Happenings July 9

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Happenings July 9, 2003 1. Graffiti Art and Hip Hop Showcase (Fri) 2. Indivisual (Fri-Sun) 3. LUPEC (Fri & Sat) 4. Centre-Baum Corridor Design Workshop (Sat) 5. The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (Thurs, Sat, Sun) 6. Punkaerobics (Sat) 7. Monday Talk-Talk 8. CMU's 2003 Summer New Play Festival (Fri - July 27) 1.------------------------------------------------- the warhol: Good Fridays The 3rd Annual Graffiti Art and Hip Hop Showcase Friday July 11th 2003 5pm-10pm featuring a talk and presentation by: STEPHEN POWERS aka ESPO. plus NYC DJ: EDDIE STATS [<www.thefader.com>] (formerly known in PGH as 'DJ STATIC') with a graffiti wall featuring original works by NYC artists: STAK GUESS WISE and Pittsburgh artists: BL4CKH4M [<www.bl4ckh4m.com>] CSN Crew [<www.seakmac.com>] ONOROK NECS VENT 26 VORTEX [<www.vortexkomix.com>] screening of rare underground hiphop videos by: CULTURAMA [<www.culturama.org>] also featuring performances by Pittsburgh MC crew: LIBERATION and Pittsburgh DJs: SELECTA [<www.720records.com>] BIG JOHN STUD [<www.RadioHipHop.com>] CHAD RAPP [Drastik Measures] Stephen Powers will speak in the museum's theater at 7pm. Admission to Stephen Powers' talk is $5. Seating for Stephen Powers talk is limited to 120. The music performances and graffiti wall will take place in the Warhol museum's parking lot. Admission to the parking lot is free. The Culturama videos will be screened from 5-7pm and from 8:30-10pm in the museum's theater. This event is co-sponsored by 720 Records, Influential Flavor Productions and WRCT 88.3 FM. THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM One of the Four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh 117 Sandusky Street (North Shore across the 7th Street Bridge from Downtown Pittsburgh) For more information call 412 237 8300 or visit <www.warhol.org> --------------------------------------------------- 2. ------------------------------------------------ The Black Forum Exhibition proudly announces the debut of Barrett Black's original urban libretto, INDIVISUAL. INDIVISUAL is a fictitious urban libretto about coping with racial tension in daily life, the barriers that keep races divided, and our neglected relationship with our home, Earth. The theatrical performance integrates original scores of music, singing, dance, multi-media installments and acting. The performance is intended to be a learning tool that strives to teach multicultural awareness and social harmony. A Black Forum Exhibition Event Funded by the Multicultural Arts Initiative Sponsored by the Kingsley Association INDIVISUAL Kelly-Strayhorn Theatre 5941 Penn Avenue, East Liberty 412-363-3000 www.kelly-strayhorn.org Fri. July 11, 2003 doors open 7:30pm - show begins 8:30pm(raffle & sneak preview of Barrett Black Band songs on upcoming CD) Sat. July 12, 2003 doors open 8:30pm - show begins 9:30pm Sun. July 13, 2003 doors open 5:00pm - show begins 6:00pm(open forum discussion w/ the artists to follow) General Admission $10 Senior Citizens & Students $7 (with valid id card) Tickets available at the door, night of performance Don't miss it! Keep your eyes open for Pulp magazine's cover story of Barrett Black & INDIVISUAL, to be released on Thursday, July 10th. --------------------------------------------------- 3. ------------------------------------------------ LUPEC Invites you to attend a Classy and Blessed Drink Special! LUPEC will be Hostessing at CAFE ALLEGRO S. 12th St. on the South Side 9 pm, Friday, July 11th which happens to be the Feast of St. Olga, Patron Saint of Widows and Converts! Toast one of Russia's favorite Saints with LUPEC drink special, THE RUSSIAN. Enjoy the craziness of the South Side Street Spectacular from inside the oasislike ambiance of one of Pittsburgh's classiest eating/drinking establishments. Amen. --also-- BURN, PEDESTAL, BURN! LUPEC celebrates KIKI OF MONTPARNASSE, SUZANNE VALADON and other Muses who are/were Artists in their Own Right: Kiki of Montparnasse and Suzanne Valadon started as artists' models and became influential, cutting-edge artists. Join LUPEC for a summer party honoring these and other women who broke the rules, going from pedestal to easel! Saturday, July 12 starting at 9:00 pm Muse Bar (where else?) Shadyside, entrance on S. Highland Ave. FEATURED DRINKS: The Montmartre Cocktail and The Traditional Champagne Cocktail --------------------------------------------------- 4. ------------------------------------------------ Councilman William Peduto invites you to a Centre-Baum Corridor Design Workshop As this corridor continues to grow as a cornerstone of our area's new economy, it is vital that the communities along this route have a voice in guiding its development. That's why I've