Category Archives: Pro-PGH

Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Film Festival

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Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Film Festival runs Nov. 16-20th. Pittsburgh is awesome. I have not yet had the chance to make it to see the film fest yet but it is on the list for this weekend.
Pittsburgh is so lucky to have great people organizing events like a Hip Hop Film Festival. Even if you don’t know what hip hop is I am sure this will be a fantastic collection of great films.
Here are the films for Sat & Sun

Saturday, November 19, 2005 – Kelly-Strayhorn-Theater

1:00 p.m. Hip Hop Colony
A film by Michael Wanguhu
Preceded by: Sling Shot Hip Hop: The Palestinian Lyrical Front

3:00 p.m. Scene Not Heard/Reflections on Women in Hip Hop

4:00 p.m. The Hip Hop Scene Not Heard: Panel-led community dialogue

7:00 p.m. Bomb the System
www.bombthesystem.com

AFTERPARTY
Cozumel, Shadyside – 9:30pm-2am $5
Bands Eviction Notice, Tha Beats N Verbz, Tru Vibes – Emcees RXC, Wiz Khalifa, Da Button Pusha, Hipnotik, Hands Down -DJ Nuke Knocka

Sunday, November 20, 2005
3:00 p.m. Resistencia
Preceded by: Still City

7:00 p.m. Enough is Enough: The Death of Jonny Gammage

AFTERPARTY
Pl8 736, Shadyside – 10pm-2am, Free
-Light Buffet from Pl8
-DJs Nugget, Omar-Abdul and Chad Rapp
-Featuring Hip Hop Film Fest Staff Guest Bartending -Auctioning of Murals

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is back and better than ever. Over the past 2 years Run-Baby-Run has held one day workshops about how to run for office.
Now Run Baby Run is looking to put together a team of women to run for office in 2006. The hardest part is finding women to run.
If you have ever thought about running for office or if you know a woman who you think should run for office please contact Gloria ASAP – gtforouzan@yahoo.com.

Girlcott Success

Oh yet another reason to heart western PA. The girls who are participating in the “Girls as Grantmaker” program called for a boycott of Abercrombie and Fitch’s t-shirt with saying like “Who needs brains when you have these” or “I had a nightmare I was a brunette” printed across the chest. The girlcott was successful and Abercrombie will remove the shirts from the stores. Continue reading →

FROZEN Oct. 27 – Nov. 13th

Barebones productions is a Pittsburgh theater company started in 2003 to bring more to the Pittsburgh theater community.

barebones productions returns with its most challenging play to
date…
the Pittsburgh premier of the Tony Award winning FROZEN, by Bryony Lavery

Frozen follows the stories of a murderer, his psychologist, and the mother of one of his victims in an effort to explore our capacity for forgiveness, remorse, and change– after acts that would seem to rule them out entirely. Continue reading →