ARCH Drop-In Hours: "Let's Talk" with Student Health & Counseling
Stop by for one-on-one advising, program planning, consultations, and to learn more about new opportunities at Penn.
Stop by for one-on-one advising, program planning, consultations, and to learn more about new opportunities at Penn.
Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to come and learn about "Imposter Syndrome" and how it may be impacting your life and those around you. Combat negative thoughts with the help of trained workshop experts from Wellness!
You are invited to a conversation on “Human Rights In Action: On Gender, Trauma, and Mutual Support in Human Rights Collectives” with Arancha Araceli Garcia del Soto, moderated by Professor Sarah Paoletti. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 between 4-6 p.m. in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business (3732 Locust Walk). The moderated talk will take place between 4-5 p.m. followed by a reception between 5-6 p.m. Light food will be provided during the reception.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/humanrightsinaction
Read more on Arancha Araceli Garcia del Soto and Sarah Paoletti’s biographies here: https://clals.sas.upenn.edu/events/arancha-garc%C3%ADa-del-soto-phd-human-rights-action-gender-trauma-and-mutual-support-human-rights
Join the Penn Women's Center and the Penn Association for Gender Equity (PAGE) for a week of workshops and events. This year's theme, "Stay Safe," celebrates gender equity with a robust roster of programs ranging from a self-defense workshop and trivia night to a discussion on colonization and sexuality. Food, stickers, and merch are available at every event.
Stop by for one-on-one advising, program planning, consultations, and to learn more about new opportunities at Penn.
Stop by for one-on-one advising, program planning, consultations, and to learn more about new opportunities at Penn.
Join the Penn Women's Center, Quake Magazine, and Penn Association for Gender Equity in a discussion on decolonizing sex and ethical nonmonogamy led by Dr. Kim Tallbear. Dr. Tallbear is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society Studies at the University of Alberta. Food and merch giveaways provided!
Join the Penn Women's Center and the Penn Association for Gender Equity (PAGE) for a week of workshops and events. This year's theme, "Stay Safe," celebrates gender equity with a robust roster of programs ranging from a self-defense workshop and trivia night to a discussion on colonization and sexuality. Food, stickers, and merch are available at every event.
PoemTalk features lively discussions of poetry in the PennSound archive. In this special taping of PoemTalk in front of an audience, PoemTalk host and producer Al Filreis will lead a discussion with Aldon Nielsen, William J. Harris, and Tyrone Williams about poems in Neilsen’s book Tray.
Stop by for one-on-one advising, program planning, consultations, and to learn more about new opportunities at Penn.
Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome to come and learn about "Imposter Syndrome" and how it may be impacting your life and those around you. Combat negative thoughts with the help of trained workshop experts from Wellness!
You are invited to a conversation on “Human Rights In Action: On Gender, Trauma, and Mutual Support in Human Rights Collectives” with Arancha Araceli Garcia del Soto, moderated by Professor Sarah Paoletti. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 between 4-6 p.m. in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business (3732 Locust Walk). The moderated talk will take place between 4-5 p.m. followed by a reception between 5-6 p.m. Light food will be provided during the reception.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/humanrightsinaction
Read more on Arancha Araceli Garcia del Soto and Sarah Paoletti’s biographies here: https://clals.sas.upenn.edu/events/arancha-garc%C3%ADa-del-soto-phd-human-rights-action-gender-trauma-and-mutual-support-human-rights
Join PWC and WOAR-Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence for a discussion on human trafficking and survivor support. Food and merch giveaways included.
A.L. NIELSEN, the first recipient of the Larry Neal Award for poetry, is the author of the recent volumes Back Pages: Selected Poems, Sufferhead, Tray and Spider Cone. With Grammy-nominated Ethelbert Miller, he published the hybrid memoir/interview book MemeWars. Two of his spoken word collections are streaming on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and others: Sometimes I Wonder Can a Cigar Box Hold My Blues and More Blues, Rage and Hollers. Nielsen has taught at Howard University, San Jose State, UCLA, Loyola Marymount, Penn State and Central China Normal University. His most recent work of criticism is The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka.
