News Around the Neighborhood
Letter from the President – October 2017
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AWCC Membership Meeting Agenda – October 10, 2017
Calvary United Methodist Church, 971 Beech Ave
Tuesday, October 10th at 7:30 pm
- Visitors
- Councilwoman Harris’s Office
- Mayor Peduto’s Office
- Zone One Police
- Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
- New Neighbors & Guests
- Minutes
- Treasurer’s Report
- Finance Committee Progress Report
- Membership
- October Mixer
- Ways and Means
- Update on Five Year Plan with Calvary
- Results of Alleys, Axles & Ales Tour
- Christmas Candlelight House Tour (December 8th and 9th)
- Friends of Allegheny West
- Green Space
- Property
- Housing and Planning
- Parking and Traffic
- MCC: Blocks bounded by Western, Allegheny, Ridge, Bridge
- Western Avenue Revitalization
- Light of Life: Ridge Avenue Project
- Revised AW Film Guidelines
- Allegheny Commons Update of 2002 Master Plan
- Expansion of Historic District (LRC Report)
- Historic District Enforcement Issues (old cases)
- Medical Marijuana Dispensary (decision to join ZBA appeal)
- Comprehensive Guidelines for New Construction on Vacant Sites
- AirBnB Issues/Impacts
- Northside Leadership Conference
- Allegheny General Hospital Master Plan
- Other Business (Old & New)
Old Allegheny Victorian Christmas House Tour
On September 28th, the Christmas tour Kick Off meeting was held. Thank you to all who attended. Below is a summary of where we are at with the planning of the 2017 tour:
Houses
Currently we have 3 homes on the tour. We need 3 more. Please contact Carol Gomrick (carolgomrick@gmail.com) if you are interested in putting your house on the tour.
Tour Volunteers-lead Needed
Our fearless leader, Doug Sprague, will not be able to coordinate volunteers this year. We all wish him well on his new adventure! With Doug’s absence, we need a volunteer to help coordinate the docents and other ancillary volunteer openings. Please contact Carol if you’re willing to help, or if you know someone who is. We will be sending out a spreadsheet for signups.
Flyer Mailings
Trish Burton has offered to coordinate the flyer mailing activities. Tentative meeting to
address and send these out is Monday, November 6th. More details to come. Greg Coll will do the graphics and printing of the flyer. Thank you for your efforts, Greg and Trish!
Tickets, Emails and Website Updates
Cathy Serventi will get the website updated and the emails out to announce the event. I’m getting a lot of requests to purchase tickets already, so I’m sure we’ll have another great turnout this year. Thanks for all of your help, Cathy!
After Party
Tom Cihil and and John Engle are the organizers of this year’s after party. Thank you both for stepping up to do this. We now just need an after party venue!
Greens
We’re tentatively scheduling a ‘swag’ party at Cathy Serventi’s porch on Saturday, November 2nd. Tom Cihil and and John Engle will lead efforts to get these on the lamp posts. If you’re interested in volunteering to help with this, please let Carol know.
Administration (Permits, Etc)
Carol with work with Cathy to get these permits in place for the tour. There will be new banners for the tour homes this year.
Train Tours
Cecile Canales will be the contact person for the train tour volunteers.
AWCC Executive Board for 2018
Below are the names for the 2018 AWCC Executive Board slate.
Staying on for 2018
Executives
President: John DeSantis
Vice President: Ann Gilligan
Treasurer: Dan Adam
Secretary: Michael Shealey
Committee Chairs
Housing and Planning: Tim Zinn
Way & Means: Carol Gomrick
Property: Elaine Stone
Friends of Allegheny West: Trish Burton
Sergeant of Arms: Fran Barbush
Nominees for Open Positions
Membership: Greg Coll
Communications: Open
Allegheny West Businesses: Sign Up for Small Business Saturday
The Northside Chronicle and Northside Chamber of Commerce invites Allegheny West businesses to join the second annual Small Business Saturday on November 25th for Northside Shop Small. Visit bit.ly/northsideshopsmall now to register to receive additional details on the #shopsmall campaign, free in-store and social media marketing materials, plus opportunities and suggestions for the event.
