Positively Pittsburgh Live News
10-1-12
2012 VIA
Music & New Media Festival
The third annual VIA Music & New Media Festival continues its tradition of
unique performances featuring emerging musicians and new media artists. Spanning
an entire week, over 50 local, national
and international artists representing four countries converge in Pittsburgh
for a/v performances, workshops, and interactive events that blend the best of
nightlife and arts culture.
Re-framing city spaces,
the 6-day festival shows off a thoughtful cross-section of venues that are uniquely Pittsburgh: from
riverways to museums, clubs, and transformed pop-up spaces. A number of free, all-ages events support ticketed programs. Emphasizing VIA’s literal
meaning of “by way of, or passing through” the festival encourages Pittsburgh as a nexus for young artists on the borders of music,
art, and technology. Read the entire release here.
***
Rigoletto Opens
Opera Season
Pittsburgh Opera brings a handsome production of Verdi’s
Rigoletto to the Benedum stage to begin the 2012-13 opera season of classics.
The tragic tale of the court jester bent on revenge features Pittsburgh
favorite Mark Delavan (Falstaff, 2009; Tosca, 2012) in the title role, with
Lyubov Petrova (Ariadne auf Naxos, 2006) as Gilda and Michael Wade Lee in his
Pittsburgh Opera debut as the Duke of Mantua. Rigoletto’s dramatic twists and
turns and its well-known tunes such as “La donna è mobile,” “Si, vendetta” and
“Questa o quella” make this opera a perpetual favorite. It’s said that
immediately after Rigoletto’s premiere in 1851, “La donna è mobile” was sung
and whistled in the streets, making it an instant classic. Read the entire
release here.
***
Pittsburgh Sketch Crawl
Instructor: Rick Antolic
Starting location: 805/807 Liberty Avenue
FREE (A RADical Day event)
All ages (children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult)
A 6-hour drawing marathon! Draw what you see on a journey through some of Downtown’s scenic plazas. Rick Antolic, accomplished artist and illustrator, will be on-hand at each scheduled location to assist with sketches as needed. To register go online at TrustArts.org or Call 412-471-6079.
***
Woodville
Plantation Hosts House Concert
On Saturday, October 20,
2012, Woodville Plantation will host a special event featuring the musical
talents of Mark Tamsula, Richard Withers and Ellen Gozion. Beginning at 7 pm,
these artists will perform a concert of old time Appalachian music from the
Southwestern Pennsylvania region.
MarkTamsula and Richard
Withers will play fiddle and banjo instrumentals, in addition to songs on the
flute and accordion. Joining them will be Ellen Gozion, who will sing a selection
of traditional ballads, also from this region. Mark and Richard have recently
released a CD of their music titled Up
in the Batten House. You can read more about the CD at their
website www.upinthebattenhouse.com. A wine and cheese reception will
follow the concert.
Read the entire release here.
***
Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership—love it when an organization toots their own horn, didn't know
these things about Pittsburgh partnership, did you?
I know you are used to
seeing all the cool, hip events going on Downtown in your mailbox every Monday
morning. But I suspect there is a lot more about the Pittsburgh Downtown
Partnership that you may not know. Like last year, we removed 1.1 million
pounds of trash and 4,677 graffiti tags. And we installed 150 cigarette
urns. We’ve worked to attract and retain new businesses, encouraged
innovative, exciting start-ups through the award-winning Project Pop Up:
Downtown initiatives and promoted the burgeoning residential real estate market
in Downtown. We’ve continued to advocate for solutions on the region’s
complex transportation issues through keeppghmoving.com. We’ve
also encouraged biking and walking throughout the city. And we’ve brought you a
series of fantastic events culminating in Light Up Night®, Pittsburgh’s Premier
Holiday event, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people annually. http://downtownpittsburgh.com.
***
Salute To Dignity & Respect Champions
Breakfast
The 2012
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dignity & Respect Champions and their families as well as
elected officials, city leaders and Dignity & Respect council members will
gather for the breakfast. Tuesday, October 2 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the CLO Cabaret Theatre, 655
Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.
The
Dignity & Respect Council of Greater Pittsburgh will gather in front of the
city’s policy leaders to recognize Pittsburgh’s 11 Dignity & Respect
Champions of 2012. The Champions were chosen monthly throughout the year based
on a formal nomination process. Read the entire release here.
***
African American Heritage Free Job and Opportunity Fair 2012 Company
Registration
Organization Name:
Organization Address:
Contact Name:
Job Title:
Department:
Date:
JOB FAIR REGISTRATION
Registration includes
exhibitor space including one table, two chairs, and lunch for two
participants. Registration Costs: For and Non-Profit Companies……....$0
Organization Type: Profit
Non-Profit Other (Please explain) ______________________
TRACK REGISTRATION
Track-1 (Employer/
Companies & Organizations)
Track -2 (Entrepreneurship
Opportunities)
Track -3 (Education &
Professional Development Organizations)
Track-4 (Search Firms and
Employment Agencies)
Track-5 (Civic and Social
Service Agencies)
Participant Names:
1.)
_________________________________________________________
2.) _________________________________________________________
Please
return this form to:
The City of Pittsburgh,
Department of Personnel & CSC
431 City-County Building,
414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
-Or-
Fax to: (412)
255-4736 - Or- Email to: Melissa.urquhart@pittsburghpa.gov
For more details on the event click here.
***
***
Donate to the Immaculate
Reception Monument
This
season marks the 40th anniversary of the greatest play in football history - The Immaculate
Reception. Be part of the action by donating
to a special monument recognizing the play that changed Pittsburgh Steelers
history.
The Senator John Heinz History Center and the Pittsburgh
Steelers will dedicate the Immaculate Reception monument at the exact site of
the catch, adjacent to Heinz Field, on Sat., Dec. 22.
