Past Events
2010
March
- March 3
Jane Austin Exhibit
at the Morgan Library in New York City
From 8:30AM to 5:30PM, $115 per person, includes trip,
gratuities, admission, docent fee and wine and cheese on the
bus. Friends and spouses are welcome.
Please contact Esther Gerhard 215-248-1038 by February 3 to
reserve your spot for this exciting trip
- March 8
Potluck Luncheon
Please bring only finger food, also for the dessert
Please contact Shirley Hallam 215-247-3546 to reserve your spot.
- March 11
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Renate Harshaw 610-353-0496 for details
- March 18
Spanish Speakers Coffee
Please contact Lucia Huegel 856-779-1366 for details
- March 21
Expat. Potluck Dinner
with or without a friend
Please contact Linda McAuliffe 215-242-8291 to reserve your spot.
- March 25
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Anca Contaninescu 215-222-0603 for details
- No French Speakers Coffee
April
- April 14
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Nicole Lewis 215-232-9408 for details
- April 20
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact Irene Boden 610-525-0424 to reserve your spot.
- April 28
French Cooking Demonstration and Lunch
At
Spring Mill Cafe, 164 Barren Hill Road Conshohocken, PA 19428
Michele Haines, IWCP member and owner of the Spring Mill Cafe,
will show how to prepare brioche dough and Coulibiac. The
demonstration will be followed by lunch: Coulibiac (salmon) in
pastry (brioche) with mushrooms and dill sauce, dandelion salad and
choice of dessert.
Please bring a beverage of you choice
The cost for this event is $30 per person all inclusive (BYOB)
Please contact Jo Madden 215-233-0951 by April 23 to reserve your spot,
limited to 40 participants spouses and significant others are
invited
- April 29
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Luciana Aspesi 610-525-3067 for more details.
- No Spanish or German Speakers Coffee
May
- May 2
Potluck Brunch and Matinee Theater
at 12 Hilltop Road and at the
Hedgerow Theatre, 62 Rose Valley Rd, both in Rose Valley, PA
After a Potluck brunch in Pam Medina’s Home all participants walk (5
min.) or drive over to see the Nagle Jackson comedy farce “At This
Evenings’ Performance” at 2 pm at the Hedgerow Theatre.
Please contact Pam Medina 610-565-4211 by April 18 to reserve your spot for
the potluck.
Please call the Box office, 610-565-4211, to order your
ticket, mention IWCP to receive the special group price.
The Group rate is $16 plus a service charge. Please book as soon as
possible.
- May 11
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact Carla Lombardi 610-459-4190 to reserve your spot.
- May 13
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Ingrid Brown 215-233-5511 for details
- May 18
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Daniele Easton 215-732-2280 for details
- May 28
Frog Hollow Garden Tour and Lunch
At the Frog Hollow Garden, 19 Crestfield Road, Wilmington, DE
The event features a tour of Eve Thyrum’s Wilmington-area 2 1/4 acre
garden, Frog Hollow. Frog Hollow is part of the Garden Club of
America Collection and is a registered wildlife sanctuary. Eve and
her garden have been featured in Fine Gardening, Southern Living and
other newspapers. After the garden tour there will be a
luncheon at “Gables at Chadds Ford” at 12 noon.
The cost of this event is $20 incl. lunch with a choice of three
entrees, Dessert, Tea or Coffee, Tax and Tips. Please make checks
payable to Johanna Williams.
Please contact Johanna Williams 610-566-3878 by May 24 to reserve
your spot.
- No Spanish or Italian Speakers Coffee
June
- June 9
Annual Meeting and Luncheon
At the City Tavern 138 S. 2nd St.,
Philadelpia
Please check back later for more details
September
- September 9
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Ursula Hoika 610-594-1735 for details
- September 15
Tea at the RITTENHOUSE Hotel
The tea will be served in the Mary Cassatt Tea Room and Garden,
210 W. Rittenhouse Square, Philadephia, PA 19103.
From 1:00PM to 3:30PM, $35 per person. Prosepctive members and
geusts are welcome.
Please contact Jacqueline Yates 610-623-0395 by September 10 to
reserve your spot for this event.
- September 15
Art Galery Visit
Da Vinci Art Alliance 704 Catharine St, Philadelphia PA 19147
Carla lombardi and Brigitte Rutenberg invite all members to view
their exhibit, after the Tea.
- September 22
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact Anca Constantinescu 215-222-0603 to reserve your
spot.
- September 23
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Aisha Mansouri 610-337-1889 for details
- September 26
Expat Potluck Dinner
Please contact Anca Constantinescu 215-222-0603 to reserve your
spot.
you are welcome to bring friends.
- No Spanish or French Speakers Coffee this September
October
- October 6
Lunch and Shopping in Cherry Hill, NJ
Caffe Aldo Lamberti, 2011 Route 70 West , Cherry Hill, NJ
We will have lunch at Caffe Aldo Lamberti, an Italian restaurant and
then go shopping. The menu will be a Mesclum Salad and a choice of
three entrees. Tiramisu will be served for dessert.
