Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue

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Media Contacts:
Show Publicist: Shaunda Miles, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-471-1578 / Miles@TrustArts.org
Other Contact: Diana Roth, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 412-471-8717 / Roth@TrustArts.org
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 PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ANNOUNCES
WYEP AND THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST PRESENT
TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE

 Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced that WYEP and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will present Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, performing at the Byham Theater on Thursday, November 6th at 8:00 p.m.  Tickets start at $45.25 and are on sale now.  Tickets are available at www.TrustArts.org, by calling 412-456-6666, or by visiting in person at Theater Square Box Office, 655 Penn Avenue.

New Orleans native Trombone Shorty began his career as a bandleader at the young age of six, toured internationally at age 12, and spent his teens playing with various brass bands throughout New Orleans and touring worldwide with Lenny Kravitz. He is currently the front man for his own ensemble Orleans Avenue, a funk/rock/jazz/hip-hop band. Together, Trombone Shorty and the band have toured across the U.S., Europe, Australia, Russia, Japan and Brazil. In 2010, Trombone Shorty released his debut album, the Grammy®-nominated "Backatown," followed by "For True" in 2011, which topped Billboard magazine's Contemporary Jazz Chart for 12 weeks. His newest album, "Say That to This," was released in 2013 and features funk/jazz elements of New Orleans.

Photo Courtesy of the Artist

Trombone Shorty appeared in several episodes of HBO's Treme, and has recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Conan. In 2012, he performed at the White House in honor of Black History Month with music royalty such as B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck and Booker T. Jones. At this year's Grammy Awards, he performed alongside Madonna, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Mary Lambert.

In 2012, he received the President's Medal from Tulane University in recognition of his charitable work with the Trombone Shorty Foundation. In collaboration with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, the Trombone Shorty Foundation donates quality instruments to schools across New Orleans.

About WYEP 91.3 FM

WYEP (91.3 FM) is an independent music station with an eclectic mix of programming, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2014. It is an NPR affiliate.

About the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh’s most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country’s largest land masses “curated” by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity.  Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh’s quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts.  www.TrustArts.org

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Gallery Crawl Features Wide Array of Arts, Venues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today's date: April 8, 2013
Contact:
Shaunda Miles / 412-471-1578 / miles@trustarts.org
Diana Roth / 412-471-8717 / roth@trustarts.org

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District
Friday, April 26, 2013, downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District

Pittsburgh, PA—The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the upcoming Gallery Crawl to take place Friday, April 26, 2013, from 5:30-9:00 p.m., in downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. The Gallery Crawl is an urban showcase featuring a wide variety of thought provoking art exhibitions, live bands, DJs, dance, theater, and more. Everything from the traditional to the avant garde is on display for art lovers of all ages.

“There are 36 stops in locations throughout the Cultural District, filled with new exhibits, exciting performances and interesting activities to enjoy. Keep the fun going and stay after the Crawl for free Salsa Friday at Cabaret Theater Square,” comments Darcy Kucenic, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust-Manager of Education and Operations.   To name just a few of the highlights: Memento Mori in Tito & Exchange Way; Community Supported Art, a preview of the new series from the New Hazlett Theater at 937 Liberty Avenue; craft making-origami magnolias with Office of Public Art at Magnolias for Pittsburgh, 7thStreet & Penn Avenue; and Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Visual Arts and Music Showcase at the Trust Arts Education Center and August Wilson Center.  Night Market IV, sponsored by Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, at the 8th Street & Penn Avenue Parking Lot, will offer food, art vendors, music and dance.

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public.  For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit www.TrustArts.org or call (412) 456-6666.

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is a production of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Education and Community Engagement Department.  Sponsors for April 2013 Gallery Crawl include Pittsburgh City Paper, WYEP 91.3FM, Table Magazine and Kreider Printing.


The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl highlights and happenings on Friday, April 26, 2013:

Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street
 Momento Mori
Gregory Barsamian
 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.


SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
 Mean Girls
Guest curated by Jill Larson
 Mean Girls examines the reality that bullying among girls in America has become an epidemic in our society. The exhibition is a springboard to gain awareness, encourage dialogue and promote positive social change. This traveling exhibition is partnered with the non-profit organization: Strong Women, Strong Girls, and debuts in Pittsburgh, PA.

Music by DJ Pingting

WYEP Music Station
WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE

Urban League
610 Wood Street
 Celebrating the Urban League in Pittsburgh
To celebrate the Urban League’s 100th Anniversary, artist Leslie Ansley creates vibrant paintings and murals for the Pittsburgh affiliates 95 years of service.

Tito Way
 Memento Mori
A set of billboards reminding the viewer that life can be short and its end unpredictable. The four “obituary” pieces show that the banalities of life continue after death, and poor Bobo is caught in an endless loop from which there is no escape from Mr. Death.

