Sweet Jazz at Sweetwater Center for the Arts
Sweetwater's popular jazz series returns for the eighth year in a row! Spend your Fridays in February enjoying great music with complimentary wine & hors d'oeuvres in Sweetwater's intimate night club setting. Each week brings you amazing talent in a different jazz style. This week see the Boilermaker Jazz Band, an ecstatically fun band performing authentic hot jazz and swing. www.boilermakerjazzband.com.
Saturday, February 18th, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Backyard Bird Count at Fern Hollow Nature Center
Fern Hollow will be hosting a birding program for scouts and other kids. Learn birding skills, take a hike through the meadow to learn about habitats, and meet live birds from Wildbird Recovery. Reservations are required for this event, and is geared for children in 2nd - 8th grade. Cost is $7 per child and includes a Fern Hollow badge.
Tuesday, February 21st, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Penguin Evening Readers at the Penguin Bookshop
The Penguin Evening Readers is an open book club hosted by Liz Wilson and the Penguin Bookshop. All are welcome to join on the second floor for a lively discussion, coffee, and lemon cream cookies. This week's book is Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill. Kidnapped as a child from Africa, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have served the King and earned freedom in Nova Scotia. But the hardship and prejudice there prompt her to follow her heart back to Africa, then on to London, where she bears witness to the injustices of slavery and its toll on her life and a whole people. It is a story that no listener, and no reader, will ever forget.
Tuesday, February 21st, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Trivia Night at the Sharp Edge
Join this popular event at the Sharp Edge and see if you have what it takes to win some Sharp Edge bucks. There is a Pens game this night so Trivia Night will be in the back dining room.
Check the Explore Sewickley calendar for other events in February including a wine tasting, a fish fry and the Sewickley Academy Film Series.
Sunday through Thursday for the month of February, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Happy Hour at China Palace
When seated at the bar or sushi bar between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm, enjoy $1.00 off all alcoholic drinks and 50% off all special sushi rolls.
Village Theater Company - The buzz continues for the new movie theater coming to Sewickley in 2013. The Ascot Motors site has been identified as the potential site for the theater. Please click here if you would like to read the full Press Release. And contact info@villagetheatercompany.com for more information.
The Sewickley Cafe is undergoing a transformation. Stop in to see their new look with new paint, art and lots of orchids from the Bidwell Training Center. And coming in March, the Cafe will be open for lunch on Sundays from 10:30am to 3:00 pm and will have a new dinner menu.
The Union Aid Society is now accepting scholarship applications. Union Aid will award a $4,000
need based college scholarship to a high school senior who resides within the Quaker Valley School District area. The scholarship is for the first year of college, $2,000 per semester. Consideration will be given to students with a minimum of a 3.0 GPA. Application materials include financial information, references, high school transcript and an essay; interviews will be scheduled with finalists. The application deadline is April 10, 2012. For more information contact the Union Aid Society at 412-741-9240 or info@unionaidsociety.org.