created a "Community Based Development Plan" to make sure that community driven solutions can be found to direct this exciting growth for our region. So I hope you'll join me on July 12th Conference Room C Shadyside Hospital 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Stay for ten minutes or two hours to discuss any ideas, concerns or questions you might have regarding the Centre-Baum development with consultants and staff. If you can't make it on the 12th, please join me at the Centre-Baum Follow-up Meeting August 5th Conference Room C Shadyside Hospital 7:00 p.m. It's so important to me that every resident along the corridor lends their voice in this time of important growth. I hope you'll take the time to attend one of these meetings so that I can hear your thoughts, concerns and opinions. And keep checking the city's website at www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us <http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/> for the forthcoming Centre-Baum link, so that you can stay up-to-date on all the development along the corridor. Sincerely, William Peduto --------------------------------------------------- 5. ------------------------------------------------ You've been waiting all year for what the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called "World Premiere Nirvana," and what PULP termed "cutting edge." You joined with the Tribune Review last year in proclaiming "All hail the new PNME." And you remembered the advice of City Paper: "Miss at your own risk." Well now the waiting is over: our world-class artists are rehearsing, our workers are decorating the theater and the caterers are firing up their kitchens: The PNME 2003 Summer Festival season is about to begin! Thursday, July 10, 6:00 p.m. SEASON OPENING GALA at the MATTRESS FACTORY Join us for food and drink, courtesy of Lucca Ristorante, tour one of Pittsburgh's premiere museums, and hear music from our world-class ensemble of artists. Tickets are $50, $60 at the door. To reserve your tickets call: 412/889-7231 or email us at pnme@pnme.org. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 7:00 p.m. OPENING NIGHT at the HAZLETT THEATRE Once again the finest music of our time is presented with staging, lights, costumes and movement to create an artistic experience unlike any other! Concert includes works by Wynton Marsalis, Arthur Jarvinen, Jocelyn Morlock, Michael Lowenstern and Thomas Albert. Tickets purchased at the door, $16; $8 for students and seniors. ** FREE POST-CONCERT PARTY ** Food and drink provided courtesy of PENN BREWERY and ATRIA's PNC PARK. SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2:00 p.m. earSHOT FILM FESTIVAL at the HAZLETT THEATRE This year we are launching our first-ever film festival, a fun and eclectic selection of art films and documentaries from the world of music. This week's offerings: "Harry in Wonderland" (1991), 29 min. Flowing between animation, live action documentary, and live action performance, this is a portrait of Canadian composer Harry Freedman's creative imagination and how he puts it to practical application in the composition and production of a new major work. "Inner Rhythm", (1989), 29 min. This fascinating documentary captures the intense process of collaboration between choreographer Robert Desrosiers and composers John Lang and Ahmed Hassan as they create the score for the futuristic ballet "Blue Snake". "Blue Snake" (1989), 58 min. Bizarre zebra-like dancers flee gargantuan puppets and long-haired red monkeys spew forth from a giant's forehead in Robert Desrosiers' highly acclaimed futuristic ballet, commissioned by the National Ballet of Canada. As you can see, it's going to be another fun and provocative summer with PNME! Haven't become a member yet? Enjoy lots of benefits including a FREE opening night ticket, ticket DISCOUNTS for the rest of the season, fun and unique GIFTS, and avoid those long lines with EXPRESS TICKETING at the theater. Call us for more information: 412/889-7231. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Jeff - - - - - Jeffrey Nytch, DMA Managing Director The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble "We have the Future behind us." (412) 889-7231 <www.pnme.org> "If we, as citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality, and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams." --------------------------------------------------- 6. ------------------------------------------------ HEY HO, LET'S GO! What started as a brilliant idea on the east coast by the name of Punk Rock Aerobics is now here to kick your ass in Pittsburgh. PUNKAEROBICS promises a workout so rowdy and a soundtrack so rockin (think the Clash, Wire, Buzzcocks.) you'll forget you aren't at a show or in your bedroom dancing like a maniac in