Registration for Programs
The Liberty of The Ballot
Brandywine River Art Museum Tour of Votes for Women Exhibition
Friday, April 17, 11:00 AM
Transportation and lunch provided
Athenaeum Members and their guests: $60
Eventbrite Registration
Engaging Art and Literature: Immersion Opportunities
Opera Philadelphia- Madame Butterfly
Talk: April 21, 2:00 PM
Performance: April 29, 7:00 PM
Both of these events are for Athenaeum Members Only. At The Movies With Carrie Rickey: Political Parables
Shampoo
Monday, April 27, 2:00 PM
Free.
Eventbrite Registration At The Movies With Carrie Rickey: Political Parables
Being There
Monday, May 4, 2:00 PM
Eventbrite Registration Society Hill- Hot and Healthy
Dr. Bidi McSorley, Instructor, Penn Program for Mindfulness
"Mindfulness Meditation: An Antidote for Today’s Anxious World"
Tuesday, May 5, 2:30 PM
Bidi McSorley, M.D., is a behavioral pediatrician with a practice in center city Philadelphia. She is also on the clinical affiliate faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She received her mindfulness teacher training through the Penn Program for Mindfulness. Using the powerful and therapeutic techniques of Mindfulness, Dr. McSorley teaches children, teens and adults skills to transform their lives, living with less stress, less anxiety and increased vitality and health.
Free. RSVP: Call 215-925-2688 or email events@philaathenaeum.org
Diana Schaub, “Booker T. Washington and the Lessons of Lincoln”
Thursday, May 7, 5:30 PM
Believing that civic friendship was a necessary foundation for constitutional liberty, Booker T. Washington worked diligently and deftly to reshape the American character in a way that would foster racial reconciliation. The lecture will examine how Washington employed the nation's memory of Abraham Lincoln to further his own redemptive moral vision and subtle statesmanship.
Athenaeum Members Free, General Admission: $15
Election
Monday, May 11, 2:00 PM
Eventbrite Registration Building Philadelphia
Building Philadelphia
Thom Nickels, "Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Real Life Stories"
Wednesday, May 13, 6:00 PMMembers Reception, 5:30 PM
The Grandeur of Philadelphia's Past Revealed: Philadelphia's grand mansions and architectural treasures reflect its status in American history. Author Thom Nickels presents the city’s most iconic homes.
Book signing to follow. Athenaeum members free, General Admission: $15
Tour of Historic Strawberry Mansion
Friday, May 15, 11:00 AM
The Historic Strawberry Mansion is the largest of the seven historic Fairmount Park Houses. Formerly known as “Summerville,” Historic Strawberry Mansion was built in 1789 by Judge William Lewis, a well-known lawyer and abolitionist, as a summer home along the Schuylkill River.
Transportation Provided Athenaeum Members and their Guests only: $20
"Meeting of the Minds: Improv and Avant Garde"
Monday, May 18, 6:00 PMMembers Reception, 5:30 PM
Eunice Kim, violinXavier Foley, double bass
Athenaeum members and their guests only. $15 for each performance, $40 to attend all three
Andrea Barnet, “Change-makers: Four Visionary Women who Made a Difference”
Wednesday, May 20, 3:00 PM
Rachel Carson warned us about poisoning the environment; Jane Jacobs fought for livable cities and strong communities; Jane Goodall demonstrated the indelible kinship between humans and animals; and Alice Waters urged us to reconsider what and how we eat.
Free. Book Signing to follow.
Richard Bell, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
Wednesday, May 27, 6:00 PMMembers Reception, 5:30 PM
Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.
Their ordeal—an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still—shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War.
Impeccably researched and breathlessly paced, Stolen tells the incredible story of five boys whose courage forever changed the fight against slavery in America.
Bettye Collier-Thomas, “In Politics to Stay: African American Women and the Vote”
Thursday, June 4, 5:30 PM
Reception to follow.
Athenaeum Members Free, General Admission: $20
Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped An Age
Thursday, June 18, 6:00 PM
Leo Damrosch will recreate a celebrated eighteenth-century London club whose members met at the Turks Head Tavern to eat, drink, and enthusiastically argue. Damrosch’s talk will also range beyond those weekly meetings to illuminate the larger careers of many of the members.
Book signing to follow.
