Mon Apr 27 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Francis C. McMichael, Professor of Environmental Engineering, will discuss his life's journeys in a lecture titled "Getting the sign right"
Tue Apr 28 - 5:00 PM
CMU McConomy Auditorium
The School of Art Lecture Series presents Daniel Martinez, who in 2006 represented the U.S. in the Cairo Biennial. His work has been featured in the groundbreaking 1993 and 2008 Whitney biennials, the 2004 San Juan Triennial, the 2005 Lima Biennial and the 2007 Moscow Biennial. His work is currently included in the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. The award-winning artist is a professor of theory, practice and mediation of contemporary art at the University of California, Irvine.
Tue Apr 28 - 6:30 PM
CMU School of Design lecture
Breed Hall
Bernard Uy, Wall-to-Wall Studios
Born in Brooklyn, NY, growing up on Oahu, and attending high school in New York, Bernard received his BFA in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA. Bernard worked for Henry Dreyfuss Associates in New York City, Herman Miller Inc. In 1992, he co-founded Wall-to-Wall Studios in Pittsburgh with fellow CMU alumni, James Nesbitt. Bernard also served on the board of AIGA Pittsburgh as Education Chair and President. He has taught design as an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon and as a visiting lecturer at the School for Design in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2005, Bernard opened the second office of W|W when he and wife Tammy returned to Honolulu. He spends most mornings thinking about lunch.
Wall-to-Wall Studios is a multi-disciplinary Branding agency specializing in design for print, interactive and broadcast creative solutions. Founded in 1992, W|W has offices in Honolulu, HI and Pittsburgh, PA.
Bernard Uy invited us to drive two blocks and visit Wall-to-Wall Studios, the graphic design and marketing firm he owns with his partner James Nesbitt. Wall-to-Wall moved to the Strip in January, 1995. "We started out in my apartment," said Bernard, "And that's where the name 'Wall-to-Wall' came from. We needed more space right from the start." Recently, Bernard and James opened an art gallery dedicated to featuring the work of young Pittsburgh artists, and they're also on the board of PUMP, the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project. "We're a group of young business owners who are tired of having our friends move away from Pittsburgh to find jobs and lives," said Bernard. "We want to encourage people to stay."
Thu Apr 30 - 5:00 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
lecture on Robotics and War
by Activities Board
Thu Apr 30
5:00 pm 7:00 pm
OTB Bicycle Café, 2518 East Carson St, South Side
Walls are Bad.
Yeah, we know. Thats why its important to get outside and enjoy the fresh air. But what does Walls are Bad really mean? Find out on April 30 during happy hour at the OTB Bicycle Café on Pittsburghs South Side. Sustainable Pittsburgh and its outdoor recreation partners, along with the OTB Bicycle Café, invite leaders and members of local outdoors groups to learn about Walls are Bad over a cold brew and some free food.
For the last ten years, Sustainable Pittsburgh, a nonprofit organization working to accelerate the policy and practice of sustainability in southwestern PA, has been working with a core group of partners to promote the regions natural amenities through various programs. In 2008, this group launched Walls are Bad, a campaign designed to increase awareness of and participation in outdoor recreation in southwestern Pennsylvania. Come learn how Walls are Bad can strengthen and support your outdoors groups. Which wall will you break down?
See you outside,
Thu apr 30 - 6:30 PM
CMU School of Design lecture
Giant Eagle Audiotorium, Baker Hall
Barbara Sudick
Sudick is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Design at California State University, Chico. She teaches Typography, Publication Design, and the Senior Capstone class. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a BFA in Arts and Crafts from Kent State University. She also studied abroad at the Design Program in Brissago, Switzerland.
Sudick’s personal vision includes the relation between print and digital media design, typography and theatre, and the role of context in creating meaning. She is currently exploring ways to embed responsible ethics of social, economic, and environmental sustainability in design practice and teaching.
Thu Apr 30 - 7 PM
free classical piano and cello recital
Adam Liu, cello, and Becky Billock, piano
PNC Recital Hall, Duquesne University
by Steinway Society
On the program: Louise Farrenc’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 46, David Popper’s Elfentanz, Prokofiev’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119, and Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango.
Sat May 2 - 9 AM
Forest Hills, Ardmore Blvd
Church Rummage sale (two)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
2009 Apr 20 - Apr 26
Mon 20 April 2009 - 6:30 PM
BILL MITCHELL MIT Design Lab
Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre
Mon Apr 20 - 8 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Charles D'Ambrosio. D'Ambrosio is an American short story writer and essayist. He has published two collections of short stories, "The Point" (1995) and "The Dead Fish Museum" (2006). He has also published a collection of essays, "Orphans" (2005). His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. "The Point" was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "The Dead Fish Museum" was a finalist for the
PEN/Faulkner Award. In October 2006, D'Ambrosio was awarded the prestigious
Whiting Writers' Award
Wed Apr 22 - 7 PM
CMU school of design
Baker Hall, Giant Eagle Auditorium
John Kolko, Frog Design
Jon Kolko is a Senior Design Analyst at frog design, in Austin, Texas. He has worked extensively in both the professional and academic worlds of interaction design, manipulating complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients and educating future interaction designers to do the same. His work has extended into the worlds of supply chain management, demand planning, pricing and configuration, and customer-relationship management, and he has worked with clients such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cisco, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Palm, and other leaders of the Global 2000. The common underlying theme of these problems and projects was the creation of a solution that was useful, usable, and desirable.
His present research investigates the process of Design, with a focus on the use of Information Architecture during the Synthesis phase of a design problem. This includes the role of visual data organization during requirement mapping and definition, as well as educational structures for acquiring these Information Architecture and Design skills.
BILL MITCHELL MIT Design Lab
Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre
Mon Apr 20 - 8 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Charles D'Ambrosio. D'Ambrosio is an American short story writer and essayist. He has published two collections of short stories, "The Point" (1995) and "The Dead Fish Museum" (2006). He has also published a collection of essays, "Orphans" (2005). His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. "The Point" was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "The Dead Fish Museum" was a finalist for the
PEN/Faulkner Award. In October 2006, D'Ambrosio was awarded the prestigious
Whiting Writers' Award
Wed Apr 22 - 7 PM
CMU school of design
Baker Hall, Giant Eagle Auditorium
John Kolko, Frog Design
Jon Kolko is a Senior Design Analyst at frog design, in Austin, Texas. He has worked extensively in both the professional and academic worlds of interaction design, manipulating complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients and educating future interaction designers to do the same. His work has extended into the worlds of supply chain management, demand planning, pricing and configuration, and customer-relationship management, and he has worked with clients such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cisco, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Palm, and other leaders of the Global 2000. The common underlying theme of these problems and projects was the creation of a solution that was useful, usable, and desirable.
