Gallery Talk
Drawing Inspiration from Music
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
6:00pm
What kind of music does Maurice Sendak listen to? What kind of music do you hear when looking at In the Night Kitchen? Where the Wild Things Are? In this gallery tour we will listen to some of the music which has inspired Sendak. Starting with a book of “doodles” illustrating the music of some of his favorite composers, and finishing with part of a libretto from one of his books into that he had staged as a full-length opera.
This gallery talk will be led by Farrar Fitzgerald, Education Coordinator. Gallery talks for the exhibition are held once a month. Read on to find others!
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Image: Original artwork for Outside Over There © Maurice Sendak, 1981.
Volunteer
Docent Education Training Sessions begin again
Tuesday afternoons, September 16, 2008
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Are you looking for a rewarding and stimulating volunteer experience? Become a docent at the Rosenbach! 2008 Education sessions will begin September 16, 2008 and run for 12 weeks, meeting on Tuesday afternoons from 3:00pm - 4:30pm. Rosenbach docents are required to give 8 hours of volunteer service each month.
If you are interested please contact Farrar Fitzgerald, Education Coordinator at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, at (215) 732-1600, ext. 135 or click here to sign up. For more information about becoming a docent, click here.
For Members
There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak installation reception
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Members are invited to view the new imagery displayed in There’s A Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak. Be one of the first to view over 130 new items from the Sendak collection.
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Gallery Talk
"I'll Eat All of You", Sendak and Food
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
6:00pm
From child-eating lion of Pierreto the nostalgic bakery of the Night Kitchen, Sendak’s stories are stuffed with food and eating. Not surprising from a man who actually tried to bite into his childhood copy of Prince and the Pauper. Join us as we explore Sendak’s varied foodscapes and discover how he uses food to express love, power, and desire.
This gallery talk will be led by Kathy Haas, Curatorial Assistant. Gallery talks for the exhibition are held once a month. Read on to find others!
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Public Program
Burn This! A Celebration of Banned Books, a collaboration with the Philadelphia Center for the Book
Friday, October 3, 2008
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Did you know that Maurice Sendak’s books remain some of the most censored in American history? Join us to mark Banned Books Week, a celebration of the freedom to read observed during the last week of September each year. The annual event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted!
5:00pm - 5:30pm: For Members! Meet-and-greet the artists and be the first to see their work! Refreshments will be served.
5:30pm - 6:30pm: Artists reception for the exhibition of Burn This!, a juried selection of contemporary artists’ books dealing with censorship, on display in the lobby.
6:30pm - 7:30pm: Reading aloud of passages from the many banned and censored books in the collections of the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
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Image: Jean de Boschère, drawing for The history of Don Quixote de La Mancha, ca. 1922. Rosenbach Museum & Library 2005.210.
Reading Group
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Wednesdays, once a month, October 2008 through May, 2009
6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Ulysses reading group at the Rosenbach is a fun and painless way to read (and finish!) James Joyce's masterpiece. Led by Joyce scholar, Penn Lecturer, and Bloomsday Coordinator Laura Heffernan, this 9-session course incorporates a chapter-by-chapter discussion of the text, with detours into Joyce’s personal life and artistic method.
Starting Wednesday, October 8, 2008 the course meets one Wednesday of every month through May, 2009, culminating just in time for Bloomsday (June 16).
$275 for members, $320 for non-members
RSVP required. Click here to sign up! For more information about becoming a member, click here.
Reading Group
Sendak as Literature
Wednesdays, October 15, 22, 29, November 5, and 12, 2008
6:30pm - 8:00pm
This five-week session will explore the literary aspects of Sendak’s work and the genre of children’s literature. In addition to historical and cultural influences, we will discuss contemporary issues and theories surrounding children’s literature influenced by Sendak’s work. We will explore different traditions, artists, and authors such as William Blake, George Cruikshank, and Ruth Kraus to consider and observe how they have influenced Sendak’s art.
Integral to the study of children’s literature is the relationship between text and image. Using the rich resources of the Rosenbach Museum, we will think about the many choices an illustrator makes when working with an author, and the different choices that an author/illustrator makes when writing a children’s book. Children’s literature is a truly interdisciplinary field so we must ask what differences in meaning are conveyed when an illustration is a woodcut, a steel plate engraving, a watercolor or a pen and ink drawing. What are some of the visual and literary allusions Sendak makes? What ideas or emotions do those allusions evoke? How do they enlarge the text and enhance our reading?
Discussions will be led by Margaret Godbey, Professor of Children’s Literature, Temple University, and will incorporate short visits to the Sendak exhibit and transcripts from interviews with Sendak himself.
$150 for members, $200 for non-members.
RSVP required. Click here to sign up! For more information about becoming a member, click here.
Book Signing, Dracula Festival
The New Annotated Dracula, Reading and Book Signing with author Leslie Klinger
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Dracula has gripped readers since its first publication in 1897. While the book has been studied by scholars in virtually every academic discipline, none have accepted the author Bram Stoker’s declaration that the work was based on historical fact. In his new book Klinger examines all of the evidence, both internal and external, including contemporary travel books, scientific texts, Victorian encyclopedias, as well as Stoker’s notes for the narrative and the original manuscript itself (the document is owned by a private, anonymous collector, and Klinger is one of only two researchers to have seen it in recent years).
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Dracula Festival Hands-On Tours
The Growth of Stoker’s Dracula
Saturday, October 25, Wednesday, October 29, and Saturday, November 1, 2008
3:00pm
How much did Bram Stoker know about vampires? About Transylvania? How much that we think of as traditional vampire lore was his own invention? How did his concept of Dracula change during the seven years he worked on the novel? Would we still be talking about this today if he’d stuck to his original idea and written about Count Wampyr from Styria? Join Rosenbach staff for a hands-on look at Stoker’s research notes, outlines, and other working papers.
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Gallery Talk
Monster's Ink: The Boegeymen in Sendak's Closet
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
6:00pm
Let's face it, Maurice Sendak is most famous for his monsters. But Sendak's relationship to scary and threatening creatures goes way beyond the Wild Things . Goblins, devils, giants, angels, griffins, gorgons and the odd haunted forest lurk throughout his books. Meet some of these bogeymen face-to-face in this gallery talk, and find out where they come from in history, art, and Sendak's own imagination.
This gallery talk will be led by Patrick Rodgers, Guest Curator for There's A Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak. Gallery talks for the exhibition are held once a month. Read on to find others!
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Signature Program
Dracula Parade, an artistic production of Spiral Q Puppet Theater at the Rosenbach
Saturday, November 1, 2008
5:30pm
Don’t miss this classic Halloween event! Hordes of howling wolves, swooping bats, and larger-than-life characters from the novel Dracula will gather in front of the Rosenbach at 5:30pm before setting out on spooky saunter around Rittenhouse Square at 6:00pm. Costumes encouraged. Ghoulish fun for everyone!
Click here for more info about the 2008 Dracula Festival. Click here for more information about Spiral Q Puppet Theater.
This festival is supported in part, by the Hirsig Family Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, Rosenlund Family Foundation, Walter J. Miller Foundation, and Robin & Mark E. Rubenstein.
Gallery Talk
The Other’s Story and the Other Story: Sendak as Illustrator of Other Authors
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
6:00pm
What is an illustrator’s responsibility to a book’s text, especially a text written by someone else? Explore how Maurice Sendak as a self-described “interpretive illustrator” chooses a style to fit the book in hand and makes pictures that serve the author’s text while adding something more, an Other Story, “something unique in this book, which perhaps not even the author was entirely aware of ... that you think is there.”
This gallery talk will be led by Elizabeth Fuller, Librarian. Gallery talks for the exhibition are held once a month. Read on to find others!
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Gallery Talk
Imagination and Transformation in the works of Maurice Sendak
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
6:00pm
Whether by accident, magic spell, or imagination the characters in Sendak’s stories constantly shift form. Max famously becomes King of the Wild Things, an unhappy boy becomes a wizard, kids become dancing bears, a baby sister disappears, and angels come and go. This gallery talk focuses on transformations like these and the often surprising ways that Sendak identifies with his storybook characters.
This gallery talk will be led by Karen Schoenewaldt, Registrar. Gallery talks for the exhibition are held once a month. Read on to find others!
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Stay Tuned
21st-century Abe
February 12, 2009
Abraham Lincoln is turning 200 in 2009 and the Rosenbach is joining in the festivities. February 12, 2009 will see the launch of 21stcenturyabe.org, the Rosenbach's newest web project. The site will feature selections from our outstanding Lincoln collections with responses from contemporary artists (Maira Kalman!), musicians, and scholars, as well as tools and forums for visitors like you to join in add your own written and artistic comments. Stay tuned for more information!
Image: (detail) Anthony Berger, photograph of Abraham Lincoln, signed by Lincoln. Washington, D.C., after Feb. 9. 1864. AMs 776/27.2.
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