News Around the Neighborhood
Letter from the President – January 2017
AWCC Membership Meeting Agenda – January 10, 2017
Calvary United Methodist Church, 971 Beech Ave
Tuesday, January 10th at 7:30 pm
- Visitors
- Councilwoman Harris’s Office
- Mayor Peduto’s Office
- Zone One Police
- Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
- Presentation: Northside Trails Project
- New Neighbors & Guests
- Minutes
- Treasurer’s Report
- Finance Committee Volunteers Sought
- Membership
- January Events
- Ways and Means
- Christmas Tour Final
- Update on Five Year Plan with Calvary
- Dates for 2017 Events
- Friends of Allegheny West
- Green Space
- Housing and Planning
- Trucks Through the Neighborhood
- Stadium Events: Parking and Traffic
- Western Avenue Revitalization
- Light of Life: Ridge Avenue Project
- Film Guidelines
- Northside Leadership Conference
- Other Business
Food Alert: Brunch Challenge
Ten chefs making twenty different appetizers for 200 people to sample while they listen to Irish music, Swiss yodelers and watch Irish dancers all for just $25! All proceeds support the Northside Community Food Pantry. Event will be held on Saturday, January 21 at 11:00 am at the New Hazlett Theater.
For tickets, e-mail jay.poliziani@ncmin.org.
Neighborhood Mixer
Come out to City Books next Friday, January 13 at 6:30 pm to mix and mingle with your neighbors. Arlan is opening up the store to the neighborhood and will provide light snacks. BYOB. If you haven’t had a chance to stop by the bookstore yet, please mark your calendars for this Friday and support another great local business!
Little Neighbor, Big Accomplishment!
Congratulations to neighbor and ballerina Margot Teh, who performed in the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater’s performance of The Nutcracker this past December. Margot has been dancing with the PBT since she was four years old. After many rehearsals, Margot performed as both a toy soldier and a bumblebee in 13 performances. Great job, Margot!
House History + AWCC 50th Projects Update
Submitted by Nick Smerker
The Neighborhood History section of alleghenywest.org has been online for just the last few months and has already garnered a fair bit of traffic. With more expected to come from visitors who learned about the resource during the Christmas Tours, it would be great to keep things growing.
To that end, if you have a researched house history from Carol Peterson and haven’t yet dropped it off at the AWCC office (806 Western Avenue), please do so soon! We’ve heard from a few folks who have these documents and have been meaning to drop them off…for several months running…so it would be great to have them for scanning by Pitt.
In addition, the AWCC 50 Year Timeline project is still moving forward. Doris and Greg have been mining the council office for useful materials and editing has begun on video interviews recorded in the last few months. We’d still love having more voices in the mix, though so if you’d like to participate in an interview, please let us know.
If you have any questions about this or want to get involved just email webmaster@alleghenywest.org or call (814) 777-0097.
Remember to Share Your News
The Allegheny West Gazette accepts appropriate content from neighbors for publication by the first of the month. If you have news of neighborhood events or updates, or if you would simply like to thank or honor a neighbor, please send relevant information (including photos, if applicable) to gazette@alleghenywest.org. Thank you!
Bowling at the Elks Lodge
Polish your bowling ball and get your satin jacket on – Allegheny West Bowling resumes on Wednesday, January 11th, beginning at 7:30 pm. Bowl with your neighbors every Wednesday throughout the winter on the second floor of the Elks Lodge at 400 Cedar Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. Then, stick around for Banjo night performances on the first floor. We hope to see you there!
Jazz Concert at City Books
Join City Books on Saturday, January 14 from 7:00-8:30 pm
The Kyle Simpson Jazz Collective
Hear Kyle on trumpet, along with Paul Thompson on bass and Alex Ayers on keyboard. Kyle calls these guys his “dream team,” so you can be sure it is going to be a terrific night of jazz music. For a sneak preview, listen to “Allegheny Commons Stroll.”
Kyle Simpson, composer, trumpet player, and bandleader, is a graduate from Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Appleton, WI and The University of Montana in Missoula, MT. His composition teachers were Fred Sturm at Lawrence and Charles Nichols at The University of Montana. Simpson has written many works for large jazz groups, chamber jazz groups, solo trumpet, synthesized electronic music, Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble. His compositions have been featured at the Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival in Missoula, where he also performed with Lew Soloff and Paquito D’Rivera. Other compositions have been featured at the Fête de la Musique Ile d’Yeu, France(2011), Uzmah Upbeat Croatia (2014), Charlotte New Music Festival (2013), Ostrava Days Czech Republic (2011), and The Henry Mancini Institute(2006), Los Angeles. Simpson’s music has been described as, “lively with rhythmic vitality” and also, “lyrical with a brooding elegance.”
A former Northside resident, Simpson currently lives outside of Pittsburgh, PA where he is an Assistant Professor teaching instrumental music at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA. He is also presently in the DMA program in composition at West Virginia University studying with Dr. Joseph Dangerfield and Dr. Sarana Chou.
Check out Kyle’s website for more information.
Free Tickets for Northsiders: Tomorrow’s Parties and Real Magic
Presented by The Andy Warhol Museum and the New Hazlett Theater
January 10 and 11 at 8PM
Northside friends of the New Hazlett, we have a limited number of complimentary tickets available to two exciting upcoming performances, Tomorrow’s Parties and Real Magic, and we’re making them available to you!
Only a limited number of free tickets are available online, so reserve your seats today.
Tomorrow’s Parties
January 10 | 8PM
On a makeshift fairground stage, two performers speculate about what tomorrow might bring—from utopian and dystopian visions to science fiction scenarios, political nightmares, and absurd fantasies. A playful, poignant, and delirious look at futures both possible and impossible, Tomorrow’s Parties is a dramatic take on the Anthropocene.
One of NextPittsburgh’s 10 Pittsburgh Events Not to Miss in January!
This performance is co-presented with The Andy Warhol Museum, the New Hazlett Theater and Carnegie Nexus as part of the series Strange Times: Earth in the Age of the Human. Media sponsors for Strange Times: WYEP 91.3 and 90.5 WESA.
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Real Magic
January 11 | 8PM
Real Magic creates a world of absurd disconnection, struggle and comical repetition. Real Magic takes the audience on a hallucinatory journey, creating a compelling performance about optimism, individual agency and the desire for change.
Real Magic was commissioned by The Spalding Gray Consortium: Performance Space 122, The Walker Art Center, The Andy Warhol Museum and On the Boards.
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