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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Margaret McMullan, Reading October, 19, 2021 / 11:30am Mukaiyama University Room, FWC Free
A Special Invitation…
Margaret McMullan is the author of nine awardwinning books, including the novel, In My Mother’s House; the story collection, Aftermath Lounge; and the anthology, Every Father’s Daughter. Her young adult novels How I Found the Strong, When I Crossed No-Bob, Cashay, and Sources of Light have received Best Book awards from Parents’ Choice, School Library Journal, the American Library Association, and Booklist among many other educational organizations. Her newest book is the memoir, Where The Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Loss, Exile, and Return.
Alberto Rey Biological Regionalism Virtual Art Exhibition November 1 – December 10, 2021 The exhibition includes a series of large paintings, water samples and related data, historical information, ecological research, large maps, video projections, process work samples, related programming and presentations along with selections from Alberto’s past works. The installation explores the history and the present condition of the several creeks and bodies of water in Western New York and beyond.
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To access the artist’s work, visit our website upb.pitt.edu/TheArts AlbertoRey.com
The Documentary Film Premiere and Unveiling of the Emery Art Restoration Project at Pitt-Bradford
Communications’ Day Performance with Jess Novak October 28, 2021 / 5pm Helen Hume Lobby, Blaisdell Hall Free Jess Novak takes no prisoners. With a fiddle on fire and powerful vocals, this pop, rock, soul-pumped musician from Syracuse, NY, brings passion to every performance. Known for her energy, superb musicianship, engaging songwriting and ability to win any crowd, she is a performer on the rise.
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December 3 & 4, 2021 - Free Performances throughout the Bradford Community For the Holiday Season, Pitt-Bradford Arts brings numerous performances into the community on December 3 and 4. Victorian-dressed vocalists and musicians from the American Caroling Company will be strolling the streets and visiting schools, nursing homes and businesses throughout Bradford to share the holiday spirit. (Schedule TBD)
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Baily’s Beads Literary Magazine Celebration
October 29th, 2021 / 7:30pm Bromeley Family Theater, Blaisdell Hall Free - Tickets Required Come join us for the exciting unveiling of the Tomasso Juglaris painting, Paolo Veronese in Venice. Lost for over 50 years, this painting will now hang in the KOA Lobby in Blaisdell Hall. We will celebrate the story and restoration of the painting as well as the local and university ties to this extraordinary piece of art. A presentation by restorer, Jeffery Johnson, of Johnson and Griffiths, will explain the restoration process and Adrian Selkowitz, videographer and owner of Cowboy, Bear, Ninja will introduce the documentary film that was created to tell this fascinating story. This event will be followed by the unveiling of the painting and a reception.
The American Caroling Company
January 26, 2022 / 7:30pm Mukaiyama University Room, FWC
Musica Spei, Vocal Ensemble November 20, 2021 / 3pm Harriett B. Wick Chapel Public-$15 / Faculty & Staff-$12 Students-$5 For two decades, the vocal ensemble Musica Spei (Music of Hope) has performed choral masterworks of the medieval and renaissance periods to audiences in western New York. The ensemble’s emphasis and particular specialty is the sacred music of the middle ages and renaissance, with forays into related territory.
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Pitt-Bradford’s annual magazine, Baily’s Beads, will be unveiled with refreshments, prizes, readings by Baily’s Beads contributors, and an open mic for anyone who wants to share original work.
Pitt-Bradford Faculty and Staff Recital January 27, 2022 / 11:45am Studio Theater, Blaisdell Hall Free Pitt-Bradford faculty and staff are very creative people but not only in their professional lives. Come experience their accomplished musical talents through both vocal and instrumental performances.