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UPenn Affiliated Event | Submit an EventAugust, 2019
SOLD OUT! Email Dori Cross at dab5084@psu.edu to be added to the wait list.
Join Megan Haupt, food educator and anthropologist and founder of hungry for The Many Stories & Flavors of Mint as part of POP's HarvestEd series -- featuring community teachers presenting on lesser known fruits and herbs of the orchards.
Join curators at the McHarg Center to discuss "Designing Natures."
September, 2019
Lend a hand in caring for the food forest at Penn Park on University of Pennsylvania campus. Please RSVP for specific directions.
Register here: https://www.phillyorchards.org/civicrm/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=325
Help out with care and maintenance of the most diverse community orchard in the city! Monthly orchard work days are held every 2nd Saturday as part of a larger volunteer day with Sankofa Community Farm and Bartram's Garden.
Register here: https://www.phillyorchards.org/civicrm/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=324
Designing a Green New Deal intends to bring a broad array of voices together, placing economists, historians, and designers in conversation with journalists, organizers, elected officials, and other parties engaged in organizing for climate action. This event will serve as the launch of a broader, Green New Deal and the built environment research initiative in The McHarg Center.
Geosocial Encounters connects documentary artists with researchers and scholar-filmmakers in the environmental humanities. The symposium highlights this entanglement of scholarly and artistic practices and their respective commitments to explicating geosocial phenomena amidst dramatic ecological and epistemological transformations. What can video art, experimental documentary, and sensory ethnography teach us about the practice of critical urban, spatial, and environmental research?
Join POP's board, staff, and partners for an orchard-to-table dinner at POP's headquarters at The Woodlands. Celebrate the fall harvest and recognize honorees of this year's Golden Persimmon and Purple Fig awards. Take a tour of POP's fledgling demonstration orchard and try some freshly-pressed cider.
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The annual Penn Purchasing Services Supplier Show will take place on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in the lobby of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
The Supplier Show will include Penn’s preferred contract providers, which offer such commodities as: office supplies, copiers, furniture, computers, temporary staffing, print, promotional suppliers, travel providers, and others.
In 2010, when Francesca Kennedy went back to Guatemala to visit her family, she found that the lake she had been baptized in, Lake Atitlan, was deemed by NASA to be one of the world’s worst natural disasters. The blue green algae that now inhabited the once clear lake was the first spark into what would later become her mission-driven entrepreneurial career. By the end of this trip, Kennedy had had her aha moment.
It might seem all too obvious that post-apocalyptic cinema is an expression of end times - that our dim awareness of the sixth mass extinction expresses itself in a whole series of narratives of collapse, threat and annihilation. Climate change is but one of many motifs within the genre of the post-apocalyptic, often accompanied by other imagined catastrophes such as viral pandemic, alien invasion, or technological dystopia).
Due to their large scale and minute attention to botanical details, many early American landscapes, especially those by Frederic Edwin Church, benefit from extended, close-looking to uncover the secrets they hold about the natural world. Join Curator of Historical American Art, Dr. Anna O. Marley, Dr. Laura Turner Igoe from the James A. Michener Art Museum, and Dr. Franklin Kelly from the National Gallery of Art for an up close and personal experience with some of the masterpieces in From the Schuylkill to the Hudson.
Cost: Free-$25
October, 2019
This symposium is co-sponsored by the Department of Earth & Environmental Science, the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, Penn Law, the School of Arts & Sciences, and the University Research Foundation.
More information to follow.
