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    Hot Chocolate Holiday Party

    Don’t miss the Hot Chocolate Holiday Party taking place on Tuesday, December 9th from 12-6 at Nafasi on Centre!

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    Free Food Distribution

    Mark your calendars! The next Free Food Distribution at Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Avenue, will take place on Friday, December 12th at 11:00 AM!

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    Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration

    Join us for a Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration this holiday season and learn about this culturally significant holiday. Taking place Tuesday, December 16 from 4-8 PM at Nafasi on Centre.

    Register Here

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The Hill CDC is committed to the social and economic development of Hill District residents, many of whom have been historically disadvantaged. A variety of programs are offered for business owners, entrepreneurs, aspiring homeowners, creatives and culture workers.

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The Hill CDC leads the planning and redevelopment efforts for the neighborhood on behalf of residents and stakeholders of the Hill District. With over $2 Billion of development slated for the area, the Hill CDC is focused on commercial revitalization and affordable homeownership. Equitable outcomes that foster place-keeping and transformative economic investment is the cornerstone of the Hill CDC’s work.

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The Hill CDC is guided by the Greater Hill District Master Plan. This community-endorsed vision establishes fundamental values and development principles that are central to positive activities and healthy neighborhood development. The Hill CDC focuses on land-use policy, social and economic equity, and centering community voice.

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🍎Don`t miss the free food distribution happening today at Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Avenue!
Stop by, pick up groceries, and connect with the community
Share this with someone who could use it and come through today!

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🍎Don't miss the free food distribution happening today at Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Avenue!
Stop by, pick up groceries, and connect with the community
Share this with someone who could use it and come through today!

🍎Don`t miss the free food distribution happening today at Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Avenue!
Stop by, pick up groceries, and connect with the community
Share this with someone who could use it and come through today!
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❄️☕ Tuesday`s Hot Chocolate Holiday Party at Nafasi on Centre was a great time! Thanks to everyone who stopped by.

Families came through for Toys for Tots gifts, kids took part in activities from Citizen Science Lab, and Tanya’s Catering had plates filled and people smiling.
The community sang carols and holiday favorites, including the new smash hit "Twelve Days of Christmas on the Hill". Vendors brought offerings that people were excited to take home. The fancy hot chocolate bar stayed busy the entire afternoon. It felt good to be together on the Hill! ❤️

Special thanks to Santa Claus for making an appearance. We know you`re busy this time of year!

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❄️☕ Tuesday's Hot Chocolate Holiday Party at Nafasi on Centre was a great time! Thanks to everyone who stopped by.
 
Families came through for Toys for Tots gifts, kids took part in activities from Citizen Science Lab, and Tanya’s Catering had plates filled and people smiling.
The community sang carols and holiday favorites, including the new smash hit "Twelve Days of Christmas on the Hill". Vendors brought offerings that people were excited to take home. The fancy hot chocolate bar stayed busy the entire afternoon. It felt good to be together on the Hill! ❤️
 
Special thanks to Santa Claus for making an appearance. We know you're busy this time of year!

❄️☕ Tuesday`s Hot Chocolate Holiday Party at Nafasi on Centre was a great time! Thanks to everyone who stopped by.

Families came through for Toys for Tots gifts, kids took part in activities from Citizen Science Lab, and Tanya’s Catering had plates filled and people smiling.
The community sang carols and holiday favorites, including the new smash hit "Twelve Days of Christmas on the Hill". Vendors brought offerings that people were excited to take home. The fancy hot chocolate bar stayed busy the entire afternoon. It felt good to be together on the Hill! ❤️

Special thanks to Santa Claus for making an appearance. We know you`re busy this time of year!
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❤️🖤💚Get ready for our Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration at Nafasi on Centre! Space is limited so register today!
Register here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1970781729204?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for an evening filled with community, culture, and great food from across the African diaspora. Learn the meaning, principles, and symbols of Kwanzaa while enjoying:

