ACADEMIC CALENDAR Now 6 Highlights of the Collection. Basics Trilogy: Water Food Shelter; 12 Archaeology: Study of the Past. Spring Break. Through March 13. experimental activist video group Termite 5 TV Collective’s latest series of shows 13 Ancient Egyptian Funerary Practices. 14 Classes Resume. based on basic human essentials, water, 21 Advance Registration for Fall and food and shelter; West Gallery, Interna- FILMS Summer Sessions. Through April 3. tional House. Through March 4. March A Time to Pause: Art as Healing; art- Center for East Asian Studies CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES ists Marc Bernstein and Patricia A. Bar- Info.: (215) 573-4203 rera; East Gallery, International House. 3 Shugendo Now; 5 p.m.; rm. 401, A T P E N N World Cafe Live: Fisher-Bennett Hall. Peanut Butter & Jams Through March 4. Info.: www.worldcafelive.com Houseless Beautiful; Fox Art Gallery. Cinema Studies Through March 12. Wherever these symbols appear, more images or audio/video clips are Shows begin 11:30 a.m.; Tickets: $10/ 2 The Many Names of Water Film available on our website, www.upenn.edu/almanac/. adults, $7/kids. Nikon Small World Exhibit; award- Series—Ponyo; 7 p.m.; M20 Seminar winning photography through the micro- room, Harrison College House. 5 Bill and Tammy’s Children’s World scope; Wistar Institute. Through March Music Express. 13. 12 Ne Change Rien; 7 p.m.; The 12 The Okee Dokee Brothers; folk music. Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry; Ibrahim Theater; International House. 13 Kids Rock for Kids Benefit. architecture that demonstrates Tyng’s 16 Open Water; 7 p.m.; M20 Seminar 26 Moona Luna; Latin-alternatives. lifelong interest in Platonic solids; ICA. room, Harrison College House. Through March 20. 20 Eclipse; 7 p.m.; Heyer Sky Lounge; CONFERENCES Emerging Artists—Project Space; Harrison College House. curated by Whitney Lauder Curatorial 30 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; 17 Maoism and the State of Indian Left; Gellow Virginia Solomon; ICA. Through 7 p.m.; M20 Seminar room, Harrison 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; McNeil Center (South March 20. College House. Asia Center). Shary Boyle & Emily Duke: The Il- 18 Historicizing Sex: A State of the Field luminations Project; ICA. Through College Houses Film Festival Conference in Early Modern Gender and March 20. 21 Day 1; 7:30 p.m.; McClelland Hall, Sexuality Studies; 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Con- the Quadrangle. McNeil Center (English). temporary Art; over 30 prints, drawings, 22 Day 2; 7:30 p.m.; Multi-purpose Foreign Trends on American photographs, and paintings which offer a Room, Du Bois College House. Soil Symposium; RSVP: stephkao@ glimpse into the post-Cultural Revolution era in China; Arthur Ross Gallery. 23 Day 3; 7:30 p.m.; Heyer Sky Lounge, design.upenn.edu. Through March 19 Harrison College House. (PennDesign). Through April 3. Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Tetons: 24 Day 4; screening of the finalists; 7:30 19 Silk Road Symposium: Reconfiguring Photographs by Jerry Porter; photographs p.m.; Rave University City 6 Theatre. the Silk Road: New Research on East-West of America’s National Parks; Burrison Exchange in Antiquity; $45, $35/Museum International House Gallery. Through April 4. Tickets: www.ihousephilly.com members, free/PennCard; 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Year of Water; collection of ancient Penn Museum (Museum). See Exhibits. Mesopotamian artifacts; Penn Museum. 12 Ne Change Rien; French. 29 The Biology and Therapy of Through May. Latin American Film Series Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE); 8 a.m.- Righteous Dopefiend; photographs Film Studies Seminar Room, Van Pelt- 4 p.m.; Colket Translational Research and other media examine the experiences Dietrich Library Center; 6:30 p.m. Building, rm. 1200A, CHOP; register of homeless drug users; Penn Museum. El Secreto de Sus Ojos. by March 18, www.med.upenn.edu/ Through May. 1 jointcenterfordighealth/retreat_register. Water as Creator and Destroyer Spe- 15 Estacion Central. shtml (Penn/CHOP Center for Digestive, cial Display; ancient Mesopotamian arti- 22 La Deuda. Liver & Pancreatic Medicine). facts including a famous Sumerian “flood 29 Garaje Olimpo. tablet;” Penn Museum. Through May. EXHIBITS Secrets of the Silk Road; the history MEETINGS of the desert landscape of the Tarim Admission Donations and Hours Basin, located in Western China, and the Arthur Ross Gallery 2 University Council Open Forum; , Fisher Fine Arts mystery of the peoples who lived there; 4-6 p.m.; Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall; Above: Pilobolus Dance Theatre brings their innovative dance and weight Library: free; Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Penn Museum. Through June 5. See RSVP: [email protected] sharing techniques to the Zellerbach Theatre March 3-6. See On Stage. Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. Conferences. Burrison Gallery, University Club at 8 PPSA Open Board Meeting; open to Fang! The Killing Tooth; explores to monthly paid exempt university staff; Penn: free; Mon.-Fri., 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; the history of the vampire myth and of $34-$58; Zellerbach Theatre. Also March 16 Grad Fair; cap & gown pick- Sat.-Sun., 7 a.m.-1 p.m. noon-1 p.m.; rm. 302, Van Pelt-Dietrich 4, 5 at 8 p.m., March 5, 6 at 2 p.m. the “killing” canine; Penn Museum. Library; RSVP: http://penn-ppsa.org/ up, diploma frames, class rings, Penn Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, 3600 Through July. 12 Merge: An Evening of Short Works; merchandise and paraphernalia; 9 a.m.-5 Market St.: free; Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and 17 WPPSA General Meeting; 12:30- 8 p.m.; Harold Prince Theatre; $12. p.m.; Penn Bookstore. Through March 18. p.m.; Info.: www.kleinartgallery.org. Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania; 1:30 p.m.; Bishop White Room, Houston International Women’s Day 2011; Fox Art Gallery, Claudia Cohen photographs, archaeological objects, tra- Hall; all weekly paid employees READINGS/SIGNINGS a global celebration of the economic, Hall; Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ditional arts and family heirlooms; Penn welcome; info.: www.upenn.edu/wpsa political, and social achievements of Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) : Museum. Through July. 23 WXPN Policy Board Meeting; noon; Kelly Writers House women; 7 p.m.; International House. free; Wed. 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Thu.-Fri. 11 The Midwestern Experience: Or- WXPN; RSVP: (215) 898-0628 Events in the Arts Café unless otherwise RSVP: [email protected] (South a.m.-6 p.m.; Sat.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; mandy in Minneapolis; exhibit on Eugene noted. RSVP to [email protected] Asia Center). www.icaphila.org. Ormandy’s life; Eugene Ormandy Gallery, MUSIC where noted. International House: hours vary; 20 Walk for Water for Haiti; 9-11 a.m.; Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Through Fall. Reading by Jay Kirk; non-fiction for info. or to volunteer, contact: sara. info.: www.ihousephilly.org. Color, Form and Texture of Trees; Penn Improvisational Jazz Workshop; 1 Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural open jazz jam for musicians of all abilities; writer; 6 p.m. [email protected] (Nursing). photography by Jim Smith highlighting Along the Silk Road Culture Day; Archives, Fisher Fine Arts Library, lower the beauty and diversity of trees; Upper Sundays, 4-6 p.m.; rm. 413, Fisher Bennett 2 Feminism Presents Karen Finley; 26 level: free; Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Hall; Info.: [email protected]. contemporary performing artist; 6 p.m. part of PECO World Culture Days; free Gallery, Morris Arboretum. Ongoing. with Museum admission; 11 a.m.; Penn Meyerson Hall Gallery, Meyerson John Cage: How to Get Started; 3 Whenever We Feel Like It Present Hall: free; Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Annenberg Center Museum (Museum). Slought Foundation. Ongoing. Tickets: www.annenbergcenter.org Elizabeth Robinson and Rachel Blau Morris Arboretum: $14; $12/seniors, DuPlessis; 8 p.m. $7/kids 3-17, students; free/members and Whenever Wednesday at ICA 18 Ladysmith Black Mambazo; South SPORTS Lectures, films, book signings and other African influences with Christian gospel 14 Johanna Drucker: A Conversation kids under 3; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. about Aesthetics and Materiality; 6:30 p.m. Tickets & venues: www.pennathletics.com Penn Museum: $10/adults; $7 se- events; 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. music; 8 p.m.; $20-$50; Zellerbach niors (65+); $6/children (6-17) and full- 2 Conversation: On Anne Tyng. Theatre. 15 Oulipolooza; readings about the 1 (M) Lacrosse vs. Bucknell; 7:30 p.m. time students with ID; free/members & Altan; traditional Irish music; 8 p.m.; Oulipo, a group of experimental French (W) Tennis vs. Binghamton; 4 p.m. 16 Lecture: On Shary Boyle & Emily 19 poets; 6 p.m. 2 PennCard holders; Tues./Thur.-Sun. 10 Duke by Virginia Solomon: The Illumina- $20-$45; Zellerbach Theatre. (W) Basketball vs. Harvard A Lunch Talk with David Bianculli 4 ; 7 p.m. a.m.-5 p.m.; Wed. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; visit tions Project. 22 Ella the Musical; Ella Fitzgerald’s 16 ; (M) Lacrosse vs. Lafayette; 7 p.m. www.penn.museum for extended hours. life; 7:30 p.m.; $20-$50; dinner music noon; RSVP. Gymnastics vs. Towson; 7 p.m. Slought Foundation: free; Thur.-Sat., Ongoing at the Penn Museum Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Amarna: Ancient Egypt’s Place in package available for Penne Restaurant, 5 (W) Lacrosse vs. North Carolina; noon. 1-6 p.m.; www.slought.org. 6 p.m., $50; Zellerbach Theatre. Also Anything Goes!; 8 p.m. Van Pelt-Dietrich Library: free/ the Sun; Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, (W) Basketball vs. Dartmouth; 7 p.m.