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Course | Book Arts: Binding Community Cookbooks | In Person
Aug
15

Course | Book Arts: Binding Community Cookbooks | In Person

In this hands-on bookmaking class, learn to craft your own card-keeper recipe book and exchange recipes (and the stories behind them) with your fellow attendees. You’ll leave with a feast’s worth of recipes to try and a whole new way to share the food that matters to you with the people who matter to you. 

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Course | Book Arts: Intermediate Calligraphy and Bookmaking with Susan vonMedicus | In Person
Sep
7

Course | Book Arts: Intermediate Calligraphy and Bookmaking with Susan vonMedicus | In Person

In this two-part class (Sunday, September 7th and Sunday, September 14th), attendees will be immersed in the centuries-old traditions of calligraphy and bookbinding. Students will study lettering traditions from around the world, including the Uncial script found in the Book of Kells and other early Irish manuscripts, while exploring how calligraphy interacts with the book format and creating their own exciting compositions.

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[SOLD OUT] Course | Book Arts: Intro to Celtic Calligraphy | In Person
May
4

[SOLD OUT] Course | Book Arts: Intro to Celtic Calligraphy | In Person

In this two-hour, immersive, hands-on workshop, distinguished local Irish American calligrapher and manuscript illuminator Susan Kelly vonMedicus will introduce you to Irish manuscript heritage and teach the Uncial script found in the Book of Kells and other early Irish manuscripts.

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[ONE SEAT REMAINING] Course | Supreme Injustice: Slavery, The Constitution, and the U.S Supreme Court with Paul Finkelman | In Person
Apr
27

[ONE SEAT REMAINING] Course | Supreme Injustice: Slavery, The Constitution, and the U.S Supreme Court with Paul Finkelman | In Person

This engaging seminar, held in the Rosenbach’s historic house, will begin with a discussion of how slavery helped shape the Constitution, which ironically, was written in Pennsylvania–the first state in the nation and the first political jurisdiction in the Western World to take steps to end slavery. 

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