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The Black Stars will be out on June 26th
Come out and meet who's who's in our Acting Community
All Tickets $50. June 26th, 2009 at 6:30pm
@ The Holiday Inn, Oakland
The AACTA Onyx Awards were established to acknowledge and celebrate the talents of African Americans in the Pittsburgh area who participate in productions in the immediate area. Participants are judged on their work as performers, dancers and technicians. The awards ceremony is a classy, sophisticated affair, similar to the Academy Awards.
The winners are announced at the ceremony.
Each year approximately 25 awards are presented, including the Rob Penny Lifetime Achievement Award, in honor of the late Rob Penny, former professor at the University of Pittsburgh s Africana Studies Department, playwright, freedom fighter and co-founder of the Kuntu Writers Workshop.
The awards span the spectrum, including best director, best male and female performers, best choreographer, best dancer, best set design, among others.
 BILL NUNN, JR. WILL BE OUR
SPECIAL GUEST AS HE IS NAMED
Pride of Pittsburgh Awardee!
Nunn was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of William G. Nunn, Jr., a well-known journalist and editor at the Pittsburgh Courier, as well as an NFL scout. Nunn's paternal grandfather was the first African American football player at George Westinghouse High School. Nunn attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
School Daze - Do The Right Thing
Mo’ Better Blues
Regarding Henry
Sister Act
Candyman: Fairwell to the Flesh
Spiderman 2 and 3
 AACTA Rob Penny Lifetime
Achievement Award
This award is to honor of an individual who demonstrates Rob’s quest for knowledge, passion for and understanding of the significance of using the arts for educational purposes, his love and respect for people of the African Diaspora and his appreciation of cultural relevancy.
2009 Rob Penny Award Winner
Nelson Harrison
Click here to read about our 2008 Awards
All Tickets $50 includes dinner and awards show
Friday June 26th, 2009 at 6:30pm
@ The Holiday Inn Oakland
100 Lytton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA
Call 412-704-5700 OR 412-725-7030
for Tickets and Info.
Click here to Purchase Tickets Online
Or Make checks out to: AACTA
Mail to: African American Council of the Arts
P.O. Box 17142
Pittsburgh, PA 15235
Program Advertisement Is Still Available!
Also, you are invited to share in the celebration
and to help pick a winner for the People's Choice Awards!
Choose 1 Play or Musical for:
AACTA's People's Choice Best Play/MusicalChoose 1 one person show for:
AACTA's People's Choice Best One Person Show
Enter 1 Actor that performed in one of these productions for:
AACTA's People's Choice Best Actor
Enter 1 Actress that performed in one of these productions for:
AACTA's People's Choice Best Actress
**Voting EXTENDED UNTIL
June 20th, 2009 at 11:59pm**
Now Click Here to Cast Your Vote For AACTA'S
2009 PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS!!
Then come out June 26th to find out who the PEOPLE picked!
Visit our newly redesigned site at
www.AACTAPGH.org
Phone: 412-704-5700 Email: info@aactapgh.org
The African American Council of the Arts (AACTA) is a multi-faceted, educational arts organization dedicated to promoting the arts as a tool of enlightenment, personal development and tolerance for minorities and the disadvantaged thru education, training, literature, research, dissemination of information, job opportunities, the Onyx Awards and incentives. AACTA was founded by Victoria T. Bey who was born and raised in Pittsburgh and has been involved in the arts in various capacities for more than 25 years.
Our vision is a world that values differences and
has tolerance of all of its citizens.
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