Penn Performing Arts Initiative

Congratulations, Hannah! The Stephen Goff Award goes to a senior who has shown great leadership and who best exemplifies the spirit of Penn's performing arts community. Register now for the award ceremony: https://bit.ly/3nPjA2p

Alumni Weekend is underway! Through Sunday, May 16, University of Pennsylvania alumni have on-demand access to the Annenberg Center's live-recorded Mar 11 performance and Q&A with HopeBoykinDance. Register for the full weekend of events: https://bit.ly/3boQORg

If you missed our Behind the Lens event in April, the virtual event is now available on the Annenberg Center's blog! Celebrating the top three film festival winners, the discussion also featured Penn Cinema Studies Program faculty members and University of Pennsylvania alumni who worked on popular film and TV projects such as Reading Rainbow, The Fast Saga and more. Watch now: https://bit.ly/3hhVsUR

A huge congrats to University of Pennsylvania alums Nikki Silver, John Legend and Ty Stiklorius on tomorrow's worldwide Netflix release of Monster (2018)! The film tells the story of a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3h4uK2e

Expressing our deepest sympathy for all family, friends, colleagues and students of Dr. James Primosch.

Conceptualized by Sachs Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Bracho and experimental artist Arien Wilkerson, "The Sis Uprising" is a moving video project described as "a conceptual Black spectacle about the protests, COVID-19, and legacies of race, gender and sexuality." The piece, funded by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, features powerful music, dance, poetry, news footage and more. https://bit.ly/2GOt7Ww

On Friday, don't miss the first of four incredible virtual workshops we have planned for the 2020-21 academic year. Learn more about this series of case studies on leadership, social justice and the performing arts, presented along with Theatre Arts Program, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation and Platt Student Performing Arts House:

University of Pennsylvania sophomore Ollie Kim Dupuy's passion and talent for poetry performance led them to an internship with Humanizing Stories, a project that brings together diverse voices from children's media, literature and culture. Humanizing Stories is led by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, associate professor in the Penn Graduate School of Education. Read more on Penn Today: https://bit.ly/3d06rhG

Earlier this week, the Annenberg Center hosted a Powell-Vandever Dance Masterclass with Caleb Teicher. Student dancers from Philadelphia, New York and beyond tuned in, including members of Penn's own West Philly Swingers! Don't miss Caleb's livestream performance tonight at 7: https://bit.ly/2GRaj8C

The [Annenberg] Center has always had a special place in my heart, and I am proud to support them at this critical time. We thank University of Pennsylvania alumnus Paul Wiggin, W’82, WG’88 for his generous gift to the Annenberg Center, allowing for an exciting fall digital season of music, dance and film. Read more on Power of Penn: https://bit.ly/35ZmfQb

Backstage @ Platt House is a new podcast series from Platt Student Performing Arts House, Penn’s hub for the student performing arts. Tune in as guests share, document and celebrate the performing arts at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philly and in Penn’s homes around the world. Check out the latest episode: https://bit.ly/2YQm5Xf

We're excited to share an update on Penn's Theatre Arts Program. Through Oct 4, the 28-minute adapted video documentary ""The Orlando Project"" will be available for free on YouTube through FringeArts. Don't wait to experience this creative success! https://bit.ly/31Sn4I0 #pennsgottalent #penntheatre #virginiawolfe #pennperforms

Just announced: The Annenberg Center's fall 2020 digital season will offer livestreamed, one-night-only performances by some of today’s best dance and music artists, plus an exciting new film series. Penn students will have FREE access to all fall events and Penn faculty, staff and alumni can save 20% on subscription packages with codes PENN and PENNALUM. Click the link to learn more and discover what’s coming this fall! http://bitly.com/ACfall2020

#fbf #icymi Special thanks for last week’s Powell-Vandever Dance Masterclass presented by the Annenberg Center! 28 freshman participants and student leaders of the #PennArts pre-orientation danced it out with Ephrat Asherie. @ephratasheriedance taught the origins, importance and styles of house dance in an incredible, high-energy community experience for this group of incoming Penn students. We can’t wait to share more of this Masterclass Series, sponsored by our very own Penn Performing Arts Regional Council of New York co-chair!

Don't forget this week's PAC Preceptorials! Welcome back performing arts students!

We're so excited the Penn Museum reopens today! We wanted to highlight the Penn Museum Fellows program and its support of outstanding undergraduate research utilizing collections, archives, or laboratories in the Penn Museum. Over the course of a year, Fellows conduct research and present the outcomes of their projects at poster sessions and academic symposia. We'd like to give kudos to recent graduate and former @annenbergcenter student worker, Breyasia Scott (C ’20), who ma...jored in Ancient History. Recently, Breyasia won the prestigious Rose Award for outstanding undergraduate research for her senior thesis congratulations! In Breyasia's words: "For my Senior Thesis Project I wrote a play entitled 'Medea's Symposium.' My play focused on social issues that existed in Ancient Greece as well as today, such as exclusivity and the power of the minority. This piece was also self-reflective of my time in @pennclassics as one of the few women of color. My work emphasized the importance of bringing diversity to the field of Classics through the unconventional format of a play. My favorite experience while undergoing this project was my visit to Greece last summer (thanks to the Penn Museum's Field Funds!) where I got to watch ancient plays performed in the theaters that the ancient Greeks would have performed in. I had so much fun watching Aristophanes' 'Clouds' that this experience inspired me to bring more of a comedic element to my work. I learned so much from writing this play and I am excited for my next creative project!" We can't wait to see what's next for Breyasia! #Repost @pennmuseum

Congratulations to PennArts student leader and former @annenbergcenter student worker, Kalyne Coleman C‘14 as she joins the ABCDiscovers NY Talent Showcase! #pennalumni #abctalentshowcase

Odyssey-a-Day is a creative pandemic project by Emily Wilson, Penn professor of classical studies and chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. Wilson, using household items to transform into each character, recorded herself reading a passage from each of the 24 books of her translation of Homer's classic The Odyssey. Read more about this dramatic reading series in Penn Today. #powerofpenn #performingarts #odysseyaday #odyssey Penn Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania