news & events

8 February 2012

Six days from now, Eve Picker, cityLAB’s intrepid CEO, will be meeting at the White House and wants to hear from you:

“Help wanted! 6 days from now I’ll be at the White House, in a meeting with the administration and other Pittsburgh business and civic leaders.They want to hear how they can help spur job creation and economic development in Pittsburgh.They want to hear our ideas about what they could be doing more or, or less of.

While I have ideas, I’ll bet all of you have more. Send them to me and I’ll write them up and take them along!”

Leave your ideas as comments here or send them to info@citylabpgh.org.

3 January 2012

cityLAB’s 6% Place book has been written up in the Bloomfield-Garfield Bulletin. In the article, Rick Swartz, executive director of the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, says, “The book is an impressive piece of work that should fuel conversation and planning discussions for years to come.”

Read the article here, and read more of the January issue of The Bulletin here.

Thanks to the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation and to The Bulletin for their support and for the mention.

8 December 2011

cityLAB’s experiments create a buzz and seed change in cities. Your donation would help us to DO more next year, and that would be a holiday gift for all of us!

Click here to donate. Your tax-deductible donation will help keep us doing great experiments in the city!

 

16 November 2011

November 17 2011 | New Hazlett Theater | 6.30 P.M.

Can algebra be an organizing principal for a civil rights movement?  Robert Parris Moses thinks so!  As the founder of the Alegbra Project, a revolutionary educational tool, Dr. Moses will show how mathematics can be used as an organizing tool to guarantee quality public school education for all students. As a result of his efforts, Dr. Moses received the Heinz Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for making math instruction available to children of all backgrounds.

Carey Harris, Executive Director of A+ Schools, an independent advocate for improvement in public education, will highlight local efforts and trends to provide opportunities to public school students and will also moderate the discussion, which we’ll kick off with some questions from Pittsburgh Public School students.

Be there or be square.

2 November 2011

The Carnegie Museum of Art and the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh are sponsoring a free screening of the film Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of Rural Studio at 2:30 PM on November 12, 2011. The screening will be held at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater at 4400 Forbes Avenue in Oakland. Read more about the screening here, read more about the film here, read an interview with the filmmaker about the film and Rural Studio’s work here, and watch the trailer below.

27 October 2011

The AIGA Pittsburgh will be screening the new Gary Hustwit film, Urbanized, at the Harris Theater on November 8th at 9 PM and November 9th at 7 PM. Read more about the screenings here and watch the trailer below.

21 October 2011

The new Pittsburgh CONNECTS Lab in Garfield has a series of great workshops coming up, including sessions on computer and software training, free computer repair, writing invoices for non-profit organizations, and information about how to apply for heating assistance this winter. Read more about their November events here. In October, they are offering:

“Microsoft Excel Basics” on October 27th 2:00 PM;

“Invoicing for Non-Profits” on October 29th 6:00 PM;

And a PNCIS Information Session on October 27th at 6:00 PM.

RSVP or find out more about the workshops by calling 412-456-0858, by writing BGC.ENEC@gmail.com, or visiting their website.

20 October 2011

November 17 2011 | New Hazlett Theater | 6.30p.m.

Can algebra be an organizing principal for a civil rights movement?  Robert Parris Moses thinks so!   As the founder of the Alegbra Project, a revolutionary educational tool, Dr. Moses will show how mathematics can be used as an organizing tool to guarantee quality public school education for all students. As a result of his efforts, Dr. Moses received the Heinz Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for making math instruction available to children of all backgrounds.

Carey Harris, Executive Director of A+ Schools, an independent advocate for improvement in public education, will highlight local efforts and trends to provide opportunities to public school students and will also moderate the discussion, which we’ll kick off with some questions from Pittsburgh Public School students.

Be there or be square.

Missed this event? Catch the full video here or the short version here.

19 October 2011

Last night’s cityLIVE! event was written up in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review this morning. Moderated by Melanie Harrington, CEO of Vibrant Pittsburgh, the event featured D. Raja and Rich Fitzgerald, candidates for Allegheny County executive. Read the Pittsburgh Tribune Review’s coverage of the event here.

10 October 2011

October 18 2011 | New Hazlett Theater | 6.30p.m.

Pittsburgh is less diverse than 98 out of 100 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, according to the 2010 census …”whiter even than the Amish country around Lancaster, the Mormon population center of Salt Lake City, Midwest agrarian capitals such as Des Moines, Iowa, and far more isolated places like Boise, Idaho,” says Gary Rotstein of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. “How does a region built on immigration, albeit from previous centuries, come to have in 2011 such a small share of people of color?”

On October 18, cityLIVE! and Vibrant Pittsburgh will host a conversation between candidates D. Raja, Rich Fitzgerald and you, the audience, on the status of foreign born talent and diversity in the region. Economic development is at the heart of this discussion.  For instance, 25% of U.S. business owners in the technology and engineering sector are foreign born, as are the owners of 24% of patent applications filed.  Moderated by Melanie Harrington, CEO of Vibrant Pittsburgh, we will hear how our future leaders plan to tackle these issues in their future role as Allegheny County Executive.

This is an important conversation.  Be there, or be really square.

Missed this event? Catch the full video here or the short version here.

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