From 01/27/2024: Morgantown-based fiddler, guitarist and singer/songwriter Gray Buchanan previewing her SongSpace show at First Unitarian with Bertha and the Belles, 1/27 (7:30 pm), Shadyside.
Read the full story »Pittsburgh King After School: Last Day of Summer
With the weather being as cold as it’s been, we asked King students to imagine that tomorrow will be a beautiful summer day – for the last time ever. How would they spend one final day of sunshine before Pittsburgh fell into some kind of eternal winter?
Pittsburgh Brashear After School: Listening Back
After not having Brashear students for a few weeks due to the bitter cold temperatures, Radio Club members were finally able to listen to their finished alumni interview project. We also discussed some of the advice and takeaways students had following the interview, then mapped out some things students would like to do with audio moving forward. There should be some exciting work to share this spring!
Clairton CASTLE 2015: Round Table Story Telling & “What I Want to Be When I Grow Up”
Students at Clairton once again braved the frigid conditions and participated in two different round table activities. The fifth graders each took turns telling the same, communal story while the seventh graders discussed what they wanted to be when they grow up.
Wilkinsburg After School: Three Things About Me
Students wrote and recorded three things about them and recorded a quick story about what would they do if they got left at the shopping mall all alone.
Clairton CASTLE 2015: Time Travel
Students at Clairton’s CASTLE program had a chance to answer the classic hypothetical: “If you could travel back in time, where would you go?”
The 9th Annual Father Daughter Dinner Dance
Alongside an evening of dinner and dance, fathers and their daughters joined us here at The Saturday Light Brigade to share memories of their fondest moments together.
Clairton CASTLE 2015: Round Table Discussion – Cell Phones & Technology
7th and 5th graders at Clairton Middle School braved the frosty, Hoth-like weather to discuss cell phones and the effects technology have on their everyday lives.
Pittsburgh Brashear After School: Alumni Interview
Brashear’s interview project is complete! After School students interviewed alumni Adam Sullivan – who hadn’t set foot in the school since he graduated in 2005. Sullivan offered perspective, advice, and shared anecdotes about his high school experience.
Wilkinsburg After School: Microphone Building
Students at Wilkinsburg after school program learned about the inside parts of a microphone and how it all works together. Building the microphones out of household materials using just two magnets, a length of copper wire, three washers, a nut, a bolt, plastic straw and cup. Then, after sanding off an insulating coating on their makeshift leads, they were able to test their finished DIY mics by connecting them to a mixer and speakers using alligator clips.
Pittsburgh King After School: Haikus
After Schoolers used that form to get creative with haiku poems of their own. Some King students used their works to commemorate sporting events, while others celebrated their friends.
