BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Grid Magazine - ECPv6.16.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://gridphilly.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Grid Magazine
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:-04:00
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T203000
DTSTAMP:20260512T210536
CREATED:20241030T163859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T163859Z
UID:10015344-1732039200-1732048200@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: A Nation That Almost Wasn't
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “A Nation That Almost Wasn’t\,” on how colonialists’ formation of the United States was anything but a foregone conclusion but happened anyway\, with Jessica Choppin Roney\, associate professor of history at Temple University\, director of the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia\, and author of Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia. \nAt a time of deep political polarization and disagreement over the fundamental nature and direction of our nation\, it’s worthwhile to revisit the early history of the United States to see how it resolved the big questions faced in the course of its formation. \nWe forget now—but Americans back then then were fully aware—that the shape and composition of the still lower-case “united states” was once very much unresolved. The American Revolution played out as both a crisis of empire and a crisis of democracy\, and once the thirteen colonies declared independence from Britain it was not at all clear whether the English-speaking people in North America were now one nation\, thirteen\, or many more. \nIn essence\, early Americans grappled with a question that we ourselves still struggle to answer: What makes us “one people\,” as the Declaration of Independence asserted we are? \nAs settlers moved farther west\, it was unclear what was to keep them from breaking away entirely and forming their own states that they could control. Was Vermont going to be a state? Kentucky? Ohio? Who got to decide? \nMany of the people in those places declared themselves to be outside the control of eastern state capitals and able to use the same principle of self-determination in the Declaration to say\, “We\, too\, can declare our independence.” Whether that was true\, why or why not\, and what either conclusion meant for the future of a democratic republic was at the heart of the constitutional crisis of the 1780s. \nThis talk frames the origins of the US Constitution as a response to the revolution “out of bounds.” Professor Roney will discuss how the founding generation resolved the tension between the right to self-determination and the desire to create one\, large\, unified nation. She’ll look at work that the Constitution did to meet this end and how did it fell short. And she’ll talk about what the choices made by the founders then mean for us now. \nThe mechanisms the founders used to foster unity across time and space matter as we think about bridging divisions today. This talk will leave you thinking at a more profound level about what it means to be a citizen of the United States. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Guests are welcome to arrive any time after 5:30. Talk starts at 6:30.) \nImage: A map of the Thirteen Colonies and nearby colonial areas just before the Revolutionary War. From the 1923 book Historical Atlas\, by William R. Shepherd.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-a-nation-that-almost-wasnt/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/British_colonies_1763-76_shepherd1923.jpg
GEO:39.967476;-75.13381
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Black Squirrel Club 1049 Sarah Street Philadelphia PA 19125 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1049 Sarah Street:geo:-75.13381,39.967476
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T173000
DTSTAMP:20260512T210536
CREATED:20241011T164636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T164636Z
UID:10014923-1730041200-1730050200@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: A Guide to Witches
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “A Guide to Witches\,” on the figure of the witch in history\, legend\, folklore\, and fairy tales\, with Linda Lee\, lecturer in folklore and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. \nGet ready for something spellbinding: A look at various depictions of witches as reflections of ideas about female sexuality\, independence\, agency\, and power. \nOffering up this pre-Halloween treat will be folklorist Linda Lee\, who previously has given excellent talks at the Black Squirrel Club in Philadelphia’s Fishtown on dark Christmas folklore and the goddess Persephone. \nWe’ll start with an introduction to witches from European folklore\, fairy tales\, and legends. You’ll learn how they’re generally portrayed as powerful\, solitary\, and defiant figures who can be either helpful or harmful. They may appear as mothers\, helpers who aid a hero on a quest\, or monsters to be vanquished. They can represent a