Pitt’s Nationality Room Tours Available Throughout the Holiday Season
PITTSBURGH—The University of Pittsburgh’s Nationality Rooms Program will host its annual holiday open house from noon to 4 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Cathedral of Learning Commons Room 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is free and open to the public.
The 27 Nationality Rooms, on the first and third floors of the Cathedral of Learning, will be decorated in traditional fashion with guides in ethnic dress.
Performances by various ethnic groups will be presented every 15 minutes in the Commons Room, including Japanese Taiko drummers and performances by Carpatho-Rusyn, Irish, Romanian, Serbian, Philippine, Greek, and Chinese dancers. There will be craft demonstrations throughout the Cathedral, such as one by Pittsburgh Bobbin Lace in the Croghan Schenley Room.
The following Nationality Rooms committees will provide ethnic foods and items for purchase: African Heritage, Austrian, Chinese, Czechoslovak, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indian, Iranian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean Heritage, Latin American, Philippine, Polish, Russian, Swiss, Syria-Lebanon, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh, and Yugoslavian.
In addition to the open house, the decorated Nationality Rooms can be viewed via taped tours on Saturdays—Nov. 27 and Dec. 4, 11, 18—from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. On Sundays—Nov. 28 and Dec. 12 and 19—taped tours will be available from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
On Nov. 26 and Dec. 27 through Dec. 31, guided tours will be offered. Tours begin at 10:30 a.m., and the last tour will be dispatched at 2:30 p.m. Tours commence every half hour. Taped tours are unavailable during these times.
The University is closed Nov. 25, Dec. 24, 25, and 26, 2010, and Jan. 1, 2011.
Tickets can be purchased at the Gift Shop on the first floor of the Cathedral of Learning; reservations are not accepted. Admission is $3 for adults and $1 for youths ages 8-18.
For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~natrooms or call 412-624-6000.
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