A CONVERSATION WITH EMANUEL KELLY AND REBECCA YAMIN Archaeology, the President’s House, and the Transformation of the Urban Landscape: February 21, 5:30 PM, Paley Library REGISTER ON FACEBOOK The urban landscape is constantly changing, but underneath the surface lay clues to our past. Join archaeologist Rebecca Yamin and architect Emanuel Kelly to discuss architecture, archaeology and the changing urban landscape. About our speakers: Emanuel Kelly, FAIA, is a principal and co-founder of Kelly/Maiello Architects & Planners, established in 1976. His 38-year career is notable for service to the community, the education of future architects and a sustained commitment to preserving and revitalizing communities that is inspired by his roots in the urban African American experience. Mr. Kelly is a member of the Philadelphia Art Commission, the Philadelphia Zoning Code Commission, and for ten years was a member of the Bureau of Historic Preservation (BHP) of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission that recommends historic sites for placement on the National Register. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). In 1993 he became the first African American president of the Philadelphia AIA. From 1976 to 2003, he was a professor in the architecture program at Temple University. He holds a Master of City Planning and Urban Design Degree from Harvard University and a B. S. in architecture from Drexel University. Rebecca Yamin has been active in urban archaeology for the last 20 years. Her major projects include the analysis of almost one million artifacts recovered on a block that was once part of the notorious Five Points in New York City, and the research and excavation done before the construction of the new Visitor Center and Liberty Bell Center on Independence Mall. She has also headed projects on Franklin Square, Independence Square, on the expansion site of the Convention Center, and the search for the Willie Sutton escape tunnel at Eastern State Penitentiary. Her book, Digging in the City of Brotherly Love, published in 2008, describes many of these projects as well as other important archeological projects done in the city. Ms. Yamin holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and MA and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. Emanuel Kelly, FAIA

February 15, 2:30 PM, Paley Library Join us on February 15 for conversation, refreshments and special opportunity with Dr. Karol M. Wasylyshyn. Register now on facebook! Karol Wasylyshyn’s Behind the Executive Door explains the three leadership types –Remarkable, Perilous and Toxic. This book is a “how-to” manual for students, managers and employees at any level. It provides the key to understanding the continuum on which leadership exists and offers the power of insight for identifying boss types and bettering one’s efforts to manage them. Not just another leadership reflection, this book includes an inside look at the behavior of top business executives from the files of a licensed psychologist who has “seen it all” through 25 years of research, consulting, and coaching, along with case examples, exercises, and other engaging tools to help you better understand the leadership at your school, organization or place-of-work. Dr. Karol Wasylyshyn is a consulting psychologist and a pioneer among executive coaches. She has coached hundreds of business leaders in every global sector. Her clients have included Bristol-Myers Squibb, Colgate Palmolive, Dupont, FMC, General Electric, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson and Johnson, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Dr. Wasylyshyn is currently an adjunct professor of Clinical Psychology at the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University. She is also a past member of the coaching faculty in The Wharton School’s Advanced Management Program. Widely published in her field, she is also a poet and recently published Standing on Marbles: Three Leader Types in Verse and Imagery. Her latest book, Behind the Executive Door: Unexpected Lessons for Managing Your Boss and Career, was published in November 2011.

Join Temple’s archival collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art! 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway The Special Collections Research Center, Urban Archives and Megawords Magazine are partnering for a screening as part of the Zoe Strauss: Ten Years exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. All films are drawn from our television news collection and are loosely inspired by the work of Zoe Strauss, Megawords and the PMA itself. The pieces explore everyday Philadelphians, their challenges, rituals, celebrations and public spaces. Some material is entirely new and some are highlights from previous screenings. The screening is free with museum entrance fee. Sunday is pay-as-you-wish day, too!

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•  footage that hasn’t previously been screened “Assignment: 1747 Randolph Street” (Part 1) WPVI Public Affairs- 1966 (25:00)- The first half of a sometimes challenging 1966 documentary about poverty in North Philadelphia. The documentary focuses specifically on the Ludlow neighborhood, the scene of a brutal crime a year before and eventual target for reform by civic organizations and politicians. Vivid shots of neighborhood conditions are combined with interviews with a cross section of community leaders, politicians and residents.

