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
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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
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