BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Wooder Ice - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wooderice.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Wooder Ice REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T203000 DTSTAMP:20260511T131910 CREATED:20260323T201943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260323T201943Z UID:10029707-1775588400-1775593800@wooderice.com SUMMARY:Authors Tracey Levine & Grady Chambers in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Join Philly-based writers Tracey Levine (“At the Diner in Heaven”) and Grady Chambers (“Great Disasters”) for a reading & discussion. \nAbout the Event: \nJoin us on Tuesday\, April 7 at 7 PM where authors Tracey Levine and Grady Chambers will read from their work and discuss their craft. Tracey and Grady’s books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is highly recommended! Tickets are free or pay-what-you-want. \nQuestions? Email events@theheadandthehand.com. \nAbout the Books: \nAt The Diner in Heaven\, they’re serving up Bubbie’s chicken soup\, cigs\, abandoned malls\, roller skates\, Tastycakes\, 7-11s\, exes\, homemade bullets\, and the feeling of constantly being angled by boys\, some of them pretending to be men. Levine’s crisp\, intimate prose is—much like an Edward Hopper painting—saturated with loneliness and suggestion. These stories feel like sharing fries with a friend at midnight\, leaning in for the whispered secret that will change you both. – Annie Liontas\, Sex With a Brain Injury \n______________ \nIn the early 2000s in Chicago\, six young men start high school. Though they’ve been friends since boyhood\, their high school years set them on new paths: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan begin\, along with the protests against them; Ryan falls in love but struggles to hold onto it; and he and the others learn to lose themselves in alcohol. With each passing year―as they enter college or the military\, then the world beyond; form new relationships with partners and children; and navigate shifting loyalties to a changing country―the narrator feels the group breaking further apart and finds himself asking: What does it mean to move forward\, both with and without one another? \nExploring the beauty\, hope\, and humor that can be found even in moments of deep loneliness and devastation\, Grady Chambers’ Great Disasters moves between memories of high school and early adulthood to consider friendship\, first love\, patriotism\, protest\, addiction\, and more. An exquisitely written\, profoundly moving debut novel\, Great Disasters is an intimate portrait of disasters big and small\, personal and political―and the ways the two are intertwined―and the announcement of a stunning new voice in American fiction. \nAbout the Authors: \nTracey Levine grew up in northeast Philadelphia and teaches creative writing and film courses at Arcadia University in Glenside\, PA where she coordinates the creative writing program for undergraduates. Her creative writing work has appeared in many journals such as Crack the Spine\, Streetlight Voices\, the anthology Broken Skyline\, she has a chapbook with The Head and The Hand Press\, and was included in Best Stories of Philadelphia from Toho publishing in 2021. She is the creator and former co-host of the Philadelphia reading series The Hatchery. She is also a dedicated yogi and yoga instructor who plays competitive darts. \nGrady Chambers is the author of the novel GREAT DISASTERS (Tin House\, 2025) and the poetry collection NORTH AMERICAN STADIUMS (Milkweed Books\, 2018)\, selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and stories can be found in The Atlantic\, The Paris Review\, American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry Magazine\, The Sun\, Joyland\, Image\, The Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere. Grady is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. He attended the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University\, and lives in Philadelphia. URL:https://wooderice.com/event/authors-tracey-levine-grady-chambers-in-conversation/ LOCATION:The Head and the Hand\, 2230 Frankford Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wooderice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Tracey-and-Grady-w_-red-tile.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Head &%3B The Hand":MAILTO:events@theheadandthehand.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T190000 DTSTAMP:20260511T131910 CREATED:20251202T153156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T153156Z UID:10027060-1766080800-1766084400@wooderice.com SUMMARY:Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, December 18 to welcome Charlene Mires and Howard Gillette for a conversation celebrating Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century — a landmark three-volume publication from the University of Pennsylvania Press that redefines the story of the region and its role in shaping the nation. \nAs Philadelphia prepares to lead the nation in commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence\, The Greater Philadelphia Region (Vol. 1); Greater Philadelphia and the Nation (Vol. 2); and Greater Philadelphia and the World (Vol. 3) offer fresh\, engaging\, richly illustrated\, and inclusive retellings of our region’s history from leading scholars and local voices. URL:https://wooderice.com/event/greater-philadelphia-a-new-history-for-the-twenty-first-century/ LOCATION:American Philosophical Society: Benjamin Franklin Hall\, 427 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wooderice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-11-21-161244_0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T170000 DTSTAMP:20260511T131910 CREATED:20251027T133744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T133744Z UID:10026169-1761994800-1762016400@wooderice.com SUMMARY:Philly Zine Fest DESCRIPTION:Philly Zine Fest returns to Temple University on November 1\, 2025! Featuring: \n-Over 150 artists selling\, swapping\, and slinging zines! Vendors include the Soapbox Community Print Shop\, Iffy Books\, the Young Artist Project\, Partners and Son\, Dox Thrash House\, Ginger Arts\, and more!\n-Free copies of the 2025 Philly Zine Fest Anthology while supplies last! Featuring the best art by the greatest creative community in the world: the Philly Zine Scene!\n– A free zine making station featuring drawing supplies\, typewriters\, laser printers\, mimeograph machines\, and more!\n-FREE and ALL-AGES! \nhttps://www.phillyzinefest.org\nhttps://www.phillysoapbox.org/\nhttps://library.temple.edu/ URL:https://wooderice.com/event/philly-zine-fest-2/ LOCATION:Temple University Mitten Hall\, 1913 N Broad St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wooderice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/PZF_FLYER_CROPPED_11x17_2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T203000 DTSTAMP:20260511T131910 CREATED:20250328T173706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T173706Z UID:10021475-1744743600-1744749000@wooderice.com SUMMARY:Jeremy Gordon Presents SEE FRIENDSHIP with Sadie Dupuis DESCRIPTION:Join us at H&H Books on Tuesday 4/15 at 7 PM as we welcome author & editor Jeremy Gordon and musician & poet Sadie Dupuis to discuss Jeremy’s debut novel\, SEE FRIENDSHIP. \nSEE FRIENDSHIP centers on a culture critic named Jacob who becomes obsessed with the idea of producing a podcast in an effort to dodge the layoffs plaguing the digital media industrial complex. He settles on investigating the tragic & mysterious death of his high school classmate\, Seth. What begins as a work project becomes an obsession set at the foggy intersection of high school memory\, the inevitability of grief\, and existential inquiry. \nWe’ll have copies of the novel for sale at H&H Books on the evening of the event\, which Jeremy will sign after our discussion. (We’ll have copies of Sadie’s poetry collection Cry Perfume for sale\, too.) Questions? Email events@theheadandthehand.com. URL:https://wooderice.com/event/jeremy-gordon-presents-see-friendship-with-sadie-dupuis/ LOCATION:The Head and the Hand\, 2230 Frankford Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wooderice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PhillySadie.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Head &%3B The Hand":MAILTO:events@theheadandthehand.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR