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 Tuesdays, November 4, 11, and 15 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