University of Pittsburgh
April 11, 2012

University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, April 25-May 2

The following events are open to the public.
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EXHIBITIONS

Through 5/1   The University Library System presents an exhibition of first editions and significant works by famed novelist Charles Dickens, Room 363, Hillman Library, 3960 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The rare books are holdings of Pitt’s Darlington Collection. For more information, call Jeanann Haas at 412-648-8199 or jeanann@pitt.edu.

Through 4/28   The Department of Studio Arts presents the Student Studio Arts Exhibition at the University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, April 28. For more information, call 412-648-2430 or visit www.studioarts.pitt.edu.

Through 4/28   The University Library System (ULS) will display the front pages of the original state charters that created Pittsburgh Academy and the Western University of Pennsylvania, which eventually became the University of Pittsburgh, to mark Pitt’s anniversary—225 Years of Building Better Lives—in the glass Audubon case, ground floor, Hillman Library, 3960 Forbes Ave., Oakland. The documents are on loan from the PA State Archives. Facsimiles of the charters’ other pages will be displayed in the adjacent hallway. For more information, call 412-648-8199.

FILM

4/26 Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies and Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, with the Hillman Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Collection, will present Altiplano (2009) at 6:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland. For more information, visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/.

4/30-5/5   Pitt and Pittsburgh Filmmakers will present the 14th Annual Russian Film Symposium titled “Camp Cinema: Russian Style,” in Room 106 of Pitt’s Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Ave. and in the Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave., Oakland. All films will have English subtitles. For more information and a full schedule of screenings, visit www.rusfilm.pitt.edu.

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