community + cultural info

1. American Shorts Reading Series #4-  "War" Featuring Chris Potter and Alexi Morrissey and Vintage Newsreels from 30’s-70s

2. Films at Pittsburgh Filmmakers: Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times AND Nowhere in Africa

3. Animal Friends and ANNIE at the CLO

4. Mattress Factory SKYSPACE VIEWINGS: Opening Early and Keeping the Lights on Late Friday, June 27, 2003

5. My Fair Lady July 8-20 at the Pittsburgh CLO/Benedum Center

6. Last weekend for Quantum’s The Arabian Night, June 29, 2003

7. Call for submissions: The 7TH TORONTO REEL ASIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (NOV 26 - 30, 2003)



 

1. American Shorts Reading Series #4-  "War" Featuring Chris Potter and Alexi Morrissey and Vintage Newsreels from 30’s-70s
Thursday June 26^th 7:30-9:30 PM (doors open at 7 p.m.)
The Hunt Armory, 324 Emerson Street, Shadyside
This month our theme is War (hence the Armory connection!) and our readers and texts include Managing Editor of the Pittsburgh City Paper, Chris Potter reading "Open Arms", from Robert Olen Butler’s Pulitzer Prize winning collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and artist Alexi Morrissey reading the modern classic "The Things They Carried" which received the National Magazine Award, from the collection also entitled The Things They Carried by author Tim O’Brian.  Additionally, we will screen vintage newsreels related to our texts and theme.
The price of admission is $3.00 per person; delicious light snacks and cold refreshments will be served. Please come and enjoy an evening of selected shorts at the Hunt Armory space. For further information regarding the readers, authors and the filmmakers, please visit our web site: www.americanshorts.org. The Hunt Armory is  located at 324 Emerson Street (across the street from Sacred Heart School) in Shadyside.

2. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
June  26, 2003
Pittsburgh Filmmakers at the Harris Theater
809 Liberty Avenue, Downtown
Without question, MIT professor Noam Chomsky is one of America's foremost voices of dissent. His recent book, 9-11, has launched Chomsky into a much larger spotlight. This timely documentary serves as a fascinating companion piece. Assembled from a series of lectures given at various colleges, then intercut with informal interviews, the film offers compelling insight into how the rest of the world sees us. (Directed by John Junkerman; USA/Japan; 2003; 74min)
412-682-4111
www.pghfilmmakers.org
AND
Nowhere in Africa
June 26, 2003
Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Regent Square Theater
1035 South Braddock Avenue, Edgewood
This year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign film, Nowhere In Africa, is the extraordinary true story of a Jewish family who flees the Nazis in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. In German with subtitles. (Directed by Caroline Link; Germany; 2002; 138min)
412-682-4111
www.pghfilmmakers.org

3. Pittsburgh CLO and Animal Friends Team-Up to Help Local Canine Orphans During Annie, Sat, June 28 and Wed, July 2
ANNIE CHEAP SEATS available through PITT ARTS $10 students, $12 faculty and staff!
Pittsburgh CLO will welcome Animal Friends and a host of furry canine friends to greet guests outside the Benedum Center during the matinee performances of Annie on Saturday, June 28 at 2:00 pm and Wednesday, July 2 at 1:00 pm. Arriving at the Benedum Center 45 minutes prior to the show and returning for 30 minutes at the end, these playful pets will meet families, accept donations and set up adoption appointments. Buster, the dog who plays Sandy in CLO’s production of Annie was himself rescued from a local pound by his trainer. He has since become the number one “Sandy” dog in the country. CLO’s production of Annie, a musical for all ages that teaches the values of love and family, is sure to draw many prospective pet owners, children and adults alike. Audience members who make a donation or set up an adoption appointment will receive a signed paw print of Annie’s famous canine companion!  Animal Friends is Pittsburgh’s only no-kill shelter. Located in the Strip District, its mission is to find loving homes, reduce animal overpopulation, decrease instances of animal abuse and educate the public about responsible pet care.
ANNIE PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
June 26 Thursday 8:00pm
June 27 Friday 8:00pm
June 28 Saturday 2:00pm & 8:00pm
June 29 Sunday 2:00pm & 7:30pm
July 1 Tuesday 8:00pm
July 2 Wednesday 1:00pm & 8:00pm
July 3 Thursday 1:00pm & 8:00pm


4. Mattress Factory SKYSPACE VIEWINGS: Opening Early and Keeping the Lights on Late Friday, June 27, 2003
The Mattress Factory will open early and keep the lights on late on June 27 for visitors to enjoy one of the installation pieces in the James Turrell: Into the Light exhibition. Skyspace, an outdoor piece built for viewing the sky and atmospheric changes is most dramatic to view during sunrise and sunset.
Sunrise viewing: 5:15 - 6:45 AM
Sunset viewing: 8:00 - 9:30 PM
No advance registration is required. Cost is suggested museum admission ($8.00 Adults; $5.00 Students/Seniors; FREE for members and children under 12). Skyspace is the only artwork that visitors can access during the extended hours. However, "admit one" passes will be distributed for a visit to the full exhibition.

5. My Fair Lady July 8-20 at the Benedum Center
CHEAP SEATS available through PITT ARTS $10 students, $12 faculty and staff!
Grow accustom to the new face of My Fair Lady when Pittsburgh CLO’s irresistable production waltzes into the Benedum Center July 8-20. Radiant from beginning to end, this rags-to-riches Cinderella story will have you dancing all night!  A masterpiece of musical theater, this Lerner and Loewe classic is a “lesson” in more than diction, sophistication and refinement.  This high-spirited score includes “On the Street Where You Live,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” and “I Could Have Danced All Night.”


6. Last weekend for Quantum’s The Arabian Night
June 29, 2003 8:00 pm
Spring Way Center, 2515 Liberty Avenue, Strip District
Tickets: $20, limited number of $15 student tickets. Please call ProArts at 412-394-3353
Quantum presents the AMERICAN PREMIERE of this poetic new play by German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated and directed by Melanie Dreyer. Young German and Arab immigrants live side by side in huge, modern apartment complexes in gritty cities like Berlin… their lives seem undistinguishable, but at core, these people are different… or are they?  The play examines the fantasies we spin about those ‘exotically’ different from ourselves. It’s images are elemental  desert winds and raging waters are lurking, as if there’s a menacing dream just behind pedestrian reality.  Are the characters whom they seem to be, or are they embodiments of ancestors long gone, scores unsettled?

7. Call for submissions: The 7TH TORONTO REEL ASIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (NOV 26 - 30, 2003)
REEL ASIAN is looking for features, short films, videos, documentaries, comedies,
animations . . . obscure experimental films with or without sound, complex political rants, ironic chop-socky kung-fu flicks, deconstructivist mockumentaries, minimalist Generasian X slacker dramas, and anything else that is brilliant, creative, weird, or just plain entertaining.  All films must be independently produced with an Asian/Asian North American in a key creative role. We encourage submissions from first-time and
emerging directors. Student films are welcome.  The entry form is available on our website at www.reelasian.com. DEADLINE for 2003 submissions is August 1, 2003. (early deadline July 1). Entry fee $10 (U.S. dollars outside Canada). Entry fee waived if postmarked before July 1.  For more information contact the festival office at 416.703.9333 or email programming@reelasian.com.

PITT ARTS
University of Pittsburgh
929-931 William Pitt Union
Pittsburgh, PA  15260
412-624-4498 phone
412-624-1662 fax
pittarts@pitt.edu email
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PITT ARTS
929 William Pitt Union
Pittsburgh, PA, 15260

Phone: 412.624.4498
Fax:412.624.1662
E-mail: pittarts@pitt.edu
www.pittarts.pitt.edu