All tax-deductible donations to the Heinz History Center will
receive a personalized Immaculate Reception donation certificate that is
suitable for framing, along with the following Limited Edition items (view online here). Donate now.
***
Power of Pink Challenge October 1st - October 31st, Panera Bread
 |
| Ribbon bagels, photo courtesty of Forest Hills-Regent Square Patch |
A portion of the proceeds from each Pink Ribbon Bagel sold will be donated to the Young Women's Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation Benefiting Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation.
***
Pittsburgh
Airport Turned Twenty Today!
***
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is pleased to announce a rare opportunity to experience the finest Cabaret artists at the intimate Cabaret at Theater Square!
We would like to thank The Benter Foundation and Richard E. Rauh for making this series possible.
2012-2013 SEASON:Betty Buckley, Monday, October 15; Christine Andreas, Monday, November 5; Elaine Paige, Tuesday, March 12; Christine Ebersole, Monday,April 8; Karen Akers, Monday,May 6
All shows take place at 7:30pm at the Cabaret at Theater Square. Food and drink service available for all shows.
***
PNC Broadway Across America-Pittsburgh presents
STOMP
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and PNC Broadway Across America-Pittsburgh
announce STOMP, the international sensation, is making its triumphant
return to Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Avenue, Tuesday, October 30 through
Sunday, November 4, 2012. The return of the percussive hit also brings
some new surprises, with some sections of the show now updated and restructured
and the addition of two new full-scale routines, utilizing props like tractor
tire inner tubes and paint cans.
Performances for STOMP at Heinz Hall are
Tuesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, October 31, 7:30 p.m.; Thursday,
November 1, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, November 2, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, November 3,
2:00 and 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, November 4, 1:00 and 6:30 p.m. Read the entire
release here.
***
STAAR Financial Advisors is proud to support
the local organizations that do good things in our community. Join us in
supporting Habitat for Humanity Pittsburgh and Circle C in
the Pittsburgh Foundation’s "Day of Giving.” On this Wednesday, October
3rd your donation(s) will be matched. You can choose from a list of many
organizations that will qualify for the matching grants. Just go to the
following link: http://www.pittsburghgives.org/
Andre Weisbrod, STAAR Financial Advisors, Inc.,
604 McKnight Park Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15237, 412-367-9076, Founder of STAAR Financial Advisors, Inc. and the STAAR
Investment Trust, Recognized among five-star Pittsburgh Wealth Managers in Pittsburgh Magazine
***
Positively Pittsburgh’s Hug-A-Thon Charities are:
Cancer Caring Center, Operation Troop
Appreciation, Passion for Life, Sickle Cell Society Southwestern Pa. Please support the charities of your choice.
***
Roving Pittsburgher Report
Streb Review
Helene Vidovich, Freelance Cultural Reporter
Martin Thomas, Videographer ~ Troubadour
We go to the theater to be transported from
our seats into the imagination of the artists.
Dance in the age of digital media is different than that of Martha Graham or
the NYC Ballet. The use of video feeds and files, computers and
projectors changes the focus. I didn't know whether to look at what the
projector was displaying, what the dancers were doing or at their silhouettes
on the back screen.
Streb, aka known as the Evil Knieval of
dance, is a bang-up exhibition of acrobatic tumbles, jumps and flat-out face-down,
or face-up, slams onto a mat. Streb with her cast from the tough streets
of Brooklyn, tries to exploit "extreme action." They called their
pieces "action events." I kept saying, "ow, that had to
hurt!" Some examples: Doing the
"Limbo" with a spinning I beam suspended from a chain -- jumping from
10 feet, 20 feet, even 30 feet face down onto the mats -- hanging bound, while
upside down, from a rope panicking -- "flying" by use of a giant
steel-beam see-saw on a turntable -- writhing in an open ended box suspended
from the ceiling.
The sets: raw metal, chains, brick, mats and
the workout wardrobe, were matched with industrial sounds of a loud bass
rumble. There was also a turntable within a turntable made up of mats on
the floor, that were used with camera feeds projected with great effect.
Another event had a large diagonal mat where the cast log-rolled with, and over
each other. These action events, brought to mind childhood times and playground
fun.
Some of their pieces were more traditional modern dance-like and very
gratifying. One had a backdrop of a spinning planet while the dancers
appeared to fly over it suspended in harnesses. Another, my favorite,
"Anti-gravity," had the dancers flat on the floor with an
overhead camera feed projecting their images onto the backdrop, making them
appear weightless on a distant planet. This "action event" had
the audience in awe, like children watching fire works. All in all, Streb
did transport us from our seats into their imaginations. But, ouch! some of
those falls had to hurt.
Read the entire review here.
***
Matthew Morrison Sings at Marvin Hamlisch’s Wake Or So It Seemed
By Tamar Cerafici
Pittsburgh Pops!
Heinz Hall
September 30, 2012
It might seem the height of folly to review a concert at its last performance. But the Pittsburgh Pops concert series shows so much promise that it’s inevitable I should urge everyone to leave this site and become a subscriber. Go. NOW.
This was a remarkable opening to a fun season that includes a 50th anniversary tribute to the Beatles and the ever-popular Holiday Pops. Read the entire review here.
***
This was reported as a reproduction of PositvelyPittsburghLive news done by Joanne Quinn-Smith. (c) Joanne Quinn-Smith and PositivelyPittsburghLive(TM) 2012 All rights reserved.
Tara Darazio is a Positively Pittsburgh Live reporter, an independent copywriter, blogger, article writer, and social media strategist. If you are in need of writing assistance, or need help with your social media efforts connect with Tara on LinkedIn here.
|
No comments:
Post a Comment