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BUILDING A LEGACY OF COMMUNITY...
The legacy the Cultural Trust has built refl ects the unique power of art to create a sense of community. We are proud to offer a diverse range of festivals each year that bring people together. Festivals are a means to celebrate life—sparking joy and uniting communities around a shared love of the arts.
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In 2019, we celebrated the 60 th anniversary of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, which continued to attract a broad range of artists from our own region and around the globe— for 10 days of free entertainment. Throughout its 60-year history, the Festival stage has been shared with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Smokey Robinson, The Phillip Glass Ensemble, and Citizen Cope. For 2019’s milestone celebration, Grammy Awardwinning artist India.Arie served as the headlining musical act on opening night, bringing a historically large—and diverse— crowd to Point State Park. The 60 th anniversary celebration also included visually stunning public art pieces from around the world, including Los Trompos, or “spinning tops,” which originated in Mexico, and Kenya’s Ocean Sole Africa, a collection of largerthan-life safari animals made entirely from recycled fl ip fl ops. Public art was fused with contemporary dance through the U.S. premiere of Compagnie Furinkaï’s Origami, a spectacular outdoor performance that featured the unlikely pairing of a monumental shipping container and a gravity-defying dancer.
Across its ten days, the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival welcomed more than 500,000 people to downtown Pittsburgh for a unique—and community-building—celebration of the arts. The fact that Dollar Bank, a community bank, sponsors the festival, makes this annual celebration that much more meaningful.
“The plan is to fan this spark into a fl ame!”
BUILDING A LEGACY
PITTSBURGH HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
Featuring internationally renowned academics, artists, and intellectual innovators. Kevin Kwan Last Podcast on the Left Core Conversations Public Open Call The New Normal: A Conversation About the Trauma of School Lock Downs
Demeatria Boccella leads a session on "Fashion and the Art of Inclusion"
The Trust partnered with the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University to host the fourth annual Pittsburgh Humanities Festival. Crazy Rich Asians author, Kevin Kwan, led the Festival’s Featured Event with a compelling discussion on the importance of representation in Hollywood. Core Conversations engaged a range of both local and national figures, including former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist, Rob Rogers; magician Lee Terbosic; and social media guru, Chancelor Humphrey. Together, Festival presenters continued to engage the community in “smart talk about stuff that matters.”
In 2019, the Trust launched Bookish in the ‘Burgh, a free, one-day festival celebrating teen literature. The Festival brought seven renowned authors of young adult literature to Pittsburgh for a full day of conversations, book signings, and a celebration of teen literature. Bookish in the ‘Burgh was comprised of writing workshops, intimate interviews, and panel discussions with some of the top authors in the country. The success of the inaugural Festival solidified plans for growth and expansion in the future.
The Trust ushered in the New Year with its annual Highmark First Night Pittsburgh celebration. Acclaimed artists from the Pittsburgh and national stages lit up the Cultural District—with live music, dance, theater, comedy, magic, and kids’ activities. In 2019, the Trust also partnered with KDKA-TV’s “Pittsburgh Today Live” to produce a full hour of live programming leading up to the raising of the Future of Pittsburgh Ball.
BOOKISH IN THE ‘BURGH
Featuring acclaimed authors of young adult literature from around the country. Anna-Marie McLemore Jay Coles K. Ancrum Kacen Callender Morgan Matson Rachael Lippincott Rachel Lynn Solomon
EQT CHILDREN’S THEATER FESTIVAL
Murikamification Arch 8, Netherlands Air Play Acrobuffos, United States Emily Brown and the Thing Tall Stories, United Kingdom Sons of Mystro United States circle, circle, circle town.and.concrete., France Sky and Stone Teatro Al Vacio, Mexico Fly Teater Patrasket, Denmark
DOLLAR BANK THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL
The 2019 Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival attracted nearly 500,000 people to downtown Pittsburgh. Over the course of ten days, more than 125 events were held, and more than 750 artists were featured.
JURIED ARTS EXHIBITION ARTIST MARKET ACTIVITIES AND DEMONSTRATIONS THEATER + DANCE HEADLINING MUSIC ACTS
India.Arie
Tank and the Bangas Kaia Kater Too Many Zooz Mandolin Orange Lucius J. Roddy Walston and the Business Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
HIGHMARK FIRST NIGHT PITTSBURGH 2020
The Shadowboxers The Jenn Wertz Band Sierra Sellers Robert Ramirez Williams SING-OFF Competition Showcase Zuzu African Acrobats
Esther Rose Nahko and Medicine for the People
