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August 27, 2020
Bringing Green, Healing Spaces to The Streets of West PhiladelphiaThis summer, Alice Cochrane, a rising junior majoring in architecture from Harare, Zimbabwe, completed a summer internship with One Art, an “urban eco arts village” and community center. One Art, currently in its third year of participating in SHIP, is a Black- and brown-owned-and-operated organization whose goal is to provide a safe and inspirational space for arts, educational, and cultural programs. Along with serving as a community hub for events and activities, the One Art Oasis also provides the community with access to green spaces as part of its urban farm, along with programming focused on sustainability, organic farming, waste reduction, and building with recycled materials.
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August 27, 2020
Register to Vote and Go Vote!We encourage everyone to both register and to vote in the fall elections if you are eligible. If not, speak out to those who are voting, share your perspectives on the issues and advocate for the candidates you support. This is a democracy and we have agency in that process. People risked their lives for the right to vote and have a voice in this country.
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August 27, 2020
Slought Presents “Atlas of Affects”Slought invites your participation in "Atlas of Affects," an exhibition in the Slought galleries of material traces, media artifacts, artistic projects, written texts, and other representations of the pandemic. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the archive, so long as their submission concerns an affect of this moment.
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August 27, 2020
Common Press Fall 2020 Postcard SubscriptionThis Fall, Common Press will be printing and mailing postcards to the Penn community. Get a sense of what letterpress printing can do from home. All you have to do is sign up. You have until December 1 to join and receive as many postcards as remain in the series. The Common Press is the letterpress and book arts studio at the University of Pennsylvania. A collaboration of Penn Libraries, Penn Design, and Kelly Writers House, the press supports interests in writing and text, print culture and history, and visual arts and design.
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August 24, 2020
An Improv Class That Enriches The Mind and Soul, Even RemotelyThe Penn Memory Center’s Cognitive Comedy program gives people with memory impairments and their caregivers a no-pressure space to think creatively, socialize, and be part of a community. It’s crucial that the participants of this improv workshop, who have named themselves the Funny Philadelphians, feel comfortable because they either have memory impairments themselves or care for someone who does. “The objective is to promote social engagement, to use your brain in a creative way,” says Megan Kalafsky, program coordinator of Time Out, a joint initiative from Penn and Temple University that runs Cognitive Comedy.