Mon Oct 13 - 4:30 PM
Baker Hall 136A
lecture by Robert Behrman, Engineering and Public -
Understanding conditions in Iraq after the surge
Robert Behrman, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s department of engineering and public policy, will present a description of current conditions in Iraq both social and physical from his firsthand experience. He will aim to explain the developments in Iraq for a better understanding of the news.
Mon Oct 13 2008 - 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Forbes Field Wall on Clemente Drive
Free
1960 World Series Victory Celebration. We will be gathering at the Forbes Field Wall to celebrate the 48th Anniversary of Bill Mazeroski"s 9th inning home run in game 7 of the 1960 World Series, which won the Series for the Pirates. This celebration has been an annual event since 1985. There is no charge for the event.
Please bring any memorabilia (if you have any) from the 1960 Series, along with stories, friends, family, a camera, a jacket ( depending on the weather ), and a comfortable chair. Food and drink will be available for a nominal charge..
There will be a complete game rebroadcast. This is a great day to celebrate baseball, and the 1960 World Series victory again. Some Pirate Alumni will be in attendance.
Wed Oct 15 - 7:30 PM
Frick building auditorium
Free screening of TEMPORADA DE PATOS - Mexico, 2004
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
by http://www.amigosdelcinelatinoamericano2008.blogspot.com/
--- important note ----
THERE WAS NO SCREENING NOR A NOTE OR POSTING ABOUT A CHANGE OF VENUE OR CANCELLATION
STATUS OF THIS SCREENING IS UNKNOWN. University Times staff said they got a cancellation notice after printing, and updated the online site. Note to organizers went unanswered. Also, note that the organizers website has not been updated with the cancellation information.
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Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery. The electricity company, Rita, the neighbor, Ulises, a pizza deliveryman, eleven seconds, the Real Madrid-Manchester game, some chocolate brownies and a horrible painting of ducks, all combine to break the harmony of what promised to be a placid Sunday, and reveal issues such as the parents' divorce, loneliness, the confusion between adolescent love and friendship, as well as frustration in adult life.
Thu Oct 16 - 4:30 PM
CMU, McConomy Auditorium, University Center
lecture by Steve Robbins, Author -
Unintentional Intolerance
Steve Robbins, an expert on issues regarding diversity and inclusion, will speak at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16 at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium. His talk, titled "Unintentional Intolerance," is part of Carnegie Mellon's University Lecture Series and is open to the public.
An author, Robbins works with numerous organizations around the country to help them develop the necessary skills and environment to maximize diverse human resources. He has consulted with a variety of major corporations, including Microsoft, Toyota, PepsiCo and General Mills, along with organizations such as NASA, the National Cancer Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank.
His book "What If? Short Stories to Spark Diversity Dialogue" highlights his unique approach to creating diversity and meeting inclusion challenges. Noted for his resonating, humorous style, he also writes and edits a weekly e-newsletter on diversity and inclusion, titled "Inclusion Insights."
Born in Vietnam, Robbins immigrated to the U.S when he was 5 years old at a time when there was much anti-war and anti-Vietnamese sentiment in the U.S. He credits this experience in part for helping him to create his insightful perspective on diversity and inclusion.
Sat Oct 18 - 10 AM (line starts to form at 6 AM, bring a chair, a radio, a friend)
REI Pittsburgh
GARAGE SALE
must be REI Member (can be purchased on site for $15)
sale on returned items, most of them gently used.
Podcamp Pittsburgh
Sat & Sun, October 18-19
WHERE: The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
WHEN: 9 AM - 4 PM
ADDRESS: 420 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (map)
PARKING: Street parking in the area
FREE
Attendee Guide
8:30 AM: DOORS OPEN
9:00 - 9:50 AM: Opening Keynote/Welcome.