Cell Phone Disco
A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.

Shaw Galleries
805 Liberty Avenue
Brave New World: Maps of the 19th-century
An exhibit exploring world cartography in the 19th-century through period maps and engravings.

Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue

Peirce Studio (Lower Level):
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase
CAPA and Brashear collaboration: Wearable art fashion show and student musical performances, 5:30pm
CAPA Student Interpreters, 6:30pm
Westinghouse Lighthouse Project Hip Hop and Step Team Show, 7:30pm

3rd & 4th floors:
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Visual Arts Showcase
All-City K-12 Visual Arts and Cultures Exhibitions

Harris Theater
809 Liberty Avenue
 Harris Theater Short Films
Regionally made short films shown on a loop: Pierogies by Kristen Lauth-Shaeffer; Oneironauts by Jared McLaughlin; Steel City Sights by Brad Oskowski; Blast Off by Jonathan Gribbin.

Tiny Harris Gallery
eye of the beholder
Heather Springer

Arcade Comedy Theater
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!

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
212 Ninth Street
 Darkroom Mania
During the winter of 2013, students at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild took part in an intensive after-school photography course. Using traditional darkroom processes, they printed on a variety of photographic media, including archival fiber based paper.

Amazing Books
929 Liberty Avenue
 An independent bookstore with an amazing selection of awesome new and used books. Open until 7pm.

937 Liberty Avenue
 2nd floor:
Community Supported Art: See a sneak peak of the homegrown performance artists cultivated for the new series at the New Hazlett Theater  www.newhazletttheater.org/#csa

CSA PGH:  Meet the 6 visual artists who will create works to be packaged up and turned into 50 shares for the public.  www.csapgh.com

3rd floor: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Lobby:
August Wilson X: 10 Years of August Wilson on Stage
Pittsburgh Playwright's Theatre Company displays photos, artifacts and props from the past ten years of performing August Wilson's Century Play Cycle. Monologues from the 10 plays will be performed.

Toonseum
947 Liberty Avenue
 Toonseum presents Cartoon Quickies!
Join us for rapid fire drop in cartooning lessons. Each session is 4 minutes.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue

Theater:
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase
Featuring the PPS All-City: ESL Student Performances, Elementary Choir, Junior Honors Choir, CRAE Drumming, Dancing & Performing Ensembles, and CRAE Visual Art Exhibit. Begins at 6pm.

SOLO Exhibits
SOLO Exhibits features individual exhibitions of fiber art, printmaking, painting and sculpture by Leslie Ansley, Jo-Anne Bates and Tina Brewer.
Glamazonia by Mario Epanya
This glorious showcase of Beauty features over 30 images of Black women from contemporary full color photography to vintage black-and-white images, celebrating the beauty and diversity of the Diaspora.

Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix
Our core exhibition dedicated to honoring and preserving Black culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania. This modular exhibit uses imagery, film and oral history narratives to explore communities, cultures, and innovations

Tonic
971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery.  NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
 Works by D.Hopper and Justice Coughenour from Modern Pop Art
Live Music by Shay and Bryan William Kinney

August Henry’s City Saloon
946 Penn Avenue
 Magic by Peter Corbett
Be prepared to be wowed!

Urban Pathways K-5 Dance Studio
925 Penn Avenue
 Free Dance Lessons by Pittsburgh Dance Center’s Holly: Merengue at 6:30pm & Salsa at 7:30pm. Freestyle dance between and after the lessons.

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
Wild Life
Proudly presenting student artwork, photography & three dimensional design. Music by the Sounds of Steel steel pan band, 6:15pm & 7:45pm

Pilates Sol
900 Penn
 Pilates as Art in Motion
Stop by at 6pm & 7pm to play this interactive game. Match the exercise that is being demonstrated in the studio to the professional photographs displayed on the street front window. Winners receive a free private Pilates session!

CAPA
111 Ninth St.
 Push-pinned Prints and Drawings
An exhibition of screen prints, relief prints, blotted line prints, printouts, conceptual drawings and formal portrait studies by Pittsburgh CAPA Visual Art Students in grades 6-12.

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
 Displacement
Guest curated by Kristen Kovak, featuring artwork by Phil Hessler and Natalia Gonzalez Requena
The show provides an opportunity to see the raw materials of industry poetically displaced in space and time.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
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 and mysterious everyday objects that surround us.

Bend Yoga
808 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor
 Guided meditation, 6:30pm to 7pm. Please register at mcallan@bendyoga.com
Poetry reading with Tarun Reddy from his haiku book Bru-ku, 7:30pm to 8pm, with signing afterwards.

8th Street & Penn Avenue Parking Lot
 Night Market IV
 An expanded collection of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent food and art vendors – combined with music and dance in a parking lot on Penn Avenue. 7pm to 11pm.

