Join New Sun Rising as We Honor the People Exemplifying Vibrant Communities New Sun Rising (NSR) is excited to announce the Vibrancy Awards to be held at the Ace Hotel Ballroom on Friday March 1, 2019. Join us as we celebrate the outstanding work of PearlArts (Culture), Millvale Community Library (Sustainability), and Global Wordsmiths (Opportunity). Attendees […]
Join us for this high-energy session focusing on Situational Awareness; Boundary Setting & De-Escalation Tactics; Physical Self Defense Skills (including “What Self Defense Tools are in your Backpack?”); and Survivor Advocacy and Follow Up. We promise lots of yelling, kicking and punching in addition to common-sense and practical discussion on personal safety! We are honored […]
We Are All Related, a multimedia exhibit of photographic portraits, audiovisual recordings, and written narratives by acclaimed Pittsburgh photographer Andrea London, opens March 22 at 937 Gallery, downtown Pittsburgh. We Are All Related is a collection of compelling images and stories of the human experience and human and civil rights struggles of individuals and families […]
Free Event | RSVP Required (available on Feb 24th at noon) Lead and created by local artist Sara Tang, this workshop is a guided creative exercise for participants to chart personal experiences (mental illness, madness, chronic illness, disability, childhood, medical, traumatic, or positive experiences, etc) in a map format, and then to create an expressive […]
Join us as we celebrate the installation of the public art component of "We Are All Related," being installed at the corner of Penn and Centre Avenues in East Liberty. We'll celebrate the installation with music and food. All are welcome to this event! "We Are All Related" is a collection of compelling stories of […]
Emilia Diaz-Struck, Latin American coordinator of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Fred Hiatt, Columnist and editorial page editor for the Washington Post. He was Jamal Khashoggi's editor. David M. Shribman, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, executive editor emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and scholar in residence at Carnegie Mellon University.
Free Event | Located in Auditorium (downstairs) In this workshop, presenter Mike McCarthy will offer an opportunity for attendees to learn and ask questions about forced psychiatric treatment. Attendees will learn what constitutes forced treatment and how our system currently justifies its use. Mike will present legal and moral arguments against the use of forced […]
New York City’s longest-running celebration of Anton Chekhov’s birthday is dedicated this year to free expression, celebrating artist-heroes like Chekhov (one of history’s great prison-reform advocates). Featured performers include Mai Khoi, a free- expression activist known as Vietnam’s Lady Gaga and Pussy Riot rolled into one.
Join us for a panel discussion of "We Are All Related" Saturday, April 27. Moderator: Tony Norman -- Columnist and Book Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Panelists: Kade Ellinger -- Graphic Designer and "We Are All Related" subject Lee Gutkind -- Founder and Editor, Creative Nonfiction Andrea London -- Photographer Monica Ruiz -- Executive Director, Casa San […]
On Sunday, April 28th, Prototype PGH, a project of New Sun Rising, and its Board of Directors invite you to a day of art and connectivity in support of our mission to build gender and racial equity in tech and entrepreneurship. Our inaugural fundraiser will feature a DJ, posters for sale by local artists, handmade […]
Join the Inside Our Minds Team for warm drinks, conversation, peer support, and mutual aid in the community meeting room at the Carnegie Library in the South Side. Mental Health Cafe is a monthly community conversation on mental health, mental illness, and madness over coffee or tea. The event will focus on informal discussions and […]
Join us for a free kid and family friendly program with John Archambault, co-author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, on Wednesday, May 8th at Ascender Start/Build Hub. John's program integrates stories, imagination, reading, music and fun! Two program sessions are offered with an interim book signing/refreshment period: The first program session is from 3:30-4:30pm; Signing/refreshments from 4:30-5 […]
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