Katy Yocom, Reading September 29, 2021 / 7:30pm Mukaiyama University Room, FWC Free
Fly Dance Company’s Gentlemen of Hip Hop February 11, 2022 / 7:30pm Bromeley Family Theater, Blaisdell Hall Public-$25 / Faculty & Staff-$20 Students-$5 FLY is what happens when street dance and classical music meet. Every so often a company bursts onto the dance scene with such original talent and drive that a completely new genre is born. Within three seasons of touring, FLY went from an unknown, “hard-to-categorize” dance company with no touring experience to a popular new group wowing audiences around the country.
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Join us for a reading by Katy Yocom whose debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear, won the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature and was named a Barnes & Noble Top Indie Favorite. She is a 2019 recipient of the Al Smith Fellowship Award, and her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Buckets N Boards Comedy Percussion Show February 18, 2022 / 7pm Bromeley Family Theater, Blaisdell Hall All Tickets-$10
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Buckets N Boards is a spectacularly imaginative comedy show brought to life by two prolific performers, Matt Levingston and Gareth Sever. They have performed for children and their families for 10 seasons in Branson, MO, with the Kansas City Symphony, and have been one of the most requested headline act on Disney Cruise Lines. The improvisational interactions with the audience is a major driving force of this show that the entire family will enjoy!
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Charlie Schulman, playwright & Michael Roberts, writer, composer, lyricist Pax Rwanda: Embroideries of the Women of Savane Rutongo-Kabuye Curator Presentation: February 21 / Noon Exhibition: February 21 - March 18, 2022 KOA Art Gallery, Blaisdell Hall The embroideries of the workshop known as Savane Rutongo-Kabuye were created by a group of Rwandan women living in the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. They came from both sides of the conflict, yet they put the events of the past behind them to work together in the hope that their children would have a better future. Experience the story of how these exquisite pieces are made which is as captivating as the work itself.
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Patrick O’Connor – Film Screening of Look Away, Look Away
March 16, 2022 / 7:30pm Mukaiyama University Room, FWC Free Michael Roberts and Charlie Schulman will discuss the journey of their musical, GOLDSTEIN, from the earliest project conception to its Off-Broadway opening and the Off-Broadway Original Cast Album. The creative and practical aspects of writing and producing will be discussed with a Q&A to follow.
For questions and tickets: Call the Box Office – 814-362-5113 or go to www.upb.pitt.edu/TheArts
October 18, 2021 / 6pm Bromeley Family Theater, Blaisdell Hall Free The Documentary Film Premiere and Unveiling of the Emery Art Restoration Project
In 2015, the horrific murder of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, SC sparked a national reckoning around the meaning of the Confederate flag. In Look Away, Look Away, director Patrick O’Connor captures the fierce fiveyear battle over the Mississippi state flag, revealing how race, heritage and long-simmering grievances over the Civil War shape our sense of who we are as Americans. It is the recent winner of the Audience Award for the best documentary, best film and best Mississippi film at the Oxford Film Festival. Q&A to follow screening.
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