Center for Creativity at Pitt

09/02/2024

08/26/2024

Welcome back everyone! 💗 Visit C4C: The Workshop (lower level of the University Store on Fifth) every Monday from 1-2 PM to explore, create, and connect with others, including a University Counseling Center counselor and maker. Whether you have a work in progress or want to start something new, regardless of your artistic skill level (master or beginner!), join us to cultivate your creative outlet. We’ll work on and share our projects while discussing broader themes of self-expression, self-care, and wellness. See you soon 🎨 💕 🧵 ✏️

**please note there will not be a meeting on Sept. 2 or Oct. 14**

08/19/2024

03/22/2022

Judith Barrington, Lambda Award-winning author of Lifesaving: A Memoir, five poetry collections, and a text on writing literary memoir, joins us via Zoom TONIGHT for a poetry reading and Q&A. Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuceitqzopEtYdDctvkXlfCnl2KYohIK5J

Judith was born in Brighton, England in 1944 and moved to the United States in 1976. In addition to poetry and memoir, she has written librettos and collaborated on projects with sculptors Steve Tilden and Nancy Azara. She is also one of the founders of Soapstone, a grassroots organization celebrating and supporting the work of women writers.

This event is part of the "In Our Own Write" creative writing for LGBTQ+ elders (ages 50+) program, and is open to everyone.

03/21/2022

For , read an New York Times essay by Jeanne Marie Laskas, professor in the Dietrich School and founding director of Pitt’s Center for Creativity on her friendship with Fred Rogers. 💛

Full story: https://bit.ly/3JvxNMe

03/14/2022

Pittsburgh Glass Center, located in the City’s Friendship neighborhood, is a nonprofit public-access education center that includes an art gallery, glass studio and creative community center. The center offers classes and workshops, among other opportunities.

03/09/2022

Join us for another workshop in our "What's Your Story?" series with the Center for Creativity at Pitt on March 15!

In this workshop, internationally-ranked slam poet Adriana E. Ramírez will discuss the process of transition from writing for the page to writing for the stage. We’ll discuss effective strategies for performance as well as how to bring out different elements in the writing through performance.

Bring a poem you’d love to perform—but don’t worry if you don’t have one, we’ll be doing some generative writing too!

This workshop will be held via Zoom. Register here: https://bit.ly/3HDxn4G

03/08/2022

TONIGHT! Zoom reading & convo w poet Jeff Walt. Free & open to all! https://bit.ly/3sT3WHr

03/08/2022

🌸 Announcing our spring Black Study series— A CAAPP Black Study on Intimacy Part Two!

Please join us April 4th - April 7th 2022 and our 9 amazing guests across 4 exciting events (3 virtual, and 1 in-person). 🌼

🌷 The virtual events will be held live on our Crowdcast channel (crowdcast.io/caapp) and all info & registration links can be found at caapp.pitt.edu.

As usual, events are FREE and open to the public. REGISTER NOW! 🌻

03/03/2022

🗣 CALLING ALL CREATIVES!!

Center for Creativity at Pitt is looking for YOUR Pittsburgh-inspired screenplay for their PITTch! competition. Submit your 15-page screenplay featuring unique and diverse stories by March 15th for a chance to win $5,000 and have your work produced by PITTch! Film Labs.

To find more information, or to submit your story, go to: https://www.creative.pitt.edu/pittsburgh-lens/pittch

03/01/2022

Maria Prymachenko (Ukrainian, 1909-1997): May That Nuclear War Be Cursed, 1978.

Ivankiv Museum, where many works by one of Ukraine's greatest and most treasured artists have been destroyed. IRequireArt.com