10:00 - 10:45
The HUB (440) — Social Media's Diversity and Role in Activism We'll take a look at forced diversity in traditional media and how social media lacks these barriers, giving all a true choice in the information they consume. Also, you'll hear about how free speech in the US automatically brings about a new type of activism. Jason Cable
ROOM B (435) — Intro to Blogging: What IS a blog? How do you create one? How do you build and sustain an audience? What makes a great blog? Hosted by Cynthia Closkey, Mike Woycheck, and Christina Schulman of Pittsburgh Bloggers (BASIC)
ROOM C (434) — Podcasting 101: Alex Landefeld + TBA (BASIC)
ROOM D (421) — OPEN
ROOM E (420) —"Making Social Media Visible" Michael Munz (Blogs, Videos and Images) Find out how to make your efforts seen and optimized for search engines and consumers.'
11:00 - 11:45
The HUB (440) — Success! (Blogs, shows, podcasts): Justin Kownacki will moderate a panel of bloggers and podcasters discussing different criteria for success in new media, ways of measuring success and how to achieve it. Panelists include DJ G & John R. Carman of The G Spod, Rachel Butera + SIDT + Rich Westerfield, owner / blogger of Aldo Coffee and more.
ROOM B (435) — Branding Your Podcast: Norm Huelsman
ROOM C (434) — Audio/Video 101: TBA (BASIC)
ROOM D (421) — Internal Enterprise/Corporate Podcasts Robin Maiden If you are a podcaster thinking about approaching the boss about doing an internal enterprise podcast, this session is for you. Or, if you are a manager trying to understand the benefits of new media and podcasting, this session is for you. I will discuss the different kinds of internal podcasts, some considerations, and finally, practical tips, tools, and techniques I use to produce my internal corporate podcast.
ROOM E (420) — OPEN
Noon - 12:45 PM: LUNCH
1:00 - 1:45
The HUB (440) — Social Media Business Plans: Aaron Tainter and Alan Veeck of Meakem Becker VC, Meredith Benedict of AlphaLab, Julie Morey of ElasticLab, more TBA
ROOM B (435) — Blogging 201: Blogging Best Practices: For those who've been blogging a while (and beginners who want to see what's ahead). Is your blog as good as it can be? How can you attract more traffic? We'll count down the key features that every blog should have, and cover tips for getting readers and keeping them coming back. Presented by Cynthia Closkey (Big Big Design and My Brilliant Mistakes) and Christina Schulman (one-half of Inner Bitch), co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers
ROOM C (434) — Podcasting 201: TBA
ROOM D (421) — Video Compression Best Practices with Dr. Dave Mansueto: Loveable media swashbuckler Dave Mansueto of Libsyn and Wizzard Media explains what to do (and not do) to make your video look better than anyone else's (except the people who also attend this session).
ROOM E (420) — Podsafe Music: DJ G & John R. Carman of The G Spod will explain what it means to be “podsafe”. Musical artists will learn how to increase their audience and sales by licensing their music as podsafe, and podcasters will learn how to use podsafe audio for free in their shows.
2:00 - 2:45
The HUB (440) — Wrestling Mayhem Show & Should I Drink That
ROOM B (435) — Worth a Thousand Words: Photography 101: Michael Fulk covers how to take better pictures even without those fancy cameras (though it can't hurt to have one) and use them to give your blog some color.
ROOM C (434) — Using Analytics: Andy Quayle
ROOM D (421) — Optimizing Video for the Television Viewer: Mark Cavicchia, Founder/CEO of Pittsburgh's WhereverTV explains how to get your videos ready for the big screen, where average viewing sessions are measured in hours, not minutes.
ROOM E (420) — Feedback: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Justin Kownacki tackles the ups, downs, pros and cons of comments, ratings, feedback and the trolls who make the web go round -- and how you can learn & benefit from them.
3:00 - 3:45
The HUB (440) — SEO and Social Media: Jeffrey Donenfeld of Morpheus Media
ROOM B (435) — Which Web 2.0 Tools to Use for What: John R. Carman will give you a “cheat sheet” of the best social media tools for different types of online communication.
ROOM C (434) — Making It On Your Own - Want to make a living producing new and/or social media? Speak with people who have done it themselves. Rob Blatt and Walt Ribeiro
ROOM D (421) — Blogging for Interaction with Family and Friends: Norman Huelsman
ROOM E (420) — OPEN
Sunday October 19
10:00 - 10:45
The HUB (440) — Panel: It's Not Better to Burn Out than Podfade Away (How to Avoid / Recover from Content Creation Burnout): Three of Pittsburgh's longest-running web shows, DJ G & John R. Carman of The G Spod + The Wrestling Mayhem Show + The cast of Something To Be Desired help you plan for long-term success and offer tips on getting back into production after a looooooong break.
