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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 12/1
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Modernist Reading Group; for more information, contact Benjy Kahan (kahan@sas.upenn.edu).
- 5:00 PM in Room 209: the Eighteenth Century Reading Group presents Jennifer Snead (University of Pennsylvania) on "Epic for an Information Age?: Pope's Dunciad of 1743 and the Theater Licensing Act." For more information, please contact Jared Richman ((richman@english.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: In Words meeting. For more information, contact Grant Potts (gpotts@ccat.sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 12/2
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 12/3
- 5-8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Youth, Ink": An Inter-College Student
Literary Reading, featuring undergraduate writers from the University of Pennsylvania,
Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, Villanova University, Haverford
College, and more!
Join us for a showcase of the area's most talented undergraduate writers across a diversity of genres: poetry, fiction, prose, and everything in between. A reception will follow. For more information contact Anna Mendoza at amendoza@brynmawr.edu. A recording was made of this event, and is available here.
- 8:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: An evening of music with Pepi Ginsberg, Otoño Brujo, and Sujata Sidhu.
Listen to a recording of this event. As a kid, Pepi Ginsberg scribbled her first stories in the back pages of a children's thesaurus. The ink was yellow and quick to fade, yet she was only happy to fill it in anew. Years later, Ginsberg chooses to write music which draws both body and breadth from her time spent working in short fiction and experimental poetry, as part of a degree in creative writing. Pepi's tales unfold, moving through surreal landscapes, warning of the very ideas they encourage, yet power lies in moderate opacity. Pepi enters head first into lyrical territory as yet uncharted, often making up a word when it presents a better sound. With a sense of humor, allowing atypical moments into her songs, such as a self-mechanized clock, the young poet delivers a powerful performance and arrives at a brave and lucid end.
Otoño Brujo is a moniker of one Eric Carbonara, a multifaceted guitarist, arranger, engineer and producer. Mr. Carbonara records and performs, either on electric or acoustic guitar, under many names with a constant rotating line-up of Philadelphia-based musicians. Otoño Brujo is his solo acoustic project of elaborate instrumentals, lyrically voiced on his hand-built flamenco guitar. His pieces draw much inspiration from the Gypsy folk of Andalusia as well as a growing appreciation for North African folk traditions. He also borrows structural elements of the North Indian raga (specifically the alap). Far from what you could call World Music, Otoño Brujo strips everything down to the bare essentials and upon listening, one notices that his music isn’t so much a culmination of separate cultural influences but rather a unified cultural expression of a people who only exist in Mr. Carbonara's heart and soul.
"One feels in his pieces all the sadness of Andalusian music, or of Portuguese Fado music. A beautiful, splendid disc" -Vincent (translated from French)
Sujata Sidhu studied Carnatic music under the late master musician Tanjore Viswanathan and has performed internationally, playing with musicians from all over the world. Carnatica, the classical music of South India, is one of the world’s oldest musical traditions, dating as far back as 4000 B.C. With 72 different scales on the octave and complex rhythmic structures, Carnatic music is designed to bring the listener into a meditative and spiritual state. Sujata relies on her classical training to provide sounds that are haunting, powerful and excruciatingly moving. She is a wonder to watch and hear.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 12/4
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: F-Word (Pandora's Box) meeting. For more information contact Carrie Alexander (carriela@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 12/5
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Click here to see praise for Andy
Wolk's Screenwriting and Directing Symposium
- 1:00 - 5:00 PM in the Dining Room: Screenwriter and director (and Penn alumnus) Andy Wolk begins a three-day
Symposium on
Writing for Film, Theatre, and TV. Symposium participants meet with Mr. Wolk in the afternoon at the Writers House to
discuss their scripts and treatments.
Listen to a recording from this event. (Note: Damaged Audio)
The three-day Wolk Symposium has two components: a small "lab" for young screenwriters who will be selected in advance and
will work closely with Mr. Wolk; other events are open to all (and free). For full
information about all Andy Wolk symposium events click here.Andy Wolk most recently directed Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story for Lifetime which he also wrote. Mr. Wolk also wrote and directed the much-lauded HBO drama Criminal Justice which made Time Magazine's "Ten Best" List. Starring Forest Whitaker, Anthony LaPaglia and Rosie Perez, Criminal Justice also received the Silver Prize at FIPA in Cannes. Other credits include writing and directing Deliberate Intent, the critically praised 1st movie ever for FX. Starring Timothy Hutton, the LA Times called it "taut, smart, provocative, well-acted and suspensefully directed." For both Criminal Justice and Deliberate Intent Mr. Wolk was nominated for the Writer's Guild Award and he won the Writer's Guild Award for Natica Jackson on PBS which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. He also just received the Humanitas Award for directing the "Final Judgement" episode of The Practice. Also, for that episode, Alfre Woodard received the Emmy Award.