His present research investigates the process of Design, with a focus on the use of Information Architecture during the Synthesis phase of a design problem. This includes the role of visual data organization during requirement mapping and definition, as well as educational structures for acquiring these Information Architecture and Design skills.
2009 Apr 13 - Apr 19
Mon Apr 13 - 5 PM
Chosky Theather, CMU
"Brecht at Sea and in America," a talk by Holger Teschke. In the summer of 1941, the exiled German playwright Bertolt Brecht crossed the Pacific from Vladivostok in the Soviet Union to San Pedro, California, aboard the Swedish freighter the "Annie Johnson." In this lecture, Teschke describes the journey by sea that Brecht and his small entourage took through, and to, the Pacific "paradise" Brecht had often imagined and figured in his writing. Teschke also looks at the ways Brecht's experience in the United States and the "dream factory" of Hollywood sharpened and shaped his understanding of social relations and class in modern society.
Tue Apr 14 - 5 PM
CMU - McConomy Audit
TONY CONRAD is a filmmaker, composer, musician, and conceptual artist who has exerted an immeasurable influence over the American avant-garde film and music scenes. As a giant in the American soundscape since the early 1960s, he has utilized intense amplification, long duration and precise pitch to forge an aggressively mesmerizing “Dream Music.” Conrad articulated the Big Bang of “minimalism” and played a pivotal role in the formation of the Velvet Underground. Conrad continues to exert a primal influence over succeeding generations with his ecstatic oscillations and hypnotic drones. A performative provocateur and prime proponent of expanded cinema, his film works arise from with stock that has been pickled, stir-fried and most recently electrocuted with a Tesla coil before projection. His 1966 masterwork “The Flicker” is considered the cornerstone of the Structural Cinema movement. His inclusive and expansive approach to unusual materials and methods informs his performance of music and film. Combining theatricality, mystery and eccentric humor, Conrad always challenges traditional notions of any genre.
Tue Apr 14 - 7:30 PM
CMU - Porter Hall 100
Author of "Gang Leader For A Day" and "American Projects" -- Featured in "Freakonomics". Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a researcher and writer on urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. He is also a documentary film-maker. His most recent book is Gang Leader for a Day (Penguin Press). First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago’s most notorious gang and captured the world’s attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and went on to witness—and participate in—events that have rarely been described in print. A brazen, page-turning, and fundamentally honest view of the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, it is also an emotional and complicated look at the friendship that develops between the sociologist and a gang leader, two ambitious men a universe apart. Admission is Free.
Tue Apr 14 - 8 PM
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Free to CMU students, $5 to everyone else
Alumnus Gil Rose, director of orchestral studies candidate, leads the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in a program that includes Mozart's Overture to La Clemenza di Tito and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. Artist Diploma candidate Vivian Choi is featured on Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Wed Apr 15 - 6 PM
Duq Univ - chess
Grand Chess Exhibition Game
Get your pawns in order for an impressive afternoon of chess as Youth World Champion Grandmaster Darmen Sadvakasov challenges two opponents simultaneously --- while he plays completely blindfolded.
Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.
Thu Apr 16 - 6 PM
Carnegie Library - Main
Screenprinting Workshop + Plan-it-X Records Documentary + Reading by Moe Bowstern from Xtra Tuf Zine + Vegan Cooking by Josh Ploeg from In Search of Lost Taste + Reading by Artnoose of Kerbloom! Zine
Thu Apr 16 - 10 AM
CMU Buggy Display
Come to the university's gym today and check out the buggies that will be featured in this year's student races.
In a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) tradition, CMU students race buggies in Schenley Park that they have made themselves.
Thu Apr 16 to Sat Apr 18
Spring Carnival at CMU
Thu Apr 16 - 8 PM
Carnival
Comedian
Fri Apr 17 - 9 PM
The New Pornographers
CMU campus
Sat Apr 18 - 9 AM to noon
Buggy Races
Intersection of Tech St and Frew St
Sat Apr 18 - 11 AM to 4 PM
Frick Park Environmental Center
Earth Day - vendors, activities
Sat Apr 18 - 11 AM to 2 PM
Hartwood Acres, Allison Park, PA
meet by Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club
Sat Apr 18 - 12 (noon) to 4 PM
Flagstaff Hill, Schenley Park
Holi - Hindu festival of color
Chosky Theather, CMU
"Brecht at Sea and in America," a talk by Holger Teschke. In the summer of 1941, the exiled German playwright Bertolt Brecht crossed the Pacific from Vladivostok in the Soviet Union to San Pedro, California, aboard the Swedish freighter the "Annie Johnson." In this lecture, Teschke describes the journey by sea that Brecht and his small entourage took through, and to, the Pacific "paradise" Brecht had often imagined and figured in his writing. Teschke also looks at the ways Brecht's experience in the United States and the "dream factory" of Hollywood sharpened and shaped his understanding of social relations and class in modern society.
Tue Apr 14 - 5 PM
CMU - McConomy Audit
TONY CONRAD is a filmmaker, composer, musician, and conceptual artist who has exerted an immeasurable influence over the American avant-garde film and music scenes. As a giant in the American soundscape since the early 1960s, he has utilized intense amplification, long duration and precise pitch to forge an aggressively mesmerizing “Dream Music.” Conrad articulated the Big Bang of “minimalism” and played a pivotal role in the formation of the Velvet Underground. Conrad continues to exert a primal influence over succeeding generations with his ecstatic oscillations and hypnotic drones. A performative provocateur and prime proponent of expanded cinema, his film works arise from with stock that has been pickled, stir-fried and most recently electrocuted with a Tesla coil before projection. His 1966 masterwork “The Flicker” is considered the cornerstone of the Structural Cinema movement. His inclusive and expansive approach to unusual materials and methods informs his performance of music and film. Combining theatricality, mystery and eccentric humor, Conrad always challenges traditional notions of any genre.