ROOM B (435) — LinkedIn 101: Get Started and Build Business Tim Hindes and Blake Imeson
ROOM C (434) — Usability and Utility. What are they, how are they related and why both are important to providing value. Presented by Carol Smith, Lead Consultant at Midwest Research and Joshua Smith, Lead Developer at Dix Communications.
11:00 - 11:45
The HUB (440) — Old + New, Unite! Using Social Media in The Arts: Panel feat. Mike Cuccaro of The Black Sheep Puppet Festival, Kim Chestney Harvey of The Pittsburgh Technology Council + TBA
ROOM B (435) — Social Networking/Media 101: Jennie Roth and Missy Sorg
ROOM C (434) — Blogging on a Budget: How to Get Your Voice Distributed for Free: Alex Landefeld + TBA
ROOM D (421) — Building IRL (in Real Life) Communities w/ Virtual Tools G. Jason Head of Refresh Pittsburgh
ROOM E (420) — WordPress Session: John R. Carman will give an introduction to WordPress blogging software, explain the differences between WordPress.com
1:00 - 1:45
The HUB (440) — Sports, Olympics and Running Mates: Mark Rauterkus
ROOM B (435) — Social Networking/Media 201 (ADVANCED): Jennie of 37roses and Missy Sorg
ROOM C (434) — OPEN
ROOM D (421) — Live Streaming & Technicalities - building Sponsors, Community as F/T job:2009 is Live Streaming. [Walt Ribeiro http://www.WaltRibeiro.net] of Ustream and Revision 3 goes through the ins and outs of networking, building Community, Sponsors, and Viral Marketing.
ROOM E (420) — Search-Engine-Friendly Blogging, or How to Be #1 in Pretty Hats: Basic search engine optimization (SEO) for WordPress, with applications for other blog tools as well. Want your site to be the number one search result in Google for "pretty hats"? I will tell you how I worked my magic. Key truths and misconceptions about SEO, plus five simple steps you can take to improve your site’s search ranking overall, and for your most important searches. Presented by Cynthia Closkey (Big Big Design and My Brilliant Mistakes)
2:00 - 2:45
The HUB (440) — Rust-Belt Bloggers discussion: Panel discussion among anyone concerned with the economic development of the shrinking cities within the Rust Belt region. See also the Rust Belt Bloggers group. Featuring Jim Russell of BurghDiaspora. Facilitated by Cynthia Closkey (Big Big Design and My Brilliant Mistakes)
ROOM B (435) — Who are you? Finding your voice How awkward is it to stand in front of a camera in your bedroom or behind a microphone for the first time. Does it ever get easier? Tips and tricks to be more comfortable when the spotlight is on you. There might or might not be dancing involved. Presented by Rob Blatt
ROOM C (434) — Design: What can it do for you?: This session will discuss some basic design principles (with examples!) that you can use to help improve your site. We'll also talk about why design can make a difference for your site. No design experience required. Presented by Val Headthisisportable
03:00 - 3:45
The HUB (440) — Using Twitter in Business: Justin Kownacki outlines several ways you can maximize Twitter for promotion and conversation without coming across as Just Another Brand.
ROOM B (435) — Political People, Process and Problem Fixes with a Wiki Tour and Tools: Mark Rauterkus
ROOM C (434) — Being Organic. How I grew my online business Step by Step from the Bottom up [Walt Ribeiro http://www.WaltRibeiro.net] of Ustream and Revision 3 discusses how to pitch Sponsors, and build a 'Friendbase'... NOT a 'Fanbase'. He did it, so can you!
Sat Oct 18 - 2 PM
Orienteering in the streets of Beaver Falls, appropriate for families with children
Must register. Details at WPOC website
2nd Annual Beaver Street O
Saturday, October 18, 2008
This is a 60-minute score event around the streets of Beaver on foot. Map distribution will be at the Beaver Area Memorial Library, on the corner of College Ave and River Rd in Beaver at 1:30 pm. The event has a mass start at 2 pm and finishes at 3 pm. Refreshments and prizes follow the event.
