News Around the Neighborhood
The Birds & The Beers at The Aviary
Enjoy a night of birds, local brews, food, and tunes. All bird exhibitions will be open to view for the night. Food and Beer are included all night. Live music all night outside on the back patio. What more could you want on a Friday night in the Northside?
Friday, July 1st 6:30-10:00pm National Aviary 700 Arch Street, Pittsburgh, PA
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This Week Truth & Rites, Ten-Minute PlayFest and More!
June is Ending…
…but Summer on Sampsonia is Just Getting Started!
Pittsburgh’s favorite jazz musician, Roger Humphries, is back again this Wednesday for another great night of jazz! Jazz Wednesdays are BYOB, so if you are over 21, feel free to bring an alcoholic beverage to sip on. Make Jazz Wednesdays part of your weekly routine all summer long.
Friday, June 24th: Truth & Rites
(Concert)
Join Truth & Rites for an evening of Reggae and dancing.
7:00-9:00pm
$8 (Organizer: Truth & Rites)
Sunday, June 26th: Ten-Minute PlayFest
(Theatre)
Get ready for a full line up of knock your socks off plays! Join us for Yinz Like Play?’s 10-Minute Play Festival!
4:00-9:00pm
$3-5 (Organizer: Yinz Like Plays?)
Wednesday, June 29th: Jazz Wednesdays
(Concert)
Starting June 22nd, join us every Wednesday evening all summer long for a series of free jazz concerts with Pittsburgh icon Roger Humphries and RH Factor.
7:00-9:00pm
FREE event (Organizer: City of Asylum)
Friday, July 1st: Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
(Film)
A universal story of triumph against all odds, the film Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth offers a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, a self-confessed renegade and human rights activist.
8:00-10:00pm
FREE event (Organizer: ReelQ & Pittsburgh Black Pride)
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Wine & Garden Tour Wrap-Up Meeting
AWCC Offices, 806 Western Ave
Monday, June 20th at 7:30pm
For everyone (homeowners, guides, volunteers etc.) who participated in this year’s wine tour, please join us for a wrap up meeting on June 20 at 7:30pm in the AWCC Office at 806 Western Ave.
We want to capture what went well and what we can improve on for future tours while it’s still fresh in everyone’s mind.
If you can’t make the meeting, or have specific suggestions, you’re also welcome to send a note to tours@alleghenywest.org or contact Carrie with suggestions.
Thanks again for everyone who helped make this year’s tour a success!
Carrie and the House Tour Committee
Contact: tours@alleghenywest.org
Northside Block Party: Northview Heights
Sunday, June 19th | 2:00-5:00pm
Outdoors in Northview Heights
533 Mt Pleasant Road, 15214
Free and Open to the Public!
This Sunday, Northview Heights hosts another Northside Block Party with performers Lee Robinson & ISKA, Kai Roberts and The Royal Divas. Hotdogs, snacks, and drinks will be provided compliments of the Northview Heights Citizens Council.
This mini-arts festival celebrates the valuable resources and local identities of Northside neighborhoods. Come check out these free events, including:
- A mobile stage from Flyspeck Productions
- Food and refreshments courtesy of Northview Heights Citizens Council
- Stories about the neighborhood are being collected onsite by The Saturday Light Brigade
- Hands-on activities with Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
- Public art with AIR: Artists Image Resource
- Historical photos courtesy of Allegheny City Historic Gallery
- Grow Pittsburgh will preview plans for a Northview Heights garden
- The Storymobile from Reading is FUNdamental Pittsburgh will be giving out free books
- Games from City of Play
Bring your neighbors and your friends. These events are a project of One Northside and brought to you by The Buhl Foundation, Deutschtown Music Festival, The Sprout Fund and The New Hazlett Theater.
For more info about future events, check out www.BlockPartyPGH.com.
Alleys, Axles & Ales Event Seeking Help from Neighbors
This fall Allegheny West will host Alleys, Axles and Ales. This is a fundraising event which consists of walking the alleys of the neighborhood to admire cars in garages while sampling local beers. We hope to include a food truck as well.
We are scheduled to have the event on Saturday, September 24th, 2016 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm.
We are in search of individuals in the neighborhood who may have a car and/or a garage that could be a part of the tour. We are planning to have at least 8 garages with cars, 6 of which will have beer tastings. We have three garages and cars so far. However, finding additional individuals with a garage that can be used is becoming a challenge. Therefore, we are initiating the adopt-a-car program. Does anyone have a garage that we would be able to use for the day?
