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Start Date: 11/19/2009 | End Date: 11/19/2009
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Thu., Nov. 19
Nov.
19
Thu
9:30am-4:30pm
$4-$11
Features patent models that show the progress of 19th-century inventions and technology, with more than 120 miniature inventions on display.
Nov.
19
Thu
7-11pm
$15-$35
Celebrate Philly's hip-hop pioneers, including Schoolly D, Cornbread, Ready Rock C and Mike Tyler, at this party featuring food, music and giveaways.
Nov.
19
Thu
8pm
$15-$18
When employees at the Existential Publishing Co. are being laid off or mysteriously vanishing, the remaining office members struggle to avoid losing their jobs or becoming entirely invisible.
Nov.
19
Thu
10am-4:30pm
$10-$12
Features dioramas that exhibit animals from the three continents in their natural habitats. The 37 dioramas include animals such as lions, tigers and zebras. (You thought we were going to say "bears," didn't you?)
Nov.
19
Thu
7:30pm
$12-$21
Katherine Dunham teaches this dance course that's accompanied by live drummers.
Occurs: Every Thursday
Nov.
19
Thu
12:30-1:30pm
$12
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
Nov.
19
Thu
4:15-5:15pm
$12
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
Nov.
19
Thu
5:30-8:30pm
$12
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
Nov.
19
Thu
6:45-7:30pm
$12
Learn how to turn an opponent's energy and momentum against him or her in this martial arts class.
Occurs: Daily
Nov.
19
Thu
9:30am-5pm
$12-$14.75
free for members
Features 25 rarely displayed machines, including Mailardet's automaton and a model of the Strasbourg cathedral clock.
Nov.
19
Thu
1pm
$30
This Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama follows a group of characters whose lives are quickly unraveling. They struggle to pull themselves together during the growing AIDS epidemic and troubling political climate of the '80s.
Nov.
19
Thu
9:30am-4:30pm
$5-$7
Features demonstrations of how certain animal species, like the black rhino and giant anteater, overcome difficult environmental pressures to survive.
Nov.
19
Thu
10:30am-6pm
FREE
Features photographs by Thomas Brummett, who processes his prints manually and then manipulates them digitally to produce a grainy, dreamy feel reminiscent of paintings. His portraits of animals explore the idea that they are individuals with extreme psychological depth and intensity.
Nov.
19
Thu
10am-5pm
FREE
Features contemporary jewelry by the title artist, who combines black gems and chunky stones with tiers of enameled chain to explore form and contrast.
Nov.
19
Thu
7am-7pm
FREE
Features acrylic and mixed-media food portraits on wood and canvas by Mark Mattson, whose work involves "things that should not have faces, with faces." That includes everything from teapots to donuts.
Nov.
19
Thu
8am-7pm
@ Ardmore Farmers Market,
6 Coulter Ave.
610-896-7560
Nov.
19
Thu
6:30-7:30pm
$15-$20
Tired of that slick guy stealing your partner on the dance floor with his elegant footwork and passionate dips? Perhaps its time you steal the show with basic tango foundations or intermediate techniques, which you can learn in this class.
Advanced beginner
Occurs: Every Thursday
Nov.
19
Thu
7:30-9pm
$15-$20
Tired of that slick guy stealing your partner on the dance floor with his elegant footwork and passionate dips? Perhaps its time you steal the show with basic tango foundations or intermediate techniques, which you can learn in this class.
Intermediate workshop
Occurs: Every Thursday
Nov.
19
Thu
9-7:30pm
$15-$20
Tired of that slick guy stealing your partner on the dance floor with his elegant footwork and passionate dips? Perhaps its time you steal the show with basic tango foundations or intermediate techniques, which you can learn in this class.
El ocho loco practica
Occurs: Every Thursday
Nov.
19
Thu
10am-5pm
$12-$16
Features approximately 178 works by abstract artist Arshile Gorky. The exhibit is the first full display of Gorky's work in about 30 years.
Nov.
19
Thu
10am-4pm
$7-$14
Features a site-specific sculpture made entirely from local twigs and saplings. Dougherty's creations, which are often more than 20 feet tall, and which look like giant huts and balls of string, last for about two years before they begin to dissolve.
Nov.
19
Thu
FREE
Features video and sculpture by Ronnie Bass, telling the story of an astronomer who plans to flee an oppressive situation and start a new life.
Nov.
19
Thu
10am
$8
When Alan and Jane run away from home in search of the magical Toyland, the toys and their parents set out to find them.
Nov.
19
Thu
10:30am-5:30pm
FREE
Features multimedia works by 25 artists from around the world, including Jose Bedia (Cuba), Francesco Clemente (Italy), Bowa Devi (India), John Baldessari (United States) and more. Based on the original 1989 "Magiciens de la Terre" exhibition in Paris, the show brings together pieces by artists from the both the Western "centers" (U.S., Europe) and the "margins" (Africa, Latin America, Asia and Australia).
Nov.
19
Thu
noon-7pm
FREE
Features sculptures made out of bacon by Ellen Cagnassola, Jacob Crose, Mike Geno, and more. Subjects range from sock monkeys to deranged toys.
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