December 2024
Sunday, 12/1
Monday, 12/2
Five Minute Film Fest
6:00 PM in person
Calling all filmmakers! Join us at the Writers House for our second FIVE MINUTE FILM FEST, a screening of short films (and film excerpts) by Penn students. Prizes will be awarded in several categories, including Best Picture, Best Concept, and Best Editing
Tuesday, 12/3
Wednesday, 12/4
EXPERIMENTS IN WITNESSING
A reading by students in Syd Zolf's class
5:00 PM in person
hosted by: Syd Zolf
rsvp: register here to attend in person
Please join us for an unforgettable reading by the students in ENGL/GSWS 3104, Poetry Lab, and ENGL/GSWS/COML 3501, Writing & Witnessing. They will share inventive poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid writing on a range of topics, from climate change, colonialism, and the policing of borders, to queerness, desire, and hyphenated belonging. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
FEATURED READERS: Chinonye Alilonu, Dhivya Arasappan, Ben Allen, Eliana Atienza, Sassou Djato, Jake-Anthony Diaz, Laura Eugene, Enne Kim, Jordyn Harris, Reg!na Sánchez Aragón, and Natacha Yazbeck.
Thursday, 12/5
A Reading From the KWH First-Year Seminar
12:00 PM in person
Hosted by: Julia Bloch and the Students of ENGL0402
rsvp: register here to attend in person
Students in the Kelly Writers House First-Year Seminar have spent the semester discovering what it means to work in and around the "third space" of the Writers House as poets, fiction writers, journalists, and scholars. We've had readings, author visits, workshops, field trips, and excursions into the practice of literary curation - now it's our turn. Come hear a selection of works created by students themselves! All are welcome; lunch will be served.
Friday, 12/6
Saturday, 12/7
Sunday, 12/8
Monday, 12/9
A Showing from Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance
5:30 PM in person
hosted by: Brooke O'Harra and the Students of ENGL0785 and THAR0785
rsvp: register here to attend in person
Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance's fall seminar in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts focuses on questions of how to access and represent the past, with a focus on queer, Black, feminist, and other minoritarian archives. Come see a number of student final projects and celebrate the end of the semester with us! All are welcome; reception to follow.