23 paid summer internships in the arts

We are very pleased to announce the 2015 RealArts@PENN paid internships - the 7th summer of this innovative project. The goal of the RealArts program is to support creative Penn undergraduates doing art in the realm of practice.

For the summer of 2015, RealArts@Penn is sponsoring 23 paid internships:

Los Angeles:
Feature production at 20th Century Fox
Boutique production company, Brooklyn Films
Work with writers, David Stern and Stuart Gibbs
Boutique production company, Di Novi Pictures
Animation at Disney Television Animation
Management company, Grandview
Documentary production company, Tremolo Productions
New York:
Comic book, graphic novel publisher, Double Take
Children's book publisher, Downtown Bookworks Inc
General trade book publishers, Penguin Random House
Online music magazine, Pitchfork Media
Music magazine and website, Rolling Stone Magazine
Public relations and online marketing firm, Shore Fire Media
Music publishing, management, and label, The Brain Music
Marketing and communications at The Jewish Museum
Creative and strategic solutions, Viacom Creative Services
Philadelphia:
Theater company, 1812 Productions
Newspaper, Philadelphia Inquirer
City and regional magazine, Philadelphia Magazine
Modern Art & European Painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Montana:
Online and print journalism, Flathead Beacon
San Francisco:
Open Spaces digital magazine, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Boutique publishing company, McSweeney's & the Believer

Yes, RealArts will pay you a stipend to work in such venues. This summer's stipends will be $4000.

Deadline for applications is 11:59 PM on January 19, 2015.

(We're happy to emphasize that RealArts@Penn internships and programs are open to students in all four undergraduate schools.)

Why are we doing this? What other projects will we sponsor? How do you apply? Go here:

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/realarts

and find out more!

RealArts internships

 

On November 20, 2014, the Arts Cafe was packed for a session on our RealArts@PENN internships program. The session was moderated by Anthony DeCurtis and featured presentations by students who were RealArts interns during the summer of 2013. Click here and listen to the audio recording or watch the video recording. Find out more about our paid internships program.

19th annual Writers House Thanksgiving: warm & communal as ever

quiche in the kitchen

Typical evening in the Writers House kitchen: everyone smells something yummy in the oven, so they converge on it, and lo & behold—a fabulous quiche. And quickly it is consumed. When is the last time you stopped by KWH in the evening? Do visit. You're missing something!

two poetry MOOCs

with Bernstein at the ICA

Charles Bernstein and his Penn undergraduate Creative Writing seminar at the ICA convening around a send-up of Duchamp's "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" that was part of the Kara Walker show there. The Walker show runs through August 17, 2014, and is called "Roughneck Constructivists."

sex journalism - new podcast

New Kelly Writers House podcast. Listen to a 21-minute excerpt from our February '14 panel on sex in journalism, moderated by KWH student Arielle Pardes. The event was sponsored by the Feminisms series at KWH. Click HERE to listen!

Our Greg Djanikian

Gregory Djanikian, longtime director of our Creative Writing Program, has published a new book called Dear Gravity. On May 17, 2014, at KWH (Penn's Alumni Day), we hosted a reading by Greg and one of his mentees and former students, Matt Chylak. Above you see Greg during this reading, and, at right, the cover of his new book. KWH Faculty Director Al Filreis gave an introduction to Greg's reading, a retrospective of his poems beginning with The Man in the Middle of 1984. Here is a link to that introduction.

Chasing the empty (listen)

Janelle McDermoth and Sarah Lindstedt sing a duet, "Chasing the Empty." They co-wrote the song and, as you will hear, sing it together marvelously. Click here to hear them sing the song; and be sure to right-click the link and download the file if you want to add this music to your iPod. For links to the video and audio recordings of Sarah's hour-long performance, which took place at the Kelly Writers House on April 30, click here.

what is the "hub"?

From the time of its founding in 1995-1996, the Kelly Writers House has been run more or less collectively by members of its community. Our original team of intrepid founders—the group of students, faculty, alumni, and staff who wanted to create an independent haven for writers and supporters of contemporary writing in any genre—took for themselves the name "the hub." "Hub" was the generic term given by Penn's Provost, President, and other planners who hoped that something very innovative would be done at 3805 Locust Walk to prove the viability of the idea that students, working with others, could create an extracurricular learning community around common intellectual and creative passions. To this day, the Writers House Planning Committee refers to itself as "the hub"—the core of engaged faculty, student, staff, and alumni volunteers from whom the House's creative energy and vitality radiates

the hashtag

Madeleine Wattenbarger on the hashtag at the Kelly Writers House, "Seven-Up on Pound" (video): http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/reruns/watch/165063.

TC Boyle, KWH Fellow

TC Boyle with four members of the Writers House Fellows seminar at the March 31 dinner honoring Boyle during his two-day visit.

15 minutes with Buzz

A brand new Kelly Writers House podcast - number 40 if our ongoing series - features a 15-minute excerpt from the recent conversation we had with Buzz Bissinger during his February 17-18 visit as a Writers House Fellow. Click here to listen to the podcast, introduced by Allison Harris. 