•  “North Philadelphia Slums” KYW News- March 15, 1967 (2:24)- A camera sits in a car driving through North Philadelphia gazing at its bars and residents. Sometimes they look back, sometimes they hide their faces.

• “Chinese New Year” KYW News- 1965 (5:37)- Black and white silent footage of the performers and audience in Chinatown’s 1965 New Year celebration.

• “Ninth Street Merchants” KYW News- April 7, 1966 (5:28)- Black and white silent footage of the vendors and shoppers that made up Ninth Street in 1966. “Graffiti and Wall Mural” WPVI Public Affairs- 1972 (12:00)- Vintage shots of a graffiti covered El ride, artist Sam Maitin debating with South Philadelphia neighbors as he paints a mural on the Fleisher Art Memorial, and street interviews with Philadelphians about art and graffiti. A quirky, fun piece about the politics and opinions on graffiti and murals in the city. “Last game at Connie Mack stadium” KYW News- October 2, 1970 (8:48)- Color footage of the Phillies-Expos game morphs into footage of the confusion, chaos and detritus surrounding the last game at Connie Mack Stadium (Shibe Park). Philadelphians “celebrate” the end of the institution in their own unique way

• “Mummers (1953) & Mummers (1966)” KYW News – (5:40)- Black and white silent footage of one of Philadelphia’s most distinct celebrations. Well composed, beautiful shots of audiences and performers just south of City Hall, 13 years apart.

• “Be-In” (excerpts) KYW News- April 17, 1967 (2:30)- Black and white silent footage of now infamous Ira Einhorn’s first “Be-In” in Fairmount Park in 1967. Footage of some of the estimated 2,000 people gathered near Strawberry Mansion as they mill about and play music.

• “Hippies” KYW News- April 12, 1968 (4:37)- A news story on hippies in one of their most popular spaces to congregate in the 1960s, Rittenhouse Square. Hippies and residents alike perform for the camera and make the anchor’s job difficult as he tries to report on their future in the park.

• “Sit-In” (excerpts) KYW News- March 11, 1965 (3:00)- Students from Temple University and University of Pennsylvania stage a sit-in, inside and outside the offices of U.S. Attorney General Drew J. T. O’Keefe in the Ninth and Market federal building. They were doing so to protest the “treatment of African-Americans conducting right-to-vote demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.”

• “Art Museum” KYW News- September 15, 1967 (6:00)- Silent black and white footage of some of the pieces and reactions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s popular but polarizing “American Sculpture of the Sixties”. This clip shows several of the 130 pieces from 80 artists in the playful 1967 exhibition.

• “Blimp Visits City” WFIL News- November 23, 1948 (1:18)- Very short but distinct vantage of Philadelphia through a 1948 Goodyear Blimp visit to our city. The camera treats the forms of the city below as abstractions.

• “City Snow” KYW News- November 30, 1967 (1:30) – Short black and white footage of center city braving its way through a 1967 snow storm.

• “Visions of A New Day: Bodegas ‘Mom and Pop Stores’” WPVI Public Affairs- March 18, 1976 (10:00)- Visions of a New Day highlights an integral part of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican neighborhoods, the bodega (corner store). We’re taken through the streets and inside homes and stores during interviews with bodega owners and shoppers.

• “Puerto Rican Drill Team” (excerpts) WPVI Public Affairs- 1970s (5:28) Documentary on the Puerto Rican Drill Team “Los Conquistadors” based around El Centro De Oro in North Philadelphia. The children of the drill team take over a small North Philadelphia Street when practicing their drills.