Tue Apr 14 - 7:30 PM
CMU - Porter Hall 100
Author of "Gang Leader For A Day" and "American Projects" -- Featured in "Freakonomics". Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a researcher and writer on urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. He is also a documentary film-maker. His most recent book is Gang Leader for a Day (Penguin Press). First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago’s most notorious gang and captured the world’s attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and went on to witness—and participate in—events that have rarely been described in print. A brazen, page-turning, and fundamentally honest view of the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, it is also an emotional and complicated look at the friendship that develops between the sociologist and a gang leader, two ambitious men a universe apart. Admission is Free.
Tue Apr 14 - 8 PM
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland
Free to CMU students, $5 to everyone else
Alumnus Gil Rose, director of orchestral studies candidate, leads the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic in a program that includes Mozart's Overture to La Clemenza di Tito and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. Artist Diploma candidate Vivian Choi is featured on Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Wed Apr 15 - 6 PM
Duq Univ - chess
Grand Chess Exhibition Game
Get your pawns in order for an impressive afternoon of chess as Youth World Champion Grandmaster Darmen Sadvakasov challenges two opponents simultaneously --- while he plays completely blindfolded.
Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.
Thu Apr 16 - 6 PM
Carnegie Library - Main
Screenprinting Workshop + Plan-it-X Records Documentary + Reading by Moe Bowstern from Xtra Tuf Zine + Vegan Cooking by Josh Ploeg from In Search of Lost Taste + Reading by Artnoose of Kerbloom! Zine
Thu Apr 16 - 10 AM
CMU Buggy Display
Come to the university's gym today and check out the buggies that will be featured in this year's student races.
In a Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) tradition, CMU students race buggies in Schenley Park that they have made themselves.
Thu Apr 16 to Sat Apr 18
Spring Carnival at CMU
Thu Apr 16 - 8 PM
Carnival
Comedian
Fri Apr 17 - 9 PM
The New Pornographers
CMU campus
Sat Apr 18 - 9 AM to noon
Buggy Races
Intersection of Tech St and Frew St
Sat Apr 18 - 11 AM to 4 PM
Frick Park Environmental Center
Earth Day - vendors, activities
Sat Apr 18 - 11 AM to 2 PM
Hartwood Acres, Allison Park, PA
meet by Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club
Sat Apr 18 - 12 (noon) to 4 PM
Flagstaff Hill, Schenley Park
Holi - Hindu festival of color
2009 Apr 6 - Apr 12
Mon Apr 6 - 4:30 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Hip-Hop Legend, Sneaker Expert Bobbito Garcia To Speak at Carnegie Mellon April 6
Wed Apr 01 11:08:00 EDT 2009
Widely recognized as a Renaissance man in hip-hop, basketball and sneaker-enthusiast circles, Bobbito Garcia will discuss his book "Where'd You Get Those? NYC's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987" at 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 6 in McConomy Auditorium at Carnegie Mellon's University Center.
"Where'd You Get Those?" is the textbook for Sneakerology 101, a Student College (StuCo) course taught by Carnegie Mellon seniors Jesse Chorng and Elliott Curtis. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of Carnegie Mellon's University Lecture Series. Sponsors include the Office of the Vice Provost for Education, the Division of Student Affairs, Student Senate and the Student Dormitory Council.
Garcia, born and raised in New York City, graduated from Wesleyan University in 1988. After playing professional basketball for a year in Puerto Rico, he returned to his hometown to work for Def Jam Records. There, he met DJ Stretch Armstrong, and the two hosted a show on WKCR 89.9-FM that exposed the world to then-unsigned acts like Nas, Jay Z, Notorious B.I.G. and Wu Tang Clan. The Source magazine named it the "Greatest Hip-Hop Radio Show of All Time."
Since then, Garcia has performed at NBA halftime shows with Project Playground, hosted "Hot Minute at The Half" during New York Knicks games, produced an instructional dribbling DVD - "Bobbito's Basics to Boogie," breakdanced with the Rock Steady Crew and spun records in clubs worldwide. Video game enthusiasts will also recognize his voice as an announcer for EA Sports' "NBA Street" series.
Garcia is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bounce, a streetball magazine, and has written numerous columns for Vibe, Fader and Slam. In 2005, he interviewed NBA superstars and hip-hop legends about their sneaker collections as host of ESPN2's "It's The Shoes." He has appeared in more than 40 television commercials and several films, including Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam." Most recently, he added "shoe designer" to his list of credentials.
Tue Apr 7 - 6:30 PM
Melwood Screening rooom
Documentary Salon
Kinetic Poetry: Castro Street and Night Mail
in 16mm film
presented by Will Zavala
Cinema, like a poem spoken aloud, makes patterns over time. Rhythms of great complexity are formed by combinations of camera movement, movement within the frame, cutting between shots, and the soundtrack. Documentary utilizes these elements, and at times goes further to capture the rhythmic qualities of life itself. This month we’ll screen two films that chose that cinematic favorite—the moving train—to provide the meter for a kind of kinetic poetry.
Castro Street (1966) is Bruce Baillie’s experimental document of an avenue in the Bay Area…but not in San Francisco. This Castro Street is across the Bay in the oil refinery town of Richmond, and the film follows the railway that run parallel to the street.
Lesser film poets might be satisfied to confine their attention to an easy beauty... In Castro Street, Baillie alchemically transforms an "ugly" space into a stunning one." (Scott MacDonald, The Garden in the Machine)
Night Mail (1936) is a poetic film, literally—W.H. Auden was hired to write the verses that concludes the film—about overnight postal delivery in Great Britain. That a mundane subject is made exhilarating attests to the respect the filmmakers (Basil Wright and Harry Watt, working on John Grierson’s team) had for the postal workers, and to their own artistic vision.
Both 16mm prints have been kindly provided by Hillman Library at the Univ. of Pittsburgh.
Wed Apr 8 - 5:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Good, Fast, Cheap in New Product Development: Don't Settle for Just Two
Stephen Hoover, April 8, 2009
5:30pm - Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Accepting as true that you can only have two of -- good, fast or cheap-- in product development means that it will be true. In this talk, we will discuss some recent advances in product development best practices that have turned on their heads tradeoffs such as, “we can either meet schedule or have a high quality release.” We will also examine some fundamental strategies that will help you to find solutions to innovation problems with seemingly irreconcilable constraints.
Dr. Stephen P. Hoover is Vice President and Center Manager of the Xerox Research Center Webster for Xerox Corporation.