WILLIAM J. HARRIS is an emeritus professor of American Literature, African American Literature, creative writing and Jazz Studies. He has taught at the University of Kansas, Penn State University and Cornell, and other institutions. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Among his books are The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka (criticism), Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment (poetry), In My Dark Way (poetry) and Crooners (poetry). He is the editor of The LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka Reader. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including The African American Review, Callaloo, Art Forum and The Boston Review. This month (February) Poetry Magazine is featuring a special 44 page folio devoted to Harris’s work and in March the critic Adam Bradley will discuss Harris in an article about Black Poetry in T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
TYRONE WILLIAMS is the David Gray Chair of Poetry & Letters at SUNY Buffalo. He is the author of several chapbooks and seven books of poetry: c.c. (Krupskaya 2002), On Spec (Omnidawn 2008), The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press 2009), Adventures of Pi (Dos Madres Press 2011), Howell (Atelos Books 2011), As Iz (Omnidawn 2018), washpark (with Pat Clifford)(Delete Press, 2021)and stilettos in a rifle range (Wayne State University Press, 2022). A limited-edition art project, Trump l’oeil, was published by Hostile Books in 2017. He and Jeanne Heuving edited an anthology of critical essays, Inciting Poetics (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). His website is at https://www.flummoxedpoet.com/
Join the Penn Women's Center and the Penn Association for Gender Equity (PAGE) for a week of workshops and events. This year's theme, "Stay Safe," celebrates gender equity with a robust roster of programs ranging from a self-defense workshop and trivia night to a discussion on colonization and sexuality. Food, stickers, and merch are available at every event.
Join PWC and Penn Special Services for a workshop teaching self-defense skills. Merch and food will be provided.
Stop by for one-on-one advising, program planning, consultations, and to learn more about new opportunities at Penn.
Join PWC and PVP for a discussion on consent and violence prevention. Dinner and merch provided.
A book launch for Elden Poem and the The Institute for Other Intelligences
In this joint book launch, Daniel Snelson and Mashinka Firunts Hakopian present readings and performances from Elden Poem (Hysterically Real, 2022) and The Institute for Other Intelligences (X Artists’ Books, 2022). In The Institute for Other Intelligences, Hakopian presents the transcript of a fictive symposium on critical AI, convened at a not-yet-extant school for machine intelligences, artificial killjoys, and sundry bots. Across both works, the authors develop a poetics for inscribing speculative missives within the media platforms and network cultures of the present.
Hosted by Al Filreis, the event will feature live gameplay, an illustrated lecture-performance, video excerpts, and a poetry reading, with a Q&A on games, AI, and poetics to follow.
MASHINKA FIRUNTS HAKOPIAN is an Armenian writer, artist, and researcher born in Yerevan and residing in Glendale, CA. She is an Associate Professor in Technology and Social Justice at ArtCenter College of Design. In 2021, she was a visiting Mellon Professor of the Practice at Occidental College, where she co-curated the exhibition “Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI” with Meldia Yesayan. With Avi Alpert and Danny Snelson, she makes up one-third of the collective, Research Service. She is a Contributing Editor for Art Papers, and her writing and commentary have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Performance Research Journal, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Meghan Markle's Archetypes. Performances and projects have been presented at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Museum of Contemporary Art (LA), Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Drawing Center (NY), Judson Memorial Church (NY), and in the New Museum (NY) Voice Registers Series. See also: www.mashinkafirunts.com
DANIEL SCOTT SNELSON is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA. His online editorial work can be found on PennSound, Eclipse, UbuWeb, Jacket2, and the EPC. His books include Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page (Sync, 2019), Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984-2000 (Monoskop, 2018), Radios (Make Now, 2016), EXE TXT (Gauss PDF, 2015), Epic Lyric Poem (Troll Thread, 2014), and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff (Bedford Press/Architectural Association, 2011). With Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Avi Alpert, he performs as one-third of the academic performance group Research Service. See also: dss-edit.com
Join us for FruiTea Conversations! The topic for each week changes. FruiTea meets weekly on Wednesday nights between 7-8 p.m. at the Greenfield Intercultural Center (fondly known as the GIC) on 3708 Chestnut Street (behind Pottruck gym).
FruiTea is an inclusive safe space dedicated to re-exploring various aspects of one’s cultural identity. Our gathering starts with people sharing their drawings on a broad ice-breaker topic. During the sharing of the ice-breaker, organic conversations then begin to flourish. Everyone is welcome to join!
