New Sun Rising

The Pitcher Park Music Festival will be held on August 8th, 2009 at the South Park Amphitheater, and has lined                      

up 15 local bands to perform. The goal of the Pitcher Park Music Festival is to bring our talented youth together                    

with their families and friends; to enjoy a day filled with music and raise money for the creation of Pitcher Park.                    

This grass-roots movement was created to bring a memorial skate park for boarders, bikers, and bladers to the        

community of Dormont; in memory of brothers Vince and Stephen Pitcher who were tragically lost from this  

The inaugural group from the first year of this program will be completing the Experience in August, and we have had a great time learning with and from them. This year's program promises to build on a great start with our annual kick off at the Pittsburgh Zoo in September- stay tuned, date and time to be announced. Please contact Scott if interested as a participant or volunteer, we would love to have you!! Remember, space is limited to 16 children ages 7-9. 

We have committed to holding neighborhood clean-ups once a month up to and including October, 2007. For all cleanup efforts we meet in the parking lot of the Millvale Community Center. If you are interested and able to join in, or help out in anyway, it would be much appreciated! We could use help in the following ways:

1. Recruiting volunteers and volunteering to help cleanup;
2. Food or beverages for the post clean-up meals;
3. Help in getting the word out;

The New Sun Rising announces Launch Project ‘Cancer Related Support Services Research’. Board member and secretary, Cindy Bandula-Yates has proposed, and The New Sun Rising has adopted, it’s first formal project. The New Sun Rising will be active in providing research concerning available cancer related support programs and organizations, which will benefit those affected by cancer in the Greater Pittsburgh Area.

The New Sun Rising, a non- profit organization located in Pittsburgh, PA has established the New Orleans Cultural Restoration Project in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Culture, especially music, inhabits the soul of New Orleans. The city has provided the most fertile ground for music since the birth of jazz, and it’s unique heritage remains in the heart of anyone who has experienced its charm. As the community begins its long recovery, we identify that music will be not only a large part of the economic recovery, but in the recovery and nourishment of the soul as well.

April 22nd, 2007- The New Sun Rising organized ‘Spring Clean the Verve’. Seven members of our organization participated in an Earth Day cleanup of on/off ramps just east of Pittsburgh, resulting in two pickup truck loads consisting of 30+ bags full of trash and countless smaller recycling bags. There was an immediate impact felt by this direct action, and the improvement was visible at the two East End highway ramps that we worked on; Edgewood/Swissvale and Forest Hills.

Swissvale garbage booty