Pen & Pencil Club

Secrets of the Barnes Foundation to be Revealed at P&P

chris.brennan — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:57:27 +0000

The Barnes Foundation opens on the Parkway on May 19^th and, guaranteed, there will be long lines.

If you can’t get in there, be here on May 30^th at 7:30 p.m. for the last Wednesday program of the season.

The coverage of the Barnes will give you a lot of information, but will it tell you everything? Will it tell you (for instance)

+ How world-famous Bucks County novelist James Michener deceived Dr. Barnes?

+ What the Hunchback of Notre Dame (Charles Laughton) has in common with Dr. Barnes?

+ Why Albert Einstein turned down an invitation to see the collection?

These will be revealed by Dr. Sheldon Weintraub, who leveraged a lifetime interest in art into becoming a Barnes Foundation docent. He is a walking encyclopedia, filled with detailed information about the largest private collection of post-Impressionist and African art in the world. But he is also a stand-up comic and knows how to deliver a talk (with PowerPoint presentation) that is both educational and entertaining. He will cover the “secrets,” the collection, how to best view and understand it, and the battle surrounding the move of the collection from Merion to the Parkway.

As with all events, it is non-smoking and you have to be a member or a guest of a member to attend.

Neil Budde of the Philadelphia Public Interest Information Network @ Temple U.

chris.brennan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:53:16 +0000

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.

Philadelphia Conference Photo Night with Peter Barberie

chris.brennan — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:53:51 +0000

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.

Drinking & Typing – An evening of manual typewriting and craft beers

chris.brennan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:00:02 +0000

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.

First Person Arts playwright Dan Hoyle on his developing play about the news

chris.brennan — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:46:46 +0000

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).

Painted Bride Quarterly StorySlam!

chris.brennan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:36:14 +0000

http://pbq.drexel.edu/pbq/

Painted Bride Quarterly StorySlam!

chris.brennan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:34:32 +0000

http://pbq.drexel.edu/pbq/

Philadelphia Conference Photo Night with Mark Simon

chris.brennan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:32:59 +0000

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/

Philadelphia Conference Photo Night

chris.brennan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:30:31 +0000

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/

Dilworth Plaza renovation firm architects Steve Kieran and James Timberlake

chris.brennan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:16:17 +0000

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).