Sun Oct 19 - from 11 AM to 2 PM
Indiana, PA (IUP Co-Op Park)
Orienteering (scavenger hunt with topographic map)
cost: $4 (individual and group, same price)
Sun Oct 19 - from 10 AM to 5 PM
14-mile trail running with the Pittsburgh Hash House Harriers
once-a-year event, social running with four beverage stops and dinner after the run.
Sun Oct 19 - 11 AM to 5 PM
Boyce Park, Plum, PA
Pagan Pride Celebration Schedule
11 AM - Opening Ritual, by Sassafras Grove
12 noon - Divination Exchange, facilitated by Vicki Grammar
1 PM - Summoning Spirits for Fun and Prophet, by Fred Johnston
2 PM - Serpents in Indo-European Lore, by Lassair
3 PM - Shamanism: The Way to Power Animals, by Lady Annabelle of Grove of Gaia
4 PM - The Hero's Journey, by Heidhrun of the Free Folk Society
6 PM - Closing Ritual, led by Grove of Gaia and Reclaiming Three Rivers
Come to the 7th Annual
Greater Pittsburgh Pagan Pride Day!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
11 AM - 7 PM (vendor area closes at 6 PM)
Boyce Park - Four Seasons Ski Lodge - Monroeville/ Plum area
http://www.alleghenycounty.us/parks/bpfac.aspx
Speakers, public rituals, vendors, readers, activities, bake sale, raffle, and more!
Admission is FREE
Bring nonperishable food to benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Bring pet supplies to benefit Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley
Academy 23 is thrilled to invite you to the Magician's Picnic,during the Pagan Pride Day festival.
Near the pavilion, we'll unfurl our carpets and lay out a feast.
Share a story, a magickal idea, an insight, even just an introduction to yourself.
Discuss plans for magickal swap meet and maybe a working circle.
Please feel free to bring food to share.
Monday, September 29, 2008
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).
Blue Grass in Greene County - The Stevens Family
As part of the Covered Bridges festival in Greene County, this remarkable musical family performed at Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. They are from Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. (MySpace website).
They will perform again in Pennsylvania this Saturday, Sept 21, in Rices Landing.
2nd Annual Bluegrass Harvestfest~ Peaceful Springs, Rices Landing, PA
Enjoy your local favorites Glorybound and Hargus Creek Bluegrass Band as they open for Pittsburgh's own living legend Mac Martin and his Dixie Travelers. This will be followed up by the Stevens Family from Berkley Springs, W.Va. Enjoy free parking, on-site food, pavilion seating, hay wagon rides and much more.
Gates open at 1 p.m. with performances starting at 3 p.m. and lasting until 8 p.m. with campfire pickin' to follow.
For ticket information, contact Mary Lynn at 724-592-6588 or peacefulsprings@windstream.net. ($15/adult)
They will perform again in Pennsylvania this Saturday, Sept 21, in Rices Landing.
2nd Annual Bluegrass Harvestfest~ Peaceful Springs, Rices Landing, PA
Enjoy your local favorites Glorybound and Hargus Creek Bluegrass Band as they open for Pittsburgh's own living legend Mac Martin and his Dixie Travelers. This will be followed up by the Stevens Family from Berkley Springs, W.Va. Enjoy free parking, on-site food, pavilion seating, hay wagon rides and much more.
Gates open at 1 p.m. with performances starting at 3 p.m. and lasting until 8 p.m. with campfire pickin' to follow.