Join the Penn Women's Center and the Penn Association for Gender Equity (PAGE) for a week of workshops and events. This year's theme, "Stay Safe," celebrates gender equity with a robust roster of programs ranging from a self-defense workshop and trivia night to a discussion on colonization and sexuality. Food, stickers, and merch are available at every event.
A live reading by Jesús I. Valles and Ricardo Bracho
Note: masks are required for this event
In this live reading and conversation, playwrights Jesús I. Valles (they/them) and Ricardo A. Bracho will engage the U.S./Mexico borderlands and bathhouses as insurgent geographies of queer Latinx life. Putting excerpts from two of Jesús’s plays in conversation with one another, the playwrights consider their personal experiences as queer artist-scholars whose work reflects on colonial hauntings, familial memories, and erotic desires. Their reading and conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. Lunch will be provided at the conclusion of the conversation.
JESÚS I. VALLES (THEY/THEM) is a queer Mexican immigrant, educator, storyteller, and performer from Cd. Juarez/El Paso. Jesús is a 2021 CantoMundo fellowship recipient at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, a 2019 Lambda Literary fellow, a 2019 Walter E. Dakin Playwriting Fellow of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a recipient of the 2019 Letras Latinas Scholarship from the Community of Writers’ Poetry Workshop, and a poetry fellow at Idyllwild Arts Writers Week. Jesús is also a 2018 Undocupoets Fellow, a 2018 Tin House Scholar, a fellow of The 2018 Poetry Incubator, and the runner-up in the 2017 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Their work has been published in The Shade Journal, The Texas Review, The New Republic, Palabritas, The Acentos Review, Quarterly West, The Mississippi Review, Palette, The Adroit Journal, BOAAT, The McNeese Review, and PANK. Their poetry has also been featured on NPR’s Code Switch, The Slowdown, The BreakBeat Poets’ LatiNext Anthology, and the Best New Poets 2020 anthology. As an actor, they are the recipient of four B. Iden Payne Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama (2018), and Outstanding Original Script (2018) and they were nominated for the Mark David Cohen New Play Award for their play, (Un)Documents. They most recently starred as Penny Marshall in Victor I. Cazares’ Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall: Death Rituals for Penny Marshall for New York Theatre Workshop. Jesús was OUTSider festival’s first OUTsider-in-residence and is currently an MFA playwriting student at Brown University. Their plays include (Un)documents, bala.fruta, a river, its mouths, and bathhouse.pptx.
RICARDO A. BRACHO is a writer, editor and teacher who has worked in community and university, theater and video/film, politics and aesthetics for the past twenty-nine years. His other academic appointments include Visiting Multicultural Faculty at The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago and Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Center for Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His award-winning plays, which include The Sweetest Hangover, Sissy, Puto and Mexican Psychotic have been produced in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, as well as workshopped and staged nationwide. His focus in community has been on social justice, public health, and the arts with queer and trans youth of color, Latina/o/x high risk populations, queer men of color, and incarcerated men. He has been a participant in the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group residency program as well as with Mabou Mines. He is currently compiling his selected plays for publication as well as completing a manuscript of poems, The Salt of Him.
Stop by for one-on-one advising, program planning, consultations, and to learn more about new opportunities at Penn.
PWC and PAGE welcome Passional Boutique to Penn’s Campus for an interactive Kink Exploration Workshop. As part of Passional Boutique’s education program, the Kink & BDSM for Beginners class is described as “An interactive class on kink and BDSM! Whether you are just beginning to dabble or ready to live the lifestyle 24/7, this workshop is for you. Topics will include: language & kink vocabulary, consent & negotiation, impact play, bondage & restraint, sensation play, and more! **There will be a live demo for visual learners** This class is open to all genders, sexualities, and experience levels.” In line with Penn Gen Eq 2023’s theme, “Stay Safe,” the class is open to all members of the Penn community ages 18+ and will explore different aspects of safe, consensual, and mutually healthy relationships.
Close out Gender Equity Week with a prize-filled trivia night to test your gen eq knowledge. Food will be provided.
A strange, tender love story from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce. In a waiting room, inside a tower, Isla waits for her number to be called. A young woman finally understands her fate. And a young man faces a stark decision. In the midst of a bleak and terrifying world, Arlington is a compelling ode to the human spirit and its power to endure.
