All Ages

Green Gatherings

How the Environment Factors Into the Election
Pittsburgh Community Broadcast Center
Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:30-8:30pm
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Allegheny Front, a Pittsburgh-produced radio program covering Western Pennsylvania environmental issues, has announced their next season of Green Gatherings events hosted alongside 91.3fm WYEP and 90.5 WESA. Green Gatherings is a FREE and informal evening of drinks and discussion over issues facing our environment.

The topic for the evening will be ‘The Environmental Election' and will focus on issues within our community gaining political ground including Marcellus Shale, sewage infrastructure, and many other key “green” issues. The evening will include a panel of speakers featuring Don Hopey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Chris Potter of Pittsburgh City Paper and Heather Sage of PennFuture.

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Don Hopey has covered the environment for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1993. He’s written about national and international topics, but has mostly written about mining, industry and the environment in southwestern Pennsylvania. Recently, he's been teaching classes about environmental issues and the public policy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Chris Potter is the editor of Pittsburgh City Paper, an alternative weekly newspaper that brings news, arts, entertainment, and opinions. Prior to launching his journalism career, Potter did a series of odd jobs, occasionally dabbling in the field of environmental consulting. Potter and his wife, Melanie, have an 18-month-old son, Cormac, who is likely to grow up in a hotter, less biologically diverse, and generally more dismal world than the one Potter himself grew up in.

Heather Sage is vice president of PennFuture, which The Philadelphia Inquirer has called “Pennsylvania’s leading environmental advocacy organization.” She heads programs that provide organizing and media assistance to local environmental organizations, networking and coordination services for statewide environmental groups, and information about current environmental issues.

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Bruce Springsteen

THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT

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Bassnectar

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Dean and Britta Studio Session

The Dean & Britta Studio Session is now full. Please tune in to 91.3fm or wyep.org to listen to it live at 1pm on Thursday, November 8.

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After Hours @ the Library: Happy Hour

After Hours @ the Library: Happy Hour, which is a low key happy-hour style event that takes place at different libraries around the CLP system; and After Hours @ the Library: Late Night, the Library's annual signature fundraising event at the Main Library in Oakland, which is about as far away from a standard visit to the Library as one can get.

Live music, good drinks and fun activities!

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2nd Saturday Workshops: Story Telling & Art Making

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents, 2nd Saturdays Workshops: Story Telling and Art Making for Families

Instructor: Allison Babusci
Fee: $25

Gather together artists young and old to hear some stories and make some art. Storyteller and art teacher Alison K. Babusci hosts this interdisciplinary workshop for families. Hear stories of folktale characters from around the world and use the characters and settings in the stories to inspire your art making. Using a variety of art materials, we will create a puppet, a collage and a mask – together! No prior art experience necessary.

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South Side Stories

World Premiere
A new hometown adventure by Tami Dixon
– Hamburg Studio
This vibrant one-woman show portrays the dynamism of a neighborhood. Embedded in the concrete of South Side's city steps are testimonials of teenage mischief, steel mill toil, and townie haunts. This is a neighborhood where parking chairs and bar stools mark territory, where "paradise" is just one turn off of 26th Street. So we ask, "Are yinz ready for some stories 'bout the 'burgh?"

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The Who

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Chris Isaak

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Education Seminar: Radio Daze

Return to an era before pictures and video dominated entertainment, when families gathered around their radios after dinner.
 
Explore the world of the 1930s radio dramas with Paul Guggenheimer, Essential Pittsburgh’s host. Learn about the history and development of the narrative-centric radio programs that brought drama, suspense, horror and comedy to the radio format. Find out how radio dramas paved the way for modern television programming, with soap operas during the day and prime-time dramas at night.
 
Delight in the first horror anthology, “A Witch’s Tale,” or learn about “The Shadow,” a crime drama that later became the model for comic book heroes. Find out more about the Mercury Theater on Air that brought classic literature to the radio waves, and Fred Allen’s radio comedy show, “Allen’s Alley.”
 
Radio dramas brought lively characters into family homes and listeners used their imaginations to recreate the story’s universe.
 
Come to “Radio Daze” on Wednesday, November 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the WYEP Community Broadcast Center. Tickets are $10 for members and $12 for non-members.

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Kidney Gift of Life Gala

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) will hold their annual Kidney Gift of Life Gala under the gold glitterinjg stars of Pittsburgh's black night sky. It will be an evening of black and gold, of celebrating LIFE, and of truly making a difference. The All that Glitters is Gold themed Gala will feature live entertainment by Protege and will include a cocktail and hors d' ouerves reception, open bar, sit down dinner, as well as live and silent auctions.

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Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert

Musicians from various local bands --- such as Gypsy & His Band Of Ghosts, Backstabbing Good People, One Sweet Burgh, Baby in a Cage, The Wheals, Breaker and others --- perform a broad spectrum of music genres for an exciting evening.

Making landfall in October 2012, Hurricane Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and devastated parts of New York and New Jersey.

The benefit is an all ages event with a $5 cover; additional donations are welcome. Presented by local event company Touchfaster. Proceeds benefit the Hurricane Sandy Relief Foundation, which is committed to helping the victims. For more information, call (412) 423-8376.

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