For ticket information, contact Mary Lynn at 724-592-6588 or peacefulsprings@windstream.net. ($15/adult)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
2008 Sep 15 - Sep 21
Wed Sept 17 - 9:30 AM
CMU - Simon Hall 3303
Business Week magazine writer Steven Baker signs his new book "The Numerati"
Wed Sep 17 - 7:30 PM
brazilian cinema
Frick Auditorium, free
Wed Sep 17 2008, 8:00 pm
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Steven Smith, guest conductor
Samuel Oram, piano
W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture
S. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3, Samuel Oram, piano
B. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
$5 general admission, $4 senior citizen admission, free for Carnegie Mellon Students with ID
Thu Sep 18 - 8 PM
CMU, Breed Hall (Margaret Morrison 103)
Design lecture
Stuart Morgan
Giving Form to Vision
Thursday, September 18
8pm, Breed Hall (MM 103)
The event is open to the public
Balancing the Three Disciplines of Leadership, Innovation, & Execution
For Design to play a significant role in the success of an organization, the three disciplines of Leadership, Innovation and Execution must be active and in balance. Over the past six years, the role of design at Ethicon Endo-Surgery has changed from one of support to one of leadership. Through a couple of recent product examples, the lecture will outline the guiding principles, the strategies, the process, the methods and tools employed to deliver significant results to the company, and show the importance of balancing the three disciplines of Design.
Stuart Morgan is director of Industrial Design and Human Factors for Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that develops and markets advanced medical devices for minimally invasive and open surgical procedures. He is responsible for product branding and usability in the corporation, including design strategy and user research. He leads front end initiatives on innovation, and is a member of the Brand Leadership Team for Ethicon Endo-Surgery.
A high achiever and acknowledged international industry leader with a strong instinct for what will sell, applying exceptional design to the creation of market defining products, positive corporate brands, stronger product utility, and innovative work solutions. He envisioned and led the development of unique ethnographic research methods and powerful visualization tools, transforming the new product development process within the corporation and establishing usability as a standard of innovation in the surgical device industry. Under his leadership the industrial design and human factors group has moved from support into a leadership role.
Prior to joining Ethicon Endo-Surgery, he worked in a consulting firm, a start up company, and began his career in a large corporation where he earned assignments routinely reserved for engineers and senior corporate leaders. Exercised full design authority, funding and accountability for a wireless networked computer on which a new company was founded. Serving as a consulting and equity partner with Springuard Technologies, headed by the world’s leading ophthalmologist developing innovative patented solutions for prescription sports eyewear. Designed the data display system for the New York Stock Exchange, and guided creation of a flat panel display system that transformed the trading floors of major banks and brokerages in Boston, Hong Kong, London, and New York.
Awarded Gold IDEA awards in 1983, 1991, 1999, Silver IDEA award in 1995, and iF Product Design Award 1998, and holds 18 utility patents and 17 design patents.
A dedicated and constant learner with a BFA, Industrial Design from Brigham Young University, he is currently in the MBA program at Xavier University.
Sat Sep 20 - 10 AM
free kayak ride next to PNC park on Allegheny river
Sat Sep 20 - 11 AM to 6 PM
Dragon Boat Festival
South Side waterfront (under the birmingham bridge, bring a bicycle because it is a very long and frustrating walk from available parking).
11:15 AM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance OCA Youth; RenWen Chinese School
11:30 AM Diabolo Spinning (Chinese Yo-Yo) & Chinese Folk Dances Ren Wen Chinese School; OCA Youth
11:45 AM Shaolin Kung Fu SiFu Slaughter
12:00 PM Chinese Folk Dance Oriental Star Dance School
12:15 PM Indian Folk Dance India Society of Pittsburgh
12:30 PM AppalAsian Trio Mimi Jong, Jeff Berman, Sue Powers
1:00 PM Break for Demonstration
1:15 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance Pittsburgh Chinese School
1:35 PM Tuvan Khoomei (Throatsinging) Jacques Francschini
1:50 PM Kung Fu Lion Dance Steel Dragon Kung Fu School
2:05 PM Tang Soo Do C.S. Kim Karate Schools
2:15 PM Japanese Melodies and Songs Pittsburgh Ensemble Nippon
2:30 PM Indian Folk Dance Nandanik Dance Academy
2:45 PM Break for Demonstration
3:00 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance OCA Youth; RenWen Chinese School
3:15 PM Diabolo Spinning (Chinese Yo-Yo) & Chinese Folk Dance Ren Wen Chinese School; OCA Youth
3:30 PM Chinese Folk Dance Oriental Star Dance School
3:45 PM Indian Folk Dance India Society of Pittsburgh
4:00 PM AppalAsian Trio Mimi Jong, Jeff Berman, Sue Powers
4:30 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance Pittsburgh Chinese School
4:45 PM Break for Demonstration
5:00 PM Shaolin Kung Fu SiFu Slaughter
5:15 PM Tuvan Khoomei (Throatsinging) Jacques Francschini
5:30 PM Kung Fu Lion Dance Steel Dragon Kung Fu School
5:45 PM Tang Soo Do C.S. Kim Karate Schools
6:00 PM Japanese Melodies and Songs Pittsburgh Ensemble Nippon
6:15 PM Indian Folk Dance Nandanik Dance Academy
6:30 PM Drum Band North Allegheny
SAT September 20, 2008 - 10AM -9PM
SUN September 21, 2008. 10AM- 5PM
Annual Shadyside Art Festival on Walnut St between South Aiken & South Negley PGH 15232
Over 200 artists featured
This year there'll be no competing Ellsworth Street Fair.
