Drexel University Events Calendar

American Heart Association (AHA) Classes (2/2/2024 - 12/31/2025)

Fri, 2 Feb 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/2/2024	All Day
End Date:	12/31/2025

American Heart Association (AHA) Classes - BLS, ACLS, PALS, Plus More!
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CNHP Continuing Education (2/2/2024 - 12/31/2025)

Fri, 2 Feb 2024 13:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/2/2024	Start Time:	8:00 AM
End Date:	12/31/2025	End Time:	5:00 PM

CNHP Continuing Education Programs

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Adult Martial Arts (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025
End Date:	9/11/2025

AGES 18+ NOW REGISTERING FOR FALL 2025 - SPRING 2026!

The Drexel University Taekwondo Club offers free martial arts lessons for adults of all ages. Beginners are encouraged! For any questions, please contact dave@youthmartialartsphilly.org

Youth Martial Arts (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025
End Date:	9/11/2025

NOW REGISTERING FOR THE 25-26 SCHOOL YEAR!

The Drexel University Taekwondo Club offers free martial arts lessons for youth ages 9-17. Beginners are encouraged! For any questions, please contact dave@youthmartialartsphilly.org

Drexel [Re]Framed: The Dragon Experience (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025	Start Time:	9:00 AM
End Date:	9/11/2025	End Time:	5:00 PM

The exhibition runs January 17, 2025 through January 31, 2025, Monday - Friday, 3:30 - 5pm. Drexel [Re]Framed: The Dragon Experience, began as a student assignment in the spring of 2024 for an Arts Administration course called "Exhibitions and Programs." Students developed the theme, selected the objects and created the design and layout of the exhibition now on view in the A.J. Drexel Picture Gallery.

Drexel [Re]Framed is a visual manifestation of Drexel's educational ideals, students' shared experiences and a deeper exploration of how the three pillars, art, science and industry, shape the University's distinctive identity and community.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

The Philadelphia Challenge (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025	Start Time:	9:00 AM
End Date:	9/11/2025	End Time:	4:00 PM

Hosted by: Drexel University Libraries, Collections & Archives, with the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences (College of Arts & Sciences) and Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel

This first display of the Library Exhibit Initiative features an assignment from PSY 101 General Psychology (Winter 2024-25). Prof. Eric Zillmer asked students to select a spot in the city that brings them happiness—and visit Philadelphia Revealed, an exhibition from the Atwater Kent Collection.

The Philadelphia Challenge presents students’ reflections on objects from this city history collection, interactive elements, and a Happiness Map display by the Happiness Lab at Drexel. The Library Exhibit Initiative will continue to feature students interacting with Drexel collections and archives.

View the Philadelphia Challenge exhibit catalog [PDF].

Public Viewing Hours:

This exhibit is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 9am to 4pm. Read the Libraries' visitors page for additional information before coming to the Library.

Members of the public are also encouraged you check the Libraries' hours page before visiting.

Note that the Library may be closed for some holidays and is closed to the public during final exam periods (June 6 - 14 and Dec. 4 - 14).

Image: Industrial Philadelphia – The Workshop of the World, Morris Berd, 1952 (Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel, Gift of Stern’s Department Stores, 90.81.1)

Building Men: Philadelphia College Students as World War I Military Engineers (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025	Start Time:	10:00 AM
End Date:	9/11/2025	End Time:	4:00 PM

The exhibition runs August 14 through December 19, 2025. Building Men: Philadelphia College Students as World War I Military Engineers is an exhibition featuring artifacts from various collections, including the Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel, the Drexel University Archives and the archives of the 103rd Engineer Battalion Armory. Along with an array of related artifacts, the exhibition features photographs and sketches from local members of the American Expeditionary Force on the ground in France during World War I. Aiming to draw connections between current college students and those of similar age in Philadelphia during World War I, this exhibition draws from the military career of a young corporal, Edward Shenton, and the changes that higher education institutions - such as Drexel - made to encourage young people's involvement in the war.

This exhibition was curated by Emma Johnson, History '25.

The exhibition is free and open to the public. Click here for more information.

Image caption: Soldiers in the Mud, Cpl. Edward Shenton, c. 1918

Digital Twin: Showcases Drexel Westphal faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	9/11/2025	End Time:	6:00 PM

The Pearlstein is pleased to announce our summer exhibitions coming to the gallery August 18th - October 10th.

Digital Twin showcases Drexel Westphal faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students who transform human experience through digital rendering, exploring the sublime and chilling effects of technology on physical and psychological existence.

As humans interact with digital spaces, our data is formed into thousands of “twins” which claim to represent our behavior, preferences, and personas. What do we share with our recreations? How does living beside them shift our data so that our twins morph alongside us?

