There is a new website!!

it's this way for May Day in polish hill

http://maydaypittsburgh.wordpress.com/

Parade! Parade! Parade!

Follow the Link to Sam's Pictures Here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95475095@N03/

Follow the Link to Mark Rettig's Pictures Here:
https://plus.google.com/photos/101991226980213653616/albums/5875412850249713105

Week of Events!

 Wednesday May 1st

 March for Immigrant Rights

--Hosted by United Steel Workers and Fight Back Pittsburgh

5pm Rally at Pgh Federation of Teachers at 10 South 19th Street 
in the South Side

6pm March for Immigrant Rights
6:30 Rally and Celebration of Resistance at IBEW Local 5 Hall5 Hot Metal Street -Enjoy Food, Music, and Dance from the dozens of cultural and ethnic traditions that built Pittsburgh! 

ALSO - May Day Free Food - Anti-Capitalist Picnic- Northside

May 1st 5pm northside commons corner of cedar & north ave.

 

The Initiative for Transgender Leadership will be hosting an event  Come to hear Angelito Aya, Caiden Fratangelo, CeeJay Levine and Lawrence Dykeman each share their design for a part of the Peer Mentorship Program to begin this Fall.  Ask questions, learn more about the program and how to get involved with the ITL. Please invite trans youth.

What: ITL Interns' Peer Mentorship Program Presentation

When: Wednesday May 1st from 6:30-8:30pm

Where: Irma Freeman Center for Imagination 5006 Penn Ave 15224 handicapped accessible.

Food: Light refreshments served

Cost: Free!

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125833267607757/

Please RSVP or send questions to transleadership@gmail.com

 
Friday May 3rd

  4pm-7:30pm United Cerebral Palsy (UCP)/CLASS 5th Annul Spring ART show
 "Painting Without Limitations "  at the UCP Center 4638 Centre Ave (at thecorner of neville....oakland) It's free. It's fun.   Light refreshments and Live entertainment.

Friday May 3rd -Variety Show Doors at 7pm  Show at 8pm Variety Show - 3577 Bigelow Blvd. Enter on the Bethoven side. Polish Hill!! Variety Show!
Cheap Tamales! $5 donation - noone turned away!

 

Friday May 3rd - Metal Show at the shop!  4312 Main St. Pgh PA 15224. ALL AGES!  9 pm $5
DIEMONDS (Canada)
LADY BEAST
The Devils Cut ----Rock and Metal!!! Come rage!

Saturday May 4th  

9 am Polish Hill Flower Planting
Flower planting @ 30th and Brereton. Polish Hill Civic Association and volunteers will meet at the site. Lunch will be provided after! This site is planted and tended by volunteers each year. It's funded by the western pa conservancy.

Stick Ribbon Twirlers! Meet Up at 11 am - Lower Melwood to choreograph a ribbon on a stick dance! Bring your own ROS - ribbon on a stick OR pick one up there. We will bring a bunch. Parade -Saturday May 4th General Meet Up at Noon - Lower Melwood. Push off at 12:30

Food in the park around 2pm

Baseball Game at 3pm

The Parade!

photos on this page by Mark Knobil

Hello! It’s getting to be time for the 4th annual Polish Hill May Day parade! May Day is an international holiday celebrating worker’s rights as well as the passage of winter into spring. It is celebrated and interpreted many different ways all over the world, and our tradition is becoming more our own each year. Previously we were lucky enough to have May Day land on a weekend, but this year we decided to move it to the next Saturday so that more people will be able to participate.
        What we have had in the past is a peaceful and inclusive parade full of homemade costumes, floats, banners, marching bands, all celebrating the lives of  the working people that are our friends, family, and community. We would like to recognize that this idea extends beyond our much-loved neighborhood as well, and that the world is covered with ordinary people like ourselves that make it all go around. How many people, that make our world possible, are we touched by every day and don’t speak of?

