2017-18 Performing Arts Series Events
The 2017-2018 season celebrated artists who transformed powerful personal or historical stories into inspired performance, or built on the seminal work of their forbearers to create the masterpieces of today.
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A theatrical alchemy of a lifetime of creations.
Fri-Sat | Oct 6-7, 2017 | 8 PM | Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall
A Gospel Celebration Directed by Dr. J. Donald Dumpson​
An all-star gospel celebration guaranteed to stir the soul.​
Sat | Dec 2, 2017 | 8 PM | McPherson Auditorium, Goodhart Hall
Ralph Lemon—Ceremonies Out of the Air Lecture/Performance and The Geography Trilogy Screening
Connecting the land to our body to our history to our mind.
Fri-Sat | Feb 2-3, 2018 | 8 PM and 1 PM | Goodhart Hall
Okwui Okpokwasili—Poor People’s TV Room
Electrifying the voices of the forgotten and oppressed.
Fri-Sat | Feb 23-24, 2018 | 8 PM | Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall
Zorá String Quartet
Fresh take on late Beethoven and early Mendelssohn.​
Sat | Mar 24, 2018 | 8 PM | Great Hall
About the Â鶹AV Performing Arts Series
Since 1984 the Â鶹AV Performing Arts Series has presented great artists and performances to Philadelphia-area audiences, creating an environment in which the value of the arts is recognized and celebrated. Providing talks and workshops free to the public to develop arts awareness and literacy, the Â鶹AV Performing Arts Series has partnered in recent seasons with such organizations as the Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania Ballet, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, and FringeArts. The Series has presented performances by such diverse luminaries as Trisha Brown Dance Company, Meredith Monk, John Waters, Jennifer Koh, the Khmer Arts Ensemble of Cambodia, and Urban Bush Women.
