Happenings

Concerts

Holiday Concert, Heinz Chapel Choir, Dec. 9, 11, and 13, Heinz Chapel, sold out at press time, 412-394-3353, www.pitt.edu/~heinzcc/.

Handel’s Messiah, holiday season classic with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Dec. 11-12, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Highmark Family Holiday Pops, Lawrence Loh, conductor, 11:15 a.m. Dec. 12, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Pittsburgh Opera Brown Bag Concert, festive songs of the season by opera’s resident artists, noon Dec. 12, Pittsburgh Opera, 2425 Liberty Ave., Strip District, 412-281-0912, www.pittsburghopera.org.

Messiah Sing-Along, Robert Page, conductor, with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. Dec. 12, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Regina Carter’s Reverse Thread, musical performance, 7 and 9 p.m. Dec. 12, August Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 412-258-2700, www.augustwilsoncenter.org.

Joyeux Noel, musical performance, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12, First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood, 120 East Swissvale Ave., Edgewood Symphony Orchestra, 2009-10 concert season, 724-444-6694, www.edgewoodsymphony.org.

Mr. Banjo’s Old Time Christmas Sing-Along, 2 p.m. Dec. 13, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Sunday Afternoon Music Series, 412-622-3151, www.carnegielibrary.org.

Highmark Holiday Special With Chris Botti, jazz trumpeter, 2:30 p.m. Dec. 13, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Exhibitions

Hillman Library, Selected Prints Exhibition From the Barry Rosensteel Japanese Prints Collection, through Dec. 19, Special Collections Department, third floor; Historical Exhibition of African American Progress at Pitt, ongoing, ground floor, 412-648-7710, 412-648-8190.

Wood Street Galleries, Matter and Memory, U.S. debut of French installation artist Julien Marie, through Dec. 31, 601 Wood St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, www.woodstreetgalleries.org.

Frick Art & Historical Center, Icons of American Photography, A Century of Photographs From the Cleveland Museum of Art and Children’s Hospital 1951, through Jan. 3, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.frickarts.org.

Mattress Factory Museum, Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-specific Works, through Jan. 10, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Side, 412-231-3169, www.mattress.org.

Senator John Heinz History Center, Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War and Lincoln Slept Here, through Jan. 15, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

Pittsburgh Glass Center, Sheila Klein’s The Return, through Jan. 20, 5472 Penn Ave., Garfield, 412-365-2145, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org.

Falk Library, Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons, through Jan. 28, 200 Scaife Hall, Pitt Health Sciences Library System, www.hsls.pitt.edu, 412-648-8866.

Andy Warhol Museum, Unnatural Rubber; Super Trash; and Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand, through Jan. 31, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Digital to Daguerreotype: Photographs of People, through Jan. 31, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3309, www.cmoa.org.

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection, art exhibition, through June 30, Carnegie Mellon University, 5th floor, Hunt Library, 4909 Frew St., Oakland, 412-268-2434, http://.huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu.

Lectures/Seminars/Readings

“Race, Ethnicity, and College Student Development: From Theory to Practice,” Kathy W. Humphrey, Pitt vice provost and dean of students, noon Dec. 7, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2009 Speakers Series, Pitt Center on Race and Social Problems, www.crsp.pitt.edu.

Lidia Bastianich, chef and cookbook author, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7, Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org.

“Explanatory Models of Schizophrenia: Self-Monitoring and Auditory Hallucination,” Wayne Wu, professor, Ohio State University’s Department of Philosophy, 12:05 p.m. Dec. 8, 817R Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science, 412-624-1052, pittcntr@pitt.edu.

“Beyond the Business of Parallel Play: Engineering Change in METS,” William F. Tate, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, 2:30 p.m. Dec. 9, Colloquium Room, 5604 Posvar Hall, Pitt School of Education’s Learning Policy Center, 412-624-7050, www.lpc.pitt.edu.

“The Industry of Truing: Socialist Realism, Reality, Realization,” Petre Petrov, Humanities Center External Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, 4:30 p.m. Dec. 10, 501 Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Humanities Center, www.humcenter.pitt.edu.

“Collective Competence? Rethinking the Discourse of Competence in the Context of Teamwork,” Lorelei Lingard, professor, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, noon Dec. 11, Lecture Room 3, Scaife Hall, Pitt Medical Education Grand Rounds, School of Medicine’s Office of the Vice Dean, 412-648-9000, www.megr.pitt.edu.

“Religion Unbound: Converting Transnational Communities in America and the Hapsburg Empire, 1890-1914,” Joel Brady, professor, Pitt Department of Religious Studies, 3 p.m. Dec. 12, 3703 Posvar Hall, Pitt European Studies Center, European Union of Excellence, www.ucis.pitt.edu.

Miscellaneous

Pandemic: Facing AIDS, (2003, Rory Kennedy), screening of documentary miniseries, 6 p.m. Dec. 10, A-115 Crabtree Hall, Global Health Film Series, Pitt Center for Global Health, tac46@pitt.edu.

Sleep Dealer, (2008, Alex Rivera), film screening, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Amigos del Cine LatinoAmericano Fall 2009 Film Series, Pitt Center for Latin American Studies, amigoscinemalatinoamericano@gmail.com.

Pitt-Paris II, workshop on emergence and reduction, Dec. 11-13, 817R Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science, 412-624-1052, pittcntr@pitt.edu.

Opera/Theater/ Dance

A Musical Christmas Carol, theatrical performance, Dec. 10-23, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

The Bench, theatrical performance, Dec. 11-13 and 18-20, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland, Point Park University, 412-621-4445, www.pittsburghplayhouse.com.

A Child’s Christmas in Wales, theatrical performance, Dec. 11-20, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland, Point Park University, 412-621-4445, www.pittsburghplayhouse.com.

The Nutcracker, ballet, music by Tchaikovsky, Dec. 11- 27, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

The Little Foxes, play by Lillian Hellman, through Dec. 13, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org.

Beggar’s Holiday, Dec. 18-20, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, 412-456-1390, www.operatheaterpittsburgh.org.

Jane Eyre, theatrical performance, through Dec. 20, Charity Randall Theatre in the Stephen Foster Memorial, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, 412-624-7529, www.pict.org.

Pitt PhD Dissertation Defenses

Leah Strobel, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, “Can Silence Speak? Reading the Marginalized Woman in Three Novels of Female Development,” 2 p.m. Dec. 10, 1528 Cathedral of Learning.