Campus Arts

Artful Wednesdays: AppalAsia

PITT ARTS
Wednesday, November 11, 12 Noon - 1 PM
Nordy's Place, William Pitt Union Lower Level

Free lunch will be served.  

AppalAsia is a cross-pollination of Appalachian and Asian music.  Mimi Jong,    takes the Chinese erhu out of its traditional box; Jeff Berman, a genre-bending   dulcimer player who has performed internationally; and Susan  Powers, an edgy banjo player, all come together to create a tradition based music that speaks to the future.

About Artful Wednesdays
For the launching of the 7th annual Artful Wednesdays series PITT ARTS brings the best of Pittsburgh arts and cultural offerings to campus in the fall of 2009. Throughout the fall semester all Pitt students, faculty, and staff are welcome to enjoy a free noontime performance luncheon at Nordy’s Place in the Lower Level of the William Pitt Union. Artful Wednesdays celebrate the beauty and diversity of the performing arts happening in our city.

Upcoming Artful Wednesdays Performance Calendar

November 18 - Azucar Latin Band

December 2 - Pittsburgh Live Chamber Ensemble

C.D. Wright - The Future of Poetry

Department of English/Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series
Thursday, November 5 at 8:30 PM
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

FREE and Open to the Public!

C.D. Wright’s 13th poetry collection, Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), has been named the international winner of Canada’s 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.  In addition, she has published numerous collections of poetry and prose, including Steal Away, Selected and New Poems (Copper Canyon, 2003).  Wright’s recent collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Twin Palms, 2004) earned them the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Among her numerous honors are fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, as well as awards from the Lannan Foundation, the Witter Bynner Prize, and a Whiting Award. In 1994 she was named Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, a five-year post. C.D. Wright currently teaches at Brown University as the Israel J. Kapstein Professsor of English.

For more information, visit www.creativewriting.pitt.edu.

Cinematheque Screening - Stalker(1979)

English & Film Studies Department
1501 Posvar Hall
Friday, November 6 at 6:30 PM

FREE PIZZA and SCREENING!

The Film Studies Program’s Cinematheque presents its ongoing series – “Extreme Cinema: The Many Faces of Shock.” And this week, we will be screening the 1979 classic, Stalker.

In this The Wizard of Oz meets The Divine Comedy odyssey through a mysterious, forbidden realm, Stalker (Alexandr Kaidanovsky) is charged with guiding two men, a Writer (Anatoly Solonitsin) and a Scientist (Nikolai Grinko), to the mystical Room where visitors' deepest, and oftentimes darkest, wishes are granted.

As much an inward, metaphysical journey as a perilous expedition that few, it seems, have survived, the trio's passage is tested at every turn by the most perplexing of trials and tribulations. Through an abandoned industrial landscape that eerily foreshadows the Chernobyl disaster seven years later, Stalker leads his inane and tedious companions by the most circuitous, incomprehensible route possible, always tossing ahead a ribbon tied to a bolt to find the way, lest the Zone itself get angry ...

For more information, visit www.filmstudies.pitt.edu.

39th Annual Jazz Seminar Concert

Department of Music
Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 PM
Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland

Tickets in advance though ProArts: general admission $18, Pitt students $8 at WPU Ticket Box Office with Valid ID (MAIN FLOOR). Visit www.proartickets.org or call 412-394-3353.

The University of Pittsburgh's Annual Seminar on Jazz is an experience that combines the best in scholarship, performance, community involvement, cultural diversity, and musicianship. This four-day event is a true celebration devoted to the teaching, performing, and documenting of one of America's most original art forms -- jazz. For over 30 years, the University, through the efforts of renowned jazz musician and educator, Nathan Davis, has been bringing the world's greatest jazz innovators to the city in the role of visiting "professors."

For more information, visit www.music.pitt.edu.