Hall: free; Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural ACADEMIC CALENDAR Morris Arboretum: $14; $12/seniors, Archives. Through February 13, 2011 $7/kids 3-17, students; free/members and (Design; Library). 10 Fall Term Classes End. kids under 3; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Set Pieces; a restaging of art works 11 Reading Days. Through December 14. Penn Museum: $10/adults; $7 seniors from the collection of the Philadelphia 15 Final Examinations. Through (65+); $6/children (6-17) and full-time stu- Museum of Art, including treasures from December 22. dents with ID; free/members & PennCard the Museum’s storage; ICA. Through holders; Tues./Thur.-Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; February 13, 2011. 22 Fall Semester Ends. Righteous Dopefiend; photographs December Wed. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; www.penn.museum. CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES The Rotunda: free; (215) 573-3234. and other media examine the experiences Slought Foundation: free; Thur.-Sat., of homeless drug users; Penn Museum; A T P E N N Morris Arboretum 1-6 p.m.; www.slought.org. Through May 2011. RSVP: (215) 247-5777 ext. 125 or 156. Van Pelt-Dietrich Library: free/ Water as Creator and Destroyer Spe- Wherever these symbols appear, more images or audio/video clips are Info.: www.morrisarboretum.org. ID required; info.: http://events.library. cial Display; ancient Mesopotamian arti- available on our website, www.upenn.edu/almanac/. 19 Kids’ Holiday Centerpiece; make a upenn.edu/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi. facts including a famous Sumerian “flood tablet”; Penn Museum. Through May 2011. holiday decoration to keep or give as a Upcoming Annenberg Center gift; ages 5-12; $33, $30/members; 1:30- Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and FILMS Tickets: www.annenbergcenter.org MFA Sculpture Seminar Exhibition; Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania 3 p.m. 1 ; Remember Me Meyerson Gallery (Lower), Meyerson historic and contemporary photographs, 1 The Old Man and the Sea; 7 p.m.; 2 ; rock opera collabora- Penn Museum Hall. Through December 8. archaeological objects, traditional arts and M20 Seminar rm., Harrison College tion with Parson’s Dance & East Village www.penn.museum. Opera Company; 7:30 p.m.; $28-48; Info.: 3 Senior Thesis Preview; Charles Ad- family heirlooms; Penn Museum. Through House (Cinema Studies; YoW). Oh Maya!; activities inspired by the July 2011 Toy Story 3; 7 p.m.; Heyer Sky Lounge, Zellerbach Theatre. Also December 3, 8 12 dams Gallery. Through December 9. 5 December 4 ancient Maya of Guatemala; 1-4 p.m. Color, Form and Texture of Trees; Harrison College House (Cinema Studies). p.m.; , 2 & 8 p.m. Peanut Butter & Jams Now photography by Jim Smith highlighting Center for East Asian Studies 16 Mummenschanz; Swiss performance Riddle of the Sphinx: Recital in Four the beauty and diversity of trees; Upper Screenings at 6:30 p.m. in rm. 402, Co- group; 7:30 p.m.; $28-48; Zellerbach Family-friendly 11:30 a.m. Saturday Dominions; video, sculpture, drawings, concert series at World Cafe Live. Info.: Gallery, Morris Arboretum. Ongoing. hen Hall. Info.: www.ceas.sas.upenn.edu. Theatre. Also December 17, 8 p.m.; De- www.worldcafelive.com. artifacts and ceremony examine the life The Midwestern Experience: Ormandy cember 18, 2 & 8 p.m. of abolitionist John Brown; Amistad 7 Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). The Cat’s Pajamas; kid-rock with in Minneapolis; recalls the famed conduc- 4 Gallery, W.E.B. Du Bois College House; tor’s tenure with the Minneapolis Sympho- 14 The Host (2006). READINGS/SIGNINGS a musical comedy twist; $10/adults, $7/ info. & RSVP: [email protected]. International House children. ny Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy Gallery, edu. Through December 2 (Du Bois). Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Ongoing. Free or discounted admission for I-House Kelly Writers House 11 Milkshake; rock music duo; $12/ It Is the Mercy; Joseph Lozano makes members; $8, $6 students/seniors. Info.: Events in the Arts Cafe. adults, $10/children. painting installations that create a world Whenever Wednesday at ICA www.ihousephilly.org. Info.: www.writing.upenn.edu/wh. of abstract objects based on narratives of Lectures, films, book signings and other del Extasis al Arrebato: Documents/ CONFERENCES water and the human relationship to it; events. 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 1 1 The Cloud Over the Floating World: Itineraries; 7 p.m. Tokyo’s Modern Ukiyo in the Age of the ICA. Through December 3. 1 Conversation with Erin Shirreff. 