Late Night Series Philadelphia, a weekly open-mic sponsored by Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will host a release party for the first official Late Night Series CD today, June 4, 2009, from 8:30 to 10:30 in the lobby of Creese Student Center (32nd and Chestnut Streets). Attendees will receive a free copy of the CD.Artists on the CD who will also perform at the party include favorite LNS artists including Steve Gerbin, Sonni Shine, John Faye of IKE, Dan Wythoff and Jonah Delso.This event is free and open to the University community. Refreshments will be provided.For more information, contact Jon Niles at jonniles6@gmail.com or 732-957-8360.
Sigma Phi Epsilon is holding their end-of-term coffee house this Monday, the 8th, from 6 PM until 9 PM th frat house on 200 N. 34th Street. There will be coffee, tea, cakes and ice cream for your enjoyment. They will also have an open mic available, so anybody that is musically inclined is encouraged to perform. The best part of all? Everything is FREE. The house is open to everybody, so bring your members, bring your friends, and come take a break from the stress of studying for finals.
Cool Down Before Finals Week Tau Kappa Epsilon will host a fundraiser for their organization today, June 2, 2009, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. near the Mario the Magnificent dragon sculpture (33rd and Market Streets).Tau Kappa Epsilon will sell various ice pops and hand out free Monster energy drinks that will help students cool down before finals week.For more information, contact Michael Lanza at lanzamike@gmail.com.
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I recommend going to the whole thing if you want the treats, the event takes place in a reserveable room in the library (302, W.W. Hagerty Library).
“Harvest of Blossoms: The Poetry and Life of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger”
The Judaic Studies Program will present “Harvest of Blossoms: The Poetry and Life of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger” a reading, lecture and book signing by Irene Silverblatt, PhD, professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University, today, May 26, 2009, at 2 p.m. in room 302, W.W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets).
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger died in an SS labor camp in 1942 at the age of 18. In the course her life cut short, she composed 57 poems in German that miraculously survived. This lecture will explore her life, the multilingual city of Czernowitz and her gripping poetry.
Irene and Helene Silverblatt are the editors of this first translation into English of Meerbaum-Eisinger’s poetry, Harvest of Blossoms: Poems from a Life Cut Short (Northwestern University Press, 2008). They are the daughters of Hilda Schrager Silverblatt, surviving first cousin of Selma. Irene ’s books also include Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (Duke University Press) and Moon, Sun and Witches (Princeton University Press).
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Books will be sold by the Pennsylvania Book Center (34th and Sansom Street).
Support for this event comes from the Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation, the Milton and Miriam Handler Foundation, and the Friends of Judaic Studies.
For more information, contact Kathy.carll@drexel.edu or 215-895-6388.