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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.
March Madness® First and Second Rounds 🏀⛹️
March 21 & 23 | PPG Paints Arena
Bracket busting starts here! Eight teams from across the country, along with thousands of dedicated fans, will soon convene in Pittsburgh March 21 & 23 at PPG Paints Arena to begin their championship journey.
IF/THEN A New Musical 🎭🎶
March 21-23 | Allegheny RiverTrail Park
A Pittsburgh Regional Premiere! March 14-16 and 21-23 at 8PM Music by Tom Kitt Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey With unforgettable songs and a deeply moving story by the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning creators of Next to Normal, If/Then is a fascinating, ambitious and original new musical.
Leanne Morgan: Just Getting Started Tour 🎤
March 21 | UPMC Events Center
Leanne Morgan is bringing her Just Getting Start Tour with all new material to the UPMC Events Center on March 21, 2024. After discovering her passion for stand-up comedy later in life and finding the time and confidence to pursue her dream, Leanne Morgan has cemented herself as a must-watch comedian.
Climbing Film Festival 🧗♀️📽️
March 23 | ASCEND South Side
Join us for a film festival experience that will include, climbing, slacklining, crate-stacking, local vendors, food, beer, and more! Once we've had our fun, we'll relax and enjoy the show!
World Poetry Day Celebration 📚📒
March 23 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library
Celebrate a world of poetry! Join us as we recognize and honor the poetic traditions of the many countries and world cultures represented among the diverse residents of Carnegie. Hear Carnegie residents read poems in languages like Arabic, Ukrainian, Hindi, and more, including English translations of each poem prepared by AddVerse Poesia!
Fat Ham 💀
March 2-24, Select Dates | City Theatre Mainstage
A modern revamp of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Fat Ham follows Juicy, a queer, pensive, young Black man finding his way in the world when the ghost of his father demands Juicy avenges his murder.
Ongoing…
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit 🚢⚓
Through April 15, 2024 | Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center
Embark on a captivating voyage back in time to the era of Titanic, where the poignant stories of real passengers and crew come to life through a meticulously curated collation of authentic artifacts and immersive settings at TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Vermeer, Monet, Rembrandt
April 6-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.
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 | 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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