One in Four, One in Eight - with Agarita  Chamber Players

Carnegie Mellon University School of Music

A free concert featuring new classical music that engages with infertility and pregnancy loss, as well as new mixed media visual artwork.

UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital

One in Four, One in Eight

This project is a concert performance featuring new music that engages the experience of infertility and pregnancy loss and builds a sonic space to explore a deeply personal, physical, and embodied ordeal. Featuring the Agarita  Chamber Players.

UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital Auditorium300 Halket St, Pittsburgh, PA 152136:30-7:00 PM Pre-Concert Talk with composer Katherine Pukinskis7:00-8:00 PM Concert8:00 PM Post-Concert Talk and Reception One in Four, One in Eight takes its title from the statistic that one in four known pregnancies ends in loss in the US and one in eight people needs medical intervention to get to the journey of pregnancy. This project is a concert performance featuring new music that engages the experience of infertility and pregnancy loss and builds a sonic space to explore a deeply personal, physical, and embodied ordeal that is externally invisible and often socially stigmatized.This piece is a 60-minute concert event which features new music written through the lenses of infertility and pregnancy loss, hybridizing a classical music concert designed to articulate the emotional and physical contours of these lived experiences with medically objective content provided by healthcare professionals and scientific research. By attaching the deeply subjective positioning of music to the staunchly objective and procedural work of medicine, One in Four, One in Eight insists that there is room for both the human being and science in the same space, and it recognizes the complexities of how these two elements co-exist.The concert format – which includes pre- and post-concert talks as well as newly commissioned visual artwork by a Pittsburgh-based artist – upends typical performance conventions in an effort to welcome a wider audience as it weaves together scientific knowledge and creative arts. The Agarita Chamber Players Program:Katherine Pukinskis - One in Four, One in Eight Co-sponsored by:Center for the Arts in SocietyCarnegie Mellon University School of MusicMagee-Womens Research Institute &amp; FoundationUPMC Magee-Womens HospitalMAP FundJewish Fertility Foundation Free childcare will be offered for this performance on-site via Pittsburgh Event Childcare.-PEC is licensed and bonded.-All staff/caregivers are trained and certified in CPR, First Aid, and use of an AED; along with having their current clearances. They have their own First Aid kit and AED machine on-site.-Each family will receive a vibrating pager to be contacted discreetly for something important.-When parents drop their children off with PEC, they will have the option to receive pictures and other information via text during the time their child is in PEC care.-Drop-off begins 30 minutes before the event time.-PEC has equipment and activities for every age group. (Infant-16)-PEC provide a variety of snack and drink options throughout the event. (Dairy &amp; Gluten free items as well).-If you would like to reserve childcare, please select a "Childcare" ticket in addition to your own concert ticket when you are booking tickets. You will then be asked several registration questions separately.-You MUST select at least 1 General Admission ticket in addition to a Childcare ticket if you are using childcare. If you have any questions or would like to contact PEC directly, please email them at <a href="mailto:pittsburgheventchildcare@gmail.com" title="mailto:pittsburgheventchildcare@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">pittsburgheventchildcare@gmail.com</a>.