Arielle Brousse wins fellowship

Kelly Writers House's own Arielle Brousse has been named a Fellow at this institute: Social Impact House. Well deserved and hooray!

Francie Shaw in new podcast

A new Kelly Writers House podcast is now out (#36 in our ongoing series). In this podcast, we hear an excerpt from an artist's talk by Francie Shaw, whose show was exhibited in our Brodsky Gallery in the late autumn of 2013. For more about the event, click here. To listen to the podcast, introduced by Allison Harris, click here. For a video recording of the full event, click here.

high-school student in Pakistan finds the Writers House

In the Christian Science Monitor newspaper, there is currently an article about how a high-school student in Lahore, Pakistan - Taha Tariq - discovered the Kelly Writers House and Penn through our free, open online course called "ModPo." A passage from the article: "He was also attracted by the bohemian culture of the Kelly Writers House – a literary salon on the Penn campus that hosts poetry readings, film screenings, lectures, and cultural events. It was founded by a group of students and faculty in 1995 in a spirit of cultural communitarianism. As a high school senior in his native Pakistan at Lahore Grammar School, a network of private schools that prepares students for British-style exams, Taha was struck by what he saw as a relaxed relationship between professors and students in the MOOC and at Kelly Writers House events." Click here for more.

RealArts interns announced

We received hundreds of applications again this year for nine paid summer RealArts@PENN internships. Below is a list of the students who have been appointed as RealArts interns for 2014.

For more about RealArts: http://writing.upenn.edu/realarts/.

I want to thank Mingo Reynolds and R.J. Bernocco, who coordinate RealArts; and Anthony DeCurtis, Director of RealArts and creator of the series of RealArts events and symposia at the Kelly Writers House, co-sponsored by Creative Ventures. We also wish to thank Dirk Wittenborn, Paul & Ossi Burger, & Alan Berger for their support of RealArts.

If you know the winners of this year’s internships, please take a moment to congratulate them; the quality of the applications was very high, the competition acute.

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Interning with the Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial blog will be Iris Williamson. Iris is a sophomore Art History major.

The intern at Philadelphia Magazine will be Manola Gonzalez. Manola is a junior majoring in English and French Studies with a Political Science minor.

Isaac Kaplan, a Junior in Art History, will be interning at The Jewish Museum this summer.

The intern at Viacom Creative Services will be Julia Liebergall.  Julia is a junior majoring in English with minors in Creative Writing and Consumer Psychology.

This year's Rolling Stone Magazine intern will be Katie Behrman.  Katie is a junior studying English with a minor in French.

Carolina Beltran, a junior in English with a Creative Writing concentration and minoring in Spanish, will be working at Brooklyn Films in L.A. with producer/director Jon Avnet.

Caroline Yost will be working in L.A. with writers David Stern & Stuart Gibbs.  Caroline is a junior English major with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Fine Arts.

The intern for Shore Fire Media is Nathan Platnick. Nathan is a sophomore in the College intending to major in English with a Creative Writing concentration.

This years McSweeney's intern will be Brenda Wang. Brenda is a sophomore in the College, majoring in English.

Buzz video

Al Filreis interviews Buzz Bissinger (video recording; 1 hour): LINK. Bissinger was the first of three Kelly Writers House Fellows this semester.

podcast: 15 mins. with sportswriter Bob Ford

Episode #38 in the Kelly Writers House podcast series: a 15-minute excerpt from the recent visit to KWH by prize-winning sportswriter Bob Ford, introduced by Dick Polman. http://media.sas.upenn.edu/writershouse/podcasts/Kelly-Writers-House-Podcast_38_Bob-Ford.mp3

experimental radio host/producer featured in new podcast

Benjamen Walker featured in new Kelly Writers House podcast: https://jacket2.org/commentary/benjamen-walker-and-year-sound . Part of the University of Pennsylvania's "year of sound."

new podcast - writing about TV

New Writers House podcast released today - #33 in our series. This time: writing about television. Click here to listen. Or go to your iTunes Music Store and type "Kelly Writers House" in the searchbox.

podcast on Kanye West-fest

KWH podcast number #31 in our series is hosted by Allison Harris - a 15-minute excerpt from our November 2013 Kanye West-fest. Have a listen here.

Zach Djanikian performs a song about the future

Zach Djanikian performs a song about the future - commissioned by Anthony DeCurtis for an event held at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia in which several artists, critics and historians each addressed the topic of the future. The event was held on January 31, 2014, as the second annual sympoisum honoring the recipient of the Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching & Mentorship at the Kelly Writers House. The 2012-13 winner was Karen Rile. The 2013-14 winner is Anthony DeCurtis. For more information about the event, and for links to full audio and video recordings of the program, see the KWH calendar.

Howard Fineman on new media holding old media accountable

For more about this program, and for links to audio and video recordings of the complete program, go here.

Robert Creeley at KWH in April 2000

snow day

new KWH podcast out now

We have released podcast #30 in the Kelly Writers House podcast series. Hosted by Emily Harnett. In this 35-minute audio, J.C. Hallman at KWH in 2009 reads "Ethan, a Love Story," about a father and son who disappear into the world of Halo in order to escape visiting relatives. Listen here.