All JOA Scholars are required to attend a minimum of two events per semester. Approved events are listed by month and date below. Ticket information, directions, venue description, etc. are available via the links described immediately following this paragraph. Additional events will be added to this page as the year progresses, so please check back frequently. After attending a particular event, please email Mrs. Kasunic to verify your attendance. If you know of an event that you feel would qualify as a JOA event, but is not on this list, please email Mrs. Kasunic to discuss the possibility of adding this particular event to the list. The CMU, University of Pgh., and World Affairs Council events listed are free. The cultural performances require the purchase of a ticket. Be sure to ask for a student discount whenever purchasing a ticket. Talk to me if a number of you are interested in a particular performance and we can investigate the possibility of discounted group tickets.

Link to The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for ticket information, directions, dates, times, and discounts. (Click on one of the venues listed and then scroll down for information, descriptions of performances, etc. If you cannot find a list of performances with links, type in the venue’s name in the “Event Search” box to the left.)

Link to CMU lectures and on-site search for campus map.

Link to Pittsburgh Irish Classical Theatre performances in the Charity Randall Theater.

Link to information on performances at the Pittsburgh Playhouse on Craft Avenue in Oakland.

Link to information on tickets and brief biographies/additional links on speakers for the Drue Heinz Lecture Series.

Link to the Senator John Heinz History Center.

Link to information on performances held at the New Hazlett Theater.

September
10 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm The Daily Grind: Making Fair Trade Coffee A Reality
10-Oct. Heinz History Center Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era
15 Benedum Center, 8pm The Whispers (Trust Guest Attraction)
17 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm It’s Time to Act: The Reality of Climate Change
18 CMU-McConomy Aud., 4:30 Journeys: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
18-23 Benedum Center My Fair Lady (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
18-23 O’Reilly Theater The Chief (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
20 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Geographies of Globalization
22 Byham Theater, 8pm Philadanco (August Wilson Center for African American Culture)
23 Byham Theater, 7pm Ballet Folklorico de Mexico (Trust Presents)
24 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Journeys: Waiting for Life to Happen
25-30 Byham Theater The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh)

October
1 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Effects of Recent European Environmental Regs. on US Industry
2 CMU-McConomy Aud., 7:30 The Secret War on Cancer
4-11/4 O’Reilly Theater The Comedy of Errors (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
5 Benedum Center, 8pm Anúna (Live Nation)
8 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Journeys: Technology and Society
8-May Carnegie Science Center Bodies: The Exhibition (limited engagement in Pgh.) - will be presented in the Sportswork Complex; http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/bodies/
10-14 Byham Theater Circus Oz (Pittsburgh Dance Council)
11 CMU-McConomy Aud. UC, 4:30 Multicultural Visibility in the Media (Hispanic Heritage)
13-21 Benedum Center Madama Butterfly (Pittsburgh Opera)
15 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Journeys: A Journey Through Languages
18 Byham Theater,7:30pm Global Drum Project (Trust Presents)
22 Carnegie Music Hall,7:30pm Ann Patchett (Author; Drue Heinz Lectures)
23 Carnegie Music Hall,8pm Whirling Dervishes of Rumi (Pittsburgh Dialogue Foundation)
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/events/?com=detail&eID=19482
23-28 Heinz Hall Twelve Angry Men(Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
http://www.pgharts.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=8470
25 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Nanotechnology for Fun and Profit
26-28 Benedum Center Don Quixote (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)
27-11/4 New Hazlett Theater Inherit the Wind (Prime Stage Theatre)
29 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm Journeys: Science, Exploration, and Emotion

November
1 Byham Theater,7:30pm Georgian State Dance Company (Trust Presents)
5 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Author; Drue Heinz Lectures)
8 PNC Recital Hall, Duquesnes University, 7:00pm “Who are these Germans? Remembering Kristallnacht” (Cultural event; refer to email for details)
10-18 Benedum Center The Elixir of Love (Pittsburgh Opera)
11 Commons Room Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, noon-5:00pm Polish Festival (Cultural event; refer to email for details)
13 Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, 7:30pm- approx. 9pm The Faraday Lecture(Science lecture/presentation; refer to email for details and contact information; sponsored by Spectroscopy Society of Pgh. and the Society for Analytical Chemists)
15-12/16 O’Reilly Theater This Wonderful Life (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
19 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Nathaniel Philbrick (Author; Drue Heinz Lectures)
20-25 Benedum Center Avenue Q (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
29 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, 7:00pm “Malaria: Fever Wars” (Film; refer to email for details and contact information; sponsored by Global Studies program at Pitt)

December
1-6/30 Heinz History Center The Darkest Month
6 CMU-Baker Hall, 4:30pm What Place for Artists? Cultural Development in Pgh. Since 1943
6-22 Charity Randall Theater Pride and Prejudice (Pgh. Irish Classical Theatre)
13-16 New Hazlett Theater A Lyrical Christmas Carol (Pgh. Musical Theater)
14-29 Benedum Center The Nutcracker (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)
27-30 Byham Theater Die Fledermaus (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh)

January
8-13 O’Reilly Theater Three Rivers Runs Through It! (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
10-2/17 Benedum Center Disney’s The Lion King (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
19 Byham Theater, 8pm Hunchback of Notre Dame (Trust Presents)
24-2/3 Byham Theater Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Pgh. Mus. Theater)
24-2/24 O’Reilly Theater Amadeus (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
28 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Roddy Doyle (Author; Drue Heinz Lectures)

February
1 Univ. of Pgh., David Lawrence Hall, Rm 120, 2-4pm Green Democracy Political Forum (Pitt, CMU, LaRoche, Duquesne, and Chatham have invited city, county, state, and national civic leaders to engage in a Green Democracy political forum. Students will open the forum with statements about what each campus is doing to address climate change. Civic leaders will then speak about their commitments to combat climate change.) FREE, but be conscious of arriving quietly if you plan to enter after the start of the forum.
4 CMU, Rangos 1 & 2, University Center, 4:30pm Journeys: The Accidental President (Jared L. Cohon, President, CMU)
7 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm Journeys: From Vienna to America; A Modern Day Odyssey (Sophie Freud, Author)
9 Byham Theater, 8pm Urban Bush Women/Compagnie Jant-Bi (Pgh. Dance Council)
13 Magee Auditorium in Magee Women’s Hospital (zero level), 6-7:30pm Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Book reading/signing by Stacy Malkan; Mia Davis from safe cosmetics campaign and Maryann Donovan, MPH, PhD from Center for Environmental Oncology) FREE, but have to register with Magee Education Dept. 412-802-8299
14 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm Love’s Death Toll: Female Suicide in Shakespearean Tragedy (Deirdre O’Rourke, University of Pittsburgh)
18 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Sara Paretsky (Author; Drue Heinz Lectures)
18 CMU, Rangos 3, University Center, 4:30pm Transforming the Culture of Aging America (Barry Barkan, Living Oaks Institute, Sponsored by the Institute for Social Innovation)
21-24 Byham Theater Lost in the Stars (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh)
21 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm Fr. Alejandro García-Rivera …topic TBA (Sponsored by CMU’s Phi Beta Kappa Society; Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley)
23-3/2 New Hazlett Theater Of Mice and Men (Prime Stage Theatre)
23-24 Benedum Center Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Cinderella (Pgh. Dance Council)
25 CMU, McConomy Auditorium, University Center, 6:30pm U.S., Syria, and the New Old Middle East: Confrontation or Cooperation? (Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to the United States, Sponsored by the Arab Student Organization)
26-3/2 Benedum Center The Drowsy Chaperone (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
26 CMU, Rangos 3, University Center, 5pm Saving the World by Eating Locally: The Small-Mart Revolution (Author Michael Shuman)

March
3 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Elizabeth Kolbert (Author; Drue Heinz Lectures)
3 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm The Fire Retardant Dilemma: Balancing Fire Prevention, Human Health, and Environmental Protection (Arlene Blum, UC Berkeley)
6-4/6 O’Reilly Theater A Number (Pittsburgh Public Theater)
7 Benedum Center, 8pm “1964” The Tribute (Trust Guest Attraction)
9 Byham Theater, 5pm Spirit of Uganda (Trust Presents)
14-16 Benedum Center In the Upper Room & Carmina Burana (Pgh. Ballet Theatre)
15 Byham Theater, 8pm Emanuel Gat Dance (Pittsburgh Dance Council)
16 Byham Theater, 7pm Dianne Reeves (Trust Presents)
17 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Scott Simon (Journalist/Author; Drue Heinz Lectures)
20 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm There is no such thing as Environmental Ethics (P. Aarne Vesilind, Professor Emeritus, Bucknell University)
27 CMU, McConomy Auditorium, University Center, 5pm How Green Does Your Garden Grow: Assessing Community Capacity and Aligning Local Instigations (Kenneth Warren, Lakewood Public Library System, Cleveland, OH)
27 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm The Myths of Innovation (Scott Berkun, Author)
27-4/6 Byham Theater Fiddler on the Roof (Pittsburgh Musical Theater)
29-4/6 Benedum Center Aida (Pittsburgh Opera)
31 Carnegie Music Hall, 7:30pm Anthony Bourdain (Chef/Author; Drue Heinz Lectures)
31 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm Journeys: Making it Up as I (We) Went Along (Elizabeth W. Jones, Biological Sciences, CMU)

April
3 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (Sarah E. Igo, University of Pennsylvania))
3-13 Pgh. Playhouse Romeo and Juliet (Pgh. Playhouse of Point Park Univ.)
7 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm Benchmarking the Real Pittsburgh (John G. Craig, Jr. Former Editor, Pgh. Post Gazette AND Paul O’Neill, Former Secretary of the Treasury and Former CEO, Alcoa) Sponsored by the Distinguished Lecture Series in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy
8 CMU, Rangos 1, University Center, 4:30pm Sustainable Industry in a Changing Society (John B. Carberry, Environmental Technology, E.I. DuPont) Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer
8-13 Benedum Center The Wedding Singer (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
10 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm Isarael at 60: Midlife Crisis or Entering its Golden Years? (Dr. Yossi Olmert, Journalist and Top Middle East Scholar)
12-28 Charity Randall Theatre Julius Caesar (Pittsburgh Irish Classical Theatre)
13 Byham Theater, 7pm Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Trust Presents)
15 CMU, Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, 4:30pm Role of Engineers in Poverty Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities (Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado)
17-20 Benedum Center Alice in Wonderland (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)
25-27 Benedum Center Jesus Christ Superstar (PNC Broadway Across America)
29 CMU, Connan Room, University Center, 5pm Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun (Judy Wicks, The White Dog Café, Philadelphia, PA)

May
3-11 Benedum Center The Capulets and the Montagues (Pittsburgh Opera)
3-11 New Hazlett Theater The Outsiders (Prime Stage Theatre)
8-18 Byham Theater West Side Story (Pittsburgh Musical Theater)
29-6/29 O’Reilly Theater The Odd Couple (Pittsburgh Public Theater)