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Friday, July 12, 2013 5:30-10pm
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3rd floor | Title Town Soul & Funk Party TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party’s resident DJ Gordy G. spinning rare and underground soul, boogie, electro-funk and disco grooves.
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811 Liberty Avenue Pop in for some laughs at the Arcade Comedy Theater in the Cultural District, featuring Pittsburgh’s best sketch, improvisational and alternative comedy year-round. Time to play!
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212 Ninth Street Inspirations–an exhibition of cell phone images Students of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild curated and managed the entire process of this exhibition from developing a theme, creating a Call for Artists, managing submissions and designing an online exhibition of the submitted images.
812 Liberty Avenue Crowdsourced 8 Amazing Books Guest curator: Robert Raczka 929 Liberty Avenue Participating artists: Renee Ickes, Tom Sarver, Barbara Weissberger, Gabe Felice, William Kofmehl III, Lori Hepner, An independent bookstore with an amazing selection of Shaun Slifer, Maritza Mosquera, Corey Escoto, Casey awesome new and used books. Open until 7pm. Droege, Paul Zelevansky, and Kim Beck. Artists each create a large drawing directly on the walls 9 937 Liberty Avenue 2nd floor | Gold Standard presents: 15 Minutes of Shame of the gallery, which will be open to the public to both observe and suggest input into the artistic process. Artists Mary Smull from Philadelphia, Lizzy De Vita from Pittsburgh, and Brette Gabel from Toronto will present Music by DJ hi-top wrangler participatory and performative karaoke works throughout WYEP Music Station the night with the help of you, the viewer. Come show off WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE your pipes or just watch. Curated by Gold Standard (Casey Droege and Corey Escoto).
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971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery. NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE Breathe, Fly, and Think A collection of new and favorite works by Photographer Crystal Marie Acker designed to stimulate your sense of freedom, relief, adventure, and nostalgia. Live Music by Brittany Morganrose
12 August Henry’s City Saloon
18 8th Street & Penn Avenue Live Music by Muzička Night Market V An outdoor market that brings together some of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent vendors, featuring art, jewelry, clothing, crafts, food, music and more. 5:30pm to 11pm.
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946 Penn Avenue Magic by Peter Corbett Be prepared to be wowed!
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Chris McGinnis: The Productive Machine A series of oil paintings and a video installation explores American optimism and utopianism seen through the lens of industrial culture, past and present.
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707 Penn Avenue Lynn Johnson and Jen Saffron: The Koraput Survivors Project This photographic exhibition explores the destruction and recreation of a small community in Odisha State, India, documenting the stories of 500 villagers violently driven from their homes in a rising tide of religious intolerance.
928 Penn Avenue So You Think THAT’S Fair? We all think we know what’s fair—but is your idea the same as hers? Explore the symbols, the characters and the legal cases that have defined and changed American ideas about fairness and equality. Plus cookies!!
14 Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery 914 Penn Avenue
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Tickets: $40-$125. Visit trustarts.org/cosmo for details.
208 Sixth Street Meet several of the local artists creating art and artisan products for this all local, all handmade boutique.
Ryoji Ikeda: test pattern-live set Ryoji Ikeda presents intense flickering black and white imagery, which floats in darkness to a stark and powerful, highly synchronized soundtrack. A ‘not to be missed’ performance by one of the major artists working today. Also see Ryoji Ikeda at Wood Street Galleries. Peirce Studio, 805-807 Liberty Avenue 10 p.m. / Tickets: $10 & $15
27 PNC Legacy Project
600 Liberty Avenue An exhibit celebrating Pittsburgh. New oral histories include Dan Bylsma, Steve Blass, Art Rooney II, Joe Grushecky, Roger Humphries, George Benson, Arnold Palmer.
Free Rides around the District by GREENGEARS PEDICABS
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808 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor Celebrate Bend Yoga’s 1st Birthday! Come for one of two 30-minute donation-based classes for charity and stay for cake. Classes at 6pm and 7:15pm.
142 Sixth Street, Third floor TOUCH Pittsburgh’s aerial dance company explores the connection of relationships and the responsiveness of the body in the silks and on the ground. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30pm
Voyage beyond the Earth’s atmosphere to a lunar party in the Cultural District!