Thu Apr 9 - 7 PM
Full Moon Hash
Lawrenceville , 4200 block of Butler
Duke of Hurl is the hare
Sat Apr 11 - 3 PM
WMD and Moon's Birthday Hash
Millvale
Sat Apr 11 - 8 PM
Pitt - william pitt ballroom
Wazobia, African festival
Sun 4/12/2009 6:30am
75th Annual Northside Easter Sunrise Service
Allegheny Observatory - North side
Dress warm, bring a lawn chair and take part in this community-based, interdenominational service held in front of the Observatory.
Easter, the most important religious holiday in the Christian year, commemorates Jesus' resurrection from the dead three days after his crucifixion.
In the event of inclement weather, the service will be held in the Riverview Presbyterian Church on the corner of Perrysville and Riverview Avenues located at the entrance to Riverview park.
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Hip-Hop Legend, Sneaker Expert Bobbito Garcia To Speak at Carnegie Mellon April 6
Wed Apr 01 11:08:00 EDT 2009
Widely recognized as a Renaissance man in hip-hop, basketball and sneaker-enthusiast circles, Bobbito Garcia will discuss his book "Where'd You Get Those? NYC's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987" at 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 6 in McConomy Auditorium at Carnegie Mellon's University Center.
"Where'd You Get Those?" is the textbook for Sneakerology 101, a Student College (StuCo) course taught by Carnegie Mellon seniors Jesse Chorng and Elliott Curtis. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of Carnegie Mellon's University Lecture Series. Sponsors include the Office of the Vice Provost for Education, the Division of Student Affairs, Student Senate and the Student Dormitory Council.
Garcia, born and raised in New York City, graduated from Wesleyan University in 1988. After playing professional basketball for a year in Puerto Rico, he returned to his hometown to work for Def Jam Records. There, he met DJ Stretch Armstrong, and the two hosted a show on WKCR 89.9-FM that exposed the world to then-unsigned acts like Nas, Jay Z, Notorious B.I.G. and Wu Tang Clan. The Source magazine named it the "Greatest Hip-Hop Radio Show of All Time."
Since then, Garcia has performed at NBA halftime shows with Project Playground, hosted "Hot Minute at The Half" during New York Knicks games, produced an instructional dribbling DVD - "Bobbito's Basics to Boogie," breakdanced with the Rock Steady Crew and spun records in clubs worldwide. Video game enthusiasts will also recognize his voice as an announcer for EA Sports' "NBA Street" series.
Garcia is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bounce, a streetball magazine, and has written numerous columns for Vibe, Fader and Slam. In 2005, he interviewed NBA superstars and hip-hop legends about their sneaker collections as host of ESPN2's "It's The Shoes." He has appeared in more than 40 television commercials and several films, including Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam." Most recently, he added "shoe designer" to his list of credentials.
Tue Apr 7 - 6:30 PM
Melwood Screening rooom
Documentary Salon
Kinetic Poetry: Castro Street and Night Mail
in 16mm film
presented by Will Zavala
Cinema, like a poem spoken aloud, makes patterns over time. Rhythms of great complexity are formed by combinations of camera movement, movement within the frame, cutting between shots, and the soundtrack. Documentary utilizes these elements, and at times goes further to capture the rhythmic qualities of life itself. This month we’ll screen two films that chose that cinematic favorite—the moving train—to provide the meter for a kind of kinetic poetry.
Castro Street (1966) is Bruce Baillie’s experimental document of an avenue in the Bay Area…but not in San Francisco. This Castro Street is across the Bay in the oil refinery town of Richmond, and the film follows the railway that run parallel to the street.
Lesser film poets might be satisfied to confine their attention to an easy beauty... In Castro Street, Baillie alchemically transforms an "ugly" space into a stunning one." (Scott MacDonald, The Garden in the Machine)
Night Mail (1936) is a poetic film, literally—W.H. Auden was hired to write the verses that concludes the film—about overnight postal delivery in Great Britain. That a mundane subject is made exhilarating attests to the respect the filmmakers (Basil Wright and Harry Watt, working on John Grierson’s team) had for the postal workers, and to their own artistic vision.
Both 16mm prints have been kindly provided by Hillman Library at the Univ. of Pittsburgh.
Wed Apr 8 - 5:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Good, Fast, Cheap in New Product Development: Don't Settle for Just Two
Stephen Hoover, April 8, 2009
5:30pm - Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Accepting as true that you can only have two of -- good, fast or cheap-- in product development means that it will be true. In this talk, we will discuss some recent advances in product development best practices that have turned on their heads tradeoffs such as, “we can either meet schedule or have a high quality release.” We will also examine some fundamental strategies that will help you to find solutions to innovation problems with seemingly irreconcilable constraints.
Dr. Stephen P. Hoover is Vice President and Center Manager of the Xerox Research Center Webster for Xerox Corporation.
Thu Apr 9 - 7 PM
Full Moon Hash
Lawrenceville , 4200 block of Butler
Duke of Hurl is the hare
Sat Apr 11 - 3 PM
WMD and Moon's Birthday Hash
Millvale
Sat Apr 11 - 8 PM
Pitt - william pitt ballroom
Wazobia, African festival
Sun 4/12/2009 6:30am
75th Annual Northside Easter Sunrise Service
Allegheny Observatory - North side
Dress warm, bring a lawn chair and take part in this community-based, interdenominational service held in front of the Observatory.
Easter, the most important religious holiday in the Christian year, commemorates Jesus' resurrection from the dead three days after his crucifixion.
In the event of inclement weather, the service will be held in the Riverview Presbyterian Church on the corner of Perrysville and Riverview Avenues located at the entrance to Riverview park.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
2009 Mar 30 - Apr 5
Mon Mar 30 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
The ULS presents Florida International University Professor Kenneth Lipartito, who will discuss "Technologies of Surveillance: Tracking People as Economic Subjects." Lipartito traces the evolution of the technologies of economic watching from the early credit reporting bureaus of the nineteenth century, through the workplace surveillance methods of the industrial corporation and out into the consumer marketplace of the twentieth century.
