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