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kNOT Dance at Verve Wellness
Consol Energy Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh: To the Moon Byham Theater Presenting Sponsor: Consol Energy Event Sponsors: UPMC and UPMC Health Plan
107 Sixth Street Local Cuisine from a Pittsburgh Native Join Braddock’s new Executive Chef for a cooking demonstration! Explore the unique flavors of Pittsburgh cuisine as Chef Jason gives a peak into his new menu ideas.
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810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200 carbon first, then light | Ivette Spradlin A photography survey of three projects, from Habana, Cuba to Philadelphia, aptly binds this exploration of the artist’s past, alongside an attempt to illuminate the invisible inhabitants 23 and mysterious everyday objects that surround us.
655 Penn Avenue Live Music by Tony DePaolis Group. 5:30pm to 7:30pm Magical Mystical Tour Jay Ressler’s multi-layered photographic images take us into a surreal world of imagination and interpretation.
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Free Dance Lessons and Demos: Rhumba / Fox Trot at 7:30pm. Club Swing / Jitterbug at 8pm. Salsa at 8:30pm.
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819 Penn Avenue INVENTORY: The Orgone Archive, Pittsburgh 13 (2002-2013) Showcasing a decade’s worth of promotion and propaganda in the form of posters, stickers and bits of paper created by The Orgone Archive for its cinema outings. Orgone is a motion picture archive and screening outfit based in Pittsburgh. 22
Watch for Mary Miller Dance Company, City Dance /Car Radio Dance
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7th St. and Penn Avenue Live Music by The Amigos Band First Commonwealth Bank: Try your hand at Plinko and to get a slap bracelet. Be on the look-out for the FCB Crew in red t-shirts to find out how to enter to win $1,000 this summer! Button-making with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: We supply the materials, you supply the creativity! Highmark First Night® Ice: Free icy treats when you say “Highmark First Night Ice Is Nice.” Propel Pittsburgh Commission, Action Shots: Get your Pittsburgh-themed photo taken, and receive a free, customizable Pittsburgh postcard. Featuring the work of Jen Cooney and other local artists.
THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT
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Middle School Regional Art Exhibition Featuring middle school students’ artwork from Urban Pathways Charter Schools, St. Edmund’s Academy, Propel East, Falk Laboratory School and Manchester Academic Charter School. Live Music by: Sounds of Steel Junior
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Mary Mazziotti: Memento Mori 10 August Wilson Center for A set of billboards reminding the viewer that life can be African American Culture short and its end unpredictable. The four “obituary” pieces 980 Liberty Avenue show that the banalities of life continue after death, and Live Music by Flo Wilson & the Old School Band poor Bobo is caught in an endless loop from which there is no escape from Mr. Death. Handmade Arcade Join Handmade Arcade in celebrating a Decade of DIY. Grab Cell Phone Disco | InformationLab a postcard with a “crafty” image outlined and color it in. A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field Keep -- or send to a pal! Also, color and make a button! of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from illuminate when you make or receive a phone call the Collection of Samella Lewis in the vicinity of the installation. Features more than 30 works: sculptures, drawings abd graphics by Catlett; three works by her husband, artist 4 Shaw Galleries Francisco Mora, and artwork by her former student and 805 Liberty Avenue friend, Dr. Samella Lewis. Buffon: Argonaut of Our Natural World Still Feel Like Goin’ On An exhibition exploring the widespread influence of French Thirty photographs by students, depicting African American naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic community heroes. author, Georges Louis Leclerc (1707-88), otherwise known as Count de Buffon. On display will be several selections Call & Response from his magnum opus, Histoire Naturelle. Paintings celebrating visual and performing arts by August Wilson Fellow Mariana Adele Vassar. 5 Harris Theater Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix 809 Liberty Avenue Flagship exhibition dedicated to honoring and preserving Black culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This modular Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents exhibit uses imagery, film and oral history narratives to regionally made short films on a loop explore communities, cultures, and innovations. Tiny Harris Gallery | Tryps A group photography show focusing on triptychs.
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2nd floor | Ryoji Ikeda: data.tron An audiovisual installation where each single pixel of visual image is calculated by mathematical principles, and composed from a combination of mathematics and the vast sea of data present in the world. Images are projected onto a large screen, heightening and intensifying the viewer’s perception and immersion.
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