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The Sachs Program announces 2019 grants, marks one-year anniversary
Common Press screening bags

Common Press screens bags at the 2019 Sachs Grant Awards event on May 2. (Photo: Dominic Mercier)

The Sachs Program announces 2019 grants, marks one-year anniversary

A year and 23 grant projects later, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation is phasing into round two of its annual grant awards throughout eight categories that support the teaching, making, and presenting art.
What’s ahead in the 2019-20 Annenberg season
Philip Glass writing at piano Philip Glass writes music at a piano. Glass will be on campus and perform as part of #GLASSFEST. (Photo courtesy: Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)

What’s ahead in the 2019-20 Annenberg season

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will welcome Philip Glass for #GLASSFEST, a U.S. dance premiere from MOMIX, and several Grammy Award-winning musicians.
Five events to watch for in May
Tapestry held by two people blows in the air “Airplay,” part of the Philadelphia Children's Festival. (Photo courtesy: Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)

Five events to watch for in May

Happening around campus this May: the second-annual Sachs Grant Awards, the Philadelphia Children’s Festival, and the screening of a 1930s Hollywood B-movie.
Meet the student selected for the Whitney Biennial
Carolyn Lazard at the Institute of Contemporary Art Carolyn Lazard, an MFA student, pictured at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Meet the student selected for the Whitney Biennial

For the 2019 Whitney Biennial, featuring young artists from across the country, MFA student Carolyn Lazard will contribute a work that asks patrons to consider the relationship between environment and the chronically ill.
Peter Whinnery is packing up shop
Peter Whinnery posing on a ladder in his workshop

(Photo courtesy: Pennsylvania Gazette)

Peter Whinnery is packing up shop

It’s curtain call for technical adviser for Student Performing Arts Peter Whinnery, the set-building guru behind hundreds of student productions.

Penn Today Staff

Five events to watch for in March
Woman dancing on floor of stage A performer dances on stage. (Photo courtesy: The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)

Five events to watch for in March

Happening around campus this March: the world premiere of ‘Vessels’ at the Annenberg Center, a lecture on trees from China, and a visit to Kelly Writers House from reporter Emily Jane Fox.
Dance Theatre of Harlem comes to campus
A pair of dancers performing ballet

Dance Theatre of Harlem comes to campus

The ballet company is the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ second artist-in-residence.

Lauren Hertzler

Celebrating Chinese culture
Two lion costumes that each have two students inside during performance.

February is the busiest month for the Penn Lions student dance troupe with many performances scheduled on and off campus for Lunar New Year celebrations.

Celebrating Chinese culture

The Penn Lions student dance troupe aims to spread good luck and good fortune around the Lunar New Year.

Louisa Shepard

Five events to watch for in February
Yellow and red ornate dragon mask used in lion dance

A demonstration of the lion dance, frequently part of Lunar New Year celebrations and a Chinese tradition that ushers in good luck. (Photo courtesy: International House Philadelphia)

Five events to watch for in February

Happening around campus and beyond this February: the annual Lunar New Year celebration at International House, a thought-provoking new speaker series on the future of religion, and an innovative story slam by nurses.
Celebrating 30 years with Stimulus Children’s Theatre
Scene from Prince and the Wooglefoof

The Prince and the Wooglefoof (Photo: ImageFlo/Prestige Portraits)

Celebrating 30 years with Stimulus Children’s Theatre

The campus theater group focused on entertaining children marked its 30th anniversary with performances during Homecoming Weekend, along with an alumni gala at the Platt Student Performing Arts House.