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue
Cast of Characters
Curated by Cindy Lisica and Vicky Clark.
Dramatis personae, fictional figures who tell a story, reveal insights while helping us to make sense of our world and our place in it.

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue
 Adult Arcade
Marc Burgess                                                      
This new media installation will be composed of a variety of organically textured paintings, large geometric sculptures, robotic lasers and disorienting soundscapes.

Magnolias for Pittsburgh
7th St. and Penn Avenue
 Learn how Tony Tasset created this sculpture installation and craft your own (origami) magnolias withthe Office of Public Art.
             

Katz Plaza
7th St. and Penn Avenue

Live Music by JD Eicher & the Goodnights

Button-making with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: We supply the materials, you supply the creativity!

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue

 Places & Faces
Recent works by Joyce Werwie Perry
The texture and contrast of color in the paintings is achieved through the rapid application and detraction of oil with knives.

Live Music by Elevations.  5:30pm to 7:30pm

kNOT Dance at Verve Wellness
142 Sixth Street, Third floor

Creating Your Own Perspective
kNot Dance explores the diversity of individual perspectives from the lofty heights of the aerial silks to the baser human emotions that bubble from below. 7:30pm, 8:30pm & 9:30pm

Arthur Murray Dance Studio**
136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro) NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
 Free Dance Lessons and Demos:
Merengue at 7:30pm. Bachata at 8pm. Salsa at 8:30pm.

Braddock’s American Brasserie
107 Sixth Street
 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.


Boutique 208
208 Sixth Street
 Meet several of the local artists creating art and artisan products for this all local, all handmade boutique.


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.
NEW ORAL HISTORIES:  Hear Dan Bylsma, Arnold Palmer, Art Rooney, Joe Grushecky, George Benson.


AFTER THE CRAWL
Cabaret at Theater Square, 655 Penn Avenue
Salsa Friday
Free Admission to Salsa Friday at the Cabaret at Theater Square with DJ Jeff Shirey of Salsa Pittsburgh from 10pm to 1:30am.  Get your Salsa! Bachata! and Cha Cha Cha on!


ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!  Visit www.trustarts.org for updated and more detailed information

Sponsors: City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, Kreider Printing, Table Magazine

All official Gallery Crawl locations will be marked with a Cultural District Stop sidewalk sign.

TEXT “CRAWL” TO SMASH (76274) to receive special exclusive offers and more!

**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted.

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Summer Gallery Crawl in Cultural District Features Art, Music, Theater

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today's date: June 28, 2012
Media Contact:  Diana Roth, 412-471-8717 / roth@trustarts.org

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District

Downtown Pittsburgh

Friday, July 13, 2012, 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Pittsburgh, PA- The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Summer Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District takes place on Friday, July 13, 2012, from 5:30 – 9:00 p.m.  The Gallery Crawl is an urban showcase featuring a wide variety of thought provoking art exhibitions, live bands, DJs, dance, theater, and more.  Everything from the traditional to the avant garde is on display for art lovers of all ages.

Headliners for the Summer Gallery Crawl are the Occidental Brothers Dance Band from Chicago.  Blending Afrobeat and traditional African guitar style, this band is sure to have people dancing long in to the night.  In addition, DJ Nate da Phat Barber will play during the band breaks, and continue his DJ set after the Crawl so the party can continue in to the night.

Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit www.trust.arts.org or call 412-456-6666.   The summer Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is sponsored by First Commonwealth, with support from Kreider Printing.  Media sponsors are Pittsburgh City Paper, WYEP 91.3FM and Table Magazine.

The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl highlights and happenings on Friday, July 13, 2012:


Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street
Light, Matter, Memory
Nicky Assmann, Diane Landry, Yoko Seyama and Macular
Four spectacular installations using light to explore materiality and memory.

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
Jerry Irwin, Photographer
Guest Curator: Dennis Morgan
Jerry Irwin’s photography career includes images of Bikers, Mennonites, Skydivers and Pennsylvania, published in leading magazines including National Geographic, Life, and Sports Illustrated.

Music by DJ Jordan K & djdjw of Friday Nite Club

WYEP Music Station
WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE gallery, 812 Liberty Avenue

Tito and Exchange Way
Cell Phone Disco
A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.

Shaw Galleries
805 Liberty Avenue
When Worlds Collide
An exhibit exploring digital assemblage in 21st-century photography.
 
Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue
Peirce Studio (Lower Level):
Performances by Alumni Theater Company and STAYCEE PEARL dance project. 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm.
The mission of the Alumni Theater Company (ATC) is to create work that represents the perspective of young artists growing up in an urban environment. ATC will present a preview of its upcoming production of RENT (July 27-29, New Hazlett Theater)

STAYCEE PEARL dance project (SPdp) presents a fun and interesting collection of short works and excerpts created over two years of dance making. SPdp exists to interpret and mirror culture and community through dance and dance centered multi-media experiences.

Harris Theater
809 Liberty Avenue
Harris Theater Short Films
Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents locally made short films shown on a loop throughout the evening and a photography exhibit in the Tiny Harris Gallery.

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center
212 Ninth Street
Digital Craftsmen
Exploring the influence of digital media on the world of youth art education.
Students at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild utilize computers in their studios, as many of the world's traditional crafts have been forever changed by the advent of the digital age. However, the spirit of the craftsman remains the same.

 937 Liberty Avenue
 3rd floor: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater (lobby)
Yabe One
An exhibit of 28 original oil paintings depicting African Americans, dating back to 1895, from the collection of Mark Clayton Southers.

943 Liberty Avenue
Path: Installation by Elin Hansdottir
A special maze-like installation incorporating light and space. Held over from “Long are the Days, Short are the Nights,” an exhibit at Wood Street Galleries.

947 Liberty Avenue
cityLIVE! Courtyard Series film screening: Please Vote for Me. 8:30pm.
The first cityLIVE! Courtyard Series documentary screening. Snacks will be served!
In Wuhan, a city in central China, director Weijun Chen documents an experiment in democracy at the Evergreen Primary School when a third grade class holds an election to select a Class Monitor.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue
Richmond Barthé: His Life in Art
Featuring  a collection of nearly fifty sculptures from the first modern African American sculptor to garner substantial critical success nationally and internationally.

971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery.  (This location is not universally accessible.)
 New Works
An exhibition by Ryan Woodring. Plus live music!

Neighborhood Legal Services Association
928 Penn Avenue
What Do Lawyers Do?
An examination, both serious and light hearted, of the role lawyers play in American society.  Do lawyers help us obtain justice?  Are briefcases mandatory?  What does audi alteram partemmean?  Plus cookies!

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
Moving UP!      
Summer is sizzling with UPCS student artwork from Manchester Craftsman’s Guild and salsa dance lessons from 6:15pm to 7pm and 8:15pm to 9pm from Holly of Pittsburgh Dance Company. Step UP to it!

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
 The Image Obsessed: Documentationings from Under the Starless and Bible Black Roof of 312 Barnesby Michael Benedetti.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200
Art on the Walls
Digital and mixed media artist, Gwyn Rohrer, focuses her work on the feminine and female struggles through the use of the human body, landscapes, sewing, embroidery, and fabric patterns.

Bend Yoga
808 Penn Avenue, 2nd floor
Hoop-Dance Yoga Class. 6pm to 6:30pm, 7pm to 7:30pm, 8pm to 8:30pm.
Come dance with a blend yoga, dance, and hoola-hooping into one unforgettable experience. Watch or participate, it's up to you! Local artists' work will also be displayed.

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue
Brian Brown: New Paintings
The artist proudly affirms that there is no required reading for any work appearing in this exhibition.

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue
Commission for Treasonous Strategies
Shaun Slifer and Tesar Freeman

Katz Plaza, Theater Square
7th Street and Penn Avenue
Live Music by Occidental Brothers Dance Band International. 6:15pm to 9pm.
Hailing from Chicago, OBDBI's high-energy AFROBEAT rhythms have made them favorites of music critics and devotees around the world.

With DJ Nate da Phat Barber at 5:30pm and spinning until after the Crawl.  The After Crawl DJ Set at Katz features Nate da Phat Barber with special guest, Sean Jones.

First Commonwealth Hospitality Spot: Stop by for cool drinks and hot prizes.

Highmark First Night® Ice: Free icy treats when you say “Highmark First Night Ice Is Nice.”

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue
Live Music by Broken Fences. 5:30pm to 7:30pm.

Verve Wellness
142 Sixth Street, Third Floor
kNOT Dance
Hang out with Pittsburgh's original aerial dance theatre company for some high flying fun. Performances at 8pm & 9pm.

Braddock’s American Brasserie & Renaissance Hotel
107 Sixth Street
Braddock's Live Performance
Live music by Carol Blaze.

Painting Studio in the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel Lobby
Discover your inner artist as the hotel lobby transforms into a painting studio! Participate in a group painting class with the owners of Paint Monkey and watch Andy Warhol's "Flowers" come to life.

PROJECT POP UP: DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS
Project Pop Up: Night Market
917-919 Liberty Avenue
Project Pop Up: Night Market will bring together some of Pittsburgh’s most creative independent vendors, artists, and chefs, to an outdoor Downtown parking lot, from 8pm to 1am.

Awesome Books
929 Liberty Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
An independent bookstore offering new and used books of high quality.

The Steel Curtain
1035 Penn Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
The greatest defensive line of all time comes alive in this installation.