Mon 30 Mar 2009 - 6:30 PM
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall
AARON BETSKY Cincinnati Art Museum, Venice Architecture Biennale
Mon Mar 30 - 8 PM
CMU - Kresge Hall
Piano recital, free
Russell Sherman
Tue Mar 31 - 12 PM
CMU - Kresge Hall
piano recital, free
Wha Kyung Byun
Tue Mar 31 - 8:30 PM
Pitt - 120 David Lawrence Hall
Spike Lee, presented by Pitt Black Action Society
Wed Apr 1 - 7:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Seducing Dr. Lewis | La Grande Séducion
St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village in what some may call the middle of nowhere. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, wearing patched sweaters and glum expressions, and remembering the good old days when the catch was good, the fishermen were proud, and life seemed a lot more magical. Then one day, a chance at salvation: a small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. But how to convince handsome, young, urbane Dr. Lewis to stay in this dreary little spot on the map? As it turns out, the answer lies in just a bit of seductive subterfuge--along with a tapped phone, a hastily assembled cricket team, and something called Festival de Beef Stroganoff.
Production: Canada 2004
Director: Jean-François Pouliot
Language:French with English Subtitiles
Run Time: 108 minutes
Wed Apr 1 - 7:30 PM (reception at 6:45 PM)
Pitt - Frick Arts Building
amigos de cinema latino americano
First Film:
El día que me quieras: un número infinito de cosas
Director: Leandro Katz.
English title: Day you’ll love me.
Spanish with English subtitles. (30 min.)
Investigating death and the power of photography, this film is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table, surrounded by his captors. The photograph, taken by Freddy Alborta in 1967, has been compared to Mantegna’s Dead Christ and Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Tulp. The film, a montage of Alborta’s memories of that day, his photographs and rare newsreel footage of the event, is an attempt to deconstruct the myth of Guevara.
Second Film:
Che Guevara hasta la Victoria Siempre
A revealing portrait of the man & the myth
Director: Clark Green.
Spanish with English subtitles. (60 min)
This revealing documentary, featuring extensive footage, tells the story of one of the 20th century’s most controversial, yet charismatic icons, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, better known as Che Guevara.
A true revolutionary who traveled throughout Latin America observing impoverished conditions of the people, stood side-by-side with Fidel Castro in Cuba, and formed revolutions in the Congo and Bolivia (where he was executed). Archival film footage, rare photos and informed commentary provide new insights into the life and influence of this remarkable man.
Thu Apr 2 - 5 to 7 PM
Church Breworks, Lawrenceville
Geek Night
Thu Apr 2 - 7:00 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Mike Reiss, one of the founding writers of "The Simpsons." In his entertaining presentation, "The Simpons and Other Gentiles I Work With," Reiss will share stories about dealing with network censors and prickly guest stars, and discuss how "The Simpsons" is perceived around the world. He will also show clips from his Simpsons work, as well as his original animated creations "The Critic" and "Queer Duck." There will be a special emphasis on Jewish themes in "The Simpsons," but you don't have to be Jewish, or even a Simpsons fan, to enjoy this speech.
Fri Apr 3 - 6 PM
Pitt - 4130 Posvar Hall
Film--Korean Film Festival: The Chaser
The Chaser (2008) is an Action/Thriller directed by Hong-jin Na
Synopsis: Ex-cop pimp Jung-ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts. One night, he gets a call from a customer and sends Mi-jin. Jung-ho realizes the phone number of the customer matches that of the calls the missing girls got last. As something smells fishy, he searches for her. During his search, Jung-ho dents a car in the alley. When Jung-ho spots blood splattered on the driver's shirt, he senses the man, Young-min, is the suspect. After an intense chase, Jung-ho catches Young-min. But because of Jung-ho's pretense as a cop, they are both taken to the police station. At the station, the man bluntly confesses he has killed the missing women, and the last girl, Mi-jin, may still be alive. As the whole police force is obsessed with a random search for corpses, Jung-ho is the only one who believes Mi-jin is still alive. With only 12 hours left to detain the serial killer without a warrant, Jung-ho's hunt begins, searching for Mi-jin entrapped in a place nobody knows.
Audience: Open to the public
Fru Apr 3 - 6:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Free screening
Maiko Haaaan!!!
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with Maiko and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one. Upon being transferred to his company's Kyoto branch, he dumps his coworker girlfriend Fujiko Osawa and makes his first ever visit to a geisha house. However, when the realization of Kimihiko's lifelong dream is rudely interrupted by a professional baseball star named Kiichiro Naito, he vows revenge by becoming a pro baseball player himself. Meanwhile, Fujiko decides to become an apprentice geisha. A success war between Kimihiko and Naito ensues where they try to out-do each other by subsequently becoming professional baseball players, K-1 fighters, chefs, actors and even politicians.
Production: Japan 2007
Director: Nobuo Mizuta
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
Run Time: 120 minutes
Fri Apr 3 - 7 PM
Pitt - Cathedral of Learning room 232
Syrian Film Festival
Verbal Letters (Rasa’el Shafahiyyah. Abdullatif Abdul-Hamid (Syria), 1991, 105 min). Winner of the Golden Olive at the Valencia Mediterranean Film Festival and the Special Acknowledgement at the Asiatica Film Mediale in Italy in 2003 “for the lyricism with which [the director] was capable of describing the tricks of fortune and the reality of war.” Like his other films, Abdul-Hamid uses a deceptively simple story to explore complex themes. Tender and sophisticated, the story is loosely adapted from the story of Cyrano de Bergerac. The plot rotates around a young man too embarrassed to approach a beautiful young woman he has fallen in love with. He entrusts a close friend with reciting a love letter to her, resulting in the woman falling for the friend.
Fri Apr 3 - 8:30 PM
Pitt - Frick Arts Building Auditorium
Pictures from a Revolution: A Memoir of the Nicaraguan Conflict
a film by Susan Meiselas, Richard Rogers, and Alfred Guzzetti
Susan Meiselas, the award winning photographer who covered the Nicaraguan revolution, returns a decade later to track down the people - guerrillas, Somocistas and bystanders - pictured in her original photographs. An instant classic among political documentaries, PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION is both a provocative look at the revolution, its aftermath, and the individuals who fought in the insurrection and now live in the wake of political turmoil and dashed hopes. 1991, 88 minutes
Fri Apr 3 - 7 PM to midnight
Pitt - William Pitt student center ballroom
Festival Brasiliero
dances, food, fashion show, music
Sat Apr 4 - 12 (noon) to 5 PM
handmade craft show: I Made It
http://www.unionproject.org/, highland park neighborhood
Sat Apr 4 - 9 AM to 4 PM
Pittsburgh Code Camp 2009
Code Camp is a free, 1-day event put on by the local Pittsburgh community to help promote software development in the community.