These nine artists employ video, speculative design, interactivity, ceramic 3D printing, and assemblage to probe digital doubling technologies, and to imagine paths forward for reclaiming human agency beside our digital twins. Reverent and profane, farcical and severe, unnerving and uplifting, Digital Twin showcases the Westphal community as it wrestles with some of the most pressing creative problems of the digital age.

Curated by Micah Lockman-Fine, a Drexel MS Design Research candidate who crafts exhibitions, performances, and experiments to build progressive speculative futures.

Featuring work by Rghad Balkhyoor, Lewis Colburn, Ann T. Dinh, Nicole Feller Johnson, Emil Polyak, Tin Ta, Victoria Wohlforth, Darren Woodland, and Cooper Wright.

Heavy Merge: An Installation by Carolyn Healy and John Philips (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	9/11/2025	End Time:	6:00 PM

The Pearlstein is pleased to announce our summer exhibitions coming to the gallery August 18th - October 10th.

Heavy Merge is a new multimedia installation by sculptor Carolyn Healy and audio-video artist John Phillips. Inspired by a three-pound blob of warm, wet, living matter networked by billions of synapses, the artists take a personal look at the matrix that mysteriously gives rise to consciousness. For Healy and Philips, the brain is a wonderland of feedback and freewheeling interconnection that melds sensory perception and stored experiences into unique inner landscapes. They are fascinated by our powers of awareness, imagination and abstraction and by the sometimes unruly mental functions that seem to operate without us. Their site-specific installation juxtaposes sculptures and shadows with video feedback projections and soundscape to approximate the boundless creative activity in our brains that allows us to feel human.

Carolyn Healy is an installation artist who began her career exhibiting small, abstract assemblages of found objects in 1979 at the Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia. Since 1987, she has created numerous large site-specific installation pieces, many in collaboration with audio-video artist John Phillips. These have been seen nationally and internationally in museums, university galleries, theaters, as well as rough industrial and alternative sites. Carolyn has received five individual Artist Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Art from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and grants from the Leeway Foundation, the Dietrich Foundation and the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

John Phillips is a sound and video artist. His work has included interactive sound installations and audio-visual performances in museums, art galleries, and non-traditional spaces in this country and abroad. Since 1987, he has collaborated extensively with sculptor Carolyn Healy on site-based installations. His musical compositions have been presented at dance and theater venues, on the nationally syndicated radio program New American Radio, and at national and international electronic art festivals. His composing has been supported by American Composers Forum (collaboration with Pauline Oliveros) and the Millay Colony (composer in residence). To pursue his video work, he has enjoyed residencies at the Experimental Television Center and at Signal Culture, both in Owego, New York. Grants include a fellowship in Sound Art from the National Endowment for the Arts and several in Media Arts from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Nature at Noon: Fairmount Water Works and Boardwalk (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	9/11/2025	End Time:	1:00 PM

Take a break from your desk and reconnect with the natural world—right in the middle of your workday. Join us for Nature at Noon, a new series of accessible lunchtime nature outings in and around Center City Philadelphia.

For this one-hour outing, we will meet at noon out front of LLoyd Hall public bathrooms located at 1 Boathouse Row, or you can plug this location into your map (39.968953, -75.184904).

Access Features

Surface/Terrain: The park surface is composed of paved path, metal boardwalk, loose brick sections and grassy areas.
Public Bathrooms and water fountains located at Lloyd Hall.
The area features some tree canopy shade and offers ample benches.
Parking: Free two-hour parking is available along Water Works Drive. 2 Disability Parking spots are available.
Public Transportation: Bus Routes 38 (0.3 miles from Art Museum to Lloyd Hall)
Weather: If it is actively raining, we will postpone or cancel the event. Please check our Facebook event listing by 11 a.m. on event day to confirm.

Nature at Noon is designed to bring joy, inclusion and curiosity to your lunch hour. These one-hour outdoor gatherings center accessibility, biodiversity, safety and connection — with programming that bridges science, art and community.

Inspired by the work of In Color Birding Club, Feminist Bird Club, Philly Queer Birders, PCAS Adaptive Birders and Disability Pride PA’s Outdoors for Everyone series, Nature at Noon is for everyone — no experience needed, just curiosity and a desire to step outside.

Learn more about Nature at Noon.

Sister Circle: A Space for Healing (9/11/2025)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	9/11/2025	Start Time:	6:00 PM
End Date:	9/11/2025	End Time:	7:00 PM

Community members are invited into a warm, supportive space for love, healing, and authentic connection. Whether you’re experiencing loss, navigating life changes, or simply looking for community, you’ll meet others who are committed to supporting one another on their healing journeys.

Led by Sherita Mouzon, a trained trauma-informed facilitator from the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, Sister Circle offers a safe and respectful environment for all.

Join our weekly online gathering where community members share experiences, uplift one another, and heal together. Thursdays at 6 p.m. on Zoom.