Pittsburgh Events

2009 May 11 - May 17

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Sat May 16 - 9 AM to 2 PM
Regent Square annual garage sale
get a map at the corner of Forbes and S. Braddock with all the houses having garage sales, and bike around. If you drive, you will be driving in narrow streets always looking for parking.

Sat May 16, 2009, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM -
Rummage Sale/Bake Sale at Mifflin Avenue United Methodist Church. Items for sale include, housewares, books, collectibles, glassware, craft items, furniture, infant/toddler clothing, toys, small appliances, Christmas decorations and a lot more.

2009 May 4 - May 10

2009-04-21T02:40:00.000-07:00

2009 Apr 27 - May 3

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Mon Apr 27 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Francis C. McMichael, Professor of Environmental Engineering, will discuss his life's journeys in a lecture titled "Getting the sign right"

Tue Apr 28 - 5:00 PM
CMU McConomy Auditorium
The School of Art Lecture Series presents Daniel Martinez, who in 2006 represented the U.S. in the Cairo Biennial. His work has been featured in the groundbreaking 1993 and 2008 Whitney biennials, the 2004 San Juan Triennial, the 2005 Lima Biennial and the 2007 Moscow Biennial. His work is currently included in the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. The award-winning artist is a professor of theory, practice and mediation of contemporary art at the University of California, Irvine.

Tue Apr 28 - 6:30 PM
CMU School of Design lecture
Breed Hall
Bernard Uy, Wall-to-Wall Studios
Born in Brooklyn, NY, growing up on Oahu, and attending high school in New York, Bernard received his BFA in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA. Bernard worked for Henry Dreyfuss Associates in New York City, Herman Miller Inc. In 1992, he co-founded Wall-to-Wall Studios in Pittsburgh with fellow CMU alumni, James Nesbitt. Bernard also served on the board of AIGA Pittsburgh as Education Chair and President. He has taught design as an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon and as a visiting lecturer at the School for Design in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2005, Bernard opened the second office of W|W when he and wife Tammy returned to Honolulu. He spends most mornings thinking about lunch.
Wall-to-Wall Studios is a multi-disciplinary Branding agency specializing in design for print, interactive and broadcast creative solutions. Founded in 1992, W|W has offices in Honolulu, HI and Pittsburgh, PA.
Bernard Uy invited us to drive two blocks and visit Wall-to-Wall Studios, the graphic design and marketing firm he owns with his partner James Nesbitt. Wall-to-Wall moved to the Strip in January, 1995. "We started out in my apartment," said Bernard, "And that's where the name 'Wall-to-Wall' came from. We needed more space right from the start." Recently, Bernard and James opened an art gallery dedicated to featuring the work of young Pittsburgh artists, and they're also on the board of PUMP, the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project. "We're a group of young business owners who are tired of having our friends move away from Pittsburgh to find jobs and lives," said Bernard. "We want to encourage people to stay."

Thu Apr 30 - 5:00 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
lecture on Robotics and War
by Activities Board

Thu Apr 30
5:00 pm 7:00 pm
OTB Bicycle Café, 2518 East Carson St, South Side
Walls are Bad.
Yeah, we know. Thats why its important to get outside and enjoy the fresh air. But what does Walls are Bad really mean? Find out on April 30 during happy hour at the OTB Bicycle Café on Pittsburghs South Side. Sustainable Pittsburgh and its outdoor recreation partners, along with the OTB Bicycle Café, invite leaders and members of local outdoors groups to learn about Walls are Bad over a cold brew and some free food.
For the last ten years, Sustainable Pittsburgh, a nonprofit organization working to accelerate the policy and practice of sustainability in southwestern PA, has been working with a core group of partners to promote the regions natural amenities through various programs. In 2008, this group launched Walls are Bad, a campaign designed to increase awareness of and participation in outdoor recreation in southwestern Pennsylvania. Come learn how Walls are Bad can strengthen and support your outdoors groups. Which wall will you break down?
See you outside,

Thu apr 30 - 6:30 PM
CMU School of Design lecture
Giant Eagle Audiotorium, Baker Hall
Barbara Sudick
Sudick is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Design at California State University, Chico. She teaches Typography, Publication Design, and the Senior Capstone class. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a BFA in Arts and Crafts from Kent State University. She also studied abroad at the Design Program in Brissago, Switzerland.
Sudick’s personal vision includes the relation between print and digital media design, typography and theatre, and the role of context in creating meaning. She is currently exploring ways to embed responsible ethics of social, economic, and environmental sustainability in design practice and teaching.

Thu Apr 30 - 7 PM
free classical piano and cello recital
Adam Liu, cello, and Becky Billock, piano
PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne University
by Steinway Society
On the program: Louise Farrenc’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 46, David Popper’s Elfentanz, Prokofiev’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119, and Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango.

Sat May 2 - 9 AM
Forest Hills, Ardmore Blvd
Church Rummage sale (two)

2009 Apr 20 - Apr 26

2009-03-19T06:40:00.001-07:00

Mon 20 April 2009 - 6:30 PM
BILL MITCHELL MIT Design Lab
Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre

Mon Apr 20 - 8 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Charles D'Ambrosio. D'Ambrosio is an American short story writer and essayist. He has published two collections of short stories, "The Point" (1995) and "The Dead Fish Museum" (2006). He has also published a collection of essays, "Orphans" (2005). His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. "The Point" was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "The Dead Fish Museum" was a finalist for the
PEN/Faulkner Award. In October 2006, D'Ambrosio was awarded the prestigious
Whiting Writers' Award

Wed Apr 22 - 7 PM
CMU school of design
Baker Hall, Giant Eagle Auditorium
John Kolko, Frog Design
Jon Kolko is a Senior Design Analyst at frog design, in Austin, Texas. He has worked extensively in both the professional and academic worlds of interaction design, manipulating complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients and educating future interaction designers to do the same. His work has extended into the worlds of supply chain management, demand planning, pricing and configuration, and customer-relationship management, and he has worked with clients such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cisco, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Palm, and other leaders of the Global 2000. The common underlying theme of these problems and projects was the creation of a solution that was useful, usable, and desirable.
His present research investigates the process of Design, with a focus on the use of Information Architecture during the Synthesis phase of a design problem. This includes the role of visual data organization during requirement mapping and definition, as well as educational structures for acquiring these Information Architecture and Design skills.

2009 Apr 13 - Apr 19

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Mon Apr 13 - 5 PM
Chosky Theather, CMU
"Brecht at Sea and in America," a talk by Holger Teschke. In the summer of 1941, the exiled German playwright Bertolt Brecht crossed the Pacific from Vladivostok in the Soviet Union to San Pedro, California, aboard the Swedish freighter the "Annie Johnson." In this lecture, Teschke describes the journey by sea that Brecht and his small entourage took through, and to, the Pacific "paradise" Brecht had often imagined and figured in his writing. Teschke also looks at the ways Brecht's experience in the United States and the "dream factory" of Hollywood sharpened and shaped his understanding of social relations and class in modern society.

Tue Apr 14 - 5 PM
CMU - McConomy Audit
TONY CONRAD is a filmmaker, composer, musician, and conceptual artist who has exerted an immeasurable influence over the American avant-garde film and music scenes. As a giant in the American soundscape since the early 1960s, he has utilized intense amplification, long duration and precise pitch to forge an aggressively mesmerizing “Dream Music.” Conrad articulated the Big Bang of “minimalism” and played a pivotal role in the formation of the Velvet Underground. Conrad continues to exert a primal influence over succeeding generations with his ecstatic oscillations and hypnotic drones. A performative provocateur and prime proponent of expanded cinema, his film works arise from with stock that has been pickled, stir-fried and most recently electrocuted with a Tesla coil before projection. His 1966 masterwork “The Flicker” is considered the cornerstone of the Structural Cinema movement. His inclusive and expansive approach to unusual materials and methods informs his performance of music and film. Combining theatricality, mystery and eccentric humor, Conrad always challenges traditional notions of any genre.

Tue Apr 14 - 7:30 PM
CMU - Porter Hall 100
Author of "Gang Leader For A Day" and "American Projects" -- Featured in "Freakonomics". Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a researcher and writer on urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. He is also a documentary film-maker. His most recent book is Gang Leader for a Day (Penguin Press). First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago’s most notorious gang and captured the world’s attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and went on to witness—and participate in—events that have rarely been described in print. A brazen, page-turning, and fundamentally honest view of the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, it is also an emotional and complicated look at the friendship that develops between the sociologist and a gang leader, two ambitious men a universe apart. Admission is Free.

Tue Apr 14 - 8 PM
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Free to CMU students, $5 to everyone else
Alumnus Gil Rose, director of orchestral studies candidate, leads the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in a program that includes Mozart's Overture to La Clemenza di Tito and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. Artist Diploma candidate Vivian Choi is featured on Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Wed Apr 15 - 6 PM
Duq Univ - chess
Grand Chess Exhibition Game
Get your pawns in order for an impressive afternoon of chess as Youth World Champion Grandmaster Darmen Sadvakasov challenges two opponents simultaneously --- while he plays completely blindfolded.
Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.

Thu Apr 16 - 6 PM
Carnegie Library - Main
Screenprinting Workshop + Plan-it-X Records Documentary + Reading by Moe Bowstern from Xtra Tuf Zine + Vegan Cooking by Josh Ploeg from In Search of Lost Taste + Reading by Artnoose of Kerbloom! Zine

Thu Apr 16 - 10 AM
CMU Buggy Display
Come to the university's gym today and check out the buggies that will be featured in this year's student races.
In a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) tradition, CMU students race buggies in Schenley Park that they have made themselves.

Thu Apr 16 to Sat Apr 18
Spring Carnival at CMU

Thu Apr 16 - 8 PM
Carnival
Comedian

Fri Apr 17 - 9 PM
The New Pornographers
CMU campus

Sat Apr 18 - 9 AM to noon
Buggy Races
Intersection of Tech St and Frew St

Sat Apr 18 - 11 AM to 4 PM
Frick Park Environmental Center
Earth Day - vendors, activities

Sat Apr 18 - 11 AM to 2 PM
Hartwood Acres, Allison Park, PA
meet by Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club

Sat Apr 18 - 12 (noon) to 4 PM
Flagstaff Hill, Schenley Park
Holi - Hindu festival of color

2009 Apr 6 - Apr 12

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Mon Apr 6 - 4:30 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Hip-Hop Legend, Sneaker Expert Bobbito Garcia To Speak at Carnegie Mellon April 6
Wed Apr 01 11:08:00 EDT 2009
Widely recognized as a Renaissance man in hip-hop, basketball and sneaker-enthusiast circles, Bobbito Garcia will discuss his book "Where'd You Get Those? NYC's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987" at 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 6 in McConomy Auditorium at Carnegie Mellon's University Center.
"Where'd You Get Those?" is the textbook for Sneakerology 101, a Student College (StuCo) course taught by Carnegie Mellon seniors Jesse Chorng and Elliott Curtis. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of Carnegie Mellon's University Lecture Series. Sponsors include the Office of the Vice Provost for Education, the Division of Student Affairs, Student Senate and the Student Dormitory Council.
Garcia, born and raised in New York City, graduated from Wesleyan University in 1988. After playing professional basketball for a year in Puerto Rico, he returned to his hometown to work for Def Jam Records. There, he met DJ Stretch Armstrong, and the two hosted a show on WKCR 89.9-FM that exposed the world to then-unsigned acts like Nas, Jay Z, Notorious B.I.G. and Wu Tang Clan. The Source magazine named it the "Greatest Hip-Hop Radio Show of All Time."
Since then, Garcia has performed at NBA halftime shows with Project Playground, hosted "Hot Minute at The Half" during New York Knicks games, produced an instructional dribbling DVD - "Bobbito's Basics to Boogie," breakdanced with the Rock Steady Crew and spun records in clubs worldwide. Video game enthusiasts will also recognize his voice as an announcer for EA Sports' "NBA Street" series.
Garcia is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bounce, a streetball magazine, and has written numerous columns for Vibe, Fader and Slam. In 2005, he interviewed NBA superstars and hip-hop legends about their sneaker collections as host of ESPN2's "It's The Shoes." He has appeared in more than 40 television commercials and several films, including Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam." Most recently, he added "shoe designer" to his list of credentials.

Tue Apr 7 - 6:30 PM
Melwood Screening rooom
Documentary Salon
Kinetic Poetry: Castro Street and Night Mail
in 16mm film
presented by Will Zavala
Cinema, like a poem spoken aloud, makes patterns over time. Rhythms of great complexity are formed by combinations of camera movement, movement within the frame, cutting between shots, and the soundtrack. Documentary utilizes these elements, and at times goes further to capture the rhythmic qualities of life itself. This month we’ll screen two films that chose that cinematic favorite—the moving train—to provide the meter for a kind of kinetic poetry.
Castro Street (1966) is Bruce Baillie’s experimental document of an avenue in the Bay Area…but not in San Francisco. This Castro Street is across the Bay in the oil refinery town of Richmond, and the film follows the railway that run parallel to the street.
Lesser film poets might be satisfied to confine their attention to an easy beauty... In Castro Street, Baillie alchemically transforms an "ugly" space into a stunning one." (Scott MacDonald, The Garden in the Machine)
Night Mail (1936) is a poetic film, literally—W.H. Auden was hired to write the verses that concludes the film—about overnight postal delivery in Great Britain. That a mundane subject is made exhilarating attests to the respect the filmmakers (Basil Wright and Harry Watt, working on John Grierson’s team) had for the postal workers, and to their own artistic vision.
Both 16mm prints have been kindly provided by Hillman Library at the Univ. of Pittsburgh.

Wed Apr 8 - 5:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Good, Fast, Cheap in New Product Development: Don't Settle for Just Two
Stephen Hoover, April 8, 2009
5:30pm - Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Accepting as true that you can only have two of -- good, fast or cheap-- in product development means that it will be true. In this talk, we will discuss some recent advances in product development best practices that have turned on their heads tradeoffs such as, “we can either meet schedule or have a high quality release.” We will also examine some fundamental strategies that will help you to find solutions to innovation problems with seemingly irreconcilable constraints.
Dr. Stephen P. Hoover is Vice President and Center Manager of the Xerox Research Center Webster for Xerox Corporation.

Thu Apr 9 - 7 PM
Full Moon Hash
Lawrenceville , 4200 block of Butler
Duke of Hurl is the hare

Sat Apr 11 - 3 PM
WMD and Moon's Birthday Hash
Millvale

Sat Apr 11 - 8 PM
Pitt - william pitt ballroom
Wazobia, African festival

Sun 4/12/2009 6:30am
75th Annual Northside Easter Sunrise Service
Allegheny Observatory - North side
Dress warm, bring a lawn chair and take part in this community-based, interdenominational service held in front of the Observatory.
Easter, the most important religious holiday in the Christian year, commemorates Jesus' resurrection from the dead three days after his crucifixion.
In the event of inclement weather, the service will be held in the Riverview Presbyterian Church on the corner of Perrysville and Riverview Avenues located at the entrance to Riverview park.

2009 Mar 30 - Apr 5

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Mon Mar 30 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
The ULS presents Florida International University Professor Kenneth Lipartito, who will discuss "Technologies of Surveillance: Tracking People as Economic Subjects." Lipartito traces the evolution of the technologies of economic watching from the early credit reporting bureaus of the nineteenth century, through the workplace surveillance methods of the industrial corporation and out into the consumer marketplace of the twentieth century.

Mon 30 Mar 2009 - 6:30 PM
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall
AARON BETSKY Cincinnati Art Museum, Venice Architecture Biennale

Mon Mar 30 - 8 PM
CMU - Kresge Hall
Piano recital, free
Russell Sherman

Tue Mar 31 - 12 PM
CMU - Kresge Hall
piano recital, free
Wha Kyung Byun

Tue Mar 31 - 8:30 PM
Pitt - 120 David Lawrence Hall
Spike Lee, presented by Pitt Black Action Society

Wed Apr 1 - 7:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Seducing Dr. Lewis | La Grande Séducion
St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village in what some may call the middle of nowhere. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, wearing patched sweaters and glum expressions, and remembering the good old days when the catch was good, the fishermen were proud, and life seemed a lot more magical. Then one day, a chance at salvation: a small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. But how to convince handsome, young, urbane Dr. Lewis to stay in this dreary little spot on the map? As it turns out, the answer lies in just a bit of seductive subterfuge--along with a tapped phone, a hastily assembled cricket team, and something called Festival de Beef Stroganoff.
Production: Canada 2004
Director: Jean-François Pouliot
Language:French with English Subtitiles
Run Time: 108 minutes

Wed Apr 1 - 7:30 PM (reception at 6:45 PM)
Pitt - Frick Arts Building
amigos de cinema latino americano
First Film:
El día que me quieras: un número infinito de cosas
Director: Leandro Katz.
English title: Day you’ll love me.
Spanish with English subtitles. (30 min.)
Investigating death and the power of photography, this film is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table, surrounded by his captors. The photograph, taken by Freddy Alborta in 1967, has been compared to Mantegna’s Dead Christ and Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Tulp. The film, a montage of Alborta’s memories of that day, his photographs and rare newsreel footage of the event, is an attempt to deconstruct the myth of Guevara.
Second Film:
Che Guevara hasta la Victoria Siempre
A revealing portrait of the man & the myth
Director: Clark Green.
Spanish with English subtitles. (60 min)
This revealing documentary, featuring extensive footage, tells the story of one of the 20th century’s most controversial, yet charismatic icons, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, better known as Che Guevara.
A true revolutionary who traveled throughout Latin America observing impoverished conditions of the people, stood side-by-side with Fidel Castro in Cuba, and formed revolutions in the Congo and Bolivia (where he was executed). Archival film footage, rare photos and informed commentary provide new insights into the life and influence of this remarkable man.

Thu Apr 2 - 5 to 7 PM
Church Breworks, Lawrenceville
Geek Night

Thu Apr 2 - 7:00 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Mike Reiss, one of the founding writers of "The Simpsons." In his entertaining presentation, "The Simpons and Other Gentiles I Work With," Reiss will share stories about dealing with network censors and prickly guest stars, and discuss how "The Simpsons" is perceived around the world. He will also show clips from his Simpsons work, as well as his original animated creations "The Critic" and "Queer Duck." There will be a special emphasis on Jewish themes in "The Simpsons," but you don't have to be Jewish, or even a Simpsons fan, to enjoy this speech.

Fri Apr 3 - 6 PM
Pitt - 4130 Posvar Hall
Film--Korean Film Festival: The Chaser
The Chaser (2008) is an Action/Thriller directed by Hong-jin Na
Synopsis: Ex-cop pimp Jung-ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts. One night, he gets a call from a customer and sends Mi-jin. Jung-ho realizes the phone number of the customer matches that of the calls the missing girls got last. As something smells fishy, he searches for her. During his search, Jung-ho dents a car in the alley. When Jung-ho spots blood splattered on the driver's shirt, he senses the man, Young-min, is the suspect. After an intense chase, Jung-ho catches Young-min. But because of Jung-ho's pretense as a cop, they are both taken to the police station. At the station, the man bluntly confesses he has killed the missing women, and the last girl, Mi-jin, may still be alive. As the whole police force is obsessed with a random search for corpses, Jung-ho is the only one who believes Mi-jin is still alive. With only 12 hours left to detain the serial killer without a warrant, Jung-ho's hunt begins, searching for Mi-jin entrapped in a place nobody knows.
Audience: Open to the public

Fru Apr 3 - 6:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Free screening
Maiko Haaaan!!!
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with Maiko and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one. Upon being transferred to his company's Kyoto branch, he dumps his coworker girlfriend Fujiko Osawa and makes his first ever visit to a geisha house. However, when the realization of Kimihiko's lifelong dream is rudely interrupted by a professional baseball star named Kiichiro Naito, he vows revenge by becoming a pro baseball player himself. Meanwhile, Fujiko decides to become an apprentice geisha. A success war between Kimihiko and Naito ensues where they try to out-do each other by subsequently becoming professional baseball players, K-1 fighters, chefs, actors and even politicians.
Production: Japan 2007
Director: Nobuo Mizuta
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
Run Time: 120 minutes

Fri Apr 3 - 7 PM
Pitt - Cathedral of Learning room 232
Syrian Film Festival
Verbal Letters (Rasa’el Shafahiyyah. Abdullatif Abdul-Hamid (Syria), 1991, 105 min). Winner of the Golden Olive at the Valencia Mediterranean Film Festival and the Special Acknowledgement at the Asiatica Film Mediale in Italy in 2003 “for the lyricism with which [the director] was capable of describing the tricks of fortune and the reality of war.” Like his other films, Abdul-Hamid uses a deceptively simple story to explore complex themes. Tender and sophisticated, the story is loosely adapted from the story of Cyrano de Bergerac. The plot rotates around a young man too embarrassed to approach a beautiful young woman he has fallen in love with. He entrusts a close friend with reciting a love letter to her, resulting in the woman falling for the friend.

Fri Apr 3 - 8:30 PM
Pitt - Frick Arts Building Auditorium
Pictures from a Revolution: A Memoir of the Nicaraguan Conflict
a film by Susan Meiselas, Richard Rogers, and Alfred Guzzetti
Susan Meiselas, the award winning photographer who covered the Nicaraguan revolution, returns a decade later to track down the people - guerrillas, Somocistas and bystanders - pictured in her original photographs. An instant classic among political documentaries, PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION is both a provocative look at the revolution, its aftermath, and the individuals who fought in the insurrection and now live in the wake of political turmoil and dashed hopes. 1991, 88 minutes

Fri Apr 3 - 7 PM to midnight
Pitt - William Pitt student center ballroom
Festival Brasiliero
dances, food, fashion show, music

Sat Apr 4 - 12 (noon) to 5 PM
handmade craft show: I Made It
http://www.unionproject.org/, highland park neighborhood

Sat Apr 4 - 9 AM to 4 PM
Pittsburgh Code Camp 2009
Code Camp is a free, 1-day event put on by the local Pittsburgh community to help promote software development in the community.
Code Camps have been taking place all over the country. This is Pittsburgh's version of this excellent event. The continuing goal of the Code Camps is to provide an intensive developer-to-developer learning experience that is fun and technically stimulating.
All training, slides, manuals, and demo code are provided free following the event!
Our Code Camp will be hosted at the University of Pittsburgh Computer Science Department. We have local speakers from the community who will share their technical expertise and experiences.
Location:
Department of Computer Science
Sennott Square
210 South Bouquet Street
6th Floor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Sat Apr 4 - 7 PM
Pitt - Cathedral of Learning room 232
Syrian Film Festival
Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (al-Hayat al-Yaomiyyah fi Qaryah Suriyyah. Omar Amiralay (Syria), 1974, 85 min, B&W). A classic by what many regard as the Arab World’s best and most elegant documentarist. Its narrative was made all the more compelling due to the collaboration in making it by the late Sa'adallah Wannous, one of the most innovative modern Arab playwrights. The documentary presents a powerful critique of “development” as conceived by the state. Highlighted are a variety of perspectives in the village, including farmers, health workers and a police officer, offering contrasting approaches to local life, all rendered in the context of an ongoing lyrical visual commentary on landscape, life and death.

Sat Apr 4 - 6:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
free screening
Terrorism and the Kebab
TERRORISM AND THE KEBAB is a farce denouncing the absurdity of bureaucracy in modern Egypt. Adel Imam, Egypt's leading comic actor, is a father who wants to move his son to a school closer to home. He goes to El-Mugamaa, the center of Cairo's monolithic bureaucracy, to pick up the required documents. Frustrated by the lack of response, he ends up attacking a fundamentalist official and, when armed police respond to the situation, a machine gun accidentally finds its way into Imam's hands. As a terrorist, his demands to the Minister of Internal Affairs are simple: Shish Kebab made of high-class lamb. After having a hearty meal with his hostages, however, his demands become more political.
Production: 1992
Director: Sherif Arafa
Language: Arabic with English Subtitles
Run Time: 105 minutes

2009 Mar 23 - Mar 29

2009-03-17T06:11:00.000-07:00

Mon Mar 23 2009 - 5:00 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Marianne Weems, Builders Association
Art Lecture

Mon Mar 23 2009, 6:30 PM
Carnegie Museum Of Art Theatre
CMU architecture dept free lecture
PRESTON SCOTT COHEN

Mon Mar 23 - 7:00 PM
Tom Carden - Interaction Designer and Engineer - Stamen Design
CMU Breed Hall
Live, Vast and Deep: Web-native Information Visualization
Information visualization is moving out of the research lab and into our
everyday lives, helping us make sense of the abundant data we produce.
Stamen’s work in information visualization and mapping is among the most
high profile online today. This talk will give an overview of Stamen’s
approach to data visualization including some of the common issues
associated with working with live/vast/deep data sets and discuss the
underlying design decisions behind their work, outlining the process of
shaping a data set into an informative, beautiful, and useful interactive
graphic presentation.
Tom Carden joined Stamen in November 2006. Before that, he wrote
passenger flow simulation software for London-based architecture firm
YRM and studied for his Masters in Virtual
Environments, Imaging and Visualisation at University College London
. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Artificial
Intelligence with Mathematics from the University of Leeds
.
Tom's computer science background has always been balanced with a strong
interest in design and visual arts and he is actively involved in the
community surrounding the Processing
development environment. He was an early participant in OpenStreetMap
, a project that aims
to create free maps of the world using GPS and aerial photography, and
his personal weblog Random Etc. has been a
place for thoughts, sketches, interactive maps and visualisations since
2003.

Mon Mar 23 - 7:00 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
The Future of Nuclear Energy 30 Years After Three Mile Island
On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station near Harrisburg, Pa., suffered a fuel meltdown that permanently disabled one of its billion dollar reactors and frightened tens of thousands of local residents, many of whom evacuated their homes. To mark the 30th anniversary of this event, two proponents and two opponents of nuclear power will debate the question of whether future U.S. electric power needs ought to be met, in part, by constructing new nuclear power plants.
Arguing as proponents of nuclear power will be two representatives from the nuclear industry’s Clean Energy America Program. Natalie Wood is an engineer from Entergy’s River Bend Nuclear Power Station near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she plans and oversees measures to improve plant safety. Paul Stevens is a former Commanding Officer of a nuclear submarine who now directs a team of consultants in nuclear support services at Epsilon Systems Services in McLean, Virginia.
Arguing against building new nuclear plants will be two Carnegie Mellon doctoral students. Stephen Rose conducts research on large-scale wind power in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Max Roy studies economic growth and environmental economics at the Tepper School of Business.
The event will be moderated by Vanessa Schweizer, a doctoral student studying climate and energy policy in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

Mon Mar 23 - 7:00 PM
Pitt - Lawrence Hall 207
German Film
"Aus dem Archiv der Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen"
Shorts from Oberhausen
Black Box versus White Cube
Approximately 80 Minutes
Short film is still the prime source of innovation for the art of film – the experimental field in which future cinematic vocabularies first crystallize. Today its diversity of forms, themes and approaches across the globe is greater than ever – video or film, short fiction film or essay, installation, graduation film or artist's video, animation, documentary, and all imaginable hybrids thereof.
However, where are the places to see those refreshing works today? Since 1954 the Oberhause Short Film Festival has been the leading venue for the presentation and critical reception of short film.
The current discussion -in Oberhausen - is about classic cinema vs. art scene, festival vs. gallery. Does the art scene offers the lucky solution for all those up-and-coming directors who want their work not only to be seen, but to get paid for it in a reasonable way? This video program focuses on 8 new works coming directly from the current German art scene or -to mix things up- from German film makers who are on the verge to move over.
Cigaretta Mon Amour - Portrait of My Father_Rosa, Hannah Ziegler, GER 2007, b/w, 7'
Rosa Hannah Ziegler shows a portrait of her father who lives isolated in his room. He's spending all his time there, inside with no contact to other people and indulges uncompromisingly in his addiction - smoking. His room becomes a retreat with a dreamy, melancholic atmosphere.
Between C, D and F, Julia Oschatz, GER 2007, 2'
A creature replaces Caspar David Friedrich's solitary figures who contemplate landscapes. It hangs from a tree's branch, rows past a wreck and jumps into an abyss trying to escape from the stage, that is from Friedrich's paintings as well as from the film image.
Sweeping and Crackling 1, Daniel Burghardt, GER, 2007, 5'
"...and everything you know, if you haven't only heard rushing and booming, can be said in three words." (F. Kürnberger)
Outwardly from Earth's Center, Rosa Barba, GER/SWE, 2007, 22'
A narrative about a fictitious society on an unstable piece of land in danger of disappearing. This situation requires the population's collective initiative in order to secure the individuals' and society's survival as well as the island's identity. The concept is based on a real phenomenon: the island of Sandön moves approximately one metre a year.
Super Smile, Effie Wu, GER, 2007, 5'
Is Effie Wu a fairy or an evil witch? Neither one nor the other. She is the enchanting host who welcomes you in her house and before you can close your eyes, you're already a prisoner of her hypnotic 'super smile'.
Your Children Will Be Like Us
Korpys, Markus Löffler, GER 2008, Color, 27'
From Gorleben to Heiligendamm, how protest movements and state authority suffocate great theatre in routine.
-I Killed the Butterflies, Cyrill Lachauer, GER 2008, 5'
Cyrill Lachauer frees during a mythic-ritual hike in the Bavarian Alps the butterflies he had caught and killed as a child.

Tue Mar 24 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Achieving Sustainability: The Tipping Point
The University Lecture Series presents William Wallace, who will discuss "Achieving Sustainability: The Tipping Point." Wallace says over the past 10 years the notion that society’s current form of economic development is not sustainable has moved from extremist thinking towards mainstream opinion. Yet that hopeful shift in opinion has not been met with a corresponding development of strategies for actually achieving conditions of sustainability. Wallace says a broad view of the requirements for achieving sustainability reveals a tipping point, a set of nine conditions of understanding, public acceptance, collaboration, technology focus and institutional readiness, without which sustainability cannot be reached.

Tue Mar 24 - 7:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
free movie: "AdventureLand", new feature
must pickup a free ticket at University Center or download and print a screening pass at UberDuzi

Mar 25 - 4 PM
Pitt - french history lecture - 3703 Posvar Hall
"The Empire of French Soccer"

Wed Mar 25 - 4:30 PM
talk by Richard Karp
"Mysteries of Algorithms"
CMU - McConomy Auditorium

Wed Mar 25 - 7 PM
CMU School of Design Lecture
Baker Hall, Giant Eagle auditorium
Dan Saffer, Kicker Studios
author of "Designing for Interaction" and "Designing Gestural Interfaces"

Wed Mar 25 - 7:30 PM
Pitt - Frick arts building auditorium
Film: "El Exilio de Gardel" (1985) by Fernando Solinas
Free, part of a series

Wed Mar 25 - 8 PM
Pitt - Alumni Hall 343
Film from Romania
"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a week long in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.
Sponsored by: European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, Pittsburgh Romanian Studies Association

Thu Mar 26 2009 - 12:00 PM noon
Pitt school of Medicine Lecture
Scaife Hall, Auditorium 6
Cell Biologist Alan Hall
about proteins Rho GTPases

Thu Mar 26 2009 - 1:30 PM
Pitt - 4130 Posvar Hall
Lecture--The Death of Empire: British Cemeteries in Alexandria, Egypt, 1827-1972
Shane Minkin, PhD candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program at New York University will discuss how the British cemeteries in Alexandria, Egypt, once stood as an equalizing space for the foreign and local populations of a cosmopolitan, colonial city. Following the end of empire, however, the cemeteries became symbols of the exclusion of foreigners and an increasing nativist ideology in the newly independent national state. This talk explores this struggle between conflicting understandings of who the living are and who has rights to land in the evolving political and social environment of a colonial and post colonial city.
Audience: Open to the public

Thu Mar 26 - 6 PM
Pitt - School of Law
Lecture--Global Issues Lecture Series: Portraying War and its Aftermath
113 Barco Law Building
As a documentary director, writer and videographer, Ed Robbins will be sharing his personal experiences shaping stories within situations of war and crisis from a human story point of view. He will also discuss efforts to disseminate the growing flood of images from inside war torn situations. Examples will be drawn from his work in Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan and Afghanistan.
Ed Robbins is a multi-award winning Director-Writer-Producer and videographer with 20 years experience. He has directed/written and often filmed numerous national and international documentaries on a wide range of topics. He has worked across America and in countries that include Afghanistan, Burma, Colombia, Iraq, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria.This lecture is part of the spring Global Issues Lecture series, "Images of War: Representations of Conflict and their Impact on Public Discourse

Thu Mar 26 2009 - 8:30 PM
Pitt - 1501 Posvar Hall
This Indonesian film by acclaimed director Nia Dinata was nominated for a 2006 Academy Award. Three women from three different social classes and ethnic backgrounds convey their passages in dealing with polygamy. They face the same predicament of having to share their domestic life and the love of one man with several women.
March 26, 2009 – 8:30 p.m.
1501 Posvar Hall
Discussant: Sarah Krier
Ph.D. Candidate from the Department of Anthropology
Krier conducted her fieldwork in Central Java and is currently writing her dissertation entitled “Our Roots, Our Strength: The Jamu Industry, Women’s Health and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia.”
Light refreshments will be served.

Thu Mar 26 - 7 to 9:30 PM
Your Inner Vagabond, Lawrenceville, Butler St
Sexist Boardgame
Does that boy that hangs out at the beach really like you? Is he wearing a hat? Well, he's never going to like you with all of those fake zit stickers all over your face. You should probably deal with that. DH Productions welcomes one and all to an evening of Retro (and not so Retro) Sexist Board Games! Learn your future career, find your mystery date, and listen up when you hear "Attention Mall Shoppers!" Because sexism is downright silly. Also, we'll have prizes. AND it's Free

Thu Mar 26 - 10 PM
CMU - McConomy Audit
$1 movie "Rachel Getting Married"

Fri Mar 27 - 3 PM
Pitt - 4130 Posvar Hall
Film: "The Great Global Warming Swindle" (2007) by Martin Durkin
Everything you've ever been told about Global Warming is probably untrue. This film blows the whistle on the biggest swindle in modern history. We are told that 'Man Made Global Warming' is the biggest ever threat to mankind. There is no room for scientific doubt. Well, watch this film and make up your own mind

Fri Mar 27 - 6 PM
Pitt - 4130 Posvar Hall
Film: "Secret Sunshine" (2007) by Chang-dong Lee
Korean Film Festival
In this somber Korean drama, a young mother and widow, Shin-ae, moves with her young son, Jun, from Seoul to a small town called Miryang following her husband's death. Having given up on her career as a concert pianist when she married her husband, she starts up a piano school, but soon it begins to feel like the polite people who inhabit her new home aren't as friendly as they seem on the surface. Judgmental whispers and disapproving gossip begin to reach Shin-ae's ears, and pressure to join the Christian cult that thrives in the town begins to mount. She's hesitant until an unimaginable tragedy alters her life forever, setting Shin-ae on a dark path of withdrawal from society as a whole.

Fri Mar 27 - 7 PM
Pitt - Cathedral of Learning 232
Syrian Film Festival
The Extras (al-Kompars. Nabil al-Maleh (Syria), 1993, 100 minutes). A veritable auteurist film, camouflaging in the garb of a tale of two lovers’ attempt to elope a powerful critique of state and social repression. The entire film takes place in an apartment, which one of the lovers, a mechanic and an aspiring actor, secures for their meeting. Yet the anticipation of love is constantly interrupted with tales, anxieties, shadowy figures, social and personal fantasies, paranoia and humor. A multiple award winner, this work was Maleh’s fourth feature film, and it helped establish him as one of the most innovative filmmakers in the Arab World today

Fri Mar 27 - 10 PM
CMU - McConomy Audit
$1 movie "The Spirit"

Sat Mar 28 - 6:30 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium, University Center
Argentine film - "El Nido Vacio"
free finger foods prepared by La Mendocina, served at 5:30 PM

2009 Mar 16 - Mar 22

2009-03-16T06:46:00.000-07:00

Mon March 16 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Humanities Lecture
Margaret Morrison Breed Hall
"The Antinomies of Realism" by Fredric Jameson (Duke Univ)

Mon march 16 - 7 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh, 207 Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Avenue
German Film screening
"Call Cutta"
Anjan Dutt, 48 Min., 2006
All Human Beings are Born Free and Equal//Alle Menschen sind frei und gleich...
Diverse directors from Eastern Europe, 2007
Anjan Dutt's film CALL CUTTA was based on a stage play produced as a 'joint venture' in 2005 by the Goethe-Institut in Calcutta and the Hebbel Theatre (HAU) in Berlin. CALL CUTTA portrays an attempt by two people connected anonymously via a call centre and a mobile phone to find some kind of 'closeness'. Theatergoers in Berlin and Calcutta book a theatre ticket for a particular time and then, when they turn up at their local theatre, they each receive a mobile phone and a set of headphones. The phone rings and the theatergoer is connected with a caller whose identity and whereabouts are unknown; for the audience, this is how the stage play begins. In this interplay with the caller, then, the theatergoer becomes an actor, a performer. Anjan Dutt's film CALL CUTTA assumes the perspective of a member of the audience – a perspective that plays no part in the stage play itself. It brings together the two 'invisible' – in the sense of not being visible to the other party to the conversation – elements. The film goes on to deal, also pictorially, with the dramatic changes taking place in both cities, underlined by pictures of the locations in question and short biographies of the protagonists. CALL CUTTA asks how the people in these mega-cities are reflecting the social, cultural and economic changes taking place all around them and how those changes are affecting the people's identities, their living conditions and the way they see themselves. It's an experimental paradigm for modern communication technology in contemporary theatre.
This screening will be accompanied by short films done as part of a large project of 43 films that commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948.
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
To mark the anniversary of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2008, the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation joined forces with the Goethe-Institut to hold a Second International Short Film Competition. Students from film and art colleges in Germany, Estonia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine and the USA were asked to take a critical look at the right to freedom and equality in dignity and rights that the Declaration pronounces.

