Join P&P board member and wine enthusiast Brad Wilson for the latest in the series of wine tastings at the club May 17 at 7:30 p.m. as we present “Wines of the Loire Valley Part 4″ — continuing our investigation of the cornucopia of wonderful wines that the Loire, known as “The Garden of France”, produces. Special surprise guest chef!!
Cost is $30 and includes appetizers. Sign up at the bar or phone the club.
KieranTimberlake, the Philadelphia architects working on the Dilworth Plaza renovation with a host of other firms, is well known in circles across the world, but a bit of a secret in its hometown.
The award-winning Philadelphia-based firm founded in 1984 by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake has worked on buildings for Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. (where President Obama’s daughters go to school); Make It Right (Brad Pitt’s Foundation in New Orleans); Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania; the New London Embassy; and a visionary project called Cellophane House, a five-story building made of transparent, recyclable materials commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art that’s aimed at reinventing the way buildings are assembled, and what they’re made of.
Join us for an Off the Record session with Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake to talk about the evolution of their work, how they envision Philadelphia’s future, and which buildings they love (and hate).
Neil Budde was named in February as the founding CEO of the Philadelphia Public Interest Information Network, a collaborative organization intended to help increase the amount and quality of news and information in the Greater Philadelphia region. It is funded through a $2.4 million grant to the Temple University School of Communications and Theater from the William Penn Foundation.
Budde is developing a strategic plan for the non-profit, which is expected to produce its own journalism while offering resources to other media outlets in the city. His efforts are being assisted by Temple’s Center for Public Interest Journalism.
Please join us on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, for a Photo Night with Peter Barberie at the Pen & Pencil Club, 1522 Latimer Street in Philadelphia. Mr. Barberie is the Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He will discuss “Early Photography in Philadelphia, which would focus on the 1840s and ’50s. The presentation will look at figures such as Robert Cornelius, Marcus Aurelius Root, and the Langenheim Brothers.
Join Don “Joe Sixpack” Russell and the fellas from Trophy Bikes as they pound told manual typewriters and craft beers.
We’ll have an array of classic typing machines from the U.S., Italy and Germany. Joe Sixpack, Beer Reporter for the Daily News, will be on hand to host a tasting of fine craft brews from those three countries. There will be plenty of typing paper on hand–so take a moment to review your beer, write a letter or a limerick. $15 ($10 w/working manual typewriter) includes beer tasting/snacks/stationery/stamped envelopes.
More info: phillytyper.com. Please RSVP @ phillytype@gmail.com. Sponsors: midtek.com and trophybikes.com.
Please join us on a Photo Night featuring American filmmaker and photographer Mark Simon. Our monthly Photo Nights begin at 8:00p.m.
Mr. Simon plans to share his work from 15 year spent in Europe including “migration and its opposite, namely the people who are anti-immigration.”
Visit Mark Simon’s website: http://www.simon-mark.com for more information about his work.
For more info: http://philadelphiaconference.org/
Join P&P board member and wine enthusiast Brad Wilson for the latest in the series of wine tastings at the club Apr. 12 at 7:30 p.m. as we present “Off the beaten path in California” — a look at some of the innovations and changes in the Golden State’s viticulture.
Cost is $30 and includes appetizers. Sign up at the bar or phone the club.
Please join us at the Pen & Pencil Club, at 1522 Latimer Street, on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 for a Photo Night featuring the work of Philadelphia photographer Jessica Kourkounis. The event will start at 8pm and Kourkounis will share work from her series “Life in the 7400 Block.
More info: http://philadelphiaconference.org/
Please Note: This is an event for Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Chat with award-winning performer and playwright, Dan Hoyle, as he creates a brand new theater piece about about the news — how it is reported, who disseminates it, and how it impacts our lives. First Person Arts, Philadelphia’s premiere storytelling organization, has commissioned Dan to create an original theater work based on interviews with journalists and news consumers. The resulting play will take audiences behind the scenes and explore how and by whom the news is reported, and how evolving practices and technology impact what we come to know.
Join Dan for a special meet and greet at The Pen and Pencil Club. He’ll talk about the project in general and then open it up to an informal discussion with Philly’s journalism community. Who knows? Your story could become a part of Dan’s finished play.
Learn more about this exciting new project at thenews.firstpersonarts.org. The commission of The News is made possible thanks to a planning grant from the Philadelphia Theater Initiative (part of The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage).
