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*Our weekly emails will move back to Monday mornings*
You'll notice that this email has returned to its regular Monday morning arrival time. Thank you for your patience as we tested a Sunday arrival time. After gathering data, it looks like Monday mornings work better for our community, so we're moving back. Thank you, everyone! | | "The Kid with a Bike"
Monday, June 9, 2025
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Philadelphia City Institute - Free Library
1905 Locust St.
No registration required! | | | A note about the weather:
This event will take place indoors at Old Pine Community Center if we have rain the day of the party. If the weather is nice, our Garden Party will take place on the lawn of our venue, Old Pine Community Center.
| | "Two Days, One Night"
Monday, June 16, 2025
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Philadelphia City Institute - Free Library
1905 Locust St.
No registration required! | | | | Penn’s Village Presents:
June Happy Hour!
Tuesday, June 17th
5:00-7:00 pm
PJ Clarke's, in the Curtis Building
601 Walnut St.
Register here:
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"Achieving a Good Death:
A Conversation with author Chris Palmer"
Wednesday, June 18th
2:00 pm
Virtual, on zoom
This program is offered via our sister village,
the East Falls Village.
This zoom is open to everyone, but pre-registration is required.
Register: Chris Palmer talk
| | | Check out the new post from the Health and Wellness blog!
| In Our Community
Below is information about upcoming events taking place in the community that might be of interest to Penn's Village members. | Some Ways to Observe Pride Month 2025
Click here to discover 30+ Ways to Celebrate Pride Month 2025 in Philly:
https://www.visitphilly.com/articles/philadelphia/lgbtq-pride-month-in-
This edition of Philadelphia Gay News gives us a glimpse into current interests and events in the LGBTQ+ community. Click here to read it: https://epgn.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=979d472a84804b9f
The William Way LGBT Community Center is a nonprofit organization serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population in the Philadelphia area. It is located at 1315 Spruce Street in the Gayborhood.
Click here to visit their official website: https://www.waygay.org/
If you visit Netflix and type in the search bar Celebrating Pride you will discover a multitude of films and TV series that feature LGBTQ+ themes and issues. Some notable offerings include Grace and Frankie, The Half of It, Will and Harper, and Rustin. | Celebrate Pride Month with Events at the Philadelphia Museum of Art!
Pride Month Celebration
Friday, June 13, 5:00–8:45 p.m.
Pop-Up Studio with Katie Kaplan 5:00–8:00 p.m.
Celebrate LGBTQIA+ identity with artist Katie Kaplan and create vibrant paper quilts that encourage play with color, shape, and image. Materials provided, no experience necessary.
Food Pop-Up: Pretzel Gremlin 5:00–8:30 p.m.
Fuel your celebration with pastries that are handmade with precision and pride. Em Wilson, aka Pretzel Gremlin, is a local baker with a soft spot for soft pretzels and a deep love for laminated dough.
Queer-to-Queer Networks Detour 5:30, 6:30 & 7:30 p.m.
JoinBoom: Art and Design in the 1940s exhibition assistant Lily F. Scott for a 20-minute pop-up gallery talk about 1940s creative networks formed by queer and queer-adjacent artists like Beauford Delaney, Marsden Hartley, Isamu Noguchi, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Carl Van Vechten. Registration recommended.
Additional dates:June 21&June 28
About the Artist: Katie Kaplanis a visual artist working in Philadelphia. Her focus is on printmaking and expands into sculpture, textiles, and installation.Kaplan currently works as the studio technician in the Fibers and Material Studies Department at Tyler School of Art, where she stewards a natural dye garden.
Pride 2025 Giveaway| Collect your free limited-edition item featuring artwork by Pride Month artist collaborator Katie Kaplan.While supplies last.
Come for Pride, stay for the pastries!
All month long in the Café: Crust Vegan Bakery
Monday, Thursday, Friday, 11:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. | Saturday & Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Sweeten your Pride Month with colorful confections made by Crust Vegan Bakery. Pastries include: Chocolate Chip Cookies, Snickerdoodle Cookies, and Strawberry-Rhubarb Loaves.
| | Invite from the Northwest Village Network: Talk by Jane Golden! | Samba Fitness Wellness Day 2025 from our friends at Fountain View at Logan Square!
Our friends at Fountain View, located at 2 Franklin Town Boulevard (on the corner of North 18th Street and Callowhill Street) are holding a Wellness Day 2025. Penn's Village will be participating by hosting a resource table. No registration required, and details about the event can be found below.
|  | See Peter Conn at the Library on Thursday, June 12th!
Thomas Sully is widely regarded as perhaps the most important portrait painter of the antebellum years. Using those portraits, Thomas Sully’s Philadelphians: Painting the Athens of America reconstructs many of the people, institutions, and events that combined to make Philadelphia, from the Revolution until the 1840s, at once the most cosmopolitan and most racially embattled city in America. The book approaches Sully’s portraits as visual documents in the history of Philadelphia in the first half of the 19th century.
Peter Conn retired from the University of Pennsylvania as Vartan Gregorian Professor of English and Professor of Education and was a member of the graduate groups in the history of art and American civilization. His publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898–1917, Literature in America, and The American 1930s: A Literary History. Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography was chosen as a “New York Times Notable Book.”
This event will take place on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET and will be livestreamed. Please register for the livestream. This event is free to attend but registration is required.
|  | You can purchase tickets for this concert here. |
Program RSVP information
Self-registration is now available on the Penn's Village website! Please review our Self Registration and register here. You can also register by emailing info@pennsvillage.org or calling 215-925-7333. If you cannot attend, please cancel your reservation to make room for others. MEMBERS: PLEASE LOG IN PRIOR TO REGISTERING
Most programs are free of charge to our members and active volunteer partners. Non-member guests are welcome to attend up to three programs before being asked to join Penn's Village as a member or volunteer partner, or by paying $10 per additional program. Refunds are available if registration is cancelled prior to the program.
Group photos may be taken during these events. | WE VALUE YOUR OPINION
Do you have feedback about a recent program? Let us know here. We would love to hear from you so that we can improve future programs. | Penn's Village has not verified or certified the accuracy or completeness of the information provided by program providers, and will not be liable for any errors or omissions. You agree to hold Penn's Village harmless from any liability or injury arising from or related to your participation In our events. Please see the Penn’s Village website for our full liability statement here: Our Terms of Service | Penn’s Village welcomes and actively encourages an inclusive and diverse community of members, staff, Board of Directors and volunteers. Inclusiveness and diversity mean welcoming all and excluding no one because of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, physical abilities, religious beliefs or political beliefs. | |