The Critical Armenian Studies Collective is pleased to announce "Infidelities: Armenian Studies Otherwise" (March 24 – 26, 2023), a three-day international conference about new directions in the study of Armenian memory, culture, and displacement across West Asia and the Middle East to the Americas and back. In collaboration with scholars and programs at Penn, the University of Michigan, and the Free University of Berlin, “Infidelities” brings together scholars, curators, filmmakers, visual artists, physical theatre performers, and a sound performer, all of whom work either directly in, or tangentially to, Armenian Studies, to flesh out new visions for the field, for the understanding of “Armenianness,” and for categories of identity at large. Through a series of panels, performances, film screenings, and working groups focused around the polyvalent provocation of "infidelity," the conference will focus on a spectrum of lively new directions toward which Armenian Studies is currently moving: feminist and queer interventions; cultural studies of hybrid and syncretic identities; aesthetic imaginings of Armenité beyond text and language; new materialisms and revolutionary change in a postsocialist setting; utopian futures beyond the nation-state; necropolitics, post-memory, and alternative imaginaries of the archive; as well as postcolonial critiques and visions of "reconciliation." The event will be hosted at Slought (4017 Walnut St.), with afternoon panels and film screenings at the LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St.). Open to the public. Registration is kindly requested (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infidelities-armenian-studies-otherwise-tickets-502131828817).
Join Platt House for this virtual presentation also featuring Penn Live Arts, SAC, and Mask & Wig. We will walk through the best practices for tracking your sales while managing Penn policies and procedures.
Celebrate the start of Spring and get swinging with Penn Jazz! We’ll be playing lots of big band hits and original arrangements of classics and newer tunes, featuring our super-swinging orchestra and smooth singers. Join us on March 24 and 25 to hear some great live jazz! Find tickets and information at penn-jazz.com.
This group has desperate motives… and when good singers become desperate, the notes come out. On one deadly quiet evening, someone has been brutally murdered. Foul play is suspected, and unfortunately, the night has taken a turn for the verse: all of the Quaker Notes are suspects. All bands must be on deck as we investigate this murder mystery. Believe it or note, this will be the show of your life… or it could end in your demise. Join us for the highly anticipated Notes Out: Who Murdered the Beat? in Prince Theatre on March 24th and 25th!
Arts House Dance Company returns to the stage with 15 original pieces and exciting collaborations featuring contemporary, jazz, hip hop, and more styles. We cordially invite you to join us for Arts House Dance Company Presents: Reign!
Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on the Miss Global Universe pageant. But the arrival of Ericka, a new student with undeniable talent and beauty, captures the attention of the pageant recruiter—and Paulina’s hive-minded friends. This buoyant and biting comedy explores the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls across the globe.
"Siento algo que me mueve
Un ritmo que me hace bailar"
~Selena
You think you know Latin American music? Think again. From reggaetón to chacareras, the continent is full of diverse rhythms and dances. Grab your dancing shoes and be prepared to be swept off your feet by our amazing musicians and vocalists!Dance the night away with Fuerza on March 24 and 25 from 7-8 PM in the Platt House Lobby! Los esperamos
Our story begins with the end of civilization. But don’t worry, like herpes, humanity just won’t go away. In the ruins of society, our hero Max longs to get away from the small world of his village. Found as a baby with a map leading to a land unknown, Max is determined to follow his destiny out in the wasteland. There’s only one problem: Max is awful at staying alive. Enter Jane, a rugged wasteland veteran and the only person who can get him to his destination in one piece. After agreeing to split what they find 50/50, our duo sets off on the adventure of a lifetime, braving killer robots, zombies with class consciousness, and unhealthy levels of background radiation. What will they find at the end of their journey? How did our world end up like this? And do bunker roommates have to pay rent? Find out in Mask and Wig’s 134th Annual Production: A Doomsday in the Life!
A strange, tender love story from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce. In a waiting room, inside a tower, Isla waits for her number to be called. A young woman finally understands her fate. And a young man faces a stark decision. In the midst of a bleak and terrifying world, Arlington is a compelling ode to the human spirit and its power to endure.
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Dischord history with a night full of songs from your favorite artists, like Bruno Mars, Lizzy McAlpine, The Weeknd, Rihanna, Britney Spears and more!
The world has been waiting for the triumphant return of Penn Six. You'll laugh, we'll sing, everyone will cry. Don't miss out on the comeback show from Penn's PREMIER comedy a cappella group, this March 24th and 25th.