Questions? Send emails to northsideshopsmall@gmail.com or text 412-339-0712.
The Warhol Presents a Talk About Iranian Art
The Andy Warhol Museum Presents
Crossing the Red Line:
Exhibiting Iranian Art in the U.S.
Saturday, October 21st
2:00 pm
In conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum’s “Go West” exhibition, The Warhol will host a conversation with independent scholar and curator Dr. Shiva Balaghi on what it means to exhibit, write about, critique, and view contemporary Iranian art at museums in the United States.
Author of Picturing Iran: Art Society and Revolution, Balaghi was among the first faculty to introduce the subject of Contemporary Middle Eastern Art at U.S. universities, teaching cultural history for nearly two decades at NYU and Brown University. Most recently she has contributed to the catalog for “Farhad Moshiri: Go West”, the first museum solo exhibit for one of Iran’s most prominent artists.
This event is co-presented with The Andy Warhol Museum.
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A Concert Confronting Suppression, Creativity and Artistic Resilience
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Presents
The Clarion String Quartet
Wednesday, October 11th
8:00 pm
The Clarion String Quartet is comprised of musicians from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. They will play works written before, during and after the Holocaust by composers who were silenced by the Nazis. The quartet – who performed these works last year at the Teresienstadt Concentration Camp – will also discuss the history of these compositions.
The Clarion Quartet will be joined by internationally-renowned poet Anzhelina Polonskaya (Russia). She is currently an exiled writer-in-residence in the City of Refuge in Frankfurt, Germany. She will Skype into the concert to read her poetry.
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Master Action Plan for Allegheny Commons Workshop #1 Report
Attached you’ll find a draft of the Master Action Plan Workshop #1 Report which includes a compilation of all notes recorded at the focus group meetings on August 30th and the public meeting that evening. We will be reviewing this document at this week’s workshop meetings to gather additional feedback. Feel free to review at your convenience and please let me know if you have any questions.
Please consider joining us on Thursday evening at the New Hazlett at 6:00 pm for an OPEN COMMUNITY meeting to discuss the Master Action Plan for Allegheny Commons. We will be sharing the feedback we have received over the last two months and results from the park survey.
Register for that event here.
Thanks all,
Erin Tobin
Community Outreach Coordinator
“One of the most spell-binding … documentaries ever made.”
Sembène – The Film & Art Festival Presents
I Called Him Morgan
Monday, October 16th
7:00 pm
On a snowy night in February 1972, the 33-year-old jazz trumpet star Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife, Helen, during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts the people who knew the Morgans. Helen served time for the crime and, following her release, retreated into obscurity.
“The movie has the perfect soundtrack for swirling. It’s mesmerizing, too vivid to be evanescent, too precious to hold.” – Vulture
Over 20 years later, a chance encounter led her to give a remarkable interview. Helen’s revealing audio “testimony” acts as a refrain throughout the film, which draws together a wealth of archival photographs and footage, notable figures and incredible jazz music to tell the ill-fated pair’s story.
Part true-crime tale, part love story, and an all-out musical treat, I Called Him Morgan is a stirring tribute to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.
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Explore a Sound Both Strange and Glorious
Phat Man Dee’s Cosmic Cabaret
Friday, October 13th
8:00 pm
“Expressive and passionate, Phat Man Dee’s sensual voice pulls you in and takes you away to where the words no longer matter and you float along on pure emotion.” – WQED
Local cult sensation, cabaret songstress and part-time sideshow marvel Phat Man Dee is an old-fashioned jazz torch singer with a number of new twists.
Voted a top jazz act by the Pittsburgh City Paper’s Readers’ Polls for six years running, Phat Man Dee sings original compositions as well as an eclectic repertoire of standards in English, Spanish, French and sometimes German and Hebrew. Her performance range is just as wide, spanning opera, theater and burlesque. From blues to “filk” (fandom-inspired folk music), from opera to indie, her repertoire has a little something sure to suit every unique taste.
Inspired by the issues of the day but always outside the box, Phat Man Dee’s performance is guaranteed to have a few surprises!
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