Quantum Theatre
Cymbeline
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Karla Boos
July 31 – August 24
Outdoors, Rose Garden, Mellon Park
A “Robot 250 project” - collaboration with The Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University

Point Breeze Nights
Thursday July 31 and Tuesday August 19
Pre-show reception at 6:30pm
in the Gordon Pavilion at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Performance at 8pm
Special discounted tickets available from ProArts Tickets
Call 412.394.3353 to purchase

Is it a comedy, a tragedy, a romance? Like Quantum, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline breaks all the rules and doesn’t care. At it’s heart are many journeys. Broken families stumble back together and characters struggle through dense fog to emerge whole. Cymbeline is a tale about who we are, where we come from and how we find our way home.

Illah Nourbaksh and his team at the Robotics Institute work with Quantum team to add a unique element to the production. It depends upon surprise… but we will reveal that robotics technology will allow the audience to affect the production, and we invite each viewer’s participation in a way that’s fun.

Quantum hopes you’ll attend one of two Point Breeze Nights! Quantum loves the residents of Bill Peduto’s Point Breeze district for tolerating their presence in such a beautiful, well-used park. On two evenings, July 31 and August 19, Bill hosts a pre-show party at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts followed by a performance of the play. Point Breeze residents will receive a special discount.

For information on Cymbeline, and other special events such as Book Club Night, visit http://www.quantumtheatre.com/season/cymbeline/

See the holiday lights come on at 6:15pm, take a horse and carriage ride, watch an ice carving demonstration, listen to some live music from the St. Bede’s choir, stay warm by a fire, visit the local shops, enter to win our candy cane guessing contest, decorate cookies with your family, and more!

It’s all taking place on Reynolds Street between Hastings and Gettysburg form 6-9pm on December 1st.

Well it’s been just over a year and we have been busy studying and meeting with our neighbors to gain additional input on the visioning work you helped create last October.

Join us Thursday, November 8th, from 6-9pm at the Reizenstein School Cafeteria.

Read the full flyer

From Tiffani Emig

I am the curator at Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area. We are working on a project titled Seeing Pittsburgh, which will showcase Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods through the eyes of their residents. The project involves finding around six residents from diverse backgrounds (in terms of age, race, gender, years in the community, etc.) in each participating community to volunteer as amateur photographers. Rivers of Steel will provide each volunteer with a camera and ask them to answer the question “What makes South Point Breeze unique?” through photography. We are not looking for people who are great photographers, just a variety of people who know their community. The project will result in an exhibit at the Bost Building beginning in July 2008 and, if funding allows, a book, video podcasts, and cell phone tours of each participating neighborhood.

In order to reach people in each neighborhood, we are partnering with neighborhood organizations. We would like Point Breeze to be one of the neighborhoods represented in the project, if this is something you are willing and able to be involved in. All I am asking from the organizations is to talk to people in the neighborhood about volunteering and send a list of their names and contact information. I am attaching a more detailed project outline that can be distributed to potential volunteers.

Project Summary
Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area is challenging your neighborhood and other neighborhoods throughout the Pittsburgh area to document the things that define your community. The documentation will be primarily in the form of photographs taken by community members, though some photographers might also be asked to be interviewed about life in their community. The end result will be an exhibit of photographs and stories from each community, to be held at the Bost Building in Homestead from July 1, 2008, to January 31, 2009. If funding allows, a book and a video podcast series will be published to supplement the exhibit.

Details
For the project, we are looking for volunteers from your community to act as photojournalists. We encourage both those with prior photographic experience and those less comfortable with a camera to participate. As a volunteer, you will be asked to take photographs documenting their answers to the following questions:

What defines your neighborhood? What makes it unique?
We are interested in the good, the bad, the old, the new, the big, the small, the physical, the emotional……

1) You will also be asked to keep a simple log of each photo they take, noting the exposure number and the subject of each photo. Rivers of Steel will provide one disposable camera to each photographer for use on the project, though you are welcome to use your own camera (film or digital). All photographs should be completed by the end of December. Rivers of Steel staff members Tiffani Emig and Ron Baraff will collect your film and cameras for developing.

2) After film has been developed, a selection committee will review the photographs and choose approximately 10 photographs from each community to submit for the exhibit. The photos will be chosen based more on their subject matter and their depiction of the most encompassing view of the neighborhood, and less on their artistic quality.

3) Rivers of Steel would also like the opportunity to interview several of the volunteers from each community to get a better sense of the neighborhood and the photographs taken. The interviews will be schedule separately and will likely take place after the first of the year.

4) The resulting photographs will be framed and mounted, along with quotes from the interviews, for the Seeing Pittsburgh exhibit. If funding allows, we would also like to produce a documentary from the interviews that will run on a large screen television during the exhibit, to help visitors better understand the meaning behind the photographs.

Our goal for the project is to show the character of each neighborhood as seen by its residents, not by an outside entity.

About Rivers of Steel
The mission of the Rivers of Steel National and State Heritage Area is to conserve, interpret, promote and manage the historic, cultural, natural and recreational sources of steel and related industries in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and to develop the use of these resources so that they may contribute to the revitalization of the region. Find out more at www.riversofsteel.com

For more information, contact Tiffani Emig, Curator of Collections, at 412-464-4020 Ext.22, or temig@riversofsteel.com.

Saturday, October 10th, 10am-3pm 

We’ll be meeting in the small parking lot at Mellon Park at Beechwood and Fifth. Registration begins at 10 am and continues throughout the day.

Drop in whenever you are able and stay for as long as you can!

Invite your friends and family and join us to help clean up our neighborhood. Teams of volunteers will work their way down Penn from Fifth to Braddock, Reynolds from Beechwood to Homewood, Mellon Park playground and fields and tidy up the streets in between.

Come on out and help us clean!

Register online by emailing your contact information and the times that you can help to Hope Feldman at hoperealestate@yahoo.com or register in person on the 13th.

Gloves and bags will be provided.

Volunteer Thank You Picnic
October 14th 1- 3 PM at the pavilion in Mellon Park by the parking area at Fifth and Beechwood. Please come and party with our neighbors.

From Sarah Sumpter, Principal:

Let me extend an invitation to our monthly Parent School Community Council(PSCC/PTO) meeting that will occur on Monday, October 22nd at 7:00PM if any neighborhood reps would like to attend.

Please let us know if you’d like to attend on behalf of the SPBO. We don’t want to crowd the meeting, so we need to limit/manage the number of folks who might attend. Please send a note to derek@southpointbreeze.org so we can coordinate any planned participants.

Halloween Safety Tips
Halloween is on Wednesday October 31, 2007.
Trick -or-treat hours for the City of Pittsburgh is from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM.

Please use the following safety tips when trick- or- treating-

• Trick-or-treat in your neighborhood.
• Go with friends.
• Ask your parents, older sister or brother or a trusted neighbor to go along.
• Carry a flashlight, glow stick, or reflective bag.
• Have parents check all treats before you eat them.

Have fun but be safe…

CITYWIDE CITIZENS PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING
HOSTED BY ZONE 4 & 5
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007 at 6pm
KINGSLEY COMMUNITY CENTER
6435 FRANKSTOWN AVE.
(AT THE CORNER OF FRANKSTOWN AVE. & EAST LIBERTY BLVD.)
Officer Matthew White
Zone Four
Crime Prevention/Crime Analysis
5858 Northumberland St.
Pittsburgh PA 15217
412-422-6559