Tue Mar 17 - 7:00 PM
Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club
Frick Park - Beechwood Environmental Center

Tue Mar 17 - 7:30 PM
Spanish Film
"Los Cronocrímenes"
Harris Theater
This gripping time-travel story comes from an Oscar-nominated short-film director, making his feature film debut. Brilliantly imaginative, it presents a deeply ironic and darkly funny vision of the universe. With minimal special effects, Timecrimes instead uses hold-your-breath pacing, seamlessly worked-out plotting, and remarkably believable performances.

Wed Mar 18 - 7:30 PM
Kresge Auditorium, Carlow University
poetry reading by Alicia Ostriker

Wed Mar 18 - 8:00 PM
"The Class"
Regent Sq Theater

Thu Mar 19 - 7:00 pm
CMU - location unknown
School of Design lecture
Christopher Pullman, WGBH Boston

Thu Mar 19 - 7:15 to 8:30 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Room 125)
Lecture by Lawrence Korb, "The Overextended Amerinca Military"

Sat Mar 21 - 5 PM
CMU - Fine Arts building, Kresge Theather
The School of Music presents a Contemporary Ensemble Concert featuring pianists Robert Frankenberry and Jack Kurutz, with Walter Morales directing. The program includes the Pittsburgh premiere of John Adams' "Grand Pianola Music" and two original works by Carnegie Mellon student composers.

Sun Mar 22 - 11 AM to 2 PM
scavenger hunt with map and compass
Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club
Co-op Park, Indiana, PA
$5/map (single or family, same price)
activity suitable for all ages, skill levels, all weather

Sun Mar 22 - 2 PM
mystery run with the hash house harriers
follow marks and find the beer cache
Around the township of Shaler, North Hills
must be 21 or older to participate

2009 Jan 19 - Jan 25

2009-01-21T13:15:00.000-08:00

The Jill Watson Distinguished Lecture series at Carnegie Mellon University will present talks by internationally acclaimed designer Bruce Mau at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 20 and artist and activist Peter Fend at 5 p.m. on Jan. 22. Also featured in the series are curators Dana Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, appearing at 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 in conjunction with the opening of their exhibition "Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now" at the Miller Gallery.

All lectures, free and open to the public, will take place in the McConomy Auditorium in the campus' University Center.

Each year The Jill Watson Endowment for Innovation at the Intersection of the Arts sponsors the effort to bring emerging and recognized artists, designers, musicians, architects and performers to Pittsburgh. The series is named in memory of Watson, a Carnegie Mellon alumna, adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture and acclaimed Pittsburgh architect who died in the TWA Flight 800 plane crash on July 17, 1996.

Mau is the founder and creative director of Bruce Mau Design, a company that "uses the power and promise of design to create an ethical sustainable future." He is also the founder of Institute without Boundaries, a post-graduate, interdisciplinary design program. Massive Change, an ongoing collaborative project of Bruce Mau Design and the Institute without Boundaries, aims to articulate the consequences of human action on the world, to investigate the possibilities and ethical implications of design and to advocate for positive solutions. The Canadian is also a renowned lecturer and the recipient of many honors, including the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation and the Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design.

Fend is the founder of the Ocean Earth Development Corporation, a program bringing together artists, architects and scientists to research alternative energy sources. Their latest project, "Ocean Earth," envisions algae as a viable energy source and uses artwork to demonstrate how easily algae can be converted into methane gas.

Lecturers Greenwald and MacPhee are co-curators of the upcoming Miller Gallery exhibition "Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now," presenting hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips and ephemera bringing to life over 40 years of international activism, political protest and campaigns for social justice.

Greenwald and MacPhee's lecture, "Visualizing Social Movement Cultures," will be followed by a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon. The reception, free and open to the public, will feature live screen-printing and music by DJ Baglady.

For more information on the lecture series, visit www.cmu.edu/cfa/watson/.
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The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon Presents
"Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now"

SignPITTSBURGH—The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University presents "Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now," an exhibit that features hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips and ephemera that brings to life more than 40 years of activism, political protest and campaigns for social justice. Guest curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, this important and timely exhibition, which runs from Jan. 23 through March 8, surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.

This exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for civil rights and black power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis. It also presents uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands, those against airport construction in Japan and in support of radical social transformation in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles and social organizations.

The exhibition will debut with a curators' talk, "Visualizing Social Movement Cultures," from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Jan. 23 in McConomy Auditorium in the University Center on the Carnegie Mellon campus. The lecture will be followed by an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Miller Gallery featuring live screen-printing and music by DJ Baglady. Both events are free and open to the public.

Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written and political activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. "Signs of Change" offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.

Countries represented in "Signs of Change" include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bosnia, Brazil, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Croatia, Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia), Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Northern Ireland, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.

Greenwald is a media artist and Ph.D. candidate in the Electronic Art Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her collaborative work often takes the form of video, writing and cultural organizing. She worked at the Video Data Bank from 1998 to 2005 and taught DIY exhibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2003 to 2005.

MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist currently living in Brooklyn, N.Y. His work often revolves around themes of radical politics, privatization and public space. His most recent book is "Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate" (Soft Skull Press, 2008, co-edited with Favianna Rodriguez). He also organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series and is part of the political art cooperative Justseeds.org.

The Miller Gallery is located in the Purnell Center for the Arts on Carnegie Mellon's campus. The gallery, free and open to the public, is open from noon to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. Visit www.cmu.edu/millergallery for more information.
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Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Students Explore
Boundaries of Theatre in “PLAYGROUND” Festival

PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama’s student directors, designers, actors, technicians and playwrights will work in partnership on more than 60 productions to present their own work in “PLAYGROUND: A Festival of Independent Student Work,” created, prepared and rehearsed in a single week.

Advised by faculty and staff from the School of Drama, the festival will take place Jan. 29–31 in and around the Purnell Center for the Performing Arts on the university’s campus.

“PLAYGROUND is an amazing opportunity for our students to test their wings. The work is truly ‘owned’ by them and the passion they bring to the work is unlike anything else that happens within the School of Drama or the university,” said Dick Block, associate head of the School of Drama and PLAYGOUND coordinator.

Events include dramatic, dance and musical performances, mixed media projects, cabarets, films, installations, murals, song cycles and lightshows. PLAYGROUND’s rotating schedule allows audiences to sample a show for 15, 30 or 45 minutes at almost any time over the three-day festival. One hundred five proposals were submitted but only 61 performances, 10 installation projects and two performance art pieces were accepted. Students have the week off from classes to develop the productions.

Now in its sixth year, PLAYGROUND provides an outlet for the creative expression of independent student-produced work. The festival provides an opportunity for students in the School of Drama to innovate, collaborate and commit to experiences in theater-making as diverse as their own passions and preoccupations. Many students take on the unexpected — playwrights, directors and designers perform; actors write and direct. Drama students also collaborate with students from other schools within the university such as the School of Music, the School of Art and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as students from other universities including New York University, University of Michigan, the Hartt School of Music and UCLA.

PLAYGROUND opens to the public at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29 and continues throughout the day on Friday, Jan. 30 and Saturday, Jan. 31. All performances are free. For tickets and for the festival schedule, call the School of Drama Box Office at 412-268-2407 or visit www.cmu.edu/cfa/drama/playground.

The University Lecture Series presents curators Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, who will discuss and present their mutlimedia Miller Gallery exhibit, "Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now." Greenwald and MacPhee have curated an extensive collection of almost 1,000 posters, flyers, photographs, videos, films, audio and other ephemera produced by social movements in more than 40 countries. Beginning with the Civil Rights movement and following social justice movements up to today's fight for the environment and against capitalism, "Signs of Change" sheds new light on the important interplay between cultural production and drives for social change. The works in the show not only represent millions organizing for societies to transform, but also raise important questions about the functions and forms of art and culture in our times. The exhibition provides a dialogue with the past, and creates a previously unwritten context and history for the important cultural work of social movements up to the present.

Their interactive lecture will take audiences through the works in the exhibition, providing historical context to the show as well as exposure to the process of organizing it. It will include images, video, audio, and discussion.
Jan 23, 2009
4:30 PM
Where:

McConomy Auditorium, University Center

The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind: Shifts in the Production and Distribution of War Photography Through 150 Years of Armed Conflict,” Jennifer Saffron, Pitt instructor of English, 6 p.m. Jan. 22, 113 Barco Law Building, Pitt’s Global Studies Program, Global Solutions Education Fund, 412-624-2918

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/eventsupcoming.shtml

2008 Dec 1 - Dec 7

2008-12-01T16:31:00.000-08:00

Wed Dec 3, 6 PM
CMU, McConomy Auditorum
Entertainment Technology Center Presents Building Virtual Worlds Show
Fun Begins Early: Students to Test Concept For "In-Line" Entertainment
Event: Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) presents its free, annual Building Virtual Worlds Show, showcasing a collection of interactive virtual worlds created by interdisciplinary student teams. Each world was constructed over a two- to three-week period as part of the Building Virtual Worlds course, founded by the late Randy Pausch and currently taught by renowned game design specialist Jesse Schell. During the show creators will "perform" their worlds, which span a vast array of stories, ideas and ingenuity.
The fun will begin early this year as ETC students take advantage of the long line that forms two hours before the show to test their concept called "Get In Line." A combination of videos and interactive videogames, Get In Line is designed both to heighten the experience of the Building Virtual Worlds show and encourage people to socialize in line. Using ordinary cell phones as controllers, people in the "queue-munity" will play videogames that require that they cooperate or compete with others in line.
Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis and fill quickly, so please arrive early. Overflow guests will be seated in Rangos Hall to view a simulcast of the show, which also will be broadcast live on the Internet at www.etc.cmu.edu/curriculum/bvw/show/webcast/index.html. For more information, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/bvwpublic/.
When: 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.), Dec. 3. "Get In Line" programming will begin at 3:30 p.m.
Where: McConomy Auditorium in the University Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Wed Dec 3, 7:30 PM
Pitt, Frick Arts building auditorium
Amigos de cinema latino americano
closing screening with brazilian film and reception (7 PM)

Thu Dec 4, 5:30 PM
Church Brew Works
Liberty Ave, Lawrenceville
Pgh Geeks

Sat Dec 6, 11 AM
Downtown Kids Crawl

2008-11-25T09:46:00.000-08:00

2008 Nov 24 - Nov 30

Thursday Thanksgiving Day at 10 AM
Join the Greater Pittsburgh Road Runners Club for the G-U-T-B-U-S-T-E-R
Frick Park
$2 to participate
timed event, informal
meet at the parking lot in the lower frick

2008 Nov 30 - 2 PM
Run with the Hash House Harriers and socializing afterwards
meet at Pasqualino's Italian Eatery

2008 Nov 17 - Nov 23

2008-11-13T06:28:00.000-08:00

Tuesday November 18 2008, 10:00 am
University Center, McConomy Auditorium
School of Music Masterclass
Lang Lang, piano
Performed Works List not Available
Free Admission
This masterclass was co-sponsored by Carnegie Mellon School of Music and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's department of education and community programs.
25-year-old lang Lang has played sold out recitals and concerts in every major city in the world and is the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and all the top American orchestras. He has worked with the world's best orchestra under the most renowned conductors, including Maestros Barenboim, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Jansons, Levine, Mehta, Maazel, Muti, Nagano, Ozawa, Slatkin, and Tilson-Thomas.
Lang Lang began playing piano at age of 3, won the Shenyang competition, gave his first recital at teh age of 5, and at 9 entered Beijing's Central Music Conservatory. He went on to win first prize at the Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians Competition and played the complete 24 Etudes of Chopin at the Beijing Concert Hall at 13. At 17, Lang Lang stepped in to play Tchaikovsky's Concerto for the "Gala of the Century" with the Chicago Symphony. He has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Good Morning America, and 60 Minutes. He has been featured worldwide in Vogue, GQ, Die Welt, Reader's Digest and People. Lang Lang has performed for amumber of global leaders such as Prince Albert 2 of Monaco, President George H.W Bush, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2, President Hu Jin-Tao of China as well as President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Lang Lang records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon/Universal. His newest release: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&4 with Orchetra de Paris under Eschenbach debuted at #1 on the Classical Billboard Chart, and earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Soloist. Lang Lang is featured soloist on the Golden Globe winning score; "The Painted Veil" composed by Alexandre Desplat.
Lang Lang received honorary professorships at all the top conservatoried in China where he gives masterclasses regularly, as well as at Juilliard, the Curtis Institute and Hannover. He was appointed International Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) IN 2004. He currently serves on the Weill Music Institute(WMI)Advisory Committee and is a member of Carnegie Hall's Artistic Advisory Board. Lang Lang is a global brand ambassador for Audi automobiles and Montblanc, and is the Chaiman of the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award Project.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
5 PM, MCCONOMY AUDITORIUM
BARRY McGEE Life on Mars Artist
BARRY McGEE’s playfully anarchic multimedia installations combine detritus from urban culture with the considered techniques of formal artmaking. His work, reflecting punk, outsider, and folk art sensibilities, generates an ambivalent dialogue between the spontaneous and uncontrolled atmosphere of street art and the mediated “white cube” of the contemporary art gallery. Found, discarded, and recycled objects, motorized figures, audio components, and video monitors exist alongside portraits, text, assemblages of framed photographs and drawings, and sections of geometric optical color-field “wallpaper.” McGee’s installations often include his trademark images of morose, droopy, caricatured faces inspired by the transient and homeless population of San Francisco. These images form a poignant—if fleeting—commentary on the overlooked status of outsiders within a community. The temporality of his visual language and the immediacy of its communication convey a history that is continually written, erased, and written again. McGee and curator Douglas Fogle discuss the artist’s inspirations and current installation in Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International. McGee currently lives and works in his hometown of San Francisco, California.

Wed Nov 19 2008, 6:30 PM
CMU: Porter Hall 100
The Law and Popular Culture Film Series presents Court TV (selected episodes). Begun in 1991, Court TV is a network featuring continuous live trial coverage, with analysis by anchors. The network came into its own during the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial. Responding, it seems, to the public’s appetite for law enforcement/investigation-related shows, Court TV has been criticized for blurring the line between “reality” and “entertainment.”
The series provides a unique forum for members of the Carnegie Mellon and greater Pittsburgh communities to discuss the way legal issues are examined and illuminated in art and popular culture. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by actors, writers, students and legal professionals. Sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Carnegie Mellon's Pre-Law Program.

Wed November 19 2008, 7:00 pm
CMU Alumni Concert Hall
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello, Parker String Quartet

Wed Nov 19 2008, 8:00 PM
CMU: McConomy Auditorium
lecture with Antonia Juhasz
Antonia is an acclaimed writer and leading expert on the oil industry. She will be speaking about the content of her new book "The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do To Stop It".

Thu Nov 20 2008, 4:30 PM
CMU: Baker Hall 136A
The School of Design Lecture Series presents Nancy Duarte and Ryan Orcutte of Duarte Design, the designers of Al Gore's slideshow in "An Incovenient Truth." Duarte and Orcutte will discuss "how to step away from your traditional process and deliver presentations in your own uniquely human way." Nancy Duarte is principal of Duarte Design, one of the largest design and woman-owned firms in Silicon Valley. Her client list holds many top companies, including Adobe, Cisco, Google, and Hewlett-Packard. Duarte Design is widely recognized as the leader in presentation development and design. Duarte's new bestselling book, "slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations" will be available at the event. Ryan Orcutt, who has worked with Gore since 2004, works at Duarte Design as Art Director.

Thu Nov 20 2008, 5:30 PM
Pitt, Cathedral of Learning, CL 1228
The Pittsburgh Film Colloquium presents:
"A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE? ITALIAN POLITICAL CINEMA
FROM THE FIRST REPUBLIC TO THE BERLUSCONI ERA"
GIUSEPPINA MECCHIA
Giuseppina Mecchia (Ph.D Princeton, 1997, in French Language and Literature)
is Associate Professor of French and Italian and Director of the
Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
She has published a book entitled L’Ecrivain et le Politique: Le cas de Maurice
Blanchot, 1932-1968 (Rodopi, 2007). She has co-edited and translated
with Max Henninger and Tim Murphy a special issue of Sub-Stance entitled
Italian Postworkerist Thought (#112, January 2007). Her translation and critical
introduction, with Charley Stivale, of Franco Berardi Bifo’s Félix Guattari:
Encounters with a Thought to Come is now forthcoming with Palgrave
McMillan. She has given numerous papers and published essays on political
and gender issues in 20th-century French and Italian literature, political
thought and cultural politics. She is currently working on a book about the
crossing of contemporary French and Italian critical and political thought
and its resulting narrative and theoretical practices from the late mid-
1970s onward.

Fri Nov 21 2008, 4 PM
Pitt Music Building, Room 132, free
Colloquium: Markus Rathey, Associate Professor of Music History, Yale University Institute of Sacred Music
Johann Sebastian Bach’s pre-Leipzig cantatas exhibit a number of interesting compositional experiments that serve as a transition from the sacred concerto of the 17th century to the modern cantata we find in his Leipzig years. One of these highly experimental pieces is the cantata Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee BWV 18, composed around 1714. While the composition has only a single short aria, it revolves around an extensive recitative, juxtaposing sections of the soloists and quotations from the Lutheran litany.
A second unusual feature is an instrumental introduction, which is one of Bach’s earliest attempts to emulate Vivaldi’s concerto style. These two seemingly unrelated features appear in a new light if the cantata is analyzed on the background of the traditions of the litany. Both Bach’s compositional procedures and the design of the libretto reflect (and rehearse) the use and the understanding of the litany in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Markus Rathey is Associate Professor of Music History at the Yale School of Music with joined appointments at the Institute of Sacred Music and the Yale Divinity School. He is Vice President of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship and serves on the editorial board of the Bach-Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach-Society.
After studying theology, musicology, and German literature in Münster (Germany) he received his PhD in Musicology in 1998 with a thesis about Bach’s predecessor in Mühlhausen Johann Rudolph Ahle. He taught at the Universities of Mainz and Leipzig and was a research affiliate at the Bach Archive in Leipzig. In recent years he worked as a lecturer and author of program texts with conductors like Sir Neville Mariner, Helmuth Rilling, and Simon Carrington.
Professor Rathey’s publications include books about Johann Rudolph Ahle, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and an edition of the music theoretical writings by Johann Georg Ahle, which just appeared in a second and revised edition after the first edition was sold out within only one year. His articles appeared in journals like 18th Century Music, Bach-Jahrbuch, Schütz-Jahrbuch, and the Riemenschneider Bach-Journal.
His work on Bach has recently focused on his early years as a composer, and on Bach’s chorale cantatas.

Fri Nov 21 2008, 6:30 PM
Pitt, room 1501, Posvar Hall
Cinemateque screening: "Bent" Presented by Sam Pittman

Fri Nov 21 2008, 6-9 PM
Gallery Opening
Got money in the bank
a unique collaboration effort exploring perceptions of modern wealth, through painting, design, sculpture, performance and cupcakes
Old PNC Bank, 6000 Highland Rd, East Liberty
Presented by Ayanah Moors Concept Studio III: Systems and Processes

Friday November 21 2008, 5:00 pm
CMU: University Center, McConomy Auditorium
Dr. Herbert Lachmeyer, Austrian scholar
Free Admission
As part of a School of Music collaboration with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Austrian Cultural Forum, Austrian scholar Dr. Herbert Lachmeyer presents a lecture Enlightenment and Inspiring Decadence in the Court of Franz Josef the II. Part of the Vienna Days celebration, this event is free and open to the public.
Herbert Lachmayer (born in Vienna in 1948) studied philosophy, sociology and art history in Vienna, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin. Recently he is director of the Da Ponte Institute (Vienna), professor at the University of Art and Design in Linz and guest professor at the Stanford University (spring quarter 2009). Following his exhibition experience he is currently founding a PHD-program on the topic “Staging Knowledge” to exercise “imaginative rhetorics” and performative mediation of culture. Selected Exhibition activities: “Salieri sulle tracce di Mozart” (Milan. 2004/05); “Mozart. The Enlightenment Experiment in late 18th Century Vienna” (Vienna, 2006), “Wozu braucht Carl August einen Goethe?” (Weimar, 2008); September 2009 “Welt im Kopf – die Neue Lust am Speculieren” Exhibition in Form of an “Opera of Kowledge” for Linz, European Cultural Capital in 2009.

Friday November 21 2008, 6:00 pm (repeat on Sat at 10 AM)
CMU Margaret Morrison, Room 119
Parker String Quartet, School of Music Masterclass
Free Admission
Shostakovich personnel:
Jessica Hsu
Sonia Shklarov
Ai Wen Thian
Christina Roytz
Schoenberg personnel:
Sandro Leal-Santiesteban
Leo Caceres
Drew Griffin
Miti Wisuthimporn
Catherine Mikelson
Ana Zorro

Fri Nov 21 2008 - 8 PM
CMU - Alumni Concert Hall
Vivian Choi, piano recital
Not Free, maybe a $5 admission

Saturday November 22 2008, 3:00 pm
CMU Alumni Concert Hall
Carnegie Mellon Jazz Ensembles
free

Sat Nov 22 2008, 2 PM
CMU, College of Fine Arts, Room 206A
The Arts Greenhouse series on hip-hop continues with "Hip-Hop, Art & Commerce," a talk by Luqman Abdus-salaam, a long-standing member of the Pittsburgh hip-hop community with 16 years of experience as a poet, lecturer, community activist and recording artist. He will be joined by special guest Sterling Berliant, a Carnegie Mellon student with two years of experience working in the urban music department of Atlantic Records. Berliant is a member of The Famous Firm, where she works closely with Sickamore — hip-hop's highest regarded 23-year-old record industry executive. Berliant is part of a new generation of hip-hop execs that are poised to take over the reigns in a rapidly shifting industry.

Saturday November 22 2008, 8:00 pm
CMU Alumni Concert Hall
The Parker String Quartet
Daniel Chong, violin
Karen Kim, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello
WEBERN Langsamer satz
BARTOK Quartet No.4
DVORAK Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51.
FREE - FREE - FREE
The New York Times calls the Parker Quartet “something extraordinary.” The Boston Globe hails their “fiercely committed performances.” The Washington Post declares them “a quartet that deserves close attention.” Just three months after winning the 2005 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Quartet captured First Prize and the Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, sparking international acclaim.
The Parker Quartet’s 2007-2008 season included debut performances at the Mostly Mozart and Caramoor Festivals and at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC (on a program with the Borromeo String Quartet). Other highlights included engagements with the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock, the Rockport Chamber Music Society, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Music in the Park in St. Paul, and Shriver Hall in Baltimore. The group also toured Europe in connection with their victory at the Bordeaux Competition, with concerts in South Korea at the Tongyeong Festival in spring 2008.
Equally at home in a celebrated concert hall or a downtown club, the Parker Quartet embraces opportunities to bring their performances to new audiences in non-traditional venues. The ensemble challenge artificial boundaries by performing in bars and clubs nationwide, garnering media attention with features in Time Out NY, The Boston Globe, Chamber Music Magazine and Musical America.com. In the Fall of 2007, the group became the first ever String Quartet in Residence at Barbes Bar and Performance Space in Brooklyn. As part of this residency, the Parker Quartet perform a series of collaborative concerts with artists of various genres including Jazz, Folk and World Music.

Sun Nov 22, 7:30 PM
Carnegie Lecture Hall
Free
The Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra often plays well beyond its members' years. Simply check out the ambitious program for a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Heinz Hall: Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra," Smetana "Moldau (Vlata)" and Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3. That's big time, and it's only fitting a member of the PSO would join to solo in the Mozart: assistant concertmaster Hong-Guang Jia.

2008 Nov 10 - Nov 16

2008-11-11T05:31:00.000-08:00

Tue Nov 11 at 5 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
JEFFREY KASTNER is a New York-based critic and journalist and senior editor of the award-winning quarterly Cabinet. An unorthodox magazine of art and culture that confounds expectations of what is typically meant by the words “art,” “culture,” and sometimes even “magazine,” Cabinet—like the 17th-century cabinet of curiosities to which its name alludes—is as interested in the margins of culture as its center. Presenting wide-ranging content in each issue through regular columns, essays, interviews, and artist projects, Cabinet merges the popular appeal of an arts periodical, the visually engaging style of a design magazine, and the in-depth exploration of a scholarly journal to create a sourcebook of ideas for an eclectic readership that includes artists, philosophers, scientists, and historians. Now in its eight year, Cabinet’s circulation is more than 13,000, with subscribers in some two dozen countries around the world. Kastner, who has been a member of Cabinet’s editorial group since 2001, is a former senior editor of ARTnews and a former contributing editor of Art/Text and Art Monthly. A regular contributor to Artforum, his writing has appeared in art magazines ranging from Art + Auction and Art Issues to Flash Art and Frieze, and in general-interest publications including The Economist and The New York Times. Kastner is the author of catalog essays on artists such as Doug Aitken, Jeremy Blake, Luca Buvoli, Willie Doherty, and Sarah Sze, a contributor to recent books such as Land, Art (London: Royal Society of Arts, 2006) and Experimental Geography (New York: ICI/Melville House, 2008), and the editor of Land and Environmental Art (London: Phaidon, 1998).

Wed Nov 12 at 7:30 PM
Pitt - Frick arts bldg auditorium
FREE
Spanish with English subtitles
CENIZAS DEL PARAÍSO
Argentina, 1997
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro
This a top of the line police thriller, crossed with sibling/father rivalry drama, criminal who-done-it, and psychological character study. Quite unique really, the film is worthy of its impressive Argentine pedigree: directed by one of the country's greatest, and starring an ensemble of its best players. They range from its eldest living legend in the father/dead judge role to its most promising and popular young ones as the three sons. In between, the talent is just as impressive.

Thu Nov 13 at 4:30 PM
CMU Art Gallery
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
4:30 PM, MILLER GALLERY 2ND FLOOR
Presentation by Julia Christensen with Book Launch and Signing of Big Box Reuse (MIT Press, 2008) In the “Your Town, Inc.” exhibition at the Miller Gallery.
JULIA CHRISTENSEN’s work has been featured in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Preservation Magazine for the National Trust, and other publications; her new media, video and installation work has shown recently at the Lincoln Center, DUMBO Arts Center, and the Walker Art Center. Her book, Big Box Reuse, will be published by MIT Press this fall. She is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio, where she teaches in the Studio Arts and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) Departments. She has also taught at Stanford University and California College of the Arts, among other universities.

Fri Nov 14 at 5 PM
Yes Men meeting
CMU Art Gallery
If you haven't yet heard of The Yes Men -- the outrageous artist-activists who infiltrate corporate conventions posed as scheduled presenters, announced the World Trade Organization's (faux) dissolution to shift focus to helping the poor, and crafted a hoax official Web site for candidate George W. Bush -- you can learn about and meet some of them this weekend at Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery.
At 5 p.m. Friday a free "How to Be a Yes Man Workshop," including film clips from the upcoming "The Yes Men Movie," will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be followed by a "Business Casual Reception," with Yes Men Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, to open the first Yes Men survey exhibition, "Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism With The Yes Men."
5 PM, MILLER GALLERY 2ND FLOOR
WORKSHOP“How To Be a Yes Man”
The YES MEN have gained international notoriety for impersonating World Trade Organization spokesmen on international TV and at business conferences around the world. They describe what they do as Identity Correction. Unlike Identity Theft, which criminals practice with dishonest intent, Identity Correction is the art of impersonating a powerful criminal to publicly humiliate them for conspiring against the public good. Their targets have included big bad bureaucracies like the World Trade Organization, nasty world leaders such as George Bush, ugly right-wing think tanks like The Heritage Foundation, and heartless corporations such as Dow Chemical.

Sat Nov 15 at 1 PM
Frick Park - Blue Slide Playground entrance
Scavenger Hunt
Organized by the Playground of the Future graduate
student team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie
Mellon University. Our team will be hosting a Scavenger Hunt Event in
Frick Park on Saturday, November 15th from 1-4 pm.
Pictures of futuristic playgrounds
This event is a free event in which teams of 1-6 people will compete
for prizes in a photo scavenger hunt across Frick Park.
The prizes are:
First place: 1 GB Nano ipods for each member
Second place: 30 dollar gift certificates to local restaurants
Third place: Free movie passes
Players will use their own digital cameras (or borrow one of ours),
to collect pictures of a variety of different items around the park.
The event will be fast paced and competitive, with team members
competing to reach a variety of landmarks around the park within
given time limits. The event is free, but a team RSVP to
khliving at cmu dot edu is required by Friday, November 14th.
Here are some details on the event:
What: Scavenger Hunt Event
Who: Pittsburgh Adults and Young Adults
Where: Frick Park, at the corner of Nicholson and Beechwood Blvd,
near the entrance to the Blue Slide Playground
When: November 15th, 1-4 pm
Our team at Carnegie Mellon is sponsored by the Grable Foundation,
and is working closely with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. We are
focused on researching, envisioning, designing, and prototyping ideas
for playgrounds in the future. We believe that active play and
engagement with the outdoors is important for people of all ages.
This event is one of several we are hosting at Frick Park aimed at
finding fun ways for visitors to engage with the nature and the park.

Sat Nov 15 at 3:30 PM
Pitt, school of music, 132 Music Building, free
John Adams Speaks About His Recent Compositions
Internationally acclaimed composer John Adams will give a free lecture at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday, November 15 at 3:30 p.m. Adams will discuss his recent compositions, including his latest opera Dr. Atomic, based on the life of J. Robert. Oppenheimer. John Adams is this year’s Pittsburgh Symphony Composer of the Year and his lecture at Pitt is part of an ongoing collaboration between the PSO and local universities, a collaboration which also includes performances of his music by university ensembles and opportunities for him to mentor young composers.
One of America’s most admired and respected composers, John Adams is a musician of enormous range and technical command. Over the past 25 years, Adams’ music has played a decisive role in turning the tide of contemporary musical aesthetics away from academic modernism and toward a more expansive, expressive language, entirely characteristic of his New World surroundings.

Sat Nov 15 at 5 PM
CMU Alumni Concert Hall
Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble
Performed Works List not Available
Free

Sat Nov 15 at 7 PM
Regent Square art gallery
photographers who have documented the city's architecture -- Clyde Hare, Mark Perrott, Dylan Vitone, Richard Kelly and the late Luke Swank -- are featured in the exhibition "Pittsburgh: A Century of Photography" that opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Concept Art Gallery, 1031 S. Braddock Ave., Regent Square.

2008 Nov 3 - Nov 9

2008-10-15T06:47:00.000-07:00

Monday 03 November 2008 - 6:30 PM
Giant Eagle Auditorium Baker Hall A51
Carnegie Mellon University
MARK PASNIK: BUILDING ACTIVISM
Mark Pasnik is a founding principal of over,under an interdisciplinary collaborative design studio in Boston and co-director of the firm's pinkcomma gallery. He currently holds the Lucian and Rita Caste Career Development Professorship in Architecture & Urban Design at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mon 03 Nov 2008 - 7 PM
Cafe Scientifique
Penn Brewery, North Side
Mark Dixon and two friends, Ben and Julie Evans, left from Pittsburgh's Station Square on July 4, 2007, for a year long road trip that they called YERT--Your Environmental Road Trip--visiting all 50 states to discover the environmental ideas people were coming up with all over the country. They filmed the entire trip, and posted sometimes zany but always informative video clips on their website (www.yert.com). Now they are preparing to make an independent film based on their adventure.
Featured on the Weather Channel, the local environmental radio program "The Allegheny Front" (view site), and the national environmental radio program "Living on Earth," Mark will share the most powerful stories and short videos from their year-long eco-adventure through all 50 states. You'll also learn how he and Julie and Ben managed to record interviews with over 800 green experts, professors, politicians, and average citizens during the year, while keeping all of their garbage in the car with them the whole way-- and not killing each other in the process! And, oh yes, there was at least one major surprise along the way!
Mark was one of a group of people trained by Al Gore to give his "Inconvenient Truth" presentation to people around the world, so he knows his environmental stuff beyond the amazing eco-adventure that was YERT.

Tue Nov 4 - VOTE !!!
activities and funky appearences all over town

Tue Nov 4 - 6 PM to midnight
CMU - Rangos ballroom
You followed the primaries, the polls and the ads. You saw the debates. Depending on your political persuasion, you've got Hope Fever, or Maverick Measles... or Green Gout, Libertarian Lupus, or Independent Influenza... or I-can't-vote-because-I'm-an-international-student-itis. Any way it goes, you've got the sickness, and we've got the cure.
Join the Activities Board and Student Government for the medicine that makes it all better, watching the results roll in as citizens across the United States vote! CNN, MSNBC and Fox News will be going - at the same time.
While you're there, you can partake in delicious (and free!) food, including dozens and dozens of Dozen Cupcakes (and much more). Enjoy some of the finest entertainment from Carnegie Mellon's best student entertainment.
Rock out, have a blast, and be as awesome! Everyone is welcome to watch this historic election come to a conclusion!
Watch the election returns on three giant-screen TVs, with free food and entertainment. Entertainment includes improv comedy by the No Parking Players, stand-up comedy by Tom Pike, and musical performances by Tennessee Whiskey, 4 Ugly Dudes, The Four Six, the Tim Ruff Trio and more. Sponsored by the Activities Board and Student Government.

Wed Nov 5 - 4:30 PM
CMU - McConony Auditorium
S. Gopalakrishnan is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. As Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, he plays a key role in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry.

Wed Nov 5 - 7:30 PM
cinema latinoamericano
Frick Arts Building auditorium

Thu Nov 6 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall 119
The University Lecture Series presents a concert by the Ortner/Roberts Duo. The concert, titled "Between Klezmer and Harlem Stride," features an innovative fusion of the lively, traditional instrumental music of the Eastern European Jews and the acrobatic Harlem Stride Piano of the Early Jazz Era. Clarinetist Susanne Ortner-Roberts is widely acclaimed in Germany, Israel and Switzerland as a soloist and member of the German Klezmer quartet "Sing Your Soul." Jazz pianist Tom Roberts is one of the leading exponents of early jazz piano in the world. He's performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, on The Tonight Show, and has recorded over 30 CDs.

Thu Nov 6 - 5 PM
CMU at Porter Hall 100
72nd Treasury of the Secretary, Former CEO of ALCOA, and subject of Ron Suskind's book The Price of Loyalty speaks on the economy. Free Admission www.activitiesboard.org

Fri Nov 7 - 5 PM
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy presents Toure Reed, an associate professor of history at Illinois State University. Reed will discuss "Civil Rights and the Fight Against 'Social Disorganization:' The Urban League and Black Middle Class Reform." Refreshments will be served prior to the lecture at 4:30 p.m.

Sat Nov 8, 11 AM - 7 PM
Sun Nov 9, 11 AM - 5 PM
handmade arcade
Hunt Armory, 324 Emerson St, Shadyside neighborhood

Sat Nov 8 - 11:15 AM
6K race in frick park
Pittsylvania XC Challenge
$15 on race day
Falls Ravine shelter
SAT Nov 8 - 11:30 AM
North East Ohio Orienteering Club meet
Hinckley reservation

Sat Nov 8 - 9 AM to 4 PM
Microsoft offices, 32 Isabella St, North Shore
Free workshop with microsoft developers
When it comes to design patterns, the MVC is the granddaddy of them all. First described in the late 70s, the MVC pattern remains very popular in the world of web applications today. ASP.NET MVC provides a framework that enables you to easily implement the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern for Web applications. This pattern lets you separate applications into loosely coupled, pluggable components for application design, processing logic, and display.
Throughout the day we will be demonstrating the ASP.NET MVC Framework in a cookbook-style approach with recipes on how to solve common challenges when developing MVC web applications. No previous knowledge or experience is necessary. We will walk you through the basics on creating views and controllers and by the end of the day show you how to develop end-to-end MVC applications complete with Ajax, authentication, authorization, caching, databinding, logging, persistence, validation, and other common challenges we experience in day-to-day development.
Sample code will leverage and integrate popular frameworks and libraries like ADO.NET Data Services, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Enterprise Library, Entity Framework, and LINQ To SQL to show you how to write less code and be more productive during your development.
Polish it all off with examples showing the extensibility of the MVC Framework using custom controller factories, alternative view engines, and custom action filter attributes just to name a few.
Topics covered will include “How Do I...”
- Create Views Easily? ( HTML and Url Helpers )
- Handle Get and Post Requests? ( simple databinding of action method arguments, ActionResults, etc.. )
- Pass Data Between Views and Controllers? ( ViewData and TempData )
- Bind Views and Forms to complex data types? ( ModelBinders )
- Handle Errors Gracefully? ( ActionFilter Attributes )
- Provide Input Error Validation? ( ValidationMessage, ValidationSummary, ViewData.ModelState )
- Handle Authentication and Authorization? ( ActionFilter Attributes and Membership Provider )
- Persist to a database ( LINQ To SQL, Entity Framework )
- Log Messages to Database, File, EventLog ( ActionFilter Attributes, etc. )
- Leverage AJAX and JSON? ( ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery )
Some of the more complex and non-beginner topics can be discussed if time is allowed and/or maybe discussed afterwards in a social environs…
- Alternate View Engines
- IoC and Custom Controller Factories
- Unit Testing

Sun Nov 9 - 10 AM to 1 PM
Orienteering meet with the Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club
Pine Ridge county park, Indiana County, near route 22 just next to Blairsville, PA
Course director will be Batista, a recreational adventure racer

2008 Oct 27 - Nov 2

2008-10-15T06:46:00.002-07:00

Mon Oct 27 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Bill Reinert, national manager of Advanced Technology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA. His primary function is to coordinate Toyota's various research, development and marketing activities related to alternative-fueled vehicles and emerging technologies. Reinert is working on several advanced hybrid electric products, direct hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, reformed fuel approaches for hydrogen, full-featured electric vehicles, city electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid concepts, ethanol fuels and sustainable transportation systems.

Tue Oct 28 - 3 PM to 6 PM
I would like to invite you to the 2008 Intel Research Pittsburgh Open
House, 3-6pm, Tue, Oct 28, CIC Bldg, 4th floor.
We'll be showing our latest work with Carnegie Mellon, UPitt, UPMC,
and many others, in personal mobile robots, computer-assisted
medicine, programmable matter, parallel machine learning,
brain-machine interfaces, neighborhood-aware networking, computational
perception, video-based gesture recognition, cloud computing on big
data, big BDDs, multicore system design, and optical computing.