Beginning at Noon, $30 per person (includes non-alcoholic
beverages). Prosepctive members and geusts are welcome.
Please contact Lucia Huegel 856-779-1366 by October 2 to reserve
your spot for this event.
- October 7
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Anne Tobey 267-886-8637 for details
- October 12
Lunch and Tour of QVC
1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester
After a lunch with wood fired pizza at Carla Lombardi’s home we will
go to the QVC Studios in West Chester. There we will have a guided
walking tour through the state-of-the-art broadcasting facility of
the popular retail channel. We will see and experience how QVC
products are sourced, tested and brought to life on air, and
delivered to millions of customers. From the observation deck we may
be able to watch QVC programs in progress.
From 11:00AM until about 3:30PM, $15 per person. Prosepctive members
and geusts are welcome.
Please contact Carla Lombardi 610-459-4190 by October 5 to reserve
your spot for this event.
- October 14
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Ursula Schaufler 215-634-4403 for details
- October 20
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact Irene Boden 610-525-0424 to reserve your spot.
- October 21
Spanish Speakers Coffee
Please contact Lydia Enriquez 856-424-3849 for details
- October 28
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Luciana Aspesi 610-525-3067 for details
November
- November 4
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Nicole Lewis 215-232-9408 for details
- November 8
The Pox, the Plague and Purging: A Medical Tour
of Early Philadelphia
Physick House, 321 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia
Ron Avery, tour guide, teacher, author and humorist, often referred
to as the “Philadelphia-Know-It-All” because of his vast knowledge
of local history and personalities, will guide us on a tour to
historic places of medical importance. He will talk about early
medical history in Philadelphia including the innovations of Dr.
Physick and Dr. Benjamin Rush. After the tour, there will be an
optional lunch at CHIFA, 700 Chestnut Street. The menu will
be Peruvian-Cantonese by Jose Garces.
From 10:00AM until Noon, $15 per person for the tour, an optional
$12.50 for the two-course lunch afterwards. Prosepctive members and
geusts are welcome.
Please contact Anne Tobey 267-886-8637 by November 1 to reserve your
spot for this event.
- November 11
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Sabine Cranmer 610-891-8020 for details
- November 17
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact Jacqueline Yates 610-623-0395 to reserve your spot.
December
- December 2
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Meltem Gonella 610-566-5774 for details
- December 4
Christmas party
At the Hill at Whitemarsh 349 Fox Hound Dr. Lafayette Hill, PA
19444
From 5:00PM to 10:00PM
- December 9
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Caroline Jüchser 610-630-6812 for details
- December 16
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Jacqueline Yates 610-623-0395 for details
- No Spanish or French Speakers Coffee this September
2011
January
- January 13
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Sabine Cranmer 610-891-8020 for details
- January 24
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Lynne Brown 610-651-7750 for details
- January 30
Expat Potluck Dinner
with or without a friends
Please contact Carla Lombardi 610-459-4190 by October 5 to reserve your spot
for this event.
February
- February 3
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Sigrid Weltge 215-402-8639 for details
- February 10
German Speakers Coffee
Please contactRenate Harshaw 610-353-0496 for details
- February 14
Valentine’s Potluck Luncheon
After lunch the guests will watch a romantic movie together.
Please contact Doris Rader 610-359-1078 to reserve your spot.
- February 24
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact
Luciana Aspesi 610-525-3067 for details
March
- March 9
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Irene Boden 610-525-0424 for details
- March 21
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact
Ursula Hoika 610-594-1735 to reserve your spot.
- March 24
French Speakers Coffee
ARGAN, Moroccan Restaurant, 132 S 17th Street Philadelphia
215-873-6552
Please contact Nicole Lewis 215-232-9408 for details
- March 31
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Alexandra Ibingira 610-566-5774 for details
April
- April 6
Visit of the National Gallery of Art and the Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, D.C.
Bus trip leaving from the Community Arts Center, 414 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086
The morning will begin with a docent tour of the Woodrow Wilson Georgian revival home. The house is a national historic landmark and museum focusing on the Wilson’s Washington years. The bus will then continue to the National Gallery of Art for lunch and the opportunity to view these major exhibitions Gauguin: Maker of Myth and Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals. The first exhibition, organized by Tate Modern, London represent 120 works by Gauguin including oil paintings, pastels, prints, drawings and sculpture. The artists of the second exhibition are also among the most brilliant in 18th century art. The bus will leave the Arts Center in Wallingford promptly at 8 am and return approximately at 7:30 pm. Friends and spouses are welcome. Places are limited; therefore it is first come, first serve!
Please register by March 25 at the Community Arts Center
610-566-1713.
- April 7
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact Sabine Cranmer 610-891-8020 to reserve your spot.
