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alumni weekend 2008, may 16-19: making memories, making history

ARTS @ PENN

Alumni Weekend is your opportunity to enjoy the vast array of visual and performing arts at Penn. Learn from experts at the Penn Gallery Hop. Discover the University's cultural life on your own through a visit to any one of Penn's several museums and galleries, an eye-opening performance at the Annenberg Center, or the spring floral display at Morris Arboretum.

Addams Fine Arts Hall
Senior Graduation Show

Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 AM-5 PM; Sunday, 1-4 PM
Phone: 215-573-5134 | Web: www.design.upenn.edu
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Arthur Ross Gallery
Remembered Light—Destruction and Resurrection:
Glass Fragments from World War II

(included in the Gallery Hop)
Hours: Friday-Monday, 10 AM-5 PM
Phone: 215-898-2083 | Web: www.upenn.edu/ARG
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Institute of Contemporary Art
Mike's World: Michael Smith & Joshua White and
    Other Collaborators
Trisha Donnelly
Project Space and Ramp Project: Trenton Doyle Hancock

(all 3 exhibits are included in the Gallery Hop)
Hours: Wednesday-Friday, Noon-8 PM; Saturday and Sunday, 11 AM-5 PM
Phone: 215-898-5911 | Web: www.icaphila.org
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Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives
Kahn's Philadelphia

(included in the Gallery Hop)
Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 AM-5 PM; Sunday, Noon-4 PM
Phone: 215-898-8323
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The Morris Aboretum
100 East Northwestern Avenue
Visit the Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and enjoy one of the world's largest collections of plant and floral species in full spring bloom. Admission is free for Penn alumni.
Hours: Friday, 10 AM-4 PM, Saturday and
Sunday, 10 AM-5 PM
Phone: 215-247-5777
Web: www.morrisarboretum.org
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University of Pennsylvania Library
Textural Spaces: An Architecture of Reading

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor

How does space affect where, how, and what we read? To what extent is our enjoyment of reading affected by where we choose to read? This exhibit explores how physical surroundings can influence our reading mood and imagination.
Hours: Friday, 9 AM-5 PM; Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM
Phone: 215-898-7555
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Surviving: The Body of Evidence

Penn Museum
Explore our human origins in this interactive, multimedia exhibit that takes an up-close look at evolution. Touch and feel the casts of fossil bones from the primate and human evolutionary record and hear what geneticists, biologists, and nanoscientists have to say about where we came from and where we're going.
Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10 AM-4:30 PM; Sunday, 1-5 PM
Phone: 215-898-4000
Web: www.museum.upenn.edu

Alumni are admitted free to the Museum during Alumni Weekend with a Penn Alumni Card.
See more info on how to get a Penn Alumni Card ›

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Penn Presents
Pilobolus Dance Theatre

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Zellerbach Theatre
Friday, May 16: 8 PM
Saturday, May 17, 2 and 8 PM.
View full program description ›

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PARKING
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E. CRAIG SWEETEN ALUMNI HOUSE
3533 Locust Walk ::more ›

REGISTRATION TENT
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INFO TENT I
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INFO TENT II
Hill Square, 34th & Walnut Streets ::more ›

HOUSTON HALL
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WHEELCHAIR NEEDS
Wheelchairs are available upon request. ::more ›

CHILDCARE
Babysitting services can be pre-arranged through the Penn Children's Center. ::more ›

HOTEL RESERVATIONS
Alumni Weekend is a busy weekend for city hoteliers. ::more ›

PENN ALUMNI CARD
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HEALTH & FITNESS
David Pottruck Health and Fitness Center
The Pottruck Center is available to alumni and their families during Alumni Weekend. ::more ›

UNIVERSITY SQUARE
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PENN MERCHANDISE
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