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