Code Camps have been taking place all over the country. This is Pittsburgh's version of this excellent event. The continuing goal of the Code Camps is to provide an intensive developer-to-developer learning experience that is fun and technically stimulating.
All training, slides, manuals, and demo code are provided free following the event!
Our Code Camp will be hosted at the University of Pittsburgh Computer Science Department. We have local speakers from the community who will share their technical expertise and experiences.
Location:
Department of Computer Science
Sennott Square
210 South Bouquet Street
6th Floor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Sat Apr 4 - 7 PM
Pitt - Cathedral of Learning room 232
Syrian Film Festival
Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (al-Hayat al-Yaomiyyah fi Qaryah Suriyyah. Omar Amiralay (Syria), 1974, 85 min, B&W). A classic by what many regard as the Arab World’s best and most elegant documentarist. Its narrative was made all the more compelling due to the collaboration in making it by the late Sa'adallah Wannous, one of the most innovative modern Arab playwrights. The documentary presents a powerful critique of “development” as conceived by the state. Highlighted are a variety of perspectives in the village, including farmers, health workers and a police officer, offering contrasting approaches to local life, all rendered in the context of an ongoing lyrical visual commentary on landscape, life and death.
Sat Apr 4 - 6:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
free screening
Terrorism and the Kebab
TERRORISM AND THE KEBAB is a farce denouncing the absurdity of bureaucracy in modern Egypt. Adel Imam, Egypt's leading comic actor, is a father who wants to move his son to a school closer to home. He goes to El-Mugamaa, the center of Cairo's monolithic bureaucracy, to pick up the required documents. Frustrated by the lack of response, he ends up attacking a fundamentalist official and, when armed police respond to the situation, a machine gun accidentally finds its way into Imam's hands. As a terrorist, his demands to the Minister of Internal Affairs are simple: Shish Kebab made of high-class lamb. After having a hearty meal with his hostages, however, his demands become more political.
Production: 1992
Director: Sherif Arafa
Language: Arabic with English Subtitles
Run Time: 105 minutes
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
The ULS presents Florida International University Professor Kenneth Lipartito, who will discuss "Technologies of Surveillance: Tracking People as Economic Subjects." Lipartito traces the evolution of the technologies of economic watching from the early credit reporting bureaus of the nineteenth century, through the workplace surveillance methods of the industrial corporation and out into the consumer marketplace of the twentieth century.
Mon 30 Mar 2009 - 6:30 PM
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall
AARON BETSKY Cincinnati Art Museum, Venice Architecture Biennale
Mon Mar 30 - 8 PM
CMU - Kresge Hall
Piano recital, free
Russell Sherman
Tue Mar 31 - 12 PM
CMU - Kresge Hall
piano recital, free
Wha Kyung Byun
Tue Mar 31 - 8:30 PM
Pitt - 120 David Lawrence Hall
Spike Lee, presented by Pitt Black Action Society
Wed Apr 1 - 7:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Seducing Dr. Lewis | La Grande Séducion
St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village in what some may call the middle of nowhere. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, wearing patched sweaters and glum expressions, and remembering the good old days when the catch was good, the fishermen were proud, and life seemed a lot more magical. Then one day, a chance at salvation: a small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and finds himself on a boat to the faraway village. But how to convince handsome, young, urbane Dr. Lewis to stay in this dreary little spot on the map? As it turns out, the answer lies in just a bit of seductive subterfuge--along with a tapped phone, a hastily assembled cricket team, and something called Festival de Beef Stroganoff.
Production: Canada 2004
Director: Jean-François Pouliot
Language:French with English Subtitiles
Run Time: 108 minutes
Wed Apr 1 - 7:30 PM (reception at 6:45 PM)
Pitt - Frick Arts Building
amigos de cinema latino americano
First Film:
El día que me quieras: un número infinito de cosas
Director: Leandro Katz.
English title: Day you’ll love me.
Spanish with English subtitles. (30 min.)
Investigating death and the power of photography, this film is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table, surrounded by his captors. The photograph, taken by Freddy Alborta in 1967, has been compared to Mantegna’s Dead Christ and Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Tulp. The film, a montage of Alborta’s memories of that day, his photographs and rare newsreel footage of the event, is an attempt to deconstruct the myth of Guevara.
Second Film:
Che Guevara hasta la Victoria Siempre
A revealing portrait of the man & the myth
Director: Clark Green.
Spanish with English subtitles. (60 min)
This revealing documentary, featuring extensive footage, tells the story of one of the 20th century’s most controversial, yet charismatic icons, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, better known as Che Guevara.
A true revolutionary who traveled throughout Latin America observing impoverished conditions of the people, stood side-by-side with Fidel Castro in Cuba, and formed revolutions in the Congo and Bolivia (where he was executed). Archival film footage, rare photos and informed commentary provide new insights into the life and influence of this remarkable man.
Thu Apr 2 - 5 to 7 PM
Church Breworks, Lawrenceville
Geek Night
Thu Apr 2 - 7:00 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Mike Reiss, one of the founding writers of "The Simpsons." In his entertaining presentation, "The Simpons and Other Gentiles I Work With," Reiss will share stories about dealing with network censors and prickly guest stars, and discuss how "The Simpsons" is perceived around the world. He will also show clips from his Simpsons work, as well as his original animated creations "The Critic" and "Queer Duck." There will be a special emphasis on Jewish themes in "The Simpsons," but you don't have to be Jewish, or even a Simpsons fan, to enjoy this speech.
Fri Apr 3 - 6 PM
Pitt - 4130 Posvar Hall
Film--Korean Film Festival: The Chaser
The Chaser (2008) is an Action/Thriller directed by Hong-jin Na
Synopsis: Ex-cop pimp Jung-ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts. One night, he gets a call from a customer and sends Mi-jin. Jung-ho realizes the phone number of the customer matches that of the calls the missing girls got last. As something smells fishy, he searches for her. During his search, Jung-ho dents a car in the alley. When Jung-ho spots blood splattered on the driver's shirt, he senses the man, Young-min, is the suspect. After an intense chase, Jung-ho catches Young-min. But because of Jung-ho's pretense as a cop, they are both taken to the police station. At the station, the man bluntly confesses he has killed the missing women, and the last girl, Mi-jin, may still be alive. As the whole police force is obsessed with a random search for corpses, Jung-ho is the only one who believes Mi-jin is still alive. With only 12 hours left to detain the serial killer without a warrant, Jung-ho's hunt begins, searching for Mi-jin entrapped in a place nobody knows.
