Three Days Of Concerts For Braddock In Braddock, The Hold Steady, Kurt Vile, Built To Spill & More, November 10-12

Will be rushing back from NYC to see the Hold Steady at The Braddock Carnegie Library!

All Tickets $25 with full amount going to support Braddock community based projects.

Thu. Nov 10, 2011 at 8:00pm__________________Andrew Bird with Kurt Vile and the Violators

Fri. Nov 11, 2011 at 8:00pm__________________Built to Spill with Atlas Sound

Sat. Nov 12, 2011 at 8:00pm _________________The Hold Steady with Titus Andronicus

This is a small but likely very good venue, so I recommend you get your tickets. Sorry, but I didn't post this till we had ours.

Tickets and details here.

Youngstown Story on BBC America Friday : "Rust Belt Chique"

Still looking at the Levi's Braddock campaign and up pops another story about the "trendy Rust Belt", this time focusing on Youngstown. Hat tip to Burgh Diaspora.

Friday, the BBC America series will air the third part of it's Rust Belt profiles series with a look at Youngstown.

The stories of these places have never seemed more interesting or relevant to lots of people.

For whatever reason, I was not able to load any of these videos. Hope you have better luck.

Fresh Beginnings: Fresh Decade Music Night In Braddock

Yes we know, the hospital is closing and Braddock's small relatively isolated population is mostly fading away. Yet, weird green shoots keep showing up like a new music production company that wants to host music performances.

Looks pretty good, hardcore, drum, hip hop and all kind of improv by independent acts from as far as Ohio.

..Fresh Beginnings Fresh Decade
Saturday, January 23rd @ Braddock Elks Lodge..
424 Library St.
Braddock, PA 15104

The lodge is over by the mayor's house. Looks to be almost an all night thing open to all ages. Doors open at 8:00--$10 cover with donation of canned food to local food bank.

More info here.

UPMC Braddock Hospital To Close January 31st

Sorry not an arts post. Just keepin it real.

"UPMC purchased the faltering Braddock Medical Center in 1996, and has invested about $30 million in the 277,000-square-foot facility since then, including a new $8 million facade that hasn't even had a ribbon cutting yet. In the past six years, though, UPMC has lost $27 million at the hospital, and only 51 of the 123 beds are now occupied on average.

"We were projecting the daily census would go down to just 44 beds in 2010," Mr. Wood said, and that, combined with a 21 percent decline in admissions over the past five years, was the driving force in the decision to close."

Night Out In Braddock To Celebrate Unsmoke Systems First Year

In July of 2008, UnSmoke Systems Artspace was launched with their inaugural event, Out of this Furnace, in conjunction with the 55th Carnegie International. Since the studio’s debut, UnSmoke Systems has become integral to promoting the arts in Braddock.

On August 15, from 7:30 – 10:30pm, UnSmoke Systems will be hosting Night Out: Braddock - a party to celebrate our first year of events. Featuring the artwork of resident and guest artists, Humanaut DJ’s Aaron Clark and Paul Alexander (resident DJ’s at Hijack, New Amsterdam) and refreshments. Delicious Donations will be present and raising money for the regional artists, with a cash award (typically between $100 - $250) to be given away at the end of the night. Join us for an evening of art, music, and socializing to kick off one more year.

Participating artists: Barb Antel, Stephanie Armbruster, Emilia Edwards, Jeanine Hall, Eric Haberle, Marc Nieson, Tara Powley, Fitzhugh Shaw, Josh Tonies, and Paulina Wilkowska

Stephanie Armbruster has been with UnSmoke from the beginning. Her work is an exploration of urban spaces, populations and visual textures. Often a reflection on the postindustrial landscape, her works suggest whimsical environments that are familiar, unique, and a little absurd. Informed by a fascination with printed matter, street art, and design, Stephanie works primarily in 2D media. Her work is currently on view at the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art.

Marc Nieson’s background includes filmmaking, children’s theatre, building construction and a season with a one-ring circus. Excerpts from his forthcoming memoir Schoolhouse: A Memoir in 13 Lessons have appeared in the Literary Review and Iowa Review, and his fiction recently was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. His feature-length screenplays include Bottomland, The Dream Catcher, and The Speed of Life (Special Jury Prize 2007 Venice Film Festival).

Josh Tonies has been with the organization from the start. He also lives and works in Braddock, PA. His current work explores transient structures. Mining systematic imagery such as technical illustration, security patterns from envelopes and architectural diagrams, he reconfigures these depictions of space into slippery windows. He has exhibited his work nationally at Mass MoCa, Light Industry in Brooklyn and internationally at Meinblau e.V in Berlin.

Support for Night Out: Braddock is generously provided through a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) – Project Stream Grant

Sorry, for the crude cut and paste job. It's the best I can do. I'm also very sad I will not be able to catch this event.Very, Very exiting weekend in The Burgh.

By the way -- I think the address on Unsmoke's website is wrong.

I think it's 1183 Braddock Ave which is what Google's street view shows.


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