The Board of Directors of The Rosenbach is pleased to announce the appointment of Kelsey Scouten Bates as the John C. Haas Director of The Rosenbach. Kelsey Bates has served as The Rosenbach’s Interim Executive Director since March 2021 when longtime Director Derick Dreher stepped down after a 24-year tenure. Bates has been Associate Director …
A familiar face to many in The Rosenbach community, we are so pleased to announce the appointment of Kelsey Scouten Bates as our Interim Director. Bates has served as The Rosenbach’s Associate Director and Director of Development since February 2014 and was hired following the formation of its formal partnership with the Free Library of …
This being the inaugural year of the Bloomsday art contest, none of us were sure how it would go. Were there artists out there who would be inspired to use Ulysses as the basis for some art? Well, the answer is yes, I said yes, there are, yes. Our first prize winner is Mike Sgier, …
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Every year, the world celebrates James Joyce’s epic Ulysses on June 16th to commemorate Leopold Bloom’s fictional journey through the streets of Dublin. Over the past 25+ years, The Rosenbach’s Bloomsday Festival has grown into a lively, day-long celebration that draws literature lovers from around the country at the beginning of each summer. In 2018 …
In 2019 we welcomed three new members to our board, including a new representative of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation Board of Directors. Emily Cavanagh, Lisa Washington, and Gene LeFevre each bring their own expertise and passion for our mission. We hope you’ll join us in welcoming them to the board and The Rosenbach community. …
If you’ve ever been to Bloomsday at The Rosenbach, you know how exciting (and slightly surreal) it can be to hear a book read aloud over many, many hours. Bloomsday 2020 is still months away but for those craving the opportunity to test their literary endurance, we have just the thing! We are teaming up …
This summer, we welcomed a wonderful group of interns into our collections, education, and marketing departments. Our interns worked on creating new tour content with previously uncatalogued materials, developed teacher workshops on Native American history, helped install our program galleries, and much more. Keep reading to learn more about their experiences interning at The Rosenbach. …
August 1, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville’s birth. In honor of his bicentennial, we are proud to present American Voyager: Herman Melville at 200, a new exhibition that will explore the life, works, and legacy of this iconic but under-read author. To celebrate his birthday, we’ve asked The Rosenbach staff to share their …
Our annual Bloomsday festivities will be held on Sunday, June 16, falling on Father’s Day this year! What is Bloomsday? Bloomsday is the day the world celebrates Leopold Bloom’s fictional journey through the streets of Dublin, as imagined in James Joyce’s epic Ulysses. Lauded as the greatest novel of all time, Ulysses has been …