VINCENT FELDMAN and the Abandoned City in conversation with Ken FinkelMarch 13, 4:30 PM, Paley Library Register and spread the word on facebook!

Photographer Vincent Feldman has made a career of capturing the architectural ghosts of our city, the remainders of our built environment that have been rendered obsolete by the constant changes of the city and nation. His photography captures commercial, cultural and government buildings left vacant throughout Philadelphia. He has also worked on photography projects focusing on the built and natural environments of the Gulf Coast, the Ivy League schools and overseas, in Europe, Japan and China. Join photographer Vincent Feldman in conversation with Temple’s Ken Finkel, as they discuss Vincent’s artistic oeuvre around the abandoned city. City Abandoned: Charting the Loss of Civic Institutions in Philadelphia, Feldman’s first monograph, will be released by Paul Dry Books next Fall.

Since 1993, Vincent Feldman has produced photographs of public landmarks in the Philadelphia region creating a detailed inventory of abandoned civic structures. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Philadelphia at the Paley Design Center and the Open Lens Gallery at the Gershman Y, and in group exhibitions at Moore College of Art & Design, the Allentown Art Museum, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Feldman received his BFA from George Washington University and his MFA from Tyler School of Art. His work is in the collections of the Allentown Art Museum, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Zeit-Foto Salon and KOWA, Tokyo. Feldman was awarded Pew Fellowship in 2001. He is currently a Master Lecturer at the University of the Arts and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art and Philadelphia University.

Kenneth Finkel joined Temple University as a Distinguished Lecturer in 2008 having previously served as Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Program Officer at the William Penn Foundation and Executive Director of Arts & Culture Service at WHYY. At WHYY, he developed cultural programming for TV, radio and the web. Finkel posted weekly columns at Brownstoner-Philadelphia (Philadelphia Magazine’s “Best Blog” for 2010) and now contributes weekly essays illustrated by images from the Philadelphia City Archives at phillyhistory.org/blog/.

THE CITY DARK A Film Screening and Director’s Talk

February 28, 2:30 PM, Paley Library

Join us to watch The City Dark, filmmaker Ian Cheney’s exploration of how we, as dwellers of contemporary cities, relate to the night sky. After moving to light-polluted New York City from rural Maine, he asks: “Do we need the dark?” Exploring the threat of killer asteroids in Hawai’i, tracking hatching turtles along the Florida coast, and rescuing injured birds on Chicago streets, Cheney unravels the myriad implications of a globe glittering with lights. After the film, enjoy refreshments and a participate in a panel with Cheney and Temple scholars Barry Vacker of BTMM and Jonathan deJonge of Community and Regional Planning.

• About the director: Ian Cheney is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker. He grew up in New England and earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Yale. After graduate school he cocreated and starred in the Peabody Award-winning theatrical hit and PBS documentary King Corn (2007), directed the feature documentary The Greening of Southie (Sundance Channel, 2008), and co-produced the Planet Green film Big River (2009). Ian maintains a 1/1000th acre farm in the back of his ’86 Dodge pickup, which is at the center of his film Truck Farm (2011). He has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Men’s Journal, and on CNN, MSNBC, and Good Morning America. In 2011, Ian and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis received the Heinz Award for their environmental advocacy. An avid astrophotographer, Ian travels frequently to show his films, lead discussions, and give talks about sustainability, agriculture, and the human relationship to the natural world.

• About our faculty panel: Barry Vacker is a scholar and practicing filmmaker whose interests include how utopia, dystopia, and human destiny have been represented in art, media, technology, and culture. He uses an “arts and sciences” approach to creatively and critically theorize the intersection of media, philosophy, culture, and technology, all of which combine to shape models of utopia, dystopia, and destiny around the world. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, edited a textbook anthology, and engaged in the production of experimental projects across a variety of mediums. His recent publications include the text for Peter Granser’s photography book Signs (Hatje Cantz 2008). His recent experimental media projects include the first three volumes of the Theory Zero book series (Zero Conditions, Crashing into the Vanishing Points, and Starry Skies Moving Away, 2009), as well as the documentary Space Times Square (2007), which he wrote and directed. Space Times Square was awarded the “2010 John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology” by the Media Ecology Association. The film has screened in numerous festivals and conferences around the world: Brussels, Beijing, NYC, Hamburg, Dallas, Philadelphia, Paris.

• Jonathan de Jonge is a scholar at Temple University, School of Environmental Design, Department of Community and Regional Planning. De Jonge participates in and teaches a course, People, Places and Environment, where he facilitates a Think Tank on Land and Food. A community advocate, de Jonge serves on the Upper Moreland Township Planning Commission and chairs the local Environmental Advisory Council. He is also a member of the Pennypack Greenway Council. A native of the Netherlands, where he received his education, he majored in history. A world traveler, de Jonge spent many years in Australia and the surrounding areas.

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)