus on climate justice and migration, the exhibit highlights political graphics intended to inspire action, raise awareness, and support social, environmental, and political engagement.
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Friday 21 FebruaryAnnenberg Center Presents: #GLASSFEST
As the presenter that introduced Philip Glass to Philadelphia, the Annenberg Center is celebrating the career and impact of one of the nation’s most significant modern composers through #GLASSFEST. This three-week festival includes the Philadelphia premiere of Glass’ groundbreaking Music in Twelve Parts in its five-hour entirety, and the world premiere of theatrical work The White Lama by Nikki Appino, which features a score performed by Glass himself.
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Friday 21 FebruaryWolf Humanities Center Presents a Symposium on Forging Kinships Across Multiple Disciplines
Forging Kinships invites scholars from multiple disciplines and academic institutions to think upon how the bonds of kinship are created, lived, and realized. The organizing theme of this day-long symposium focuses on exploring the dynamic processes which shape and define kinships in the historical past and contemporary moment, and the complex sociopolitical and liberal entanglements with which kinships are often viewed.
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Friday 21 FebruaryPenn Art Collection Presents Study Center Fridays
Explore our collection: Cindy Sherman, Dürer, Betye Saar, Rauschenberg, Motherwell, Nevelson, Helmut Newton, Ruth Asawa, Matisse, Von Rydingsvard, Shirin Neshat, Eakins and many many many more... Doing research? Need inspiration? Just want to hang out with artwork? BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT for a viewing!
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Friday 21 FebruaryLecture with Artist Michael Rakowitz: Ghosts, Hosts, Monuments, and Admonishments
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center and Perry World House present a keynote address with artist Michael Rakowitz, the 2020 Nasher Sculpture Prize Laureate and Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. He will speak on several projects spanning the past 20 years that engage with issues of displacement, disappearance, and reappearance, including his ongoing series on the pillaging of Iraq's cultural sites, titled The invisible enemy should not exist.
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Saturday 22 FebruaryAnnenberg Center Presents: #GLASSFEST
As the presenter that introduced Philip Glass to Philadelphia, the Annenberg Center is celebrating the career and impact of one of the nation’s most significant modern composers through #GLASSFEST. This three-week festival includes the Philadelphia premiere of Glass’ groundbreaking Music in Twelve Parts in its five-hour entirety, and the world premiere of theatrical work The White Lama by Nikki Appino, which features a score performed by Glass himself.