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Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retro- spective; six decades of sculpture, paint- ing, video, performance, film and instal- lation; ICA. Through August 11. March Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston; sheds light on the 2010 stand off between Jamaican security forces and A T P E N N a drug trafficker, resulting in civilian death; Penn Museum. Through December 2. Moundbuilders: Ancient Artifacts of Wherever this symbol appears, images are North America; explores Native Ameri- available on our website, almanac.upenn.edu/at-penn-calendar can moundbuilding through artifacts, archival materials and excavation records; Penn Museum. Through ACADEMIC CALENDAR Burrison Gallery, Inn at Penn: December 2. free; Mon.-Fri., 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; http:// Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to 2 Spring Term Break. Through March 10. tinyurl.com/kaevlec Display; behind-the-scenes view of arti- 11 Classes Resume. Esther Klein Gallery: free; Mon.- fact storage and active conservation of Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; http://estherkleingal- Museum objects; Penn Museum. 18 Advance Registration for Fall Term lery.tumblr.com and Summer Sessions. Through March 31. ICA: free; hours: https://icaphila.org Ongoing Dance Theatre of Harlem performs at Annenberg Center. See On Stage. International House Philadelphia: Audubon’s Birds of America; 1st CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES free; hours: http://ihousephilly.org Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Department of Music 19 Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Kroiz Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts Imagery, Narrative, Propaganda: Info: www.sas.upenn.edu/music/ Disability, and the Stories We Tell Our- 1 Storytime at the Arboretum; fun Library: free; Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Artists in the German Democratic Repub- 16 PSC + TAK Ensemble; 8 p.m.; rm. selves; George Estreich; 6:30 p.m. and engaging reading sessions with local info: http://tinyurl.com/hvrlct4 lic; rm. 500, Annenberg School. 208, ARCH. Frankétienne & Asselin Charles in librarians; 10:30 a.m.; free w/admission; 20 Morris Arboretum: hours, prices: Marian Anderson on the World 20 Marian Anderson Performance conversation with A. Véronique Charles; register: https://tinyurl.com/y3dvk3cf morrisarboretum.org Stage; Marian Anderson Gallery, Van 6 p.m. (Morris Arboretum). Program Recital; 8 p.m.; Rose Recital Penn Museum: $15/adults; $13/ Pelt-Dietrich Library. Hall, Fisher-Bennett Hall. Sympathy for the Traitor; Chris Dance Theatre of Harlem; Student seniors; $10/children; free/members, Middle East Galleries; ancient Mes- 21 Discovery Series for grades K-12; 10:30 21 John Cage: Sonatas and Inter- Clarke; 6:30 p.m. PennCard holders and children under 5; opotamian societies that gave rise to the ludes; Amy Williams, composer; 8 p.m.; a.m.; Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg world’s first cities; Penn Museum. 25 A People’s History of Heaven; Tues.-Sun, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; first Wed., 10 University Lutheran, 3637 Chestnut St. Mathangi Subramanian; 6:30 p.m. Center; tickets and info: www.annenberg- a.m.-8 p.m.; www.penn.museum Native American Voices: The Peo- center.org (Annenberg Center). Also see Slought: free; Tues.-Fri., noon-5 ple—Here and Now; Penn Museum. 30 CAMRA Media Festival Perfor- 28 Bryan Washington in Conversation On Stage. p.m.; info: slought.org Out of Time; 12 photos or paintings mance; 5:15 p.m.; Rose Recital Hall, with James Ijames; 7 p.m. 16 Shaun the Sheep; animated film; 2 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library: free; by artists and dancer Raphael Xavier; Fisher-Bennett Hall. p.m.; Lightbox Film Center, IHP; tickets: hours: info: http://www.library.upenn. Lobby, Annenberg Center. World Cafe Live SPECIAL EVENTS https://lightboxfilmcenter.org/programs/ edu/vanpelt People, Plants & Place: The Story Performances daily. For a complete list- shaun-the-sheep5 Also see Films. Wistar: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; of Morris Arboretum; lower gallery, ing, see: http://philly.worldcafelive.com/ 16 Printmaker Pop-Up Market; info: https://wistar.org Morris Arboretum. Philly-based printmakers set up shop with Penn Museum We Are Not Alone; exhibit of 10 works for sale; noon-3 p.m.; Arthur Ross Tickets: www.penn.museum/ Upcoming large-scale illustrations by cartoonist and ON STAGE Gallery. 