The parade will meet up and prepare at Noon at the dead end of lower Melwood which is actually North Oakland, and then depart at 12:30pm snaking up and onto Gold Way, continuing on Melwood after the Bloomfield bridge to Heron, taking Dobson to Brerton, and then finishing up at West Penn Park where there will be a picnic at which all are welcome to bring food. Like last year there will be a baseball match, maybe even a small tournament, to watch while we eat and relax.

Our theme this year is What's Working? Is Capitalism working? Is our government working? If not, What IS Working? Is wind energy Working? Is Global Warming Working? Is seed saving Working? How do we value work? Why is some work valued more then others? Is our self worth tangled up in what society calls work? Must you get paid for something to call it WORK? What's Working?

 Come ring a bell for the Everyday Worker - However you define it. Carry an umbrella to dance in the sun with and to share the shade of a new spring.Wear a costume. Bring flower petals. Create a float. Celebrate!



More Great Pictures from last year by Mark Knobil Here

2013! It's on like Donkey Kong!

Plans for this year's Polish Hill Mayday festivities have just begun!

The Variety Show will be Friday May 3rd from 7 - 10 pm at a NEW space in Polish hill!
more details on Location coming soon.

BUT THE QUESTION TODAY IS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO AT THIS YEAR'S VARIETY SHOW?! You know the routine. 5 minutes or else!! just kidding or less.

YOUR CREATIVE EXPRESSION IS WHAT FUELS US TO KEEP GOING IN!!
Won't you perform? a skit, a song, a choreographed spandex serenade? How about a puppet show?
A slide show? A short movie? We will have a projector this year. Haven't you wanted to make
a tiny play? Show of your juggling skills? Test the art of Ventriloquism? Break out the banjo, play the song your bandmates won't learn, teach everyone face muscle exercises or share a skill IN 5 MINUTES.

please.

There is currently no theme but i wanted to put it into your heads so you can start brainstorming.

I AM COUNTING ON YOU TO PARTICIPATE! I NEED YOUR CREATIVITY TO SURVIVE.

seriously,

etta
email or call to sign up - first come. first serve.
writealetta (at) gmail.com - 443-603-6964

MayDay Parade A Sparkling Success

Please leave comments with links to your photos and videos below.

Ocean wrote an article HERE

Great photos on Blogski HERE (polish hill's neighborhood website)

Jean Marie's Photos HERE

Honoring the Overlooked

UMBRELLAS AND BELLS - UMBELLISH YOUR BROLLI'S

3rd Annual MayDay Parade in Polish Hill. Bring Your Umbrellas and Bells

Wear a costume. Bring Floats. Puppets. Say Farewell to Winter. Kiss Spring Hello! Celebrate Mayday AND Cinco de Mayo.

Parade will be on May 5th meeting at 11:30 and leaving at Noon.

Click Here For More Info about Parade ...



Tuesday May 1st-  Occupy Pittsburgh sponsors Mayday Rally and March - 5:30pm --Freedom Corner in Hill District www.occupypittsburgh.org

Thursday May 3rd - Theater!! People!! Theater!!

 "Below and Beyond" a new play about urban camouflage, immortal jellyfish, natural gas extraction and an underground creek turned sewer.
Created by Beth Nixon and Sarah Lowry
(of Ramshackle Enterprises and The Missoula Oblongata)
With accordion music by Matthew Schreiber. Directed by Donna Sellinger.

May 3rd at 8pm

Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Ave. at Stratford

Tickets and more info  Pay-What-You-Can, in advance or at the door

Friday - May 4th  - United Cerebral Palsy (UCP)/CLASS 4th Annul Spring ART show "Painting Without Limitations"4PM-7:30PM at the UCP Center 4638 Centre Ave (at thecorner of neville....oakland) It's free. It's fun.   Light refreshments and Live entertainment.

Friday May 4th - 7pm Variety Show and Lungs Face Feet at the 
LOCATION CHANGE!!-Variety Show at The Shop! 4312 Main street in Bloomfield NO LONGER AT RED THEATER.


Saturday May 5th - Parade -- Food --- Baseball Game --- Punk

Sunday May 6th -- Brunch