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Philadelphia READS! Community Night Wednesday, April 10 at the Penn Museum Kicks off a Month-Long Children’s Book Drive


It’s a groundswell and


it’s building momentum— Philadelphia’s cultural community is putting the spotlight on reading, lit- eracy, and community en- gagement. Reading opens up worlds of opportu- nity—and books, like the many cultural treasures in the city, bring so many worlds vividly to life.


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enn Museum, in cooperation with the Greater Philadel-


phia Cultural Alliance’s GroundSwell initiative, opens its doors Wednes- day, April 10, 5 to 8 pm, for a free Philadelphia READS!


Community Night and the official kick off of a


month-long children’s book drive to benefit the teachers, the children, and ultimately, the community, of Philadelphia. The free event is an in- vitation for people young and old to explore the world through the Penn Museum’s many-cultured galleries—filled on this evening with a host of special activities and a literary twist. Guests are welcome to bring a gently used or a new children’s book—suitable for pre- kindergarten through elementary school—to contribute to Philadel- phia READS, a program that provides books and literacy resources to edu- cators in the City of Phila- delphia.


A Night to Celebrate Reading


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Penn Museum cura- tors, collections keepers, and graduate students join in the celebration with gallery storytelling, and hands on activities. The Museum has the world’s largest collection of ancient clay cuneiform tablets with Sumerian lit- erature—featuring some of the earliest storytelling in the world. Irene Plan- tholt, Graduate Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, teaches guests how to write in an-


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cient Sumerian on clay tablets, in a “first day of school” workshop at 5:00, 5:30 and 6:00 pm. Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs workshops, where everyone can learn to write his or her own name in hiero- glyphs, are offered by Allison Hedges, recent Penn MLA graduate in Ancient Studies, at 6:30 and 7:15 pm.


Guests can enjoy favorite stories from di- verse cultures, presented by curators and keepers and staff in the Mu- seum’s related galleries: International Classroom Program Manager Prema Deshmukh at 5:00 pm; Egyptian Section As- sociate Curator Jennifer Wegner at 5:30 pm; Near Eastern Section Assistant Curator Lauren Ristvet at 6:00 pm; Mediterranean Section Associate Curator Ann Brownlee at 6:30 pm; Physical Anthropology Curator Janet Monge at 7:00 pm; and American Section Keeper William Wierzbowski at 7:30 pm. Community presenters and performers join in the evening. Teaching artist, actor, and storyteller Jan Michener of Arts Holding Hands & Hearts leads an interactive program using newspaper headlines to create and perform poetry.


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Youth poets from ArtWell perform throughout the evening. The West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (WePAC) joins the night. WePAC opens and staffs elementary school librar- ies with screened and trained volunteers, mak- ing a difference for more than 5,000 students. They will provide information on ways to volunteer in their effort to promote literacy.


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provides volunteer op- portunities for individu- als and groups to help put children on the path to academic success. The Philadelphia READS Book Bank provides children’s books for classroom libraries and school supplies for stu- dents -- free of charge -- to Philadelphia educa- tors who teach in under resourced public, charter and parochial schools, day care centers, after school programs and oth- er educational sites. In the 2011 – 2012 school year, 91,000 books were sup- plied to under-resourced classroom libraries.


About GroundSwell: Do Something Good for a Change! GroundSwell, an initiative of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, is building a movement of residents who take action to make Philadelphia a world-class place to live, work, and


play, and who speak out on behalf of our region’s cultural assets.


Arts @ Penn and Cul- tural Alliance: Additional Book Drop Off Points


The GroundSwell Philadelphia READS Book Drive is supported by multiple locations, and books are being collected through Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 12, 2013). Check hours at individual organizations before drop- ping off donations.


On the Penn campus: Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, www.penn. museum Annenberg Center for the Perform- ing Arts, 3860 Walnut Street, www.pennpre- sents.org Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 South 34th Street, www.upenn. edu/ARG Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 South 36th


Street, www.


icaphila.org Office of Community and Public Affairs, 133 South 36th Street, 5 fl, www.upenn. edu/ogca


In Center City (Greater Philadelphia Cultural Al- liance): http://www.phi- laculture.org/


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