- April 12
Shofuso Event at the Japanese House and Garden
Horticultural and Lansdowne Drives Philadelphia, PA 19131
10:00AM
Centennial Café At the Ohio House, 4700 States Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19131, Tel 610-658-2400
The event will include a tour of the villa and garden, and a tea tasting, where each participant will have a bowl of Japanese Matcha tea.
The tour and the tea will last about two hours. Paper slippers will be provided, or white socks may be brought to be put on upon entering the house. There will be places on the veranda to sit, if need be and chairs may be provided for the tea.
Afterwards we will have lunch at the Centennial Café At the Ohio House, 4700 States Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19131, Tel 610-658-2400.
Please contact Jill Ryan 610-933-6163 byAprilr 5 to reserve your spot
for this event.
- April 14
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Charlotte Andrews 610-649-2169 for details
- April 18
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Nicole Lewis 215-232-9408 for details
- April 28
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Anca Constantinescu 215-222-0603 for details
May
- May 1
Expat Potluck Dinner
with or without a Friend
Please contact Brigitte Rutenberg 215-551-0551 by April 28th to reserve your spot.
- May 5
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Doris Rader 610-359-1078 for details
- May 11
Guided Tour of JENKINS ARBORETUM
631 Berwyn Baptist Road, Devon, Pennsylvania 19333 9:45AM
Spring bloom, particularly of azaleas and rhododendrons, coincides
with an exhibit (“Wind through the Trees”) of unique sculpture
installations by local and national artists in this botanical
woodland garden. We enter through the architecturally interesting
new Education Center.
Do wear comfortable walking shoes.
Please bring a sandwich (ID it) for a picnic luncheon on the grounds (coolers, utensils, beverages, etc. will be provided).
Please contact Eva Jackson 215-402-8649 by May 4th to reserve your spot.
- May 12
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact
Nell Daniels 610-565-4856 to reserve your spot.
- May 19
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Danielle Easton 215-732-2280 for details
- May 26
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Meltem Gonella 610-566-5774 for details
June
- June 16
Annual Meeting and Luncheon
Riverboat Cruise on the Delaware
Mark your calanders and return later for more details
September
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September 14
Tea at the RITTENHOUSE Hotel
The tea will be served in the Mary Cassatt Tea Room and Garden,
210 W. Rittenhouse Square, Philadephia, PA 19103.
From 1:30PM to 3:30PM, $37 per person. Prosepctive members and
geusts are welcome at an upcharge.
Please contact Jacqueline Yates 610-623-0395 by September 5 to
reserve your spot for this event.
- September 21
Mural Mile Walk
Independence Visitor Center, 1 N Independence Mall West, Philadelphia 10:00AM
We will have a guided tour to Center City’s iconic murals and landmarks with inspirational stories of urban renewal at the largest public art initiative in the world. Weaving through downtown neighborhoods like Midtown Village, South Street, and more.
After the tour we have lunch in the restaurant “Fork”. Friends are welcome to join.
The cost for the event is $30 for lunch and $9.50 for the tour.
Please send your checks for $39.50 to the organizer when you reserve
your spot.
Please contact Nathalie Verma 215-546-5546 by September 5th to reserve your spot.
- September 29
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Aisha Mansouri 610-337-1889 for details
October
- October 11
Tour of Winterthur House and Gardens
5105 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE 19807 10:00AM
Henry Francis du Pont entertained family and friends in grand style
in Winterthur House and Gardens. We will visit some of the175 rooms,
many of them with historical architecture which are furnished with
an outstanding collection of antiques and objects added since his
death. These masterfully designed spaces promise to inspire,
enlighten, and delight. After the tour we will have lunch at the
cafeteria. Prospective members and guests are welcome.
The cost for this event is $27 per person. Please send your check,
made out to IWCP, when you reserve your spot.
Please contact Nathalie Verma 215-546-5546 by September 20th to reserve your spot.
- October 12
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Irene Boden 610-525-0424 for details
- October 12
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact Marie-Jeanne Dilks 610-353-8822 to reserve your spot.
- October 26
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Nicole Lewis 215-232-9408 for details
- October 27
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Lynne Brown 610-651-7750 for details
November
- November 2
Seeing Gertrude Stein
National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC
The exhibit features 50 artifacts and 100 works by
artists from across Europe and the US, detailing Stein's life as an artist, collector
and style-maker
Please click here for details and more information.
Please contact Esther Gerhard 215-248-1038 by October 11th to reserve your spot.
- November 10
French Speakers Coffee
Please contact Danielle Easton 215-732-2280 for details
- November 16
Potluck Luncheon
Please contact Nathalie Verma 215-546-5546 to reserve your spot.
- November 17
German Speakers Coffee
Please contact Eva Jackson 215-402-8649 for details
December
- December 1
Italian Speakers Coffee
Please contact Francesca Fox 610-407-9996 for details
- December 10
Christmas Party
At Renate and Michael Harshaw's House
Mark your calanders and return later for more details