your underwear (except we may throw a few crunches in there). Come check it out for FREE on Saturday July 12th at 1PM (plenty of time to recover from Friday night festivities). Class will take place at Helios Arts-5440 Centre Avenue, Suite 203. For more info call (412) 605-0558. Thanks! Greta Polo --------------------------------------------------- 7. ------------------------------------------------ Monday Talk-Talk July 14th, 2003 Monday Talk-Talk A Pittsburgh Talk Show in the raw at The Lava Lounge 2204 E Carson St South Side 412-431-LAVA Starring Dave Mansueto Alexei Plotnicov Unfinished Symphonies and Sharon "Mama" Spell and featuring special guests: Master Mechanic The Art of News A Fashion Show by Luxx This show is taped to broadcast. 10 pm, 21 +, $4 <http://www.emayhem.com/mondaytalktalk/> --------------------------------------------------- 8. ------------------------------------------------ Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama Hosts 2003 Summer New Play Festival beginning Friday, July 11, 2003. Six new plays will be performed over two weekends in the Helen Wayne Rauh Theatre at the Purnell Center for the Arts on the Carnegie Mellon campus. Tickets are free to the public and will be available one half-hour prior to curtain at the box office. For additional information, contact 412-268-2407. Seating is limited. The 2003 Summer New Play Festival is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The 2003 Summer New Play Festival will showcase three plays each weekend, performing the work of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Dramatic Writing Program alumni and students. The festival is designed to help writers prepare their scripts for productions in regional theatres around the country as well as New York City. "The annual Carnegie Mellon University Summer New Play Festival offers the audience an exciting and diverse theatrical experience through comedy, drama and everything in between with these six new works," said Rob Ripley, festival producer. The festival has become a crucial step in the development process for writers because they have the chance to see what an audience responds to in their plays. Through moderated response sessions following each performance, the audience gets the rare opportunity to offer impressions about the works presented. New work is the cornerstone of American theatre and Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama provides this unique experience to regional audiences. The featured plays are: "The Baby Is Blue," written by Matt Schatz and directed by Stuart Carden, is a play about a popular song that haunts the lives of four intertwined characters and unearths a dark past. "The Gods Return To Inspiration," written by John Cassel and directed by Aine Donnelly, is a story about a plague-stricken town of Inspiration. The town, which turned its back on the gods, has a chance of salvation through a young girl who hears voices. "Pinhole of Joy," written by Tara Meddaugh and directed by Denise Pullen, is about a wife who demands her husband to satisfy her obsession for human hair. "Be All You Can Be," written by Sloan MacRae and directed by Denise Pullen, is about an abandoned ward of a veterans hospital. Three veterans from three different wars are left in the ward to fight to decide which one is the real American hero. "The Rendezvous," written by Kyle Wilson and directed by Stuart Carden, tells a story about Pittsburgh's finest semi-notable gay memoirist and his dilemma. He tries to convince his graduate student to have a date with him outside his bedroom. "Among Cannibals," written by Robert Ripley and directed by S. Caden Hethorn, is about one man?s search for his memory, which leads him on a hilarious romp through his family history. The School of Drama is the nation's oldest degree-granting theatre program and is one of five schools within Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts. The College of Fine Arts is a community of nationally and internationally recognized artists and professionals organized into five schools: Architecture, Art, Design, Drama and Music, and their associated centers and programs. For more information about the School of Drama or the College of Fine Arts contact Eric Sloss at 412-268-5765, by email at ecs@andrew.cmu.edu or visit <www.cmu.edu/cfa>. The complete schedule is listed below. FRIDAY, JULY 11 2:00 The Baby Is Blue 8:00 Pinhole of Joy SATURDAY, JULY 12 2:00 Pinhole of Joy 8:00 The Gods Return To Inspiration SUNDAY, JULY 13 2:00 The Gods Return To Inspiration 8:00 The Baby Is Blue FRIDAY, JULY 25 2:00 Be All You Can Be 8:00 The Rendezvous SATURDAY, JULY 26 2:00 Among Cannibals 8:00 Be All You Can Be SUNDAY, JULY 27 2:00 The Rendezvous 8:00 Among Cannibals --------------------------------------------------