131 Seventh Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
Society for the Advancement of Miniature Curiosa
A gallery, toy theater parlor, performance space, and workshop that seeks to spark the resurgence of curiosity and wonderment in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Symbiotic Collusion

A modern music initiative presenting visual and musical art concepts through installation, education, and performance.

Boutique 208
208 Sixth Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
A retail boutique featuring handmade wares from local artisans.

Robot Repairs
210 Sixth Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
Is your robot experiencing technical difficulties? Consider visiting this place for a potential fix.

Dream Cream Ice Cream Parlor
539 Liberty Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
More than just a great place for a scoop. A portion of designated flavor sales will be contributed to causes in exchange for community service of the recipient, aka “the dreamer.”

ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!  Visit www.trustarts.org for updated and more detailed information.

All official Gallery Crawl locations will be marked with a Cultural District Stop sidewalk sign.

TEXT “CRAWL” TO SMASH (76274) to receive special exclusive offers and more!

**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted


AFTER THE CRAWL

Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh 2012
presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Date: Friday, July 13, 2012
Tme: 9:00 p.m. to Midnight
Location: 119 Sixth Street, downtown Pittsburgh
Tickets:  $40-$125

Come by plane, train or automobile to the bash of the summer complete with food, drinks, live bands and dancing.

For information, visit www.trustarts.org/cosmo or call 412-456-6666.  Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh is sponsored by UPMC.
 
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Grand Opening of South Shore Riverfront Park

Grand Opening of South Shore Riverfront Park

*    Thursday, May 3, 2012    *    6-8 PM    *        

27th & Water Streets in the SouthSide Works  

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), WYEP, the City of Pittsburgh and Riverlife have teamed up to bring you "Rhythm 'n' Flow" - a special event to celebrate the Grand Opening of South Shore Riverfront Park and Amphitheater.

Join us for an exciting evening on the riverfront in this spectacular park.  Hosted by Cindy Howes, WYEP Morning Mix host and producer, this family-friendly, FREE event will feature the fun indie pop sounds of Delicious Pastries and the high-gain electric/punk/indie rock of White Wives .  Kids can enjoy arts and crafts courtesy of the Citiparks Roving Art Cart.  Light snacks and beverages provided by Hofbräuhaus Pittsburgh. Bike Valet provided by BikePGH.

Walk there, bike there, drive there - just get there!

This world class urban park project has transformed the industrial riverscape at the Monongahela River shoreline into a key link within Pittsburgh’s beautiful trail system. The new park will eventually provide access to the river for recreation, entertainment, a private marina, water taxi service and public docking for recreational boating.

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Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Today's date: February 27, 2012

Contact: Veronica Corpuz, 412-471-6082

GLEN CAMPBELL - THE GOODBYE TOUR

Sunday, May 20, 2012 - Byham Theater

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 91.3fm WYEP and Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, through the CD Live! Concert series, are pleased to announce Glen Campbell – The Goodbye Tour on Sunday, May 20, 2012, at the Byham Theater, 101 Sixth Street in Downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets for Glen Campbell – The Goodbye Tour go on sale Friday, March 2, 2012, at 9 a.m. Opening for Glen Campbell is the band Instant People.

Glen Campbell is a bonafide living legend whose career spans 50 years with fans that cross generational and international lines. A revered triple-decker talent, he is a musician, singer, and humorist. Worldwide, Glen Campbell is considered one of the outstanding guitar musicians of his generation, has one of the most formidable chart histories in country music, and has recorded standards that have stood the test of time, such as “By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” “Gentle On My Mind,” “Galveston,” “Rhinestone Cowboy,” and “Wichita Lineman.” He has released over 70 albums and sold more than 45 million records with 75 trips up the charts, landing 27 times in the Top 10.

Glen’s current album, Ghost On the Canvas, was released in the fall of 2011 on Sundog Records. Simply put, Ghost On the Canvas is the album of Glen Campbell’s life. With beauty, power, heartfelt emotion and deep spirituality, this set of songs traces the arc of Campbell’s 75 years: From dirt-poor, tiny-town Arkansas origins to Hollywood triumphs on the pop charts, TV and movies. From barnstorming days of youthful touring to hobnobbing with Elvis, Sinatra and the Duke. From troubled freefalls of addiction and bad life choices to personal and spiritual redemption. Campbell has said Ghost On the Canvas will be his final album with a glorious, celebratory guitar jam featuring such colleagues and acolytes as Billy Corgan, Brian Setzer, Rick Nielsen, Jason Falkner, Marty Rifkin, Steve Hunter, Tim Pierce and Keith Urban. The album was largely written by Campbell with producer-collaborator Julian Raymond, complemented by contributions from Jakob Dylan, Paul Westerberg, Teddy Thompson and Robert Pollard, with evocative instrumental interludes composed by Roger Manning as musical illustration.

