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on our way to 10,000 members Support the Member Challenge and help your Trust reach 10,000 members by 2015. The Richard King Mellon Foundation’s generous offer to match any new or increased portion of a repeat gift dollar for dollar has been extended. You can still take advantage of the Trust’s Member Match program when renewing your membership this year. Remember, your support matters.
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We need you now more than ever to help the Trust reach this goal. In addition to renewing your membership, we ask that you please encourage family, friends, and colleagues to become Members of the Trust. The dollars received from a Membership gift helps support: • Ongoing revitalization of Pittsburgh’s downtown Cultural District • Free programming including visual arts exhibitions, First Night® Pittsburgh, and Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival • Contemporary dance, touring Broadway and other Trust Presents performing arts • Arts education programs for schools, daycares and community groups
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Don’t forget to make the most of your benefits that may include: • Cast parties and meet-and-greets with performance companies and creative teams • Advance access to purchase tickets before anyone else • Discounts to Cultural District restaurants and select performances Find out more about Member Match at TrustArts.org/Support/member_match
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Pittsburgh has a rich jazz legacy that is known the world over. Many influential jazz legends, from George Benson and Art Blakey, to Steve Nelson and Mary Lou Williams were born here. Some of the best musicians in the world continue to live and work in Pittsburgh. To celebrate the legacy of jazz in Pittsburgh and to create spaces for interaction between students and working artists, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has selected Pittsburgh jazz musician Sean Jones as Artist in Residence for a 10 month period. The residency aims to generate a year-round creative process that will result in a wide-reaching art project with broad community input and feedback. Mr. Jones will invite the community to join him on the journey of creating new work that the Trust has commissioned for the Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival.
Sean Jones
Through workshops, master classes, open rehearsals and student matinee performances, the residency will give the community a chance to interact with professional working artists and to engage with jazz music from both the artist’s perspective and as a patron. The new music created as a result of this project will debut at the Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival and launch the JazzLive Sound/Spirit Initiative which involves commissioning new work every year that will be performed at the Festival. Coinciding with the opening of Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, the JazzLive International Festival will take place in the Cultural District from June 1 – 3, 2012, both at indoor venues and on outdoor stages. The festival will feature local, emerging, and renowned jazz and jazz-influenced musicians in a variety of performance settings.
Programming will include: • Jazz Crawl in the Cultural District, featuring local jazz talent on Friday, June 1 • Two days of free concerts on outdoor stages on Saturday, June 2 and Sunday, June 3 • Jazz and jazz-influenced music from all over the world • Educational opportunities for students, musicians, and the community • Late night club performances with young, experimental musicians and DJs Full festival details and schedule information can be found at pittsburghjazzlive.com.
Joey of War Horse at the Season Preview Event Circles Member Jackie Jones with George Hamilton at the La Cage aux Folles cast party
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Jeff Tain Watts is a multi-Grammy winner and originally from Pittsburgh.
Just in time to cool city-goers during the dog days of summer, the national ice cream chain Ben & Jerry’s will be coming to the Cultural District. Located at 936 Penn Avenue, the store will be operated by Life’sWork, a Western Pennsylvania nonprofit that works with people with disabilities and other barriers to employment, in partnership with the ice cream chain. Scheduled to open just as this newsletter goes to press — your Cultural District just got a little sweeter!
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A note from the President As always, this summer will be full of activities and excitement with something for everyone to enjoy. Children, families, and those young at heart will be awed at the Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival where they can explore the festival grounds and enjoy some of the world’s best theater for young ones. The JazzLive International Festival and Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, both taking place in June, will offer an array of art, music, food, and more. In addition, as a Trust member, you will be extended special offers over the coming months including an invitation to the JERSEY BOYS cast party and a discount on Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh tickets. Thank you for your continued support of the Trust. I look forward to a lively summer and hope to see you in the Cultural District soon!
Trust to Present New Cabaret Series Friday, May 11
Beach Boys Pre-Performance Reception Save the date for a Members’ pre-show reception in the Cultural District. Before experiencing the Beach Boys at their historic 50th anniversary tour, join us for a reception with complimentary food and drinks. This event is open to members at all levels.
Thursday, May 17
BLUE MAN GROUP Q&A Join us for a pre-show Question & Answer session with a member of BLUE MAN GROUP. Hear what inspires the group to create their electric and outrageous music – and how it feels to wear that blue face paint every day. Following the show, desserts will be served in the Circles Lounge. This event is open to members at the Sustaining Partner level and above.
Friday, June 1
Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival & JazzLive International Festival Opening Night Reception Kick off these two amazing festivals in style with an Opening Night Reception. Enjoy refreshments and mingle amidst artists and art before or after you explore the Jazz Crawl throughout the Cultural District. This event is open to members at all levels.
