Folk Song Jam at Your Inner Vagabond

At Your Inner Vagabond, 4130 Butler St. in Lawrenceville. Please see http://www.yourinnervagabond.com for parking information.

It’s a Hoot: Folk Song Jam

Sunday May 10 – 3pm to 6pm; FREE

 Back in the sixties, people used to get together to sing folk songs, especially songs of struggle and protest.  We called them hootenannies, or hoots.

Bring your guitar, if you play, or other instrument.  Please bring your copy of Rise of Singing or come and share someone else’s copy. Bring your favorite songs, maybe with 10 or a dozen copies, so others can join.  Bring yourself and your mother and your children.  Check it out.

FREE! All ages & BYOB.

Dance Alloy

DATUPDATE Join Pittsburgh’s consummate jazz musician, lead trumpet for The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, accompanied by his band Mission Statement, for an evening that promises to thrill and entertain! Indulge in a blend of gourmet culinary delights, and a cocktail or two, as Jones shares his internationally renowned trumpet skills. Have your checkbook/Credit Card ready as DAT auctions off prizes you won’t believe! All proceeds benefit Dance Alloy Theater – as Sean Jones helps support DAT’s outstanding artistic and educational programming.

BUY TICKETS HERE!!! Dance Alloy Theater 5530 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 412.363.4321 www.dancealloy.org

Amnesty International Film Group

The Amnesty International Film Group, http://www.amnestypgh.org presents films at 7 pm on the 4th Wednesday of every month at Shadow Lounge, 5972 Baum Blvd. Parking on street or at Borders or Carnegie Library lots.

May 27, 2009 7 p.m. Conscious Kids: watch Children’s Hope (the story of street kids in Rio De Janeiro), visually cool foreign commercials about kids and social justice, animated Convention on the Rights of the Child and more. (fee; program approx. 51 minutes)

June 24, 2009 7 p.m. Live Like a Refugee: Glimpses from the doctors who treat them in If We Knew Their Stories, kids who have no country in Young Asylum Seekers, an animated version of Rise Against’s Prayer of the Refugee song, and more from the world’s displaced citizens. (free; program approx. 52 minutes)

Attack Theatre

Game Night and The Seven Minute Dance Series
Friday, May 1
8:00 – 11:00pm with performances at 9 and 10
Attack Theatre Studios
4805 Penn Avenue, Garfield/Bloomfield
Join Attack Theatre for some good old-fashioned schoolyard fun and games: Four-Square, backgammon, 3-D tic-tac-toe, vintage Atari games, darts and Connect Four. Between games, enjoy seven minutes of dance at 9 and 10pm. Everyone is welcome, donations suggested. Sponsored in part by UPMC. www.attacktheatre.com 412.441.8444.

This performance series presents dance in an intimate and social atmosphere, surrounded by old-fashioned games such as Four-Square, Backgammon, vintage video games, and Connect Four.

Community members can get to know the company and meet other artists and neighbors while experiencing the process of making dances and making friends. Voted “one of the best places for singles to meet” (Pittsburgh Post Gazette).

2009 Russian film festival

Link to flyer: http://www.filmstudies.pitt.edu/events/fy09/russianfilm09.pdf

Russian Film Symposium 09

The New Positive Hero

Masculinity and Genre in Recent Russian Cinema

May 4 – May 9

*Locations: University of Pittsburgh, David Lawrence Hall, 106 (DL) Details: http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 477 Melwood Ave, Oakland (PF)

Monday, 4 May 10:00 am Vanished Empire (Karen Shakhnazarov, 2008) DL* 2:00 pm Paper Soldier (Aleksei German, Jr., 2008) DL

Tuesday, 5 May 10:00 am Live and Remember (Aleksandr Proshkin, 2008) DL 2:00 pm Once Upon A Time               In the Provinces (Katia Shagalova) DL

Wednesday, 6 May 10:00 am Four Ages of Love (Sergei Mokritskii, 2008) DL 7:30 pm Wild Field (Mikhail Kalatozishvili, 2008) PF

Thursday, 7 May 2:00 pm Mukha (Vladimir Kott, 2008) DL 7:30 pm 12 (Nikita Mikhalkov, 2007) PF

Friday, 8 May 10:00 am Captive (Aleksei Uchitel’, 2008) DL 2:00 pm Russia-88 (Pavel Bardin, 2009) DL 7:30 pm Shultes (Bakur Bakuradze, 2008) PF

Saturday, 9 May 7:30 pm Morphia (Aleksei Balabanov, 2008) PF