Happenings

CONCERTS

The Foreign Exchange, R&B/electronica/hip hop duo, 8 p.m. May 20, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Mahler’s Legacy with Manfred Honeck conducting; Michelle DeYoung, mezzo soprano, performing Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Symphony No. 5, May 20-22, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mellon Grand Classics 2010-2011 Season, www.pittsburghsymphony.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Alash Ensemble, Tuvan throat singers from Central Asia, 7:30 p.m. May 26, First Unitarian Church, 605 Morewood Ave., Shadyside, Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, Silk Screen, 412-361-2262, www.calliopeshouse.org.

EXHIBITIONS

Carnegie Museum of Art, You Are Here: Architecture and Experience, through May 29; Andrey Avinoff: In Pursuit of Beauty, through June 5; Ragnar Kjartansson: Song, through Sept. 25; 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Heinz History Center, Ben Franklin: In Search of a Better World, explores personal side of one of our founding fathers, through July 31; America’s Best Weekly: A Century of The Pittsburgh Courier, through Oct. 2; 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

LECTURE

“Kids, Wealth, and Consequences: Financial Parenting for the Business Family,” Jayne Pearl, author and financial parenting expert, 5:30-8 p.m. May 19, Pitt’s University Club, Pitt Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, 412-648-1544, www.entrepreneur.pitt.edu.

MISCELLANEOUS

Introduction to CourseWeb, workshop on getting familiar with using CourseWeb, 9 a.m. May 17, B23 Alumni Hall, Pitt CIDDE, register online at www.cidde.pitt.edu.

CourseWeb Level 1, workshop to learn how to further customize the Blackboard 9.1 Course Menu to meet instructional needs, course objectives, 9 a.m. May 19, B23 Alumni Hall, Pitt CIDDE, register online at www.cidde.pitt.edu.

“Job Hunting,” 10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 21, 4th Floor, Lecture Room 2, Scaife Hall, Pitt Survival Skills and Ethics Workshop, 412-578-3716 or survival@pitt.edu.

CourseWeb Level 2, workshop on application of Blackboard 9.1 Learning Management System’s Web-based instructional technologies to enhance student participation and encourage active learning, 9 a.m. May 25, B23 Alumni Hall, Pitt CIDDE, register online at www.cidde.pitt.edu.

THEATER/DANCE

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, story of epic love affair that changed the world, May 17-21, the Charity Randall Theatre in the Stephen Foster Memorial, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, 412-394-3353, www.picttheatre.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

West Side Story, script by Arthur Laurents, music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, modern-day Romeo and Juliet, May 17-22, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

The House That Carol Built by Frank Floyd Hightower, family drama set in 1999 in Penn Hills, through May 21, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, 542 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre, 412-624-7298 www.kuntu.org.

Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion, emerging choreographer who got his start at Pittsburgh CLO Academy and Pittsburgh CAPA, 8 p.m. May 21, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, www.pgharts.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

The Marvelous Wonderettes by Roger Bean, a return to the ’50s and ’60s, through Oct. 2, CLO Cabaret, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 412-281-3973, www.pittsburghclo.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

PITT PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSES

David W. Seitz, School of Arts and Science’s Department of Communication, noon May 17, “Grave Negotiations: The Rhetorical Foundations of American World War I Cemeteries in Europe,” 1128 Cathedral of Learning.

Paul Middlebrooks, Center for Neuroscience, 10 a.m. May 18, “Neuronal Correlates of Metacognition in Frontal Cortex,” 2nd-floor auditorium, Learning Research and Development Center.

Ryan M. Stayshich, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, noon May 18, “Sequence Engineering: Fine Tuning Material Properties at the Microstructural Level,” Room 307, Eberly Hall.

Xiaohong Pan, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, 1 p.m. May 18, “Design and Synthesis of Chiral N-Heterocyclic Carbenes With Applications to Asymmetric Syntheses and Synthesis of Dibenzazepinones by Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Arylation Of O-(2’-Bromophenyl) Anilide Enolates,” Room 325, Eberly Hall.

Dongwan Kang, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, 10 a.m. May 20, “Statistical Issues in Combining Multiple Genomic Studies: QualityAssessment, Dimension Reduction, and Integration of Transcriptomic and Phenomic Data,” 308 Parran Hall.

SooYoon Shin, Center for Neuroscience, 10 a.m. May 20, “Role of the Primate Basal Ganglia in Eye Movements,” 2nd-floor auditorium, Learning Research and Development Center.

James Palmiero, School of Education’s Department of Administrative and Policy Studies, noon May 24, “A Study of School Board Members’ Views on Affiliations With Private Charitable Foundations Supporting Public Education: A Regional Study Situated in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County,” 4321 Posvar Hall.

Ahmad A. Tarhini, School of Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Science Doctoral Program, 5 p.m. May 25, “Overcoming Melanoma Immune Tolerance: Non-specific CTLA-4 Blockade/IFN-α Therapy and Antigen Specific Immunization with TLR-9 Stimulation/Local GM-CSF Adjuvants as Components of a Melanoma Immunotherapeutic Strategy and Associate Biomarkers of Therapeutic Benefit,” 5th-Floor Executive Board Room, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 5150 Centre Ave., Shadyside.

Erin O’Bryan, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Classics, 11:30 a.m. May 27, “From Ignobile Vulgus to Rerum Dominos: The Emergence of the Roman Crowd in Vergil’s Aeneid,” 116 Cathedral of Learning.