Mr. Wolk has also directed 4 hit CBS Christmas movies. Other TV movies include writing and directing The Defenders: Payback, Choice of Evils and Taking the First, three highly-rated movies for Paramount and Showtime starring Beau Bridges and E.G. Marshall and based on the classic 60s show, plus Mr. Rock 'n' Roll, Pizza My Heart, Alibi, All Lies End In Murder, and Kiss and Tell. Mr. Wolk directed the pilot of the long-running HBO hit ARLISS along with numerous episodes of shows such as The Sopranos, The Practice, Without A Trace, NYPD Blue, Criminal Minds, Numbers, Tales From The Crypt, The Guardian, Crossing Jordan, Dragnet, Equal Justice and others.
Other writing credits include HBO's Emmy-winning From the Earth to the Moon, produced by Tom Hanks, and the award-winning Tales From the Crypt starring Demi Moore.
Mr. Wolk's career started in the theater in New York City. Under the auspices of Lincoln Center he directed two Shakespeare plays, Twelfth Night and The Winter's Tale, each of which enjoyed successful off-Broadway runs. He has had plays produced as a writer and/or director at theaters such as Manhattan Theatre Club (where he worked on staff for five years), LaMama, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and on tour through Europe with the company Camera Obscura, which he co-founded while a graduate student in Drama at Carnegie-Mellon University. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Pennsylvania which awarded him a Thouron Scholarship.
Andy Wolk has also been a Creative Advisor for the Sundance Labs and the Artistic Director for the Labs in 1996. This three-day workshop is modeled on the Sundance Labs.
- Afternoon Session Film Writing Session with Film Students
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Master class on Filmmaking. Mr. Wolk leads a seminar on how to think about
working with a camera, with actors, and with words. The session will include writing and directing exercises with samples from
scripts and film.
EVENT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: please RSVP to whwolk@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a
seat. Click here for more information.
Andy Wolk presenting at the Writers House, January 27, 2003
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 with Robert Strauss (straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.303 with Marion Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:20-7:20 in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club, a writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff; For more information, email John Shea at (john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 12/6
- 2:00 - 5:00 PM in the Dining Room: Symposium participants meet with Andy Wolk for their second seminar session.
- 7:00 PM: A Master Class on Screenwriting. EVENT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: please RSVP to whwolk@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a seat. The Writers House Alumni Writers Series presents Andy Wolk, screenwriter and director. An informal discussion of Wolk's work as screenwriter and director and about careers in writing for TV and film. Mr. Wolk will, in part, show excerpts from The Sopranos, Criminal Justice and other features. The program will be moderated by Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis. For full information about all Wolk symposium events, click here.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information, email Pat Green at (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: Latitudes, a graduate reading group in the Department of English. For more information, please contact Jeehyun Lim (jlim2@english.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 12/7
- 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM in the Dining Room: Andy Wolk Symposium on Writing for Film, Theatre, and TV concludes with a final meeting for symposium participants. Arts Cafe. For full information about all Wolk symposium events, click here.
- 6:00 - 9:00 PM in the Living and Dining Rooms: Charles Bernstein's "Attack of the Difficult Poem" class meets.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: STEAK, a fiction group. For more information, please contact MoMoody (momoody@sas.upenn.edu).
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes Meeting. For more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra, a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information, please contact Lucy Ho (ratofsumatra@gmail.com).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 12/8
- 12:00 - 3:00 in the Arts Cafe: a CPCW course end-of-semester event.
- 1:30 - 4:30 in the Dining Room: Kenny Goldsmith's English 165 class meets.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 5-6:45 PM in Room 202: the English Department's Gender and Sexuality reading group.
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: The Play's the Thing organizational meeting
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 12/9
- Fall term ends at close of classes
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 12/10
- 4-6:00 PM in Room 202: A celebration with Kristina Baumli's class
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 12/11
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A read-off by the nonfiction students in Paul Hendrickson's English 145 and 156 classes.