1 Back to the Future: Explorations in Valence 2 Appropriations/ Great Super 8; 7 p.m. Internet; talk by Ned Eisenberg; 6 p.m. Communication and History ; InLiquid Art and Design Travelogue–Singapore; exploration of ; various Video Installation by Stephen Scott Smith 8 3 Animated Experiments: Rhythm, 2 RealArts@Penn; noon. panelists; 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; rm. 109, Annen- Singapore’s art with Weng Choy Lee. Light and Color; 7 p.m. We All Feel Like It; reading by vari- www.asc.upenn.edu/ that explores movement and deconstruc- berg School; info: tion of image into geometry through Ongoing at the Penn Museum Painting/Movement; 9 p.m. ous Writers House affiliated poets; 6 p.m. backtothefuture (Annenberg). stop-motion, morph and animation; ICA. Amarna: Ancient Egypt’s Place in Investigation/Metacinema; 5 p.m. 6 Poetry in 1960; symposium; 6:30 p.m. the Sun; Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, 4 2 Making Smaller Better: Using Proven Through December 3. Enraptured; 7 p.m. 7 Reading by Greg Djanikian’s Poetry Practices to Inform Urban Right-Sizing in Erin Shirreff: Still, Flat, and Far; vid- Greeks and Romans; Canaan & Ancient Israel; Living in Balance: The Universe 8 Archive Fever: Red Channels – Film Class; 5:30 p.m. Pennsylvania; Do the seeds of city renewal eo, sculpture and works on paper conjuring with Live Score; 7 p.m. necessarily lie with growth and expansion– familiar objects, sites and recollections; of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and Apache; 8 Reading by Lynn Levin’s Poetry or can smaller be better?; Toni Griffin, Har- ICA. Through December 5. Mesoamerica; The Egyptian Mummy: 15 Le Amiche (The Girlfriends); 7 p.m. Class; 6 p.m. vard University; 6 p.m.; rm. B1, Meyerson Mineral Spirits: Anne Chu and Secrets & Science; Buddhism: History & 13 Reading by Jamie-Lee Josselyn’s Hall. Also December 3 (Design). Matthew Monahan; explores the artists’ Diversity of a Great Tradition; Africa. MEETINGS Memoir Writing Class; 6 p.m. distinctive take on the figure through P.M. @ Penn Museum Penn Bookstore EXHIBITS sculpture and drawings; ICA. Through Wednesday evening programs. Gallery 7 PPSA; noon; rm. 302, Van-Pelt Dietrich Info.: www.upenn.edu/bookstore. Library; RSVP: [email protected]. December 5. tours at 5:30 p.m., followed by programs Book Club Meeting: White Teeth by Admission Donations and Hours Six Plus Six 1 Amistad Gallery, ; video installation based at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 8 University Council; 4 p.m.; Bodek Zadie Smith; noon. W.E.B Du Bois Col- on the myth of Persephone; International ucouncil@ lege House; free, noon-9 p.m.; PennCard 1 Life and Culture of the Romans and Lounge, Houston Hall; RSVP: Selling the Fountain of Youth: How House. Through December 24. Etruscans. pobox.upenn.edu the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease required. Holiday Garden Railway Display Arthur Ross Gallery ; out of Getting Old and Made Millions; , Fisher Fine Arts grand opening November 26, 1-3 p.m.; 8 Travel Through Ancient Egypt. MUSIC Library: free; Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Arlene Weintraub; 6 p.m. Morris Arboretum. Through January 2, 15 Live Music with Ayca Yesim; Tour: Penn Improvisational Jazz Workshop; Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 2011 Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman 2 Knack Puppies: A Complete Guide Burrison Gallery . open jazz jam for musicians of all abili- , University Club at Machinato Causa; result of an artist- Lands. to Raising a Happy Puppy in a Positive Penn: free; Mon.-Fri., 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; ties; Sundays, 4-6 p.m.; rm. 413, Fisher Environment; Joan Capuzzi; 5 p.m. in-residency project with Marisha Si- Drop-in Yoga Class; Tour: Classical Bennett Hall; Info.: [email protected]. Sat.-Sun., 7 a.m.-1 p.m. 22 The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radi- Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, mons, Peter Hanley and Laureen Griffen; World of Romans, Etruscans and Greeks. 2 Penn Singers Present: Parade; 8 p.m.; 7 Esther Klein Gallery. Through January 2, calism; Dan Berger; 6 p.m. Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall: free; Iron Gate Theatre; $12/door, $9/Locust Walk. 2011 (Breadboard). Penn Museum Tours Also December 4, 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. (PAC). 8 What’s an American Doing Here? Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Wolf Man Paints!; drawings and Tours begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Warden Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, 3600 PennYo (Chinese a cappella) presents: Reflections on Travel in the Third World; paintings by Sigmund Freud’s famous Garden Entrance. Tour availabilty and 3 Stan Diamond; 6 p.m. Market St.: free; Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 topics subject to change. Info.: www. Yoception; 5:45 p.m.; Harold Prince The- www.kleinartgallery.org patient Sergius Pankejeff; Slought Foun- 16 Higher Education and the American p.m.; Info.: . dation. Through January 22, 2011. penn.museum. atre, Annenberg Center; $9/door, $7/Locust Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA): Walk. Also December 4, 8:45 p.m. (PAC). Dream: Success and its Discontents; Mar- Archaeologists and Travelers in Otto- 4 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt.