This past December, Silk Screen Executive Director Harish Saluja was a featured speaker at TEDxYouth in Shadyside.  He spoke about how he began his professional life with a degree in engineering and wound up the founder of a film festival.

Harish mentions that he first realized his love for art after watching a film that greatly moved him. The film left him hoping that he could one day tell stories that would move people in a similar way. And so, The Journey was created. Harish’s independent ...

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Chinese New Year at the Children’s Museum

Once again, Silk Screen will be celebrating the Chinese New Year at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh! Join us Sunday, February 7 to celebrate the Year of the Monkey! Silk Screen favorite Mimi Jong will be there with some of her talented musical friends to perform traditional instruments and engage the children in lively discussions about music, as will our buddies from the talented Steel Dragon Lion Dance team. Children in attendance are invited to join the dance team ...

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Holiday Sale Don’t forget to shop our Holiday Sale for some last minute gifts! We still have some amazing items in stock including the gorgeous miniature paintings and fun t-shirts. The sale ends December 15 so hurry up and get shopping!  

Festival of Nations

It’s never too early to start making plans for spring! As we gear up for a long, cold winter (unless current temperature trends hold, that is!), it’s nice to think about making plans for the spring. Next March is the 8th Annual Festival of Nations ...

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Intern Adventures: Voyage to Vietnam at the Children’s Museum

A few weeks ago, two of our Silk Screen interns, Lillie Rana and Yahui Wen, visited the Children’s Museum in Pittsburgh’s North Side to check out the new exhibit on Vietnamese culture for the upcoming Tet Festival. Here is their story!

On the last Friday in October, we took a trip to the North Side to visit the Children’s Museum. The museum currently has an exhibit on traditional Vietnamese culture partially to coincide with the upcoming ...

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Harish to Speak at TEDxYouth

Silk Screen’s own Harish Saluja has been chosen to present at the TEDxYouth Event in Shadyside! TEDxYouth uses the TED conference as a guideline, but is a fully independent event, organized by local students to bring together innovative ideas.

Harish is one of eleven speakers. Other speakers include Pittsburgh-born actress Gillian Jacobs, who you may recognize as Britta from NBC’s late comedy Community or Mimi-Rose on HBO’s Girls; Dervla McDonnell, who will representing the local non-profit Future Tenant, and 4Moms co-founder ...

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The sale has been EXTENDED!!  Woo!  Keep shopping for that perfect holiday gift until December 15!!

Welcome to the merchandise extravaganza! We have so much cool stuff that we want YOU to have! Silk Screen merch is perfect holiday gifts or as a treat for yourself as you gear up for long hours at the mall this season. Supplies are limited, so get things while they’re still available!

We’ve put some major discounts on things already in our merch store and added a few new items we ...

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In what has become an long and fruitful partnership, Silk Screen is again teaming up with the Three Rivers Film Festival to co-present three gorgeous Asian films this coming week.  We encourage all our Silkies to support our friends and check out these (and as many more films as you can!)

Opening Film: “Court” (India)

Friday, November 6  ||  Waterworks Cinema  ||  7:00PM

“India’s official entry to the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2016 Academy Awards is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, ...

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See Crow’s Egg, winner of the 2015 Silk Screen Film Festival RAGS Audience Award!

A special encore screening has been arranged. Tickets are $12 and available online here or at the theater before the screening.

Saturday Aug 8th, 2:30 pm Regent Square Theater Runtime: 99 minutes Light reception See Trailer

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Just outside the slums of Chennai, a new pizza shop opens. Two impoverished boys, Big Crow’s Egg and Little Crow’s Egg,decide that what they want most in the world is to try a bite of pizza. Getting their ...

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