December 10, 12:30 PM First Floor, Sullivan Hall, 1330 Polett Walk The Marcus Garvey Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a public event at the Charles L. Blockson Collection, Temple University Libraries, Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 12:30pm. Alongside a special viewing of the historical exhibition, “Marcus Garvey and Global Black History,” the event will feature a number of Honorees and Guest Speakers, including:

– Sonia Sanchez (Poet & Professor Emerita, Temple University)

– Reverend Dr. William Shaw (Pastor, White Rock Baptist Church)

– Barbara Mason (Recording Artist)

– Dr. Tommy Bogger (Historian, Norfolk State University)

– Jamaladeen Tacuma (Musician)

– Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Director, Schomburg Center)

– Grachan Moncur (Musician)

The event will also feature:

– Sonia Sanchez presenting an original poem (written for the occasion) in honor of Amy Jacques Garvey

– Special composition honoring Max Roach written and performed by Christopher Acree

To mark its 50th anniversary, the Foundation will also be releasing two new books that day:

– “Marcus Garvey: Jazz, Reggae, Hip Hop and the African Diaspora” (2011)

– “The Marcus Garvey Foundation Presents: New Perspectives on the History of Marcus Garvey and the U.N.I.A.” (2011)

What does it take to publish successful music writing today? How do you follow the music scene in the age of basement shows, MySpace and internet memes? Where do you begin to gain access to bands, and what is the value of publishing print magazines in an information universe of blogs, tumblrs and YouTube? The founders and editors of some of today’s most influential and interesting music journalism projects will answer these questions, and more, at Paley Library.

Stick around for the JUMP November release party at 5:30 in the Lecture Hall Free food and free music with Turning Violet Violet and Bedroom Problems Register on facebook and while you are there….“like” us too!

George Miller is an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University and the founder of JUMP: The Philly Music Project, a magazine dedicated to music makers of all genres who hail from and create music exclusively in the City of Brotherly Love. He is a journalist, photojournalist and proud Philadelphian. Miller worked at the Philadelphia Daily News for more than 11 years, serving as a staff photographer, features writer, general assignment reporter and police beat writer.His words and images have appeared throughout the paper, in every section. Since leaving the paper in 2005, he has freelanced as a writer and photographer for numerous publications, on numerous subjects. The only common denominator in all his articles (and images) is that they are focused on the city and its citizens.

Alex Mulcahy, owner of Red Flag Media, Inc., grew up in Wilkes-Barre, PA. After finishing his English degree at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, he went to work for the independent record store, Gallery of Sound. He became interested in the store’s music publication, and eventually bid to take over the business. Mulcahy’s passion for music and writing helped the publication mature to the point that he began creating publications for independent record stores around the country.

One of Alex’s first employees, Alex Mudrain, was a fellow music buff, particularly of extreme music. Mulcahy encouraged him to expand his writing on the genre into a book, which became Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore. The success of Choosing Death led to the creation of Decibel Magazine in 2004, Red Flag Media’s first national newsstand publication. Since 2009, Mulcahy has delved into another of his passions with GRID Magazine, a free monthly publication devoted to sustainability issues and initiatives in the Greater Philadelphia area. In 2011, Red Flag Media relaunched the beloved independent music magazine, MAGNET.

November 10, 3:00 PM Temple University Libraries Third Annual GIS Day Geography matters! Join us for this annual program on the latest breakthroughs and applications for Geographic Information Systems. This year’s speakers include Stacy A. Irving, the Senior Director of Crime Prevention Services at the Center City District and Jerry Ratcliffe, a professor and the chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University.

Jerry Ratcliffe is a professor and the chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple, where he also directs the Center for Security and Crime Science. He is a former police officer with London’s Metropolitan Police (UK), has a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Ratcliffe will present his work on “GIS, crime, and policing in the urban environment.” This talk will explore how GIS can address three important components of the geography of crime by exploring crime patterns, explaining criminal behavior, and evaluating the outcome of crime prevention and police activity to reduce crime. Ratcliffe will present examples from crime patterns in Philadelphia, PA and Camden, NJ.

Stacy A. Irving is the Senior Director of Crime Prevention Services at the Center City District. With more than thirty years of experience working with neighborhood and downtown business communities, Irving is internationally recognized for her unique crime prevention models, which combine crime reduction strategies, revitalization, emergency preparedness and police, business and community partnerships. Irving earned a MPA in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Criminology from the University of Tampa. Irving will present her research on “Using GIS to Fight Crime and Grime in Center City Philadelphia” by providing an overview as of how the Center City District, a business improvement district located downtown Philadelphia, uses GIS to identify crime trends, track arrests, map CCTV cameras and subway entrances, address quality of life issues, and more.