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6/14

Rose Garden Celebration Weekend

Rose garden view with ornamental planters.
Visitors will celebrate the Rose Garden with story time, arts and crafts, and science-related fun! Participants will explore human relationships with roses, including their herbal properties, common myths about them, and why they’re important at the Morris Arboretum. The program will also share information about the Arboretum’s new, organic approaches to pest control in the Rose Garden. Free with Penn ID.

All Day

Morris Arboretum & Gardens, 100 E Northwestern Ave.

6/14

The Wetland: A Unique Ecosystem

Morris Arboretum plants and stream looking into a field of green.
This tour investigates native plants and trees in the natural lands area near the Wissahickon Creek. The program includes a brief history of the area and describes the importance of wetland ecosystems for plants, trees, and wildlife. Visitors are advised to wear walking or hiking shoes. Free with Penn ID.

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Morris Arboretum & Gardens, 100 E. Northwestern Ave.

7/25

Open Studio: The Post Office Turns 250

Grey mail slots are full of letters and other post
Participants will celebrate the 250th birthday of the U.S. Post Office by making mail. Visitors can use the letterpress to print a quote from the first postmaster general Benjamin Franklin and pull from the Common Press’s rubber stamp collections to create mail art. Registration is required.

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S. 34th St.

6/17

Ad Hoc Workshop: Colleen Shanahan

Front gates and steps leading to door of Penn Law’s Silverman Hall
As part of Penn Carey Law’s Ad Hoc Workshop summer series, Practice Professor of Law Colleen Shanahan will present chapters from her forthcoming book, “Unrepresented: Power, Profit, and Pain in America’s Lawyerless Courts.”

12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Silverman Hall, 3501 Sansom St.

2/13

‘Revolution at Penn?’ Exhibit

Exterior of Van Pelt Library.
Extended for summer viewing, “Revolution at Penn?” examines the formation of Penn, the debates that divided the school during the American Revolution, and the compromises that reorganized it as the University of Pennsylvania in 1791. Several artifacts evoke the contentious era and provoke new questions about the place of universities in America, then and now. Open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

All Day

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut St.

6/7

Ruth Naomi Floyd

Continuing the city-wide Toll the Bell event that calls attention to gun violence, this free program will feature an encore of Philadelphia-based jazz vocalist and composer Ruth Naomi Floyd’s “Echoes: Shattered Flesh and Breathless Souls,” as well as several speakers and a two-part showcase by the Omar’s Hat music collective. Omar’s Hat will perform a commissioned work exploring loss, community, and hope.

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Tindley Temple United Methodist, 750 S. Broad St.

Boycotting Target, part two: Is its business paying a price?
The Wall Street Journal

Boycotting Target, part two: Is its business paying a price?

Americus Reed of the Wharton School says that Target was always going to irritate everyone by trying to split the difference with its approach to environmental, social, and governance policies.

May 18, 2025

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