SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
As the weather gets warmer and sunny days grow longer, the Penn Museum offers a Celebration of Jamaica on Saturday, June 2, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, in partnership with the region’s Young Caribbean Professional Network, Team Jamaica Bickle – Philadelphia, and Jamaica Land We Love (Jalawelo). The family-friendly day features reggae and steel pan music from the Caribbean Islands, dance, storytelling, distinctive crafts, a curator gallery talk, and more, all free with Museum admission.
Island music is the highlight of the day, with a performance and a workshop held outside in the Museum’s Stoner Courtyard and garden, weather permitting. At 1:30 pm, Patrick Davis, a musician who hails from Trinidad, introduces guests to the “many voices of the steel drum” at a Steel Pan workshop. He demonstrates on his own drum, made from a 55-gallon oil drum container, and invites guests to try it for themselves.
At 3:30 pm, ten members of the Philadelphia Pan Stars Steel Orchestra provide a rousing performance, offering up the sounds of reggae, soca, calypso and jazz. Founded more than two decades ago, the group is Philadelphia’s first steel orchestra, with 75 members from the Caribbean Islands, Japan, and throughout the United States. The orchestra has performed at numerous regional Caribbean and African-American festivals and parades. The musicians perform on steel drums, congo drums, scratchers, base drums, tenor drums, and guitar drums—all drums which mimic other instruments.
Any Celebration of Jamaica requires Jamaican food—and authentic, tasty options are offered for purchase via food trucks in the Courtyard, while the Museum’s Pepper Mill Café offers other options inside.
Schedule of Activities:
11:00 am to 4:00 pm:
Make-and-Take Art Station: Hummingbirds and Carnival Masks
Special exhibition: Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston with ethnographic artist Muthi Reed
Food Trucks offering Island specialties
12:00 pm Children's Caribbean Dance Workshop with Cachet Ivey
12:30 pm Stories from Jamaica with Denise Valentine
1:00 pm Curator Deborah Thomas Gallery Talk about Bearing Witness
1:15 pm Adult Caribbean Dance Workshop with Cachet Ivey
1:30 pm Steel Pan Workshop with Patrick Davis
2:00 pm Stories from Jamaica with Denise Valentine
2:30 pm Creative Response to Exhibition and Artist Talk, Muthi Reed and Deborah Thomas
3:30 pm Philadelphia Pan Stars Steel Orchestra Finale Performance
Penn Museum
3260 South St.
Philadelphia, Pa 19104
Museum admission is $15 for adults; $13 for senior citizens (65 and above); $10 for children (6 to 17) and full-time students with ID; $2 ACCESS and Museums for All cardholders (up to four family members per card); free for active U.S. Military, free for STAMP cardholders; free to Penn Museum Members, PennCard holders, and children 5 and younger.
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