37 Arts Venues. Cutting-edge Visual Arts. Live Music. Dance. DJs. Comedy. And more! FREE ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS. Presented by tHE Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Department of Education and Community Engagement. All information and locations are subject to change. Visit TrustArts.org for updated and more detailed info.
CRAWL in the Cultural District Friday, April 26, 2013 5:30–9pm
sponsors:
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust 803 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Non-Profit U.S. Postage PAID Pittsburgh, PA Permit #3001
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GALLERY
A Production of:
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase > CAPA and Brashear collaboration:
Wearable art fashion show and student music performances, 5:30pm. CAPA Student Interpreters, 6:30pm. Westinghouse Lighthouse Project Hip Hop and Step Team Show, 7:30pm. third & fourth floors
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Visual Arts Showcase > All-City K-12 Arts and Cultures Exhibitions.
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films shown on a loop. Tiny Harris Gallery
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Tonic
Work by D.Hopper & Justice Coughenour
Music by Shay and Bryan William Kinney.
> Regionally made short
Heather Springer: eye of the beholder
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August Henry’s City Saloon 946 Penn Avenue
Magic by Peter Corbett > Be prepared to be wowed!
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Free Dance Lessons and Demos > Merengue at
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All official Gallery Crawl locations are marked with a Cultural District STOP sidewalk sign. FREE BIKE PARKING where designated. All locations universally accessible unless noted.
* AFTER THE CRAWL Salsa Friday
Cabaret at Theater Square 655 Penn Avenue 10pm to 1:30am Free Admission to Salsa Friday with DJ Jeff Shirey of Salsa Pittsburgh. Get your Salsa! Bachata! and Cha Cha Cha on!
Braddock’s American Brasserie
Boutique 208
208 Sixth Street Meet several of the local artists creating art and artisan products for this all-local, all-handmade boutique. 35
709 Penn Gallery
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figures who tell a story—reveal insights while helping us to make sense of our world and our place in it. Curated by Cindy Lisica and Vicky Clark.
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The Art of Pierogie Making > Join Chef de Cuisine, Brian Volmrich, as he demonstrates how to create a pierogie. Attendees will enjoy making their own pierogie creation. Learn from the restaurant that is known for their signature pierogies.
Eighth Street & Penn Avenue Parking Lot An expanded collection of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent food and art vendors—combined with music and dance. 7 to 11pm.
Cast of Characters > Dramatis personae—fictional
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107 Sixth Street
Night Market 4
709 Penn Avenue
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7:30pm. Bachata at 8pm. Salsa at 8:30pm.
Bend Yoga
808 Penn Avenue, 2nd Floor Guided Meditation > 6:30 to 7pm. Register at mcallan@bendyoga.com. Poetry reading > With Tarun Reddy from his haiku book Bru-ku. 7:30 to 8pm, with signing afterwards.
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809 Liberty Avenue
Harris Theater Short Films
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Arthur Murray Dance Studio 136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro)
Ivette Spradlin: carbon first, then light >
A photo survey of three projects, from Habana, Cuba to Philadelphia, aptly binds this exploration of the artist’s past, with an attempt to illuminate the invisible inhabitants and mysterious everyday objects that surround us.
971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd Floor Gallery
Harris Theater
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805-807 Liberty Avenue Peirce Studio (lower level)
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
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Trust Arts Education Center
explores the diversity of individual perspectives from the lofty heights of the aerial silks to the baser human emotions that bubble from below. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30pm.
810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
Performances, Elementary Choir, Junior Honors Choir, CRAE Drumming, Dancing & Performing Ensembles and CRAE Visual Art Exhibit. Begins at 6pm. SOLO Exhibits > Individual exhibitions of work by Leslie Ansley, Jo-Anne Bates and Tina Brewer. Glamazonia by Mario Epanya > Over 30 images of Black women, celebrating their beauty and diversity. Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix > Imagery, film and oral history narratives dedicated to honoring and preserving Black culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Creating Your Own Perspective > kNot Dance
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World cartography through period maps and engravings.
