Calendar of Events

All of PHC's produced and funded programs are open to the general public. For details, please use the calendar of events that follows. While every effort is made to insure the information is accurate, PHC recommends that audience members verify the location, date and time with the contact person listed.

Events by county:

Ongoing

Through SeptemberOn the Edge of Battle: Chester County and the Civil War
West Chester 		Humanities Grant
Through October1863: Invasion in the Valley
Carlisle 		Humanities Grant
Through DecemberLast Call at the Downbeat
Glenside 		Humanities Grant
September to March 2014ENOUGH Violence: Artists Speak Out
Pittsburgh 		Humanities Grant
December to June 2014Folk Arts and Social Change Residencies
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant

June 2013

20 1863: Invasion in the Valley
Carlisle 		Humanities Grant
20 Founding Gardens: Penn, Washington and Jefferson
Lancaster 		Commonwealth Speakers
23 Based on the Book: Bestseller Cinema
Huntingdon Valley 		Commonwealth Speakers
24 Anansi the Spider: The Dancing Griot
Palmyra 		Commonwealth Speakers
26 The Souls of Black Baseball: Barnstorming the Keystone State
Philadelphia 		Commonwealth Speakers
29 Civil War Era Music
Mcknightstown 		Commonwealth Speakers
30 Civil War Era Music
Tunkhannock 		Commonwealth Speakers

July 2013

2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
2 Finding the Founders: An All-American Independence Day
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
6 From Cultured to Captured: Honoring the Emancipation Proclamation, Independence Day and Juneteenth
Philadelphia 		Humanities Grant
10 The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles
Moon Township 		Commonwealth Speakers
13 A Banjo Pickin' Girl
Wellsboro 		Commonwealth Speakers
17 Coal Mining Songs of the Northeast
Troy 		Commonwealth Speakers
18 The Harriet Tubman Living History Experience
New Hope 		Commonwealth Speakers
27 Coal Mining Songs of the Northeast
Wyoming 		Commonwealth Speakers
27 Homegrown Heroes: Pennsylvania Communities in the Civil War
Slippery Rock 		Commonwealth Speakers

August 2013

2 The Underground Railroad in Quilts?
Meyersdale 		Commonwealth Speakers
4 Coal Mining Songs of the Northeast
Bellefonte 		Commonwealth Speakers
8 Coal Mining Songs of the Northeast
Wilkes Barre 		Commonwealth Speakers
24 Homemade Music in Pennsylvania
Elverson 		Commonwealth Speakers

September 2013

6 Steeltowns, Coalfields and the Unbroken Circle
South Fork 		Commonwealth Speakers
18 Meet General George G. Meade
Everett 		Commonwealth Speakers
19 Coal Mining Songs of the Northeast
Confluence 		Commonwealth Speakers
19 Steeltowns, Coalfields and the Unbroken Circle
Waynesburg 		Commonwealth Speakers
20 Steeltowns, Coalfields and the Unbroken Circle
Indiana 		Commonwealth Speakers
23 Meet General George G. Meade
Allison Park 		Commonwealth Speakers
27 ENOUGH Violence: Artists Speak Out
Pittsburgh 		Humanities Grant
29 Coal Mining Songs of the Northeast
Palmerton 		Commonwealth Speakers
29 Civil War Era Music
Harrisburg 		Commonwealth Speakers

October 2013

1 Phillis Wheatley: Voice of Freedom
Chester 		Commonwealth Speakers
2 A Banjo Pickin' Girl
West Lawn 		Commonwealth Speakers
3 Civil War Era Music
State College 		Commonwealth Speakers
6 Coal Mining Songs of the Northeast
Wilkes Barre 		Commonwealth Speakers
12 Cheap 3-Minute Thrills: Darkrides and Funhouses as Genre
Reading 		Commonwealth Speakers
13 The Harriet Tubman Living History Experience
Yardley 		Commonwealth Speakers
19 Canawling on America's Canals
Bristol 		Commonwealth Speakers
19 Based on the Book: Best-Seller Cinema
Northampton 		Commonwealth Speakers
24 Stephen Foster: American Dreamer
Hollidaysburg 		Commonwealth Speakers

November 2013

7 The Underground Railroad in Quilts?
Feasterville 		Commonwealth Speakers
16 Based on the Book: Bestseller Cinema
Havertown 		Commonwealth Speakers

December 2013

12 Key Moments in American Musical Theatre History
Doylestown 		Commonwealth Speakers

March 2014

22 ENOUGH Violence: Artists Speak Out
Pittsburgh 		Humanities Grant

Commonwealth Speakers is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Humanities Grants are a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Humanities on the Road is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council in partnership with Pennsylvania Cable Network, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of its We the People initiative on American history. Other supporters include: Altoona Regional Health System, Benzel's Bretzel Bakery, Inc., Blair Companies, The Buhl Foundation, Capital BlueCross, Nancy L. Eaton, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, Anne M. and Philip H. Glatfelter III Family Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services with the Pennsylvania Heritage Society, McLanahan Corporation, Mount Aloysius College, National Park Service with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Pennsylvania Abolition Society, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Surplus City.

Making Sense of the American Civil War, a reading and discussion series, has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.

These Pennsylvania Civil War 150 events are a program of Pennsylvania Humanities Council, made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and presented in partnership with the Pennsylvania Heritage Society and State Library of Pennsylvania.

Teen Reading Lounge is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, developed in part by federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds administered by the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.