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Share The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation announced 14 projects to be funded as part of its call for proposals in March in support of Asian, Asian-American and Pacific Islander artists at Penn. The projects include students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Six grantees are students, three are staff, two are alumni, one is faculty, and two others are recent alumni. Disciplines funded range from opera to children’s literature, film to mural arts. “We felt that there were all of these issues locally and nationally around violence against Asian-American and Pacific Islanders, and we wanted to...

Annenberg Center rebrands to Penn Live Arts, announces new season While the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts venue will remain, the organization has rebranded as Penn Live Arts. Dorrance Dance performing a tap-dance version of “The Nutcracker.” (Image: Christopher Duggan) Adding to the rich history of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, founded in 1971 as a regional crossroads for both emerging and renowned performing arts worldwide, Annenberg will mark a new era with a rebrand. The Annenberg Center facilit...

Share The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, in its latest grant cycle, will fund 25 arts projects with $177,000 in funding. The grants support, among many other themes and explorations, work that asks bold questions about speculative futures, translates the stories of frontline workers during the pandemic into theater, and spotlights marginalized voices that might otherwise go unheard. “With our annual grants, we’re always thinking about how we are supporting marginalized communities, thinking about balancing our concrete aims in doing that, and being responsive through calls for suppor...

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation will support 25 new Penn arts projects, totaling $177,000 in funding.

Transcending movement Principal dancers from Philadanco! perform and discuss their discipline with choreographer Dawn Marie Bazemore and Penn’s Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Deborah Thomas, and doctoral candidate Dixon Li. Philadanco! performing Oshun. The March 3 performance was revised for length and number of dancers. (Image: Julianne Harris) Known as a river deity in the Yoruba tradition of West Africa, Oshun is venerated as the embodiment of the female spirit and celebrated throughout the Black diaspora with gold, copper, ...