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Friday Sep 28, 2012

Date Night Ceramic Workshop

  • Recurrence: Recurring monthly on the last Friday
  • Location: BrickPitt Ceramic Studio
  • Address: 102 Purity Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15235
  • Event Category: Arts + Culture
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Have fun with a friend or a date Friday night at BrickPitt Ceramic Studio! Learn some basic projects on the potter’s wheel while enjoying beer, wine, and snacks. BrickPitt Ceramic Studio will fire and glaze your creations for pick up two weeks after the workshop. All skill levels.

Laser Shows

  • Recurrence: Recurring daily
  • Producer: Carnegie Science Center
  • Address: One Allegheny Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5850
  • Event Category: Family Fun

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.

Salsa Fridays

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

Tough Art

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.

Art Squared

  • Producer: Michelle Barabas
  • Location: Market Square
  • Address: 1 Market Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
  • Event Category: Arts + Culture
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On September 28th and 29th, The Art Resource Teaching Society is hosting its first annual interactive arts festival titled Art Squared. It is being held in Market Square, Pittsburgh from 11:00 AM through 10:00 PM both days. Over 40 Artists of various media will be creating their art while teaching/involving the public via games and creative activities. Some activities included are: Art auctions, live photo shoots- learn to be a Photographer or Model, create your own Airbrush Art, make a historic... More Details

Bark'toberfest at Larry's Laundro'mutt in Sewickley

Larry's Laundro'mutt Dog Spa and Pet Boutique is holding its third annual fall Bark’toberfest, benefitting the Western PA Humane Society. Sheri Van Dyke and 3WS radio will broadcast live, providing music and fun prizes. The Sewickley Café is generously providing the gourmet food, with yummy desserts from shelter volunteers. Self serve dog washes will be free as well as nail trims from Larry’s new grooming van – the Mobile Doggie Day Spa. Try your luck with fantastic raff... More Details

Bark'toberfest at Larry's Laundro'mutt in Sewickley

Larry's Laundro'mutt Dog Spa and Pet Boutique is holding its third annual fall Bark’toberfest, benefitting the Western PA Humane Society. This year, Sheri Van Dyke and 3WS radio will be broadcasting live from Larry’s, providing music and fun prizes. Plus The Sewickley Café is generously providing the gourmet food and shelter volunteers will be baking yummy dessert treats. Self serve dog washes will be free for the evening (a $12-$30 value) as well as nail trims from Larry&rsqu... More Details

Blues & BBQ Cruise

  • Producer: Gateway Clipper Fleet
  • Address: 350 W. Station Square Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15219
  • Event Category: Food
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The blues are back with Jill West and Blues Attack- enjoy great blues and BBQ sandwiches! Must be 21 + with valid photo ID. Sailing in November as well!

Bottoms Up Hip Hop Party

  • Producer: Carolyn Fairley
  • Location: VFW Coraopolis VFW Post 412 Mulberry Street Coraopolis, Pa 15108 (off 5th Ave)
  • Address: 412 Mulberry Street, Corapolis, PA 15205
  • Event Category: Dance
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 BIG BASH PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS Bottoms UP” HipHop Party! Sexy Ladies $1.00 drinks til 10pm Live DJ and Great Food Buffet prepared by Extraordinary Chef Jerome Watkins When September 28, 2012 Where VFW Coraopolis VFW Post 402 Mulberry Street Coraopolis, Pa 15108 (off 5th Ave) Time 8:30 to 12am Tickets $25 advance Get them while they last, this party WILL sell out! Get tickets at www.thebigbashproductions.com or call for more info 412-921-1984 $45 at the door (the hottest party in the b... More Details

Canstruction is back in Pittsburgh

  • Recurrence: Recurring every week day
  • Producer: Canstruction
  • Location: One Oxford Center
  • Address: 4th Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
  • Event Category: Fund Raisers
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Canstruction is back in the ‘Burgh! Pittsburgh, PA (September 20, 2012) – The 2nd Annual Canstruction Competition has started in Pittsburgh again – where architects, engineers, contractors and designers build giant sized objects out of canned food to feed hungry Pittsburghers. On September 22, seven teams drawn from Pittsburgh’s top companies will go head-to-head in a design/build competition at One Oxford Centre at the 4th Avenue entrance. Once the builds are complete, t... More Details

Freedom Fall Festival

Craft and food vendors, live entertainment and lots of Fall FUN!

Full Moon Party Featuring Inside Out

  • Producer: Hidden Valley Resort/Skyline Ventures
  • Location: Hidden Valley Resort
  • Address: 1 Craighead Dr, Hidden Valley, PA 15502
  • Event Category: Misc.
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It's a howlin' good time at Hops Pub for our Full Moon Party on September 28, 2012! With entertainment featuring Inside Out 8 p.m. - midnight, you can get your groove on with food and drink specials, contests and more!

Gallery Crawl

38 Arts Venues. Cutting-edge Visual Arts. Live Music. Dance. DJs. And more!

Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s free, festive showcase of arts and entertainment takes place at galleries and arts spaces throughout the Cultural District.

GUITAR: The Instrument That Rocked The World

This exhibit features a showcase of more than 60 guitars, ranging from the rare to wildly popular. It includes interactives about the science of sound as well as photography, performance videos, audio, touch screens and the World’s Largest Playable Guitar, certified by Guinness World Records. Plus, live performances by musicians of local, regional, and national note will be scheduled throughout the run of the exhibit.

