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PBS KIDS GO Write On! Writers Contest 2012 Storybox
As part of a partnership between SLB and WQED, winners and runners up of the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest recorded their stories live in our studios. Listen to these wonderful stories from children grades K-3.
YES: South Park Children’s Theatre
New at Neighborhoodvoices: Youth from South Park Children’s Theatre, performing selections from their latest production, “Pirates – the Musical.”
YES: Children of the New World Chorus
New at Neighborhoodvoices: Children of the New World is a summer camp offered by the Pittsburgh School for the Choral Arts. Taught by leaders of the Oakland Girls Choir, the camp includes a week of musical learning, art activities, dance classes, and games which focus on different cultures in the Americas. This performance is a culmination of the music they’ve learned over the week, from a group of 1st through 6th grade girls.
YES: South Park Children’s Theatre
New at Neighborhoodvoices: The youth cast of South Park Theatre’s latest production, ‘Blame It on the Wolf’, perform selected scenes from the play. The South Park Theatre’s mission is to provide quality, affordable mainstream theatre to both adults and children in the region and encourage participation and involvement in the arts. The Children’s Theatre stage is a unique, outdoor venue for children to enjoy quality, family-friendly theatre.
YES: Jamie McCullough
New at Neighborhoodvoices: Jamie McCullough is 17 years old and a soon-to-be freshman at West Virginia University, as well as bass player for the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra. He joins us in our studios to perform selections for double bass, and to discuss the importance of youth music programs, live on SLB.
YES: Winners of the Fairchild Challenge at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
New at Neighborhoodvoices: The Fairchild Challenge fosters interest in the environment by encouraging teenagers to investigate, devise imaginative and effective responses, and to take action at many levels on environmental issues through a menu of Challenges. This week we’re joined by Nick, Derek, Ryan, and Andrew, all seniors and members of the Shaler Area High School team, who, in addition to winning multiple challenges, also received first place for the entire 2011-2012 Fairchild Challenge.
YES: Fairchild Challenge Winners
New at Neighborhoodvoices: The Fairchild Challenge fosters interest in the environment by encouraging teenagers to investigate, devise imaginative and effective responses, and to take action at many levels on environmental issues through a menu of Challenges. This week we’re joined by winners Alicia Ferrilli and Chrissy Figan who successfully completed Challenge #5: Intergenerational Interviews, where students interview an elder about his or her experiences and relationship with nature, and then compare and contrast the elder’s experience with the student’s own.
YES: Sophia Lee of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra
New at Neighborhoodvoices: Harpist Sophie Sunha Lee is in 8th grade in the North Allegheny School District and a member of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra. We’re please to have her in our studios performing selections on her harp , live on SLB.
Write Now! Kids Advocacy Day at the Children’s Museum
New at Neighborhoodvoices:Education Voters Pennsylvania and the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project have joined forces to put together a campaign for public education by those to whom it matters most – the students themselves.
Pittsburgh Musical Theater previews “The Little Mermaid”
New at Neighborhoodvoices:Cast members of Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s upcoming production of Selections from ‘Little Mermaid,’ join us to preview the performance.