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Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase. > Featuring the PPS All-City: ESL Student
Brave New World: Maps of the 19th-century > 8
Gonzalez Requena. Raw materials of industry displaced in space and time. Guest curated by Kristen Kovak.
kNot Dance at Verve Wellness 142 Sixth Street, Third Floor
Future Tenant Displacement > Work by Phil Hessler and Natalia
980 Liberty Avenue
805 Liberty Avenue
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Shaw Galleries
Joyce Werwie Perry: Places & Faces
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with the rapid application and detraction of oil with knives. Live Music by Elevations, 5:30 to 7:30pm.
819 Penn Avenue
947 Liberty Avenue
cartooning lessons. Each session is four minutes.
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Toonseum Cartoon Quickies! > Join us for rapid-fire drop-in
655 Penn Avenue
Push-pinned Prints & Drawings > Screen prints, relief prints, blotted line prints, printouts, conceptual drawings and formal portrait studies by Pittsburgh CAPA Visual Art Students in 6–12.
Backstage Bar
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111 Ninth Street
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Lobby (third floor)
ten years of performing August Wilson’s Century Play Cycle. Monologues from the 10 plays will be performed.
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Seventh Street & Penn Avenue Live Music by JD Eicher & the Goodnights. Button-making with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: We supply the materials, you supply the creativity!
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Cell Phone Disco
Tito & Exchange Way A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call near the installation.
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Katz Plaza
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August Wilson X: 10 Years of August Wilson on Stage > Photos, artifacts and props from the past
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Memento Mori
Seventh Street & Penn Avenue Learn how Tony Tasset created this sculpture installation and craft your own (origami) magnolias with the Office of Public Art.
Pilates as Art in Motion > Play an interactive game that matches the exercise in the studio to the photos in the street front window. Win a private Pilates session! 6 & 7pm.
Magnolias for Pittsburgh
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To celebrate the Urban League’s 100th Anniversary, artist Leslie Ansley creates vibrant paintings and murals.
Pilates Sol
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900 Penn Avenue
CSA PGH > Meet the six visual artists who will create
works to be packaged up and turned into 50 shares for the public. csapgh.com
Tito & Exchange Way A set of billboards reminding us that life can be short and its end unpredictable, and poor Bobo is caught in an endless loop from which there is no escape from Mr. Death.
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937 Liberty Avenue homegrown performance artists in the new series at the New Hazlett Theater. newhazletttheater.org/#csa
Celebrating the Urban League in Pittsburgh >
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Amazing Books
Community Supported Art > A sneak peak of the
Urban League
Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue Wild Life > Proudly presenting student artwork, photos and three dimensional design. Music by the Sounds of Steel steel pan band, 6:15 & 7:45pm.
second floor
610 Wood Street
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91.3fm WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE 4
Holly. Merengue at 6:30pm, Salsa at 7:30pm. Freestyle dance between and after the lessons.
workshop with students at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild.
929 Liberty Avenue An independent bookstore with an amazing selection of awesome new and used books. Open until 7pm.
Marc Burgess: Adult Arcade > A new media installation composed of a variety of organically textured paintings, large geometric sculptures, robotic lasers and disorienting soundscapes.
Free Dance Lessons > By Pittsburgh Dance Center’s
Darkroom Mania > The results of a photography 12
707 Penn Avenue
925 Penn Avenue
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The Cultural District
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212 Ninth Street
SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue Mean Girls > Bullying among girls in America has become an epidemic in our society and this is a springboard to gain awareness, encourage dialogue and promote positive social change. Partnered with Strong Women, Strong Girls and guest-curated by Jill Larson. Music by DJ Pingting. 3
Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
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Urban Pathways K-5 Dance Studio
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811 Liberty Avenue Pop in for some laughs, featuring Pittsburgh’s best sketch, improvisational and alternative comedy year-round.
Gregory Barsamian: Momento Mori > In a strobe
lit room, kinetic sculpture spins rapidly on an armature with imagery based on Barsamian’s dream recordings. At once low-tech and approachable, Barsamian simultaneously floats between the conscious and unconscious worlds in collaboration between artist and perceiver.
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Arcade Comedy Theater
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Robot Repairs
210 Sixth Street Is your robot experiencing technical difficulties? Consider visiting this place for a potential fix.
PNC Legacy Project
600 Liberty Avenue An interactive exhibit that showcases Pittsburgh’s transformation and reflects PNC’s dedication to revitalizing the city. Hear New Oral Histories with Dan Bylsma, Arnold Palmer, Art Rooney, Joe Grushecky and George Benson.
photos: Joey Kennedy and Martha Rial