Tickets $52.50, $57.50 and $62.50 will go on sale Friday, May 2, at 9 a.m. at the Box Office at Theater Square (655 Penn Avenue), trustarts.org and 412-456-6666.

About CD Live!

CD Live! widens the creative expression of the Pittsburgh music scene while advancing the artistry of musicians from around the world. This collaborative project of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival and WYEP-FM was formed to build new music audiences and to welcome these listeners to the Cultural District.
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Indigo Girls Sparkle with Live Performance of Beauty Queen Sister

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today's date: September 19, 2011

Indigo Girls

Friday, November 4, 2011, at 8 p.m.

Byham Theater, 101 Sixth Street

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust welcomes back to the Cultural District the venerated singer-songwriting duo Indigo Girls as a part of its CDLive! series. Indigo Girls’ staying power, marked by a successful, 25-year career, is fueled by Amy Ray and Emily Saliers’ poignant songwriting, a loyal fan following and passionate live performances. Indigo Girls’ complex, literate canon of work is heard regularly on 91.3fm WYEP.

The prolific, GRAMMY® Award-winning Indigo Girls are touring in support of their 14th studio recording, Beauty Queen Sister, and will perform at the Cultural Trust’s Byham Theater on Friday, November 4 at 8 p.m. The CDLive! series, presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Three Rivers Arts Festival (a program of the Cultural Trust) and 91.3fm WYEP, brings outstanding recording artists to world-class venues. This collaboration of non-profit organizations aims to build audiences for new music and cultivate patronage in the Cultural District.

Beauty Queen Sister is an 13-song album that touches on topics as disparate as the 2011 Egyptian revolution (in Ray’s plaintive “War Rugs,” featuring guest vocals by singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche), the ins and outs of the music industry (“Making Promises,” a defiant, guitar-driven banger also authored by Ray), and the recent massive deaths of Arkansas redwinged blackbrids (“Able to Sing,” in which Saliers cleverly swipes a lyric from the English nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence”). Tackling such weighty matters as tenderly as each intimate love song, Beauty Queen Sister grips from the get-go and crests at the epic “Yoke.” With its centerpiece of hauntingly urgent strings (courtesy of Luke Bulla) and a gorgeously mournful vocal performance by Ray, this spellbinding slow-burner makes for a masterful closing track.”

Tickets ($33.50, $38.50, $43.50) for Indigo Girls on Friday, November 4, 2011, at 8 p.m., at the Byham Theater go on sale this Friday, September 23, at the Box Office at Theater Square (655 Penn Avenue), online at trustarts.org, or by calling (412) 456-6666. To purchase 10 or more tickets at special discounted rates, please call (412) 471-6930.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Gallery Crawl Celebrates RADical DAYS

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Today's date: September 7, 2011

Contact: Name, Company, Phone, Email



The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District celebrates RADical DAYS

Friday, September 30, 2011

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Fall Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District takes place on Friday, September 30, 2011, from 5:30 - 9 p.m. This dynamic arts open house, celebrating Allegheny Regional Asset District’s RADical Days, showcases a variety of participating venues with cutting-edge art exhibitions, live bands, DJs, performances and hands-on activities.

The Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit pgharts.org or call 412-456-6666. The Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is sponsored by First Commonwealth with media support from City Paper and 91.3fm WYEP.

The following is a line-up of Gallery Crawl highlights and happenings:

Wood Street Galleries

601 Wood Street

Parallel Universe

New installations that invite viewer participation by Lawrence Malstaf, Arnold Dreyblatt, Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer. This exhibition investigates duel technologies that run parallel and never overlap but share a common vision.

Special performance of Shrink, by Lawrence Malstaff at 7:00pm and 8:00pm.



SPACE

812 Liberty Avenue

EXTRACTION

In this highly interactive exhibit, twenty local, national and international artists exhibit 17 artworks. The gallery will be filled with over 20,000 free pieces of art, created with the intent that viewers will interact with the artwork by "extracting" a piece, placing the gallery in a constant state of flux, change, and loss.



In this highly interactive exhibit, 20 artists make artworks each containing 1000+ pieces. Viewers will be encouraged to alter the artwork, therefore the gallery will be in a constant state of flux, change, and loss. Guest Curated by Jill Larson.



Music by Broccofeather (Jonathan Chamberlain)



WYEP Music Station

WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE



Tito and Exchange Way

Cell Phone Disco

A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.



Shaw Galleries

805 Liberty Avenue

MASK: A Celebration of Ethnographic Arts

An exhibit featuring over two-dozen hand-carved indigenous masks from Mexico, Guatemala, Indonesia and the Ivory Coast of Africa.



