Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 8:00pm Byham Theater

Kicking off the festival, this event celebrates the contributions, experiences, and legacy of women in Hip Hop culture over the past 50 years. The evening will open with a discussion featuring 2x USA DMC champion DJ Perly, graffiti artist Juliandra Jones, street dance artist Teena Marie Custer, and local emcees Bird and SpeciàlK, moderated by Hip Hop choreographer and educator Crystal Frazier. The discussion will be followed by a concert by Grammy-nominated Rapper Monie Love, DJ sets by DJ Perly and DJ Femi, and performances by emcees Bird and SpeciàlK.

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Located at the Brew House Association (711 S. 21st Street) on the South Side, “Lay Bare” Lay Bare explores the Black experience through the lens of Black women by asking selected artists, Who would you be if you could be your most authentic self?  This exhibition looks to transform the gallery space into a hub for creative thought, interaction, conversation, and deeper understanding of the Black femme community that exists within Pittsburgh. Exhibiting artists include Black Girl Absolute, Karlissia Council, Ivory Eddins, Juliandra Jones (PBJ Customs), Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum, Bekezela Mguni, Jameelah Platt, and Rell Rushin. Lay Bare is curated by Zeal Eva as part of Brew House Association’s Prospectus Emerging Curator program. 

 Monday, March 27 from 10am-2pm & 3pm to 7pm

EmployHER Pittsburgh is a collaborative initiative between Dress for Success Pittsburgh, New Century Careers and When She Thrives aimed at providing access to better employment, personal development and educational opportunities for women in Allegheny County.

EmployHER Pittsburgh is designed to remove barriers like access to childcare and transportation through pop up engagement events, bringing multiple nonprofit resources and prospective employers to the communities of women across Allegheny County. Each woman who attends the opportunity fair will be supported by a success partner to help them set and achieve their self-defined goals over a six-month period.

At the opportunity fair on Monday, March 27, participants can expect:

• Direct access to supportive services from Bidwell Training Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh, CCAC KEYS Program, Crossroads Treatment Centers, Dress for Success Pittsburgh, Duquesne Light, Financial Empowerment Center, Goodwill Southwestern Pennsylvania, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, Jeremiah's Place, Melanin Mommies PGH, Midwife Center, MomsWork, Neighborhood Legal Services, New Century Careers, Pennsylvania Career Link, Pennsylvania Women Work, Trying Together, Western Governors University and When She Thrives.
• Opportunities to enroll in personal and professional development training programs, as well as Resume & LinkedIn Workshop by Adecco.
• On site interview opportunities with prospective employers Amazon, First Commonwealth Bank, Knichel Logistics, PPG, University of Pittsburgh and Waste Management.
• Connection with a success partner for support and guidance
• Self-care stations with Tea Snob, Farmer Girl Eb, a writing session by Nakeena Hayden from When She Thrives.

Free food and childcare will be provided by Bible Center Church and childcare by Wedding Nights for Tikes.

Additional details can be found here.

Would you like to become a success partner and support a woman through the next step of her career journey? Email: Jade@dressforsuccesspittsburgh.org

Become an event day support volunteer. Register here!

MUSIC | PERFORMANCE
Sunstar Festival: Women & Music
with DJ FEMI, Diarra Imani, Toshi Reagon, Lola Cole, & Casaundra
Curated in Partnership with the SCALE Fellowship Program

Saturday, March 18 
8:00pm

Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $25 - $40

KST's annual Sunstar Festival celebrates the power and diversity of women in music and creativity. Since its 2009 inception, Sunstar has highlighted a diversity of women musical artists, centered BIPOC women and welcomed women and femmes across gender expressions. For 2023, KST is thrilled to collaborate with the SCALE Fellowship Program of the Equity Impact Center to curate a musically diverse program featuring women across a spectrum of identities. Featuring performances from Toshi Raegon, DJ FEMI, Lola Cole, and Casaundra with host Diarra Imani. 

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Jeremiah's Place protects children and strengthens families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children when their families are experiencing a critical need for childcare. Since we opened our doors in April 2014 Jeremiah's Place has provided thousands of hours of emergency childcare services to hundreds of families across nearly one hundred ZIP codes.

Event Details: Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2023 Time: 5:30PM - 9:00PM Venue: Energy Innovation Center (1435 Bedford Ave, Pittsburgh, PA

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Join us on Wednesday, March 8 in celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month for an open house and networking reception. Stop by anytime between 5 and 7 for a tour of the boutique, meet the team to learn about ways to get involved. Those who bring a personal care item or handbag will be entered into a drawing to win a free FAB Bag at our next sale.

• Enjoy snacks and refreshments
• Network with other Pittsburgh professionals
• Learn about the impact Dress for Success Pittsburgh has on local women

Registration is strongly encouraged. Register Here: https://dfspgh.salsalabs.org/2023AlleghenyOpenHouseNetworkingReception

Questions? Email: jade@dressforsuccesspittsburgh.org

TO WHOM ARE WE NEIGHBOR? CHURCHES AND COMMUNITIES ENGAGING IN ANTI-RACISM WORK ACROSS GENERATIONS

KELSO LECTURE AND COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ON RACE AND FAITH

March 17-18, 2023

Fri., March 17, 2023, Kelso Lecture
7:00 p.m. ET
The Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, President and CEO, Children’s Defense Fund and CDF Action Council
In-person and Online
Free

Sat., March 18, 2023, Metro-Urban Institute Conference and Closing Service
8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. ET
In-person
$25

Register for the lecture, conference, or both!

