January 06-At the Movies: Heat and Dust 08-Building Philadelphia: Alex Garvin 14-The Liberty of The Ballot: Eric Foner 14-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group 16-Zentangles with Marie Simons 21-Opera Philadelphia: Verdi’s Requiem (Talk) 22-Crucial Conversaons: Jason DeParle 23-Zentangles with Marie Simons 24-Brown Bag Conversaons 26-Author Talks: Marie Benedict 27-At the Movies: A Room With A View 30-Zentangles with Marie Simons 31-Opera Philadelphia: Verdi’s Requiem (Performance) February 03-At the Movies: Howards End 04-Crucial Conversaons: Nathan C. Walker 05-Brown Bag Conversaons 06-Seeking Athena: Holly A. Crocker 06-Author Talks: Pam Jenoff 07-First Friday 10-At the Movies: The White Countess 11-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group 12-Crucial Conversaons: Lauren Cristella 13-Michener Art Museum: Impressionism to Modernism 14-Brown Bag Conversaons 18-World Shapers & Visionaries: Alan Gallay 21-Allegro Presents: Vivaldi to Eleanor Rigby 24-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter 27-Seeking Athena: Nancy Moses March 02-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter 04-Wring Your Life 06-Allegro Presents: From Bach to Ravel 06-First Friday 09-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter 10-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group 11-Crucial Conversaons: Jen Manion 12-Seeking Athena: Catherine Kerrison 13-Brown Bag Conversaons 16-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter 17-Seeking Athena: Molly Lester 18-Seeking Athena: Kathy Peiss 18-Wring Your Life April 01-Wring Your Life 02-World Shapers & Visionaries: Leo Damrosch 03-First Friday 06-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter 13-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter 14-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group 15-Wring Your Life 17-The Liberty of The Ballot: Brandywine River Art Museum: Votes For Women Exhibion 21-Opera Philadelphia: Madame Buerfly (Talk) 22-205th Annual Meeng 27-At the Movies: Shampoo 29-Opera Philadelphia: Madame Buerfly (Performance) May 01-First Friday 04-At the Movies: Being There 05-Society Hill- Hot and Healthy 07-World Shapers & Visionaries: Diana Schaub 11-At the Movies: Elecon 12-Socrates Cafe Discussion Group 13-Building Philadelphia: Thom Nickels 15-Building Philadelphia: Strawberry Mansion Tour 18-Allegro Presents: Improv and Avant Garde 20-World Shapers & Visionaries: Andrea Barnet 27-The Liberty of The Ballot: Richard Bell Calendar at a glance The Liberty of The Ballot: The History & Legacy of the 15 th and 19 th Amendments Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstrucon Remade the Constuon? January 14, 5:30pm Book signing and recepon to follow. Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $20 Ann D. Gordon, “Cizenship & Suffrage: Lessons from the Movement for Woman Suffrage” March 26, 5:30pm Recepon to follow. Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $20 Brandywine River Art Museum Tour of Votes for Women Exhibion April 17, 11:00am Transportaon and lunch provided Athenæum Members and their Guests: $60 Seeking Athena: Women’s Inspiration & Wisdom World Shapers & Visionaries Holly A. Crocker, “Virtues that Maer: from Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women to Shakespeare’s Hamlet” February 6, 3:00pm Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public Nancy Moses, Fakes, Forgeries, and Frauds February 27, 5:30pm Book signing and recepon to follow. Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $20 Catherine Kerrison, Jefferson’s Daughters March 12, 3:00pm Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public Molly Lester, “Preserving Minerva: (Re) Discovering the Work of Architect Minerva Parker Nichols” March 17, 6:00pm Member’s Recepon at 5:30pm Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $15 Kathy Peiss, “What Sarah Josepha Hale Wrought: Women’s Magazines and the Contradicons of American Womanhood” March 18, 6:00pm Member’s Recepon at 5:30pm Athenæum Members Free General 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 Age April 2, 6:00pm Members Recepon at 5:30pm Book signing to follow. Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $15 Diana Schaub, “Booker T. Washington and the Lessons of Lincoln” May 7, 5:30pm Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $15 Andrea Barnet, “Change-makers: Four Visionary Women who Made a Difference” May 20, 3:00pm Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public Allegro Presents: Chamber Music Series “From Vivaldi to Eleanor Rigby” February 21, 6:00pm Members Recepon at 5:30pm Chrisne Lamprea, cello Jordan Dodson, guitar “Across the Centuries: From Bach to Ravel” March 6, 6:00pm Members Recepon at 5:30pm Zachary DePue, violin Sophie Shao, cello “Meeng of the Minds: Improv and Avant Garde” May 18, 6:00pm Members Recepon at 5:30pm Eunice Kim, violin Xavier Foley, double bass Athenæum Members and their guests only $15 for each performance $40 to aend all three Crucial Conversations Current topics with historical contexts. Learn from leaders in their fields. Further engage the quesons over brown bag lunch with execuve director, Beth Hessel & other Athenæum members. Jason DeParle, A Good Provider is One Who Leaves January 22, 3:00pm Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public. Member’s conversaon, January 24, 12:00pm Rev. Dr. Nathan C. Walker, “Polical Contempt and Religion” February 4, 6:00pm Member’s recepon at 5:30pm Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $15 Member’s conversaon, February 5, 12:00pm Lauren Cristella, Chief Advancement Officer of the Commiee of Seventy & President of the League of Women Voters of Philadelphia, “Champion Local Democracy” February 12, 5:30pm Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $15 Member’s conversaon, February 14, 12:00pm Jen Manion, “What is the Purpose of Punishment?” March 11, 5:30pm Book signing to follow. Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $15 Member’s conversaon, March 13, 12:00pm Please see our website www.PhilaAthenaeum.org for addional informaon and registraon instrucons. All events require registraon. Quesons? Call 215-925-2688 or email [email protected] Follow PhilaAthenaeum on social media and join our mailing list at www.PhilaAthenaeum.org 23-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter 26-The Liberty of The Ballot: Ann D. Gordon 30-Shakespeare in Love with Cole Porter Society Hill- Hot and Healthy Bidi McSorley, M.D., “Mindfulness Meditaon: An Andote for Today’s Anxious World” May 5, 2:30pm Free FIRST FRIDAYS February 7 - Architectural Toys: The Building Blocks of Inspiraon March 6 - Structure & Purpose Exhibion Music. Pop-up Arst Galleries. Close Encounters with Athenæum’s Collecons. Social Hours. One Word: Fun. April 3 - Pop-up Gallery, Arst Michele Foster Lucas May 1 - Hand Fan Collecon Richard Bell, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home May 27, 6:00pm Members Recepon at 5:30 pm Book signing to follow Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $15 Beye Collier-Thomas, “In Polics to Stay: African American Women and the Vote” June 4, 5:30pm Recepon to follow. Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $20 Author Talks Marie Benedict, Lady Clemenne January 26, 2:00pm Hardcover copy of the book and tea recepon included in price. Book signing to follow. Athenæum Members: $40 General Admission: $45 Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris February 6, 5:30pm Book signing to follow. Athenæum Members Free General Admission: $15 For the ficon lover in all of us. June 04-The Liberty of The Ballot: Beye Collier-Thomas