Sat Sep 20 - 8 PM
Oakland
mexican folk singer David haro, free to Pitt students, and $20 to others
Sat Sep 20 - 8:45 PM
Homewood, corner of Frankstown Rd and Homewood St
Outdoor film screening of documentary "East of Liberty", by Chris Ivey
Sat Sep 20 - 8 PM
music
new music group Ion Sound will perform Terry Riley's "In C" and other minimalist music (their website is down as of sept 17).
Sat Sep 20
Sun Sep 21
Covered Bridge Festival
Washington County
Green County
article on newspaper
Sun Sep 21, 12-5pm
3rd Annual Co-op Art Harvest at East End Food Co-op
7516 Meade Street, Pittsburgh 15208, in Point Breeze
A community day of local food, live music, kid’s activities and handmade art for sale. All activities take place right in front of East End Food Co-op
CMU - Simon Hall 3303
Business Week magazine writer Steven Baker signs his new book "The Numerati"
Wed Sep 17 - 7:30 PM
brazilian cinema
Frick Auditorium, free
Wed Sep 17 2008, 8:00 pm
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Steven Smith, guest conductor
Samuel Oram, piano
W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture
S. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3, Samuel Oram, piano
B. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
$5 general admission, $4 senior citizen admission, free for Carnegie Mellon Students with ID
Thu Sep 18 - 8 PM
CMU, Breed Hall (Margaret Morrison 103)
Design lecture
Stuart Morgan
Giving Form to Vision
Thursday, September 18
8pm, Breed Hall (MM 103)
The event is open to the public
Balancing the Three Disciplines of Leadership, Innovation, & Execution
For Design to play a significant role in the success of an organization, the three disciplines of Leadership, Innovation and Execution must be active and in balance. Over the past six years, the role of design at Ethicon Endo-Surgery has changed from one of support to one of leadership. Through a couple of recent product examples, the lecture will outline the guiding principles, the strategies, the process, the methods and tools employed to deliver significant results to the company, and show the importance of balancing the three disciplines of Design.
Stuart Morgan is director of Industrial Design and Human Factors for Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that develops and markets advanced medical devices for minimally invasive and open surgical procedures. He is responsible for product branding and usability in the corporation, including design strategy and user research. He leads front end initiatives on innovation, and is a member of the Brand Leadership Team for Ethicon Endo-Surgery.
A high achiever and acknowledged international industry leader with a strong instinct for what will sell, applying exceptional design to the creation of market defining products, positive corporate brands, stronger product utility, and innovative work solutions. He envisioned and led the development of unique ethnographic research methods and powerful visualization tools, transforming the new product development process within the corporation and establishing usability as a standard of innovation in the surgical device industry. Under his leadership the industrial design and human factors group has moved from support into a leadership role.