5 Exploring Aesop’s Fables; for fami- 8 Spots of Time; woodcuts by John D. freelance writer Dwayne Booth; Forum, Energy Reduction Challenge Day; lies with children ages 3 to 6; 10:30 a.m.; 15 The Book of Mermen; Mask and 20 Taylor; opening reception: 5 p.m.; Annenberg School. Wig’s 131st Annual Production, an un- 24-hour campus-wide challenge where $10/one adult one child, $5/members one Burrison Gallery. Through April 12. Penn Museum Tours forgettable, underwater musical; 8 p.m.; percentage reduction in energy use is adult one child, $2/each additional children; Patrick Dougherty Installation converted into a monetary donation to tickets: http://tinyurl.com/y4wt6oek 12 Info: www.penn.museum/visit/tours The Mask and Wig Club House; 310 S. Creation; three weeks of building site- Quince St.; $35/adults, $15/students; CURF; part of Power Down Challenge, Music of the World; explore the Gallery Tours; Saturdays-Sundays; 9 specific abstract sculpture; Morris Arbo- 1:30 p.m.; free w/admission. tickets: www.maskandwig.com/ March 18-22; info: https://www.sustain- galleries on a family friendly tour, design retum. Weekdays through March 28; Also March 16, 22, 23, 29; March 30, ability.upenn.edu/participate/penn- your own drum and pick up a scavenger Global Guides Public Tours; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays; 2:30 p.m.; free w/ 6 and 9 p.m. community/power-down-challenge (Penn hunt; 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; free w/admission. Sustainability). 30 Patrick Dougherty Installation; admission. Annenberg Center viewing of stickwork and sapling sculp- Highlights Tour: Mandarin Info and tickets: Penn Museum CONFERENCES ture; grand opening celebration: 11 a.m.; Language; Fridays; 2:30 p.m.; free w/ www.annenbergcenter.org/events/ Info: www.penn.museum/ Morris Arboretum. Ongoing. 1 Penn Laser Symposium; 8 a.m.- admission. 1 Abbey Theatre: Two Pints; Philadel- 9 Member Appreciation Day; 10 5 p.m.; register: www.dental.upenn.edu/ Now phia premiere of the hilarious Roddy a.m.-5 p.m.; tour museum and lab facili- pennlaser2019 (Penn Dental). And So the Story Goes: Innovations FILMS Doyle play; 8 p.m. Blarney Stone, 3929 ties, including new 3D printing technol- in Storytelling; Penn Museum. Through 7 The Global Turn in Medieval Women in Sci Fi Movie Series: The Sansom St. Also March 3, 3 and 7 p.m. ogy; free/members. Studies; annual meeting of the Medieval March 3. 13 Dance Theatre of Harlem; world CAAM Up-Close: A Virtual Tour; Here on Earth; photography by Hunger Games; 5 p.m.; Visualization Academy of America; 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Space, Education Commons (Libraries). premeire of a Robert Garland work; behind the scenes of the Center for the Barbara Barbour of her travels around the 8 p.m; Zellerbach Theatre. Also March 2, Analysis of Archaeological Materials various locations; info: http://tinyurl. Concerning Violence; 6 p.m.; com/ybpxknzx (Center for Italian Stud- world; Burrison Gallery. Through March 29 2 and 8 p.m. through an onsite virtual tour; 10:30 a.m.; 6. Slought; register: slought.org/resources/ Penn Museum; free/members; register: ies). Through March 9. concerning_violence (Slought, SP2, Cin- 7 Vessels; seven women explore Lens on Latin America; innovative music of the Middle Passage; 8 p.m; https://tinyurl.com/y4lydcpl 14 Is Russia Undermining Democracy photography inspired by themes emerg- ema & Media Studies). in the West?; 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; rm. 250, Harold Prince Theatre. Also March 8 and 28 Penn Students: Escape the Mu- ing from Latin America during the 60s 9, 8 p.m.; March 10, 7 p.m. seum; students can solve clues, answer PCPSE; register: https://tinyurl.com/ and 70s; IHP. Through March 22. Bioethics Film Festival y6sr9k9u (Foreign Policy Research Insti- IHP; 6 p.m.; reception: 5:30 p.m.; free. 15 Dance Heginbotham; NY-based riddles and escape from one gallery to the Citizen Salon; crowd-sourced Tickets: www.pennbioethicsfilmfest.org next; 7 p.m.; free w/PennCard. tute, Russian and East European Studies, exhibit; Arthur Ross Gallery. Through contemporary dance troupe; 8 p.m.; Penn-Temple European Studies Collo- March 24. 26 M*A*S*H. Harold Prince Theatre. Also March 16, 30 Nowruz Festival; ancient festival quium). Print Show: Alyson Del Pino, The Hospital. 2 p.m. marking the beginning of spring; 1-8 27 p.m.; free w/admission from 1-5 p.m.; 16 TEDxPenn; a TED conference with Bronwyn Katz and Heidi Lee; Brodsky 28 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. 16 Michael Londra and the Celtic Fire; the polysemic theme of “AND”; 1 p.m.; Gallery, Kelly Writers House. Through lively evening of Irish music and step $15, $10/members from 5-8 p.m. Irvine Auditorium; tickets: www.tedx- March 29. Lightbox Film Center at IHP dancing; 8 p.m.; Zellerbach Theatre. penn.com (Wharton, Nursing, Engineer- In Search of Meaning: Memory Info and tickets: SPORTS ing, SAS). Becomes Us; Patricia Moss-Vreeland’s https://lightboxfilmcenter.org/ READINGS AND SIGNINGS (W) Basketball vs. Harvard; 7 p.m. 22 State of Asian American Studies: work illuminates the role memory plays 1 Deep Dive: Third Cinema; 6 p.m. 1 Undergraduate Advisory Board Confer- in relation to who we are; Esther Klein El Cine Quema: Program 1; featur- 21 The Anatomy of a Tenure Case; 2 (W) Lacrosse vs. Yale; 1 p.m. ence; 9 a.m.; https://tinyurl.com/y7y- Gallery. Through March 30. ing The Land Burns; Pottery Makers, and Stephen Senturia; noon; Hourglass (W) Basketball vs.