Join us for two days exploring how churches and communities can work together to facilitate anti-racism in their neighborhoods. Our conversation kicks off Friday with the Kelso Lecture, delivered by the Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson. Metro-Urban Institute’s conference filled with workshops, a panel discussion, worship, a community lunch, and resource fair follows on Saturday. All are welcome! 

This event is co-sponsored by the Seminary's Office of Continuing Education and Metro-Urban Institute. 

CEUs: 0.1 for Friday lecture, 0.3 for Saturday event

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 616 N. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15206 (lecture online and in person; conference in person only)

Contact the Metro-Urban Institute at Click to view e-mail or 412-924-1449.

 Contemporary Craft (CC) is pleased to announce a new residency with artist and designer Tereneh Idia, exploring the material culture of Black Pittsburgh – past, present and future. The residency is made possible through a generous $35,000 Creative Development Awards grant from The Heinz Endowments, with additional support from Dawn and Chris Fleischner. The residency is set to begin in April 2022.

During this nine-month residency, titled C3, Idia will examine the history of cloth, culture, and community of Black Pittsburgh to create a new body of work that draws upon underknown cultural knowledge and traditions of the people with African ancestry and the African diaspora in western Pennsylvania. 

“Black Pittsburgh’s history and material culture is woven throughout this region’s history even before Pittsburgh became Pittsburgh. I am so excited to explore the Cloth, Culture and Community with Contemporary Craft as artist in residence in 2022,” said Idia. “Contemporary Craft is the perfect partner because of its dedication to craft, commitment to supporting artists, expanding education of craftsmanship and skills in the region and understanding that community is created and celebrated through the arts.”

C3 will provide resources for artistic development through opportunities to learn new textile skills; provide space to experiment, create and display new techniques; conduct research on material culture of Black Pittsburgh that fills gaps in the regional knowledge base; uncover creative expression within Pittsburgh’s Black community related to garments and adornment; and share artistic products with multicultural audiences in hopes of strengthening our region’s collective self-identity. C3 will also prompt a discussion around cloth and community in the field of craft beyond Pittsburgh, as CC connects Idia with craft institutions across the country.

"It is an honor to have the opportunity to be included in Tereneh’s work, as she researches and explores creative expression through textiles and adornment," said CC Executive Director Rachel Saul Rearick. "We look forward to being able to draw connections between her practice and the work that we do at Contemporary Craft; while learning more about the history and culture of the Black community in Pittsburgh.”

The project will consist of four interwoven and overlapping phases: explore, research, create and share. At the end of the residency, the information and documentation collected during the Explore and Research phases will be made available online, and the new designs will be presented in an exhibition at Contemporary Craft’s BNY Mellon Satellite Gallery. 

About Tereneh Idia

C3 is consistent with Idia’s artistic interests, having conducted collaborative endeavors throughout her career. Her primary artistic enterprise, IdiaDega, is a global eco-design collaboration of Maasai, Oneida and African-American women artisans; centering the design innovation of people who are often appropriated but never duplicated, to create new design languages and build multicultural creative communities. 

Idia speaks and conducts workshops on issues of sustainability, fashion, adornment, appropriation, global design and creativity highlights of her work including: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Africa Energy Forum - Copenhagen, Denmark; Yale-National University of Singapore; The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, FiberArts Guild; and the Society of Contemporary Crafts.

About The Heinz Endowments

The Heinz Endowments is devoted to the mission of helping our region prosper as a vibrant center of creativity, learning, and social, economic and environmental sustainability. Core to our work is the vision of a just community where all are included and where everyone who calls southwestern Pennsylvania home has a real and meaningful opportunity to thrive.

 About Contemporary Craft

Celebrating its 50th anniversary year in 2021/2022, Contemporary Craft presents contemporary art in craft media by regional, national, and international artists. Contemporary Craft offers cutting edge exhibitions focusing on multicultural diversity and contemporary art, as well as a range of artist-led studio workshops, community engagement programs, and a store. Located at 5645 Butler Street in the Upper Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA, Contemporary Craft’s exhibition and Drop-In Studio art activity are always free to the public. For more information, visit www.contemporarycraft.org.   

Measurement Rules a new exhibit at Children's Museum Opens September 15th.  Explore creative ways to measure yourself and objects in this interactive exhibit. How many chickens do you weigh? How tall are you in apples or inches or pennies? Can you use your foot as a ruler? Explore nonstandard ways to measure yourself and objects using items such as balancing scales, odometers, calipers, 3-D imaging and counting “Mississippis.”

Hands-on components:

• Measure yourself in apples or pennies
• Get walking and add to the total yards we’ll calculate visitors walked on our exhibit treadmill
• Tinker with instruments such as calipers, height gauges and go/no-go gauges to explore ways to measure an ordinary wooden ball. Toss the balls down the chutes to test your finding
• How good is your internal clock? Count to five Mississippi and see how close you come to five actual seconds
• Find out how many chickens you weigh at the Chicken Scale!
• Extend a Giant Tape Measure and measure the equally giant fish on our wall mural
• Build your own ball ramp and modify it to make it faster or slower
• See yourself built in cubic-inch blocks as you stand in front of a special screen
• Explore volume at an open-ended Bead Table
• Balance objects and standard weights on a large balance scale

Learn More: https://pittsburghkids.org/exhibit/measurement-rules