January

06-At the Movies: Heat and Dust08-Building Philadelphia: Alex Garvin14-The Liberty of The Ballot: Eric Foner14-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group16-Zentangles with Marie Simons21-Opera Philadelphia: Verdi’s Requiem (Talk)22-Crucial Conversations: Jason DeParle23-Zentangles with Marie Simons24-Brown Bag Conversations26-Author Talks: Marie Benedict27-At the Movies: A Room With A View30-Zentangles with Marie Simons31-Opera Philadelphia: Verdi’s Requiem (Performance)

February

03-At the Movies: Howards End04-Crucial Conversations: Nathan C. Walker05-Brown Bag Conversations06-Seeking Athena: Holly A. Crocker06-Author Talks: Pam Jenoff07-First Friday10-At the Movies: The White Countess11-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group12-Crucial Conversations: Lauren Cristella13-Michener Art Museum: Impressionism to Modernism14-Brown Bag Conversations18-World Shapers & Visionaries: Alan Gallay21-Allegro Presents: Vivaldi to Eleanor Rigby24-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter27-Seeking Athena: Nancy Moses

March

02-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter04-Writing Your Life06-Allegro Presents: From Bach to Ravel06-First Friday09-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter10-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group11-Crucial Conversations: Jen Manion12-Seeking Athena: Catherine Kerrison13-Brown Bag Conversations16-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter17-Seeking Athena: Molly Lester18-Seeking Athena: Kathy Peiss18-Writing Your Life

April

01-Writing Your Life02-World Shapers & Visionaries: Leo Damrosch03-First Friday06-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter13-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter14-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group15-Writing Your Life17-The Liberty of The Ballot: Brandywine River Art Museum: Votes For Women Exhibition21-Opera Philadelphia: Madame Butterfly (Talk)22-205th Annual Meeting27-At the Movies: Shampoo29-Opera Philadelphia: Madame Butterfly (Performance)

May

01-First Friday04-At the Movies: Being There05-Society Hill- Hot and Healthy07-World Shapers & Visionaries: Diana Schaub11-At the Movies: Election12-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group13-Building Philadelphia: Thom Nickels15-Building Philadelphia: Strawberry Mansion Tour18-Allegro Presents: Improv and Avant Garde20-World Shapers & Visionaries: Andrea Barnet27-The Liberty of The Ballot: Richard Bell

Calendar at a glance The Liberty of The Ballot: The History & Legacy of the 15th and 19th Amendments

Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution? January 14, 5:30pm Book signing and reception to follow. Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $20

Ann D. Gordon, “Citizenship & Suffrage: Lessons from the Movement for Woman Suffrage”March 26, 5:30pmReception to follow. Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $20

Brandywine River Art MuseumTour of Votes for Women Exhibition April 17, 11:00amTransportation and lunch providedAthenæum Members and their Guests: $60

Seeking Athena: Women’s Inspiration & Wisdom

World Shapers & Visionaries

Holly A. Crocker, “Virtues that Matter: from Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women to Shakespeare’s Hamlet”February 6, 3:00pmBook signing to follow. Free and open to the public

Nancy Moses, Fakes, Forgeries, and FraudsFebruary 27, 5:30pmBook signing and reception to follow. Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $20

Catherine Kerrison, Jefferson’s DaughtersMarch 12, 3:00pmBook signing to follow. Free and open to the public

Molly Lester, “Preserving Minerva: (Re) Discovering the Work of Architect Minerva Parker Nichols” March 17, 6:00pmMember’s Reception at 5:30pmAthenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

Kathy Peiss, “What Sarah Josepha Hale Wrought: Women’s Magazines and the Contradictions of American Womanhood” March 18, 6:00pmMember’s Reception at 5:30pmAthenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

Alan Gallay, “Walter Raleigh and the Origins of the English Empire”February 18, 3:00pm Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public

Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped An AgeApril 2, 6:00pmMembers Reception at 5:30pmBook signing to follow. Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

Diana Schaub, “Booker T. Washington and the Lessons of Lincoln”May 7, 5:30pmAthenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

Andrea Barnet, “Change-makers: Four Visionary Women who Made a Difference”May 20, 3:00pmBook signing to follow. Free and open to the public

Allegro Presents: Chamber Music Series“From Vivaldi to Eleanor Rigby”February 21, 6:00pmMembers Reception at 5:30pmChristine Lamprea, cello Jordan Dodson, guitar

“Across the Centuries: From Bach to Ravel” March 6, 6:00pmMembers Reception at 5:30pmZachary DePue, violin Sophie Shao, cello

“Meeting of the Minds: Improv and Avant Garde” May 18, 6:00pmMembers Reception at 5:30pmEunice Kim, violin Xavier Foley, double bass

Athenæum Members and their guests only$15 for each performance$40 to attend all three

Crucial ConversationsCurrent topics with historical contexts. Learn from leaders in their fields.

