This was a terrific week! Sunday's Empty Bowls Dinner set new records and raised over $45,000 to help Just Harvest and Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank fight hunger. It's a real pleasure to emcee this event every year. Rikki and I saw alot of old and new friends and enjoyed the day.
Tuesday include by monthly Trustee meeting at Manchester Academic Charter School (MACS), an organization I grow more fond of every day. This is an incredible school with teachers, administrators, parents and children working together to create excellence. This is not to take anything away from other schools we work with -- including traditional public schools, parochial schools, private schools and home schools. It's simply still new to me to be on a school board and very rewarding to see how the pieces come together. I also spent some time with MACS this morning helping them prepare for a pageant on Black History that will run this coming Tuesday. We're providing the microphones, music, and speakers.
Wednesday night, we attended a meeting about the Charm Bracelet project, a vision to link North Side community assets -- such as the Aviary, Warhol, Carnegie Library, schools, etc. -- to create a more cohesive district for youth and families. This meeting included teachers from most of the schools that are so close to our studios -- MACS, Manchester Elementary, Martin Luther King, Jr., Elementary, Allegheny Traditional Academy and a few others. This was an inspiring evening of brainstorming. Coincidentally, we also set up a meeting with the staff at ATA for next week to evaluate how we can work more closely together.
On Thursday, we headed out to Miller African Centered Academy for another session with our after school radio class. We also spent quite a bit of time on Thursday (and today) preparing for tomorrow's Pittsburgh Center for the Arts remote.
And...we have The Bugler in final layout (finally), received a number of new cables and other small pieces of gear that have been "missing links" in our various kits, and received a very generous donation from a major equipment supplier.
I'm sure I'm leaving a few things out ;). But it's wonderful to have had such a happy and rewarding week!
I hope we'll see you at tomorrow's remote from Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Fifth and Shady Avenues, 9 to noon, www.pittsburgharts.org for details.
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