Audience: Open to the public
Fru Apr 3 - 6:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
Free screening
Maiko Haaaan!!!
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with Maiko and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one. Upon being transferred to his company's Kyoto branch, he dumps his coworker girlfriend Fujiko Osawa and makes his first ever visit to a geisha house. However, when the realization of Kimihiko's lifelong dream is rudely interrupted by a professional baseball star named Kiichiro Naito, he vows revenge by becoming a pro baseball player himself. Meanwhile, Fujiko decides to become an apprentice geisha. A success war between Kimihiko and Naito ensues where they try to out-do each other by subsequently becoming professional baseball players, K-1 fighters, chefs, actors and even politicians.
Production: Japan 2007
Director: Nobuo Mizuta
Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
Run Time: 120 minutes
Fri Apr 3 - 7 PM
Pitt - Cathedral of Learning room 232
Syrian Film Festival
Verbal Letters (Rasa’el Shafahiyyah. Abdullatif Abdul-Hamid (Syria), 1991, 105 min). Winner of the Golden Olive at the Valencia Mediterranean Film Festival and the Special Acknowledgement at the Asiatica Film Mediale in Italy in 2003 “for the lyricism with which [the director] was capable of describing the tricks of fortune and the reality of war.” Like his other films, Abdul-Hamid uses a deceptively simple story to explore complex themes. Tender and sophisticated, the story is loosely adapted from the story of Cyrano de Bergerac. The plot rotates around a young man too embarrassed to approach a beautiful young woman he has fallen in love with. He entrusts a close friend with reciting a love letter to her, resulting in the woman falling for the friend.
Fri Apr 3 - 8:30 PM
Pitt - Frick Arts Building Auditorium
Pictures from a Revolution: A Memoir of the Nicaraguan Conflict
a film by Susan Meiselas, Richard Rogers, and Alfred Guzzetti
Susan Meiselas, the award winning photographer who covered the Nicaraguan revolution, returns a decade later to track down the people - guerrillas, Somocistas and bystanders - pictured in her original photographs. An instant classic among political documentaries, PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION is both a provocative look at the revolution, its aftermath, and the individuals who fought in the insurrection and now live in the wake of political turmoil and dashed hopes. 1991, 88 minutes
Fri Apr 3 - 7 PM to midnight
Pitt - William Pitt student center ballroom
Festival Brasiliero
dances, food, fashion show, music
Sat Apr 4 - 12 (noon) to 5 PM
handmade craft show: I Made It
http://www.unionproject.org/, highland park neighborhood
Sat Apr 4 - 9 AM to 4 PM
Pittsburgh Code Camp 2009
Code Camp is a free, 1-day event put on by the local Pittsburgh community to help promote software development in the community.
Code Camps have been taking place all over the country. This is Pittsburgh's version of this excellent event. The continuing goal of the Code Camps is to provide an intensive developer-to-developer learning experience that is fun and technically stimulating.
All training, slides, manuals, and demo code are provided free following the event!
Our Code Camp will be hosted at the University of Pittsburgh Computer Science Department. We have local speakers from the community who will share their technical expertise and experiences.
Location:
Department of Computer Science
Sennott Square
210 South Bouquet Street
6th Floor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Sat Apr 4 - 7 PM
Pitt - Cathedral of Learning room 232
Syrian Film Festival
Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (al-Hayat al-Yaomiyyah fi Qaryah Suriyyah. Omar Amiralay (Syria), 1974, 85 min, B&W). A classic by what many regard as the Arab World’s best and most elegant documentarist. Its narrative was made all the more compelling due to the collaboration in making it by the late Sa'adallah Wannous, one of the most innovative modern Arab playwrights. The documentary presents a powerful critique of “development” as conceived by the state. Highlighted are a variety of perspectives in the village, including farmers, health workers and a police officer, offering contrasting approaches to local life, all rendered in the context of an ongoing lyrical visual commentary on landscape, life and death.
Sat Apr 4 - 6:30 PM
CMU - McConomy auditorium
free screening
Terrorism and the Kebab
TERRORISM AND THE KEBAB is a farce denouncing the absurdity of bureaucracy in modern Egypt. Adel Imam, Egypt's leading comic actor, is a father who wants to move his son to a school closer to home. He goes to El-Mugamaa, the center of Cairo's monolithic bureaucracy, to pick up the required documents. Frustrated by the lack of response, he ends up attacking a fundamentalist official and, when armed police respond to the situation, a machine gun accidentally finds its way into Imam's hands. As a terrorist, his demands to the Minister of Internal Affairs are simple: Shish Kebab made of high-class lamb. After having a hearty meal with his hostages, however, his demands become more political.
Production: 1992
Director: Sherif Arafa
Language: Arabic with English Subtitles
Run Time: 105 minutes
Monday, March 16, 2009
2009 Mar 16 - Mar 22
Mon March 16 - 4:30 PM
CMU - Humanities Lecture
Margaret Morrison Breed Hall
"The Antinomies of Realism" by Fredric Jameson (Duke Univ)
Mon march 16 - 7 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh, 207 Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Avenue
German Film screening
"Call Cutta"
Anjan Dutt, 48 Min., 2006
All Human Beings are Born Free and Equal//Alle Menschen sind frei und gleich...
Diverse directors from Eastern Europe, 2007
Anjan Dutt's film CALL CUTTA was based on a stage play produced as a 'joint venture' in 2005 by the Goethe-Institut in Calcutta and the Hebbel Theatre (HAU) in Berlin. CALL CUTTA portrays an attempt by two people connected anonymously via a call centre and a mobile phone to find some kind of 'closeness'. Theatergoers in Berlin and Calcutta book a theatre ticket for a particular time and then, when they turn up at their local theatre, they each receive a mobile phone and a set of headphones. The phone rings and the theatergoer is connected with a caller whose identity and whereabouts are unknown; for the audience, this is how the stage play begins. In this interplay with the caller, then, the theatergoer becomes an actor, a performer. Anjan Dutt's film CALL CUTTA assumes the perspective of a member of the audience – a perspective that plays no part in the stage play itself. It brings together the two 'invisible' – in the sense of not being visible to the other party to the conversation – elements. The film goes on to deal, also pictorially, with the dramatic changes taking place in both cities, underlined by pictures of the locations in question and short biographies of the protagonists. CALL CUTTA asks how the people in these mega-cities are reflecting the social, cultural and economic changes taking place all around them and how those changes are affecting the people's identities, their living conditions and the way they see themselves. It's an experimental paradigm for modern communication technology in contemporary theatre.