The Critical Armenian Studies Collective is pleased to announce "Infidelities: Armenian Studies Otherwise" (March 24 – 26, 2023), a three-day international conference about new directions in the study of Armenian memory, culture, and displacement across West Asia and the Middle East to the Americas and back. In collaboration with scholars and programs at Penn, the University of Michigan, and the Free University of Berlin, “Infidelities” brings together scholars, curators, filmmakers, visual artists, physical theatre performers, and a sound performer, all of whom work either directly in, or tangentially to, Armenian Studies, to flesh out new visions for the field, for the understanding of “Armenianness,” and for categories of identity at large. Through a series of panels, performances, film screenings, and working groups focused around the polyvalent provocation of "infidelity," the conference will focus on a spectrum of lively new directions toward which Armenian Studies is currently moving: feminist and queer interventions; cultural studies of hybrid and syncretic identities; aesthetic imaginings of Armenité beyond text and language; new materialisms and revolutionary change in a postsocialist setting; utopian futures beyond the nation-state; necropolitics, post-memory, and alternative imaginaries of the archive; as well as postcolonial critiques and visions of "reconciliation." The event will be hosted at Slought (4017 Walnut St.), with afternoon panels and film screenings at the LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St.). Open to the public. Registration is kindly requested (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infidelities-armenian-studies-otherwise-tickets-502131828817).
The world has been waiting for the triumphant return of Penn Six. You'll laugh, we'll sing, everyone will cry. Don't miss out on the comeback show from Penn's PREMIER comedy a cappella group, this March 24th and 25th.
A strange, tender love story from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce. In a waiting room, inside a tower, Isla waits for her number to be called. A young woman finally understands her fate. And a young man faces a stark decision. In the midst of a bleak and terrifying world, Arlington is a compelling ode to the human spirit and its power to endure.
Celebrate the start of Spring and get swinging with Penn Jazz! We’ll be playing lots of big band hits and original arrangements of classics and newer tunes, featuring our super-swinging orchestra and smooth singers. Join us on March 24 and 25 to hear some great live jazz! Find tickets and information at penn-jazz.com.
The world has been waiting for the triumphant return of Penn Six. You'll laugh, we'll sing, everyone will cry. Don't miss out on the comeback show from Penn's PREMIER comedy a cappella group, this March 24th and 25th.
Arts House Dance Company returns to the stage with 15 original pieces and exciting collaborations featuring contemporary, jazz, hip hop, and more styles. We cordially invite you to join us for Arts House Dance Company Presents: Reign!
Our story begins with the end of civilization. But don’t worry, like herpes, humanity just won’t go away. In the ruins of society, our hero Max longs to get away from the small world of his village. Found as a baby with a map leading to a land unknown, Max is determined to follow his destiny out in the wasteland. There’s only one problem: Max is awful at staying alive. Enter Jane, a rugged wasteland veteran and the only person who can get him to his destination in one piece. After agreeing to split what they find 50/50, our duo sets off on the adventure of a lifetime, braving killer robots, zombies with class consciousness, and unhealthy levels of background radiation. What will they find at the end of their journey? How did our world end up like this? And do bunker roommates have to pay rent? Find out in Mask and Wig’s 134th Annual Production: A Doomsday in the Life!
"Siento algo que me mueve
Un ritmo que me hace bailar"
~Selena
You think you know Latin American music? Think again. From reggaetón to chacareras, the continent is full of diverse rhythms and dances. Grab your dancing shoes and be prepared to be swept off your feet by our amazing musicians and vocalists!Dance the night away with Fuerza on March 24 and 25 from 7-8 PM in the Platt House Lobby! Los esperamos
This group has desperate motives… and when good singers become desperate, the notes come out. On one deadly quiet evening, someone has been brutally murdered. Foul play is suspected, and unfortunately, the night has taken a turn for the verse: all of the Quaker Notes are suspects. All bands must be on deck as we investigate this murder mystery. Believe it or note, this will be the show of your life… or it could end in your demise. Join us for the highly anticipated Notes Out: Who Murdered the Beat? in Prince Theatre on March 24th and 25th!
Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on the Miss Global Universe pageant. But the arrival of Ericka, a new student with undeniable talent and beauty, captures the attention of the pageant recruiter—and Paulina’s hive-minded friends. This buoyant and biting comedy explores the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls across the globe.