Forum on the Hill

The Forum on the Hill provides opportunities for the community to engage with speakers once a month, (September- June) who discuss current topics. Join the Conversations! Presented both in person at 12:30pm in Widener Hall and then recorded and posted online here the next day. *Bring a brown bag lunch to enjoy, and we serve light snacks, water, and coffee starting at Noon.

Watch the April 9th Forum Click HERE

A $5 donation is requested for the series to help support this program when you attend in person. If you are watching online, please consider making this small contribution through the secure Donate button below, or mail a check made out to PCCH to: Center on the Hill, 8855 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia PA 19118 if you watch online. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Registration Required to attend in person, please CLICK HERE to Register Online, or call 215-247-4654 or email msaavedra@chestnuthillpres.org 

April 9
Anndee Hochman
Family Matters

What does a 21st-century family look like? For nearly a decade, Anndee Hochman’s weekly “Parent Trip” column in the Philadelphia Inquirer told stories of families formed through adoption, conception, family-blending, surrogacy and fostering. Her new book, Parent Trip: Unexpected Roads to Form a Family, gathers 42 of those exuberantly diverse stories along with her tender, wry personal essays on parenthood. Hochman will read from the book and lead a conversation about what it means to create family today.  

Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. From 2014-2023, she wrote the weekly “Parent Trip” column for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work has also appeared in Poets & Writers, WebMD, O, the Oprah Magazine, Philadelphia Stories, Broad Street Review and other venues. She is a ten-time Moth Story Slam winner. Hochman lives in Mt. Airy with her partner, a housemate, two mercurial cats and a part-time toy poodle.   

Recent PAST Forums:

Tom Weiner
In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught In School  Watch HERE

Thomas H Keels
Ladies of the Street  Watch HERE

Jim Murphy
Real Philly History, Real Fast  Watch HERE

Chris Petrak
Philadelphia’s Bird Men  Watch HERE

Dr. Guthrie Ramsey
Playing Music History  Watch HERE

Nelson A. Diaz
Not from here, not from there. No soy de aquí ni de allá  Watch HERE

Molly Lester and Michael Bixler
Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City  Watch HERE

Barbara VornDick
Eliza’s True Story  Watch HERE

Angelo Cataldi
Turning up the Volume in the Most Passionate Sports City in America  Watch HERE