It’s a Hoot: Folk Song Jam

 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.

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)

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).

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)