Tue Oct 28 - 7:00 PM
Pitt, WPU Assembly Room, FREE
Film Screening: Straight, No Chaser
A documentary film about the life of pianist and late jazz great Thelonious Monk. Produced by Clint Eastwood and directed by Charlotte Zwerin, the film features live performances by Monk and his band and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius, considered one of the founders of bebop.

Wed Oct 29 - 8:00 PM
University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Bellefield Auditorium
FREE

Thu Oct 30 - 4:30 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Mary Catherine Bateson, the Robinson Professor Emerita of Anthropology and English at George Mason University. Her talk is titled "Composing a Life: The Changing Shapes of Lives." Bateson says, "Just as an extended childhood made possible the human pattern of learning and transmitted knowledge and tradition, extended longevity suggests profound changes for our species. Some of these changes can be recognized in the study of individual lives that are often longer and more diverse than in the past and that depend on continuing learning. We will need to rethink education from the earliest years and to restructure the relations between generations. At the same time, we need to think differently about time, to prepare for surprises, and to fashion a new rhetoric of hope and responsibility."
Bateson has written and co-authored many books and articles, lectures across the country and abroad, is a fellow of the International Leadership Forum, and president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City. A book signing will follow the talk. Bateson will be signing her books: "Composing a Life," "Peripheral Visions — Learning Along the Way;" "With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson;" "Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery;" "Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition;" and "Our Own Metaphor."

Thu Oct 30 - 7:00 PM
Heinz Memorial Chapel, Fifth and Bellefield avenues, Oakland
“The History of the Recording Industry”
George Avakian, former record producer and executive known for his
production of albums at Columbia Records by Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong, and Erroll Garner, among others.

Thu Oct 30 - 7:00 PM
CMU - The Underground - Morewood St between Fifth and Forbes
FREE
The words, music and activism of Jamie "Shaggy" Flores. He is a new generation Nuyorican Massarican Poet, Writer, Cultural Revolutionary using literature as a means to uplift and educate people. For Shaggy, poetry is a vehicle to dismantle stereotypes and to share knowledge of the African/Latino Diaspora culture, traditions, urban literacy, and the political movements of the 60’s and 70’s.

Thu Oct 30 - 7:00 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh - Bellefield Auditorium
Hungarian Film Festival
T H E D I S T R I C T ( N Y O C K E R )
Aron Gauder (2004)- animation
“Budapest gets the South Park treatment in District, a rapinfused,
animated musical love story that morphs into a satiric
geopolitical thriller” (Variety). A group of kids from the
slums devise a totally reasonable way to get rich. Find a way
to go back in time, bury a pit full of mammoths under the
Hungarian capital, then return to the present and start drilling
for the oil. When this actually happens, they find some unwelcome
company--Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair, and George W.
Bush. The visual style, a blend of collage, photo cutouts, and
animation, is worth the price of admission alone. The insane
story is an added bonus. In Hungarian with optional English
subtitles.

Thu Oct 30 - 7 PM and 9 PM
Pitt, Lawn in front of Hillman Library
Azucar, Pittsburgh top Latin dance band

Thu Oct 30 - 8:30 PM
avanguarde Jazz quartet, free
CMU art building outdoor lawn
This event will be held in: The Alumni Concert Hall, in the College of Fine Arts. The "Willem Breuker Kollektief" celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004. Coming from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Kollektief is one of Europe's finest ensembles playing contemporary and improvised music. They are equally at home playing in jazz clubs or concert halls. Led by saxophonist/clarinetist/composer Willem Breuker, the ten-piece Kollektief plays a hybrid of music which cuts through traditional musical barriers. The Kollektief's approach combines jazz and 'serious' (i.e. classical) music with many popular genres, from marching band and circus music to latin dance steps and music for film and theatre. The result is both humorous and surprising, full of false stops and starts, clean breaks, sudden shifts in musical mood, and above all, a fine sense of irony.

Thu Oct 30 - 8 PM
Heinz Stadium
Pittsburgh Steelers Football Stadium
Rusted Root, the band, will be playing for a Obama rally. Courtesy of Steeler's Dan Rooney.

Fri Oct 31 - 10 AM to 11:15 AM
Pitt, WPU Lower Lounge
“The Music of Trumpet Greats Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis”
Cecil Bridgewater (trumpet)
Mike Mossman (trumpet)

Fri Oct 31 - 1 PM to 2:30 PM
Pitt, WPU Lower Lounge
“A Tribute to Pittsburgh Drummers Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey”
Leon Ndugu Chancler (drums)

Fri Oct 31 - 3 PM to 4 PM
Pitt, WPU Lower Lounge
“The Music of Saxophone Greats Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane”
Antonio Hart (alto saxophone)
Bennie Maupin (tenor saxophone)

Fri Oct 31 - 7:00 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh - Bellefield Auditorium
Hungarian Film Festival
FREE
T H E P O R C E L A I N D O L L
Director Peter Gardos (The Last Blues) interweaves
three whimsical fables of Hungarian rural life in this
award-winning drama. Adapted from the novel Star
Farm by Ervin Lazar, the stories focus on life, death,
and resurrection, and feature inventive visual techniques
and thought-provoking endings reminiscent of
O. Henry or Rod Serling. Set between the 1930s and
1950s, the tales serve as allegories for the historical
events of the 20th century. In Hungarian with English
subtitles.

Fri Oct 31 - dark hours
Halloween
Run in costume in the streets of Pittsburgh with the hash house harriers

Fri Oct 31 - 8 PM
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Treat yourself this Halloween at the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic's concert, a program that will include the delightful Overture from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, and Shostakovich's gripping Symphony No. 5 in D minor. Concertmaster Emma Steele, a student of Cyrus Forough, is the featured soloist in Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor. Leading the Philharmonic will be guest conductor and director of orchestral studies candidate David Loebel, who is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Sat Nov 1 - 10-11:30 AM
Pitt, WPU Assembly Room
“The Role of Guitar in Jazz Fusion”
Larry Coryell (guitar)

Sat Nov 1 - 11:30-12:30 AM
Pitt, WPU Assembly Room
“A Tribute to Piano Legends Art Tatum, Bud Powell, and Bill Evans”
Patrice Rushen (piano)

Sat Nov 1 - 7 PM and 9 PM
Pitt, Lawn in front of Hillman Library
Elie Kihonia, contemporary Congolese rhythms

Sun Nov 2 - 10:30 AM
Oakland Gospel Church
Corner of Morewood an Ellsworth, back entrance, cafecteria of school
Stephanie Ezatoff will sing

Sun Nov 2 - 1 PM to 5 PM
Univ of Pitt
Cathedral of Learning First Floor
Slovakian Festival

2008 Oct 20 - Oct Oct 26

2008-10-15T06:46:00.001-07:00

Mon Oct 20 - 7 PM
Italian Speakers
Coffee Tree Roasters
5542 Walnut St.

Mon Oct 20 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
John Ferguson, pianist and founder and executive director of the American Voices Association. Ferguson, a graduate of the School of Music, will discuss "Why Do They Love Us So Much? Cultural Diplomacy, Globalization and the Young Performing Artist." American Voices regularly conducts cultural diplomacy and youth education programs in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Egypt. American Voices’ artists have performed hip hop, opera, Broadway and jazz in more than 95 countries around the globe. The talk is co-sponsored by the School of Music.

Tue Oct 21 - 5 PM
CMU - baker hall - Giant Eagle Auditorium
The University Lecture Series presents Frank Wu, the author of "Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White." In his talk, titled "Yellow: Asian Americans and the Changing Face of Our Nation," Wu will offer a provocative new paradigm for race relations that includes Asian immigrants and Asian Americans. He'll discuss how we can achieve our ideals as our nation undergoes a profound demographic transformation that will make all of us minorities. Using anecdotes, history, and social science, he will challenge the audience to think about issues of diversity in a different manner that reaches out not only to whites and blacks but everyone who belongs to our nation. Wu is a visiting professor at the University of Maryland and the immediate past dean of the Wayne State University Law School. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.

Wed Oct 22 - 4:30 PM
Understanding Conditions in Iraq
CMU - Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The University Lecture Series presents Rick Leatherwood, president of Kairos International, who will discuss "Understanding Social and Political Conditions in Iraq Before and After the Surge / Media Bias And Public Perception." This lecture presents from a NGO (Non Government Organization) perspective a description of the political, social, economic and security situations in Iraq over the past five years from firsthand involvement and experience, and describes some of the complexities affecting American reconstruction efforts

Wed Oct 22 - 7:30 PM
University of Pittsburgh, Frick arts building Auditorium
FREE
Latin American film festival screening of cuban comedy film of travails at a crowded bus station (from DVD projection)
(note: due to past unannounced cancellation by the organizers, this scheduled event has the inherent risk of not happening... go to this event with a grain of salt and don't feel too bad if you wasted your time getting here along with a bunch of other people asking where's the screening...)

Thu Oct 23 - 4:30 PM
"Public Diplomacy's Role in the Next Administration"
Porter Hall - Porter Hall A100
The Global and International Relations Program and the Heinz Washington, D.C., Program present Jeremy Curtin, assistant secretary, Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Curtin directs a bureau responsible for the engaging international audiences on issues of foreign policy, society and values to help create an environment receptive to U.S. national interests. An officer in the Foreign Service since 1975, Curtin has served in Europe and East Asia and has held numerous senior advisor positions at the State Department and the National Security Council. Curtin's lecture, "Public Diplomacy's Role in the Next Administration," is part of the Global Politics and the American Presidency Lecture Series.

Thu Oct 23 - 7 PM
University of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Auditorium
FREE
Hungarian Film Festival
Start of a four-week film series, every Thursday, screening contemporary hungarian film. From film reels, NOT from DVD projection
HUKKLE
Gyorgy Palfi (2002)
A uniquely non-narrative look at life in a rural Hungarian
town, Gyorgy Palfi's marvelous debut blends a dizzying melange
of sights and sounds into an audio-visual symphony.
From an elderly man's hiccup (or hukkle) to the mating of
hogs and the death of a mole beneath the ground, Palfi
charts the everyday events of this sleepy community with an
eye to their mysterious and often sinister underpinnings.
"Beautifully shot, full of droll humor" (Variety). In Hungarian
with English subtitles.

Thu Oct 23 - 7 PM
University of Pittsburgh, Frick arts building Auditorium
FREE
North African Film Festival (from DVD projection)
“Wesh Wesh Qu'est ce qui se Passe?” directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, 2001.
A blend of documentary and fiction, this film reveals the everyday life of an immigrant family that is struggling to integrate into the 'Cite des Bosquets,' a low-income housing project in the Parisian suburbs.

Fri Oct 24 - 7:00 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Auditorium
Hungarian Film Festival
FREE
K O N T R O L L
Nimrad Antal (2004)
The milieu of Nimrod Antal’s stylish debut is the strange subterranean
labyrinth of the Budapest subway system, the second-
oldest in the world. Sandor Csanyl stars as the leader of
a group of beleaguered ticket inspectors, assigned to patrol
sections of the tracks. Deployed by higher powers, the petty
bureaucrats experience abuse and humiliation as they attempt
to regulate a train system populated by harmless patrons
and hooded madmen alike. “A thoroughly satisfying,
rambunctious entertainment that also subtly works on philosophical
and spiritual levels” (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles
Times). Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language
Film (2004). In Hungarian with English subtitles.

Fri Oct 24 - 9:30 PM
Cathedral of Learning Fireworks
part of Homecoming festivities at Univ of Pittsburgh
FREE

Sat Oct 25 - 11:00 AM
Football Game between Donora and Monongahela will be held in the morning at Legion Field located behind Donora Elementary Center. This was the site where the rival teams played the original game during the height of the smog, honoring Alumni Football Players, Cheerleaders & Band Members from Class of 1949.
http://www.donorasmog.com/

Sat Oct 25 - 9 AM to 7 PM
Caving with Norm Snyder, trip leader with Sierra Club
Lower Beaver Hole, 20 miles east of Morgantown, WV
about $10 in gas pooling expenses
Bring old clothes, three sources of light, a complete change of clothes, a packed lunch. Call Norm at 412 351 4068 for details. Met at commuter's lot at intersection of S Braddock Ave and I-376, in front of Taco Bell at 9 AM. Estimated return time, 7 PM.

Sat Oct 25, 5PM
The Borough of Millvale, Millvale MainStreet and The Millvale Borough Development Corporation will host their First Creepy Harvest Party on October 25, 2008 at the Millvale Riverfront Park. The event will take place from 5-7 PM. Tickets are $3 per child and will include Hotdog, Apple Cider, Apple, Pumpkin, and activities such as pumpkin painting, apple games, scarecrow stuffing, face painting, creepy story time, spooky train rides and a creepy story walk. Pre-registration is strongly suggested a

Sassafras Grove
ADF Samhain Celebration
Saturday, October 25, 2008
2:00 PM – 11:00 PM
The Cabin at North Park*
Samhain makes the death of the year, the time of deepest Autumn, and the final harvest before Winter claims the fields as its own. At this time the veil once again becomes thin, and we more can more easily reach out to those who came before. We stand on the threshold of the Wasteland and the chaos and uncertainty our journey between one year and the next can bring us. This night we call all of our honored Ancestors to our fire to remember them, to honor them, and seek their blessing and guidance as we prepare to journey into the Wasteland. We ask Cernunnos, god of the in-between, to act as our gatekeeper and guardian as we do this sacred work.
Our Schedule:
2:00 PM: Event begins
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Pumpkin carving/decorating and other crafts for children and adults
5:00 PM: Ancestor feast –share stories and toast our Ancestors
6:30 PM: Ritual to honor our Ancestors and ask for their blessings
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM: bonfire, drumming, dancing, games, and divination
Some things to know:
* Please bring pumpkins for carving and decorating. We will be using jack-o-lantern’s to light the ritual space.
* Please bring items to place on the Ancestor altar. Appropriate items include pictures, ancestor dolls, or any objects that help you connect with your beloved dead.
* Our potluck dinner will be an Ancestor feast. Please bring dishes that come from your cultural or spiritual heritage, that are family specialties, or are favorites of loved ones who have passed on. During the feast we will tell stories about and toast to the Ancestors. We will also be offering a taste of everything to the Ancestors during the rite.
* Alcohol is allowed at this event for those 21 and over. Per park rules, no glass bottles are allowed on site.
* During the rite, praise offerings will be done during a song. Physical offerings will be provided.
* Please bring drums!
* Feel free to bring your divination tool(s) if you’d like to share readings.
* The rite will take place outside, so make sure to dress for the weather. Everyone is encouraged to come in costume!
* And please bring candy. At this time of year, we can never have enough.
Our rites are free and open to the Community, but we do rely on the donations of those who are able to defray the cost of space rental and ritual and event supplies. Please remember, even a dollar can help make the difference between having our costs covered and the members having to pay them out of our own pockets. Support your local Druids!
*The Cabin is located on Ingomar Road, across from the lake, not far from the major intersection of Ingomar Road, Babcock Blvd., and Wildwood Road (the one with the military monument). A link to a map of the park is here: http://www.alleghen ycounty.us/ parks/maps/ npmapb.pdf (the Cabin is letter “Q”). Park in the big parking lot next to the Cabin and walk over the bridge to the site.

Sun Oct 26 - 1 PM
Brecksville reservation, Cuyahoga Nat Park, Cleveland, Ohio
Billy Goat event with the North East Ohio Orienteering Club

Sun Oct 26 - 2 PM
Trail Running with the Pittsburgh Hash House Harriers
Start to be near Montour Trail in Robinson Township
see HHH website for details

2008 Oct 13 - Oct 19

2008-09-29T08:20:00.001-07:00

Mon Oct 13 - 4:30 PM
Baker Hall 136A
lecture by Robert Behrman, Engineering and Public -
Understanding conditions in Iraq after the surge
Robert Behrman, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s department of engineering and public policy, will present a description of current conditions in Iraq both social and physical from his firsthand experience. He will aim to explain the developments in Iraq for a better understanding of the news.

Mon Oct 13 2008 - 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Forbes Field Wall on Clemente Drive
Free
1960 World Series Victory Celebration. We will be gathering at the Forbes Field Wall to celebrate the 48th Anniversary of Bill Mazeroski"s 9th inning home run in game 7 of the 1960 World Series, which won the Series for the Pirates. This celebration has been an annual event since 1985. There is no charge for the event.
Please bring any memorabilia (if you have any) from the 1960 Series, along with stories, friends, family, a camera, a jacket ( depending on the weather ), and a comfortable chair. Food and drink will be available for a nominal charge..
There will be a complete game rebroadcast. This is a great day to celebrate baseball, and the 1960 World Series victory again. Some Pirate Alumni will be in attendance.

Wed Oct 15 - 7:30 PM
Frick building auditorium
Free screening of TEMPORADA DE PATOS - Mexico, 2004
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
by http://www.amigosdelcinelatinoamericano2008.blogspot.com/
--- important note ----
THERE WAS NO SCREENING NOR A NOTE OR POSTING ABOUT A CHANGE OF VENUE OR CANCELLATION
STATUS OF THIS SCREENING IS UNKNOWN. University Times staff said they got a cancellation notice after printing, and updated the online site. Note to organizers went unanswered. Also, note that the organizers website has not been updated with the cancellation information.
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Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery. The electricity company, Rita, the neighbor, Ulises, a pizza deliveryman, eleven seconds, the Real Madrid-Manchester game, some chocolate brownies and a horrible painting of ducks, all combine to break the harmony of what promised to be a placid Sunday, and reveal issues such as the parents' divorce, loneliness, the confusion between adolescent love and friendship, as well as frustration in adult life.

Thu Oct 16 - 4:30 PM
CMU, McConomy Auditorium, University Center
lecture by Steve Robbins, Author -
Unintentional Intolerance
Steve Robbins, an expert on issues regarding diversity and inclusion, will speak at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16 at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium. His talk, titled "Unintentional Intolerance," is part of Carnegie Mellon's University Lecture Series and is open to the public.
An author, Robbins works with numerous organizations around the country to help them develop the necessary skills and environment to maximize diverse human resources. He has consulted with a variety of major corporations, including Microsoft, Toyota, PepsiCo and General Mills, along with organizations such as NASA, the National Cancer Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank.
His book "What If? Short Stories to Spark Diversity Dialogue" highlights his unique approach to creating diversity and meeting inclusion challenges. Noted for his resonating, humorous style, he also writes and edits a weekly e-newsletter on diversity and inclusion, titled "Inclusion Insights."
Born in Vietnam, Robbins immigrated to the U.S when he was 5 years old at a time when there was much anti-war and anti-Vietnamese sentiment in the U.S. He credits this experience in part for helping him to create his insightful perspective on diversity and inclusion.

Sat Oct 18 - 10 AM (line starts to form at 6 AM, bring a chair, a radio, a friend)
REI Pittsburgh
GARAGE SALE
must be REI Member (can be purchased on site for $15)
sale on returned items, most of them gently used.

Podcamp Pittsburgh
Sat & Sun, October 18-19

WHERE: The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
WHEN: 9 AM - 4 PM
ADDRESS: 420 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (map)
PARKING: Street parking in the area
FREE
Attendee Guide
8:30 AM: DOORS OPEN
9:00 - 9:50 AM: Opening Keynote/Welcome.

10:00 - 10:45
The HUB (440) — Social Media's Diversity and Role in Activism We'll take a look at forced diversity in traditional media and how social media lacks these barriers, giving all a true choice in the information they consume. Also, you'll hear about how free speech in the US automatically brings about a new type of activism. Jason Cable
ROOM B (435) — Intro to Blogging: What IS a blog? How do you create one? How do you build and sustain an audience? What makes a great blog? Hosted by Cynthia Closkey, Mike Woycheck, and Christina Schulman of Pittsburgh Bloggers (BASIC)
ROOM C (434) — Podcasting 101: Alex Landefeld + TBA (BASIC)
ROOM D (421) — OPEN
ROOM E (420) —"Making Social Media Visible" Michael Munz (Blogs, Videos and Images) Find out how to make your efforts seen and optimized for search engines and consumers.'

11:00 - 11:45
The HUB (440) — Success! (Blogs, shows, podcasts): Justin Kownacki will moderate a panel of bloggers and podcasters discussing different criteria for success in new media, ways of measuring success and how to achieve it. Panelists include DJ G & John R. Carman of The G Spod, Rachel Butera + SIDT + Rich Westerfield, owner / blogger of Aldo Coffee and more.
ROOM B (435) — Branding Your Podcast: Norm Huelsman
ROOM C (434) — Audio/Video 101: TBA (BASIC)
ROOM D (421) — Internal Enterprise/Corporate Podcasts Robin Maiden If you are a podcaster thinking about approaching the boss about doing an internal enterprise podcast, this session is for you. Or, if you are a manager trying to understand the benefits of new media and podcasting, this session is for you. I will discuss the different kinds of internal podcasts, some considerations, and finally, practical tips, tools, and techniques I use to produce my internal corporate podcast.
ROOM E (420) — OPEN

Noon - 12:45 PM: LUNCH

1:00 - 1:45
The HUB (440) — Social Media Business Plans: Aaron Tainter and Alan Veeck of Meakem Becker VC, Meredith Benedict of AlphaLab, Julie Morey of ElasticLab, more TBA
ROOM B (435) — Blogging 201: Blogging Best Practices: For those who've been blogging a while (and beginners who want to see what's ahead). Is your blog as good as it can be? How can you attract more traffic? We'll count down the key features that every blog should have, and cover tips for getting readers and keeping them coming back. Presented by Cynthia Closkey (Big Big Design and My Brilliant Mistakes) and Christina Schulman (one-half of Inner Bitch), co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers
ROOM C (434) — Podcasting 201: TBA
ROOM D (421) — Video Compression Best Practices with Dr. Dave Mansueto: Loveable media swashbuckler Dave Mansueto of Libsyn and Wizzard Media explains what to do (and not do) to make your video look better than anyone else's (except the people who also attend this session).
ROOM E (420) — Podsafe Music: DJ G & John R. Carman of The G Spod will explain what it means to be “podsafe”. Musical artists will learn how to increase their audience and sales by licensing their music as podsafe, and podcasters will learn how to use podsafe audio for free in their shows.

2:00 - 2:45
The HUB (440) — Wrestling Mayhem Show & Should I Drink That
ROOM B (435) — Worth a Thousand Words: Photography 101: Michael Fulk covers how to take better pictures even without those fancy cameras (though it can't hurt to have one) and use them to give your blog some color.
ROOM C (434) — Using Analytics: Andy Quayle
ROOM D (421) — Optimizing Video for the Television Viewer: Mark Cavicchia, Founder/CEO of Pittsburgh's WhereverTV explains how to get your videos ready for the big screen, where average viewing sessions are measured in hours, not minutes.
ROOM E (420) — Feedback: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Justin Kownacki tackles the ups, downs, pros and cons of comments, ratings, feedback and the trolls who make the web go round -- and how you can learn & benefit from them.

3:00 - 3:45
The HUB (440) — SEO and Social Media: Jeffrey Donenfeld of Morpheus Media
ROOM B (435) — Which Web 2.0 Tools to Use for What: John R. Carman will give you a “cheat sheet” of the best social media tools for different types of online communication.
ROOM C (434) — Making It On Your Own - Want to make a living producing new and/or social media? Speak with people who have done it themselves. Rob Blatt and Walt Ribeiro
ROOM D (421) — Blogging for Interaction with Family and Friends: Norman Huelsman
ROOM E (420) — OPEN

Sunday October 19

10:00 - 10:45
The HUB (440) — Panel: It's Not Better to Burn Out than Podfade Away (How to Avoid / Recover from Content Creation Burnout): Three of Pittsburgh's longest-running web shows, DJ G & John R. Carman of The G Spod + The Wrestling Mayhem Show + The cast of Something To Be Desired help you plan for long-term success and offer tips on getting back into production after a looooooong break.
ROOM B (435) — LinkedIn 101: Get Started and Build Business Tim Hindes and Blake Imeson
ROOM C (434) — Usability and Utility. What are they, how are they related and why both are important to providing value. Presented by Carol Smith, Lead Consultant at Midwest Research and Joshua Smith, Lead Developer at Dix Communications.

11:00 - 11:45
The HUB (440) — Old + New, Unite! Using Social Media in The Arts: Panel feat. Mike Cuccaro of The Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Kim Chestney Harvey of The Pittsburgh Technology Council + TBA
ROOM B (435) — Social Networking/Media 101: Jennie Roth and Missy Sorg
ROOM C (434) — Blogging on a Budget: How to Get Your Voice Distributed for Free: Alex Landefeld + TBA
ROOM D (421) — Building IRL (in Real Life) Communities w/ Virtual Tools G. Jason Head of Refresh Pittsburgh
ROOM E (420) — WordPress Session: John R. Carman will give an introduction to WordPress blogging software, explain the differences between WordPress.com

1:00 - 1:45
The HUB (440) — Sports, Olympics and Running Mates: Mark Rauterkus
ROOM B (435) — Social Networking/Media 201 (ADVANCED): Jennie of 37roses and Missy Sorg
ROOM C (434) — OPEN
ROOM D (421) — Live Streaming & Technicalities - building Sponsors, Community as F/T job:2009 is Live Streaming. [Walt Ribeiro http://www.WaltRibeiro.net] of Ustream and Revision 3 goes through the ins and outs of networking, building Community, Sponsors, and Viral Marketing.
ROOM E (420) — Search-Engine-Friendly Blogging, or How to Be #1 in Pretty Hats: Basic search engine optimization (SEO) for WordPress, with applications for other blog tools as well. Want your site to be the number one search result in Google for "pretty hats"? I will tell you how I worked my magic. Key truths and misconceptions about SEO, plus five simple steps you can take to improve your site’s search ranking overall, and for your most important searches. Presented by Cynthia Closkey (Big Big Design and My Brilliant Mistakes)

2:00 - 2:45
The HUB (440) — Rust-Belt Bloggers discussion: Panel discussion among anyone concerned with the economic development of the shrinking cities within the Rust Belt region. See also the Rust Belt Bloggers group. Featuring Jim Russell of BurghDiaspora. Facilitated by Cynthia Closkey (Big Big Design and My Brilliant Mistakes)
ROOM B (435) — Who are you? Finding your voice How awkward is it to stand in front of a camera in your bedroom or behind a microphone for the first time. Does it ever get easier? Tips and tricks to be more comfortable when the spotlight is on you. There might or might not be dancing involved. Presented by Rob Blatt
ROOM C (434) — Design: What can it do for you?: This session will discuss some basic design principles (with examples!) that you can use to help improve your site. We'll also talk about why design can make a difference for your site. No design experience required. Presented by Val Headthisisportable

03:00 - 3:45
The HUB (440) — Using Twitter in Business: Justin Kownacki outlines several ways you can maximize Twitter for promotion and conversation without coming across as Just Another Brand.
ROOM B (435) — Political People, Process and Problem Fixes with a Wiki Tour and Tools: Mark Rauterkus
ROOM C (434) — Being Organic. How I grew my online business Step by Step from the Bottom up [Walt Ribeiro http://www.WaltRibeiro.net] of Ustream and Revision 3 discusses how to pitch Sponsors, and build a 'Friendbase'... NOT a 'Fanbase'. He did it, so can you!

Sat Oct 18 - 2 PM
Orienteering in the streets of Beaver Falls, appropriate for families with children
Must register. Details at WPOC website
2nd Annual Beaver Street O
Saturday, October 18, 2008
This is a 60-minute score event around the streets of Beaver on foot. Map distribution will be at the Beaver Area Memorial Library, on the corner of College Ave and River Rd in Beaver at 1:30 pm. The event has a mass start at 2 pm and finishes at 3 pm. Refreshments and prizes follow the event.

Sun Oct 19 - from 11 AM to 2 PM
Indiana, PA (IUP Co-Op Park)
Orienteering (scavenger hunt with topographic map)
cost: $4 (individual and group, same price)

Sun Oct 19 - from 10 AM to 5 PM
14-mile trail running with the Pittsburgh Hash House Harriers
once-a-year event, social running with four beverage stops and dinner after the run.

Sun Oct 19 - 11 AM to 5 PM
Boyce Park, Plum, PA
Pagan Pride Celebration Schedule
11 AM - Opening Ritual, by Sassafras Grove
12 noon - Divination Exchange, facilitated by Vicki Grammar
1 PM - Summoning Spirits for Fun and Prophet, by Fred Johnston
2 PM - Serpents in Indo-European Lore, by Lassair
3 PM - Shamanism: The Way to Power Animals, by Lady Annabelle of Grove of Gaia
4 PM - The Hero's Journey, by Heidhrun of the Free Folk Society
6 PM - Closing Ritual, led by Grove of Gaia and Reclaiming Three Rivers
Come to the 7th Annual
Greater Pittsburgh Pagan Pride Day!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
11 AM - 7 PM (vendor area closes at 6 PM)
Boyce Park - Four Seasons Ski Lodge - Monroeville/ Plum area
http://www.alleghenycounty.us/parks/bpfac.aspx
Speakers, public rituals, vendors, readers, activities, bake sale, raffle, and more!
Admission is FREE
Bring nonperishable food to benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Bring pet supplies to benefit Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley
Academy 23 is thrilled to invite you to the Magician's Picnic,during the Pagan Pride Day festival.
Near the pavilion, we'll unfurl our carpets and lay out a feast.
Share a story, a magickal idea, an insight, even just an introduction to yourself.
Discuss plans for magickal swap meet and maybe a working circle.
Please feel free to bring food to share.

2008 Oct 6 - Oct 12

2008-09-29T08:19:00.000-07:00

Mon Oct 6 at 4:30 p.m.
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
David Blight, a professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition at Yale University will discuss his recent book, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation. Blight has amassed information about slavery based on manuscripts discovered only in 2004 to reveal the very lengthy process that was emancipation.

Tue Oct 7 - 7:30 PM
Pitt 1500 Posvar Hall
“Iran in the New Middle East,” Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow on the Middle East, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7, 1500 Posvar Hall, Pitt’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center, the National Security Network, Pittsburgh Middle East Institute,

Wed Oct 8 - 7:30 PM
Frick art building auditorium
FREE
"25 Watts", film from Montevideo
This affable low-budget affair from Uruguay captures a day in the life of three friends--Leche (Daniel Handler), Javi (Jorge Temponi), and Seba (Alfonso Tort)--as they bumble their way through a lazy, hungover Saturday in Montevideo. Along the way, they encounter a series of bizarre characters who remind them of just how unfocused and boring their lives actually are. Directed under the influence of American indie auteurs such as Jim Jarmusch and Richard Linklater by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, 25 WATTS is a universally charming comedy.
Presented by AMIGOS DEL CINE LATINOAMERICANO

Thu Oct 9 - 7:30 PM
Pitt - Barco Hall (Law School building), ground floor
The University of Pittsburgh’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies will present a lecture by internationally renowned security expert Richard A. Clarke as part of its speaker series. An expert on counterterrorism and homeland, national, and cybersecurity, Clarke will present a free public lecture titled “Which Candidate Is Better for National Security?” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, on the ground floor of the Barco Law Building.
Clarke served the last three Presidents as a senior White House advisor. Throughout his 11 consecutive years of White House service, he has been special assistant to the president for global affairs, national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, and special advisor to the president for cybersecurity. Clarke is an on-air consultant for ABC News and teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He also is the author of the bestselling book "Against All Enemies" (Free Press, 2004) and its 2008 sequel, "Your Government Failed You". 
If attending the lecture, notice the mosaic on the wall of the courtroom by Virgil Cantini

Thu Oct 9
7:00 p.m.
Maghrebi-French Filmmaking
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
The term beur is French inversion-slang (verlan) for the word arabe, and refers to the French-born children of North African (Maghrebi) immigrants of Arab as well as Amazigh and Kabyle origin. For the most part, this generation grew up in the concrete wastelands of France's low-income housing projects in the suburbs (banlieues). While beur has been part of the European lexicon for more than 20 years, the term and the culture it describes remain largely unknown in the United States.
Memories of October 17 On the evening of October 17, 1961, the French police brutally repressed a peaceful demonstration supporting Algerian independence. This powerful film unearths the painful memories of witnesses, keeping alive the memory of a massacre that French officialdom would like us to forget.
Memoire D'Immigres In this seminal documentary, a triptych of stories spells out the painful fate of two generations of Maghrebi immigration to France. This movie will be shown in two nights (Oct.9 and Oct. 16)
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free

Fri Oct 10 - 8 PM (45 minutes long)
Univ of Pittsburgh campus
documentary screening on Refugee Warehousing

Sat Oct 11 at 12:30 PM
CMU - Rangos Ballroom, University Center
Gary Knell, president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, will discuss his nonprofit educational organization that thoroughly use thes power of all media to educate children. Knell has been key to his company’s global mission and will explain how Sesame Street is changing our world.

Sat Oct 11 - 3:30 PM
Sewickley Sweetwater Art Center
Free blues concert by Eugene Morgan
in conjuction of a Community Day Celebration (African American Arts and Culture MAVUNO XII)
Drum Circle with Wacongo (noon)

Sat Oct 11 - 4 PM
Carnegie Lecture Hall
Mark Bradford, an artist whose work is among the works in the Life of Mars exhibit will be speaking about his works. Bradford is an abstract artist who, through collages of found materials such as foil, scrap paper, fences, or poster remnants, examines abstraction and questions systems of culture in his neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Sat Oct 11 - 7:30 and 9 PM performances
CMU student center
Etran Finatawa Showcases Nomadic Blues as part of CMU International Festival
A nomadic blues group from Niger will hold two performances at Carnegie Mellon University's International Festival. Etran Finatawa, which means "stars of tradition," combines modern electric guitar with calabasse (gourd) drums, string instruments, vocal music, handclapping and dancing. Performers adorn their faces with yellow paint while wearing long tunics, leather hose and turbans. The performances will be held 7:30-8:30 p.m. and 9-10 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 11, in Rangos Ballroom, University Center (UC).
In addition to the performances, Etran Finatawa will present "Harmony: Building Peace Through Music," a lecture about how the group fuses sounds from two of Niger's 11 tribes - the Tuareg and Wodaabe-Fulani - as a symbol of peace and reconciliation. The tribes share pastures and water sources along the desert's fringes, which has led to a history of conflict. The lecture is 2-3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 11, in the Connan Room, UC.
The lecture and performances are free and open to the public. Tickets are required for the performances and will be available at Carnegie Mellon's University Center Information Desk beginning Oct. 2. More information on Etran Finatawa is available at www.etranfinatawa.com.

Sun Oct 12 - 2 PM
Beacon Hill Drive, off Penn Highway, in upper Wilkinsburg/Churchill
Trail running with the Hash House Harriers

Sun Oct 12 - all day
Washington, PA
Geocaching mega event: Geocoin Fest

Sun Oct 12 - 9 AM to 5 PM
Pittsburgh Zoo
FREE (only today thanks to RAD days)
kudos (being sarcastic) to the Pitt Program Council that charged $5:
Trip to the Zoo
October 12 10:00 am
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
$5 for Pitt Students
Join the Pitt Program Council for an exciting trip to the Pittsburgh Zoo! See the new baby elephants as well as many other exciting animals for only $5!
The price includes transportation by deluxe motorcoach as well as admission to the zoo. The bus will leave from Bigelow Blvd in front of the William Pitt Union at 10:00 a.m. and leaving the zoo around 3 p.m. Space is limited so sign up early! Sign-ups begin on Monday September 15th in the ticket office of the William Pitt Union.

2008 Sep 29 - Oct 5

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Tue Sep 30 - 5 PM
CMU: Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51
The School of Art Lecture Series presents Haegue Yang, whose works range from wall drawings to books, sculpture, installation, moving image and photography. Her work entails the high-mobility and in-transit condition common to many contemporary artists operating internationally. Her installation in Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International, is entitled "Three Kinds" and employs commonplace objects such as venetian blinds, lights and mirrors to create an atmosphere of dramatic intimacy. The lecture is free and open to the pubic.

Wed Oct 1 - 12:00 PM
Elie Kihonia & Wacongo Dance Company
african drumming and dance
Wiliam Pitt Union, lower level, Nordy's Place
free

Wed Oct 1 - 7:30 PM
South American Film series
Pitt: Frick Arts Building auditorium
Free
VALENTÍN - Argentina and Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, 2002
Director: Alejandro Agresti
On 1969, in Argentina, the eight-year-old Valentin is a boy that dreams to be an astronaut. He is raised by his poor widow grandmother Abuela, and is totally abandoned by his parents. His mother has apparently forgotten him, and his stupid father does not pay much attention on him. The smart, but needy kid missed his mother, and when his father introduces his new girlfriend Leticia, Valentin has a strong connection with her. Meanwhile his grandmother gets sick, and the boy tries to resolve all his family problems using his persuasion and viewpoint of life. He also tries to approach Leticia to his great friend and master Rufo.

