University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, April 17-23
THE YEAR OF THE HUMANITIES IN THE UNIVERSITY
Artists in Residence Showcase, musical performances and artwork featuring intersections between the arts and sciences, noon-3 p.m. April 18, William Pitt Union Ballroom, Pitt Departments of Physics and Astronomy, of Music, and of Studio Arts, www.humanities.pitt.edu
“Ad Usum, to be used,” Pedro Reyes, sculptor-artist-activist, 5:30 p.m. April 18, Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Globalizing the Human event series, Global Studies Center, www.humanities.pitt.edu
Boxes and Walls, each room in the tour will be designed to focus on historically oppressed groups, cultures, or social-justice concerns named by students, 8-10 p.m. April 18-19, O’Hara Student Center, 4024 O’Hara St., Oakland, Office of Residence Life, www.humanities.pitt.edu
Esma Redžepova, Queen of the Gypsies, global star of Romani music for more than 50 years, 8 p.m. April 22, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu
MUSIC
Women’s Choral Ensemble Spring Concert, 3 p.m. April 17, Heinz Memorial Chapel, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh Gospel Choir, ensemble’s debut performance, 7 p.m. April 19, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu
Pitt Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert, featuring guest vocalist and Pitt jazz voice instructor Sandy Dowe, 8 p.m. April 20, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Pitt Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu
THEATRE
Nine, world-famous film director Guido Contini is shooting his next project but has no script, 2 p.m. April 17, Charity Randall Theatre in the Stephen Foster Memorial, University of Pittsburgh Stages, www.play.pitt.edu
EXHIBITIONS
Studio Arts Student Exhibition, featuring the creative work of graduating seniors and of majors and nonmajors from studio arts courses, through April 30, University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Pitt Department of Studio Arts, www.studioarts.pitt.edu
Erroll Garner Exhibition, display features materials from the Erroll Garner Archive, which was donated to Pitt’s University Library System in 2015, through the summer, William Pitt Union, Pitt’s K. Leroy Irvis Black History Month
LECTURE
“Why Washington Won’t Work,” Marc Hetherington, professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, 3 p.m. April 22, 2500 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 2016 Bert A. Rockman Lecture in American Politics, Center for the Study of American Politics and Society and Pitt Department of Political Science, RSVP at http://polisci.pitt.edu/rockman2016
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