Friday, July 13
Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh Come by plane, train, or automobile to the best party of the summer in the Cultural District! Following the annual summer Gallery Crawl, join the Trust for our sixth annual fundraising event. Enjoy an all-inclusive evening of food, drink, live entertainment and activities. Where: 119 Sixth Street (formerly Bally Total Fitness) When: 9:00pm–midnight Tickets: $40 Trust Members*, $50 non-members VIP Tickets: $90 Trust Members*, $100 non-members *Trust Members can use code CP12MEMB to receive your discount when purchasing tickets More details at TrustArts.org/cosmo
Friday, September 7
JERSEY BOYS Cast Party Oh, what a night! Save the date for a party with the cast and crew of Jersey Boys following the evening performance. This event is open to members at all levels. More details for all of the events above will be coming soon. Contact 412-471-6086 or 412-471-2662 for more information.
Thanks to generous support from the Benter Foundation and Richard Rauh, the Trust will be launching a new Cabaret Series at Theater Square this fall. The season will feature some of the best cabaret acts from around the world on select Monday nights. At the Cabaret Theater, patrons will be able to experience high quality live music and song while enjoying food and drinks in an intimate setting. Full season details will be announced this summer.
Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival The Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival will return this year on May 16-20 at the University of Pittsburgh’s campus in Oakland. The Festival presents and promotes professional programming for children to inspire, challenge, educate, and stimulate respect for and understanding of all cultures in an entertaining and enlightening way. This year’s Festival will feature performers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, The Netherlands, and Scotland. A highlight of the event will include the return of artist Alan Parkinson with a new Luminaria called Mirazozo – Architects of Air! Enter a giant inflatable labyrinth of light and color the size of a football field — a sight that must be seen to be believed! Visit pghkids.org for more information.
J. Kevin McMahon, President & CEO
Institutional Development Staff Nick Gigante, Vice President of Development Lauren Etters, Development Assistant
Summer is just around the corner and what Del McCoury Band better way to kick off the season than with the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival from June 1–10! • The Artist Market will feature over 318 booths with an expanded footprint to allow for more ease of movement and more artists located in Point State Park during the week. • The Juried Visual Art Exhibition will be located in both the 3rd and 4th Floors of the Trust Education Center this year, including several large scale three dimensional pieces, as well as performance art during the exhibition. • Squonk Opera will debut their latest work during the second weekend of the Festival, June 8–10. The work is self-contained on a flatbed truck with striking visuals and will be staged on Stanwix Street. • The amazing line-up of musical performances includes The Wailers (June 1), Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (June 3), Dawes (June 6), Carolina Chocolate Drops (June 8), and Del McCoury (June 9). Also on Saturday, June 9, the Festival will celebrate bluegrass, made possible with funding from the Colcom Foundation. • JazzLive International will once again be held on the opening weekend of the Festival.
Melissa Goodfriend, Development Intern
In addition to the endless entertainment and visual arts that embody the Festival, environmental sustainability and best practices remain a priority. • Public Art: The Art in Recycling. Eight custom-made recycling stations are being enhanced by local artists to attract and educate Festival patrons on the benefits Carolina Chocolate Drops of recycling. • A large interactive display and tent in Point State Park with onsite educators will bring to life the importance of recycling and composting efforts not only at the Festival but in our own personal lives. The display will keep a running tab of the good efforts onsite and demonstrate key points such as “How big is the 84 tons of trash that we divert from landfills through recycling and composting?” • To encourage green transportation to the Festival, the Bike Valet service will once again continue to enable patrons to park bikes easily and safely. • Free water stations will be available throughout the Festival – bring your water bottles! For more information, visit 3riversartsfest.org.
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Visit trustarts.org and enter to win broadway tickets The Trust’s website has been newly designed and relaunched. Visit our new and improved pages at TrustArts.org and be sure to bookmark it as one of your favorites! The Membership support pages have also been transformed to be more interactive and current. Visit TrustArts.org/Support often to read about upcoming events, see photos from past events and learn about special offers that are available exclusively to our members. In addition, if you take our online member survey by May 31 you will be entered to win two tickets to a 2012-2013 PNC Broadway Across America — Pittsburgh performance of your choice. Visit TrustArts.org/support to take the survey and be qualified to win.
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Halina Reijn of Toneelgroep in La Voix Humaine Photo credit: Jan Versweyveld
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The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust closes its Distinctively Dutch Festival, a threemonth celebration of the contemporary arts and culture of the Netherlands, the weekend of May 17–20 with ten performances and a late-night party featuring Dutch multimedia artists and DJs. Described by The Village Voice as “a spare, raw, enormously affecting production,” La Voix Humaine is masterfully directed by Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s Ivo Van Hove and brought to life by the stunning Halina Reijn, one of the most acclaimed actresses of The Netherlands. MCG Jazz will present three Dutch Women of Jazz: pianist Amina Figarova, saxophonist Tineke Postma and the “Lady Miles of Europe” Saskia Laroo on trumpet. In addition, the Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival will feature two companies from the Netherlands: Drums United and Beumer & Drost. The flurry of activity will conclude with electronic music and multimedia presented by VIA at the Trust’s Bally building on Sixth Street. This is the last chance to “go Dutch” before the Distinctively Dutch Festival departs! For more information, visit dutchfestival.trustarts.org.