Thu Oct 2 - 10 AM to 5 PM
Phipps Conservatory free day

Thu Oct 2 - 6 PM
Pitt, 107 Barco
"Slavery: old crime in new global economy" lecture

Fri Oct 2 - 7 PM
Main Library - Oakland
The Greater Pittsburgh Chapter of the ACLU-PA, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and WYEP 91.3 FM will present the 13th annual Banned Books Reading on Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 7:00 pm in the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland. Pittsburgh is one of many cities that will celebrate the freedom to read with special events during Banned Books Week (BBW), September 28-October 4, 2008. BBW is observed each year to remind Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. The “Banned Books Reading” is designed to celebrate the First Amendment and educate citizens about the dangers of censorship. The event features local personalities reading from their favorite banned or challenged books; reading selections will include both modern and classic works.
This year’s talented cast has a multi-artistic bent:
The Absolute Pitts, musical comedy troupe
Helena Ruoti, celebrated local actress
Attack Theatre, modern dance company
Carolina Loyola-Garcia, multidisciplinary media artist
Sugar Daddy & the Big Boned Girls, America’s favorite lounge act
Professor Emcee Square, host of WBGN-TV’s It’s Alive show

Thu Oct 2 - 4:30 PM
CMU 136A Baker Hall
Humanities Lecture series
lecture by Robert Sternberg, Tufts University
"Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized: A New Approach to University Admissions"
Sternberg reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence. He argues that any serious understanding of intelligence must go beyond the standard paper and pencil tests currently in use. In addition to analytical and quantitative abilities, a theory of intelligence must take account of peoples' creative abilities - their ability to go beyond given information and imagine new and exciting ways of reformulating old problems. It must also take into account peoples' ability to weigh options carefully and act prudently. Understanding one's own intellectual shortcomings, and learning how to overcome, is as important as developing one's strengths. Sternberg develops a vision of human intelligence that is far more nuanced and accurate than anything previously offered. Wisdom, Intelligence and Creativity Synthesized will be essential reading for psychologists, cognitive scientists, educators, and organizational researchers. more lectures

Fri Oct 3
Lighted boat parade on Pittsburgh's beautiful rivers. And, the big water stuff happens the morning of Saturday, October 4, when the Three Rivers 250th Flotilla journeys from Brunot Island to Downtown, while saluting the Delta Queen on her final historic voyage. More than 100 boats are expected to participate in the flotilla, which replicates a similar event that marked Pittsburgh's 150th anniversary in 1908.
The flotilla includes non-motorized water crafts, pleasure boats, historic vessels, the Gateway Clipper Fleet, commercial barges.

Fri Oct 3 - 7 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Japanese movie based on anime', "Honey & Clover"

Fri Oct 3 - 7 to 10 PM
Allegheny Observatory Open House (must have pre-registered)
Riverview Park, North Hills

Fri Oct 3 - 7:30 PM
Melwood Screening Room, free open admission
Ann Arbor Film Festival traveling selection

Sat Oct 4 - 9 AM to 5 PM
Aviary, free day

Sat - 1:30 PM
Hot Metal Bridge
ride your bike on the same path George Washington traveled on his first trip to southwestern Pennsylvania more than 250 years ago. Sign up now to take part in the PNC Legacy Trail Ride celebrating the Great Allegheny Passage. Receive a commemorative button and blinky light, and pedal alongside thousands of others on this historic route from the Hot Metal Bridge to downtown Pittsburgh for the grand re-opening of Point State Park. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a part of the Pittsburgh region’s history with your family and friends.
This unique community trail ride caps a week of activities beginning with Celebration Saturday. And the grand re-opening of Point State Park kicks off a two-month birthday party – Pittsburgh 250 Celebrates: A Festival of Light – combining history, music, art and culture in honor of the region’s 250th anniversary.
Bring some non-perishable groceries for the Food Bank and receive a free "glow stick" you can wave later when everybody sings Happy Birthday to our great city

Sat Oct 4, 9 AM - 4 PM
Boyce Park
Historical Re-enactments

Sat Oct 4 - 6:30 PM
trail running in Frick Park with the Hash House Harriers. Meet in Regent Square.

Sat Oct 4 - 8:30 PM
Fireworks
Of course, no Pittsburgh celebration would be complete without fireworks. And
the "Imagine Pittsburgh" fireworks by the region's own Zambelli Internationale
promises to be the biggest fireworks celebration ever seen in our region. The
entire city will be lit like never before. The theatrical production and
soundtrack will launch fireworks at more sites than ever seen before in the
United States with Pittsburgh serving as the theater, the Golden Triangle as
the birthday cake, and skyscrapers illuminated as candles. As the grand
finale, the signature Zambelli pyrotechnics effect "Niagara Falls," will
launch from the West End Bridge. The fireworks show, which will begin at 9:30
pm on Oct. 4, will create prime seating from the North Shore, South Side and
Mt. Washington - among other locations.

Sun Oct 5, 9 AM - 4 PM
Boyce Park
Historical Re-enactments

Sun Oct 5, noon - 5 PM
Date: June 28 - October 5, 2008
Venue: Frick Art & Historical Center
Event Cost: Free
As part of its contribution to the celebrations surrounding Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary, the FrickArt & HistoricalCenter presents two exhibitions in 2008 that examine the various ways the city has been depicted on paper by artists from the nineteenth century through the present.
This exhibition and accompanying catalogue will provide an in-depth consideration of the history of printed views of Pittsburgh and printmaking in the city, leading to a better understanding of the story of the region as well as of the use of prints of cityscapes during the period. There have been no previous exhibitions that have studied this material systematically, using examples from private, public, corporate, and club collections in Pittsburgh, as well as institutions around the country. The accompanying catalogue will include an essay by guest curator, Christopher W. Lane and an extensive and scholarly catalogue listing of printed views of Pittsburgh. Guest curator Christopher W. Lane is an expert on antique prints, maps and books. He has written Impressions of Niagara, documenting the Charles Rand Penney Collection of over 700 printed images of Niagara Falls, curated an exhibition of the Penney Collection at the Castellani Art Gallery, and assisted in assembling an international touring exhibition drawn from that collection. Lane is also known for his basic guides to map and print collecting, including What Is A Print? and A Guide to Collecting Historical Prints, and appears regularly as the print and map expert on The Antiques Roadshow. This exhibition is organized by the Frick Art & Historical Center

Oct 5 - noon to 5 PM
Mattress Factory free day

Oct 5 - noon to 5 PM
Children's Museum free day

Date: October 4-5, 2008
Time: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue: Mt. Lebanon Park
Event Cost: Free
The 7th Annual Art in the Park is scheduled to be held October 4-5 at the Mt. Lebanon Park from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day. The event features more than 50 artists, several food vendors, live music, children's activities and more. Perfect for a fall family outing, this regional event highlights artisans from Pittsburgh and beyond and includes exhibitors in the following categories: Oil, watercolor and pastels; textiles and weaving; needlework and florals; glass, ceramics and jewelry; photography and woodcarving and furniture. Art in the Park serves as a charitable endeavor for the Mt. Lebanon Sunrise Rotary Club and last year raised over $17,000 that was donated directly to local organizations in the South Hills of Pittsburgh.

Date: October 5, 2008
Time: Noon
Venue: 21st & Josephine Streets in South Side
Event Cost: $15 1st person; $10 other
Step Trek: This family-friendly event is a walking tour of the South Side Slopes via the many sets of public stairs. StepTrek combines photography, historic narrative, amazing views, several open houses and a sense of a neighborhood whose identity is etched with steps. Each pre-registered trekker receives a map, a course narrative, commemorative tee shirt and free raffle ticket. Participants may choose to use this noncompetitive event as a test of fitness or a leisurely tour.

2008 Sep 22 - Sep 28

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Tue Sep 23 - 5 p.m.
CMU: Giant Eagle Auditorium (Baker Hall A51)
School of Art Lecture Series: Stephanie Syjuco
Stephanie Syjuco is a visual artist who uses her sculptures to explore the tactics of bootlegging and counterfeiting as they apply to cultural and economic globalization issues. Her past work has included recreating various 1950s furniture pieces by French designer Charlotte Perriand out of rubbish in Beijing, China, and photographing models of Stonehenge made from cheap, imported, Asian food products.

Wed Sep 24 - 4:30 p.m.
CMU: Gregg Hall (Porter Hall 100)
University Lecture Series: Steven Greenhouse
Steven Greenhouse, a labor and workplace correspondent for The New York Times, will discuss his recent book The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. His book analyzes the economic and business factors which have had a negative effect on the majority of the American workforce. Greenhouse will also touch on the role working-class voters will have in this fall’s election. Greenhouse has written for various newspapers in both the United States and Europe for the past 25 years, and has made appearances on CNN, BBC, PBS, National Public Radio, and MSNBC.

Wed Sep 24 - 4:30 p.m.
CMU: Breed Hall (Margaret Morrison 103)
Idealism/Realism/Modernism: Rethinking Literary History or How Modernism Emerged
Norwegian-born Toril Moi, the James B. Duke Professor of Literature, Romance Studies and English at Duke University, will discuss the emergence of modernism and its ties to literature, history, and the arts in general. Moi’s areas of research include feminist theory, women’s writing, and the intersection and influence which literature, philosophy, and aesthetics have on each other. She also has special interests in psychoanalytic theory and theater. Moi has written several books including Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, a bestseller originally published in 1985.

Thu Sept 25 - 4:30 p.m.
CMU: Adamson Wing (Baker Hall 136A)
University Lecture Series: Toward a More Peaceful World
Harriet Fulbright, president of the J. William & Harriet Fulbright Center, will address the growth and importance of international education as well as discuss programs that have helped promote international understanding as a means to achieve a more peaceful world. Her talk will highlight the efforts of the Fulbright Center, a non-profit group which promotes world peace and the use of nonviolent means and international collaboration as a way to resolve conflicts. The group’s efforts are designed to be a continuation of the work and dreams of Fulbright’s late husband, Senator J. William Fulbright.

Thu Sep 25 - 6:30 PM
Chatham University, Athletic and Fitness Center Gymnasium
The Nego Gato Afro-Brazilian Music and Dance Ensemble brings rhythms and dances of Salvador. It features live percussion and traditional instruments and a performance of Capoeira, an African Brazilian martial art that combines dance, gymnastics and acrobatics. Admission is free.

Fri Sep 27 - evening
Bloomfield Little Italy Festival

Fri Sep 27, 7 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Free showing of japanese anime' (in japanese)

Fri Sep 26, 9:30PM
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER
Program length: about 1 hour
organized and presented by Douglas Katelus, who is on tour with this program
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Annex Studio (yellow carriage house behind the big yellow house), 6300 Fifth Ave.
FREE
THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER
More heard of than seen outside San Francisco, the films of Dean Snider (1949-1994) are formally playful and richly possessed of character. Ultra-short and often self-mocking, Snider’s abounding catalog is a bit confusing and almost always funny. Hard to compare with any other filmmaker, Snider’s subversive stance and sardonic sense of humor enlivened his varied, quixotic films and real-life antics. He once staged a coup in the projection booth of the San Francisco Cinematheque, forcing a show of local films on the audience. On another occasion, with fellow cinema-activist Steve Schmidt, Snider literally hijacked an entire Cinematheque audience by bus and delivered them to a screening at the No Nothing Cinema, a now-legendary film/performance venue that he co-founded. Snider was known to pay a dollar to viewers who attended his shows, and as a judge at the Ann Arbor Film Festival he gave each and every festival-rejected filmmaker $3 of his prize
money, igniting debate. Indisputably important and certainly overlooked, these films are nothing short of a revelation.
“During his relatively short lifespan, Snider produced literally hundreds of films. Beyond filmmaking, his gadfly outbursts and philosophical provocations helped spark controversy and stimulate conceptual filmic border-crossings…. Film theorist Janice Crystal-Lipzin said of Dean’s films, ‘Why, the titles are longer than the films!’ – no doubt referring to HEY!, a single frame of a bale of hay.” –V. Vale and Marian Wallace, RESEARCHPUBS.COM
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Sat Sep 27
Meetup picnic
North Park - Willow Shelter
Meetup is an internet-based activities calendar in which people of common interest schedule and/or join activities. The pittsburgh area meetup organizations are coming together in this event. Alcoholic beverages allowed (but you must show proof of age). Willow shelter is located close to intersection of Babcock Blvd and Ingomar Rd/Wildwood Rd.

SatSep 28 - evening
Bloomfield Little Italy Festival

Sat Sep 27
Bluegrass festival in Greene County (Rices Landing, on the shores of the Monongahela River)
$15/person

Sun Sep 28
The Great Race - 10 km run
start in Squirrel Hill and end in downtown Pittsburgh
For a second run (and find a case of beer stashed in the woods), try the Hash House Harriers: Meet at 12:00. Chalk Talk will be at 12:30 sharp. Trail will start
from the soccer fields in Panther Hollow (near Big Jim's in the Run).

Sunday, September 28, 8PM
Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave.
$5/$4 students
Jefferson Presents... September 2008 Program #94: BRAKHAGE/GIDAL
See an assortment of rarely seen films by avant garde legend Stan Brakhage and British structural filmmaker Peter Gidal. All projected in original 16mm.
Stan Brakhage:
Blue Moses (1962) 16mm, black and white, sound, 10.5 min
Meat enigma spoken in eternal language of director, con man, and magician. It's about the sham flesh that men create to dam the streaming of the truth from their muscles and senses... a molecule of revelation in the shape of a drama thrown off by the artist between ANTICIPATION and DOG STAR MAN. -- Michael McClure. A manifesto of film epistemology in the form of an actor n conflict with the camera eye. --Brussels catalogue. Brussels International Film Festival, 1964.
Tho't-Fal'n (1978) 16mm, color, silent, 14.25 min
This film describes a psychological state 'kin to moonstruck, its images emblems (not quite symbols) of suspension-of-self within consciousness and then that feeling of falling away from conscious thought. The film can only be said to describe or be emblematic of this state because I cannot imagine symbolizing or otherwise representing an equivalent of thoughtlessness itself. Thus the actors in the film, Jane Brakhage, Tom and Gloria Bartek, Williams Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Olovsky and Phillip Whalen are figments of this Thought Fallen PROCESS as are their images in the film to find themselves being photographed.
Aftermath (1981) 16mm, color, silent, 7.5 min
(after + math ((mowing, crop))) a second growth crop... this is my strongest attack on pop culture, the movies, T. V., etc. --what CAN be done with it? / the idealism of moving-visual-thought-process the very raw meat of brain, trying to absorb and transform the unthinkable': this, then, that 2nd harvest of healthier gain... retrieving patriotism, even, from blasphemous commerce. (Quote: Webster's 7th Coll.)
Peter Gidal:
Film Print (1974) 16mm, color, silent, 40 min
"The possibility of contemplation offered by photographs is recouped and even radically undercut in FILM PRINT by the continually moving picture... When meaning does seem to emerge (it) is immediately displaced by denial of the space... The suppression of meaning-production as a cinematic process is a structuring feature of the film... The repetitions, the radical refusal of semioticity (denial of the codes of dominant cinema but also the codicity of structural film itself) and the unfixed nature of the space articulated by the film, all serve to operate against the kind of closure associated with a defined and homogeneous film space." --Annette Kohn, "Perspectives on British Avant-Garde Film"
Condition of Illusion (1975) 16mm, color, silent, 32.5 min
"What I want to stop is the error of making everything into narrative, a definition of narrative in such a way that it becomes unhelpful. Maybe you can have narrativization without narrative. CONDITION OF ILLUSION plays on the identifying or shifting from the terms of identifying of the relations between the spectator and the photographic image. There is a constantly slipping horizon of identification at the level of the photographic that's being moved through that film and ROOM FILM 1973. There is the problem of identifying the relation between the object and the reflection of the object, the problem of reading the photographic image. You've got this problem watching the film, during the viewing. In CONDITION OF ILLUSION you are in relation to the photographic image, but that relation is a constant slipping of the identifying relation which is the basis of the classic film... what is not achieved is the kind of stabilization of reproduction into the
terms of a representation...." --interview by Stephen Heath, Cambridge Tapes (March, 1977) & Wide Angle, Vol. 2 No. 3 (May, 1978).

Blue Grass in Greene County - The Stevens Family

2008-09-22T06:40:00.000-07:00

As part of the Covered Bridges festival in Greene County, this remarkable musical family performed at Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. They are from Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. (MySpace website).

They will perform again in Pennsylvania this Saturday, Sept 21, in Rices Landing.

2nd Annual Bluegrass Harvestfest~ Peaceful Springs, Rices Landing, PA
Enjoy your local favorites Glorybound and Hargus Creek Bluegrass Band as they open for Pittsburgh's own living legend Mac Martin and his Dixie Travelers. This will be followed up by the Stevens Family from Berkley Springs, W.Va. Enjoy free parking, on-site food, pavilion seating, hay wagon rides and much more.
Gates open at 1 p.m. with performances starting at 3 p.m. and lasting until 8 p.m. with campfire pickin' to follow.
For ticket information, contact Mary Lynn at 724-592-6588 or peacefulsprings@windstream.net. ($15/adult)

Brother Science at ALCOSAN Open House

2008-09-22T06:37:00.001-07:00

Gerry Lewis is a show entertainer using science facts. Very funny.

2008 Sep 15 - Sep 21

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Wed Sept 17 - 9:30 AM
CMU - Simon Hall 3303
Business Week magazine writer Steven Baker signs his new book "The Numerati"

Wed Sep 17 - 7:30 PM
brazilian cinema
Frick Auditorium, free

Wed Sep 17 2008, 8:00 pm
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Steven Smith, guest conductor
Samuel Oram, piano
W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture
S. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3, Samuel Oram, piano
B. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
$5 general admission, $4 senior citizen admission, free for Carnegie Mellon Students with ID

Thu Sep 18 - 8 PM
CMU, Breed Hall (Margaret Morrison 103)
Design lecture
Stuart Morgan
Giving Form to Vision
Thursday, September 18
8pm, Breed Hall (MM 103)
The event is open to the public
Balancing the Three Disciplines of Leadership, Innovation, & Execution
For Design to play a significant role in the success of an organization, the three disciplines of Leadership, Innovation and Execution must be active and in balance. Over the past six years, the role of design at Ethicon Endo-Surgery has changed from one of support to one of leadership. Through a couple of recent product examples, the lecture will outline the guiding principles, the strategies, the process, the methods and tools employed to deliver significant results to the company, and show the importance of balancing the three disciplines of Design.
Stuart Morgan is director of Industrial Design and Human Factors for Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that develops and markets advanced medical devices for minimally invasive and open surgical procedures. He is responsible for product branding and usability in the corporation, including design strategy and user research. He leads front end initiatives on innovation, and is a member of the Brand Leadership Team for Ethicon Endo-Surgery.
A high achiever and acknowledged international industry leader with a strong instinct for what will sell, applying exceptional design to the creation of market defining products, positive corporate brands, stronger product utility, and innovative work solutions. He envisioned and led the development of unique ethnographic research methods and powerful visualization tools, transforming the new product development process within the corporation and establishing usability as a standard of innovation in the surgical device industry. Under his leadership the industrial design and human factors group has moved from support into a leadership role.
Prior to joining Ethicon Endo-Surgery, he worked in a consulting firm, a start up company, and began his career in a large corporation where he earned assignments routinely reserved for engineers and senior corporate leaders. Exercised full design authority, funding and accountability for a wireless networked computer on which a new company was founded. Serving as a consulting and equity partner with Springuard Technologies, headed by the world’s leading ophthalmologist developing innovative patented solutions for prescription sports eyewear. Designed the data display system for the New York Stock Exchange, and guided creation of a flat panel display system that transformed the trading floors of major banks and brokerages in Boston, Hong Kong, London, and New York.
Awarded Gold IDEA awards in 1983, 1991, 1999, Silver IDEA award in 1995, and iF Product Design Award 1998, and holds 18 utility patents and 17 design patents.
A dedicated and constant learner with a BFA, Industrial Design from Brigham Young University, he is currently in the MBA program at Xavier University.

Sat Sep 20 - 10 AM
free kayak ride next to PNC park on Allegheny river

Sat Sep 20 - 11 AM to 6 PM
Dragon Boat Festival
South Side waterfront (under the birmingham bridge, bring a bicycle because it is a very long and frustrating walk from available parking).
11:15 AM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance OCA Youth; RenWen Chinese School
11:30 AM Diabolo Spinning (Chinese Yo-Yo) & Chinese Folk Dances Ren Wen Chinese School; OCA Youth
11:45 AM Shaolin Kung Fu SiFu Slaughter
12:00 PM Chinese Folk Dance Oriental Star Dance School
12:15 PM Indian Folk Dance India Society of Pittsburgh
12:30 PM AppalAsian Trio Mimi Jong, Jeff Berman, Sue Powers
1:00 PM Break for Demonstration
1:15 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance Pittsburgh Chinese School
1:35 PM Tuvan Khoomei (Throatsinging) Jacques Francschini
1:50 PM Kung Fu Lion Dance Steel Dragon Kung Fu School
2:05 PM Tang Soo Do C.S. Kim Karate Schools
2:15 PM Japanese Melodies and Songs Pittsburgh Ensemble Nippon
2:30 PM Indian Folk Dance Nandanik Dance Academy
2:45 PM Break for Demonstration
3:00 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance OCA Youth; RenWen Chinese School
3:15 PM Diabolo Spinning (Chinese Yo-Yo) & Chinese Folk Dance Ren Wen Chinese School; OCA Youth
3:30 PM Chinese Folk Dance Oriental Star Dance School
3:45 PM Indian Folk Dance India Society of Pittsburgh
4:00 PM AppalAsian Trio Mimi Jong, Jeff Berman, Sue Powers
4:30 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance Pittsburgh Chinese School
4:45 PM Break for Demonstration
5:00 PM Shaolin Kung Fu SiFu Slaughter
5:15 PM Tuvan Khoomei (Throatsinging) Jacques Francschini
5:30 PM Kung Fu Lion Dance Steel Dragon Kung Fu School
5:45 PM Tang Soo Do C.S. Kim Karate Schools
6:00 PM Japanese Melodies and Songs Pittsburgh Ensemble Nippon
6:15 PM Indian Folk Dance Nandanik Dance Academy
6:30 PM Drum Band North Allegheny

SAT September 20, 2008 - 10AM -9PM
SUN September 21, 2008. 10AM- 5PM
Annual Shadyside Art Festival on Walnut St between South Aiken & South Negley PGH 15232
Over 200 artists featured
This year there'll be no competing Ellsworth Street Fair.

Sat Sep 20 - 8 PM
Oakland
mexican folk singer David haro, free to Pitt students, and $20 to others

Sat Sep 20 - 8:45 PM
Homewood, corner of Frankstown Rd and Homewood St
Outdoor film screening of documentary "East of Liberty", by Chris Ivey

Sat Sep 20 - 8 PM
music
new music group Ion Sound will perform Terry Riley's "In C" and other minimalist music (their website is down as of sept 17).

Sat Sep 20
Sun Sep 21
Covered Bridge Festival
Washington County
Green County
article on newspaper

Sun Sep 21, 12-5pm
3rd Annual Co-op Art Harvest at East End Food Co-op
7516 Meade Street, Pittsburgh 15208, in Point Breeze
A community day of local food, live music, kid’s activities and handmade art for sale. All activities take place right in front of East End Food Co-op

2008 July 21 - July 27

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Wed July 23 - 8 PM
Music Festival
Frick Auditorium - Oakland
organized by Loose Organization of Surreal Ethereal Realists

Thu July 24 - 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Carnegie Museum of Art - Oakland
Life on Mars (2008 Carnegie International)
presentation and performance
Artist Barry McGee and curator Douglas Fogle discuss Lief on Mars and McGee's beginning in 1980s graffiti culture. Live performance follow.

Fri July 25 - 6:30 PM
Strip District
Gene's Last Chance saloon
Red Dress Run with the Pittsburgh hash house harriers running club

2008 July 14 - July 20

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Fri July 18 - from 6:30 PM to 10 PM
Full Moon run with the Pittsburgh Hash House Harriers
Homestead, PA
Must be 21

Sat July 19 - from 11 AM to 2 PM
Orienteering at Boyce Park
Orienteering is a competitive form of land navigation, using topographic map and compass. Goal is to locate control flags in the woods in the least amount of time. Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club will host a meet on Sat July 19, 11 AM - 2 PM "Den" shelter. Courses will be be beginner, adv beginner, intermediate, advanced. The sport is a all-weather, all-skill leve, and all-age activity. It is suitable for families with children and adventure racers as well. Cost is $4 per map (group can share a map, and cost is still only $4).

Sat July 19 - All Day
Shenley Park Grand Prix
vintage car racing
free

Sat July 19 - from 8 to 11 PM
Braddock - "Out of This Furnace" event

... and a comment from a participating artist

Sat July 19 - 7 PM
Gist Street Reading Series annual outdoor cookout
July 19, 2008: The Eighth Annual Gist Street Cookout Extravaganza with McSweeney’s
REMEMBER to bring FOOD. Inventive casseroles, lively fruit pies, traditional three bean salads, whole fishes. Burgers. Tofu. You make it; you bring it; we grill it (or set it on the table); and then we all eat it. Together. BYOB.
Eating begins at 7pm; Readings begin at 8pm.
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The cookout poets, rallied by Dominic Luxford, editor of The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets:
Atsuro Riley was brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry and lives near San Francisco. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and McSweeney’s, and has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and Poetry's Wood Prize.
Patrick Lawler has published three books of poetry: A Drowning Man is Never Tall Enough (University of Georgia Press, 1990), (reading a burning book) (Basfal Books, 1994), and Feeding the Fear of the Earth, winner of the Many Mountains Moving poetry book competition (2006).
Courtney Queeney's Filibuster to Delay a Kiss and Other Poems was published by Random House in 2007. She lives in Chicago.
Gerry LaFemina's latest book is the prose poem collection Figures from The Big Time Circus Book/The Book of Clown Baby. He lives in Frostburg, Maryland, where he directs and teaches at the Center for Creative Writing at Frostburg State University.
The cookout fiction writer, rallied by McSweeney's Angela Petrella:
Nathan West lives in Philadelphia, Pa. He recently completed a translation of the medieval Spanish materpiece Carcel de amor, and is at work on an epistolary novel. His story “The Balloon” was published in McSweeney’s issue 21.

Sun July 20 - 6 AM to 10 AM
Triathlon - Pittsburgh North Shore
watch 'em swim at 7 AM
watch 'em bike on the HOV lane of I-279
watch 'em run on the bike trail along the Allegheny river to Millvale
... and sing the National Anthem at 6:45 AM
Don't park on the north side of Pittsburgh, but on a metered space on the street in Downtown close to the Clemente bridge (there is no need to feed the meter on Sunday).

2008 May 19 - May 25

2008-05-22T12:16:00.002-07:00

Fri May 23 - 6:30 PM
East End Brewery
Pedal Ale keg ride

2008 May 12 - May 18

2008-05-22T12:16:00.001-07:00

venture outdoor festival

2008 May 5 - May 11

2008-04-18T11:43:00.000-07:00

Wed May 7 - 7:30 PM
Russian Film Symposium
Melwood screening room
Aleksei Balabanov's "Cargo 200" (2007, 89 min)

Thu May 8 - 7:30 PM
Russian Film Symposium
Melwood screening room
Aleksei Mizgirev's "Hard-Hearted" (2007, 90 min)

Fri May 10 - 7:30 PM
Russian Film Symposium
Melwood screening room
Marina Liubakova's "Cruelty" (2007, 90 min)

Sat May 11 - 7:30 PM
Russian Film Symposium
Melwood screening room
Aleksei Popogrebskii's "Simple Things" (2007, 108 min)

2008 Apr 28 - May 4

2008-04-18T11:42:00.000-07:00

Fri 2 May 2008 - 6 PM to 8 PM
CMU, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery
Student thesis presentation and reception:
May Day is a cause for celebration. Spring has arrived with all the hope
it carries for the future. May Day is a time of solidarity. Hard work,
communal effort and mutual respect prevail. Mayday is a warning. Look
out world, something mighty is about to hit you.
Friday 2nd May 2008 augurs well for the future. Thirty-four talented
young artists have taken over the Miller Gallery to show the world what
they can do. They will warm your cockles, turn your head, tickle your
fancy and blow your mind.
Children were feeding balloons into a hole in the side of a huge paper
volcano. A guy in a parrot suit was playing the banjo whilst the man in
the silver lurex hot pants beside him moaned into a microphone. Two
women sat on a sofa, steadily stuffing their faces with an endless
supply of junk food. A waterfall of we paint was running down the wall.
From a tiny tent, a crouching elf was dispensing free food in ceramic
scallop shells. Yes. I thought to myself, this is why I came to art school.
No matter what you teach them, there comes a point when they have to go
out on their own. At Carnegie Mellon they don't wait until graduation.
The scenes I have just described were parts of an extracurricular
performance event called RELEASE, organized by BFA students at SPACE
gallery in downtown Pittsburgh 2008.
This initiative was not a one off. This student cohort has organized
exhibitions, installations and events at the Frame Galley at Carnegie
Mellon and shown their work in various venues in Pittsburgh. They have
taken part in public projects and shown videos on the Jumbotron screen
at PNC Park. The Miller Gallery show features painting, drawing,
printmaking, photography, sculpture, video, animation, computer art,
conceptual art, installation art - and more. Such is the breadth and
depth of the BFA Fine Art program at Carnegie Mellon and the
extraordinary level of talent, ambition and imagination of this gallant
thirty four. Friday 2nd May 2008 is truly a cause for chaotic celebration.

Sat 3 May 2008 - 5:30 PM to 8 PM
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Shady Ave and Fifth Ave
Art Biennial

2008 April 21 - Apil 27

2008-04-15T16:09:00.000-07:00

Mon April 21 - 4:30 PM
CMU: Baker Hall 136A
From georgetown Univ law school, lecture on why we are losing the war on terror, and why we are less free

Mon april 21 - 6:30 PM
CMU architecture lecture
James Timberlake | www.kierantimberlake.com
KieranTimberlake Associates, LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Monday, April 21, 2008, 6:30 pm
McConomy Auditorium, University Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Henry Hornbostle Lecture

Tue April 22 - 4:30 PM
Oakland - Mellon Institute
Physics lecture
PITTSBURGH—Joel Primack, an initiator and developer of the theory of cold dark matter, will deliver the annual Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Primack will give his talk, "A Brief History of Dark Matter," at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 22 at the Mellon Institute Auditorium, 4400 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the Mellon Institute lobby.
Although the first evidence for dark matter was discovered in the 1930s, it was early in the 1980s that most astronomers became convinced that most of the mass holding galaxies and clusters of galaxies together is invisible. For two decades, theories were proposed and challenged, but it wasn't until the beginning of the 21st century that the "double dark" standard cosmological model was accepted. The model establishes that matter different from that which makes up the planets, stars and even humankind, called cold dark matter, plus dark energy make up 95 percent of the universe.
Primack will discus the history of dark matter and address the challenges of understanding the underlying physics of the particles that make up dark matter and the nature of dark energy. The lecture will include astronomical videos.
Primack is a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has recently chaired the APS Forum on Physics and Society, as well as the AAAS Committee of Science, Ethics and Religion, and served on the recent "Beyond Einstein" study of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Buhl Lecture is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon's Department of Physics. The lecture is funded under the auspices of the Buhl Professorship in Theoretical Physics, which was established at Carnegie Mellon in 1961 by The Buhl Foundation. The professorship was created to support outstanding theoretical scientists who would both impact the theoretical research and help establish direction for experimental investigations.

Thu April 24 - 8:30 PM
Brazil cinema
MADAME SATA - Dir. Karim Ainouz • Brazil - 2002 Legendary criminal. Proud homosexual. Cabaret star. Passionate lover. Killer. Devoted father of seven adopted children. Saint or devil? Madame Satã.
Born to slaves in the arid wasteland of Northern Brazil and sold by his mother at the age of 7, he pursued his freedom on the mean streets of Lapa, Rio de Janeiro. Jet-black, six feet tall, 180 pounds of proud muscle in a silk shirt and tight pants, a cutthroat razor in his back pocket.
Karim Aïnouz's extraordinary portrait of the triumphs and tragedy of this explosive and paradoxical personality unfolds against the vibrant, sordid background of Lapa: thronging underworld of pimps and whores, of cut-throats, queers and artists, of dark bars and brothels thick with smoke, drenched in sweat and cheap perfume. A world run through with violence and raw desire, where desperate dreams spring from poverty and squalor. THIS IS THE LAST SCREENING OF THE FESTIVAL ! Free Admission !

Friday April 25 - 5:30 PM
4/25, *RECEPTION* ONE COLD HAND, GALLERY CRAWL
April 25, 2008 – 12:00 am
Reception for One Cold Hand
820 Liberty Ave, Downtown Cultural District Gallery Crawl
A collection of the gloves and notes from Jennifer Gooch’s website site for the collection, and hopeful reunion, of Pittsburgh’s dropped gloves.

Sat April 26, 2 PM to Sun April 27, noon
Lawrenceville neighboorhood of Pittsburgh
57th Street
Art All Night
A happening of arts, music, food. Free.
Also, someone from Venture Outdoors will have Carp All Night in the nearby Allegheny River, with bonfire. 10 PM to 2 AM.

Sunday April 27 - 2 PM
Hare & Hounds style run with the Hash House Harriers
find a hidden cache of beer following white marks in baking flour.
Hare is Death Marshall. See website for directions. NOTE: Death Marshall, as his name may imply, has a reputation of routing strenuous trails to the beer, estimated to be at least six miles long. Bring a change of clothes for after-the-run dinner and celebration. Participation cost is about $5, buys you beer and food, and a good night sleep afterwards.

Sunday April 27 - noon
Bavington, also known as Hillman State Park (or gameland), Bavington PA
for those that don't want to run with the runners, but rather bike on two wheels, the PORC group will do a big ride. Also, check this PTAG website for more info.

2008 Apr 14 - Apr 20

2008-04-09T05:34:00.000-07:00

Mon april 14 - 4:30 PM
CMU, free book, Philip Chosky Theater
Wall Street Journal reporter and Carnegie Mellon alumnus (H&SS ’80) Jeffrey Zaslow was in the audience when Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch gave his famous last lecture Sept. 18, 2007. Afterward, the stories he wrote in his “Moving On” column catapulted Pausch into an Internet phenom and international celebrity. The video generated from the lecture has been the most watched in the Journal's history. Pausch and Zaslow subsequently collaborated on a book, titled “The Last Lecture,” published by Hyperion Books April 8. Join Zaslow for a presentation and book signing that’ll give you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s happened since the last lecture. Free books will be given to the first 50 people to enter the theater.

Mon April 14 - 4:30 PM
CMU, Journeys lecture
Baker Hall 136A, Adamson Wing Auditorium
PURSUING SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES: PEOPLE CHANGE PEOPLE: By my early twenties, I expected to teach chemistry in my native New Zealand in a high school or, if I was lucky, a university. But my professional life unfolded as I could never have imagined. In time, I arrived at Carnegie Mellon where I have seen the chemistry department develop so positively over two decades that its renewal must be of historical significance.
I was molded by the beauty of nature and etched by experiences of youth and later life to be skeptical of the power of entrenched systems. Some chemicals are pulling mankind away from the unpolluted environment and trans-generational justice upon which a good future depends. This is starkly evident with endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that can impair living things at environmentally relevant concentrations making EDCs the foremost challenge for green chemistry. In contrast, I marvel at the sustainability wisdom in great books and the power for good of resolute friends who, variously, reveal through science the EDC hazards, explain these comprehensibly to the public, and develop safer alternatives. I have been lucky to design a catalytic technology that appears to define the state of the art for removing recalcitrant pollutants (including many EDCs) and hardy pathogens from water.
The need to develop a non-hazardous technology base underpins the mission of our recently renamed Institute for Green Science. To be of transcendent value, universities will need to reorient throughout to help build a sustainable civilization. The associated challenges of vision, strategy, scholarship, research, education, and outreach are decidedly multidisciplinary. I take heart in believing that Carnegie Mellon and its students will be leaders in building a lasting future.

Mon april 14 - 6 PM
CMU, University Center, Rangos 3
author of "at a Billion Muslims Really Think", Dalia Mogahed

Mon April 14 - 7 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Lecture by Naomi Klein, author of "No Logo"

Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 6:30 pm
CMU school of fine arts - Architecture
Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
Architecture lecture
Stefan Behnisch + Thomas Auer | www.transsolar.com
Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar ClimateEngineering, Stuttgart
NOTE: Problem with access: tried to access the Carnegie Museum of Art at 6:52 from the Forbes Avenue main entrances (three of them) and found them all locked. Did not try to access from the back where the upper deck parking lot is (which is also the closest entrance to the auditorium).

Wed 4/16/2008 - 7pm
Understanding The Language Of Cinema
Monroeville Public Library
This presentation and conversation will offer some basics in talking about cinema and provide an understanding of the effect of a director's many decisions in editing, sound, lighting and other elements that make film such a complex, unique art form.
Participants will look at excerpts from some classic films and some less familiar pieces, to find examples of how a director uses these different elements and the effect on our experience as audience members.
Presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Wed 4/16/2008 - 7pm
The Secret History Of The War On Cancer
Royal Gatherings Banquet Facility (Galleria At Pittsburgh Mills)
The Allegheny-Kiski Health Foundation welcomes Dr. Devra Lee Davis of the University Of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute to discuss this country's thirty-six year war on cancer.
She has written a book that asserts that the war on cancer was directed by leaders of industries that generated a host of cancer causing materials and products. Their leadership downplayed research on prevention, and kept research on environmental causes from gaining widespread circulation. The result of the failed war on cancer is more than 10 million preventable deaths over the past thirty years.

Wed April 16 2008 - 7pm
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Russian Film
The Italian | Italianetz
The Italien tells the story of an orphan boy who attempts to find his mother when faced with possible adoption by an Italian couple. On his quest, he is pursued by adoption agents.
Production: Russia 2005
Director: Andrei Kravchuk
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Run Time: 99 minutes

Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 to 7:30 AM and 7:30 to 8:30 PM
CMU, Gesling Stadium
The third installment of Orchestra Orthoptera: aural experiments in which the sounds of singing insects are broadcast in public places during the insects’ period of dormancy.
from school of art calendar

Wed Apr 16, 2008 | 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
CMU - University Center - Skibo Gym

Kicksburgh will showcase sneaker and urban culture in Pittsburgh and around the world through live music and exhibitions by shoe artists, collectors and vendors. The event is free and open to the public, although used, but wearable shoes and monetary donations will be accepted. A majority of the proceeds from the donations will go to Soles4Souls (www.soles4souls.com), a charity that provides footwear to those affected by natural disasters around the world. The event has been coordinated by Carnegie Mellon juniors Jesse Chorng and Elliott Curtis, and students from their Sneakerology 101 course. Sneakerology 101 is one of several Student College courses, which provide Carnegie Mellon students with an opportunity to design and deliver their own courses for academic credit from the university.

