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
Monday, December 1, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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
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
Thursday, November 13, 2008
2008 Nov 17 - Nov 23
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
2008 Nov 10 - Nov 16
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.
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.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
2008 Nov 3 - Nov 9
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
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
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
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
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
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
Monday, September 29, 2008
2008 Oct 13 - Oct 19
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.
-----------------------------------
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.
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.
-----------------------------------
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Monday, September 22, 2008
2008 Sep 22 - Sep 28
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
Projected in video
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).
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
Projected in video
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).
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