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: F-Word (Pandora's Box) meeting. For more information contact Carrie Alexander (carriela@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 12/12
- Reading Days
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House tapes with host Michaela Majoun. Join us for this
month's LIVE at the Writers House features the fantastic women music writers Sara Sherr, Daphne Carr, Daphne
Brooks, Maura Johnston and Doree Shafrir with musical guest Buried Beds. LIVE at the Writers House
airs on 88.5 WXPN - be a part of the live audience!
You can hear a recording of this program in mp3 format here.
Sara Sherr, one of the two visionaries behind Plain Parade, has over 10 years of experience writing about the Philadelphia music scene for local and national outlets. Her writing has appeared in various spaces such as the Philadelphia Weekly, City Paper, and Village Voice; currently she is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News. When Sara sends out a press release, the entire world takes notice. In her free time Sara enjoys Sunday night karaoke at the Locust Bar, perfoming with the Dumpsta Players, maintaining a badass wig collection and reminiscing about being raised by bees.
Daphne Carr is a first year graduate student of ethnomusicology at Columbia University. She is pursuing study in the political economy, social meaning and production of popular music in the former Czechoslovakia from the late 1960s to the present. She currently serves as music features editor for Stop Smiling Magazine and has written for the Seattle Weekly, Chicago Tribune, MOJO, the Wire, the Nation, the Village Voice and dozens of small, independent publications. She is also currently working on a book of oral histories collected in the Wildwoods, three adjacent shore towns on a barrier island in Southern New Jersey.
Daphne A. Brooks is an assistant professor at Princeton University where she teaches courses in English, African-American Studies and popular music studies. She is currently completing two books: Bodies in Dissent: Performing Race, Gender, and Nation in the Trans-Atlantic Imaginary (Duke UP, forthcoming) and Jeff Buckley's Grace (Continuum, 2005).
Maura Johnston got into the whole Internet racket early enough to have her first name be her domain name. Her writing on music, culture, and technology has appeared in publications such as the Philadelphia City Paper, Blender, Ms., and Words! Words! Words! Her first collection of short stories, Help Wanted, was published by So New Publishing in 2002. Maura lives in Astoria, N.Y.Doree Shafrir is the former A&E editor at Philadelphia Weekly, where she also founded and hosted the monthly reading series Lit & Whimsy. She's currently a student at Columbia Journalism School specializing in arts and culture journalism, and continues to write about music and pop culture for PW. She's also contributed to Radar Online, the New York Observer, JewsRock.org, the New Republic Online and XXL Magazine.
Buried Beds is a Philadelphia band that culls its sound from the vast traditions of American music. From sultry, innocent vocals reminiscent of Atlantic Records' foray into the American South, to the Appalachia-tinged banjo picking and harmonizing vocals quintessential of that high lonesome sound, Buried Beds ties it all together with lush pop arrangements rarely seen in today's Americana. Buried Beds was named "Best Band" in Philadelphia Magazine's "Best of Philly 2004" issue.
- 5:20 in Room 202: Penn and Pencil club. For more information, please contact John Shea (John.Shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 12/13
- Reading Days
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading by Greg Djanikian's English 113
poetry workshop.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 7:30-9 PM in Room 209: Fiction Writing Group. For more information, please contact Phil Sandick (psandick@writing.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 12/14
- Final Exams
- 12-2:00 PM in the Dining Room: All-CPCW Staff Lunch Sessions
- 8 PM in the Arts Cafe: SPEAKEASY: Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!
Open-Mic night at the Writers House. Come to perform or come to listen!
- 7:30-9:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes Meeting. For more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 12/15
- Final Exams
- 5:30-8:30 in Room 202: Archeology of Fiction. For more information, please contact Kitsi Watterson (kwatters@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 12/16
- Final Exams
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 12/17
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 12/18
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 12/19
- Final Exams
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 12/20
- Final Exams
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 12/21
- Final Exams
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 12/22
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 12/23
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 12/24
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter Break.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 12/25
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter Break.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 12/26
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter Break.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 12/27
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter Break.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 12/28
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter Break.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 12/29
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter Break.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 12/30
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter Break.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 12/31
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter Break.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.