Thu Apr 17 2008 - 7:30 PM
CMU: Adamson Wing , Room 136A of Baker Hall
Film: "Private", by Saverio Costanzo
Palestinian family house occupied by israeli soldiers.
Sponsored by The Middle East Peace Forum of Pittsburgh

Thu Apr 17 2008 - 8 PM
CMU College of Fine Arts lawn
Spring Carnival concert
THE ROOTS with special guest Nouveau Riche as this spring's Carnival Concert. This concert is free of charge

Thu Apr 17 2008 - 8:30 PM
Pitt - Frick Auditorium
4/17 Pitt’s Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Center for Latin American Studies, and Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Collection will present “Onibus 174 (Bus 174),” part of the New Millennium Film Series, at 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. Some films may not be suitable for younger viewers. For more information, contact amigoscinelatinoamericano08@gmail.com or visit amigosdelcinelatinoamericano2008.blogspot.com.

Thu April 17 - 6:30 PM
Phipps Conservatory
PORC ride, easy, pleasant, casual

Fri April 18 - 6:30 PM
PORC ride, totally easy, newbee, novice.
Frick Park at tennis courts, Reg Square, S Braddock Ave

Fri Apr 18 2008 - 8:10 PM
CMU Spring Carnival event - comedy
Human Giant, featuring Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer!

Sat Apr 19 2008 - 1:30 PM
CMU - Flagstaff hill
Holi, indian festival, throwing of coloring agents in a fun group spring event
See last year's Holi Festival on YouTube

Sat Apr 19 2008 - from 9:30 AM to 12 Noon
Frick Park, Nine Mile Run clean-up
Nine Mile Run Stream Sweep
Saturday, April 19 th
9:30am to Noon
Meet in the Soccer field in Lower Frick Park off the Lancaster Avenue entrance
As part of the Great PA Clean Up, join NMRWA as we sweep Nine Mile Run clean of litter. Every rain and snow melt brings depressing amounts of litter into the stream from storm sewers. The Nine Mile Run stream is a unique and major amenity for our city--let's keep it tidy! We provide all of the supplies including gloves, trash bags, and safety vests. Please wear long pants and sturdy shoes.

Sat April 19 2008 - 10 AM to 4 PM
Earth Day Celebration at the Frick Environmental Center
2005 Beechwood Boulevard--Squirrel Hill
This family friendly event will feature bird walks, nature crafts, a garlic mustard pull, tree planting, an owl encounter, and live local entertainment. Come enjoy fun activities for children and adults including a NATURE LABYRINTH, TREE PLANTING, INVASIVE SPECIES REMOVAL, CHILDREN'S GARDEN, BIRD PLATFORM BUILDING, NATURE ORIGAMI, and a COMMUNITY MURAL PAINTING.

Sat Apr 19 2008 - from 9 AM to 3 PM
Dead Man's Hollow, near Boston, PA 15135
The geocachers are celebrating Earth Day by volunteering to clean up the woods from old tires and junk.

Sat April 19 2008 - 10 AM to 8 PM
Pittsburgh Auto Show
Kids under 12 are free, $9 for Adults ($7 if they use the coupon on CityPaper)
There are alot of children activities by magicians and entertainers.

Sat 4/19/2008 - 3pm
Man Of Steel
EveryOne An Artist Gallery
4128 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201
People who worked at the former Heppenstall steel mill (or their families) are welcome to visit the gallery today to participate in a unique, interactive project.
Everyone An Artist Gallery is building a giant "Man Of Steel" with photographs of real people who worked at Heppenstall. It will be shown in Market Square in June as part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Sat 4/19/2008 - 5:30pm
Student Thesis Screening
Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Avenue, northern Oakland neighborhood
Students at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' school acreen their 16mm and video projects for the public to enjoy. A reception follows.

Sat 4/19/2008 - 6pm
Eastside Poetry Gathering
Borders Books & Music (East Liberty) 5986 Penn Circle South, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Celebrate National Poetry Month with performances of spoken word, slam, literary and musical poetry as well as an open mic.
Features specials guests Vincent Zepp, Kassa Lewis and members of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society Of Pittsburgh.

Sun Apr 20 2008 - from 11 AM to 2 PM
Hartwood Acres County Park, northern allegheny county
Orienteering. Celebrate Earth Day by participating in this scavenger hunt for flags hidden in the woods, using a topographic map and compass. Flags are placed on natural features such as stream bends or intersections, boulders, vegetation boundaries, root stock, earthbanks, lower part of a small cliff, springs. You will come out of this experience with a new appreciation for natural features. $4 per map, group/family can share same map.

Sun apr 20 2008 - 2 PM
Walk/Run with the Hash House Harriers, and scavenge hunt for beer. After the event above, in which participants look for flags in the woods, this is more fun: you look for a beer stop by following white marks on the ground made with baking flour. The "hare" is Sphinxter, and the directions are posted on the website of the HHH, probably Shadyside location.

Until June 8 2008
Steel: Pittsburgh Drawings By Craig McPherson
Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (Point Breeze neighborhood)
Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, Noon to 6:00 p.m.
Free Admission
This exhibition gathers together some of Craig McPherson’s existing Pittsburgh-related mezzotints and expands upon these industrial themes with a body of new work in graphite and pastel.
Contemporary artist Craig McPherson works in the urban-realist tradition, producing finely detailed, beautifully atmospheric renderings of urban and industrial environments. His preference for urban subject matter and unpopulated shadowy night scenes is evocative of both the Ashcan School of the early twentieth century, and the cinematography of mid-twentieth-century film noir.
The exhibition, which is part of the Frick’s contribution to the celebrations surrounding Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary, concludes with riverscapes and scenes of contemporary, downtown Pittsburgh.
http://www.craigmcpherson.net/

2008 Apr 7 - Apr 13

2008-04-01T06:52:00.000-07:00

Mon Apr 7 - 4:30 PM
CMU, Doherty Hall A310
The International Relations Program at Carnegie Mellon University Presents:
Stuart J.D. Schwartzsein
"Iraq: Blood and Oil"
Monday, April 7, 2008
4:30 to 6, Doherty Hall A 310
Stuart J. D. Schwartzstein has worked as a foreign-affairs professional for more than 30 years, having served in the Defense and State Departments in a wide range of capacities, including as a diplomat, an analyst, negotiator, advisor and planner. He has also held positions in several think-tanks, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. His work has ranged broadly, both geographically and in subject matter, including defense industrial cooperation with European allies, technology transfer and export control issues, “information revolution” issues, encryption policy, international science and technology policy, chemical and biological weapons issues, refugee policy, Horn of Africa issues, relations with European allies and ASEAN countries.
While at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1992-96), he did a good deal of work on Iraq issues, particularly focusing on human rights violations by Saddam Hussein and his regime. In 2004, he served in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad as an advisor to the Minister for Science & Technology and to the president of the Iraqi National Academy of Sciences. He has continued to follow events in Iraq and has maintained contact with a number of Iraqi friends, including several in senior Iraqi government positions, as well as officials and experts in the US.
Mr Schwartzstein is currently an independent consultant based in Washington, D.C.

Mon Apr 7 - 4:30 PM
CMU, Baker Hall 136A
Lecture by Post-Gazette editor and former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill
"Benchmarking the Real Pittsburgh"

Mon Apr 7 - 8 PM
CMU, Fine Arts building, Kresge Hall
Jazz voice recital by Nisha Asnani
Free admission

Mon Apr 7 - 7 PM
CMU University Center, McConomy auditorium
Lecture by Dan Savage, columnist of Savage Love
Admission is free for CMU students, but tickets must be picked up at UC desk. If not a CMU student, you can purchase an admission ticket for $5.

Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7 pm
Cafe Scientifique - Penn Brewery, 800 Vinial St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Nancy Minshew, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Autism: A Compelling Neuroscience Window on Brain Circuitry & Human Function
The rate of autism is on the rise, with one occurrence per 150 births overall, and one per 94 in baby boys. It is a clear and present risk in the minds of all those contemplating childbirth and of those with children under the age of 4. Cases of autism whose onset appears to follow the administration of vaccines has caused some parents to avoid vaccinating their children, putting them at risk of developing devastating illnesses that are preventable. But what is a concerned parent to believe?
Nancy Minshew, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Director of one of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's (NICHD’s) Autism Centers of Excellence, where she is investigating the neurobiologic and genetic basis of autism. She will talk briefly about the basis for the expansion in recognition rate of autism, and show that co-occurrence with vaccination is a very poor basis for considering vaccination to be a cause of autism.. Evidence of accelerated growth of the brain in children with autism at various points in development is just one piece in the neurobiological puzzle that might lead to a better understanding of autism. Furthermore, Dr. Minshew will explain that autism is a syndrome, not a disorder.

Tue Apr 8 - 8 PM
CMU, Fine Arts bldg, Kresge Hall
Contemporary Italian Guitar concert
Arturo Tallini

Wed Apr 9 2008 - 8 PM
CMU college of fine arts - Kresge Hall
Student recital guitar music

Wed April 9 2008 - 7pm
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Chinese Film
Saving Face
In Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight years old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when her father discovered that she was pregnant. The presence of Ma affects the personal life of Wil, who is in love with the daughter of her boss in the hospital, the dancer Vivian Shing.
Production: Sony Classics
Director: Alice Wu
Language:English, Mandarin and Shanghainese
Run Time: 97 minutes

Thu Apr 10 - 7 PM
Pitt, 343 Alumni Hall
4227 Fifth Avenue
lecture by David Cortright, president of Fourth Freedom Forum
Concerns about the perils posed by nuclear weapons have focused primarily on the spread of the bomb–to North Korea, Pakistan, India, and perhaps Iran–and on the terrifying prospect that Al Qaeda might acquire such weapons. Nuclear dangers, however, are not only "out there," they also exist in the policies of the United States and Russia, which continue to maintain thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.
Meanwhile, glimmers of hope for a denuclearized future have recently appeared in North Korea and in a bipartisan statement from former senior US policymakers calling for "a world free of nuclear weapons."
At this event David Cortright will examine the nuclear danger and probe the sources of instability that are driving proliferation and continued reliance on nuclear weapons. He will also offer practical directions toward realizing a future without nuclear weapons, including the key role of citizen involvement.

Thu Apr 10 - 6 PM
Pitt - Frick Fine Arts bldg auditorium
Filmmaker Eleni Binge will present her film outlining the ethical issues associated with food production and consumption, at 6 p.m. April 10 in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland.
The screening of the film, “Seeing Through the Fence,” is free and open to the public. A discussion with Binge with follow.
The film explores the role of food in modern society and our connection, or lack thereof, with the processes and animals from which food originates. It also explores the role of activism and the stereotyping off activists and alternative lifestyles.

Thu Apr 10 - 8:30 PM
Pitt, Frick fine arts building, Auditorium
Cinema Latino Americano festival
SUITE HABANA
Dir. Fernando Pérez • Cuba - 2003
Suite Habana is a splendid portrait of Cubans, from kids to the most elderly, so splendidly photographed, hopping from scene to scene, among the different persons making up this visual poem. There are no words to describe this; indeed, there is a saying which says "an image is worth a thousand words". And in this film of a little more than 84 minutes you have millions of words which get nowhere near the story-less story unfolding before your eyes: because these are real people living real lives - not actors trying to interpret some such rôle. Here you have the beauty of Cuban citizens en La Habana, white, black, mestizo or whatever, which just sums up into one glorious film.

Thu Apr 10 - 10 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
free movie: "Smart People"
Filmed on campus last year, to be commercially released next month

Sat Apr 12 - 4 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Building, Auditorium
Piano music of Giacinto Scelsi
Lecture/Concert by Franco Sciannameo and pianist Donna Amato
A Rediscovered Piano Sonata (1943) by Giacinto Scelsi
I. Sinfonia II. Largo III. Fuga
FRANCO SCIANNAMEO
Born in Italy, Film Musicologist and Cultural Historian Franco Sciannameo studied in Rome at the Conservatorio di Musica “Santa Cecilia,” at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He also holds advanced degrees in Historical Musicology and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Always concerned with the role of artists in society, Franco Sciannameo writes and lectures extensively on contemporary music and its relation to politics, cinema, and the arts. He has worked closely with a number of celebrated composers, including Giacinto Scelsi, Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Franco Donatoni, and Paul Chihara, with whom he collaborated on many performances and recordings. Sciannameo’s articles and essays are featured regularly in The Musical Times (London) and L’IDEA (New York), while his books are published by Mario Adda Editore, The Edwin Mellen Press, Pendragon Press, and The Scarecrow Press.
Franco Sciannameo is the Director of Carnegie Mellon’s BHA/BSA/BCSA Interdisciplinary Degree Programs and a Fellow in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry where he directs Moysikòs, a Sonic Fountain project.
DONNA AMATO
Donna Amato was born in Pittsburgh. She studied with Lorraine Landefeld, Ozan Marsh, Louis Kentner in London, Gaby Casadesus in Paris, Guido Agosti in Siena, Italy, and Angelica Morales von Sauer in Mexico. Her concert and recording career has flourished with appearances in Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Norway, Mexico, Canada, and the United States, and Radio broadcasts on the BBC as well as the inaugural live broadcast on Classic FM .
She has worked closely with many contemporary composers and has given world première performances of a wide range of music. Her concerto appearances with leading British orchestras have included the Mozart Concerto KV 488 with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the Tchaikovsky Concerto No.1 at the Barbican and Royal Festival Hall, and the Grieg Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. Other performances have included her appearance as a guest artist at Sir Charles Groves' 75th Birthday Gala with the English Sinfonia in London; she also gave a memorable account of the rarely heard Franz Xavier Mozart Second Concerto with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, British Columbia. Other recent performances with orchestra have included the Skryabin Piano Concerto and the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 4.
She was invited to visit Russia and the Independent States, where her concert tour and radio and television appearances were an outstanding success. She has been invited to return as part of an ongoing cultural exchange between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Donna Amato is among the very few pianists who have so far undertaken performances and recordings of the highly demanding and virtuosic music of Kaikhosru Sorabji.
An artist with a busy recording schedule, her currently available recordings include the two concertos of Edward MacDowell with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the sonatas of Dutilleux and Balakirev, the recital disc "A Piano Portrait" (works by Liszt, Debussy, Ravel and Gershwin), a disc of late piano music of Skryabin, two CDs of piano works by Sorabji, a CD of music by Edgeworth-resident 19th-century composers Ethelbert and Arthur Nevin, and a CD of music by British composers. Recent CD releases include the complete piano sonatas of American Romantic composer Edward MacDowell, a CD in collaboration with Matthew Murchison, a solo CD of Carson Cooman's piano works, Nancy Galbraith's Second Piano Concerto, and Giacinto Scelsi’s Early Piano Works (Stradivarius, May 2008). Future plans include the release of discs of Arnold Rosner, and a recording of the Piano Symphony No. 5 of Sorabji. Several leading contemporary composers have written works especially for her, which she has performed, broadcast and recorded.
In the fall of 2001 she gave eight performances of the Jazz Concerto in D by Dana Suesse with Pittsburgh's prestigious River City Brass Band, under the direction of Denis Colwell. In 2003 she performed Leonardo Balada’s Piano Concerto, and performed and broadcasted the world premiere of Sorabji’s 5th Piano Concerto in The Netherlands with the Netherlands Radio Symphony. In June 2004 she appeared in collaboration with flutist Julie Seftick at Carnegie Hall in NY, and as soloist gave the world premiere at Merkin Hall, NY of Sorabji's Piano Symphony No. 5. She recently performed Nancy Galbraith's Second Piano Concerto with the Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble. Other recent performances include a solo recital at Harvard University, a Scelsi concert at the Museo di Arti Moderne in Rome, and an appearance as soloist in Messaien's Couleurs de la cité céleste with George Vosburgh conducting the Carnegie Mellon University Wind Ensemble. Donna Amato currently teaches piano at the University of Pittsburgh and is an accompanist at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music.

2008 Mar 31 - Apr 6

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Mon March 31
Tue Apr 1
CMU
Designers, Researchers Explore Video Games as Art
In Symposium at Carnegie Mellon, March 31-April 1
PITTSBURGH—Can video games be art? That will be the topic of exploration when the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University and its Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) host "The Art of Play" Symposium and Arcade, a two-day event, March 31 to April 1, that will explore games as an expressive medium. All events will be held on campus in the College of Fine Arts and Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall.
The symposium, organized by Heather Kelley, the Kraus Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art, brings together a diverse group of researchers, artists and game developers to survey the games that can inspire us with their creative vision, and to frame the medium moving forward.
Events include the Art of Play Arcade, a two-day exhibit in which attendees can check out — and play — groundbreaking art, and independent and commercial games. Kokoromi, a Montreal-based group that creates and promotes experimental game play, will curate the arcade. On March 31, guests can also see presentations by Randy Smith of Electronic Arts LA, Jason Rohrer of Arthouse Games, and Jesse Schell, a professor in the ETC.
On April 1, during the Poetics of Gameplay Master Class 12, Carnegie Mellon students will present games and receive feedback from symposium guests. The symposium finishes with a panel discussion and party. There will also be tours of the ETC. Transportation will be provided.
A complete schedule of events along with speaker biographies can be found at http://www.theartofplay.com/. For more information, call 412-268-2409 or email artscool@andrew.cmu.edu.
For a primer on the size of the video game industry, the process of producing games and the "Are video games art?" question, listen to a podcast with Kelley, Rod Humble of Electronic Arts and computer science student Gregory Peng at www.cmu.edu/cfa/labA6.html.

Tue April 1 - 7 PM
Documentary Salon
Melwood Screening Room, North Oakland neighborhood, Pittsburgh
Morning of the Earth
1971, Albert Falzon (79 min.)
presented by Annie Teneyck
Morning of the Earth is a "visual poem of the backsurfer lifestyle." Made with the assistance of a loan of $20,000 from the newly established Australian Film Development Corporation, the film represents the emergent proto-hippie-New-Age, "soul-surfing" lifestyle in a color-saturated, "psychedelic" manner that resonates with the content; that is, in ways which emphasize the fusion of avant-garde and documentary techniques characteristic of the discourse of ecstasy and delirium.... Morning of the Earth replaces voiceover with a [fantastic] music soundtrack that fuses and integrates its episodic "narrative." Falzon's film explores a number of themes prominent in underground film (drop-out sub-cultures, eco-hippiedom, indulgence in soft drugs) incorporating multiple innovations in form and content, and setting a whole new benchmark for documentary surf movies.
Today the film remains the most influential of all Australian surf movies and a gauge of quality for the large number of current surf moviemakers who film the world's best riders in exotic locales across the globe. Apart from its superb camerawork, what distinguishes Morning of the Earth is that “flow” which seems to emanate organically from its editing rhythms, and which is enhanced by the liquidity of the music score. All these formal aspects merge to produce the sounds and images of a quintessential body-and-head-trip we could call: 'Surfin' Down Under.'

Wed Apr 2 and Thu Apr 3
CMU, University Center
presentations: Do video games have the potential to facilitate peacemaking

Thu April 3 - 4:30 PM
CMU, Baker Hall 136A
Lecture by Sarah Igo: "The Averaged American"

Thu April 3 - 4:30 PM
CMU, Baker Hall, Giant Eagle Auditorium
Lecture by Jill Dolan
"Feminist Theatre Criticism and the Popular: The Case of Wendy Wasserstein"

Thu April 3 - 8:30 PM
Pitt, Frick building auditorium
Cinema LatinoAmericano weekly screening
CARIBE
Dir. Esteban Ramírez • Costa Rica - 2004
Passion: of people for the land and sea, of corporations for riches, and of men and women for each other. Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail's half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail knew nothing, comes to introduce herself. She is 21 and beautiful. Meanwhile, banana prices fall, threatening the plantation's finances. An oil company works with the government to get off-shore drilling rights, over local objection. Vicente is at the center of each cross-current. Will he fall for Irene, can he save the plantation, will he sell out to corporate offers? What of the coast: can its beauty be saved?

Thu Apr 3 - 7 PM to midnight
Pitt, Benedeum Engineering Dept (you will only find free parking blocks away..)
The Entertainment Business Association in collaboration with Toms Shoes is holding the first ever Style Your Sole Pitt Block Party on April 3, 2008 from 7pm-12am in the University’s Benedum Engineering Auditorium. This free event will be held to sell shoes for the Toms Shoe drop in another country. For every pair of TOMS purchased for $40, a pair will be given to a child in need. Along with the shoe decorating, there will be live music, free food, and prize giveaways.
Participating sponsors will include Red Bull, SOYJOY, Cold Stone Creamery, and Artist and Craftsman Supply for art supplies to decorate the all white canvas shoes.
The afternoon will also feature live music provided by DJs from Pittsburgh’s The Sole Vibe, Alex Burkat, and Ben Hardt, WYEP’s Pittsburgh musician of the year, free ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery, free Red Bull, and raffles for various prizes. Free admission. Donations accepted at the door.

Fri Apr 4 - 7 PM
Pitt, Frick fine arts building auditorium
Colombian movie, "El Colombian Dream" (2004) by Felipe Aljure
ree admission
part of conference "Narco-Epics Unbound"

CMU FACES OF MECHANIZATION Film Festival admission $8
Fri Apr 4 - 7 PM
North Oakland neighborhood, Melwood Screening Room
La Antena (The Aerial)
Directed by Esteban Sapir -Argentina, 2007, 90 min 2008
Acclaimed Argentinean writer-director Esteban Sapir gives us a noir glimpse into the wintry Metropolis homes of three families living in the year X. The scene is avoiceless world with television as the primary controlling force. People watch TV. People eat TV meals. The merciless Mr. TV monopolizes both word and image whileworking on a sinister hypnotic machine to ensure his power. He kidnaps the only"voice" - that of a stunningly beautiful singer.
Though shot in black-and-white,silent-film style, with influences of German Expressionism, Spain's Bunuel,Germany's Lang, Russia's Vertov, and France's Melies, "The Antenna" offers a verymodern film invention.
Melwood Screening Room, Friday, April 4,7:00 pm. + reception (opening night)
Reception info=Recharge your batteries! Add fuel to your fire! The East End Food Co-op offersviewers an international sampling of hot eats and fair trade drinks. Tango Cafewill leave you voiceless as you fill your mouth with their donated array ofArgentine desserts, teas and coffees, or experience a taste of Argentina's winecountry, sans the hassle of a flight, with compimentary Malbec samples. For thosewith more of a craving for the cool, Bison Grass Vodka, the official drink of thefestival brings you the "little water" served in New York's finest restaurants Friday, April 11, 7:50 pm.(Manor Theatre) Saturday, April 12,7:30pm.

Fri Apr 4 - 7 PM
Pitt, Bellefield auditorium
German Film Festival - Free admission
Vier Minuten [Four Minutes] (2006), 112 minutes, directed by Chris Kraus.
Synopsis: This film follows Traude, a piano teacher, who has been giving piano lessons in a women's prison for decades. She meets Jenny, a reserved young woman convicted of murder, who was once considered a child musical prodigy. Traude's attempt to guide her pupil to victory in a music competition leads to a difficult, contradictory relationship between the two women.

Sat Apr 5 - 7 PM
Pitt, Bellefield Auditorium
German Film Festival - Free admission
Wohnkomplex [Residential Complex] (2005), 29 minutes, directed by Rita Bakacs.
Synopsis: This film provides a glance into Halle-Neustadt, a city in the former German Democratic Republic, not 20 years after German reunification. In the midst of urban ruins, mass unemployment, and empty buildings vacated by those who went elsewhere for jobs and a better life, former GDR citizens find themselves living next to asylum seekers from all over the world. The film shows how the city that was once designed as a socialist model town has become a shrinking metropolis.
Yella (2007), 88 minutes, directed by Christian Petzold.
Synopsis: This film follows Yella, who flees her failed marriage and broken dreams to start over again in Hanover. By chance she finds work with a determined young executive named Philipp and enters a ruthless world of big business and cutthroat boardroom deals for which she finds her looks, quick wits, and icy demeanor major assets. Just as Yella seems poised to fully realize her ambitions, she finds herself haunted by truths from the past that threaten to destroy her new life.

Fri Apr 4 - 7:30 PM
Pitt, Frick fine arts building auditorium
Colombian movie: Images from a Trilogy:
Free admission
part of conference "Narco-Epics Unbound"

Sat Apr 5
CMU, Kresge Hall
Lots of music student graduation recitals
3 PM: harpist Katherine Ventura
5 PM: trombonist Chris Miller
8 PM: violinist Megan Prokes

Sat April 5 - 7 PMk
March 27, 2008 - Pittsburgh- Saturday, April 5th, 7:00PM, the thirteenth exhibition at La Vie, Ground Control, lifts off. Billed as “A once in a lifetime experience,” Ground Control references the monumental single, Space Oddity, David Bowie’s haunting song coinciding with the launch of Apollo 11. Similarly, curator Thommy Conroy has built a show in reverence and anticipation of the coming 55th Carnegie International, Life on Mars.
Ground Control questions the role of artist creating self-reflective mythologies to analyze their personal and external environments. Just as Bowie created the fictional astronaut Major Tom to highlight contemporary feelings of loss, confusion, and loneliness, the thirteen-featured artists offer mythological perspectives that challenge the world around us.
The process of mythmaking has been familiar to the art world since the films of Jack Smith that would eventually inspired the work of Warhol and his contemporaries. The action of artist, as revered by the Abstract Expressionists has allowed the artist’s incentive to move from object to self, the art has become the artist, who presents a personal mythology though action and depiction.
In a society dominated by tabloid sensationalism and personal profiles on websites like adultfriendfinder.com and eharmony.com, we demand that people sell themselves, the exciting individual set on a ceremonial table for mass consumption. In Space Oddity, Major Tom has become a hero through his action, but floats in space completely lost from his identity. He floats in space at a rapid pace, but feels completely still. On May 2, Pittsburgh will be flying into the International eye, emerging as a shining Brigadoon. As this International art scene whirls round, we offer thirteen local artists who share their own sense of mythology, standing on a firm and consistent ground.
Ground Control runs April 5 – May 4, 2008. Featuring artwork by Tommy Bones, Edgar Um Bucholtz, Thommy Conroy, Renee Ruth Ickes, Gavin Kenyon, James Maszle, Alexi Morrissey, Daniel Paracat, Clare Parry, Jairan Sadeghi, Eric Stren and Carolyn Wenning.
La Vie consistently offers fine art by local artists in carefully selected shows every 45 to 60 days. Bronwyn Loughren and Thommy Conroy use the gallery as a studio, providing graphic design services, hand-made cards and invitations, floral arrangements and specialty event planning. The shop purveys prints, jewelry, pottery, sculpture and publications. La Vie exclusively carries hand-painted clothing by Mary Margaret Stewart of Iman B, formerly located on Ellsworth Street in Shadyside, as well as signature t-shirts by Ladyboy and Budai. La Vie is open Wednesday thru Saturday 12 – 6, Sunday 12 – 3 and conveniently by appointment.
Current and past shows as well as everything featured at La Vie can be seen at www.laviepittsburgh.com.

Sat April 5 - 9:15 PM
Rock for Obama
Bloomfielf Bridge Tavern

2008 Mar 17 - Mar 22

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Wed March 26 - 7 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
The Edukators | Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
The Edukators tells a story of three young German activists. The "Edukators" break into expensive homes of the local yacht club members as an act of political rebellion.

Thu Mar 27, 2008 - 4:30 PM
CMU, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The University Lecture Series presents author Scott Berkun, who will lecture on "The Myths of Innovation." Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That's the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation and creative thinking, dispelling the mythologies we've constructed about how we got here. This fun, interactive talk, loosely based on the best selling book, will help you recognize the myths, understand their popularity (even if you don't believe in them), and explore how to apply lessons from true innovation history in your own work today. Berkun (H&SS '94) worked at Microsoft from 1994-2003, mostly as a program manager on Internet Explorer versions 1.0 to 5.0. He works now as a writer and public speaker, teaches creative thinking at the University of Washington, runs an architecture tour in NYC for the GEL conference, and is the author of the two bestsellers, "Making Things Happen" and "The Myths of Innovation." He blogs about creative thinking and technology at www.scottberkun.com.

Thu March 27 - 7 PM
Duck Season | Temporada de patos
In this Mexican comedy, Flama and Moko are two well-to-do 14-year-olds who find that a power outage has killed their plans of a day filled with video games and pizza. When the pizza man and a girl next door join them on this dark day they are forced to relate to one another in a very real way and they begin to reveal inner turmoil about divorce, loneliness and the confusion about relationships.
Production: Mexico 2004
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Run Time: 90 minutes
Rating: R [for language and some drug content]

Thu March 27 - 8:30 PM
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
El BONAERENSE
Dir. Pablo Trapero • Argentina - 2002
Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. The work is quite slow, and hours seem to pass slowly. Polaco, the owner of the shop, sends him on a job that consists of opening a safe at an office. The next day, Zapa is imprisoned for being responsible of robbing the place. Ismael, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and sends him to Buenos Aires. Zapa becomes an aspiring officer in the Buenos Aires Police. He gets to his new home city, takes the instructional course, works at a precinct, has a love affair with a teacher and starts to see his life turn into a strange fiction.

Thu March 27 - 5 PM
CMU: McConomy auditorium
March 27: "How Green Does Your Garden Grow: Assessing Community Capacity and Aligning Local Instigations" The Local Living Economies and Urban Farming lecture series continues with Kenneth Warren, community activist and organizer, on grassroots activism, local economies, and local food systems. Warren has authored a practical report in Lakewood Ohio on grassroots alignment efforts of artists, citizen journalists, farmers, local food system activists and public librarians to enact the community and place-making vision of LEAF - the Lakewood Earth and Food Community. He is a student and teacher of the psychographic tool Spiral Dynamics as it relates to local economies and food systems ( www.spiraldynamics.org/ ). (5-6:30 in McConomy Auditorium in CMU's University Center; free).

Fri Mar 28, 2008, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Rangos 3, University Center
"How I'm Building a Million Dollar Business in China"
Jack Perkowski, chairman and CEO of ASIMCO, will visit Carnegie Mellon to discuss his new book, "Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business in China." Perkowski, who spent 20 years on Wall Street prior to starting ASIMCO, will also discuss the role the Chinese market will play in the future for Western companies.
"Perkowski invites us into his world, into the blur of business meetings and friendships, hirings, firings, and onto China’s shop floors. He reveals what it took to build a world-class manufacturing company in a country where you need to set firm goals but reach them in an environment where the rules and circles of influence shift daily,” wrote Ted C. Fishman, author of "China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World." Perkowski successfully negotiated cultural differences and a highly bureaucratic economic model to build ASIMCO into one of the most successful Western-owned businesses in China. "Managing the Dragon" offers real-world strategies for how to navigate around cultural and economic differences in a global marketplace. Perkowski will sign copies of his book following the lecture.

Fri March 28 - 7 PM
Bellefield Hall, 315 Bellefield Ave., Oakland.
Film: Kebab Connection (2005), 96 minutes, directed by Anno Saul.
Synopsis: Kebab Connection joins with such films as “Bend It Like Beckham” to humorously explore the contemporary clash of cultures and generations. This film follows the life of Ibo, a young Turkish-German aspiring filmmaker, who has just shot his first film—a commercial for his uncle's fast-food restaurant. His uncle is less than enthused about Ibo's use of ninjas to sell kebab. Ibo has also just found out that his girlfriend, Titzi, is pregnant. Ibo struggles with his own doubts about impending fatherhood and his family’s disappointment—until the customers start streaming in.

Fri 28 March - 7 PM to midnight
Grand Opening of The Grey Box Theatre
3595 Butler St
Performing at the grand opening on Friday will be Attack Theatre, Eric DeFade, Eric Susoeff and Kelley Krepin-DeFade, The Pittsburgh Dance Ensemble and The Jungle. The ever-resourceful Desko will also supply hors d'oeuvres by Common Plea Catering, tasty treats by Carol Shaw and drinks by Dreadnought.

Sat March 29, 9 - 5 PM
Carnegie Science Center's annual "Space Out!" astronomy weekend blasts off Friday for three days of stargazing programming.
Throughout the weekend, visitors will be able to observe sunspots (from noon to 3 p.m.), see and touch rocks from the moon and Mars, build and launch model rockets and more. The Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh will be on hand with a selection of telescopes for visitors to check out.
On Saturday, the Buhl Digital Dome will have presentations focusing on the MESSENGER flybys of Mercury, the soon-to-be-constructed Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will be able to produce digital images of faint astronomical objects and three-dimensional maps of the universe, Red Sprites, which are flashes in the atmosphere sometimes mistaken for UFOs, and weather patterns on other planets in our solar system.
Weather permitting on Friday and Saturday from 8:30 to 10 p.m., there will be SkyWatch sessions in the Buhl Observatory for $1.

Sat March 29, 3-7 PM
Mellon Park
5th Avenue and Shady Ave
A fun event with games, prizes, and food, and music to support Hillary! The Clarks and Dublin Rising will be playing, and we will have speakers from the Campaign. Visit Hillary For President for more Details.

Sat March 29 - 7 PM
Bellefield Hall, 315 Bellefield Ave., Oakland.
Film: Rhythm Is It (2004), 104 minutes, directed by Thomas Grube.
Synopsis: This documentary records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The film features 250 underprivileged German students as they train to dance to Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” with the world-renowned orchestra. Seen through the eyes of three protagonists, “Rhythm Is It” follows the teenagers’ perseverance during three months of rehearsals and the overall development of a professional performance.

Sat March 29 - 8 PM
WHAT: Jefferson Presents #88 March Program
WHEN: Saturday, March 29 @ 8PM
WHERE: Garfield Artworks, 4931 Penn Ave.
HOW MUCH: $5, $4 students, seniors
The March Jefferson Presents… screening includes a varied mix of experimental film styles spanning six decades of filmmaking including a classic by dadaist Hans Richter, psychedelic optical films, a sixties radical activist film, an appearance by John Cage and some eighties NYC downtown scene documents. All projected in original 16mm. Adults over 18 only and some films could be unsafe for anyone prone to seizures.
Titles are below, please visit our website for complete descriptions.
1. Hans Richter -EVERYTHING TURNS, EVERYTHING REVOLVES: EXCERPT (1929) b&w, sound, 3.5 min
2. Paul Sharits - WINTERCOURSE (1962) 16mm, black and white, silent, 12 min
3. Ken Jacobs - WINDOW (1964) 16mm, color, silent, 12 min
4. Ken Jacobs - AIRSHAFT (1967) 16mm, color, silent, 4 min
5. Leonard M. Henny - THE RESISTANCE (1968) 16mm, color, sound, 16.5 min
6. Gordon Payne - TANTRA I (1969) 16mm, color & b/w, silent, 7.5 min
7. Jud Yalkut - JOHN CAGE MUSHROOM HUNTING IN STONY POINT (1973) 16mm, color, silent, 7 min
8. Tom Chomont - THE HEAVENS/EARTH (1978) 16mm, color, silent, 6 min
9. Tom Chomont - MINOR REVISIONS (1979) 16mm, color, silent, 13.5 min
10. Tom Chomont - RAZOR HEAD (1984) 16mm, color, silent, 4 min
11. Henry Hills - MONEY (1985) 16mm, color, sound, 14.5 min
12. Henry Hills - SSS (1988) 16mm, color, sound, 5.5 min

Sun March 30 - 11 AM to 2 PM
Orienteering

2008 Mar 3 - Mar 16

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Wed March 5 - 6:00 PM
Univ of Pitt
501 Cathedral
Elmaz Abinader; Andrew Lam, editor with New American Media; and Tim Bascom, award winning author of Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia (Mariner Books, 2006); will be featured in a panel discussion, titled “Writing and Social Responsibility,”

Thu March 6 - 8:30 PM
Frick Auditorium
Pitt’s Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Center for Latin American Studies, and Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Collection will present “Maquilapolis - City of Factories,” part of the New Millennium Film Series, at 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies. Some films may not be suitable for younger viewers. For more information, contact amigoscinelatinoamericano08@gmail.com or visit amigosdelcinelatinoamericano2008.blogspot.com.

Mon March 3 - 7 PM: Cafe Scientifique with Dr. Dan Volz (who is also speaking at the GASP event next month on energy from waste coal, as you may recall from my last email) on "What's in the Water? A Report on What's in the Rivers Around Pittsburgh and What It's Doing to the Wildlife -- and Maybe to You." Have dinner and a brew while learning about heavy metals and endocrine disruptors, and then perhaps join the crew of volunteer anglers helping to see what's what in this year's catch in the Allegheny River Stewardship Project. 7 p.m. at the Penn Brewery.

March 22: Film showing, "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" and a discussion about sustainability and local food. 1-4 pm in the Mount Lebanon Public Library. Caroline Tibbetts at (412)531-1912, or tibbettsc@einetwork.net .

March 27: The Local Living Economies and Urban Farming lecture series continues with Kenneth Warren on grassroots activism, local economies, and local food systems. 5-6:30 in McConomy Auditorium in CMU's University Center.

March 28-29: Local foods conference "Farm to Table: A Recipe for a Healthy Pittsburgh." https://www.pathwayswellnessprogram.com/farm_to_table_conference.html .

March 29: GASP ( http://www.gasp-pgh.org/ ) hosts a panel discussion at Rodef Shalom about energy generation from waste coal, featuring Eric Schaeffer of the Environmental Integrity Project and Dan Volz of the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities.

April 19: Earth Day community festival at Frick Environmental Center. For more information or to volunteer, contact Patty Himes at (412)422-6538 or patricia.himes@city.pittsburgh.pa.us .

April 29: The Local Living Economies and Urban Farming lecture series concludes with Judy Wicks, founder of Philadelphia's Sustainable Business Network, the White Dog Café, and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). 5-6:30 in the Connan Room in CMU's University Center.

April 30: Local Living Economies workshop, also at CMU.

2008 Feb 25 - Mar 2

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Thu Feb 28 - 12 PM
Pitt, 2413 Posvar Hall
Francesca Polletta, professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, will deliver a lecture, titled “Victim Stories,” at noon, 2413 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences, Women’s Studies Program, Cultural Studies Program, and The Pittsburgh Social Movement Forum. For more information, contact wstudies@pitt.edu or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies/news.html.