Trust Arts Education Center

805-807 Liberty Avenue

Peirce Studio (Lower Level):

Black Violin with Drums 7:30pm to 8:20pm

Two classically trained musicians and their DJ create the ultimate synergy between classical and hip-hop music.



4th floor:

Art Out of the Box Final Exhibition

A one-night-only showcase of the works and documentation from the summer 2011 Art Out of the Box Mobile Studio Project. Please visit artboxpittsburgh.com for more information about the project.



Harris Theater

809 Liberty Avenue

Harris Theater Short Films and Photography Show

Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents locally made short films shown on a loop throughout the evening, and the photo show "Latnemirepxe (latent exposure)" by David Burtt Harris



929 Liberty Avenue

Shake it & Make it with Handmade Arcade!

Stations will be set up for visitors to make and take their own crafty creations:

+ Greetings from Pittsburgh! - Handmade Postcards

+ Say you – Say Me! - Personalized Pin-back Buttons

+ ReFab & ReFunk ! – Junk Flowers and Mini Sculptures



937 Liberty Avenue

2nd floor: CANstruction

View entries to the national CANstruction competition designed by teams from local architecture/engineering firms. Cans to be donated to the Pittsburgh food bank at the end of the exhibit. Bring a can to “vote” for your favorite!



943 Liberty Avenue

Path: Installation by Elin Hansdottir

A special maze-like installation incorporating light and space. Held over from “Long are the Days, Short are the Nights,” an exhibit at Wood Street Galleries.



August Wilson Center for African American Culture

980 Liberty Avenue

MLK Community Mural Project - Art over Generations

This new exhibit chronicles some of the recent work by the MLK - Moving the Lives of Kids - Community Mural Project, a program where the production of public art is used to strengthen communities through youth and families.



Also on view: Romare Bearden, the Last Years: Photography by Frank Stewart, selections from the Charles "Teenie" Harris collection, and the permanent exhibit, REMIX.



CAPA Gallery

111 Ninth Street

Summer Studies

An exhibition featuring new work produced during the summer by Pittsburgh CAPA high school students.



Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter School

925 Penn Avenue

Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter School Open House

Grand Opening CELEBRATION: Guided tours on the half-hour; Printmaking Workshop; BBQ fundraiser.



Live Music by: Sounds of Steel



Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery

914 Penn Avenue

NEVER AGAIN

Photo and essay exhibition documenting three Urban Pathways educators’ recent experience traveling through Holocaust sites in Poland, including Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration camps.



Future Tenant

819 Penn Avenue

Your Place at the Banquet

Focusing on issues of food security in a direct, experiential, and confrontational manner, this show will challenge the audience to examine the fragile structure of the world's food security system and to locate their hierarchical position within it. Curated by Rose Clancy.



Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200



Art on the Walls

Celebrate the opening of this bi-annual exhibition for selected Pittsburgh artists.



L’enfant Lofts at 806 Penn

806 Penn Avenue

Looped

Tom Mosser has been developing his "Loop Technique" since childhood. He alternates using both hands when creating Loop works which focus on circular motions with an emphasis on vertical lines and strokes.



709 Penn Gallery

709 Penn Avenue

Universal Expressions: Movement in Multiple Dimensions

Painting and Sculptures by Thomas Bigatel and Peter Johnson



707 Penn Gallery

707 Penn Avenue

Progression

Veteran artist Harish Saluja’s latest series of abstract expressionist paintings explore his interest in Indian music Raga paintings and Hindu deities.



Katz Plaza

7th St. and Penn Avenue

First Commonwealth Hospitality Spot: Enjoy refreshments and giveaways courtesy of First Commonwealth, and look for the First Commonwealth Blitz throughout the District!

Live Music by Clinton Clegg and the Backstabbing Good People



Backstage Bar

655 Penn Avenue

Live music by The Wreckids. 5:30pm to 7:30pm.



Arthur Murray Dance Studio**

136 Sixth Street (above Melange Bistro) NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE

Free Dance Lessons and Demos: Tango at 7:30pm. Swing at 8:00pm. Merengue at 8:30pm.



Verve Wellness

142 Sixth Street, Third Floor

kNOT Dance Company

Rolling performances by kNOT Dance Company, previewing part of its new work, "Destroy.”



ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE! Visit www.trustarts.org for updated and more detailed information

Lead Sponsor: First Commonwealth, Other Sponsors: City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, Kreider Printing, Table Magazine



All official Gallery Crawl locations will be marked with a Cultural District Stop sidewalk sign.



**All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted



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The Decemberists Return to Pittsburgh

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Contact:
Veronica Corpuz
(412) 471-6082
corpuz@pgharts.org

Artwork is available upon request.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Welcomes Back

The Decemberists

Tuesday, April 21, 2011

The Benedum Center

8 P.M.

PITTSBURGH, PA: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 91.3fm WYEP and Three Rivers Arts Festival, through the CD Live! Concert series, are pleased to announce the return engagement of The Decemberists on Tuesday, April 21, 2011 at the Benedum Center in the Downtown Pittsburgh Cultural District. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets for the Decemberists go on sale Friday, February 11. Opening for The Decemberists is Justin Townes Earle (son of singer-songwriter Steve Earle).

