Our 2019-20 Impact Report
Last season, the Annenberg Center connected our audiences with visionary artists from across the globe, presenting groundbreaking work and sustaining a thriving performing arts community in Philadelphia. We championed performance at Penn, collaborating throughout the University and providing students with meaningful exposure to the professional performing arts. We served as a bridge between Penn and our surrounding community, welcoming our youngest neighbors to professional dance, music and theatre performances. And amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we built on the resilience and adaptability of the arts, pivoting to a digital platform to uphold and uplift music, dance and theatre during extraordinary times. Please join us in reflecting on this exceptional year of programming as detailed in our 2019-20 Impact Report. Designed as an academic year calendar, we invite you to explore our impact from last season, whether you read the report in one sitting, come back to it over time, or even print a copy to hang on the wall as a source of inspiration throughout the months ahead.
In this recent season, and in all seasons moving forward, our role is to support the artists who work to bring our stories to life, to build a forum for the Penn and Philadelphia community to explore and unpack the important issues of our time, and to provide a space where empathy is core to the experience of the performing arts. About the creating and sharing of art, we could not say it better than Toni Morrison—it is “how civilizations heal.”
