Event Calendar
Indicates Members Only Events
Indicates Reservations Required
(To make a reservation call 215-925-2688 or email events@philaathenaeum.org unless other instructions are given)
Fall 2018 Programs (pdf)
| October 18 | 5:30PM | Concert: Tempesta di Mare This is an event for Shareholders only (Shareholders are welcome to bring one guest).  
Additional Information |
| October 31 | 12:00PM |
Philly After Dark gallery talk with Gladys Brooks Curator
of Architecture, Bruce Laverty. ***Candy and a free exhibit poster for anyone who arrives in costume on Halloween*** |
| November 8 | 6:30PM | Lecture: Stephen Fried, “Reclaiming Our “Lost” Founding Father, Dr. Benjamin Rush” Athenaeum Members $5, General Public $10. This event will take place at The College of Physicians. Additional Information |
| November 12 | 5:30PM | Philly After Dark gallery talk with Gladys Brooks Curator of Architecture, Bruce Laverty. |
| November 13 | 11:00AM | Socrates Cafe Discussion Group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at gsfesq@verizon.net |
| 3:00-4:00PM | The Athenaeum Reading Project:
The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, with Peter
Conn, Vartan Gregorian Professor Emeritus, University of
Pennsylvania.
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| November 21 | Athenaeum closes at 1:00PM | |
| November 22-23 | Closed for Thanksgiving | |
| November 26 | 5:30PM | The Shakespeare Comedy Project,
or Four Guys Explain Comedy in Shakespeare This is an event for Shareholders only (Shareholders are welcome to bring one guest).
Additional Information |
| November 28 | 12:00PM | Philly After Dark gallery talk with Gladys Brooks Curator of Architecture, Bruce Laverty. |
| December 10 | 5:30PM | Lecture: Jay Robert Stiefel, The Cabinetmaker's Account: John Head's Record of Craft & Commerce in Colonial Philadelphia, 1718–1753. This event is co-sponsored with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the American Philosophical Society and will take place at the American Philosophical Society's Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street. Click here for additional information and to RSVP. |
| December 11 | 11:00AM | Socrates Cafe Discussion Group. RSVP to Gil Feinberg at gsfesq@verizon.net |
| December 12 | 3:00-4:00PM | The Athenaeum Reading Project:
The stories of Franz Kafka, with Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H.
Browne Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania.
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| 5:30PM | Philly After Dark gallery talk with Gladys Brooks Curator of Architecture, Bruce Laverty. | |
| December 18 | 5:30PM | Lecture: Thomas Childers,
The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. Athenaeum
Members Free, General Public $15.
Additional Information |
| December 24-25 | Closed for Christmas | |
| December 28 | Philly After Dark Exhibition Closes | |
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