Have you registered for Diversity Forum 2021 yet? There's still time. 

The Forum is online, free, and open to all. Sessions and workshops will equip you with the knowledge, skills and resources to identify sources of systemic oppression, consider strategies for dismantling it, and identify ways to foster more equitable and just communities.

This year's Forum also includes a two-day Pre-Forum Institute designed to build racial equity consciousness and free to University of Pittsburgh faculty, staff, and students. Register by Friday, July 23. 

Note: The C4C Workshop and Text & conText Lab will be closed July 26-29 to allow our staff and users to participate in the Forum.

Tuesday, July 27, 7-8:30 p.m. | Join us for a celebration of creativity as a source of joy, resistance, and community. The evening features Simon Tam of The Slants and includes musicians, performers, and writers from Pittsburgh and beyond, as well as an open mic where you can share your creative spark. Register here.

The University of Pittsburgh Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Center for Creativity need your help to determine the 2021 Art of Diversity People's Choice Award.

This year, we received nearly 70 entries—from performance to writing to visual art—that center and celebrate diversity. Our People's Choice winner will be determined by popular vote, and receive a cash prize of $500.  

See the webpage to browse the galleries and vote for your favorite! One vote per person/email, please. 

In the third season of our Processing... podcast, we explore the Text & conText Lab, our partnership space with the University Library System in Hillman Library.

We talk with experts and enthusiasts at Pitt and in the community about everything from the press to propaganda, the juxtaposition of antique letterpresses and 3D printers, and the processes that preserve the printed page in a digital world.

New episodes post throughout the summer. Check out episodes one and two.

Our physical spaces are open Tuesday through Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for all your summer making projects.

Note: our spaces will close during the Diversity Forum (July 26-29) to allow our staff and users to participante in the Forum.

It's a great time for Pitt students, faculty, and staff to visit The Workshop (University Store on Fifth) or the Text & conText Lab, our partnership space with the University Library System (Hillman Library, third floor). 

See our website for current policies.

Creativity in the Community

• through Aug. 1 | WE ARE THE GLOBAL MAJORITY decolonizing SPACE
• starts Aug. 4 | Jessica Alpern Brown: The Divide and The Light
• starts Aug. 4 | Katie Stone: GRRL
• July 25 | Thomas Wendt Quintet
• July 27 | Fan Do Brasil Film Screening
• July 28 | Futuro Beach Film Screening
• July 29 | Coffee with Andrés & Bewketu
• July 29 | Eco-Justice for All! Reading with Camille T. Dungy
• July 29 | Open Mic in Allegheny Commons Park
• July 30 | Lit Fridays with Micaiah Johnson
• July 31 | Carnegie Museum of Art Inside Out — Afro Yaqui Music + DJ Femi
• Aug. 3 | Noël Quintana & The Latin Crew
• Aug. 5 | Carnegie Museum of Art Inside Out — Jellyfish
• Aug. 8 | DTC Organ Trio
• Aug. 11 | Latinx & Proud! Reading Series Special Edition ft. José Olivarez
• Aug. 12 | Naama Tsabar: Live Performance