Tokyo Godfathers,the acclaimed holiday classic from master director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Perfect Blue), returns to theaters in a brand-new digital restoration.
Happy New Year, JSA members!It runs from 12:00 to 2:00 pm in the William Pitt Union's Kurtzman Room and registration is encouraged.
We hope you had a great start to your semester and you're ready to work hard 💪 Before all the hectic midterms and tough projects come around, come join us for a relaxing cultural time at the Japanese Tea Ceremony 🍵, where we will have Yuko Eguchi-san host a traditional tea ceremony right in WPU!
We will be serving tea and sweets there as part of our ceremony, but please fill out this short form below so we can have an estimate of how much food we should prepare!
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Join the Pitt Program Council in Nordy's Place for a night of Studio Ghibli films! Spend the evening watching Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, and My Neighbor Totoro with free food and drinks provided.
Howl's Moving Castle: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Spirited Away: 7:10 - 9:15 PM
My Neighbor Totoro: 9:25 - 11:05 PM
All Pitt Program Council events are open to all undergraduate Pitt students with a valid (Oakland) Student ID.
Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact the Pitt Program Council at ppc@pitt.edu or by phone at 412-648-7900 for proper accommodations.
The academic support department of Wholeren Education is looking for talented, experienced tutors for college level Chinese international students in the US. We help both struggling and gifted students reach their full potential by supplementing the instruction they receive in class and guiding them toward study practices and aides that can help them excel. Tutors work with individual students one-on-one, though we occasionally organize group activities for students who are studying the same material. Our team offers compassionate, motivating assistance to students, and we expect our new hires to do the same. If you have experience tutoring students, please submit an application.
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Bachelor degree required but master/PhD degree preferred.
2. Preferred experience in student support services
3. Ability to pass a background check and drug screening
4. Able to use MS offices software
5. Excellent communication skills
6. Bilingual-Chinese and English
ESSENTIAL SKILLSAdditional information, and application instructions, are available at the job ad.
- A love of math
- Fluent in Chinese (written and verbal communication)
- Experience operating social media accounts such as WeChat, and growing audiences
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Media, Education, or other closely related field
- Deep understanding of parents’ psychology and behavior
- Superior business writing and interpersonal communication skills
- Data analysis skills, including the ability to use appropriate tools and deductive reasoning
- Flexible schedule, with some nights, weekends, and travel preferred
- Authorization to legally work in the United States
Jasmine Cho will discuss her work as a baker based in Pittsburgh and how she uses the art of cookie making and decorating as a therapy and to promote Asian American representation. She creates intricate, hand-drawn cookie portraits of Asian American figures as a way to increase representation and raise awareness of Asian American history and identity.The talk starts at 3:00 pm at the Trust Arts Education Center in the Cultural District (map) and tickets are available online.
Part of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s Pitt Communities, the Chinese Affinity Group will host a party from 6 to 10 p.m. Jan. 24 in the ballroom of the O’Hara Student Center.The event is free and open to the public. The O'Hara Student Center is located at 4024 O'Hara Street in Oakland (map).
The celebration will offer networking opportunities with representatives from other Pitt Communities and the Pitt Chinese Student and Scholar Association. Participants can expect games, dance performances and dinner from Sichuan Gourmet.
Based on Shakespeare's "King Lear" and set in 16th-century feudal Japan, Akira Kurosawa's 1985 antiwar epic is almost over the top with betrayal, battle and blood. At times, the red stuff flows like paint from the brush of Jackson Pollock. It's an angry and expressive spurt of pigment, emblematic of the director's rage -- the title is the Japanese character for "chaos" or "fury" -- and not a realistic body fluid.Tickets for the 3:30 pm show are available online. The Carnegie Science Center is located at 1 Allegheny Ave. on the North Shore (map), accessible via the Allegheny T Station, in turn accessible by a number of city buses that run downtown.
A serious accident occurred on an offshore drilling platform, which may sink at any time. All members of the Transportation Emergency Response Team heads to location the moment they hear the alarm. With the time counting down, captain Gao Qian (Peng Yuxi) leads the helicopters fly into the explosion and fiercely burning fire, targeting at the platform. Together with his team member and comrade, Zhao Cheng (Wang Yanlin), Gao Qian gets into the platform in the most dangerous way with only one goal – to save the survivors…It will play at the AMC Loews Waterfront and tickets are available online via Fandango. The theater is located at 300 West Waterfront Dr. in the Waterfront shopping complex in Homestead (map), across the Monongahela River from Greenfield, Squirrel Hill, and the rest of Pittsburgh.
