Events

09/02/2011 - 09/17/2011
A Paper Garden: An idiosyncratic and indefatigable account of Empress Josephine’s and André Michaux’s love of botany
A play by Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen and Genevieve Perrier for the APS Museum
(All day)

Performance Dates and Times
Fri. Sept. 2 — noon & 6pm (6pm performance is followed by a discussion between Aaron Cromie, Mary Tuomanen and Genevieve Perrier)
Sat. Sept. 3 — 1 and 3pm
Sun. Sept. 4 — 1 and 3pm
Fri. Sept. 9 — noon & 6pm
Sat. Sept. 10 — 1 and 3pm
Sun. Sept. 11 — 1 and 3pm
Fri. Sept. 16 — noon & 6pm
Sat. Sept. 17 — 1 and 3pm

 

FREE TICKETS REQUIRED <----TICKETS LINK

Presented in the APS’s Jefferson Garden (on the east side of 5th Street between Chestnut and Walnut Streets).

 

A Paper Garden is part of the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

At the turn of the 19th Century, an exotic plant sprouts from an unusual box sent across the Atlantic Ocean by famous world explorer, raconteur, and botanist André Michaux to Empress Josephine’s French estate. What blooms is a story full of tall tales, love songs, and one unique French garden.


 
09/20/2011
“Designing the Wild and Cultivating the City”
A lecture by Fritz Haeg
6:00 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society

427 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia 19106

Free reservations are required. To register, contact museum [at] amphilsoc [dot] org or 215.701.4421
This event is co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

 Fritz Haeg will present his recent work including the series of Edible Estate gardens – highly visible domestic urban productive pleasure gardens planted from Istanbul to Austin, London to Los Angeles – and the urban wildlife architecture of Animal Estates. Both projects suggest city environments that are more connected to nature, useful, participatory, and fun.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 6:00 pm


 
09/23/2011
REBECCA KAMEN: Making the Invisible, Visible: Discoveries Between Art and Science
Rebecca Kamen
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Reception: 5:30pm Program: 6:00pm 

 
 

Rare books viewed during residencies at the American Philosophical Society and Chemical Heritage Foundation libraries have informed and inspired the development of recent work. As an artist, exploring significant history of science collections creates a unique opportunity to render and transform words into tangible, visual form. These cumulative experiences have instilled a profound sense of awe and wonder for the world around me, and continue to create new bridges between art and science in my work as both an artist and professor. 


 
10/05/2011
ANDREW BURSTEIN and NANCY ISENBERG: Madison and Jefferson
Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Reception: 5:30pm Program: 6:00pm

Please join us for a lecture, reception, and book signing
 

 

Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg are Professors of History at Louisiana State University. Burstein is the author of seven other books, including Jefferson’s Secrets and The Passions of Andrew Jackson. Isenberg is also the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr and Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Students of political culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they previously collaborated on a study of death in early America: Mortal Remains (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).


 
10/26/2011
DAVA SOBEL: A More Perfect Heaven
Dava Sobel
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Reception: 5:30pm Program: 6:00pm

Please join us for a lecture, reception, and book signing.
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In her elegant, compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the conflicting personalities and extraordinary discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution. At the heart of the book is her play, “And the Sun Stood Still,” imagining Copernicus's hesitation to publish his outlandish idea -- and the struggle that convinced him to let his manuscript see the light of day.