On Monday, November 7th UniSound hosted the first session of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging workshop series. Here, we reflect on the session and what we learned moving forwards to the second session on Monday, January 23rd. Going into this first DEIB session, our facilitators Dr. Kendra Ross, Lee Saville-Iksic, and Maggie Richardson put a […]
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UniSound DEIB Workshop Series As we strive to make our spaces and programs more inclusive and equitable, we recognize the need for ongoing dialogue about how our personal and institutional biases might get in the way. This workshop series offers the leaders of community music education programs the chance to reflect upon how personal identity and organizational culture might reinforce racist patterns and what we might […]
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UniSound’s Black Teaching Artist-in-Residence, Anita Levels reflects on her performance as the featured soloist for Pittsburgh Youth Chorus’ spring concert, “CROSSINGS”: Thank you 9 times as there is no greater number than 9. Thank You: •Hill Dance Academy Theatre (HDAT) •Pittsburgh Youth Chorus (PYC) •UniSound •Act3 Consulting Partners, LLC, for their part in folding me […]
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Sewickley, Pennsylvania, May 20—During the month of June, Sweetwater Center for the Arts is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with Unisound to host two musical workshops in conjunction with Unisound’s Black Teaching Artist in Residence program (BTAR). BTAR is an initiative aimed at supporting the practice and professional development of Black teaching […]
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The Pittsburgh Youth Philharmonic Orchestra is hosting two musical festivals this spring. Learn more about how you can participate below! String Festival: March 5, 2022 The Pittsburgh Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (PYPO) would like to invite your students to join us for our PYPO Elementary Honors String Festival at Chartiers Valley Intermediate School on Saturday, March 5, 2022, for […]
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Starting Thursday, September 9th, the Allegheny Regional Asset District will kick off its RADical Days celebration. The celebration will run from September 9th until October 10th. Throughout the month organizations all around Pittsburgh will be offering free events for families to enjoy and UniSound is joining in on the fun! UniSound with the help of […]
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After over a year and a half of the arts being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council (GPAC) has announced its Restart the Arts Campaign that will start a safe return to live arts performances this fall. While working with the entire arts community in the Pittsburgh area, GPAC […]
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This past Sunday, August 22nd, UniSound hosted a musical petting zoo at the Latino Community Center’s yearly Back To School Bash. The event took place a PNC park and had about 300 families registered to enjoy the day. This was the first event since COVID-19 that UniSound offered a musical petting zoo for the kids […]
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This past Friday, UniSound in partnership with Act3 Consulting Partners, hosted the first ever BTAR residency concert. Both of the inaugural BTARs, Brittany Trotter and Lyn Starr performed a mix of pieces they have been working on over the last months of their residency. There was a really great turnout for the concert. There wasn’t […]
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To finish off a very successful first round of our Black Teaching Artist-In-Residence (BTAR) program, our inaugural BTARs, Brittany Trotter and Lyn Starr will be putting on a free musical performance on Friday, July 23rd at Kelly Strayhorn Theater. You can watch the concert virtually by registering for our webinar here, or in person with […]
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