threat to the community by snatching children or pilfering cows’ milk. \nIndividual witches who will be conjured up include the child-eating witch from Grimms’ “Hansel and Gretel” and Baba Yaga\, the ambiguous witch of Slavic folklore who lives in a hut on chicken legs and flies around with a mortar and pestle. \nLee will then contrast such fictional depictions with the ideas about witches and witchcraft espoused by Christian demonological thought. \nYou’ll learn how witches are described by early modern sources like Malleus Maleficarum\, the 15th-century treatise on witchcraft which also served as a witch hunters’ manual. Such texts present witches as entirely malevolent figures who gain magical powers through a pact with the Devil (usually signed with menstrual blood). The witches in them are believed to use a special ointment that allowed them to fly to a Witches’ Sabbath\, where they dance and perform demonic rituals. \nYou’ll see how such ideas were visually reinforced through engravings\, woodcuts\, and drawings\, by artists like Albrecht Dürer\, that depicted naked women riding broomsticks and dancing with devils. \nYou’ll come away with a better understanding of why witches are among the most versatile\, notorious\, and enduring figures from fairy tales and legends and remain an iconic part of contemporary Halloween traditions. Feel free to dress witchy if you wish. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3 pm. Talk starts at 3:30.) \nImage: From “Preparation for the Witches’ Sabbath\,” by 17th Century Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-a-guide-to-witches/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Lecture,Native Plants,Nature & Community Science,Nature Walks,Seasonal,Workshops,Workshops & Seminars
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/witchsabbathprep.jpg
GEO:39.967476;-75.13381
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Black Squirrel Club 1049 Sarah Street Philadelphia PA 19125 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1049 Sarah Street:geo:-75.13381,39.967476
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=-04:00:20240825T160000
DTEND;TZID=-04:00:20240825T180000
DTSTAMP:20260512T210536
CREATED:20240815T193631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T193631Z
UID:10013986-1724601600-1724608800@gridphilly.com
SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Climate Change 101
DESCRIPTION:[Profs and Pints Philadelphia](https://www.profsandpints.com/philadelphia) presents: **“Climate Change 101\,”** a crash course on the science related to directional climate change and global warming\, with Sean O’Donnell\, professor in Drexel University’s Biodiversity\, Earth and Environmental Science program. \n[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Available at [https://profs-and-pints-black-squirrel.ticketleap.com/climatescience/](https://profs-and-pints-black-squirrel.ticketleap.com/climatescience/) .] \nWe hear and read a lot about climate change and global warming\, and it has become pretty hard to ignore the Philadelphia region’s wacky weather patterns with its recent freakily warm winters\, vanishing snow\, and late spring “heat domes.” \nMany of us\, however\, don’t have much of a grasp of the science explaining such developments and can’t answer questions such as: How do we really know that the climate is changing? If so\, why? Is Philadelphia’s strange local weather part of the bigger picture? \nGain an understanding of the basic science that helps us predict and understand climate change with the help of Sean O’Donnell\, an environmental ecologist and expert in animal responses to temperature conditions. \nHe’ll talk about how the Earth compares to the moon and other planets in terms of its atmosphere’s composition and function\, and he’ll discuss what drives dynamic climates that undergo changes in their normal range of variation. \nYou’ll learn about the scientific basis for how and why we expect the climate to change and how we know human activities are driving changes. You’ll get a clear understanding of the evidence for and against climate change and a sense of the validity of various claims made by climate-change skeptics. \nDr. O’Donnell’s research is heavily focused on how various animals deal with shifts in climate conditions and extremely high or low temperatures. You’ll walk away from his talk with a clearer understanding of what we can expect to deal with down the road. ( Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage: Texas’s Lake Ray Hubbard after a drought. Photo by Terry Shuck / Creative Commons
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/profs-pints-philadelphia-climate-change-101-2/
LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gridphilly.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1024x576-FQ2IN8.tmp_.jpg
GEO:39.967476;-75.13381
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Black Squirrel Club 1049 Sarah Street Philadelphia PA 19125 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1049 Sarah Street:geo:-75.13381,39.967476
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR