[Please note: this message contains corrected dates for the art
workshops!]
On New Year's Eve, communities from all over Pittsburgh will gather
downtown for First Night's Community Parade. Parade Coordinator Cheryl
Capezzuti will conduct ten *free* neighborhood workshops around the
city to prepare for the big event! Participants are invited to come
and make their own parade-sized creations to represent their
neighborhood and then plan to march in the parade themselves. Workshop
participants can be children and families as well as local artists and
interested community members.
The Highland Park Community has been invited to participate in this
series of free workshops with renowned visual artist Cheryl Capezzuti.
Cheryl will meet interested participants on Thursday, November 13th,
and Tuesday, November 18th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at Dilworth
Traditional Academy for the Arts and Humanities. The theme for our
parade-sized creations will be *water* so bring anything that you wish
to contribute: fabric, paints, papers etc.--anything you wish to
contribute in shades of blue. Everyone is welcome.
The parade will take place at 8:00pm on New Year's Eve in downtown
Pittsburgh as part of a larger New Year's Eve event.
First Night Pittsburgh is a community and family-oriented,
alcohol-free celebration of the New Year through the arts. Beginning
at 5:00 pm and ending with the Grand Finale and Zambelli fireworks at
midnight, New Year's Eve in downtown Pittsburgh is filled with dance,
music, song, mime, story-telling, theater, poetry, film, video and
multi-media presentations.
If you have any questions feel free to call Tania Grubbs @
412-xxx-xxxx.
Cheryl Capezzuti is a Pittsburgh-based visual artist and puppet maker
whose work has appeared at the Carnegie Museum of Art, The Black Sheep
Puppet Festival, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and many community
venues. Her most widely recognized public art project, The National
Lint Project, has included over a thousand participants in the past ten
years. She works as a teaching artist in schools all over western
Pennsylvania as well.
Tania