Communion III - An Evening of Art, Booze, Music, and Lasers Saturday, June 19th

from Academy of the South Side

We hope you all are doing well and are ready for summer to begin. We're
thrilled to announce our upcoming *Communion III *fundraising party, which
will be next *Saturday, June 19th*! Thanks to everyone who has come out to
our past parties for making them so much fun - we hope to see lots of both
familiar and new faces for this next installment. The details are below,
and we've also attached the flyers for the party. Bring your friends and
come party for the arts!

Also please note, we are working on getting our summer planned and will send
out an update as soon as the schedule is finalized.
Just let us know if you have any questions, and as always, please feel free
to forward this along to anyone who might be interested.

-Tim, Shervin, and Dan
*The Academy of the South Side*
www.academyofthesouthside.com
(412)4982446


*THE DETAILS:*
*Date:* Saturday, June 19th
*Time:* Doors open at 8pm
*Cost*: No cover, small donation for food and drinks
*Laser Shows:* At 9 and 11pm
*Music and Art:* music by Tracksploitation and Gramsci Melodic, paintings by
Academy instructors and students
*Address:* 44 Pius St., Pittsburgh, PA 15203 - main ballroom floor of our
studio building, the old St. Michael's school building, currently Veronica's
Veil Community Arts Center

Detailed directions and parking information can be found at
http://www.academyofthesouthside.com/Map.html

We call the event "Communion", to play on our studio location in an old
Catholic school building, and also to highlight the community of artists and
supporters that call Pittsburgh home. We are hoping to make these parties a
regular event to showcase exciting art and music created by talented
Pittsburghers, so let's all come together to have some drinks, listen to
good tunes, see some beautiful paintings, and support the arts.

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The Academy of the South Side new space free open model session

good news, academy of the south side has relocated:

Hi everyone,


We are thrilled to announce that we are having a free open model session this week and it will be the first event in our new studio! We have moved into the old St. Michael's school building on Pius Street in the South Side slopes. The school is owned by the Veronica's Veil Players, a non profit community theater group, and we're really excited to be sharing their beautiful space. The address is 44 Pius St., Pittsburgh, PA 15203, and directions are below (it's really simple).

The session will be tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22nd, from 7-10.

Directions to the new studio, from Carson Street on the South Side:
Turn up 18th St. (right off Carson if you're coming from Station Square, left off Carson if you're coming from the South Side Works)
Once you're going up the hill, make first right at the light, on Pius St.
Travel just under 1/3 of a mile, and the school will be on your left.

Make a sharp turn left up the driveway (there's a Howard Hanna real estate sign on the retaining wall of the driveway), and continue straight to the parking lot. After you park, just walk back toward the group of 3 old church school buildings - it is the middle building of the 3, and the entrance to our studio is on the ground level before the main entry staircase. We will have someone waiting on Pius to direct cars up the driveway, as well as at the Brew House in case anyone shows up to the old studio. See attached pictures for a map and image of the building.

We are really excited about this new studio and the step it represents for The Academy. We would like to sincerely thank you all for your patience and support. Thanks also to Geof from the SSLDC, Don from Carlson and McGinley Real Estate, and Denny and Dennis of Veronica's Veil Players for their tremendous assistance in helping us to get this new studio so quickly.

We hope to have you out on Tuesday to help us break in the new studio in anticipation of the Fall Term!

-Tim, Shervin, and Dan
The Academy of the South Side
www.academyofthesouthside.com
(412)498-2446