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Events This Week in Pittsburgh
What's happening in Pittsburgh this week, you ask?
For things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend and upcoming events that will pique your interests, fire up your taste buds and inspire new adventures, look no further. Check back each week for an up-to-date list of what to do in the 'Burgh.
Pittsburgh Fringe Festival 🎭
April 18-27 | Various Venues
The Pittsburgh Fringe is an all-out, no-holds-barred, inclusive multi-disciplinary performing arts festival featuring international, national, and local artists. The festival will showcase theater (physical, street, musical), comedy, visual arts, puppetry, family entertainment, music, dance, spoken word, opera, poetry, literature and shows they haven't even thought of yet!
Ovation Film Fest 📽️
April 24 | Simmons B Auditorium, Tepper School of Business
Ovation Film Fest invites audiences to a free night of short films created by Carnegie Mellon University students. Ovation Film Fest’s program celebrates short films about human connection and what it means to be part of a community.
Yinzerfest 🖤💛
April 25-28 | David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Get ready to immerse yourself in the true essence of Pittsburgh at Yinzerfest! Indulge in mouthwatering cuisine, groove to the sounds of local music, showcase your sports skills, and explore unique local products. This extraordinary event brings together all the elements that make Pittsburgh truly special.
Art All Night 🖼️ 🌃
April 27-28 | Crucible Building
Local art. Live entertainment. No barriers. 100% Free. Art All Night is an innovative Only in Pittsburgh event that brings hundreds of independent artists together for an uncensored art show that's fully operational for 22 hours!
3rd Annual Bark & Brunch 🐶
April 27 | Hazelwood Green Plaza
Bark & Brunch at Hazelwood Green Plaza is a FREE, family-friendly event featuring tons of fun for local pups and their fur-loving humans. Highlights Include FREE Activities & Entertainment: Dare Devil Dogs Frisbee & Stunt Show, Doggy costume contest with furry fun prizes, and much more!
PanCAN PurpleStride Pittsburgh 💜
April 27 | North Shore Riverfront Park
Walk around the event village, grab a snack, write on the tribute wall, take pictures with your family and friends in the photo area, and be inspired during the opening ceremony before you set off on the ultimate walk to end pancreatic cancer.
Pittsburgh Steelers Draft Party 🏈
April 27 | Acrisure Stadium
Join us in Pittsburgh for our annual Draft Party! You won't want to miss watching the NFL Draft LIVE from Acrisure stadium with other members of Steelers Nation! Experience on-field activities, locker room tours, Steelers Legends, giveaways and more!
Ongoing…
Oneness: Brie Ruais 🎨🖌️
Through May 4, 2024 | Contemporary Craft
The first in Contemporary Craft’s new Tomayko Solo Artist Elevation Series is a solo exhibition featuring the work of ceramic artist Brie Ruais. The exhibition explores the idea that memory, place, and experience are based on an individual's perception and haptic experience. Each of Ruais' works start with clay equal to Ruais’ body weight at the time. From there, she uses her body as a tool to push and shape the clay into its final form, completing the work in under 15 minutes.
Rube Goldberg 🧵🎈🧶
Through May 5, 2024 | Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side
Explore a collection of new machines and hands-on, interactive components that connect Rube’s iconic contraptions to the physical world.
Million Dollar Quartet 🎶
Through May 12 | Gargaro Theater - West End
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is the smash-hit musical inspired by the famed recording session that brought rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins together for one unforgettable night.
Naathan Phan & Hayden Allcorn in History of Magic: Part 1 ✨ 🐰 🎩
Through May 12 | Liberty Magic
5,000 years of magic. 2 multi-talented friends. 0 social life. History of Magic: Part 1 is a sketch comedy show featuring magic, singing, stage combat, sideshow, and more to satirize magic from its birth in 2700BC all the way up to modern day.
Vermeer, Monet, Rembrandt 🖼️
Through July 14, 2024| The Frick Pittsburgh
Vermeer, Monet, Rembrandt features awe-inspiring masterworks, including works by Titian, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, Whistler, El Greco, Ingres, and Vermeer—one of only 36 known works by the artist in the world. The exhibition marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see artworks from these two extraordinary collections alongside—and in some cases reunited with—one another.
Everlasting Plastics 🏛️
Through Aug. 11, 2024 | Carnegie Museum of Art
Everlasting Plastics is an exhibition that investigates our relationship with plasticity—both as a metaphor and material construction. Through site-specific commissions by five artists, architects, and designers from the United States—Xavi L. Aguirre, Simon Anton, Ang Li, Norman Teague, and Lauren Yeager—Everlasting Plastics considers the ways these materials both shape and erode contemporary ecologies, economies, and the built environment.
A Woman's Place: How Women Shaped Pittsburgh 👩 🧓🏿
March 23-Oct. 6, 2024 | Heinz History Center
From pioneering investigative journalism to leading their country to Olympic gold, Western Pennsylvania women have made an immeasurable impact in America, but too often, their stories have been overlooked.
Beginning this spring, the History Center will flip the script and take an unprecedented deep dive into the lives of these fierce and unflappable women who helped change the world inside this major new exhibition.
The Stories We Keep: Conserving Objects from Ancient Egypt ⚱️🛕 📜
Through March 9, 2025 | Carnegie Museum of Natural History
The Stories We Keep features more than 80 ancient items—including the 4,000-year-old Dahshur boat, one of only four in the world. Engage with these objects like never before, have conversations with museum conservators, observe the care and restoration of objects in real time, and attempt the work yourself by reassembling replicas of ancient artifacts.
Coming Soon...
Myth-Science of the Gatekeepers 💑🏿 🎨
May 5-July 28, 2024 | Pittsburgh Glass Center
Rainbow Serpent, a Black LGBTQ arts collective led by Marques Redd and Mikael Owunna, is ecstatic to showcase Myth-Science of the Gatekeepers, a collection of 16 glass sculptures of Black same gender loving men cast as ancient Egyptian deities.
KAWS + Warhol 🥫 💀
May 18, 2024-Jan. 20, 2025 | The Andy Warhol Museum
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, The Warhol presents KAWS + Warhol, the first exhibition to examine the dark themes present in the work of both artists. From skulls to car crashes, both artists deploy their signature bright colors and pop culture references while also presenting the lurid spectacle of death. The dark undercurrents in the work of KAWS and Warhol are magnified and brought into plain sight by presenting the two artists together for the first time.
The Science Behind Pixar 🏎️🤠🦸🤖
May 25, 2024-Jan. 5, 2025 | Carnegie Science Center
Step into the world of Pixar in this upcoming blockbuster exhibition with Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mike and Sulley, Nemo and Dory, and all your favorite Pixar characters! Flex your STEM muscles by taking on fun challenges throughout the two-story, 12,000-square-foot playground!
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