Enhance your experience with thoughtful insights and tasteful food with this pre-show series in the Annenberg Center lobby. Dynamic presentations by Penn faculty members and other area experts on topics related to the performance follow professionally catered buffet dinners with a cultural flair. Tickets: $17 per person; $14 for subscribers & students; prices do not include performance tickets. All dinner/lecture experiences begin two hours before each show (5:30pm for Spirit of Uganda and St. Petersburg Ballet, 6pm for all other shows.) BYOB.

• St. Petersburg Ballet: Carmen
  Powerful Passions: Georges Bizet and Carmen
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• Spirit of Uganda
  The Spirit of Hope: How Africa Fights AIDS
  Speaker: Alexis Hefley, Executive Director of Empower African Children
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• Molora
  Timeless Tales: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary Theatre
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