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Jon Geeting invites you to join us on June 3 at 7 p.m. for Pro-Housing Philly‘s launch event at the Pen & Pencil Club for a new YIMBY Action chapter in Philly. Get involved with local organizing efforts, help shape the direction of the group‘s work and connect with pro-housing residents and advocates. It‘s a big moment for housing in Philadelphia, with the Mayor‘s H.O.M.E. plan up for debate, and bipartisan pro-housing legislation in the works in Harrisburg. Advocates building the base in Philly to make the most of this moment. The group‘s goal from this first meeting is to give folks a chance to get to know one another, coalesce around several big-picture goals around housing in Philadelphia, and determine next steps for advocacy at City Hall. To stay informed and participate in chapter activities, the group will invite you to become a member and join its chapter’s Slack channel, where they will coordinate events, share updates, and discuss housing-related topics and action opportunities.

The Ivy League in the age of Trump: Join us Wednesday June 4th at 7pm for an “Off The Record” Q&A with University of Pennsylvania President J. Larry Jameson! Moderator and Inquirer education reporter Susan Snyder will tackle the big questions about running a major university while academia is under attack, and what it means for the future of UPenn as a major local institution in Philadelphia.

Bob Zell hosts poetry night. Details to come!

This open mic, hosted by Noemi Fuentes, is for creative people who want to be expressive through an any forms of writing: a comedic relief, a sad verse to a spoken word. You can also tell a story or sing a song -- feel free to perform anything you‘ve written or want to express! Sign up to read in advance by messaging @emicanread on Instagram, or just show up for the open mic! This event is open to the public.

Are you curious about the Pen and Pencil Club? Miss your old cubicle neighbor? Want to meet other journalists in the city? Come hang out with friends and your current, former or future colleagues at this inaugural session of our new monthly happy hour.

Join Club member Emily Previti and other Scrabble lovers for monthly casual gameplay (occasionally tournament-style). Bring a board if you have one, but you can borrow/share as needed. All levels are welcome!

The P&P‘s monthly Quizzo tournament.

Dedicated P&P member Mark Knight invites all P&P members to his "GoodBye America party" going away party on Thursday, June 26, starting at 7 p.m. At Mark‘s request, board member Aliya Schneider will hold a one night only 50-50 raffle at the party. Bring cash and come celebrate Mark, who has been a friendly face at the P&P and we will miss him so as he moves abroad!

The Daily News‘ (unofficial) 100th Birthday Party will be a blast! Stay tuned for more details. Open to members.

Straight off their real-time coverage of the Fall of Crozer Health, cohosts of the award-winning 43cc podcast, Drs. Wendy Dean and Matt Ramsey, are hosting a live recording at the Pen and Pencil Club on Sunday, June 29 at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. 43cc is an honest, fun, irreverent, and deadly serious podcast series that exposes the truth about healthcare (with a shot to dull the pain). Hosts Wendy Dean, M.D., and Matt Ramsey, M.D., take an in-depth look medicine’s machinery tearing the patient-physician relationship apart and how the medical community might stitch them back together At the P&P, Wendy and Matt will be talking about the stories both journalists and physicians carry, inviting the audience to join in, and reminding us why "together" is better. Wendy Dean, who comes to the P&P from Carlisle, Pa., cofounded and leads Moral Injury of Healthcare, a 501c3 nonprofit, is the author of If I Betray These Words, and cohost of the Moral Matters and WCC podcasts. She practiced emergency medicine and psychiatry, spent a decade as a US Army civilian, deeply involved in medical innovation, and was an executive in a half-billion-dollar nonprofit. When the challenges of getting high quality healthcare nearly cost her physician husband his life, she left that work to change healthcare. She is now the leading voice for reframing health worker distress to include moral injury. Dr. Matthew L. Ramsey, of Philadelphia, is an orthopaedic surgeon subspecializing in shoulder and elbow surgery. Dr. Ramsey has held multiple leadership positions during his career as a board member, chief of service, Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and in subspecialty organizations and journals. He is committed to two ideals in reconstructive surgery of the shoulder and elbow: physician excellence and a holistic approach to patient care. He is passionate about preserving physician autonomy and physician leadership in healthcare.