Events

Every show is unique! Live shows dazzle audiences with brilliant colors and rockin' music in the Buhl Digital Dome. Based on audience requests, our laserists choreograph sight-and-sound spectacles of full-dome proportions! Shows and schedules change quarterly. For schedule details and complete show listings, visit our website or call (412) 237-3400 for more information.

Lessons go from 9pm-10pm. 10pm starts the open salsa session; what a great way to begin your weekend!

An exhibition of four, original, interactive artworks that are “tough” enough to withstand kid handling. Play with a giant kaleidoscope, activate a sculpture with your voice and more! This exhibit is supported by a grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.

During Great Outdoors Week, outdoors clubs and nature-oriented groups around the region plan an activity, be it a hike, bike ride, etc. to be part of this 10 day celebration of the outdoors. It’s a great opportunity to introduce newcomers to outdoor recreation activities and build memberships in our organizations.

Mom knows what's best...a weekend away at Gateway Lodge with a pampering experience at The Aveda-inspired Woods Spa. Package includes two nights in a Fireside Jacuzzi Suite, wine reception Friday night, breakfast Saturday, choice of Aveda Express Facial or Scalp Massage for her, afternoon tea on Saturday, and a very special Mother's Day Sunday Breakfast Buffet for $399 per couple.

Join SCC and Four Winds Gallery for a free reception and artist talks by two renowned Santa Clara, New Mexico artists. A traditional purpose of Pueblo pottery is to present the values and principles of Pueblo cosmology. This evening will be a rare opportunity to witness the creative blending of ancient iconography with contemporary life. Potter Linda Tafoya-Sanchez, granddaughter of Margaret Tafoya, matriarch of Santa Clara Pottery, will demonstrate Southwest hand-built ceramics as her sons, Jer... More Details

Opening Reception for "Joe Winkler: Select Oil Paintings," a unique two-day exhibit of original oil paintings by Joe Winkler, May 11 &12. This exhibit will include a variety of unique subjects painted in a realistic style, from a painter who won top honors in two juried group exhibits in 2011. Four new original paintings executed in 2012 will be exhibited for the first time, as well as Joe’s recent, award-winning, still life paintings. The best of Joe’s available, origi... More Details

This event has been formatted to provide FUN, PAMPERING and CELEBRATION of SURVIVORS for everyone who attends! Men and women are welcome! Overnight guests will enjoy an evening in a luxury two-room suite, and all attendees will enjoy a schedule filled with cocktails, food, pampering, a scavenger hunt, hourly prizes, goodie bags and shopping - a perfect Mother's Day gift, girls night out, or simply a chance to unwind and refresh on your own, or with your partner - all while supporting a great cau... More Details

A WEEKEND OF PARANORMAL CONNECTIONS AND ACTIVITY In one of America's Most Haunted Cities Join TAPS team members Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango, Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and other expert paranormal investigators for an intimate weekend conference inside the historic Renaissance Hotel. This is your chance to socialize, network, and explore all manner of strange and unusual phenomenon with the stars of Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State, and Monster Quest with unique seminars, a walking tour, and social eve... More Details

For five decades, America’s first pop band to reach the 50-year milestone has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer.

“The Lady,” from director Luc Bensson, is an inspirational biopic of Myanmar’s (Burma) pro-democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kyi played by Michelle Yeoh in the film. The film follows her triumphs, struggles and the love story with her husband, writer Michael Aris. Actress Michelle Yeoh was nominated for Best Actress at the 2011 Satellite Awards. The film received the International Human Rights Award at the 2012 Cinema for Peace Awards. “The Lady” is in English and Bu... More Details

Bricolage presents Dutchman by LeRoi Jones, in collaboration with the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, and complements it with community discussion about race in Pittsburgh. Directed by Mark Clayton Southers Starring Tami Dixon* and Jonathan Berry This incendiary Obie-award winning play strips away the veneer of peaceful coexistence to expose the dark underbelly of the city where the choices are simple: conform, kill, or be killed. When a white seductress encounters a young bla... More Details

Just in time for Mother’s Day, the 76th annual May Market at Phipps offers a huge selection of plants for your garden, including the public garden’s Top 10 Sustainable Plants, organic herbs and vegetable seedlings, botanical specimens grown in the Conservatory greenhouses, and more.