Led by Colin Meloy, The Decemberists craft theatrical, idiosyncratic chamber pop rock that seamlessly translates to unforgettable live performances. Bridging the gap between British folk revival and contemporary indie pop, The Decemberists are one of the most innovative and important creative forces in contemporary music today.

Following the success of their mystical epic The Hazards of Love, The Decemberists return with their sixth album, The King Is Dead. In their latest recording, The Decemberists illustrate the power that evolves from a creative call-and-response process.

To Colin Meloy, The King is Dead represents his own musical journey coming full circle. “Over the last eleven years or so, since I moved to Portland, I feel like I've been mining mostly English traditions for influence.” “I've kind of come back to a lot of the more American music that got me going in the first place – R.E.M. and Camper Van Beethoven and all these bands that borrowed from more American traditions like Neil Young and the Byrds.”

Tickets $39.50 and $34.50 may be purchased at the Box Office at Theater Square (655 Penn Avenue), by visiting pgharts.org or by calling 412-456-6666. To purchase 10 or more tickets at special discounted rates, please call 412-471-6930.

About CD Live!

CD Live! widens the creative expression of the Pittsburgh music scene while advancing the artistry of musicians from around the world. This collaborative project of Three Rivers Arts Festival, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and WYEP-FM was formed to build new music audiences and to welcome these listeners to the Cultural District.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit organization whose mission is the cultural and economic development of Pittsburgh’s 14-block Cultural District through public and private support. The Trust presents and encourages diverse performing and visual arts programs within the District, and is an impetus for additional development in downtown Pittsburgh. In addition to the Trust Presents series, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents the PNC Broadway Across America-Pittsburgh series, Pittsburgh Dance Council, Pittsburgh International Children’s Theater and Children’s Festival, CD Live, JazzLive, First Night Pittsburgh, Gallery Crawl, and Three Rivers Arts Festival, among other Cultural District and arts events. The Trust owns Theater Square and the Cabaret at Theater Square; James E. Rohr Building & Arts Education Center; the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts; Byham, O’Reilly, and Harris Theaters; visual arts galleries: Wood Street Galleries, at 601 Wood Street; SPACE, at 812 Liberty Avenue and 937 Liberty: a multipurpose performance and exhibit space, among other downtown arts facilities. www.pgharts.org
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CD Live! Presents: Aimee Mann

For Immediate Release


Contact: Veronica Corpuz

412-471-6082

corpuz@pgharts.org

CD Live! Presents: Aimee Mann

September 22, 2010 at 8 p.m.

New Hazlett Theater

PITTSBURGH, PA: CD Live!, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Three Rivers Arts Festival, WYEP 91.3FM and New Hazlett Theater present Aimee Mann live in concert on Wednesday, September 22, 2010, at 8 p.m. Folk pop singer-songwriter Aimee Mann returns to Pittsburgh for a special performance at the New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, to perform songs from her latest album @#%&* SMILERS. Tickets are $38.25 and can be purchased at The Box Office at Theater Square (655 Penn Avenue), by calling 412-456-6666, or visiting pgharts.org.

From her work in the 80’s with MTV favorite Til Tuesday through her acclaimed solo discs “Whatever” and “I’m With Stupid” in the 90s, Aimee Mann has always been at the forefront of contemporary songwriters. The close of the millennium brought her greatest success, with the simultaneous releases of Bachelor No. 2 and the soundtrack to the film Magnolia, which garnered nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and three Grammys. After a decade in which her music often took a backseat to corporate mergers and contractual obligations, the message was clear: Aimee Mann is here to stay.

On her new album, @#%&* SMILERS, Los Angeles singer songwriter Aimee Mann notes: "I've always been fascinated with eccentric personalities". On Smilers, her seventh solo CD, Mann presents thirteen exquisitely-crafted new songs about the inner life of people living far from the bright lights of success or fame. Some of them are wanderers searching for meaning on the road, others look for it in a shot glass or by losing themselves in the blue trance of a tv set, and still others believe their deliverance will come through money. From the punch drunk characters haunting the twilight world of a dusty downtown boxing gym, to a onetime financial big shot who's returned home after taking a tumble, Mann paints spare, vivid portraits of people who seem to always wind up with the smallest slice of American pie. The songs are soulful, empathetic and somehow ultimately hopeful and optimistic. Says Mann, “When I write about them -- the narcissists, performers, eccentrics, know-it-alls - it helps me recognize some truths about the world and about myself."

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