OUT OF THE BOX: Time Capsule opening with Time Capsules Cataloguers

OUT OF THE BOX: Time Capsule opening with Time Capsules Cataloguers Friday, September 28, 2012 7pm Warhol theater Join Time Capsules Cataloguers Erin Byrne, Marie Elia and Elaina Vitale in the Warhol theater as they take the first look inside one of Warhol’s unopened boxes! Warhol was an avid collector of art, Fiestaware, photographs, newspapers, dental molds and especially the minutiae of his daily life. In 1974, he began filling the first of his 600 Time Capsules with source material, co... More Details

Ripieno Returns

Ripieno, a cooperative-style concerto orchestra founded in 2011, provides a platform for the best and brightest of Pittsburgh's freelance music scene. Our upcoming concert features the perennial favorite Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin by J. S. Bach, a reconstructed Horn Concerto of Mozart, and a super-virtuosic C. P. E. Bach Symphony. Federico Garcia (also of Alia Musica Pittsburgh) leads the orchestra.

STREB

  • Recurrence: Recurring every 2 days
  • Producer: Pittsburgh Dance Council
  • Venue: Byham Theater
  • Address: 101 Sixth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
  • Event Category: Dance
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A thrilling, heart-stopping investigation of action, STREB: FORCES boldly explores a range of motions, from everyday movements to the extreme action of sports, the circus and adventure rides. Inventor and architect of eccentric action, Elizabeth Streb orchestrates an athletic cadre of daring theater specialists, taking audiences on a wild ride into mechanically outrageous zones and configurations.

STREB:FORCES

  • Recurrence: Recurring every 2 days
  • Producer: Pittsburgh Dance Council
  • Venue: Byham Theater
  • Address: 101 Sixth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
  • Event Category: Dance
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A thrilling, heart-stopping investigation of action, STREB: FORCES boldly explores a range of motions, from everyday movements to the extreme action of sports, the circus and adventure rides. Inventor and architect of eccentric action, Elizabeth Streb orchestrates an athletic cadre of daring theater specialists, taking audiences on a wild ride into mechanically outrageous zones and configurations.

The Highland Games-Whisky Tasting

  • Producer: Allegheny Harvard Yale Princeton Club
  • Location: Allegheny HYP Club
  • Address: 619 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
  • Event Category: Misc.

Join us at the Allegheny HYP Club for a night of food,fun, and frivolity! The cost is all inclusive and is certainly worth every penny! $40 if you RSVP at least 7 days prior to event; $75 at the door.

Washington's Highland Ridge Film and Arts Festival

  • Recurrence: Recurring every 2 days
  • Producer: Highland Ridge CDC
  • Location: Life-Church
  • Address: 100 N. Main Street, Washington, PA 15301
  • Event Category: Festivals/Fairs/Parades
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Film Competition: Short films up to 30 minutes. This competition is open to adults and children of all ages. There will be monetary prizes. Films by the finalists will be shown in the auditorium throughout the two-day event. Screenplay Competition: Scripts written by scriptwriters of all ages. A “script” is a story written for a film. There will be monetary prizes. A special opportunity for Students: There are three competition groups and there will be prizes for the winner of each g... More Details

"Born Yesterday"

  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Friday, Saturday
  • Producer: Tom Madden
  • Location: Kean Theatre
  • Address: 5847 Meridian Road, Gibsonia, PA 15044
  • Event Category: Theater
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“Born Yesterday” Kean Theatre 5847 Meridian Road Gibsonia, PA 15044 Sept. 21-22 & 28-29, 2012 $23/$29 show only, 8 p.m. $45/$51 Kean dinner and show, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 23 & 30, 2012 $21/$27 matinee only, 2 p.m. $43/$49 Kean lunch and show, 12:30 p.m. An uncouth, corrupt rich junk dealer, Harry Brock, brings his showgirl mistress Billie Dawn with him to Washington D.C. When Billie’s ignorance becomes a liability to Brock’s business dealings, he hires a journalist, Pa... More Details

Chelfish Theater Company: Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech

  • Recurrence: Recurring daily
  • Producer: Kelly Strayhorn Theater
  • Location: Kelly Strayhorn Theater
  • Address: 5941 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
  • Event Category: Performing Arts
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Hot Pepper captures the malaise of young low-level office workers in three quirky scenes set in an office break room. In the sharp and visually vibrant world of write-director Toshiki Okada, twenty-something co-workers wrestle with issues as mundane as selecting a restaurant for lunch or the temperature of the office. Okada mixes dark humor, absurdity, and a distinct musical backdrop by John Coltrane, Stereolab and John Cage to capture the empty and ungrounded nature of Generation Y.

Love Wins Series

  • Recurrence: Recurring daily
  • Producer: Rock of Faith SDA Church
  • Location: Rock of Faith SDA Church hosted by Trinity Luthern Church
  • Address: 616 W. North Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15212
  • Event Category: Workshops/Seminars/Lectures

This is an exciting 2 week worship experience. Every night EXCEPT Mondays and Wednesdays. All seats are free and there will be nightly gifts and giveaways.

Bloomfield Little Italy Days

  • Recurrence: Recurring daily
  • Producer: Sal Richetti
  • Location: Liberty Avenue in the heart of Bloomfield
  • Address: Liberty Avenue, Bloomfield, PA
  • Event Category: Festivals/Fairs/Parades
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For three days in Bloomfield it's all-Italian-all-the-time! Expect lots of music and food, games and activities for the kids, more food and other fun things to do amidst Bloomfield's unique shops and fine restaurants.

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