Further engage the questions over brown bag lunch with executive director, Beth Hessel & other Athenæum members.

Jason DeParle, A Good Provider is One Who LeavesJanuary 22, 3:00pm Book signing to follow.Free and open to the public.Member’s conversation, January 24, 12:00pm

Rev. Dr. Nathan C. Walker, “Political Contempt and Religion” February 4, 6:00pmMember’s reception at 5:30pmAthenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15Member’s conversation, February 5, 12:00pm

Lauren Cristella, Chief Advancement Officer of the Committee of Seventy & President of the League of Women Voters of Philadelphia, “Champion Local Democracy” February 12, 5:30pm Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15Member’s conversation, February 14, 12:00pm

Jen Manion, “What is the Purpose of Punishment?”March 11, 5:30pmBook signing to follow.Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15Member’s conversation, March 13, 12:00pm

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23-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter26-The Liberty of The Ballot: Ann D. Gordon30-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter

Society Hill- Hot and HealthyBidi McSorley, M.D., “Mindfulness Meditation: An Antidote for Today’s Anxious World”May 5, 2:30pmFree

FIRST FRIDAYS

February 7 - Architectural Toys: The Building Blocks of Inspiration

March 6 - Structure & Purpose Exhibition

Music. Pop-up Artist Galleries. Close Encounters with Athenæum’s Collections. Social Hours. One Word: Fun.

April 3 - Pop-up Gallery, Artist Michele Foster Lucas

May 1 - Hand Fan Collection

Richard Bell, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey HomeMay 27, 6:00pmMembers Reception at 5:30 pmBook signing to followAthenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

Bettye Collier-Thomas, “In Politics to Stay: African American Women and the Vote”June 4, 5:30pm Reception to follow. Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $20

Author Talks

Marie Benedict, Lady ClementineJanuary 26, 2:00pm Hardcover copy of the book and tea reception included in price.Book signing to follow.Athenæum Members: $40General Admission: $45

Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of ParisFebruary 6, 5:30pmBook signing to follow.Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

For the fiction lover in all of us.

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At The Movies with Carrie Rickey

Behind every great building are engineers—the people who make sure it stands up, withstanding natural forces and human abuse alike long into the future. For Philadelphia’s most famous and celebrated architects of the modern era, those engineers were Carl A. Baumert, Nicholas L. Gianopulos, and Thomas J. Leidigh, longtime principals at the firm of Keast & Hood Co. After a 1963 plane crash took the lives of the firm’s founding principals, the young trio found themselves at the firm’s helm. Working together over the following decades, they built it into one of the city’s—and nation’s—most respected structural engineering firms. This retrospective, for the first time, illuminates the scope and importance of their work.

January 9-March 31, 2020Free Admission

The guilty pleasure of an afternoon at the movies, elevated. Free and open to the public. 2:00pm

Cover: Front Elevation of the Athenæum, Keast & Hood, 2012.

Engaging Art and Literature: Immersion Opportunities

Take a course. Try a workshop. Join a field trip. Develop your creative side.

The World of Merchant Ivory

January 6 - Heat and DustJanuary 27 - A Room With a ViewFebruary 3 - Howards EndFebruary 10 - The White Countess

Zentangleswith Marie SimonsJanuary 16th, 23th, 30th Two hour class staring at 12:00pmLimited space availableEach class $50

Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porterwith Steven B. KingWeekly, 8 session course starting February 24 at 5:30pmLimited spaceAthenæum Members only: $150

What’s Your Story? A Memoir Writing Classwith Lynn RosenBi-weekly, 4 session course starting March 4 at 10:00amLimited spaceAthenæum Members: $110General Admission: $130

Therese Dolan, “A Moveable Feast: French Influences on Pennsylvania Impressionism”January 30, 5:30pm Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

Tour of Impressionism to Modernism at the Michener Art MuseumFebruary 13, 11:00amTransportation and lunch providedAthenæum members and their guests only: $60

Political Parables

April 27 - ShampooMay 4 - Being ThereMay 11 - Election

Opera Philadelphia

Verdi’s RequiemJanuary 21, 3:00pm (Talk) Free.

Madame ButterflyApril 21, 2:00pm (Talk) Free.

Building PhiladelphiaAlexander Garvin, The Heart of the City: Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century January 8, 6:00pmMembers Reception at 5:30pmBook signing to follow. Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

Thom Nickels, “Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Real Life Stories”May 13, 5:30pmBook signing to follow.Athenæum Members FreeGeneral Admission: $15

Tour of Historic Strawberry Mansion May 15, 11:00amTransportation Provided.Athenæum Members and their Guests only: $20

PHILADELPHIAPortraits of the City

Photographs by Jerome LukowiczExhibition Opening in April 2020