Update

Summer AT PENN

EXHIBITS

Now

Café Nothing on the Shakespeare Garden; open house at the Arthur Ross Gallery invites visitors to interact with and respond to intangible and nonexistent objects; reception: July 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m. with 6 p.m. performance in the Gallery of John Cage's 4' 33" by Maestro Jonathan Sternberg; presented as part of The Big Nothing at the ICA. Through August 9.

Annual In-House Exhibition; works by employees of the University City Science Center and its resident organizations; Esther Klein Gallery. Through August 31.

Almolonga Women by Winifred Godfrey, oil on canvas, 48" x 72". This town is known for its wonderful vegetable and flower market. The zigzag huipil (blouse) and Ikat skirt are very distinctive, as is the grace of the women as they carry the baskets of flowers for the graves.

Mayan Procession; contemporary paintings, photographs and textiles by Winifred Godfrey, offer a look at the Maya people of Guatemala; Penn Museum. Through September 26.

FILMS

International House
Tickets: $6, $5/members, students, seniors. Info.: www.ihousephilly.org.

8/13   Christo's Valley Curtain; 7 p.m.; followed by Running Fence.

8/14    Islands; 7 p.m.; followed by Christo in Paris.

8/15   Umbrellas; 8 p.m.

8/18   Young Mr. Lincoln; 8 p.m.

8/19  America is Hard to See; 8 p.m.

8/20   Millhouse: A White Comedy; 8 p.m.; preceded by LBJ.

8/21   Spin; 1 p.m.; preceded by Stand Up Reagan.

     The War Room; 7 p.m.; preceded by Crisis.

FITNESS/LEARNING

7/13   Blood Drive; 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; Stemmler Hall; register: http://givesblood.org.

SPECIAL EVENT

7/24   A Cheap Art Bazaar from the Dead Artists Guild; handmade postcards, prints, paintings, drawings; noon-3 p.m.; The Rotunda Plaza (Penn; Foundation Community Arts Initiative; UCD).

Deadlines: The deadline for the September at Penn calendar is August 16. For information see www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/caldead-real.html.

  Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 1, July 13, 2004

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