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2009-2010 CPHI Speaker Series
The Arts, including documentaries, drama, photography, mural art, poetry, etc., are often employed to bring public health issues to the forefront in a provocative and memorable way that inspires action.
For this academic year, 2009-2010, the Center for Public Health Initiatives has chosen the theme "Creative Action: The Arts in Public Health" for its lecture series. By showcasing artists, programs, and creative research projects that use arts and media to address public health challenges, we hope to inspire the Philadelphia public health community.
The 2009 Sparky Awards at Penn
As a part of this seminar series, the CPHI is sponsoring a Public Health category of the Sparky Awards at Penn, a student video contest hosted by Penn Libraries' Weigle Information Commons.
For detailed information, please click here.
Fall Events Listing
| 9/14/09 @ 12p Monday |
Arts and Urban Transformations Impacting Health Speaker: Jane Golden, Director, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Location: Amado Room, Irvine Auditorium |
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| 9/17/09 @ 3:30p Thursday |
Doc2Folk: Sampling my Suitcase of Spoken Word Artist: Toni Yancey, MD MPH (UCLA School of Public Health) Location: Heyer Sky Lounge, Harrison College House |
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| University Life (VPUL) Arts Initiatives Harrison College House Excelano Project Clinical & Translational Science Awards West Phila. Consortium to Address Disparities Center for Community-Based Research and Health Disparities Department of Psychiatry |
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| 10/7/09 @ 4p Wednesday |
Visual Legal Advocacy and the Creative Use of Video by Law Students Speaker: Regina Austin, JD (PennLaw) Location: Class of 1962 Auditorium, John Morgan Building |
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POSTPONED until Spring Semester |
InterAction: Theatre-based Workshops for Social Change Artists: InterAct Theatre Company Location: Terrace Room, Cohen Hall |
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POSTPONED until Spring Semester |
Voices from "Let Me Down Easy" Artist: Anna Deveare Smith Location: Zeller-Bach Theater Creative Action: The Arts in Public Health Read the NYTimes Op-Ed by Anna Deveare Smith |
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| Penn School of Medicine College Houses and Academic Services |
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| 11/5/09 @ 12p Thursday |
Exhibit Opening: Health of Philadelphia Photo-documentation Project Speaker: Carolyn C. Cannuscio, Assistant Professor, Penn Medicine & CPHI core faculty Location: Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall **Exhibit Open: November 5-20 (Fox Art Gallery) |
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| 12/3/09 Thursday |
"Righteous Dopefiend" - A Photo-Ethnography Speaker: Philippe Bourgois, PhD (PennSAS/Med) & Jeff Schonberg (photographer) Location: Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St. **Exhibit Open: December 3-31 (Slought Foundation) More Information |
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Series co-sponsors
- Arts and the City Year
- Civic House
- VA CHERP
- City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
**Event co-sponsors listed in bold blue underneath each corresponding event.
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