Expose yourself. 16 choreographers, 42 dancers, 5 live musicians, 3 days, 1 festival*. Tickets are now on sale for newMoves—the only dance festival of its kind in Pittsburgh. Named one of the top ten dance events in 2011 by the Post Gazette, this year’s installment of the newMoves festival promises to be bigger and bolder than ever. Experience evocative new works from more than 15 of today’s most exciting contemporary choreographers and connect with the best performers from Pit... More Details

St. Nicholas' Greek Food Festival; http://www.stnickspgh.org/ 419 South Dithridge St. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Tel: (412) 682-3866 Fax: (412) 683-4960 church@stnickspgh.org Mark your calendars for our Annual Spring Greek Food Festival May 6-12, 2012 Join us for 7 fulls days of traditional Greek music and lively Greek dancing! Live Bouzouki Music Greek Dancing Every Evening Outdoor Patio Grill Food Certificates Available Convenient ATM Machine on Premises Cathedral Tours Daily Main Courses **Main cou... More Details

Based on the novel by Jules Verne. By Mark Brown. Directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge. The year is 1872 and Phileas Fogg has accepted a bet to travel around the globe in record time in this classic novel brought to theatrical life. With his eccentric French manservant, the unflappable Fogg encounters a monsoon at sea, boards a runaway train, and rescues an Indian princess, among other daring adventures. Five actors play dozens of outrageous characters in this mini-epic frothing with madcap exciteme... More Details

Five actors play dozens of outrageous characters in Mark Brown's theatrical adaptation of Jules Verne's madcap adventure.

We didn’t invent the wheel, we made it more fun! Climb through tires that are seven feet tall. Test your riding skills on scooters, balance bikes, rickshaws, pump cars and more. Build a wheel with wooden rims and bungee cords. Climb on a vintage Harley Chopper or use a treadmill to set tires spinning overhead. Construct a vehicle with roller blade wheels and magnetic blocks or take the wheel yourself and go on a virtual tour of the Museum in our Smart Car.

Steel City Paracon. An intimate weekend of socializing and connecting with the stars of Ghost Hunters, paranormal experts, and your fellow enthusiasts and investigators. A meticulously researched and exclusive guided walking tour covering Pittsburgh’s most notorious figures and faces. Unique and exciting seminars, lectures, panels, and Q & A sessions.

Form meets at the intersection of function and play in the Children’s Museum new Wheels exhibit. Wheels will challenge our visitors to use their bodies and wheel-based objects to move themselves through space in different ways. A variety of wheels and wheeled vehicles will be introduced throughout the exhibit. Chariots, Swing Cars, Flex Riders, striders, rickshaws and Balance Bikes will be among the possible vehicles for visitors to test.

It was a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack when an unearthly stranger appears at the door. She claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a “tesseract,” which, if you didn’t know, is a wrinkle in time. Meg’s father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, the super-genius Charles Wallace, and their friend... More Details

This exhibition provides an appealing survey of drawing styles and techniques from Randolph Caldecott in the 19th century to Chris Van Allsburg in the 20th—with many delightful and familiar artists in between including Ernest Shepard, Maurice Sendak, Tomie dePaola, and Jules Feiffer. The 40 works on paper by famed illustrators are supplemented by 13 books. Draw Me a Story will be staged with artworks hung slightly lower than usual, step stools available, and reading nooks in the galleries ... More Details

Silk Screen: Asian Arts and Cultural Organization will feature 25 films at its seventh annual Asian American Film Festival, May 11-20. The festival is a showcase of Asian films and filmmakers with origins in Asian cultures. There will be 48 showings at three locations in the city: The Harris Theater, the Melwood Screening Room and the Regent Square Theater. For festival lineup and more information please visit: http://www.silkscreenfestival.org/12/the-festival

The ToonSeum presents “Will Eisner's New York,” a rare collection of original works by legendary comics pioneer Will Eisner, each chronicling the artist's informal history of the city that shaped many of his illustrated masterpieces. March 6th, the Toonseum will host an opening reception for the exhibit; the reception will begin at 7pm. Free for members; $7 reception price for non-members.

The ToonSeum presents “Will Eisner's New York,” a rare collection of original works by legendary comics pioneer Will Eisner, each chronicling the artist's informal history of the city that shaped many of his illustrated masterpieces. TOONSEUM IS CLOSED ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS! In many ways, Will Eisner's career is the history of the comic book. An enterprising teen when he founded one of the first packaging entities for comic book companies in the 1930s, Eisner would go on to change ... More Details