Events at Community College of Philadelphia

Hunger and Racial Equity: The Impact of Food Insecurity in Urban Communities – (Grady’s Garden three-year anniversary)

Event Date

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 11:00am

Event Type

Community Event

Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 | 11 a.m.

Join us on Zoom (Dial-in: 646-558-8656)

The College is excited to host its first Enough Is Enough teach-in session of the fall 2021 semester. We return with an interesting discussion on how to best achieve food security through food sovereignty. The College has been dedicated to helping and educating its community about sourcing healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through environmentally responsible methods through the use of Grady’s Community Garden. Join the conversation with urban farmers and hunger relief specialists to learn about sustainable farming, food access and security in our neighboring communities, and other ways you can support our students and your community in gaining food sovereignty.

Hosted by Dr. Donald Guy...

Transgender Success Program Campus Partner Highlight: Single Stop

Event Date

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Event Type

Admissions

Tuesday, Oct. 19 | 3 p.m. | Join us on Zoom

Learn about the many ways Single Stop can support your academic success with a presentation specifically tailored to the needs of transgender students. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with Single Stop and MarcDavid LGBTQ Center staff.
 
To find out more and join, visit the Transgender Success Program webpage!
 
The MarcDavid LGBTQ Center was established at the College in 2018 and runs programming for the entire LGBTQ Community. Visit our website, join our organization on Pride Portal and sign up for our mailing list to make sure you don’t miss a thing! 

Join Us for a Reading and Discussion with Distinguished Author Dionne Irving

Event Date

Monday, November 8, 2021 - 11:00am

Event Type

Academic

 

Community College of Philadelphia’s Liberal Arts and Communications pathway invites you to join us for a reading, discussion and Q&A session with author Dionne Irving, who will read from her new novel, Quint. Jeffrey S. Markovitz, Ph.D., associate professor of English, will host the event.
 
Quint is a dazzling and inventive novel based on a true story of the Dionne quintuplets—the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. Born during the Great Depression, the quintuplets are taken from their homes and turned into a tourist attraction in Canada in the 1940s, leading to a lifelong struggle against the abuses of their profiteers.

Join Us on Zoom

Meeting ID: 988 0427 2263
Dial-in: 646-558-8656


About the Author
Dionne Irving has published fiction and nonfiction in The Missouri Review, Boulevard Magazine, The Crab Orchard Review and other places. Her essay, “Living with Racial Fatigue,” was chosen as a 2017 Notable Essay in the Best American Essays collection. Her second book, Islands, will be published in 2022 by Catapult.

“Dionne Irving’s fascinating novel begins as an exploration of the ways in which innocents can be exploited, perverted and victimized by rampant commercial exploitation. From there the story broadens and deepens to become a poignant and ambitious meditation on the human condition itself, particularly as it relates to our relationship with love or its absence. Quint is a compelling read, and Dionne Irving is a writer on the rise.” 
—Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much Is True
 
“Quint is an expansive novel of multiple births, motherhood, siblings, celebrity, exploitation, loss and connection; this story truly contains the world. Dionne Irving is a fantastic writer; she tells this unique story with honesty and precision and playfulness, and this novel compels with her vision, which is original and vast.” 
—Karen E. Bender, author of Refund