What to do this week, from the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival to outdoor Earth Month events
Monday, April 5: Wild Childhood: Nature of Place Symposium
12-1:30 p.m.
How are children connected to nature? For three days, Phipps will convene leading biophilia experts for a virtual conference exploring relationships between the environment and the planet’s youngest citizens. Sessions will examine how children benefit greatly from time spent in nature, as well as topics such as racial injustice, disability exclusion, infrastructure, urban parks and more. Buy tickets.
Photos courtesy of Phipps.
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Performed live in Carnegie Museum of Art’s soaring Hall of Sculpture, this broadcast premiere of “Boléro” features new choreography from PBT Artistic Director Susan Jaffe along with a guided tour of artwork by curator Akemi May. Watch for free and be uplifted.
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Photo: Michael Lionstar Karen Russell Karen Russell can look at an austere, fallow landscape and see things most people miss. During a trip to the Sandhills in Nebraska, she looked beyond the endless vistas of sand dunes and prairie grass and found the germ of an idea that became “The Tornado Auction,” a short story from her collection
Orange World (Vintage).
The Sandhills have a certain flatness that reminds Russell of her native South Florida, where you feel like “a clairvoyant of the weather you can see so far,” she says, even though the ecosystems are different. But the inhabitants of that midwestern landscape, like some of the Floridians who inhabit stories based in her home state, are not quite what they appear to be.