Prior to joining Ethicon Endo-Surgery, he worked in a consulting firm, a start up company, and began his career in a large corporation where he earned assignments routinely reserved for engineers and senior corporate leaders. Exercised full design authority, funding and accountability for a wireless networked computer on which a new company was founded. Serving as a consulting and equity partner with Springuard Technologies, headed by the world’s leading ophthalmologist developing innovative patented solutions for prescription sports eyewear. Designed the data display system for the New York Stock Exchange, and guided creation of a flat panel display system that transformed the trading floors of major banks and brokerages in Boston, Hong Kong, London, and New York.
Awarded Gold IDEA awards in 1983, 1991, 1999, Silver IDEA award in 1995, and iF Product Design Award 1998, and holds 18 utility patents and 17 design patents.
A dedicated and constant learner with a BFA, Industrial Design from Brigham Young University, he is currently in the MBA program at Xavier University.
Sat Sep 20 - 10 AM
free kayak ride next to PNC park on Allegheny river
Sat Sep 20 - 11 AM to 6 PM
Dragon Boat Festival
South Side waterfront (under the birmingham bridge, bring a bicycle because it is a very long and frustrating walk from available parking).
11:15 AM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance OCA Youth; RenWen Chinese School
11:30 AM Diabolo Spinning (Chinese Yo-Yo) & Chinese Folk Dances Ren Wen Chinese School; OCA Youth
11:45 AM Shaolin Kung Fu SiFu Slaughter
12:00 PM Chinese Folk Dance Oriental Star Dance School
12:15 PM Indian Folk Dance India Society of Pittsburgh
12:30 PM AppalAsian Trio Mimi Jong, Jeff Berman, Sue Powers
1:00 PM Break for Demonstration
1:15 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance Pittsburgh Chinese School
1:35 PM Tuvan Khoomei (Throatsinging) Jacques Francschini
1:50 PM Kung Fu Lion Dance Steel Dragon Kung Fu School
2:05 PM Tang Soo Do C.S. Kim Karate Schools
2:15 PM Japanese Melodies and Songs Pittsburgh Ensemble Nippon
2:30 PM Indian Folk Dance Nandanik Dance Academy
2:45 PM Break for Demonstration
3:00 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance OCA Youth; RenWen Chinese School
3:15 PM Diabolo Spinning (Chinese Yo-Yo) & Chinese Folk Dance Ren Wen Chinese School; OCA Youth
3:30 PM Chinese Folk Dance Oriental Star Dance School
3:45 PM Indian Folk Dance India Society of Pittsburgh
4:00 PM AppalAsian Trio Mimi Jong, Jeff Berman, Sue Powers
4:30 PM Lion Dance & Chinese Folk Dance Pittsburgh Chinese School
4:45 PM Break for Demonstration
5:00 PM Shaolin Kung Fu SiFu Slaughter
5:15 PM Tuvan Khoomei (Throatsinging) Jacques Francschini
5:30 PM Kung Fu Lion Dance Steel Dragon Kung Fu School
5:45 PM Tang Soo Do C.S. Kim Karate Schools
6:00 PM Japanese Melodies and Songs Pittsburgh Ensemble Nippon
6:15 PM Indian Folk Dance Nandanik Dance Academy
6:30 PM Drum Band North Allegheny
SAT September 20, 2008 - 10AM -9PM
SUN September 21, 2008. 10AM- 5PM
Annual Shadyside Art Festival on Walnut St between South Aiken & South Negley PGH 15232
Over 200 artists featured
This year there'll be no competing Ellsworth Street Fair.
Sat Sep 20 - 8 PM
Oakland
mexican folk singer David haro, free to Pitt students, and $20 to others
Sat Sep 20 - 8:45 PM
Homewood, corner of Frankstown Rd and Homewood St
Outdoor film screening of documentary "East of Liberty", by Chris Ivey
Sat Sep 20 - 8 PM
music
new music group Ion Sound will perform Terry Riley's "In C" and other minimalist music (their website is down as of sept 17).
Sat Sep 20
Sun Sep 21
Covered Bridge Festival
Washington County
Green County
article on newspaper
Sun Sep 21, 12-5pm
3rd Annual Co-op Art Harvest at East End Food Co-op
7516 Meade Street, Pittsburgh 15208, in Point Breeze
A community day of local food, live music, kid’s activities and handmade art for sale. All activities take place right in front of East End Food Co-op
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