News Around the Neighborhood
Free Lead Workshop and Water Filters
Next Wednesday, Women for a Healthy Environment is hosting a free community workshop on the topic of lead exposure. It will be held at the Pittsburgh Presbytery on Allegheny Avenue on the Northside. We will be distributing water filters to the first 75 attendees; space is limited. We are asking people to “register” ahead by indicating their attendance on the Facebook workshop event page.Discounted Tickets for Northsiders: How I Learned What I Learned
Presented by Ever Forward Productions
August 30th at 8:00 pm
Wali Jamal has performed in all ten plays in the American Century Cycle. He will be the only actor in the world to perform all ten plus this one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. Don’t miss history in the making.
How I Learned is an autobiographical play by Pittsburgh’s own August Wilson. This solo show allows us a look into the life of one of the most celebrated playwrights of the twentieth century through stories about friends, work, racism, music, and love. Co-conceived by Todd Kreidler.
18+ audience only, by request of the artist.
You’re Invited
Northside residents and workers can get $30 tickets to How I Learned What I Learned for one night only, no code needed.
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Grab your passports and Let’s Travel the World to China!
Ceinwen King-Smith
Saturday, August 25th
3:00 pm
Join us for a family-friendly afternoon of storytelling with Ceinwen King-Smith.
Though she can’t prove it, Ceinwen King-Smith thinks she is the only blind American teacher to travel to China to teach Russian. She will be sharing stories and songs that she discovered during her travels in China — each a unique take on underdogs triumphing over obstacles.
Along with her stories, Ceinwen will also be singing in multiple languages. Don’t miss this inspiring afternoon of tales and music presented by a local treasure!
Children who received a passport booklet at a previous Let’s Travel The World program can bring these back to receive another collectible sticker! But it’s never too late to collect stickers, so if this will be your first time at Let’s Travel The World, be sure to ask for your sticker. Each sticker in your passport earns discounts in City of Asylum Bookstore.
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Discounted Tickets for Northsiders: Grey Gardens
Presented by Front Porch Theatricals
August 23rd + 24th at 8:00 pm
Grey Gardens is a frequently funny, tragic and utterly unforgettable musical about two “staunch” and legendary American women – Edith Bouvier Beale, and her grown daughter, Edie. The Beales were Jacqueline Kennedy’s aunt and cousin, respectively. Set at Grey Gardens, the Bouviers’ mansion in East Hampton, Long Island, the musical weaves documentary text with imaginative speculation to trace the Beales’ journey from royalty to ruin. With a diverse musical songbook, including Tin Pan Alley jigs and soaring ballads, Grey Gardens is a unique tapestry of lost dreams, sacrifice, and unstoppable hope– heartfelt, witty, and compassionate.
You’re Invited
Northside residents and workers can get $25 tickets to Grey Gardens. During check out, use the coupon code:
NORTHSIDERS
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Department of City Planning’s Public Engagement Plan
You’re invited to participate in the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of City Planning (DCP) Public Engagement Plan!
As the City moves forward with a Comprehensive Plan, which will shape policy and practice for the City’s sustainable growth, meaningful and effective public engagement will be key to the success of this work. That’s why we’re starting with a Public Engagement Plan. This process has TWO central pieces:
1. Please come to the Panel on Public Engagement!
The event will occur on Thursday, September 13th from 6:00-8:30 pm at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Please let us know if you can make it by clicking the button below.
Click here for a shareable copy of the flyer to encourage your friends and neighbors to attend.
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2. If you’d like to be a bit more involved, apply for the Public Engagement Working Group (PEWG)
The PEWG will review and renew the approach to public participation in the City’s Planning process. The key focus of this group’s work will be to help the Department of City Planning create a Public Engagement Plan for the City’s Comprehensive Plan initiative. Engagement is key to the next phase of completing the Comprehensive Plan, in coordination with major planning initiatives including the OnePGH Resilience Strategy; the p4 Principles of People, Planet, Place and Performance; and building on public engagement and guidance.
To apply, click the button below or fill out this survey: https://arcg.is/11XTTn. The survey will be available until Sunday, August 26th at midnight.
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A Party for Barbara, September 13th
Please join us to celebrate Barbara’s life.
Thursday, September 13th from 6:00-10:00 pm
There will be friends, food, drinks, entertainment and, of course, drag queens.
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“A beauty contest in this crisis? It’s a way of surviving.”
ReelQ Presents
Mr. Gay Syria
Monday, August 20th
7:00 pm
Set in Istanbul and Berlin, Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay refugees as they try to rebuild their lives after fleeing the war in Syria.
What brings them together is a crazy dream: joining the international beauty contest called Mr. Gay World, hosted in Malta. If they manage, it will be the first time an Arab man from the Middle East attends such a public event. This is the place to generate visibility and launch a campaign for Syrian gay refugees.
“…it may not change policy, but perhaps it will make us feel closer to people we fear.” — The Guardian
While Mr. Gay Syria follows the journey of the two characters and their friends, the beauty contest becomes a thread that weaves together the difficulties of being gay in homophobic societies, the challenges of coming out, the joy of falling in love and the devastating migration crisis.
Join us for the Pittsburgh premiere screening (before its theatrical release).
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Bantam Night at Threadbare to Benefit Allegheny Commons
The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is excited to partner with Threadbare Cider and Mead House to benefit Allegheny Commons Park. 9.9% of the night’s proceeds (including drinks, bottles and merchandise sold) will benefit the restoration of Allegheny Commons. This event is family friendly.
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Discounted Tickets for Northsiders: Twelfth Night
Presented by Urban Impact
August 3rd – 11th at 8:00 pm (Sunday at 2:00 pm)
When shipwrecked Viola washes up on the shores of Illyria, she disguises herself as her twin brother and chaos ensues. In Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity, love triangles, and the world’s most famous drunk uncle, each of the characters must perilously and hilariously journey toward self-discovery.
Grab your turntable and some cross-gartered stockings and join us in Illyria — where the music is pumpin’, the fashion is poppin’, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
You’re Invited
Northside residents and workers can get $8 tickets to Twelfth Night. During check out, use the coupon code:
ILLYRIA
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July 30: “Honesty is a sin in this country”
Sembène – The Film & Art Festival Presents
Mandabi (The Money Order)
Monday, July 30th
7:00 pm
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order.
Illiterate and unemployed, Ibrahima Dieng’s sudden windfall — a money order from his street sweeper nephew in France for 20,000 francs (roughly $100) — plunges him into a Kafkaesque journey into bureaucracy and corruption. As friends, relations, and debtors close in, he finds he can’t cash it without an identity card, which requires a proof of birth, which in turn requires a birth certificate, three photos and a 50-cent stamp… and that’s just the beginning!
… it was with Mandabi (The Money Order) in 1968, that Sembène’s dream to reconnect with Africa’s masses came through. For the first time … an African filmmaker was experimenting by using an African language (Wolof), hence setting a new trend which would be followed by all film makers on the continent.” – Samba Gadjigo, Ph.D.
The Money Order is a gentle yet powerful satire about post-colonial Senegal. As Dieng concludes “honesty is a sin in this country.”
This film will be presented in Wolof with English subtitles.
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