Body Maps
American Jewish Museum (Jewish Community Center) located 5738 Forbes Avenue, Pgh, PA 15217
1/21/2008 through 4/18/2008

This is an exhibit of "body maps," artwork created by a group of women, The Bambanani Womens Group, based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Drawn on life-sized panels of butcher paper, "body maps" are made by tracing two bodies: one of the artist and one of a partner. The artist then goes about filling in the traced bodies with images, words, patterns, designs and scars. A type of art therapy, the maps are used in conjunction with group therapy, photography and writing in order to help each
woman deal with her HIV-positive status.

The Bambanani Women were invited to tell their stories through a community outreach program initiated by the AIDS & Society Research Unit of the University Of Cape Town (ASRU) and Médecins Sans Frontières. This program began to document the lives of this group of HIV+ women who were given access to drug therapies.

Kuntu Repertory Theatre Black History Month Exhibit
City-County Building located @ 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 and the phone number is 412-255-2626
2/5/2008 through 2/29/2008

This exhibit celebrates the Kuntu Repertory Theatre, the oldest and largest continuing African-American performing arts organization in Pittsburgh.

Visitors to the lobby can see photos of performances, posters from plays that had a Pittsburgh theme, costumes and set peices.

Two Trains Running
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater located @ 542 Penn Avenue, Pgh, PA 15222 and the phone number is (412) 621-4445
2/7/2008 through 3/1/2008

August Wilson's acclaimed play is set in a 1969 Pittsburgh diner where a turbulent world and changing community are seen through the lives of diner regulars. The restaurant is scheduled to be torn down by the city and the characters struggle to cope and fight back when they can with humor, compassion and big hearts.

Black Tie Poetry
Wyndham Garden Hotel - Oakland located @ 3454 Forbes Avenue, Pgh, PA 15213 and the phone number is 412-683-2040
2/28/2008 6pm

The Langston Hughes Poetry Society Of Pittsburgh presents this tribute to Langston Hughes.

Master & Mistress Of Ceremonies, Dr. Uhuru Hotep and LaVerne Baker Hotep will introduce local poets and spoken word artists. Featured keynote speaker is world renown Master Poet, Playwright, Activist, Amiri Baraka. He will engage the audience with his poetic truth and rhetoric, to include a question & answer period.

Tickets are $65. For more information, call (412) 657-8900.