What we’re about
IF YOU WANT TO HOST AN EVENT: MESSAGE FRANK AT [email protected] and I will EMPOWER you to be an Event Organizer on 5 Meetup Groups with a reach in the Pgh Region (SW PA & a lil bit of WV and OH of over 38,000+ people).
FYI: Meetup is a WEB PAGE with a THEME that happens to be an EVENTS CALENDAR AND AN EMAIL LIST. It mostly works because of the emails.
I also send out a MEETUP NEWSLETTER about the Hosted Events Happening on those meetups Once or Twice a Week. Basically anything can be posted but no "Network Marketing" Stuff like essential oils, Amway or anything scammy. Try to make your event less like advertising and more like HEY LETS HANG OUT AND DO COOL STUFF TOGETHER. This Free and Almost Free Meetup has one extra rule Events have to be $5 or Less (aka cheap) to FREE!
If an event says it's hosted by "Not Hosted by Group" then it is an INFORMATIVE EVENT telling you about FREE and Cheap cool things happening in the Burgh. If you want to meetup with people, try to connect with others that are rsvp'd through the comments but don't always expect it to work. HOSTED events have a PERSON hosting and will mention a place to MEET.
If you are a performer, it's okay to say on the meetup: Hey I am doing this comedy show/band/burlesque "come and see me and let me entertain you."
DONATE: It costs me Frank, as the main organizer of this Meetup group, $240 a year to host this group on Meetup.com! Please consider a small donation to help defray this cost.
Thank you.
DONATE HERE: https://secure.meetup.com/pittsburgh-free/contribute/
This Meetup is for EVENTS that have a ticket/cover of $5 or LESS or even FREE!
5-10% of the Events here on FREE & Almost FREE are SOCIAL (Hosted)
90-95% of the Events here are just informing you about cheap/cool/awesome stuff happening in the burgh region (not hosted just informational about FREE AND CHEAP EVENTS IN THE REGION).
So when there is a SOCIAL EVENT on this page with a HOST expect a couple extra emails to help make that meetup WORK and have a decent critical mass of people to make it decently fun!
There are a lot of activities in Pittsburgh that are free, or almost free - free days at museums, free concerts and films, free outdoors festivals, free cultural events ... . In addition to these (can't beat the price!), we'll post "almost free" ones where the cost is low (at most $5) compared to the fun that can be had.
This is an VERY ACTIVE MEETUP, you will get a ton of e-mail, my recommendation is if you have a secondary e-mail address use that for your user id. Or that you go up to "My Profile" on right hand side of page and select E-mail and Notifications. You still will get a bunch of e-mails but it will be more manageable. Meetups WORK because of E-mail, not because people come here to look for things to do. <br> FYI: Social events at places can be posted as long as it is FREE to go there or the cover is $5 or less. People can decide on their own if they are eating and drinking. Example: Lets go see this Band that has no cover charge at this Bar. If YOU want to eat or drink something while you're there that's on YOU.
It's still a FREE or ALMOST FREE event. If they charged more than $5 for cover or had a mandatory food n drink min above $5 then it won't get posted. Or a YOGA class that asks for a $5 donation is okay, $6 is not... This was preventing some social events from happening on this page and we want to encourage social\fun events on the free and almost free group.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Vinyasa Flow Yoga in Garfield - breath focused, moving meditation - by donationMettā: A Healing Arts Community, Pittsburgh, PA
Unity Vinyasa Yoga at Metta, in Garfield. Breath focused, meditation centered, true flow yoga. Beginner friendly and accessible, but also challenging for all levels. Donation based. All are welcome. Just show up.
Mondays & Thursdays 6:30pm. Metta, A Healing Arts Community. 5118 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15224.
For more info: michaelmiracles.com - Cafe Sci: The Double Life of STINGCarnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA
[Note: I attend Cafe Sci Virtually because of my schedule. If anyone wants to get together and go as a group, please feel free!]
December's Cafe Sci is both on-site and virtual. To attend either way, you must register here.
Cafe Sci is recorded for later viewing on CSC's YouTube channel.
FREE and open to the public, but Cafe Sci gratefully accepts donations. Parking in the CSC lot costs $6.
December's topic:
### The Double Life of STING: How an Innate Immune Guardian Fights Pathogens and Relieves Cellular Stresses
When cells find DNA where it shouldn't be, they turn on a defense system called cGAS-STING. This system not only causes inflammation to fight invaders but also helps cells make more lysosomes. Lysosomes are like the cell's recycling centers, breaking down waste and dangerous microbes. In this talk, Dr Bo Lv explains how this new discovery might help cells survive in aging and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, offering new treatment possibilities.
December's speaker:
Dr Bo Lv is a cell biologist working on ciliary signaling and the innate immune cyclic GMP–AMP synthase (cGAS)–stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway. He earned his B.Sc. in biotechnology from Wuhan University of Technology in 2011 and his Ph.D. in 2017 from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences where he was studying the assembly of Chlamydomonas flagella/cilia. He then joined Gregory Pazour lab at Program in Molecular Medicine/UMass Chan Medical School in Massachusetts, where he used CRISPR screening to identify E3 ligases that regulate cilia-mediated hedgehog signaling. After that, he joined the Aging Institute in University of Pittsburgh/UPMC to explore the non-canonical functions of the innate immune cGAS-STING pathway.Register to attend here.