Thu Feb 28 - 7:30 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium
Peter Linebaugh, professor of history at the University of Toledo, will deliver the E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture, at 7:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This annual event is sponsored by Pitt’s Department of History. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.

Thu Feb 28 - 5:00 PM
CMU- McConomy Auditorium
Black History Month Keynote Address
Jabari Asim, editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine, a preeminent journal of politics, ideas, and culture published by the NAACP, is this year's keynote speaker for Black History Month. Asim spent 11 years at the Washington Post, where he served as deputy editor of the book review section. For three years he wrote a syndicated column on political and social issues for the Post. He is also a former vice president of National Book Critics Circle. An accomplished poet, playwright and fiction writer, Asim has published work in a number of anthologies and literary magazines.

Thu Feb 28, 8:30pm •
Cathedral of Learning G-24
Latin American Film Festival "BATALLA EN EL CIELO"
Dir. Carlos Reygadas • Mexico - 2005
In the 1940s, Mexico City had a population of 1 million. It is said that life was quite pleasant there in those days. Today Mexico City is a megalopolis of more than 20 million souls. Marcos is the chauffer of the general who supervises the daily flag ceremonies. Marcos picks up the general's daughter Ana at the airport. He is the only member of Ana's household who is aware that she leads a double life. Although a child of Mexico's political elite, she works part time in a rather seedy Mexico City brothel--not for the money but as an act of rebellion and debasement. The intimacy which has developed from sharing this secret with Marcos has become physical. On this particular day, Marcos is troubled. When Ana questions him, he confesses a secret of his own: he and his wife have kidnapped an infant for ransom and the baby has died in their custody. As the police draw closer, Ana urges Marcos to turn himself in. But in the end, he seeks redemption from a higher power. A clash that reminds Marcos of his true station in life, and another death prefigures brings the tortured soul to join a crowd of pilgrims approaching the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Fri Feb 29 - 5 PM
CMU Art Gallery
The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery presents "Transit 2008," an exhibit featuring the diverse work of students from Carnegie Mellon, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design and Tokyo Zokei University

Fri Feb 29 - 6:30 PM
Leap Day Hash with the Hash House Harriers
Rivers City Inn, downtown, Market St. & Blvd. of Allies

Sat Mar 1 - 2 PM
LANtek Computer Services, 441 Jane Street, Carnegie 15106
St David's Day Hash by Whiff

2008 Feb 18 - Feb 24

2008-02-06T06:15:00.000-08:00

Wed Feb 20
Pitt, 3703 Posvar Hall
Megan McLean, a doctoral candidate in Pitt’s Department of History, will deliver a lecture, titled “Squatters in Paradise: The Development of Cancun, 1970-2000,” at 4 p.m., 3703 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.

Wed Feb 20 - 6:30
Eclipsed Full Moon evening run with the Hash House Harriers
1720 Lowrie St
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
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Thu Feb 21 - 6 PM
Defense Counsel for the Notable “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld” U.S. Supreme Court Case to Speak at Pitt Law School Feb. 21
Charles Swift's lecture is titled “U.S. Sovereignty and the War on Terror After “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld””
PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh School of Law's Center for International Legal Education and the Global Solutions Education Fund will present the 16th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law featuring Charles Swift, the acting director of Emory University's International Humanitarian Law Clinic, at 6 p.m. in the Barco Law Building's Teplitz Moot Courtroom, 3900 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This event is free and open to the public.
Swift's lecture is titled “U.S. Sovereignty and the War on Terror After “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.”” Swift acquired extensive experience in the practice of military and international law during his service with the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions. His well-publicized representation of Salim Hamdan, the driver for Osama bin Laden, brought Swift to the U.S. Supreme Court in the precedent-setting case of “Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.” In its decision, the court ruled that the military commission being used to try Hamdan was illegal and therefore lacked the protections provided under the Geneva Conventions and U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Known for his dedication to preserving the rule of law during wartime, Swift has been honored by the American Civil Liberties Union with a Medal of Liberty and named by the “National Law Journal” as one of the most influential lawyers in America. With more than 12 years of litigation experience with the U.S. military, Swift is also a visiting associate professor at Emory.

Thu Feb 21 - 7 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Auditorum
Pitt’s Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, Global Studies Program, and Film Studies Program will present Turtles Can Fly part of the Reel Voices From the Middle East Film Series, at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-one-month.shtml.

Thu Feb 21 - 7:30 PM
Pitt, Film, G324 Cathedral of Learning
Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program will present Searching for Angela Shelton, part of the Women’s Studies Film Series, at 7:30 p.m., G324 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. For more information, contact wstudies@pitt.edu or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies/news.html.

Thu Feb 21 - 8:30pm
Pitt, Posvar Hall 4130
Film: "SAMPSONIA WAY: CITY OF ASYLUM"
Dir. José Muniain
Poet Huang Xiang is considered to be the pre-eminent post cultural revolution poet of China. His unceasing bravery, in the face of sure re-imprisonment, and further torture, forced him to leave his homeland.
Huang Xiang was born in Hunan Province, China, in 1941.
Huang began writing poems in the 1950s and has been imprisoned repeatedly for his work. In 1978, he founded “Enlightenment,” the first underground writers’ society, and started a literary magazine with the same title. In exile in the United States since 1997, he was resident poet in Pittsburgh under the Cities of Asylum program for writers
City of Asylum/Pittsburgh provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of death, imprisonment, or persecution in their native countries.

Fri Feb 22 - 7 PM
Pitt, Film, Frick Fine Arts Building
Pitt’s Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, Global Studies Program, and Film Studies Program will present Forget Baghdad, part of the Reel Voices From the Middle East Film Series, at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-one-month.shtml.

Sat Feb 23
Kate Brown, a professor at the University of Maryland, will deliver a lecture, titled “Where Historians Fear to Tread: History and Memory in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation,” at 5:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Center for Russian and East European Studies and the Graduate Student Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA). For more information, contact James Johnson at gosecaconference@yahoo.com or visit www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca/GOSECA2008/.

Lectures at CMU open to the public free of charge
Monday at 4:30 p.m.
Title: “Contaminants and the Developing Reproductive System — Lessons from Wildlife”
The Basics: Lou Guillette, a distinguished professor of zoology at the University of Florida, will speak about the ways in which researchers can extend observations of the effects of pollution on the reproductive processes of wildlife to those of humans. His underlying thesis claims that, although there is a wide variety of diversity among different species, there is a significant degree of consistency among the cellular and physiological systems associated with vertebrae reproduction.
Where: Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
When: Today at 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday at 12 p.m.
Title: BYOBrain Brown Bag Series — “Art, History, and Images of the Feminine in Baudelaire’s Paris”
The Basics: Beryl Schlossman, a French professor at Carnegie Mellon, will speak about comparative and historical techniques used to examine European literature, culture, and art. By studying French poet Baudelaire’s use of visual images in his literary art, Schlossman hopes to better understand early French modernism.
In addition, Schlossman will discuss the possible impact of critic Walter Benjamin’s theoretical treatment of Baudelaire on French literature and supplement the discussion with a description of her own trip to Paris.
Where: College of Fine Arts 303
When: Wednesday at 12 p.m.

Friday at 7 p.m.
Title: AB Lectures — Sasha Frere-Jones
The Basics: Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic for The New Yorker as well as a touring musician, will speak on his experiences in the areas of business, writing, and music. Frere-Jones has covered a variety of different genres and musicians including Lil Wayne, Led Zeppelin, Cat Power, and Mary J. Blige.
Where: McConomy Auditorium
When: Friday at 7 p.m.

Sunday Feb 24 - 2 PM
Heinz Hall
Pittsburgy Youth Symphony Orchestra
"Petruska", by Stravinski
free admission

Sunday, February 24, 2008, 8PM
Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave.
$5/$4 students, seniors
Tonight’s program is a hilarious salute to the Kuchar brothers featuring a wide sampling of films from George Kuchar plus 2 separate film portraits of George and Mike. All titles projected in original 16mm. Adult’s over 18 only.
George Kuchar - The Lady From Sands Point (1967, 16mm, black and white, sound, 9.25 min.) This film is a documentary showing artist, Betty Holiday, an attractive blonde who talks alot, in her Long Island studio. Miss Holliday does not talk in this film, but her beautiful work talks for her. --G. K.
George Kuchar - Color Me Shameless (1967, 16mm, black and white, sound, 30 min.) Starring Bob Cowan, Gina Zuckerman, Donna Kerness. This movie was made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new, but also the main actor, Bob Cowan, happened to be depressed also and so we had a wonderful time working together. One of the actresses was also separated from her husband at this time and the movie solidifies into concrete the repressed desires of everyone who works with me, or more realistically, instead of concrete, the production becomes a frozen, brittle enema bag that slowly thaws and can only be appreciated along channels previously blocked by organic reality. --G. K.
George Kuchar - Encyclopedia of the Blessed (1968, 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 43 min.) ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BLESSED culminates my involvement with artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross. It is a diary of our work as we head for the Pacific Ocean in a suicidal plunge for theatrical infamy. The film traces the construction of two craven images made in the likeness of myself by Grooms and Gross. Then it switches to the sandhills of Nebraska where fat cattle walk around. There the film explores Grooms' biggest construction, "The Chicago Installation." The film rolls relentlessly onward to the West Coast showing, for the first time on any screen, a theatrical production we three put in the University of California. It marks my directorial debut on the stage and Red Grooms' comeback after ten years of exile from live theatre. --G. K.
George Kuchar - K.. Y. Kapers (1977, 16mm, black and white, sound, 16 min.) KY stands for Kentucky ... where this film was shot. As a visiting artist at the University in Lexington, I involved a group of students in this improvised project. We shot it in five morning sessions from 9 AM to 12:30 PM. I did the photography, directing and story line. The story isn't really in a line as it loops, bends and stops throughout the 20-minute running time. --G. K.
George Kuchar - Mongreloid (1978, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min.) A man, his dog, and the regions they inhabited, each leaving his own distinctive mark on the landscape. Not even time can wash the residue of what they left behind. --G. K.
Henry Hills - George (1988, 16mm, color & b/w, silent, 2 min.) When I recently moved, I found the "lost" original of this optically printed portrait of George Kuchar smoking (with Melinda McDowell and Virginia Giritlian): four or more scenes progressing simultaneously through frame alternation.-H. H.
Marie Losier - Bird, Bath & Beyond (2003, 16mm, color & b/w, sound, 13 min.) A dream-document of Mike Kuchar, floating through his memories, as the sea, space and sky drift past. Wrapped in odd costumes, he frolics with the imaginary creatures surrounding him, and recalls the creatures of his own imagination.
Jefferson Presents...
Movies for YOU
http://www.geocities.com/jeffersonpresents

2008 Feb 11 - Feb 17

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Tue Feb 12 - Lincoln Birthday - 5:30 to 8 PM
February Pittsburgh .NET User Group Event
Join Jeff King of ComponentOne for a behind the scenes look at Silverlight 1.1. February's .NET Event will be at Microsoft Offices, Pittsburgh from 5:30 - 8 pm.

Tue Feb 12, 6:30-9pm
CMU Adamson Wing, Baker Hall
School of Design Lecture
Having only practiced design since 2002, Joe Meersman has had an interesting
journey that has led him to his current position as senior researcher and
human factors expert in the Consumer eXperience Design group at Motorola. He
will be speaking on the role of design research in product development and
his personal experiences as a consultant with Herman Miller and various
Chicago-based design firms. Joe will also talk about how he leveraged his
form-based industrial design undergraduate training at the University of
Illinois to transition into a role of problem
articulator and strategist. This talk may be of particular interest to
undergraduate and graduate design students interested in the research side
of product development and questioning what current opportunities may exist.

Thu Feb 14 - 7 PM
Frick Auditorium
Middle East film festival
“20 Fingers” (Mania Akbari, 2004)

Feb 15 - 7 PM
Frick Auditorium
Middle East film festival
“Under the Moonlight” (Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi, 2002)

LECTURES

2/13 Joan R. Gundersen, visiting scholar within Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program, will deliver a lecture, titled “Making the Resistant Record Speak: Uncovering Women’s Story in the Records of Hierarchical Churches,” at noon, 2201 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program. For more information, contact wstudies@pitt.edu or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies/news.html.
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2/13 Marek Skovajsa, a professor at Charles University in the Czech Republic, will deliver a lecture, titled “The State of Civil Society Leadership in the Czech Republic,” at 4:30 p.m., 3911 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence, European Studies Center, and Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership. For more information, visit www.johnsoninstitute-gspia.org

2/14 Xiaofei Kang, assistant professor of linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver a lecture, titled “Cooking in the Temples: Elderly Rural Women and Religious Revival in Contemporary China,” at noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is part of the Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Brenda Jordan at 412-648-7763 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/news/overlunch.html

2/14 Maria Luisa Crawford, Association for Women Geoscientists Distinguished Lecturer, will deliver a lecture, titled “Tectonic Evolution of the Coastal Orogen, SE Alaska,” at 3:45 p.m., 203 Thaw Hall, 3943 O’Hara St., Oakland. This event is part of the Department of Geology and Planetary Science Spring 2007 Colloquium Series. For more information, contact Emily Elliot at eelliot@pitt.edu, or visit www.geology.pitt.edu/colloquium.html.

2/15 Edith Balas, professor of art history at Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver a lecture, titled “The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art,” at 4 p.m., 202 Frick Fine Arts Building, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program and Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program. For more information, contact wstudies@pitt.edu or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies/news.html.

2/18 Edwin Floyd, professor in Pitt’s Department of Classics, will deliver a lecture, titled “Ill-omened Dawn? Odyssey 19.571,” at 4 p.m., 142 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Department of Classics. For more information, contact 412-624-4493, or visit www.classics.pitt.edu/events/

2/20 Carly Woods, Pitt doctoral candidate and teaching fellow within Women’s Studies, will deliver a lecture, titled “Now I Can Feel Like Myself All Month Long”: Menstrual Pain as Identity-Constituting and Identity-Threatening,” at noon, 2201 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Women’s Studies Program. For more information, contact wstudies@pitt.edu or visit www.pitt.edu/~wstudies/news.html.

2/20 Megan McLean, doctoral candidate within Pitt’s Department of History, will deliver a lecture, titled “Squatters in Paradise: The Development of Cancun, 1970-2000,” at 4 p.m., 3703 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.

FILMS

2/13 Pitt’s Ford Institute for Human Security will present “Sand and Sorrow,” at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. The HBO documentary narrated by George Clooney addresses the tragic aftermaths of the Darfur genocide and the complex issues associated with African refugee camps. For more information, contact Jessica Hand at 412-648-7434.

2/14 Pitt’s Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, Global Studies Program, and Film Studies Program will present “20 Fingers,” part of the Reel Voices From the Middle East Film Series, at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-one-month.shtml.

2/15 Pitt’s Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, Global Studies Program, and Film Studies Program will present “Under the Moonlight,” part of the Reel Voices From the Middle East Film Series, at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/events-one-month.shtml.

2008 Feb 4 - Feb 10

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Feb 4 - 7 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh - German Film series
Langley A221 at 7:00 on Mondays. Langley is on Tennyson across from the Holiday Inn. They are free and open to the public.
Klassenfahrt (School Trip)
Henry Winckler, 2002, 86 Min.
IN 1709 16mm
During a class outing to a Polish seaside resort, shy Ronny and a Polish youngster vie for a girl's attention. Their rivalry comes to a tragic end in a test of courage. Winckler’s intuitive feeling for compulsive film images and realism without generalizations or stereotypes make this a must see film

2/4 Cafe Scientifique Pittsburgh: Our Improbable Universe
Speaker: Dr. Mike Mallary, physicist and Research Staff Senior Member at the
Seagate Research Center in Pittsburgh
Topic: Our Improbable Universe (based on his 2004 book of the same name;
see ImprobableUniverse.com)
Date and Time: Monday, February 4, 2008, at 7:00 PM at the Penn Brewery
Ever stop to consider how unlikely it is you're here, now, doing what you are
doing? Our "ordinary existence" is really extraordinary. From the most practical
point of view, we really are "star children": the iron in the blood of our veins
originated in a stellar explosion billions of years ago. How likely is it that
all the myriad conditions for life would come together so precisely? Dr. Mike
Mallary will lead us through the "Fourteen Stepping Stones"--"properties of our
universe that were required to be the way they were for the Big Bang to have
produced anything like us." Please join us as we start up Cafe Sci again now
that the holidays are over and explore this fascinating topic.
Café Scientifique Pittsburgh
www.cafescipgh.org

2/5 Aung Thwin, director of the Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative of the Open Society Institute, will deliver a lecture, titled “Musings on the Saffron Revolution: Is There Hope for Burma?” at 7 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is part of the Global Issues Lecture Series. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918.

2/6 Duquensne University, Ballroom, 3 PM
Free Theather performance, pretty funny, very pittsburgh
Written and Directed by Kimberly C. Ellis, Ph.D., the ensemble production is an intergenerational celebration of the Civil Rights Movement; and is loosely based on the "Raise Your Hand! No Casino on the Hill Campaign" and the Community Benefits Agreement Movement for full and proper reinvestment for the Hill District community from the Pittsburgh Penguins, the City and the County.
The play was recently named "one of the Top 20 Best Shows in the City of Pittsburgh for 2007" by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, out of 125 productions.
Kimberly C. Ellis, Ph.D. / Dr. Goddess is a member of the Hill Faith and Justice Alliance and supporter of the One Hill CBA Coalition. She has been nominated for a Pittsburgh Hip Hop Award for "Mover and Shaker of the Year", "Best Journalist/Writer of the Year" and "Best Poet of the Year". Fellow cast members, Richard Hutchins is nominated for "Best Male R & B Singer" and Ezra Smith is nominated (and competing with Dr. Goddess for) "Best Poet of the Year".
website

2/6 Mark Courtney, a professor at the University of Washington, will deliver a lecture, titled “Building a Profession for Social Justice or Picking Up the Scraps? Whither Social Work in the 21st Century?” at noon, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is part Pitt’s School of Social Work’s Lecture Series. For more information, contact Rosie Rinella at 412-624-6337.

2/6 Elizabeth Bartman, president of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, will deliver a lecture, titled “Portraits of Barbarians in Roman Art,” at 4:30 p.m., 313 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Department of Classics and the Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Society. For more information, contact Edwin Floyd at 412-624-4483.

2/6 Poet Ellen Bass will deliver a reading at 8:30 p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. This event is part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series. For more information, contact Jeff Oaks at oaks@pitt.edu.

Wed Feb 6, 7-9 PM
Chinese Movie at Univ of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Auditorium
Shiqi sui de dan che (2001)
Beijing: young men in packs, machismo, class divisions, violence, and indifference. Guei arrives from the country: toothbrushes, hotel foyers, and Qin, a rich neighbor in high heels, dazzle him. He gets a job as a messenger. The company issues him a bike, which he must pay for out of his wages. When it is stolen, Guei hunts for it. A student, Jian, has it; for him, it's the key to teen society - with his pals and with Xiao, a girl he fancies. Guei finds the bike and stubbornly tries to reclaim it in the face of great odds. But for Jian to lose the bike would mean humiliation. The two young men - and the people around them - are swept up in the youths' desperation.

Web Feb 6, 8 PM
Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 op. 19 – Ian Chow, soloist
Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, first movement
Bellefield Hall Auditorium, free
Dept of Music

Wed Feb 6, 9-11 PM
Chinese Movie at Univ of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Auditorium
Kaiwang chuntian de ditie (2002)
This movie is definitely not for everyone. The pace is kept deliberately slow, there are very few fast scenes, and the music contributes well to the mood. The actors are decent - nothing extraordinary, but they do a good job with the given script. Xu Jinglei provides nice eye candy. However, the real value of the movie in my view is that it depicts fairly well a young couple who have been together for seven years and the gradual arrival to the point where they feel the passion is lost. My wife felt the premise is not terribly realistic. While we disagreed on that, we both agreed that the silence, mind-games, and guessing each other is depicted very faithfully. Personally, I've met quite a few couples in China who are very similar to the protagonists in this movie. My only criticism is really a quibble. However, occasionally the movie depicts imaginary sequences, especially in the beginning. While these are used to good effect, they made me question most of the scenes later on, whether they were real or just someone's imagination. All in all, still, I'd give it a 7/10. It's an honest film about a young couple in contemporary China.

Thu Feb 7, 4 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH—The University of Pittsburgh will host a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist Chris Hondros, at 4 p.m. Feb. 7, Room 501, Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The free and public lecture, titled “Walking Into a War Zone: Global Conflict in Images,” will chronicle Hondros’ experience photographing many of the major global conflict zones, including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Lebanon, Liberia, and Iraq.
His photographic work frequently appears in the media, including profiles by CNN, “The Boston Globe,” “NPR,” “Smithsonian magazine,” and the “Virginia Quarterly Review.” His photography has appeared on the covers of such magazines as “Newsweek” and “The Economist,” and on the front pages of most major American newspapers, including “The New York Times,” “The Washington Post,” and the “Los Angeles Times.”
Hondros is a recipient of the U.S. Agency for International Development Photojournalism grant and completed a Pew Fellowship for International Reporting at Johns Hopkins University. His awards include multiple honors from World Press Photo in Amsterdam, the National Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L’Image in France, and the John Faber Award from the Overseas Press Club in New York. In 2004, Hondros was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia, and in 2006, was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography’s highest honor, for “exceptional courage and enterprise” for his work in Iraq.
Hondros earned his master’s degree in photojournalism at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communications. He is a photographer for Getty Images, an international photo agency, and has completed 10 tours of Baghdad.
The lecture is cosponsored by the Pitt’s Global Studies Program in the University Center for International Studies, Film Studies Program, and PITT ARTS, with additional support from Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Thu Feb 7, 5-8 PM
Geek Night
meet the fellow geeks and talk about how horrible it is
Church Brew, Lawrenceville
free food apetizers, but the beer you gotta pay

Feb 7 - 7 PM
Frick Auditorium
Middle East film festival
"Four Women of Egypt" (Tahani Rached, 1997)

February 7, 8:30pm • Location TBA
SECUESTRO EXPRESS
Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz • Venezuela - 2005
Cinema LatinoAmericano
In a night pregnant with a strange mix of tension and dizzy abandon, lovers Carla and Martin prowl clubs before drunkenly wandering back to his car. While he comes across as crass nouveau riche, she appears more liberal. Their conspicuous affluence, however, makes them ideal targets for kidnappers, and the trio of Trece, Budu and Niga gets a bead on them and promptly sweeps them up at gunpoint. The kidnappers then demand $20,000 to be delivered in two hours. Carla phones her rich father Sergio to procure the money, but chaos soon ensues. A botched ATM robbery is followed by a stopover at the palatial estate of a gay drug dealer.

Feb 8 - 7 PM
Frick Auditorium
Middle East film festival
"Mahmoud Darwich: As the Land Is the Language" (Simone Bitton, 1997)

Friday Feb 8, 7-9 PM
Chinese movie at Bellefield auditorium
Xue zhan Taierzhuang (1986)
The literal translation of the title of this movie is: the Bloody battle at the Village of Tai-Er.
This war movie, like most Chinese war movies, are based on the true story that really happened in real life. What makes this movie unique is that unlike previous denial or willful ignoring, for the first time in the history of post-revolutionary era Chinese film industry, the contributions of the nationalists, the enemy of communists, were accurately acknowledged by the Chinese governments. Everything in the movie was as realistic as possible, the real names of the generals, commanders were used, all the way down to the battalion level, and all the places had their original names. Taiwan purchased the copyright of this movie.

Friday Feb 8, 9-11 PM
Chinese movie at Bellefield auditorium
Fengkuang de shitou (2006)
Three thieves try to steal a valuable jade that is tightly guarded by a security chief. But the security guards are not the only obstacle these thieves are facing. An extremely unlucky internationally known master thief is also trying to get a hand on this piece of precious jade. What would be the final destination of this piece of crazy stone?
So far, the FOCUS: First Cuts series of movies have been rather mediocre. Taiwan's The Shoe Fairy was rather plain, Hong Kong's I'll Call You was concentrated too much on its effects, and Singapore's Love Story was just awful. The three aforementioned movies lacked a compelling story to tell, and I was holding my breath on how a movie titled Crazy Stone will present itself.

I bought into it, hook line and sinker, within the first ten minutes. The opening scenes were a class act in editing, presentation, with a mixture of humour, and wastes no time in introducing the ensemble characters of the movie - an ex-cop turned Chief Security Officer, his Toto-fanatical sidekick, the arrogant crony of an unscrupulous real estate developer, a skirt-chasing photographer, a trio of bumbling crooks, and a professional thief who just has no luck.

Directed by China's Ning Hao, Crazy Stone is one heck of a heist movie with deft touches in presentation. Never too flashy with its special effects, or repeating its non-linear narrative technique too often, it just about presents itself almost perfectly, keeping the audience constantly engaged throughout the movie. I can't finger a dull moment in any scene actually, and the real reward is when you pay attention to the little details, as these will be used at some point to deliver that awaited punctuation to the story. There're plenty of irony infused, which somewhat brings about certain pleasure in recognizing them. The sets are beautifully urban, and at times just plain ugly - the toilets just have to be seen.

The casts are a joy to watch, and although relative unknowns, they bring out just about the best in the story, which is something like a Spy Vs Spy, cat and mouse, cloak and dagger game between the protectors of a piece of valuable jade, and the crooks who want to steal it for the various motivations they have. The story's akin to the guessing game of correctly selecting which cup amongst three, is a coin hidden under, once the cups are shuffled randomly with sleigh of hand, and to the characters, presents itself like a huge maze, set to an eclectic soundtrack.

I don't get the opportunity to watch that many Chinese films (and here I mean those made in China), and I'd say that if this is how a heist movie can beat, in my opinion, some of the fare that Hollywood churns out in the same genre (not that they were fantastic, but I enjoyed them nonetheless), then I would be eagerly waiting for another Chinese movie from another genre proving itself to be amongst the best. This movie doesn't look expensive, and it's an apt reminder that it almost always boils down to the quality of the story, to make it a hit with a viewer.

As with the other First Cut movies, a touch of Andy Lau is included, and though he did not star in a cameo here, his song "Wang Qing Shui" was featured in part (I believe twice) in the movie, though only in passing, but enough to ID it.

Looks like his venture with these 6 films has uncovered a gem, and I'm secretly hoping the remaining films in this series - Malaysia's Rain Dogs (Yasmin Ahmad in a role you know?) and Hong Kong's Parental Guidance, will also prove to be as entertaining, and refreshing. Crazy Stone will go into my list as a contender for one of my favourite movies of this year. It's a pity it's only screening at ONE theatre in Singapore, so make every effort to watch it, soon!

Friday Feb 8 - 6 to 8 PM
Mellon Park - Center for the Arts
Art Gallery show (small donation requested)

Sat Feb 9 - noon to 5 PM
Union Project, Highland Park
I Made It craft show

Sat Feb 9 - 2:30 PM
run with the Hash House Harriers in Coraopolis

Sunday Feb 10 - 2 PM
Sunday arts series at the Carnegie Main Library - Oakland
Music performance by The Working Poor
Covering country from Circleville to Wilmington*, from a humid center of rolling hills, with rock n' roll songs born of the greater Pittsburgh land mass and waterways, chthonic, pagan responses to the vexing terrain and social climate of the area. Lo-fi rock n' roll, classic country ghosts, the folk blues ghosts of the ghosts, girl group high romance, late expressionism, comic old world poetry, desperate literature from urban dust.. We have recently lost our drummer Thad to cupid, visual art avenues and wanderlust. He is dearly missed as music collaborator and friend. he will always be with us, and his Circleville stamp remains all over our music. At the same time, we are tickled to welcome new percussion maestro Zach Harris, who recently stepped down from the drum throne of pop dynamos theTelefonics; one of our favorite bands and...it's a totally fam. affair, so welcome to new/old fam fatale Zach. 7000 cheers to both of these blokes. And best luck to Thad and his main partner in crime J. Mac in Chi town. Smooch smooch. All that said, we have a new EP for sale Eat the Middle Class. A popular music rip up. 6 of our best songs recorded and mixed live to stereo in the studio by our co-conspirator John Johnston(also of the Telefonics). The cd covers were handprinted by Third Termite Press.. one of the classiest outfits in Pittsburgh. Our third collaboration. Thanks Alisa. pick up your copy at Paul's, Desolation Row, the Big Idea, or contact us. *North to South from Erie to McClure. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/bschles/My%20Webs/index.htm
band members
Alan Lewandowski (guitar,vocals),
Lee Smookler (vocals, rubber chicken and keys),
Brian Dean Richmond (bass, bass ale),
Greg Pierce (guitar),
Zach Harris (drum, percussion, tuned bells),
Thad Kellstadt (drums)
influences
Jack Teagarden,
Louis Armstrong,
Leadbelly,
Ma Rainey,
The Seekers,
the troubador tradition,
the Bumps,
Edna St. Vincent Millay
sounds like
Townes Van Zandt,
Jack Teagarden,
Barbara Lewis

2008 Jan 28 - Feb 3

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Univ of Pittsbugh German Film Series
28 January 2008
Screenings take place in Langley A221 at 7:00 on Mondays. Langley is on Tennyson across from the Holiday Inn. They are free and open to the public.
Schwarzfahrer (Black Rider)
Pepe Danquart, 1993, 12 Min.
IN 1611 16mm
Schwarzfahrer is an oscar-winning comic film set in a tram car with various passengers, including a pensioner, housewives, silly Turkish youths, and an old lady sitting next to a young black man. She annoys him with several racist comments until he decides to enact revenge.
Ghettokids
Christian Wagner, 2002, 88 Min.
IN 1707 16mm
Two young brothers and their family come to Germany from Greece and live in Munich on the fringe of society, committing petty thefts and other crimes. A new teacher in their school is pressured into leaving, but gives it all a second chance. Later when one of the boys dies in an accident, she helps his brother and family with the assistance of the head of a social center. The film ultimately shows the difficulty that foreign and poor citizens in Germany encounter when attempting to coexist or assimilate into society.

When: Jan 28, 2008 6:30 PM
Where: CMU Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall, A5
Architecture Lecture
The School of Architecture presents a lecture by Paul Lewis of the award-
winning New York City firm Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis. The firm recently published
the acclaimed book “Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture”
(Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) about their work. Their work deals
very much with issues of light, materials and assembly. Winning student designs for the Carnegie Museum's new "Light Museum" in an annex across Forbes Avenue will be presented after the lecture.

When: Jan 29, 2008 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: CMU, Connan Room, University Center
Carnegie Mellon is presenting a four-part lecture series on the Local Economy and Urban Farming. The series kicks off with a talk by James Quilligan, U.S. coordinator for the Global Marshall Plan, who will discuss "Convention on the Global Commons." The lecture will be followed by a breakfast the next day, Jan. 30, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in Rangos 2, University Center. The breakfast will provide an auxiliary forum for discussion and informal exchange with the guest speaker. The breakfast is free for Carnegie Mellon members.

When: Jan 31, 2008 4:30 PM
Where: CMU Hunt Library, Fine and Rare Book Room, 4th Floor
The Center for the Arts in Society presents "Culture and Nationhood: George Lamming and the Imagining of the West Indies" by Mary Chamberlain of Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. The Barbadian novelist and poet, George Lamming, was a witness to the riots in the British West Indies in the 1930s. He appreciated that they marked the beginning of the West Indian voice and an authentic West Indian identity, in literature, culture and politics. This talk will focus on the paradox of nation-building in the West Indies, and the role of cultural nationalism in resolving it. Chamberlain has worked with oral history and life story methods, and has published widely on these and on women's history. She is interested in the links with memory and history, and the imaginative structures through which memory is recalled and recounted. Chamberlain's research has been described as "...original and compelling..." This lecture is co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh.

When:Jan 31, 2008 4:30 PM
Where: Adamson Wing, Baker Hall 136A
The University Lecture Series presents MIT Assistant Professor M.L. (Missy) Cummings, who will address "The Social and Ethical Impact of Automated Decision Support Designs." Because of the inherent complexity of socio-technical systems, automated decision support systems, often seen as legitimate authorities, are particularly vulnerable to potential ethical pitfalls that include diminishing moral agency and responsibility, as well as an erosion of accountability. Her talk will focus on the development of human-computer interfaces for decision support systems, which can introduce a moral buffer, a form of psychological distancing, that allows people to ethically distance themselves from their actions. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, Cummings was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots. This talk is sponsored by the Humanities Scholars Program and the Program in International Relations.

January 31, 8:30pm • Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
DEPENDENCIA SEXUAL
Dir. Rodrigo Bellott • Bolivia - 2003
Cinema LatinoAmericano
Sexual Dependency is a Bolivian drama film by Rodrigo Bellott. It focuses on five young people just beginning to construct their sexual identity. Most of the actors featured were non-professional. It was Bolivia's entry to the foreign film category of the 76th Academy Awards.
A poor girl, a rich stud, a university student and a model -- nothing in common, except the desire to experience true intimacy. Their stories unfold and overlap as each becomes victim to their own sexual dependencies, self-perceptions and illusions. Thematically structured around issues of femininity, masculinity, virginity, rape and sexuality, each teen struggles to make sense of their own identity, reaching for ideals that represent everything they feel they are supposed to be, but are not.

LECTURES

1/30 William Harbert, professor in Pitt’s Department of Geology and Planetary Science, will deliver a lecture, titled “A Geophysical Perspective Regarding Russian Gas and Oil Deposits and European Energy Requirements,” at noon, 4217 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Center for Russian and East European Studies. For more information, contact Stacey Kronandor at 412-648-7407.

1/31 Derk Jan Eppink, journalist and former cabinet member of the European Commission, will deliver a lecture, titled “The European Union: The Empire of Good Intentions,” at noon, 4217 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence. For more information, contact Karen Lautenan at kal70@pitt.edu.

1/31 Hiroyuki Good, a Japanese bibliographer in Pitt’s Hillman Library, will deliver a lecture, titled “Making the Fullest Use of Japanese Databases: How to Get Articles, How to Find Information,” at noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is part of the Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Brenda Jordan at 412-648-7763.

1/31 Sujay Kaushal, an ecologist at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science, will deliver a lecture, titled “Influence of Land Use, Climate Variability, and Stream Restoration on Nitrogen Dynamics in Watersheds,” at 3:45 p.m., 203 Thaw Hall, 3943 O’Hara St., Oakland. This event is part of the Department of Geology and Planetary Science Spring 2007 Colloquium Series. For more information, contact Emily Elliot at eelliot@pitt.edu.

1/31 Merle Collins, poet and author of Rain Darling (The Women’s Press, 1995) and Angel (Seal Press, 1998), will deliver a literary reading at 8 p.m. in the Kurtzman Room of the William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt’s Office of the Provost, English department, and Global Studies Program. For more information, contact Shalini Puri at 412-624-2824.

THEATER

1/30 Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre continues its 2007-08 season with Journey of the Spirits: A Celebration of Gospel Music. Performances will run through Feb. 9, in the Seventh-Floor Auditorium of Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Performances run Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 4 p.m. and a Saturday, Feb. 2, matinee at 1 p.m. For more information, call 412-624-7298.

FILMS

1/31 Pitt’s Global Studies Program will present Who Killed the Electric Car? at
7 p.m., 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918.

2/1 Pitt’s Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies, Global Studies Program, and Film Studies Program will present Reel Voices From the Middle East: Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt, at 7 p.m., Frick Fine Arts, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, contact Veronica Dristas at 412-624-2918.

Fri Feb 1, 7-9 PM
Chinese Movie at Univ of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Auditorium
Mou gaan dou (2002)

Fri Feb 1, 9-11 PM
Chinese Movie at Univ of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Auditorium
Wo De 1919 (1999)

Mountain Bike rides with Bob Bannon Bush Barber & company
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Unblurred: First Fridays On Penn
Penn Avenue Arts District [ venue info ]
2/1/2008
"Unblurred" is a monthly event that opens the Penn Avenue Arts District (4800-5500 Penn) for exploration by adults and children.
This month's "Unblurred" showcases Dental Identity at Imagebox, a solo photography art show that focuses on using a person's teeth to identify who they are. The evening also features events at The Clay Penn, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Metamorphose and many more.
For a complete schedule visit website or pick up a handbill/map at participating locations.

Waldorf School open house sampler
Early Childhood Classroom Samplers Saturday, February 2, 2008
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Join in the work and play of our Nursery and Kindergartens! Led by
Waldorf School of Pittsburgh early childhood faculty.
For adults only.
Grades Classroom Samplers Saturday, February 9, 2008 9:30
- 11:30 a.m.
Discover the richness of the grades curriculum and how it addresses
students' many ways of learning.
Be a Waldorf elementary student for the morning, and experience how fun,
challenging and engaging learning can be!
Led by Waldorf School of Pittsburgh elementary faculty.
For adults only.

2008 Jan 21 - Jan Jan 27

2008-01-19T08:39:00.000-08:00

Mon day Jan 21 - 6 PM
Full Moon Run with the Pittsburgh Hash House Harriers
Oakland - bring a flashlight

Japanese Architect Lecture
CMU
Tuesday Jan 22 - 7 PM
McConomy Auditorium
Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima will give the 2008 Jill Watson Distinguished Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22 in McConomy Auditorium in the University Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.
“We are honored and privileged to have one of the world's leading architects featured as this year's Watson distinguished lecturer,” said Laura Lee, head of the School of Architecture. “Kazuyo Sejima's work has received prestigious awards for its extraordinary invention and ingenuity. Sejima's creative sensibilities position her as a perfect representative for the Watson series, which serve to celebrate interdisciplinary approaches.”
Japan’s 1992 “Young Architect of the Year,” Sejima created the Tokyo-based firm SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa in 1995 and has designed structures in the United States, Germany, France, Spain and Japan. Her structures include an extension of the Institute Valencia d’Art Modern in Valencia, Spain; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; a satellite Louvre in Lens, France; and numerous buildings in Tokyo. Images and information on many of SANAA’s structures are online at http://www.arcspace.com/architects/sejima_nishizawa/sejima_nishizawa.html.
Sejima studied at the Japan Women’s University and started her own practice in 1987. She teaches at Tama Art University and Keio University in Tokyo and at Princeton University with Nishizawa. SANAA won a Golden Lion Award at the 2004 Venice Biennale.
Sejima and Nishizawa described their style in an October 2005 interview with designboom.com. “Probably our interest now is more how to organize ‘a program’ within a building — the layout of rooms and how people move inside, but also how to keep a relationship between the ‘program’ and the outside and then how the outside fits to the surroundings,” Sejima said. “In each project we have different requirements and the site is different, we try to find our way.”
The Jill Watson Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by the Jill Watson Family Foundation. Watson, a Carnegie Mellon alumna and acclaimed architect who later became an adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture, died in the TWA 800 plane crash on July 17, 1996. The lecture series honors Watson’s commitment to an interdisciplinary philosophy as an artist by bringing emerging and recognized artists, architects, musicians and designers to Pittsburgh.

