1WH Calendar: February 2000
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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).

Tuesday, 2/1
Wednesday, 2/2
Thursday, 2/3
Friday, 2/4
Saturday, 2/5
Sunday, 2/6
Monday, 2/7
Tuesday, 2/8
Wednesday, 2/9
Thursday, 2/10
Friday, 2/11
Saturday, 2/12
Sunday, 2/13
Monday, 2/14
Tuesday, 2/15
  • 8:00 PM: This Valentine's Day ... Stand Up for Failed Romances.
    One-man comedy written and performed by Penn undergraduate Jonathan London. Join us in the Arts Cafe (seating cafe-style).
    Jonathan London, a Junior in the College, has grown up with his eyes on a life in comedy and entertainment. His one man show, premiering at Writers House, documents his hilarious trials and tribulations in today's adult dating scene. A DJ for Penn's student station WQHS and student DJ for WXPN Philadelphia, Jonathan is manager of WQHS as well as it's advertising director. This newfound workaholic also has plans to shoot a documentary on his relationship with his two brothers in March.

Wednesday, 2/16
  • 6:00 PM: Tentative: Women's Long Poems meeting
  • 6:00-7:30 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Charlie Winquist, speaking on "Postmodern Secular Theology."
    Charles E. Winquist (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1970) joined the Syracuse faculty as Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion in 1986. His research and teaching specialities are philosophical theology, critical theory, and hermeneutics. Among his publications are Desiring Theology (1995), Theology at the End of the Century (1990), Epiphanies of Darkness (1986), Practical Hermeneutics (1980), Homecoming (1978), Communion of Possibility (1975), and The Transcendental Imagination (1972). Professionally active at the national level, he has held several offices in the American Academy of Religion and served as executive director from 1979-82.
  • 9:00 PM in Room 202: Sangria: An Artists' Group

Thursday, 2/17
  • 5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting & gathering

Friday, 2/18
  • 3:00 PM: Suppose an Eyes: A Poetry Working Group
    This new group will meet once a month on a Friday afternoon to share and discuss poetry written by group members.

Saturday, 2/19
Sunday, 2/20
  • 6:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck! Manuck! a fiction writing group

Monday, 2/21
  • (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)
  • 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House: a one-hour word and music radio show. Join us in the live audience at 8:00 PM! This show's theme is "Inspiring Exercises, Freeing Forms," and features readings and performances by Laura Goldstein, Renee Balthrop, Randall Couch, Marilyn Piety (read by Cassie MacDonald), Rebekah Grossman, Ellen Slack, KD Morris, Laura Pyle, Lynn Levin, Melissa Duclos, James Tisdall, Lauren Rile Smith, Haadiya Starkey, Yasinah Mobley, John Shea, and musical guest Simon.

Tuesday, 2/22
Wednesday, 2/23
  • 7:00 PM in Room 202: The Play's the Thing: a play reading and writing group
    We will be reading from Harold Pinter's One-Act Play, "The Dumb Waiter." If you've heard of Pinter before or read his work, then you'll probably be coming. If you are not familiar with Pinter's work, then you need to come. We have copies of The Dumb Waiter in the hub office of the Writers House. Look in The Play's the Thing box and pick up a copy. Read the script if you can so that we can discuss the play on Wednesday, February 23 at 7:00. If you would like, we can also have a mini-reading of the play (or excerpts thereof) at the meeting that night.
  • 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night
  • 9:00 PM in Room 202: Sangria: An Artists' Group

Thursday, 2/24
  • 4:30 PM in Room 202: Twentieth Century Reading Group: a presentation by Mike Barsanti, followed by discussion
  • Bill Ivey, Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, visits the Kelly Writers House to meet with Penn and Philadelphia-area artists and arts supporters and share news about the N.E.A. today.
    1:00 PM: Lunch and gathering for interested students. (Email wh@writing for more information.)
    5:00-7:00 PM: Buffet Reception for Mr. Ivey and the many Phila. arts organizers, artists, university affiliates and students who have collaborated with the Kelly Writers House over the past three years. By invitation.
    7:30 PM: Public interview and "town meeting," featuring Bill Ivey, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 South 36th Street.
    Bill Ivey was nominated by President William Clinton as the seventh Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in May, 1998. Ivey is an experienced leader who understands both the arts and business and has forged strong and productive relationships between the nonprofit and commercial arts during his 25-year professional career in the private and public sectors. A folklorist and musician, he is a staunch protector of America's living cultural heritage and a forceful voice on arts policy. Through more than two decades as an Endowment panelist and consultant, Ivey has gained a strong working knowledge of the NEA's mission, programs, and policies. Since becoming Chairman, Ivey has led the Endowment into the future by spearheading the development of a new strategic plan for the years 1999 to 2004 and articulating the national need for government support of the arts. From 1971 to 1998, he was Director of the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee, an accredited nonprofit education and research center. He is the first Endowment Chairman who has developed and run a nonprofit cultural organization. In 1994, Ivey was appointed to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, where he was a major contributor to "Creative America," an analysis of American cultural life. Ivey also served two terms as Chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. A teacher and writer, Ivey was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Studies in American Music of Brooklyn College and taught at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Ivey was born in Detroit in 1944 and grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He was educated at the University of Michigan and at Indiana University and holds degrees in history, folklore, and ethnomusicology.

  • 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar

Friday, 2/25
  • 3:00-5:00 PM: Irish Studies Group Gathering: On Beckett
    Commemorating the tenth anniversary of Beckett's death, which was 22 December. Short readings by Vicki Mahaffey, Jean-Michel Rabate, Laura Heffernan, and Damien Keane that respond to Beckett and his work. Bring along a favorite passage from or about Beckett to share!

Saturday, 2/26

Sunday, 2/27
  • 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 FM WXPN. Tune in to an hour of Philly-based writing and music. This show's theme is "Inspiring Exercises, Freeing Forms," and features readings and performances by Laura Goldstein, Renee Balthrop, Randall Couch, Marilyn Piety (read by Cassie MacDonald), Rebekah Grossman, Ellen Slack, KD Morris, Laura Pyle, Lynn Levin, Melissa Duclos, James Tisdall, Lauren Rile Smith, Haadiya Starkey, Yasinah Mobley, John Shea, and musical guest Simon.

Monday, 2/28
  • (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)

Tuesday, 2/29
  • 6:00 PM: Reading by poet Marie Howe, hosted by the Creative Writing Department
    Marie Howe is the author of two collections of poetry, The Good Thief, which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series, and What the Living Do, a cycle of poems centered on the death of her brother. She is also the co-editor of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the Aids Pandemic. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Agni, Harvard Review and The New England Review, among others, and she has received both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

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