This screening will be accompanied by short films done as part of a large project of 43 films that commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948.
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
To mark the anniversary of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2008, the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation joined forces with the Goethe-Institut to hold a Second International Short Film Competition. Students from film and art colleges in Germany, Estonia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine and the USA were asked to take a critical look at the right to freedom and equality in dignity and rights that the Declaration pronounces.
Tue Mar 17 - 7:00 PM
Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club
Frick Park - Beechwood Environmental Center
Tue Mar 17 - 7:30 PM
Spanish Film
"Los Cronocrímenes"
Harris Theater
This gripping time-travel story comes from an Oscar-nominated short-film director, making his feature film debut. Brilliantly imaginative, it presents a deeply ironic and darkly funny vision of the universe. With minimal special effects, Timecrimes instead uses hold-your-breath pacing, seamlessly worked-out plotting, and remarkably believable performances.
Wed Mar 18 - 7:30 PM
Kresge Auditorium, Carlow University
poetry reading by Alicia Ostriker
Wed Mar 18 - 8:00 PM
"The Class"
Regent Sq Theater
Thu Mar 19 - 7:00 pm
CMU - location unknown
School of Design lecture
Christopher Pullman, WGBH Boston
Thu Mar 19 - 7:15 to 8:30 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Room 125)
Lecture by Lawrence Korb, "The Overextended Amerinca Military"
Sat Mar 21 - 5 PM
CMU - Fine Arts building, Kresge Theather
The School of Music presents a Contemporary Ensemble Concert featuring pianists Robert Frankenberry and Jack Kurutz, with Walter Morales directing. The program includes the Pittsburgh premiere of John Adams' "Grand Pianola Music" and two original works by Carnegie Mellon student composers.
Sun Mar 22 - 11 AM to 2 PM
scavenger hunt with map and compass
Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club
Co-op Park, Indiana, PA
$5/map (single or family, same price)
activity suitable for all ages, skill levels, all weather
Sun Mar 22 - 2 PM
mystery run with the hash house harriers
follow marks and find the beer cache
Around the township of Shaler, North Hills
must be 21 or older to participate
CMU - Humanities Lecture
Margaret Morrison Breed Hall
"The Antinomies of Realism" by Fredric Jameson (Duke Univ)
Mon march 16 - 7 PM
Univ of Pittsburgh, 207 Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Avenue
German Film screening
"Call Cutta"
Anjan Dutt, 48 Min., 2006
All Human Beings are Born Free and Equal//Alle Menschen sind frei und gleich...
Diverse directors from Eastern Europe, 2007
Anjan Dutt's film CALL CUTTA was based on a stage play produced as a 'joint venture' in 2005 by the Goethe-Institut in Calcutta and the Hebbel Theatre (HAU) in Berlin. CALL CUTTA portrays an attempt by two people connected anonymously via a call centre and a mobile phone to find some kind of 'closeness'. Theatergoers in Berlin and Calcutta book a theatre ticket for a particular time and then, when they turn up at their local theatre, they each receive a mobile phone and a set of headphones. The phone rings and the theatergoer is connected with a caller whose identity and whereabouts are unknown; for the audience, this is how the stage play begins. In this interplay with the caller, then, the theatergoer becomes an actor, a performer. Anjan Dutt's film CALL CUTTA assumes the perspective of a member of the audience – a perspective that plays no part in the stage play itself. It brings together the two 'invisible' – in the sense of not being visible to the other party to the conversation – elements. The film goes on to deal, also pictorially, with the dramatic changes taking place in both cities, underlined by pictures of the locations in question and short biographies of the protagonists. CALL CUTTA asks how the people in these mega-cities are reflecting the social, cultural and economic changes taking place all around them and how those changes are affecting the people's identities, their living conditions and the way they see themselves. It's an experimental paradigm for modern communication technology in contemporary theatre.
This screening will be accompanied by short films done as part of a large project of 43 films that commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948.
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
To mark the anniversary of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2008, the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation joined forces with the Goethe-Institut to hold a Second International Short Film Competition. Students from film and art colleges in Germany, Estonia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Ukraine and the USA were asked to take a critical look at the right to freedom and equality in dignity and rights that the Declaration pronounces.
Tue Mar 17 - 7:00 PM
Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club
Frick Park - Beechwood Environmental Center
Tue Mar 17 - 7:30 PM
Spanish Film
"Los Cronocrímenes"
Harris Theater
This gripping time-travel story comes from an Oscar-nominated short-film director, making his feature film debut. Brilliantly imaginative, it presents a deeply ironic and darkly funny vision of the universe. With minimal special effects, Timecrimes instead uses hold-your-breath pacing, seamlessly worked-out plotting, and remarkably believable performances.
Wed Mar 18 - 7:30 PM
Kresge Auditorium, Carlow University
poetry reading by Alicia Ostriker
Wed Mar 18 - 8:00 PM
"The Class"
Regent Sq Theater
Thu Mar 19 - 7:00 pm
CMU - location unknown
School of Design lecture
Christopher Pullman, WGBH Boston
Thu Mar 19 - 7:15 to 8:30 PM
Pitt, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Room 125)
Lecture by Lawrence Korb, "The Overextended Amerinca Military"
Sat Mar 21 - 5 PM
CMU - Fine Arts building, Kresge Theather
The School of Music presents a Contemporary Ensemble Concert featuring pianists Robert Frankenberry and Jack Kurutz, with Walter Morales directing. The program includes the Pittsburgh premiere of John Adams' "Grand Pianola Music" and two original works by Carnegie Mellon student composers.
Sun Mar 22 - 11 AM to 2 PM
scavenger hunt with map and compass
Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club
Co-op Park, Indiana, PA
$5/map (single or family, same price)
activity suitable for all ages, skill levels, all weather
Sun Mar 22 - 2 PM
mystery run with the hash house harriers
follow marks and find the beer cache
Around the township of Shaler, North Hills
must be 21 or older to participate
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