Happenings

Concerts

Annual Pitt Choirs Showcase, features Heinz Chapel Choir, Women’s Choral Ensemble, and the Men’s Glee Club performing a variety of choral genres from folk to classical. 4 p.m., Oct. 4, First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, 159 N. Bellefield Ave. Pitt’s Department of Music, www.music.pitt.edu/events 

Exhibitions

Carnegie Museum of Art, Jacqueline Humphries, contemporary artist’s first solo exhibit in more than a decade, featuring her abstract silver and black light paintings, through Oct. 5; CMOA Collects Edward Hopper,  museum’s complete collection of Hopper, exhibited together for first time, through Oct. 26;  Teenie Harris Photographs: Cars, showcases a selection of 25 elegant photographs of automobiles from the 1930s to 1970s, emphasizing the roles they played in Pittsburgh’s segregated African American communities, through Oct. 31, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, www.cmoa.org 

University Art Gallery, Reverberations, Department of Studio Arts’ annual faculty art show, through Oct. 23, Frick Fine Arts Building, www.studioarts.pitt.edu 

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, The Mysterious Nature of Fungi, selections from the Hunt Institute Art and Library collection illustrating the identity of these ubiquitous yet peculiar organisms, through Dec. 17, Hunt Library, 5th floor, 4909 Frew St., Oakland, www.huntbotanical.org

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age, showcasing nearly 200 pieces inspired by landmark moments in interstellar discovery and our fascination with all things space-age, through Jan. 24, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, www.carnegiemnh.org 

Lectures/Seminars/Readings 

“The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution,” Marcia Coyle, chief Washington correspondent for The National Law Journal, author of The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30, University Club, Ballroom B, University Honors College American Experience Distinguished Lecture Series, www.honorscollege.pitt.edu

“The Spectacles of Labor: Performance and the Working Class,” a daylong symposium including a panel and two key speakers, 1:00 p.m. Oct. 2, Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt’s Year of Humanities in the University, Office of the Provost, www.humanities.pitt.edu 

Miscellaneous 

“Salvation Army,” screening and discussion with Moroccan writer and filmmaker Abdellah Taïa, 7:00 p.m. Sept. 29, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, www.wstudies.pitt.edu

“The First Step: The Mechanics of Starting a Small Business,” presented by Pitt’s Small Business Development Center, 7:30-10:30 a.m. Oct. 2, Mervis Hall, www.entrepreneur.pitt.edu  

The Fatal Flaw: A Workshop with Elizabeth Kadetsky, author and assistant professor of fiction and nonfiction, Penn State, writing and discussion session for writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Oct. 2, 317B O’Hara Student Center, Pitt Writing Center, Pitt Writers’ Café, www.writingcenter.pitt.edu