Thursday Jan 24 - 4:30 PM
Kresge Theather, Art Building, CMU
Guest Lecturer Inspires Social Change Through Art at NYC Laundromats
Mon Jan 14 10:34:00 EST 2008
Artist and social entrepreneur Risë Wilson will discuss her Laundromat Project during a lecture at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 24 in the Kresge Recital Hall in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Her lecture, titled “Innovations in Funding and Access to the Arts,” is part of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Social Innovation lecture series, sponsored by the Grable Foundation.
While people wait for their clothes to dry at two laundromats in Bedford-Stuvyesant and Harlem, N.Y., Wilson engages them in making and discussing art and its social backdrop. “At one level, Risë Wilson is turning laundromats into places where people gather not only to wash clothes but also to take art classes,” said Alan Friedman, director of the Institute for Social Innovation, housed in Carnegie Mellon’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. “Yet, the Laundromat Project sees art as so much more than just an amenity or nice touch. Art in this context is a forum and force for social change.”
In the Laundromat Project (http://www.laundromatproject.org/), Wilson was not seeking a particular audience of art aficionados. She wanted the people of the community — teens, twenty-somethings, parents, and grandparents — to come in and do their laundry, which is when she engages and inspires them through creating and discussing art. The two laundromats serve as studio and gallery space where the new art can be displayed.
In communities with under-funded schools and rampant unemployment like Bedford-Stuvyesant and Harlem, Wilson’s art programs also fill an educational void in a manner that is all the more impressive for its self-sufficiency. Wilson reinvests the laundromat profits into arts programming and the community. “From the perspective of social entrepreneurship, the business model that she has created is just brilliant,” Friedman said. “Her organization is powerful proof of the role the market can play in realizing a social mission.”
Wilson believes art can inspire people to improve their communities. She says, “Before you can make lasting change, you have to know firsthand that there are extraordinary possibilities in even the most mundane and bleak circumstances.”
Wilson is one of four 2007-2008 special guests of the Institute for Social Innovation. The institute aims to help nonprofits become financially secure, help for-profits affect social change through their business models and solve social problems through education, research, and local and global partnerships. More about the institute is at http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/isi/isi.pdf.

Free Film showing (festival de cinema latinoamericano)
January 24, 8:30pm • Frick Fine Arts Auditorium - Pitt
PALOMA DE PAPEL
Dir. Fabrizio Aguilar • Perú - 2003
Set during the terrible Peruvian civil war of the 1980s, PALOMA DE PAPEL (PAPER DOVE) juxtaposes the beautiful landscape of the country with the horrific violence of the conflict. Juan is an adolescent trying to survive in the poverty-ridden Andean countryside while beginning to discover the adult world. But he soon learns about the dark side of that world when a group of paramilitary revolutionaries enters his town and recruits him for their army, which involves a period of soul-crushing political indoctrination. But Juan's desire to survive through the conflict and to live his own life leads him to rebel against the paramilitaries. PALOMA DE PAPEL marks the directorial debut of Peruvian actor Fabrizio Aguilar, and it won the Silver Precolumbian Circle (the second-place prize) at the 2004 Bogota Film Festival.

Jefferson Presents ... NEXT SCREENING:
WHEN: Saturday, January 26, 2008, 8PM
WHERE: Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave.
HOW MUCH: $5/$4 students, seniors
The January Jefferson Presents … program is filled with 9 essential and rarely screened experimental films, including some recently restored
16mm prints by sixties legend Robert Nelson, plus films by minimalist
painter Robert Huot, northwest USA filmmaker/photographer Jon Behrens,
French film scholar and writer Frédé Devaux and JP returning favorite,
Austrian avant-garde heavyweight Thomas Draschan. All titles projected
in the original 16mm format. Read below for descriptions. Adults over
18 only.
1. Robert Nelson - Confessions Of A Black Mother-Succuba (1965, 16mm,
b/w, so, 16 min) “Like a bite on the ass with rubber teeth.” (Q.A.
Standish)
2. Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley - The Off-Handed Jape (1967,
16mm, color, so, 9 min) “This film can be of immeasurable aid to
would-be actors who are weak in the jape.” (William T. Wiley)
3. Robert Huot - Black and White Film (1968-69, 16mm, b&w/si,
16fps, 12.5 min) “A nude woman is revealed, and then obliterates
herself entirely, in extreme slow-motion. This film is ‘about’
painting. Outside of painting itself, it is the only really intense
criticism I have ever seen.” - Hollis Frampton
4. Robert Huot - Nude Descending the Stairs (1970, 16mm, b&w/si,
16fps, 14.5 min) “A naked woman (Marie Antoinette) - slowly descends a
four storey staircase toward the camera. Because of the camera’s upward
angle, the descents are translated into level forward motions during
which the two people grow larger with each step they take. The film’s
concern with the manipulation of space and with the details of human
motion through it, accounts for both the title and the inscription ‘for
Duchamp and Muybridge.’” - Scott MacDonald, The Films of Robert Huot:
1967-1972, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Summer 1980
5. Jon Behrens - Reflections (1992, 16mm, b&w tint/sound on
cassette tape, 12 min) Original Music: Rubato. Surrealistic, dreamy,
atmospheric, hypnotic. Super high contrast journey through a collection
of past life experiences. Heavily filtered light, shadows, multiple
exposures, and film tinting. Almost an extension of the late ‘80s
Behrens film entitled Exposures.
6. Jon Behrens - Undercurrents (1994, 16mm, b&w tint/sound on
cassette tape, 12 min) Original Music: Rubato. The sister film to an
earlier Behrens film called REFLECTIONS.
7. Frédé Devaux - Ellipses (1999, 16mm, color/so, 6 min)
8. Frédé Devaux - Entrecroisées (1999, 16mm, color/so, 4.5 min)
Fragments in diverse shapes, mostly circles and dots filled with
various imagery.
9. Thomas Draschan - Metropolen des Leichtsinns (2000, 16mm
color/sound, 12 min) Intercourse leads to cell-sectioning &
birthgiving and a release into space. Being born one may ask “what
should I become” (in the german original: was soll ich werden, written
on a wheel), the filmmakers answer that pretty realistically with
someone blowing his head away. The hit of the bullet in the head
triggers beautiful visual effects, which as well refer to death and
decay, and therefore justify the decision. The film then shows various
opportunities of how someone could spend his life. But somehow all
efforts seem to be in vain and everything is running empty...

Sunday 27 January - 2:00 to 3:00 PM
World Kaleidoscope! David Bennett will be telling stories and singing songs of Appalachia.

in the news:
Interactive Storytelling Game Created at Carnegie Mellon Is Available at All Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Locations
Can a lion share a cupcake with an astronaut? A new, interactive educational game for children created at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), gives them the power to answer that question. The game, called "My StoryMaker," allows children to create, print and share their own unique stories, and through that cultivates a love of storytelling and reading.
The project was funded with a $50,000 grant from The Grable Foundation, and is available to visitors at all 18 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh branches.
"Partnering with the Carnegie Library has been immensely stimulating and educating," said Don Marinelli, executive producer at the ETC. "The ultimate goal of an ETC project is for the students and faculty to learn as much as the client learns from our technological experiments and implementation. This is one project that truly delivered on all accounts. We thank The Grable Foundation for facilitating this connection as the endeavor has far surpassed even our grandest aspirations and wishes."
My StoryMaker was developed by a team of graduate students at the ETC exclusively for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. It is aimed at increasing literacy rates in children during their formative learning years. To achieve this goal, the students, faculty advisors and library staff harnessed the power of fairy tales from books and combined them with the interactivity of gaming and the Internet to create My StoryMaker.
"We were challenged to find an innovative way to reach children, many of whom have never known of a life without computers, that would be both educational and engaging," said Mike Nangia, director of information technology at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. "The team was fortunate to play-test the initial prototype at several local elementary schools. It gave us insight on how children learn and utilize technology."
In My StoryMaker, children can control characters, scenery and props. The game uses artificial intelligence to form sentences in relation to how the child is interacting with the story.
"The only limit to My StoryMaker is a child's imagination," Nangia said. "If the child directs a character to interact with an object or another character, the software will recognize the interaction and create a corresponding sentence. The child can also completely customize his or her creation for a one-of-a-kind experience. Once the child is satisfied with the story, he or she has the option to print and/or save the story, making it available for sharing and viewing outside the Library."
Screenshots of My StoryMaker are online at http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/library/images.php.

Design presentations by CMU Students
Fri Jan 25
As second year Masters candidates, students propose, plan, develop, and complete a studio thesis essay that demonstrates mastery of the concepts and techniques of their chosen field (Interaction Design or Communication Planning and Information Design). Each year, the student thesis essays run the full range of design problem-solving. Some theses focus on social issues; some on technical issues; some on interpersonal or professional issues. The thesis essay may be directly related to the student’s chosen studio project, or may explore a different set of themes related to the general goals of the program.

See below for the complete presentation schedule:

9:00
Introduction by Dan Boyarski, Head of the School of Design, and Shelley Evenson, Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Design.

9:15
The Thinking Behind Design by Jamin Hegeman, IntD

For the past several hundred years, science and humanities have enjoyed prominence in our culture and education. Science and a scientific approach to solving problems have received bias in our educational systems and our work. But increasingly, design is being recognized as a valuable approach to solving complex problems and creating inventive solutions. However, understanding what designers do - the thinking behind design - is not fully understood. Design is still often thought of as a black art rather than a rigorous discipline. If design is to advance as a discipline, understanding design thinking becomes paramount. Design is a relationship between the design way of thinking, the process of carrying out that thinking, and the embodiment of the thinking and the process within the designer. The process of developing design thinking is a design process in itself. It therefore may behoove designers to recognize designing oneself as a designer as fundamental to improving design ability. Understanding design thinking will also help designers articulate their value and communicate what is it they actually do in a way that demystifies the process and instills a sense of trust in their solutions. This paper examines how designers think and the relationship between design thinking and the design process to better understand what designers do, the rigor of their process, and the value of skilled designers.

9:30
An Ecological Approach to Interaction Design by Hee Young Jeong, IntD

Human beings are organic and social by nature. Their behaviors are varied, and sometimes their experiences have very different meanings for individuals or groups in diverse contexts and ecosystems. Therefore, analysis and prediction of human behaviors and experience is a big challenge for interaction designers. For this, I propose that an ecological approach to interaction design can be a proper method for helping designers to better understand and interpret user research with a systematic and holistic worldview.

Ecological design generally refers to green design and sustainability involved with nature, biology or energy efficiency. Like an ecosystem that sustains harmonious human lives and experiences in an integrated human environment consisting of artifacts, services, system and nature, interaction designers need to pay attention to ecological paradigms that include a holistic worldview. In fact, in terms of interaction design, there is an increasing need to explore social and cultural aspects of ecological design. In this paper, I argue that an ecological approach to interaction design considers human society and culture as a primary design value. The goal of this paper is to explore the relationship between ecology and interaction design, and how interaction design can move toward an ecological approach.

To do this, I explore social science literature and ecologies related to interaction design: information ecology, interface ecology, product ecology and cultural ecology. From these, I establish five ecological factors such as organisms, environments, ecosystems, relationship and sustainability, and finally an ecological framework for interaction designers is suggested.

9:45
Designing for Activism and Learning: Finding a Convergence by Ayça Akin, CPID

Communication designers in activist settings make thousands of context-specific design decisions to advocate their causes. While they can fall back on previous successful campaigns for guidance, there is no handbook on designing for social change. Should there be a special category for designing for activism, or is activism simply one of thousands of contingent uses to which design can be put? This paper explores the link between design and activism. My own inventory of design used for activism suggests that arguments for social change typically make their case from facts. While acquiring facts may not be sufficient to move people to change, they seem to be a first necessary step. Accordingly, I have focused my thesis essay on empirical findings about the principles by which people best acquire facts from multimedia artifacts. I survey these findings and apply them to an online visualization tool designed for activism. My case study serves two purposes. First, it allows me to evaluate the principles of fact-based learning offered in the literature. Second, it allows me to understand the gap between acquiring facts and aligning with causes suggested by those facts.

10:00
Accessibility Through Participation by Srividya Sriram, IntD

Many of today’s technologies are experienced through complicated interfaces like the recent phenomenon- the iPhone. But these interfaces tend to be very minimally accessible (if accessible at all) to the visually impaired people (VIP). The devices and products that do take into account this population tend to fare poorly in the realm of user experience for the VIP. This is largely due to negligence on the part of the manufacturers and a result of accessibility being pushed to the end of the design process.

Also, more and more companies today are looking to include the users in the various stages of product development by implementing participatory design research. The positive effects of these exercises have been found to be valuable and are becoming increasingly prevalent.

But another look at these methods and we will be able to see that most require the participating user to perceive visually and make meaning of visual information. Eg. collage-making, paper prototyping, experience mapping, etc.

My essay is an attempt to see if a more inclusive research process is being implemented and if so, will it pave a better path to a more inclusive design.

10:15 BREAK

10:45
What Can Services Learn From Classical Music? by Carrie Chan, IntD

As a relatively new discipline, service design has a lot to learn from various fields that have well-established histories. This paper will explore the field of classical music and draw aspects from it that are useful in thinking about service design. Themes will also be drawn from music in an attempt to provide applicable approaches to service design. The topics that will be paralleled in this paper are the following: how services can be thought of as performances, how the roles inherent to music find similarities to roles defined in service design, and how music notation systems are essential in connecting different music roles together and why service design should adopt a notation system of its own.

11:00
Sense-making as Place-making: Establishing Meaning out of Ambiguity Through the Built Environment by Joseph Iloreta, IntD

Meaningful experiences inevitably occur in place – “a locus of meaning” cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan portrays as constantly in physical and cultural flux; as our perceptions of place characterize our experiences and identities within them, so can our behaviors change the character of place.

Design efforts of environmental and social concern often enlist civic agency, engagement and responsibility, signifying the synergistic relationship that connects our actions and beliefs to places both local and global. In this light, this essay is an effort to better understand our relationship with place and the instrumental role of design in its composition and preservation.

Examining literature from various fields such as architecture, urban planning, philosophy, and phenomenology, I develop an understanding of place as realized through physical and conceptual constructs, where acts of design parallel sense-making processes carried out by both an individual self and collective society. As concepts of place evolve with social and technological complexity, I examine how the built environment is a powerful lense portraying the self as an active body readily assigning meaning through sensorial action, reaction and creation.

In particular, the urban street – an archetypal experience of the built environment –illustrates that people create experiences for themselves, exposing themes that ally with perspectives in user-centered design. Investigating the composition of place as a vital component in understanding the nuances of human experience, I hope to reflect the urban spatial experience as a powerful, resonant metaphor for the human-sensitive responsibilities and capabilities of design.

11:15
The Language of Symbols: Bridging the Cultural & Linguistic Gap by Maria Kim, CPID

“Communication—people to people, nation to nation—is a vital ingredient to understanding. It would be presumptuous to imply that standardized graphic symbols will result in perfect intercommunication; but perhaps this is the first faltering step to convince us that it is imperative for man to be able to communicate with any other man no matter where he may live.”

- Henry Dreyfuss, author of “Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols”

Communication is the key to any relationship, even relationships between countries around the globe. Efficient travel and the “Internet Revolution” creates many opportunities and circumstances in which ordinary people of completely different tongues and cultures might find themselves sharing the same space.

For my paper, I focus on the use of symbols in Olympic Games and examine this example as a case study of how symbols are the ideal form of communication in an international setting. Olympic symbols such as the familiar five rings, national emblem and sporting event pictograms function to invoke the Olympic ideals of strength and unity, highlight the character and aesthetic appeal of the host country, and provide a seamless experience through clearly presented information. These symbols provide a visual language that surpasses the differences evident between written languages. The Olympics Games itself has always been a major symbol of hope in reinforcing the idea that the nations of the world can be united despite political, economical and cultural differences.

11:30
Patterns in Designing Successful Products for the Blind by Beste Nazilli, IntD

While Universal Design and Accessible Design concepts are widely accepted paradigms and are regarded as contemporary models that represent a unique and consolidated approach to design, we continue seeing examples of devices and information media designed with no consideration for disabled people, especially for those who are blind or visually impaired. Although both of these approaches are acclaimed as cornerstones of design by many, there is a wide range of views regarding the interrelations between these and a thorough understanding of these is an essential aspect of the design process for products designed based on these concepts. In this paper, I utilize existing literature as well as notes acquired through personal communication with people from various disciplines in an effort to display a variety of different approaches and analyze the effects of these concepts on existing products/systems.

From a practical point of view, we get to see that designers are seeking new ways to understand user needs and to create more useable , useful and desirable products. While keystones of Universal Design such as assistive and supportive technologies have been accepted as effective tools addressing these "useable" and "useful" aspects, the desirability aspect has not been effectively studied. In order to discover potential opportunities in this desirability factor in products, this paper reviews the pros and cons of current mobile technologies with regard to this aspect and presents the current reasons preventing the full participation of these people in the society.

11:45
Designing for Travel: An Analysis of Public Transportation System Information Aids by Peter Bird, CPID

As we move through the natural and built environment, we create mental maps of the land around us containing information we gather from the environment and meanings we project back. To successfully travel through this land, we must select and navigate a route, often using multiple modes of transportation. This essay begins to analyze the materials public transportation systems provide to passengers to aid in navigating the systems using analytical categories developed by designers, cartographers and urban planners. These information aids, from maps and timetables to signs and electronic displays, are used in a variety of contexts of use, but all attempt to visualize some aspect of the system and connect it to the larger environment. The essay will explain how some forms and techniques are more successful than others, leading to fewer barriers of entry for potential users.

12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH

1:00
Designing Graphs for the Display of Scientific Data by Melissa Clarkson, CPID

As artifacts through which data is both analyzed by the researcher and communicated to others, graphs serve a tremendous role in transforming scientific data into meaningful information. Yet, graph design receives little attention from scientists themselves, and poorly designed graphs commonly appear in the published literature. Problems range from simple issues, such as poor choice of line weight or color, to much more serious ones, including misrepresentation of the data due to an inappropriate style of graph. My thesis essay explores graph design from a very fundamental level. I begin with an examination of the types of data, variables, and studies, and then move to topics in graphical perception. Using these two areas as a foundation, I explore how datasets can be represented using elementary graphical elements. Finally, I address common questions and problems in graph design.

1:15
Designing Lasting Relationships by Matthew D. Forrest, Jr. CPID

This thesis is concerned with the creation of a meta-language for discussing how and why we have lasting relationships with everyday products. The proposed meta-language is presented as a framework of questions that are designed to evaluate the probability of a product remaining in our lives beyond the expected lifespan or the initial reasons for purchasing the product. The thesis begins with a discussion of human-to-human relationships in order to understand the nature of lasting relationships. Analysis of writings by the psychologist Carl Rogers, philosopher Henri Bergson and social psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi leads to the identification of three necessary elements that define a lasting relationship: congruence, acceptance of limitations and recognition of a future. After applying these elements to the issue of human to product relationships, the thesis turns to identifying factors that enable the maintenance of lasting relationships. By looking at the biological characteristics of our selves, durability and adaptability are identified as two necessary components of a lasting relationship. When combined with the previously identified elements above, they create a meta-language, or framework, upon which we can discuss whether or not a product has the potential to outlast its expected lifespan or initial reasons for its purchase. The thesis concludes with the suggestion that designing for lasting relationships not only provides a financial and ecological benefit, but also can lead to the design of new and interesting products.

1:30
Experience Through Objects: Visual Data Sharing Issues on Family Interaction by Sook Yeon Kim, IntD

We live our lives in the middle of material objects. We sometimes consider objects as companions to our emotional lives or as provocation to thought. The object as a companion in life triggers narratives and experiences. In this sense, photographs are the most common example accompanying narratives. The family photographs are intensely personal, and create emotional, social, and cultural values. People save, preserve and treasure photos more than many other possessions. Moreover, people share these photos with others. The advent of technology enables ordinary people to visually record their view and passage of lives. Development of technology affects people's behavior such as creating, saving and sharing photographs. In this essay, I will focus on "why people share photos and what is the Technology roles?" and then discuss interpretation of emotional, social and cultural aspects of family photos sharing issues along with technology development.

1:45
Identifying Presentation Techniques Jeffrey Tzucker, CPID

The ubiquity of personal computers and the explosion of PowerPoint have created a culture of presentations that are overwhelming in their number, frequency and, let’s face it, ineffectiveness. While presentations are intended to aid communication, instead the tools to create them are hindering it by enabling poor design and the disorganization of content. And unfortunately, there are too many presenters for designers to work with or educate. To address these problems, we must consider digital media as a viable tool for teaching students to design effective presentations.

My paper reviews journals and popular press focusing on the current techniques used to organize and design presentations. I will present this information to identify the major areas of current slide design and content organization techniques. In addition, I will explain how my research will guide the development of an online learning tutorial by identifying effective and ineffective slide design techniques depending on the rhetorical situation and the organization of content.

2:00 BREAK

2:30
Open Design: Solving Complex Social Problems by Jared Cole, IntD

As designers, we want to change the world, and if we want to continue developing our role as agents of change, we will need to call upon a great diversity of voice and thought in order to do this effectively. By working alongside those who we have traditionally worked for, we stand to gain a better understanding of their needs, desires and insights. Inspecting the nature and economics of user-led innovation, we can see a direct benefit to existing and future products and services. While diversity in thought provides a wealth of valuable information, we still need to do something with it. Exploring the concepts of management and entrepreneurship enables us to develop methods for extracting this information, and implementing a sustainable system by which these diverse ideas can be given form. But with form comes questions of ownership, especially when the form has no single source of creation. Looking to the world of open-source software, we can see a healthy and alternative view to the traditional understanding of ownership. If we can adopt these notions of collaborative, user-led innovations, the development of a sustainable social enterprise, and open systems of co-ownership, designers greatly improve the likelihood of solving complex social problems.

2:45
Trust in Design by Sunyoung Park, IntD

When people see unfamiliar products, they are often reluctant to buy them due to lack of product experience and trust. This issue of trust becomes more crucial when new services are introduced, since service is key to people’s experience, and not limited to one interaction with a single product. In my research, I have explored ways to make services more trustworthy. To do this I have focused on trying to deeply understand the concept of a service, exploring how people use services, and how services work to serve people. I’ve also investigated the concept of trust, learning how a service can be reliable, and how the role of the designer works within this process.

As designers, we create products that help connect people with their desires. This process of creation often involves a level of consumer (user) expectation and trust, this is true for products as well as services. Building and communicating the trustworthiness of a service is primarily a dialectical issue that requires an understanding of the emotion, character and quality of the product, the user, service providers, and ourselves as designers in order to produce sincere feelings of confidence and expectation.

3:00
A Drama on Designing Products for Cultural Identity by Kipum Lee, IntD

They say that when teenage girls exchange clothing, this exchange of possessions symbolizes more than just friendship – it symbolizes a sharing of identities. What if the teenage girls were rival siblings and the older sibling is given a better gift than a younger sibling during the holidays? Maybe that's expected. This relationship is maintained as long as the older sibling does all that she can to make sure the younger sibling feels she is getting her fair share. In this case, the older sibling controls or possesses the ideology of the younger sibling. Another way of saying this is that the relationship is maintained as long as the younger sibling doesn't become aware of her situation. If she becomes aware and decides to revolt, she changes the dynamics of their relationship. Others may then look at them and say, "Wow, that younger one's really come out of her shell. I never knew she had it in her!" Maybe the two have an even younger sister who may one day come out of her shell to rise up as the dominant sibling. There is another way to look at this family. Perhaps each girl already has an established character like the Bennett sisters in Pride & Prejudice. Instead of pitting against each other, what if they consider how they must measure up next to what a good teenage girl ought to be?

I am interested in how these possible relationships have relevance in designing for cultural identity.

3:15
Look Around You: Pervasive Products in Everyday Life by Imran Sobh, IntD

Interactive products are increasingly becoming a part of our everyday surroundings through the use of embedded and mobile computing. While products of all types are spread throughout our lives, those that use pervasive computing as a material play an important role in shaping our environment. Sensors, location tracking, mobile devices, wireless data networks, and other technologies provide layers of information that can be acted upon to a greater extent than ever before. Some of the most salient and distributed components of services today are the devices that are carried or worn. Their ability to extend the places and possibilities of action changes how we experience our physical, cultural, and personal contexts.

Designers look to technological infrastructure as a resource, not only in researching current products, but also to enable future ideas and solutions. As more products take advantage of pervasive computing, the need to understand how they shape the human environment becomes stronger. Without knowing what is possible, it is difficult to put forward practical design solutions, but without knowing how it influences people, it is difficult to put forward appropriate design solutions.

3:30
Close by Shelley Evenson, Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Design.

(1) January 26: The 4th annual Winter Gathering of Urban EcoStewards, a group of people caring for Pittsburgh's wonderful parks; this is an opportunity to learn more about the program and take part in stewardship activities in Riverview Park. More information on this and other events is at
http://www.ninemilerun.org/get_involved/events/

(2) January 26: The 10th annual Summit Against Racism at the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. More info is at http://blackandwhitereunion.org/ .

(3) January 29: The start of the 2nd annual lecture series at Carnegie Mellon dealing with issues of local food and local economies (Jan 29, Feb 26, March 27, and April 29; details are below).

(4) January 30-February 1: Focus the Nation teach-ins and other events related to global warming will be taking place in our area. Granger Morgan's keynote and a screening of "2% Solution" will kick it off at CMU on Wednesday evening, a day-long teach-in follows on Thursday, and on Friday there will be a panel discussion at Pitt. For more information on the national FtN program and our local events, go to
http://focusthenation.org/ and
http://www.cmu.edu/steinbrenner/Events

(5) February 7: The Center for Environmental Research and Education of Duquesne and Clean Air-Cool Planet are hosting a free workshop on software for campus-scale greenhouse gas inventories. For more information, contact Stan Kabala (kabala@du.edu) or Lindsay Baxter (lindsay_baxter@hotmail.com).

(6) February 7-9: The 17th annual conference of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture in State College, PA; lots more info can be found at
http://www.pasafarming.org/conference2008/ .

(7) February 27: Join the Group Against Smog & Pollution ( http://www.gasp-pgh.org/ ) and cardiologist Don Grandis to explore the connection between air quality and heart health. Contact GASP at 412-325-7382, or lee@gasp-pgh.org for more information or to RSVP; a couple of articles on the link between cardiovascular ailments and fine particulates are at
http://www.uclahealth.org/body.cfm?id=403&action=detail&ref=956
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=79270 .
Looking ahead to March 29th, GASP will host a panel discussion about energy generation from waste coal, featuring Eric Schaeffer of the Environmental Integrity Project and Dan Volz of the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities.

Apologies for any crossposts, and I hope to see you at some of these events! Here's the scoop on the lecture series, which begins next Tuesday:
Local Living Economies and Urban Farming

Public Lecture Series at CMU

A four-part lecture series exploring the connections between the food we grow and eat, local markets, the potential for thriving local economies and global social equity will begin in late January and continue, one per month, until April. After the final lecture in April, a public workshop will be held to frame a strategy for developing capacity and collaborations towards creating a sustainable and equitable economy in the Pittsburgh area with a focus on local food systems, related green business and tools for local economic transformation to a local living economy.

This lecture series and the public strategy workshop that will follow will build on information and input gathered through three community-based events that have happened recently: the Green Forum on Vacant Land Revitalization (held at the Pittsburgh Project in Nov. 2006), the first Urban Farming Lecture Series in Spring 2006 (Hosted at CMU and organized by the Urban Farming Initiative) and The Cooperate Pittsburgh Grassroots Forum (Held at the Friends Meeting House in Shadyside in May 2007… look for Grassroots Forum’s Link on www.holisticpittsburgh.com ). The co-organizers and co-sponsors of this latest lecture series and workshop include Carnegie Mellon Univ., Office of the Vice Provost and the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, the Urban Ecology Collaborative, The Urban Redevelopment Authority, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, The Penn State Cooperative Ext., Allegheny County, Grow Pittsburgh, The Urban Farming Initiative, The Green Block Farm Project and the Green Bough.

Lecture 1: James Quilligan, American Coordinator for the Global Marshall Plan and Convention on the Global Commons

Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 5:00-6:30 PM
Connan Auditorium, University Center, Carnegie Mellon

Quilligan has been an analyst and administrator in the field of international development since 1975. He has served as policy advisor and writer for many international politicians and leaders, including Willy Brandt, Jimmy Carter, and Tony Blair. Quilligan is currently the managing director of the Centre for Global Negotiations and US Coordinator of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative. These organizations, along with many partners, have launched a multi-stakeholder consultation process that is focused on global development issues, including food security, sustainable agriculture, and fair trade. They maintain that bilateral policies based on domestic security interests -- such as agricultural subsidies and trade protectionism -- are on a collision course with the interests of the global community for multilateral cooperation, justice, sustainability and peace. A draft report is now being created through an interactive website, incorporating the wisdom of thousands of global organizations, individuals and experts. The partners in this consultation network will also be selecting delegates to an international conference in 2010, Convention on the Global Commons, which will reach a consensus on a final plan. (See www.global-commons.org/)

Lecture 2: Michael Schuman, economist, lawyer and author of Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age (1998) and The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2006)

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 5:00-6:30 PM
Rangos 3, University Center, Carnegie Mellon

Shuman promotes the concepts in Going Local and The Small-Mart Revolution through a variety of projects including: creating a small-business venture capital fund in New Mexico, launching a community-owned company in Salisbury, MD, called Bay-Friendly Chicken, organizing university-government-business collaborations in St. Lawrence County, NY, analyzing the impact of devolution in the former Soviet Union for the United Nations Development Program, preparing a buy-local guide for Annapolis, MD, developing a website to support marketing by family farmers, and building BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies). (See www.smallmart.org/)

Lecture 3: Kenneth Warren, Director of the Lakewood Public Library System in the Cleveland area; community activist/member of LEAF- the Lakewood Earth and Food Community

Thursday, March 27, 2008, 5:00-6:30 PM
McConomy Lecture Hall, University Center, Carnegie Mellon

Warren has authored a practical report in Lakewood Ohio on grassroots alignment efforts of artists, citizen journalists, farmers, local food system activists and public librarians to enact the community and place-making vision of LEAF - the Lakewood Earth and Food Community. He is a student and teacher of the psychographic tool Spiral Dynamics as it relates to local economies and food systems. Warren uses Spiral Dynamics to enable assessment and insight concerning the community's capacity and interest in developing local agricultural, cultural and economic circuits of exchange. (See www.spiraldynamics.org/)

Lecture 4: Judy Wicks, founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia; founder of The White Dog Café

Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 5:00-6:30 PM
Connan Auditorium, University Center, Carnegie Mellon

Wicks is probably best known for establishing The White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her Philadelphia home in 1983. As the restaurant grew, so did her notion that the strength of her business relied upon the quality and sustainability of its locally grown ingredients. Envisioning how strengthening relationships among independent, community-rooted enterprises could inspire broad and profound cultural change, Wicks joined the Social Venture Network and co-founded the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) in 2001, She is currently writing a book about the White Dog Café and local living economies called Good Morning, Beautiful Business. (See www.livingeconomies.org/)

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Supporters of the series include the Carnegie Mellon Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, the East End Food Cooperative, the Fay-Penn Economic Development Council, Green Block Farm, Grow Pittsburgh, Penn State Cooperative Extension, the Green Bough Holistic Learning Center, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, the Urban Ecology Collaborative, and the Urban Farming Initiative.

2008 Jan 14 - Jan 20

2008-01-19T08:27:00.000-08:00

Festival de Cinema Latino Americano
January 17, 8:00pm Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
MADEINUSA
Dir. Claudia Llosa • Perú - 2006
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl.

Saturday, Jan 19 2008
Annual holiday party by the Pittsburgh Mountain Bike Club.
$10 to get you in if not a member
If you ride, you wanna be here.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Carnegie Library - Main
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Hodgepodge Society continues its comical lecture series with a revue of classical humor—from the epoch of horned helmets to the present—proving that in all literature, in all cultures, in all eras, laughter is serious business.
Presented by: Hodgepodge Society

Sunday, Jan 20
Run with the Pittsburgh Hash House Harriers
The hare is Duke of Hurl. The most likely trail covered will be the Nine Mile Run slag expanse just east of Old Browns Hill Road in Squirrel Hill, near the Mon river.

2008 Jan 1 to Jan 6

2007-12-31T10:40:00.000-08:00

New Years Eve with the Hash House Harriers
Run at 7 PM, Party at 11 PM

The Mobile Museum
Friday January the 4th
we'll be at the entrance to the Main Carnegie Library in Oakland, in Pittsburgh, PA from 3-5:30pm
Saturday January the 5th
we'll be at the Quiet Storm in the Friendship/Garfield area of Pittsburgh from 12-1pm
Saturday January the 5th
and the Crazy Mocha in the Bloomfield area of Pittsburgh from 1:30-2:30pm

2007 Dec 24 - Dec 30

2007-12-27T12:39:00.000-08:00

National Aviary on the North Side
Free all week
aviary

New Year's Even run with the Hash House Harriers

2007 Dec 17 - Dec 23

2007-12-20T06:59:00.000-08:00

The Pittsburgh Off Road Cyclists (PORC) are always active in the burgh, even on this week before xmas:
*Wed;~Riverview park @ Riverview Dr.6:30 Level 3/C
*Thurs;~Riverview Park @ Riverview Dr.
HOLIDAY COOKIE RIDE ! + Apres' Treat with Robin & Sean
6:30 Level = Festive-Casual-Pleasant
*Fri~City park ride TBA
*Holiday Party (CAMP IN) no DUIsCamp fire + Coffee & Treats in the morning(Ride to follow)~Best Homestead Contest~Best Dish/Entree' Contest~Bike Porn~Adult Bevs to imbibe~Late night bench racing~And Much Much More !
Shaping up to be the BEST PORC Party EVER !!!More Details TBA
PORC’s RIDE RATING KEY PACE:
1 = Beg, 2 = Casual/Pleasant, 3 = Int, 4 = Adv, 5 = Expert
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY:
A = Beg, B = Casual/Pleasant, C = Int, D = Adv, E = Expert

The harriers are alive as well, with runs on Friday and Sunday
Hash: Winter solstice Global Orgasm Day for Peace, Fool Moon

Time: Friday, 6:09pm, December 21, 2007
Hares: Doggy Style, Protocal
Where: Duke's Station, 5981 Baptist Rd, Whitehall, 15236
GPS: 40° 20' 40.73"N, 80° 0' 52.98"W
Google Directions:
Click on Directions to Duke's Station and when the google map page appears, enter your street address and your zip code (example: 325 Waterman Rd, 15025) and click the Get Direction button.
Old Style Directions:
From downtown Pittsburgh take Liberty Bridge and go through the Liberty Tunnels (stay in right lane) and take Route 51 South.
Go 4.1 Miles on Route 51 South pass Route 88 up the Hill and turn right on Brownsville Rd
Continue straight at first light Brownsville Rd turn Baptist Rd
Go 2.5 miles past, past Cool Springs Golf Range, and Duke’s Station is on your left.
Apres: Same as Hash Start, Duke’s Station
Hash Contacts:
Doggy Style – phone 412-882-9561 (cell 412-527-3183)

Hash # 1285, Afternoon Delight with three “Not So Virgin” Hares
Time: Sunday 2:00pm, December 23, 2007
Hares: Doggy Style, Si Phylli, and Aching for One
Experience is everything! Who wants one virgin let alone 72 virgins? Who wants to put up with all those false starts and the metaphysical bullshit when all you just want to do is get down to one thing, hashing? Cum and join the three non-virgins for group activities!
Flashlights are required if you like to watch!
Where: Doggy Style’s House, 5152 Caste Drive, Whitehall PA, 15236
GPS 40° 21' 41.77" N, 80° 0' 22.62"W
Google Directions:
Click on Directions to Doggy’s House and when the google map page appears, enter your street address and your zip code (example: 325 Waterman Rd, 15025) and click the Get Direction button.
Old Style Directions:
From downtown Pittsburgh take Liberty Bridge and go through the Liberty Tunnels (stay in right lane) and take Route 51 South.
Go 2.1 Miles on Route 51 South through the intersection of Route 88, note the Hillview Tavern on your right
Continue on Rt 51 in the right lane another 0.21 miles and bear right onto Fairhaven Rd (if you miss Fairhaven Rd, just turn right on Stewart Ave at the next light and then left onto Provost Rd). Fairhaven Rd turns into Provost at the intersection of Stewart Ave.
Continue on Provost Rd/Fairhaven Rd for 0.25 miles to the next light (Note: Gas USA on corner)
Bare right at light onto Weyman Rd
Go 1.0 mile and turn right on South Passage Dr (if you cum at second light you went too far)
Go 0.3 miles and turn left on Caste Dr
Go through the stop sign and Doggy’s house is the Sixth house on the right from the stop sign.
Park along the street just don’t block any driveways. Note: In Whitehall parking is allowed on one side of the street so look at the signs before parking.
Apres: Same as Hash Start, Doggy Style’s House
Hash Contacts:
Doggy Style – phone 412-882-9561 (cell 412-527-3183)
Si Phylli - phone 412-606-1341
Aching for One -

2007 11 Dec - 17 Dec

2007-12-12T15:18:00.000-08:00

Friday Dec 14
• Students and faculty of the Afro-American Music Institute will perform a free concert of jazz, classical and holiday songs at Borders Books & Music in East Liberty Friday at 6 p.m. Young people in attendance will be encouraged to interact with the musicians.