🍽️ Caribbean Vybz
🍽️ Tanya’s Catering
🍽️ Shadobeni

✨ Plus: vendors offering art, jewelry, stationery, Kwanzaa essentials and more!
✨ Financial Literacy Workshop with Tyler Coulverson at 5 PM
✨ Drum Circle with Opoku Outreach at 6 PM
✨ Pre-Kwanzaa Program at 6:30 PM
✨ Karamu Feast at 7 PM

📅 Tuesday, December 16th
⏰ 4–8 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave
🔗 Register here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1970781729204?aff=oddtdtcreator

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❤️🖤💚Get ready for our Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration at Nafasi on Centre! Space is limited so register today! 
Register here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1970781729204?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for an evening filled with community, culture, and great food from across the African diaspora. Learn the meaning, principles, and symbols of Kwanzaa while enjoying:

🍽️ Caribbean Vybz
🍽️ Tanya’s Catering
🍽️ Shadobeni

✨ Plus: vendors offering art, jewelry, stationery, Kwanzaa essentials and more!
✨ Financial Literacy Workshop with Tyler Coulverson at 5 PM
✨ Drum Circle with Opoku Outreach at 6 PM
✨ Pre-Kwanzaa Program at 6:30 PM
✨ Karamu Feast at 7 PM

📅 Tuesday, December 16th
⏰ 4–8 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave
🔗 Register here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1970781729204?aff=oddtdtcreator

❤️🖤💚Get ready for our Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration at Nafasi on Centre! Space is limited so register today!
Register here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1970781729204?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for an evening filled with community, culture, and great food from across the African diaspora. Learn the meaning, principles, and symbols of Kwanzaa while enjoying:

🍽️ Caribbean Vybz
🍽️ Tanya’s Catering
🍽️ Shadobeni

✨ Plus: vendors offering art, jewelry, stationery, Kwanzaa essentials and more!
✨ Financial Literacy Workshop with Tyler Coulverson at 5 PM
✨ Drum Circle with Opoku Outreach at 6 PM
✨ Pre-Kwanzaa Program at 6:30 PM
✨ Karamu Feast at 7 PM

📅 Tuesday, December 16th
⏰ 4–8 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave
🔗 Register here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1970781729204?aff=oddtdtcreator
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❤️🖤💚Join us for a Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration!

Whether you’re new to Kwanzaa or have celebrated for years, come learn about the rich traditions and how to bring Kwanzaa’s principles into your home and community. We’ll have cultural activities, music, vendors, and plenty of opportunities to connect and celebrate what brings and keeps us together.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pre-kwanzaa-celebration-tickets-1970781729204

Let’s make this holiday season special together!

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❤️🖤💚Join us for a Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration!

Whether you’re new to Kwanzaa or have celebrated for years, come learn about the rich traditions and how to bring Kwanzaa’s principles into your home and community. We’ll have cultural activities, music, vendors, and plenty of opportunities to connect and celebrate what brings and keeps us together.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pre-kwanzaa-celebration-tickets-1970781729204

 Let’s make this holiday season special together!

❤️🖤💚Join us for a Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration!

Whether you’re new to Kwanzaa or have celebrated for years, come learn about the rich traditions and how to bring Kwanzaa’s principles into your home and community. We’ll have cultural activities, music, vendors, and plenty of opportunities to connect and celebrate what brings and keeps us together.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pre-kwanzaa-celebration-tickets-1970781729204

Let’s make this holiday season special together!
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🍽️ A Plate From the Diaspora at Pre-Kwanzaa!

Join us at Nafasi on Centre for an evening of food rooted in tradition and shared culture. This year’s Pre-Kwanzaa celebration features dishes from across the African diaspora, prepared by local favorites:

• Caribbean Vybz with Jamaican cuisine
• Tanya’s Catering serving Southern soul food
• Shadobeni offering Trinidadian vegan dishes

Come eat, connect, and spend time in community as we gather ahead of Kwanzaa.

📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave
📅 Tuesday, December 16
🕓 4–8 PM
Registration is encouraged: hilldistrict.org/register

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🍽️ A Plate From the Diaspora at Pre-Kwanzaa!

Join us at Nafasi on Centre for an evening of food rooted in tradition and shared culture. This year’s Pre-Kwanzaa celebration features dishes from across the African diaspora, prepared by local favorites:

• Caribbean Vybz with Jamaican cuisine
• Tanya’s Catering serving Southern soul food
• Shadobeni offering Trinidadian vegan dishes

Come eat, connect, and spend time in community as we gather ahead of Kwanzaa.

📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave
📅 Tuesday, December 16
🕓 4–8 PM
Registration is encouraged: hilldistrict.org/register

🍽️ A Plate From the Diaspora at Pre-Kwanzaa!

Join us at Nafasi on Centre for an evening of food rooted in tradition and shared culture. This year’s Pre-Kwanzaa celebration features dishes from across the African diaspora, prepared by local favorites:

• Caribbean Vybz with Jamaican cuisine
• Tanya’s Catering serving Southern soul food
• Shadobeni offering Trinidadian vegan dishes

Come eat, connect, and spend time in community as we gather ahead of Kwanzaa.

📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave
📅 Tuesday, December 16
🕓 4–8 PM
Registration is encouraged: hilldistrict.org/register
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📆Mark your calendars! Happening Friday!
The next Community Food Distribution is happening on Friday, December 12th @ 11:00 AM at Nafasi on Centre!

📍 Nafasi on Centre (2145 Centre Ave)
🛍️ Free groceries. First come, first served. Bring a tote or carry box!

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📆Mark your  calendars! Happening Friday!
The next Community Food Distribution is happening on Friday, December 12th @ 11:00 AM at Nafasi on Centre!

📍 Nafasi on Centre (2145 Centre Ave)
🛍️ Free groceries. First come, first served. Bring a tote or carry box!

📆Mark your calendars! Happening Friday!
The next Community Food Distribution is happening on Friday, December 12th @ 11:00 AM at Nafasi on Centre!

📍 Nafasi on Centre (2145 Centre Ave)
🛍️ Free groceries. First come, first served. Bring a tote or carry box!
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☕🎄🍫❄️Drop by today for a Hot Chocolate Party in the Hill at Nafasi on Centre from 12-6 PM!

The Hill CDC invites you to a warm and joyful holiday gathering at Nafasi. Enjoy rich hot chocolate, sweet treats, sing-alongs to holiday favorites, and a live singer bringing the season to life. Santa will be there for photos and cheer. Shop local artisans and small businesses to keep holiday dollars in our community. Come solo and meet new neighbors, or bring the whole family and create new memories. Add this holiday stop to your list of favorite things.

🔗 RSVP Today. Space is limited.
Reserve your spot for the Hot Chocolate Party on December 9:
https://www.eventbrite.com/.../hot-chocolate-holiday

✨ Join us for community connections and neighborly love in the Hill District this holiday!

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☕🎄🍫❄️Drop by today for a Hot Chocolate Party in the Hill at Nafasi on Centre from 12-6 PM!

The Hill CDC invites you to a warm and joyful holiday gathering at Nafasi. Enjoy rich hot chocolate, sweet treats, sing-alongs to holiday favorites, and a live singer bringing the season to life. Santa will be there for photos and cheer. Shop local artisans and small businesses to keep holiday dollars in our community. Come solo and meet new neighbors, or bring the whole family and create new memories. Add this holiday stop to your list of favorite things.

🔗 RSVP Today. Space is limited.
Reserve your spot for the Hot Chocolate Party on December 9:
https://www.eventbrite.com/.../hot-chocolate-holiday

✨ Join us for community connections and neighborly love in the Hill District this holiday!

☕🎄🍫❄️Drop by today for a Hot Chocolate Party in the Hill at Nafasi on Centre from 12-6 PM!

