Lavender Graduation
Lavender Graduation is the historic, national celebration of LGBTQIA+ graduates. Join us for a celebration of the queer and trans communities' accomplishments for commencement - this event is open to the entire UPenn community.
Lavender Graduation is the historic, national celebration of LGBTQIA+ graduates. Join us for a celebration of the queer and trans communities' accomplishments for commencement - this event is open to the entire UPenn community.
University of Pennsylvania Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps senior midshipmen commission as ensigns and second lieutenants in the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
Seating is limited. If you are interested in attending, please contact LT Miller and Ms. Joyce Scrivens at jooliver@upenn.edu.
Celebrate our Makuu Graduates with reception to follow in the ARCH building.
You're invited to join Penn Women's Center as we celebrate half a century of empowering women and advancing gender equity at the University of Pennsylvania. Join us for this milestone event filled with nostalgia, solidarity, and community.
Registration Link:
https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior_specEvent.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=391
The Greenfield Intercultural Center 40th Anniversary Seniors & Alumni
Sunday, May 19, 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Eastern
Greenfield Intercultural Center Lenape Garden and Green
Join GIC Alumni, Class of 2024 graduates, families, and significant others for our Annual Brunch on Sunday, May 19, 2024 from 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. EST on our Patio and in our Lenape Native Garden. This year is extra special as we toast 40 Years of fostering Intercultural Communities at Penn.
Lavender Graduation is the historic, national celebration of LGBTQIA+ graduates. Join us for a celebration of the queer and trans communities' accomplishments for commencement - this event is open to the entire UPenn community.
Join the LGBT Center for our last Shapiro-Bezdek Family Dinner of the year! This Family Dinner will take place after our annual Lavender Graduation ceremony and is open to all of Penn's campus community.
Azuka Theatre’s first LGBTQ+ Affinity Night is a selected performance for members of the LGBTQ+ community to collectively experience An Army of Lovers. After the show, everyone will be invited to a curated space in the lobby to enjoy music, refreshments, and a chance to mingle. We specifically ask that people in the LGBTQ+ community attend. Our doors are always open to everyone, but we kindly ask folks outside the community to celebrate with us another night. As a company, we amplify the voices of people whose stories often go unheard and today we celebrate the voices of the LGBTQ+ community.
About the show: An aging queer activist is invited to the sleek, enclosed campus of a global communications company to give a speech for their first Pride celebration. She does not come in peace. An Army of Lovers is a play about radical acts of existence, corporate culture as an oxymoron, and the freedom to be public.
Show is playing from May 2nd to May 19th.
All graduating students (grad and undergrad of all genders and identities) are invited to celebrate with us and receive a graduation cord. Alumni and guests are also invited to celebrate our graduates and tour the 50th Anniversary Archive Display at the Center.
University of Pennsylvania Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps senior midshipmen commission as ensigns and second lieutenants in the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
Seating is limited. If you are interested in attending, please contact LT Miller and Ms. Joyce Scrivens at jooliver@upenn.edu.
Celebrate our Makuu Graduates with reception to follow in the ARCH building.
Join us for our annual Alumni Weekend Open House to renew your acquaintance with the KWH community or get to know this lively and innovative home for writers of all ages and genres. Coffee and light refreshments will be served!
You're invited to join Penn Women's Center as we celebrate half a century of empowering women and advancing gender equity at the University of Pennsylvania. Join us for this milestone event filled with nostalgia, solidarity, and community.
Registration Link:
https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior_specEvent.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=391
Please join us for a panel of parent writers, artists, and musicians. Moderated by Catherine Ricketts (C'09), author of the forthcoming The Mother Artist, the panel will explore questions about what it takes to create while taking on the many joys – and obligations – of care. Panelists include Nate Chinen (C’97), Lauren Francis-Sharma (C’94), Natalie Eve Garrett (GFA’04), Aimee Koran (GFA’17), and Joseph Earl Thomas (G’24).
NATE CHINEN (C'97) is the author of Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century. He served as the first assistant coordinator at the Kelly Writers House, before becoming a columnist for JazzTimes and a music critic for The New York Times. Nate is now editorial director at WRTI, a regular contributor to NPR, and proprietor of The Gig, a Substack publication. A thirteen-time winner of the Helen Dance–Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Writing, he is also coauthor of George Wein's Myself Among Others: A Life in Music.
LAUREN FRANCIS-SHARMA (C’94) is the author of Book of the Little Axe, the 2020 ALA “Libraries Transform Book Pick” and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award in Fiction. Her first novel, Til the Well Runs Dry was awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Lauren is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her next novel, Casualties of Truth, based on her time at the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings in South Africa, will be published by Grove/Atlantic in February. Lauren is a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle and a MacDowell Fellow. She serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and is the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College.
NATALIE EVE GARRETT (GFA’04) is an artist and a writer. She's the editor of The Lonely Stories, a cathartic collection of personal essays from 22 celebrated writers about the joys and struggles of being alone, out now from Catapult. She's also the editor of Eat Joy (Catapult, 2019), a collection of stories exploring how food can help us cope in dark times, and The Artists’ and Writers Cookbook (pH Books, 2016), a collection of stories with recipes. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, Natalie lives with her husband, two children, and their puppy, Zephyr, in a little town near DC, along the Potomac River.
AIMEE KORAN (GFA’17) is a multi-disciplinary artist based out of Philadelphia, PA. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts with a minor in textile design from Moore College of Art & Design. Aimee explores the topic of motherhood focusing on the continuously shifting and complex binaries that shape the role. Her work has been shown around the globe in venues such as the Richard Saulton Gallery, London, UK; Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA; and completed residencies at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; and Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ. Her solo and group exhibitions have been featured in publications like The New York Times, Vogue, Whitewall, Artslant, Artnet News, and A Woman’s Thing. Aimee’s work was recently acquired for addition to the permanent contemporary collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
CATHERINE RICKETTS (C’09) writes about the arts, grief, joy, and spirituality. She studied writing at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MFA in nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University. Her essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review Online, The Christian Century, Image, The Millions, Paste, and the Ploughshares blog, among other publications. While writing, she has supported the work of other practicing artists as a live arts presenter, having held jobs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia's FringeArts, and the public radio station WXPN. Ricketts lives with her family near Philadelphia and works in the Villanova University Honors Program. Find her on Instagram at @bycatherinericketts.
JOSEPH EARL THOMAS (G’24) is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in VQR, N+1, Gulf Coast, The Offing, and The Kenyon Review. He has an MFA in prose from The University of Notre Dame and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. An excerpt of his memoir, Sink, won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright, VONA, Tin House, and Bread Loaf. He’s writing the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and a collection of stories: Leviathan Beach, among other oddities.
Penn Alumni Veteran Reception
The Greenfield Intercultural Center 40th Anniversary Seniors & Alumni
Sunday, May 19, 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Eastern
Greenfield Intercultural Center Lenape Garden and Green
Join GIC Alumni, Class of 2024 graduates, families, and significant others for our Annual Brunch on Sunday, May 19, 2024 from 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. EST on our Patio and in our Lenape Native Garden. This year is extra special as we toast 40 Years of fostering Intercultural Communities at Penn.
Join us to celebrate our LatinX graduates in the Zellerbach Theatre followed by Brindis (Reception) from 3-4:30pm in Annenberg Plaza
After graduation, the PAACH and ASAM team will celebrate Class of 2024 graduates with families and friends with lunch from an Asian caterer. A Graduation themed Step and Repeat background setup will be available for photos.
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