SATURDAY Dec 15
Cracow Creche
The fifth annual Cracow Creche exhibition and reception will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday in the William Pitt Student Union, Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard, University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus.
The creches are a folk art specific to the city of Cracow, Poland, where they are called szopka. They originated in the Middle Ages as elaborate puppet stages for Christmas season morality plays. The creches were made by students in a six-week workshop taught yearly by Pittsburgh folk artist and former art administrator David Motak, who traveled to Poland to learn the craft from szopka masters.
The Pittsburgh project is the only one of its kind outside of Poland. The event, sponsored in part by the University of Pittsburgh Polish Nationality Room Committee, is free and open to the public. Traditional Polish holiday music and ethnic pastries will also be featured. For information, visit website .

When: Saturday, Dec 16th, 2007
Time: 2:00 pm -
Hash House Harriers run
Where: Carngie Area
Hare: Dick-A-Day
it basically starts from the same place my Hot Flash Hash started last year.
Let's say, take exit 57 off of Rt. 79, towards Carnegie.
Then Noblestown Rd. towards Oakdale.
When you get to Walker's Mill Road, park -- there are some lots that may or
may not be legal on both sides of Walker's Mill Road.
(Or if you want to be SURE you're legal, go down Walker's Mill and
park at the Panhandle Trail parking lot, it's only about another tenth of a mile.)

2007 03 Dec - 09 Dec

2007-12-01T04:35:00.000-08:00

Tue Dec 4 - 5 PM
CMU - Art Building - Kresge Hall
The School of Art presents Trenton Doyle Hancock, an artist who uses painting, printmaking, drawing, collage and sculpture to create a mythological world where the classic battle of good versus evil is acted out between his central characters, the Mounds and the Vegans. The narratives unfold episodically with the artist moving backwards and forwards in time, continually developing and enriching his stories. His works exhibit a multiplicity of layers and meaning that are at once both exuberant and subversive.

Wed Dec 5 - 6 PM
CMU - Student Center - McCononmy Auditorium
Building Virtual Worlds
See the raucous stage show that marks semester’s end for the “Building Virtual Worlds” class. The interdisciplinary project course attracts students from computer science, drama, engineering, art and other departments who work in teams to develop interactive virtual worlds. The often hilarious, colorful and exhilarating show allows students to show off their best projects to a standing room only audience. Created by renowned Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch, the class now is taught by Jesse Schell, assistant professor in the Entertainment Technology Center, a joint operation of the College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science. “What I think is special about the show is that it is unlike anything else — it is a mix of performance art, video games, computer animation and audience participation — a virtual reality vaudeville show that has become a Carnegie Mellon tradition,” Schell said.

Thu Dec 6 - 5 PM
Happy Hour for computer programmers
Church Brew Works, Lawrenceville
Free beer and appetizers, sponsor is Sun Microsystems
Geek Night

Thu Dec 6 - 6 to 9 PM
33 Terminal Way, 15219 (off Carson St)
Bike Pittsburgh and Friends Holiday Party Invitation
Come celebrate the holidays and bikes, trails, and cleanways!
Please join Bike Pittsburgh and our friends, Friends of the Riverfront and
Allegheny Cleanways for our annual festive holiday party. We'll have plenty of
food, drinks, and yuletide cheer to go around. Music will be provided by the
Boilermaker Jazz Band. Please feel welcome to invite your friends and
colleagues.
When: Thursday December 6, 6PM - 9PM
Where: Our office: 33 Terminal Way, 15219 off Carson
Cost: Free

Sat Dec 8 - 2 PM
South Side Works
Pittsburgh's Third Annual Santarchy will start at 2:00pm at the fountain in the South Side Works on Saturday, December 8, 2007. Same time and place as last year (and nearly the same day)! Remember that Santa is ON TIME until 2:00pm, at which point the herd will be sheparded toward its first watering hole and time loses all meaning. DO NOT BE LATE. If you can't be there by 2:00pm, you better have a backup plan for your costume. A hundred red suits can disappear pretty quickly at the sound of alcohol pouring into glasses. Early Santas get a souvenir book of lewd carols. Late Santas get left behind.

YES, you MUST wear a costume. NO, you can NOT get by with a red shirt and Santa hat. BE CREATIVE, ya lazy bum! You don't have to look like Santa, but you MUST NOT look like you. Jeans, in particular, will be removed and destroyed without warning.

There will be less of a schedule this year than in previous years, and what little schedule there is, is subject to revision or abandonment at any moment. We're expecting a record number of Santas, elves, reindeer and other critters this year, and who knows what direction they might wander. Stick with the pack and you shouldn't get lost or hurt too badly. If you see more than one pack, stick with the biggest one. Or not. It's Santarchy, not follow-the-effing-leader. Santa is welcome pretty much anywhere he enters, except maybe Dee's.

Bring money for public transit, alcohol and food. Bring your ID, because even Santa gets carded these days. Stay hydrated, or at least stay liquored up. Pay your own tab and tip the staff like Santa would. Bars will be packed, lines will be long, and stops will be short. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN INEBRIATION.

(Santa does not advocate breaking open container laws. Santa's just sayin'...)

Don't be THAT Santa. Your friends want to have fun, not scrape the puke outta your beard or prevent your wasted ass from wandering recklessly into traffic.

Bring innocent toys to hand out to kids and naughty toys to give to adults. IT IS YOUR CIVIC DUTY TO MAKE PEOPLE WONDER WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON.

There will be more antics this year than in previous years. Be ready to be rambunctious and spend a lot more time drawing attention to ourselves. Remember that Santarchy isn't about the BARS, it's about the CRAWLS. We have some intentions, but if you have an idea for a prank or stunt along the way, JUST DO IT. Get other people to join you, to share the fun and spread the blame. Interact with passers-by as well as other Santarchists... they will probably appreciate it.

And add to that, don't get yourself into any trouble that you can't get yourself out of. Santa has a way of disappearing when the red and blue lights start flashing or the fists start flying. Don't expect a Santa Bouncer or Santa Lawyer to come running to your side, ya stupid prick!

Remember the answers to these frequently asked questions:

Q: Is this some sort of political statement?
A: No, it's fun. Remember fun?

Q: What are you protesting?
A: Shitty holiday parties.

Q: Who's in charge?
A: Santa!

Q: Which Santa?
A: The one with the beard.

Q: Which Santa with a beard?
A: That's it, you're on the naughty list.

Q: Where are you going?
A: Nobody knows but Santa.

Q: Can I join you?
A: Get into a costume and we'll talk.

Q: But I don't have a costume?
A: Buy us all a round of drinks and we'll talk.

If you manage to stay with the pack the whole afternoon and evening, and not get yourself beat up or arrested, you should finish up somewhere near Satan Square. I mean, Station Square. Same difference, if you think about it. Anyway, getting your fat Santa ass back to the South Side Works for your vehicle is your own damn responsibility, since the reindeer will be too drunk to pull the sleigh. Your best bet is to have someone drop you off at the starting point and take a cab home. Cabbies absolutely LOVE having drunk Santas as passengers, no matter what you've heard to the contrary. Tip them well. DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.

Santarchy is brought to you by the Pittsburgh Cacophony Society -- you may already be a member!

Hey Santa! If you're joining Pittsburgh Santarchy this year, remember to bring your trusty toy sack along for extra cacophonous fun! A black contractor-grade trash bag will work well, but just about anything large and strong enough to hold a shitload of toys will come in *very* handy for you this season.

Sun Oct 9 - Noon
Hash House Harriers run
White Oak Park
from the turnpike or Rte. 22 –
get to the intersection of 22/48S in Monroeville.
Follow 48S for 5.7 miles.
Go straight thru the intersection of 30/48S.
Continue on 48S (Jacks Run Rd).
Follow 1.6 miles to McClintock Rd.
Turn left and park in lot on the right.

2007 Nov 26 to Dec 02

2007-11-26T11:30:00.000-08:00

Mon Nov 26 - 6:45 PM
CMU
Baker Hall 136A
Cuban scholar Juan Antonio Alvarado Ramos will give a lecture titled “One Journal, Many Voices: Racism and Race Relations in Contemporary Cuba and Beyond.” He is the editor-in-chief of ISLAS, the official publication of the Afro-Cuban Alliance Inc, a Florida nonprofit that works to bring together African Americans and black Cubans. Ramos is a native of Matanzas, Cuba, and he earned a doctorate in historical sciences from the University of Havana and the Cuban Academy of the Sciences. He oversaw the creation of the digital Ethnographic Atlas of Cuba, and he was the principal investigator of a Cuban national project to study contemporary racism on the island.
Ramos appears courtesy of the International Relations Program. His talk will be preceded by a reception at 6 p.m. in the Adamson Wing.

Tue Nov 27 - 4:30 PM
CMU
Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall A14
Nicholas P. Sullivan, Author of "You Can Hear Me Now"
The cell phone revolution in the developing world is a story of transformation on par with the Industrial Revolution in the West. In poor countries where five or 10 years ago only the rich had phones and bank accounts, hundreds of millions now have phones—and are using them to transfer money (locally and internationally), buy and sell goods, track agricultural prices and connect to doctors. The stories of GrameenPhone in Bangladesh, CelTel in Africa and Smart Communications in The Philippines, among others, show how the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) at the grassroots, and particularly in rural areas, is creating a whole new class of indigenous entrepreneurs, increasing incomes in the informal sector, and driving national economic growth. At the same time, the cell phone stories show the power of private investment over development aid as an economic tool, as new capital markets incubate and evolve to spark long-term growth. This is a win-win story of inclusive capitalism that creates wealth as it spreads wealth. Nicholas P. Sullivan has written widely about technology and entrepreneurship, for the most part tracking the impact of the information communications technology revolution in the United States. For the past five years he has focused on global development and investment, a path he followed after hosting international Internet conferences and radio programs for entrepreneurs while he served as editor in chief of Inc.com (a sister company to Inc. magazine). He was thereafter a United Nations–accredited business interlocutor to the International Financing for Development Conference (Monterrey, Mexico, 2002), and participated in several follow-on dialogues at the United Nations.
Sullivan is author of the upcoming You Can Hear Me Now: Connecting the World’s Poor to the Global Economy (Jossey-Bass, January 2007). For 15 years, he wrote the Workstyles column (“life and work in the information age”) for Home Office Computing. He is publisher of Innovations: Technology/Governance/Globalization (an MIT Press journal), and a partner in the Global Horizon Fund, a private-equity fund-of-local funds in emerging markets, for whom he compiles the annual Wealth of Nations Index, a ranking of 70 developing countries.
Sullivan is a graduate of Harvard University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at M.I.T. (www.lcde.org).

Wed Nov 28 - 8:00 PM
CMU
School of Fine Arts, Alumni Hall
The School of Music presents a Solo & Ensemble Guitar concert with Director James Ferla.

Wed Nov 28 - 7:30 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh
Grotto (Spelunkers) monthly meeting
Video shown of rappels on Bridge Day (the New river in West Virginia)

Thu Nov 29 - 4:30 PM
CMU
Baker Hall 136A
The University Lecture Series presents Martin Davis of New York University and UC Berkeley. Davis' talk is titied "Alan Turing's Computers and our Computers."
In 1999, Time magazine proposed their list of the 20 greatest “scientists and thinkers'” of the 20th century. Explaining their choice of Alan Turing as one of the 20, they wrote: “everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine.” Although these “machines” were only mathematical abstractions that Turing had introduced in a technical paper published in 1936, they implied a whole new way of thinking about computation and revealed the goal of an all-purpose machine that could be “programmed” to carry out arbitrary computations. In this talk Davis will tell the story of Turing’s rich, eventful, and ultimately tragic life, and explain some of his ideas.

Fri Nov 30
Sat Dec 01
Sun Dec 02
Univ of Pittsburgh
Women in War Film Festval

Saturday 11 AM - 3 PM
HOLIDAY CRAWL
Whether they crawl, walk or run, Kids Holiday Crawl is looking like a fun time for the young ones on Saturday in the Cultural District.
There will be Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa activities, including cookie decorating, crafts, a visit with Santa, caroling, live entertainment and more along the Kids Holiday Crawl in the Cultural District, Downtown, starting at 11 a.m. Saturday.
The events and activities, provided by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, are free and at a variety of spaces throughout the district; patrons may start at any location. Details: 412-456-6666 or pgharts.org.
Here are the events:
• 803 Liberty Ave.: Visit with Santa, free First Night buttons to all children 5 and under. Eat'n Park cookies while supplies last.
• 808 Liberty Ave.: Decorate holiday cookies or enjoy a warm food or beverage with the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute.
• 812 Liberty, SPACE: Create a craft with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh; El Coro Latinamericano performance noon-12:20; 1-1:30
• 820 Liberty Ave.: Celebrate Hanukkah with games & activities.
• 937 Liberty 1st Floor: Create a holiday craft.
• 937 Liberty 3rd Floor: Decorate Max & Ruby bunny ears with the Pittsburgh International Children's Theater.
• 625 Liberty Ave.: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Pittsburgh Pirates Cannonball Crew; 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Steelers mascot Steely McBeam; noon-1 p.m. Pirates Parrot; 2-3 p.m. Penguins mascot Iceburgh.
• August Wilson Center for African American Culture @ 209 9th Street: Celebrate Kwanzaa. Create a drum; Afrika Yetu performance 12:30 p.m.
• Scott Place, 655 Penn Ave.: Chalk artists with Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.
• 655 Penn Ave., Cabaret Theater: Pittsburgh CLO Mini Stars perform 11 a.m.; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. additional activities in the lobby.
• 655 Penn Ave., Cabaret Theater lobby: Holiday cookies compliments of Chef Toni Pais and Cafe Zao.
• Sonar @ 707 Penn Ave.: Works by Christopher Lisowski & Tullis Johnson including a 23-foot baby whale.
• Manchester Craftsmen's Guild Gallery @ 800 Penn Ave.: Make your own photo weaving.
• Northside Urban Pathways Charter School @ 914 Penn Ave.: Make a star ornament
• Byham Theater lobby: Zany Umbrella Circus at noon, 1, 2 p.m.
• Fifth Avenue Place: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, "The Nutcracker" vignettes 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 p.m.; Pittsburgh Symphony, 1-2 p.m., bring your camera and take a family photo with Fiddlesticks; Carnegie Science Center: Create holiday souvenirs and receive a face painting and caricature!

Sat Dec 01 6-9 PM
Point Breeze Light Up night
Reynolds and Gettysburg
Event site

Annual Mountain Bike Dorseyville Punk Bike Enduro
That time of year again. The big news is that this years PUNK will be
self-supported. Stuff was getting out of hand, so… NO MOTORS! No
support vans, no dirt bikes, just bikes, so you better be ready. In
fact we’ve brought back the old PPG loop so the course will be longer
and harder. Of course we will do our best to provide some beverages
on trail but you’d be wise to bring something like a backpack with a
mug in it, plenty of liquids, some warm clothing and FOOD. Yes, we
are bringing back the old days. So here’s the official announcement
just like it was written back in 1990 when we had 26 people
participating…
OUTLAWS
COME TO THE
18TH ANNUAL
PUNK BIKE ENDURO
SUNDAY DECEMBER 2nd, 2007
11 AM SHARP
DORSEYVILLE FIRE HALL
100 Charles St
Blawnox, PA 15238
AN 11 STAGE STAGE RACE FOR FUN AND POINTS
MOST POINTS WINS
NO FEES, NO NORBA, NO RULES
EATS & PARTY AFTER IT'S OVER
WE'LL BUY SOME BEER
YOU BRING THE REST (OR GO HUNGRY)
KITCHEN AVAILABLE
COURSE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
DRESS FOR COLD, WET WEATHER
YOU MIGHT WEAR A HELMET AS THERE IS NO INSURANCE
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25TH
SATURDAY DECEMBER 1ST
TRAIL MAINTENACE PRE-RIDES
CALL MOE’S CELL 412.302.9070
BE READY FOR ANYTHING

2004 pictures
2005 pictures
2006 pictures
All pictures

2007 Nov 12 to Nov 18

2007-11-13T08:16:00.000-08:00

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
8.30pm. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
for the FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Pittsburgh Premiere of the film
A Paper Tiger (Un Tigre de Papel) by Luis Ospina (Colombia, 2007)
Awarded with the National Documentary Prize—Colombia, 2007.
RECEPTION. 8.00PM. FRICK FINE ARTS CLOISTER
(offered by colombiaenpittsburgh.org)
Q&A with the director to follow
Generously supported by:
The Modern Languages and History Departments at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), UCIS, A& S Graduate Studies Office, Cultural Studies Program, Studio Arts Program, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and the English Department at The University of Pittsburgh
First Short Film and Documentary Festival organized by Los Amigos del Cine Latino Americano
for more information about the Festival please visit: http://amigosdelcinelatinoamericano.googlepages.com/
synopsis of the films available at http://rojaszotelo.googlepages.com/shortfilmanddocumentaryfestival
About the film and the director:
Based on the life of artist Pedro Manrique Figeroa (a leftist militant) who has been called the pioneer of collage art in Colombia after artists Lucas Ospina, François Bucher, and Bernardo Ortiz discovered his work in 1996; the film attempts to construct a biographical sketch of Manrique Figueroa, proposing nothing less than the retelling and re-imagining of a crucial period of Colombian history, from the civil war that began in the 1940s to the guerrilla wars and the new drug cartels of the 1970s and 1980s. After a series of national and international exhibits of his work Marique Figeroa has become central to understand the fragmented history of a complex nation, this film A Paper Tiger is a collage itself, placing art and politics, truth and lies side by side, letting documentary and fiction intermingle.
Luis Ospina was born in Cali, Colombia, in 1949. He studied film at USC and UCLA in California. His film-related activities include not only the many films he has directed but also his efforts as a Film Club organizer, co-founder of the film magazine "Ojo al Cine", teacher at universities, critic and chronicler for journals and magazines. He has also directed film workshops and edited several books. A collection of his articles and essays was recently published in Colombia. Up to date he has made two feature-length fiction films and more than forty short films and documentaries.

Tue Nov 13 - 5 PM
Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts
The School of Art presents Ken Rinaldo, an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He’s been working at the intersection of art and biology for more than two decades in the categories of interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging.

Nov 13 - 6 to 8 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Lecture with John Bowe
John Bowe is the author of Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy. He will be giving a lecture on how outsourcing and immigration fraud allow forced labor to continue in the United States while most of us notice nothing but the everyday low price at the checkout counter. After the lecture and Q&A, a reception and book signing will follow.

Tuesday, November 13 - 4:30 PM
College of Fine Arts-Alumni Concert Hall
Riccardo Schulz, Associate Teaching Professor of Recording Technology, School Music
Diapason d'Or Award-winning recorded performance of George Crumb's Black Angels and Makrokosmos III
Join the Center for the Arts in Society for a recorded performance of American composer George Crumb's famous Black Angels and Makrokosmos III, compositions for two pianos and percussion.
The recording, on the Mode record label, is conducted by Juan Pablo Izquierdo and features Cuarteto Latinoamericano pianists Luz Manriquez and Walter Morales, tenor Douglas Ahlstedt, and several students from Carnegie Mellon's percussion studio. Riccardo Schulz and Harold Walls collaborated extensively with Maestro Izquierdo in the editing and mastering of the recording.
This recently released recording won the coveted "Diapason d'Or" Award, the most important independent European record prize in classical music.

Wed Nov 14, 4:30pm (refreshments at 4:15)
Location: CMU - Wean Hall 7500
Speaker: Red Whitaker, Robotics institute
Topic: Boss, winner of the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge

Thu Nov 15 - 4 PM
CMU - Wean Hall 7500
The School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series presents the Hank Suz Chi Wan Memorial Lecture by Jeff Hawkins, founder of Numenta, founder of Palm and Handspring, and author of "On Intelligence." His talk is titled "Hierarchical Temporal Memory: How a New Theory of Neocortex May Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines." "Distinguished Donuts" will precede the lecture at 3:30 p.m. outside the auditorium.

Squirrel Hill election results

2007-11-07T10:52:00.000-08:00

dark blue: voted strongly for Lou
light blue: voted hesitately for Lou
yellow: voted hesitately for DeSantis
orange: voted strongly for DeSantis
red: voted decisely for DeSantis

The majority of the East End voted for DeSantis

2007 Nov 5 to Nov 11

2007-11-02T10:28:00.000-07:00

Monday, November 5, 4:30 pm to 6:00 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Challenge of Diversity in Higher Education
The University Lecture Series presents Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga. Tatum's talk is titled "Challenge of Diversity in Higher Education." Prior to joining Spelman College, Tatum was acting president, dean and a professor of education and psychology at Mt. Holyoke College. She is a clinical psychologist who has addressed issues surrounding race and racism in her courses, psychology practice and consulting. One area of focus for two of her books has been racial identity as it is experienced throughout our educational system for students of underrepresented racial/ethnic populations. She is the author of "Assimilation Blues: Black Families in White Communities (1987), Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" "And Other Conversations About Race, Assimilation Blues: Black Families in White Communities (1997)," and published this year "Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation (2007)." The talk is supported by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Monday, November 5, 7:00 pm
Adamson Wing Auditorium, Baker Hall 136A, on the Carnegie Mellon main campus
Terry Irwin, Co-founder of MetaDesign San Francisco: Design and Worldview
Designed artifacts, processes, and the built environment are the physical embodiment of our individual and cultural worldviews. To the extent that our worldview is sustainable, so too will be the design that arises out of it.
In this lecture I look at the concept of worldview and propose that our current/dominant western worldview is unsustainable, which makes it practically impossible for a new, sustainable design paradigm to arise from within it. We need to work with and shift the cultural worldview before the paradigms of the disciplines will follow. Part of my research therefore, looks at the characteristics and assumptions of both the dominant (mechanistic worldview) and the business/economic paradigms which influence design. Finally I look at the design paradigm and some of its underlying assumptions.
Holistic Science

Tuesday November 6, 5:00 pm
Adamson Wing Auditorium, Baker Hall 136A, on the Carnegie Mellon main campus
Anne Taylor, Director of Technology, National Federation of the Blind: Designing Products for Non-Visual Access
Much of the current on innovation in industrial design has focused on making more technology available in different, flexible ways. The emphasis on mobility and flexibility, however, has done little to address the needs of growing group of consumers with visual impairments. This talk will expose new opportunities for design from a non-visual angle. It will describe the issues that arise as technology and formats change, and makes a case for a more inclusive design.
Non-visual access, if integrated in the development process from an early stage, is an opportunity to re-evaluate the consumer group the product is intended for. It is an opportunity for creativity that serves the community as a whole, not only those who are blind. Past developments indicate that non-visual design often represents a move forward in all design, increasing, as it does, the ease of access and simplicity of operation. Optical character recognition, pioneered in a reading machine for the blind, has long since become mainstream technology, as have the type of portable devices (similar to modern PDAs) that were first used as notetakers for blind people.
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is the largest membership organization of blind people in the US. NFB has always aimed to do more than simply evaluate what others produce, as most recently demonstrated in their co-operation with Kurzweil Technologies to produce the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader.
Anne Taylor is the National Federation of the Blind’s Director of Technology, and she maintains close relationships with manufacturers of both general and specifically non-visual products, providing feedback on existing products and consulting on the development of new ones. Ms. Taylor also manages the largest collection of non-visual technology in the US, in the form of the International Braille and Technology Center, and continues to work with universities in the area to involve their engineering students in the Center.
She's an expert in Braille devices
An example of products for the blind

Tue Nov 6 - 6:00 PM
Carnegie Lecture Hall, Carnegie Museum of Art
The School of Art presents Rachel Whiteread, an artist who creates large-scale sculptures and installations by casting everyday objects, including household furniture and large architectural structures to explore complex notions of presence and absence, memory and loss, and the relationship of the body to forms in space. These works, including Untitled (Domestic) 2002, a plaster cast of a three-story staircase recently acquired by Carnegie Museum of Art, formally document how humans relate to the spaces around them.

Nov 8 - 5 PM
The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery presents an opening reception for three exhibitions, featuring a photo installation by Patricia Maurides, a series of wall-hung sculptures by Michelle Stitzlein, and a suite of paintings by Julie Stunden. Maurides investigates her origins in installations made up of photos, projected images and natural sounds. Many photos explore her past and were shot on location in the village in southern Greece where her father was born. Maurides was the first director of Carnegie Mellon's Bachelor of Humanities and Arts and Bachelor of Science and Arts programs. Stitzlein transforms discarded items into large-scale sculptures with some comprising hundreds of objects. Stunden's colorful paintings inspire viewers to reflect on the fantastic and realistic elements in her work and synthesize them into a single perspective. The exhibitions run through Dec. 21.

Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6pm - midnight
Rivers Club, One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA
DevHouse Pittsburgh is an event patterned on SuperHappyDevHouse. We aim to become the premier Pittsburgh-area hackathon event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. Come to the DevHouse to have fun and get things done!
We're about rapid development, ad-hoc collaboration, and cross pollination. Whether you're a l33t hax0r, hardcore coder, or passionate designer, if you enjoy software and technology development, DevHouse Pittsburgh is for you.
DevHouse is not a marketing event. It's a non-exclusive event intended for passionate and creative technical and design people that want to have some fun, learn new things, and meet new people.
DevHouse Pittsburgh #1
Food and beverages will be provided.
DevHouse Pittsburgh

Sun Nov 11 - 1 PM
Orienteering with North East Ohio Orienteering Club
20 miles east of Akron
NEOOC

2007 Oct 29 to Nov 4

2007-10-29T12:29:00.000-07:00

Monday, October 29, 2007,
4:30 PM, McConomy Auditorium, CMU
Joint Physics Colloquium, Dr. Robert Lang, Ph.D in Physics from Caltech and now is a full-time artist and consultant on Origami's applications to engineering problems, "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami," Cosponsored by the Department of Physics and the School of Art,
Abstract: The last decade of this past century has been witness to a revolution in the development and application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. The techniques used in mathematical origami design range from the abstruse to the highly approachable. In this talk, I will describe how geometric concepts led to the solution of a broad class of origami folding problems – specifically, the problem of efficiently folding a shape with an arbitrary number and arrangement of flaps, and along the way, enabled origami designs of mind-blowing complexity and realism, some of which you’ll see, too. As often happens in mathematics, theory originally developed for its own sake has led to some surprising practical applications. The algorithms and theorems of origami design have shed light on long-standing mathematical questions and have solved practical engineering problems. I will discuss examples of how origami has enabled safer airbags, Brobdingnagian space telescopes, and more.
Robert J. Lang is recognized as one of the foremost origami artists in the world as well as a pioneer in computational origami and the development of formal design algorithms for folding. With a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech, he has, during the course of work at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Spectra Diode Laboratories, and JDS Uniphase, authored or co-authored over 80 papers and 45 patents in lasers and optoelectronics as well as 8 books and a CD-ROM on origami. He is a full-time artist and consultant on origami and its applications to engineering problems but moonlights as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.

Tue Oct 30 - 5 PM
CMU lecture , McConomy Auditorium
The School of Art presents Public Art Fund Director Rochelle Steiner. Previously, Steiner was chief curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

Tue Oct 30 - 5 to 7 PM
Growler hours at East End Brewery

Wed Oct 31 - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Halloween

Thu Nov 1 - 5 to 7 PM
Growler hours at East End Brewery

Thu Nov 1 - 7 PM
THIS MONTH: DOCS THAT AREN'T DOCS (in the traditional sense)
Films will include Duck and Cover and excerpts from Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance. Each is an important classic and has been very influential in its own way among filmmakers.
Almost sixty years old, Duck and Cover also has an eerie relevance to the current political climate of cultivating and maintaining fear. Duck and Cover was a Social guidance film produced in 1951 by the United States federal government's Civil Defense branch shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing. Written by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions and made with the help of schoolchildren from New York City and Astoria, New York, it was shown in schools as the cornerstone of the government's "duck and cover" public awareness campaign. The movie states that nuclear war could happen at any time without warning, and for U.S. citizens to keep this constantly in mind and be ever ready.
Duck and Cover (1952) 9 min.
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In the Hopi language,
the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance (1982) 86 min. (excerpts to be shown)
Presented by Salon member Dan Handley.
Date & time: Thurs, November 1
6:30p Food & Social
7:00p Screening & Discussion
Location: Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Classroom Theater (aka Mini-Melwood)
Schedule

Fri Nov 2 - 12:30 PM
CMU- Rangos Ballroom
The International Festival presents its keynote lecture by Charles Fishman, award-winning journalist and author of "The Wal-Mart Effect." By influencing the way we shop, the products we buy, and the prices we pay everyday, Wal-Mart continues to purposefully drive the American economy. On the other end, it affects the operations of the suppliers and changes what is sold, how products are packaged and presented, and the very lives of the factory workers who make these products around the world. It is, as Fishman describes, the most powerful and influential company in the world. Find out more about the phenomena, the lives it has touched, and what it means for the future of globalization. Tickets for the lecture are free and include lunch for all attendees. Tickets must be obtained at the University Center Information Desk.
Festival

Fri Nov 2 - 6 PM to 11 PM
Penn Avenue Unblurred
Lee Robinson plays saxophone at 8 PM at national city bank on Penn Ave

Sat Nov 3 - 12 to 5 PM
Growler hours at East End Brewery

Sat Nov 3
7-10pm Bhangra in the Burgh
Soldiers & Sailors Museum & Memorial

Don’t miss Bhangra in the Burgh, a national Bhangra dance competition hosted by Carnegie Mellon’s Mayur-SASA and Chak De. Bhangra is a lively and energetic folk dance that originated in an East Pakistan and Northwest India region known as Punjab. It is typically performed while celebrating the annual harvest, but after spreading its popularity, particularly in the United Kingdom, Canada and the US, it has fused with Western elements including hip-hop and reggae. The competition will boast Bhangra dance teams from universities around the country competing for the top prize. All proceeds will go to the Homeless Children’s Education Fund, a non-profit organization that provides access to education for homeless children of Allegheny County. By attending, you are supporting a worthy cause and will most certainly be entertained and given a glimpse of the Punjab and South Asian cultures.
Tickets for Carnegie Mellon community members are $10 and for sale at the University Center Information Desk. Bus service will be provided from the UC Turnaround to Soldiers & Sailors in Oakland.
Bhangra

Sun Nov 4 - 11 AM
Run with the Hash House Harriers, on a 11-mile long trail set by Guy's Queer
Brought to you by GQ, Crazy Ed, & Guy’s Queer. Sticky Beaver is threatening to co-hare.
Mega-Hash length, 10~12 miles.
Wear camo if U got it, U’ll be glad U did. This will be a Contra hash - beer & water will be provided on trail, bring cash for the après. Non-members $5 – San Diego & WV hashers are free. (A half point is available here for anyone who wants to pay for an Apres, call me…)
Gorgeous trails!, waterfalls, shiggy, leaves changing, & 3 high-quality beer stops. Very little cement on trail. This trail is not bikeable. U will want a light. There will be a shuttle available for any ladies who wish to Turkey.
Directions: Get U’rself to Rte 28 North – 1 mile past the Highland Park Bridge – Blawnox exit – go about a mile to the end of the Blawnox business district and U’ll see a Sunoco on the right. Park in the grass lot adjoining/northeast of the Sunoco. [Note start time of 11: am]
(If coming from the North, take 910 exit, then Freeport Rd SouthWest 2~3 miles to the Sunoco on your left)
Iron-clad guarantee: of all the trails you’ve ever run, this will be one of them.
Apres: Primanti’s in Harmarville, at the intersection of Rte’s 28 & 910. U might want to check back here or call me if U’re pimping as the location may change
GQ/Ed 412/592-4949

Saturday November 03 2007, 5:00 pm
Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble
Alumni Concert Hall
Walter Morales, Music Director
Manuel Guillen, violin
Sung Im Kim, piano

Sun Nov 4 - 10 AM to 1 PM
Orienteering meet aka Land Navigation using map and compass
Pine Ridge park, just off Route 22 east of Blairsville, PA
Followed by end-of-season dinner party
Orienteering Club

Sunday November 04 2007, 7:00 pm
CMU - Alumni Concert Hall
Manuel Guillen, violin

2007 Oct 23 to Oct 28

2007-10-23T06:23:00.000-07:00

Thu Oct 25 - 7 PM
Romanian Film Festival
Free admission
Bellefield Auditorium, Bellefield Ave
"The Paper Will Be Blue " [Hîrtia va fi albastrã (2006)]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819895/
details at http://www.pitt.edu/~filmst/events/calendar_2007.html

Fri Oct 26 - 7 PM
Romanian Film Festival
Free admission
Bellefield Auditorium, Bellefield Ave
"12:08 East of Bucharest" [A fost sau n-a fost? (2006)]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0809407/
details at http://www.pitt.edu/~filmst/events/calendar_2007.html

Sat Oct 27 - 2 PM to 3:30 PM
Black Sheep Puppet Festival - FREE !
Brew House, South Side, 21St and Josephine St
Performances

Saturday, October 27 - 12 - 5 pm
416 Library Street
Braddock, PA 15104
I Made It! Scary is a nomadic Marketplace featuring 50 local artists and craftspeople offering surprises around every corner.
Everyone is encouraged to wear their favorite costume.
Handmade wares found at the Market include: ceramics, jewelry, handbags, gift wrap, home accessories, reconstructed clothing, items made from salvaged items found along Pittsburgh's three rivers, hula hoops, vegan cupcakes, stools fashioned from traffic signs, all natural organic bath and body products, woodcuttings, notebooks, etchings, and much more.

WHEN: Saturday, October 27, 2007, 7PM !!!NOTE EARLY START TIME!!!
WHERE: Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave.
HOW MUCH: $5/$4 students, seniors (one price for both parts or one
part)

Don't miss this important touring program and rare opportunity to see
some classic UK experimental films curated by Mark Webber of LUX. All
titles projected in 16mm film. Part 1 will begin at 7PM and Part 2 will
begin at 9PM

http://www.lux.org.uk/
http://www.secretcinema.co.uk/

Shoot Shoot Shoot: British Avant-Garde Film of the 1960s & 1970s

The 1960s and 1970s were groundbreaking decades in which independent
filmmakers challenged cinematic convention. In England, much of the
innovation took place at the London Film-Makers' Co-operative, an artist-led
organization that enabled filmmakers to control every aspect of the
creative process. LFMC members conducted an investigation of celluloid
that echoed contemporary developments in painting and sculpture. During
this same period, British filmmakers also made significant innovations
in the field of "expanded cinema", creating multi-screen projections,
film environments and live performance pieces.

The physical production of a film (its printing and processing) became
integral to its form and content as Malcolm Le Grice, Lis Rhodes, Peter
Gidal and others explored the material and mechanics of cinema, making
radical new works that contributed to a new visual language. The
London Film-Makers' Co-operative, established in 1966, grew from a film
society at the heart of London’s sixties counterculture to become
Europe's largest distributor of experimental cinema and was recognized
internationally as a major centre for avant-garde film.

Part 1 (7PM)

Slides by Annabel Nicolson [1970, 16mm, color, silent, 11 min]
At the Academy by Guy Sherwin [1974, 16mm, b&w, sound, 5 min]
Shepherd's Bush by Mike Leggett [1971, 16mm, b&w, sound, 15 min]
Film No. 1 by David Crosswaite [1971, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min]
Dresden Dynamo by Lis Rhodes [1971, 16mm, color, sound, 5 min]
Versailles I & II by Chris Garratt [1976, 16mm, b&w, sound, 11 min]
Silver Surfer by Mike Dunford [1972, 16mm, b&w, sound, 15 min]
Footsteps by Marilyn Halford [1974, 16mm, b&w, sound, 6 min]

78 minutes total

Part 2 (9PM)

Threshold by Malcolm Le Grice [1972, 16mm color, sound, 10 min]
Seven Days by Chris Welsby [1974, 16mm, color, sound, 20 min]
Key by Peter Gidal, [1968, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min]
Moment by Stephen Dwoskin [1968, 16mm, color, sound, 12 min]
Deck by Gill Eatherley [1971, 16mm, color, sound, 13 min]
Colours of this Time by William Raban [1972, 16mm, color, silent, 3
min]
Associations by John Smith [1975, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min]

75 minutes total

Jefferson Presents...
Movies for YOU
http://www.geocities.com/jeffersonpresents

Dorothy 6 is pleased to present...
HotMetalMoon
An Art and Performance Event
Saturday OCTOBER 27, 2007
7:30 PM – 11:30 PM
featuring:
RiverCubes Project: Braddock
FullMoonRise Presentation: Industrial Bucolic
http://www.rivercubes.net
and
a pyrotechnic metal casting performance by Pittsburgh's,
hotmetalhappening:ShapeShifter
http://www.hotmetalhappening.com
and includes:
Rain Fire From The Sky
by Ed Parrish Jr.
The Archer of the Forest
by Carley Jean Parrish
Witches Brew
from Gavin Kenyon
The Heart of the Raven
from Kenneth Patrick Payne, of Circus Inferno
with…musical accompaniment by Centipede Este
Live music through the night from:
Italian Ice – power drum duo and PK POO – local hip hop artist
Free refreshments from:
King Of The Hill Distributors
All ages welcome
$5.00 admission
At the 11th Street Public Boat Launch in Braddock, PA
from Braddock Ave. ttrun right onto 9th st. and left onto Washington Blvd.
Halloween costumes optional and encouraged.
Sponsors include:
King of The Hill Distributors
Sprout Fund
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
United States Steel Corporation
The Borough of Braddock
more info?
Contact:
Lauri Mancuso - curator
412-951-0622
laurimancuso@msn.com
Centipede Music Band