The Hill CDC invites you to a warm and joyful holiday gathering at Nafasi. Enjoy rich hot chocolate, sweet treats, sing-alongs to holiday favorites, and a live singer bringing the season to life. Santa will be there for photos and cheer. Shop local artisans and small businesses to keep holiday dollars in our community. Come solo and meet new neighbors, or bring the whole family and create new memories. Add this holiday stop to your list of favorite things.

🔗 RSVP Today. Space is limited.
Reserve your spot for the Hot Chocolate Party on December 9:
https://www.eventbrite.com/.../hot-chocolate-holiday

✨ Join us for community connections and neighborly love in the Hill District this holiday!
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🎥"Pittsburgh entrepreneurs didn’t invent the movie theater. But the first dedicated movie theater, dubbed the nickelodeon, did debut here in 1905 when Harry Davis and John P. Harris opened their Smithfield Street cinema. Within a decade, movie theaters spread from downtown to early outlying shopping districts including East Liberty and the North Side. They also sprung up in the Hill District.

Historians have documented the history and architecture of Pittsburgh’s movie theaters in books, articles, and historic preservation studies. The early cinemas built in the Hill District seem to be mostly absent in these works.
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[T]he memories of older Hill District residents preserve some of the stories behind these venues. Some disappeared during urban renewal, and others were demolished to make way for new developments. A few buildings have survived, their original uses concealed beneath new facades. The rest of the Hill District’s cinemas are little more than marks on old maps and ads in digitized newspapers. Because they also doubled as venues where some of the biggest Black stars in music and vaudeville performed, their histories endure in studies of the city’s notable jazz history."

Read more here: https://ow.ly/UcMJ50XFK5O
Sign up for the Weekend Roundup here: hilldistrict.org/signup

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🎥"Pittsburgh entrepreneurs didn’t invent the movie theater. But the first dedicated movie theater, dubbed the nickelodeon, did debut here in 1905 when Harry Davis and John P. Harris opened their Smithfield Street cinema. Within a decade, movie theaters spread from downtown to early outlying shopping districts including East Liberty and the North Side. They also sprung up in the Hill District.

Historians have documented the history and architecture of Pittsburgh’s movie theaters in books, articles, and historic preservation studies. The early cinemas built in the Hill District seem to be mostly absent in these works. 
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[T]he memories of older Hill District residents preserve some of the stories behind these venues. Some disappeared during urban renewal, and others were demolished to make way for new developments. A few buildings have survived, their original uses concealed beneath new facades. The rest of the Hill District’s cinemas are little more than marks on old maps and ads in digitized newspapers. Because they also doubled as venues where some of the biggest Black stars in music and vaudeville performed, their histories endure in studies of the city’s notable jazz history."

Read more here: https://ow.ly/UcMJ50XFK5O
Sign up for the Weekend Roundup here: hilldistrict.org/signup

🎥"Pittsburgh entrepreneurs didn’t invent the movie theater. But the first dedicated movie theater, dubbed the nickelodeon, did debut here in 1905 when Harry Davis and John P. Harris opened their Smithfield Street cinema. Within a decade, movie theaters spread from downtown to early outlying shopping districts including East Liberty and the North Side. They also sprung up in the Hill District.

Historians have documented the history and architecture of Pittsburgh’s movie theaters in books, articles, and historic preservation studies. The early cinemas built in the Hill District seem to be mostly absent in these works.
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[T]he memories of older Hill District residents preserve some of the stories behind these venues. Some disappeared during urban renewal, and others were demolished to make way for new developments. A few buildings have survived, their original uses concealed beneath new facades. The rest of the Hill District’s cinemas are little more than marks on old maps and ads in digitized newspapers. Because they also doubled as venues where some of the biggest Black stars in music and vaudeville performed, their histories endure in studies of the city’s notable jazz history."

Read more here: https://ow.ly/UcMJ50XFK5O
Sign up for the Weekend Roundup here: hilldistrict.org/signup
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