Pen & Pencil Club

Wine tasting with Brad Wilson: On the (wine) way to Cape May

chris.brennan — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:53:01 +0000

Join P&P treasurer and wine enthusiast Brad Wilson for the latest in the series of wine tastings at the club June 20 at 7:30 p.m. as we present “On the (Wine) Way to Cape May” — the wines of New Jersey’s southernmost county, Cape May.

Cost is $30 and includes appetizers. Sign up at the bar or phone the club.

Painted Bride Quarterly StorySlam! with Malwina Andruczyk

chris.brennan — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:50:31 +0000

On May 23 at 7:30 p.m., we will host another memorable Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am at the Pen & Pencil Club, with our special guest, Malwina Andruczyk. She will leave us in stitches (from laughter, of course!) before handing over the mic to Andrew Keller, who will get the boisterous crowd to put down their drinks and pick up their pens. OK, who are we kidding? Knowing our crowd, drinks will be in one hand, pens in the other.

Enjoy this interactive, one-of-a-kind, improv, bawdy, too-hard-to-explain writing experience free of charge! We’ll bring the paper and pens; you bring your sharp minds and creativity!

The Parx Casino Philadelphia Cycling Classic

chris.brennan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:50:51 +0000

When it was announced that the Philadelphia Bike Race was canceled this year, a group in Manayunk cried out for help. With assistance from U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, a new bike race, the Parx Casino Philly Cycling Classic was created, to be held on June 2, 2013.

Race organizers Richard Adler and Alan Morrison will visit the The Pen & Pencil Club to discuss the trial and tribulations of dealing with the old race’s legacy and building support for and logistics of the new 12-mile race.

Life as a Philly journalist: The good, the bad & the stories you only tell at the bar

chris.brennan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:39:18 +0000

This will be a panel discussion, featuring:

* Brian Hickey, Newsworks WHYY & Deadspin.com, formerly of CityPaper

* Elizabeth Wellington, Philadelphia Inquirer fashion writer

* Barbara Laker, a Pulitzer Prize winner from the Philadelphia Daily News

Temple University Basketball Coach Fran Dunphy

chris.brennan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:35:31 +0000

The first man to ever lead two Big Five basketball programs, Fran Dunphy did the local collegiate basketball trifecta – coaching at La Salle, Penn and now Temple – but the modest Dunphy says he’s “been lucky in my career.” He says he takes his job, but not himself, seriously and plans to talk about people who have inspired him. It’s clear from his winning record that he knows how to inspire others. He might be encouraged to talk about his long friendship with St. Joe’s coach Phil Martelli and offer his opinion of fired Rutgers coach Mike Rice.

Off The Record with City Council President Darrell Clarke

chris.brennan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:21:35 +0000

City Council President Darrell Clarke, a veteran of Council’s 5th District, is 16 months into his new job running the big show from the fourth floor of City Hall. Join him Wednesday, May 1 when he comes to speak off-the-record about working with Mayor Nutter, navigating the Actual Value Initiative to reset property values in the city and managing the 17-member City Council.

PLEASE NOTE the early start-time of 6:30 p.m. for this event.

Philadelphia Conference Photo Night: Paul Strand’s Modernisms

chris.brennan — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:07:09 +0000

In 2010, the Philadelphia Museum of Art committed to acquire the core collection of photographs from the Paul Strand Archive, owned since the artist’s death by the Aperture Foundation. This acquisition of nearly 3,000 prints, combined with the PMA’s previous holdings, will give the Museum the world’s definitive collection of this great artist’s work. The photographs span Strand’s long career, beginning with early Pictorialist experiments from 1910 and concluding with his last pictures of his garden taken at the end of his life in France in the mid-1970s.

Accordingly, the Museum is planning a large retrospective exhibition of Strand’s photographs and films, which will open in Philadelphia in the Fall of 2014. Ms. Bock holds a four-year curatorial appointment for which she is researching every aspect of Strand’s life and art as well as cataloging the photographs in preparation for this exhibition. Her talk will provide a sneak peek of this exciting exhibition, and will offer an overview of Strand’s career with a particular emphasis on his work in the 1920s-40s.

More information on the Philadelphia Conference can be found here.

P&P Wine Tasting — “Bargains of Bordeaux” — with Brad Wilson

chris.brennan — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:32:28 +0000

Join P&P treasurer and wine enthusiast Brad Wilson for the latest in the series of wine tastings at the club May 2 at 7:30 p.m. as we present “Bargains of Bordeaux” — good value deals in a region with often stratospheric prices.

Cost is $30 and includes appetizers. Sign up at the bar or phone the club.

Sister Mary Scullion of Project HOME

chris.brennan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:59:52 +0000

Sister Mary Scullion is easily the best known homeless advocate in Philadelphia and among the most widely respected in the country. In 2009, Time magazine called the cofounder and director of Project HOME one of the world’s most influential people. In recent years, Scullion and the broad social services industry have been consistently in the news: from the city’s proposed outdoor feeding ban to national healthcare reform to income inequity and affordable housing. Her work touches nearly every corner of Philadelphia politics, government and institutional behavior for the most vulnerable residents. Come hear Scullion share remarks on what is under-reported, distorted or misunderstood about homelessness, its roots and possible solutions and hear off the record what forces and obstacles she most often confronts.

Wine tasting: Cities of the Vine — Lisbon

chris.brennan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:03:14 +0000

Join P&P treasurer and wine enthusiast Brad Wilson for the latest in the series of wine tastings at the club March 27 — a WEDNESDAY, please note — at 7:30 p.m. Brad will present the start of a new series, “Cities of the Vine” with Lisbon as the subject. We will sample hearty reds and sun-splashed whites.

Cost is $30 and includes appetizers. Sign up at the bar or phone the club.