Upcoming Events

Jul 08

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Origami

Join the Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library for a screen-free break featuring origami and other paper crafts.

• July 8, 2025
• 11:30am - 1:30pm
• Room LL02A: Electronic Classroom, Evans Building, Levy Dental Medicine Library

Jul 09

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Studio Use Training: Letterpress Printing

Learn and practice the basics of letterpress printing and typesetting! This orientation is required as a prerequisite for working on independent projects at Common Press.

• July 9, 2025
• 10:00am - 12:00pm
• Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level

Jul 09

• Workshop

Open to Penn Dental Faculty, Staff, and Students

Paint @ PDM

The Leon Levy Dental Medicine Library invites you to a screen-free crafternoon to learn how to paint, a popular hobby amongst dental students, faculty, and staff.

• July 9, 2025
• 11:30am - 1:30pm
• Room LL02A: Electronic Classroom, Evans Building, Levy Dental Medicine Library

Jul 10

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: Coins in Leeds

For Coffee With a Codex on July 10, Dot Porter will be at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK. While there she'll look at coins with Lucy Moore, Associate Curator of Numismatic and Object Collections at the Leeds University Library.

• July 10, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jul 10

• Concert

Open to the Public

Music in the Stacks: Penn Flutes

Penn Flutes visits the Chemistry Library for a public performance.

• July 10, 2025
• 4:00pm - 5:00pm
• Chemistry Library

Jul 17

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: On the Spirit and the Soul

For Coffee With a Codex on July 17, Dot Porter will bring out a 15th century Italian manuscript of treatise De spiritu et anima, erroneously attributed to St. Augustine (actually written by Alcherus of Clairvaux).

• July 17, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jul 22

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Studio Use Training: Letterpress Printing

Learn and practice the basics of letterpress printing and typesetting! This orientation is required as a prerequisite for working on independent projects at Common Press.

• July 22, 2025
• 2:00pm - 4:00pm
• Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level

Jul 24

• Workshop

Open to the Public

Coffee with a Codex: On calculation with integers and fractions

For Coffee With A Codex on July 24, Curator Dot Porter will bring out a copy of the text On calculation with integers and fractions, written in Baghdad in A.H. 590 (1194).

• July 24, 2025
• 12:00pm - 12:30pm
• Online

Jul 25

Open to the Public

Open Studio: The Post Office Turns 250!

We'll celebrate the 250th birthday of the post office by making mail! Stop by and letterpress print a quote from the first postmaster general Ben Franklin or use our rubber stamp collections to make some mail art.

• July 25, 2025
• 12:00pm - 2:00pm
• Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Lower Level