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

July"American Indian Living History Celebration"
Point Merion
Our Stories, Our Future
Through August"Chinatown In/flux: Future Landscape" exhibition
Philadelphia
Humanities Grant
August"Exploring the History and Artistry of Fraktur"
Harleysville
Humanities Grant
Through September"Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania"
Philadelphia
Humanities Grant
Through October"An Enduring Gaze: The Portraits of Cumberland County"
Carlisle
Humanities Grant
Through December"Harmony in Wood"
Ambridge
Humanities Grant
September to December"Day of the Dead Exhibit"
Scranton
Humanities Grant

July 2009

8 "Show me the Franklins! Remembering the Ancestors, Slavery and Benjamin Franklin"
Philadelphia
Humanities Grant
9 "Songs of the Labor Movement"
Cranberry
Commonwealth Speakers
10 "Old Buildings for Young People"
Pittsburgh
Commonwealth Speakers
19 Studio Workshop, "Burned, Turned and Colored"
Pittsburgh
Humanities Grant
19 "Floral and Garden Imagery in Pennsylvania German Decorative Arts"
Gilbertsville
Commonwealth Speakers
21 "Brazilian Music and Jazz"
Brockway
Commonwealth Speakers
23 Film Premiere of "Concrete, Steel and Paint"
Philadelphia
Humanities Grant
24 "Civil War Era Music"
Clifford
Commonwealth Speakers
24 "Top Hats and Lace Dancers with Music by Tom Jolin"
Clifford
Humanities Grant
25 "Civil War Living Historians"
Clifford
Humanities Grant
25 "Pennsylvania Mountain Voices"
Barnesville
Commonwealth Speakers
25 "Civil War Era Music"
Benton
Commonwealth Speakers
28 "America's Game and the Culture of a Nation"
Lititz
Commonwealth Speakers
30 "The Faces of the Civil War"
McMurray
Commonwealth Speakers
31 "Ragtime Jazz and Stride Blues"
Wayne
Commonwealth Speakers

August 2009

15 "Debate between John Brown and Frederick Douglass"
Chambersburg
Humanities Grant
15 "Quincy Village - Dinner with Frederick Douglass and John Brown"
Chambersburg
Humanities Grant
28 "From Page to Stage"
Elizabeth
Commonwealth Speakers

September 2009

4 "Community, Sprawl and Taxes"
Lehighton
Commonwealth Speakers
4 Live and Learn - Erie
Erie
5 "Rhythms and Rhymes of American Folk Music"
Hamburg
Commonwealth Speakers
5 Live and Learn - Erie
TBD
6 "Jenny Wade's Bad Reputation"
Philadelphia
Commonwealth Speakers
8 "How the Circus Helped Folks During the Great Depression"
Cranberry Township
Commonwealth Speakers
9 "Intro to the Middle East"
Harleysville
Humanities Grant
10 "Pennsylvania Mountain Voices"
Emporium
Commonwealth Speakers
11 Live and Learn - Pittsburgh
Blairsville
11 "Concrete, Steel and Paint"
Philadelphia
Humanities Grant
11 "How the Circus Helped Folks During the Depression"
Sewickley
Commonwealth Speakers
12 Live and Learn - Pittsburgh
Blairsville
15 "The Music, Dance & Instruments of the Pennsylvania Germans"
Souderton
Commonwealth Speakers
17 "Travelin' on the Main Line Canal"
Hollidaysburg
Commonwealth Speakers
18 "Pennsylania's Vanished Industries in Post Office Art"
Cresco
Commonwealth Speakers
19 "Based on the Book: Best-Seller Cinema"
Berwick
Commonwealth Speakers
22 "Stories of Famous Escapes from Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad"
Broomall
Commonwealth Speakers
23 "The Intractable Arab/Palestinian Conflict"
Harleysville
Humanities Grant
26 "Alive to the Call: Women and History in Northeastern Pennsylvania"
Beachlake
Commonwealth Speakers
26 "Reminiscing with a Pennsylvania Officer About the Civil War"
Greensburg
Commonwealth Speakers
27 "Re-Imagining Mary Magdalene"
Philadelphia
Commonwealth Speakers

October 2009

1 "Pennsylvania Mountain Voices"
Bellefonte
Commonwealth Speakers
10 "From the Shores of Tripoli to the Banks of Euphrates: US & Middle East"
Harleysville
Humanities Grant
13 Laflin Book Discussion Group
Laflin
Humanities Grant
15 "Women in Russia Today"
Harleysville
Humanities Grant
16 "Alive to the Call: Women and History in Northeastern Pennsylvania"
Towanda
Commonwealth Speakers
16 Live and Learn - Lancaster
Lancaster
17 Live and Learn - Lancaster
Lancaster
18 "Singin' on the Rails"
Portage
Commonwealth Speakers
18 "Seeing Your History Through the 21st Century"
Johnstown
Commonwealth Speakers
18 "Pennsylvania German Riflemen on the Frontier and in the Revolution"
Wyomissing
Commonwealth Speakers
20 "The Underground Railroad in Quilts?"
Fort Washington
Commonwealth Speakers
23 Live and Learn - Philadelphia
Philadelphia
24 Live and Learn - Philadelphia
Philadelphia

November 2009

4 "Terrorism and Counter Terrorism"
Harleysville
Humanities Grant
10 "Andy Warhol and His Critics"
Morton
Commonwealth Speakers
10 Laflin Book Discussion Group
Laflin
Humanities Grant
13 Live and Learn - Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
14 Live and Learn - Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
18 "Iron Clads, Elevated Railroads and Portland Cement: The Genius of Jose de Navarro."
Whitehall
Commonwealth Speakers
19 "A World on Fire: George Washington's Military Career in PA"
Beaver Falls
Commonwealth Speakers
20 "Drawn to the Northern Climes: Arctic Exploration and the Delaware Valley"
Phoenixville
Commonwealth Speakers
20 "The Music, Dance and Instruments of the Pennsylvania Germans"
Kutztown
Commonwealth Speakers
26 "Drawn to the Northern Climes"
Kennett Square
Commonwealth Speakers

December 2009

8 Laflin Book Discussion Group
Laflin
Humanities Grant

January 2010

12 Laflin Book Discussion Group
Laflin
Humanities Grant
22 "SUPERGIRL! Panel Discussion"
Philadelphia
Humanities Grant

February 2010

9 Laflin Book Discussion Group
Laflin
Humanities Grant


Humanities Grant projects are supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, including funds from its We the People initiative on American history.

Commonwealth Speakers presentations are supported in part by the following sponsors: the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities including funds from its We the People initiative on American history, federal Library Services and Technology Act funds administered by the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries and Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania.

Read About It! sessions are supported in part by Library Services and Technology Act funds administered by the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of its We the People initiative on American history and Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania.