Events

09/10/2010 - 09/18/2010
The Association for Creative Zoology
Beauvais Lyons
(All day)

The American Philosophical Society’s “Jefferson Garden”
105 Fifth St. (just south of Chestnut St.)

Was God the first collage artist? Does God have a sense of humor?

Duck-billed platypuses, centaurs, and chimeras answer “Yes!” according to artist Beauvais Lyons. Lyons’s performance features prints, taxidermy, and fossils from his fanciful Association for Creative Zoology as evidence of weird evolution.

September 10-12
September 16-18

Location: The American Philosophical Society’s “Jefferson Garden”
105 Fifth St. (just south of Chestnut St.)


 
09/13/2010
Science on Tap: The Association of Creative Zoology
Beauvais Lyons
6:00 PM

National Mechanics, 22 South Third St.

Beauvais Lyons, Director of the Hokes Archive, will talk about “The Association of Creative Zoology”


 
09/19/2010
Artist panel: “A Priest, A Rabbi and Charles Darwin Walk Into A Bar…”
3:00 PM

APS Museum
104 S. 5th St.

On Sunday, September 19th, at 3 p.m., the APS Museum will host a panel discussion titled “A Priest, A Rabbi and Charles Darwin Walk Into A Bar…” Three artists, actor Brett Keyser (Darwinii: the Comeuppance of Man, a one-man show), sculptor Eve Andrée Laramée (Luminous Darwin, a mixed-media installation) and printmaker Beauvais Lyons (The Association of Creative Zoology, part installation, part performance) will discuss their artistic response to Darwin, evolution, and the APS Museum’s exhibition, Dialog


 
09/24/2010
The Liberty Bell
GARY B. NASH
5:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street

A lecture, reception, and book signing co-sponsored by The Library Company of Philadelphia


 
10/29/2010
Sabotage in the Arctic: Fate of the Submarine Nautilus of 1931
STEWART B. NELSON
5:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street

A lecture, reception, and book signing


 
11/17/2010
George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps
BARNET SCHECTER
5:30 PM

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street

Please join us for a lecture, reception, and book signing