Secondly, we are seeking volunteers to assist with pouring beer, running the registration table, floating around neighborhood to relieve beer pourers, walking the alleys after the event to pick up any trash etc. If you would be willing to help please let us know and we will put you on the list.
If you can recommend anyone that has a car, garage, or might like to lend a hand please let us know! You can call or email Abi Webb at (412) 973-5897 or abijane77@gmail.com.
Have a friend driving a classic, vintage or exotic car to the event? They can park in the BABB parking lot where other cool cars will also be on display!
4th of July Picnic 2016
Calvary UMC: Sunset Through Tiffany’s
Calvary United Methodist Church
June 20th from 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Please join us as we view the Tiffany windows in the height of their glory during the Summer Solstice. The evening will be accompanied by chamber music.
The Tiffany Windows
Louis Comfort Tiffany changed the physics of making stained glass in America by re-creating the medieval techniques of using solid stained glass instead of painting on glass to create glass designs. He added additional techniques of twisting the glass to get new colors, throwing confetti made of glass onto molten glass, and sandwiching up to five pieces of glass behind each other in a single composition.
And here in the North Side of Pittsburgh, we have Tiffany’s three largest windows executed between 1894-95. At the summer solstice, light through the magnificent window is at its peak during the year. Due to the physics of refraction, Tiffany’s layered glass changes colors only when the sun comes through at unique angles, such as on Solstice.
Contact: Linda Urlich
Letter from the President – June 2016
WE SOLD THE STABLES! Okay, just had to tell someone that before I started talking about the budget.
Also, THE WINE TOUR WAS A GREAT SUCCESS! Special thanks to our fearless leader, Carrie: the tour’s a huge a responsibility and she managed this one with grace and humor. OK, budget.
Well, actually, before the we get to the budget, at this month’s membership meeting we’ll also have a follow up from the Light of Life about the Ridge Avenue project. They’ll be asking us to take a formal position during upcoming zoning board hearings. Nick will also be giving us all an update on what happened to all those House Histories we’ve been collecting.
OK, budget. (Ssh…don’t tell anyone, but I don’t actually dislike talking about the budget; I love getting down into the nitty gritty of the numbers, and formatting spreadsheets is the height of zen for me, but I worry that people will think that I’m a little weird.) This month we’re hoping to finalize the budget for the next fiscal year (July 16 – June 17). In order for us to have a binding vote, we really need to reach quorum, so please come, at least for a little while if you can. The Board has some recommendations beyond the initial draft budget we presented last month, such as:
- request for a scanner/copier for the office
- additional funds for Calvary for sidewalk repair
- funds for board training, especially around financial planning now that we’ve sold most of our income- producing property (Have I mentioned that WE SOLD THE STABLES?)
I’m always happy to discuss specifics with folks and do my best to represent a wide range of opinions at the meeting – but I can’t stress enough – that attending the meetings and participating in the discussion and vote are really the only way to ensure that your opinions are taken into account. (If Allegheny West were a state, we would so be a caucus state – and that will be the only election humor I can trust myself with.) See you all Tuesday!
Catherine Serventi
President, AWCC
Above & Beyond
Submitted by Cathy Serventi
Thank you to the kind person who moved all the bags of trash and garden compost from the April clean-ups out to the curb on leaf and debris pick-up day. Ann, Michael and I all thought one of us had done it!
I’d also like to recognize Christa Ross, our realtor for the Stables, Matthew Fiscus our attorney and Jon Huck our project manager from the Northside Leadership Conference. After 10 years there were still some last minute scrambles to get our ducks all in a row for the sale but we did it! Special thanks to all the various Board members, LRC members and volunteers throughout the decade we owned the Stables for having a vision and taking action so that that beautiful building, so rich with history could be preserved.
If you’d like to recognize a neighbor who went above-and-beyond for you or the neighborhood this month please send a note to abovebeyond@alleghenywest.org or give Cathy at call at (412) 418-2027 and, space allowing, we’ll recognize them in the Gazette.
Office Hours
The AWCC office at 806 Western Avenue will be open for office hours all month. Feel free to drop off materials, or come by with questions or just to say hello. Hours: M/F 11-2 and T/H 9-12.