May 18 Saturday
The artists in Getting the Spirit Out, the 2024 Distillery Artist Residency Exhibition have created a group of works that feel distinctly alive — channeling spirits and visualizing the unseen energy around us. Though they all work in very different ways, using a variety of different media and processes, and draw on unique cultural backgrounds, the artists in this year’s Distillery cohort all use their practice to give life — to history, memory, suffering, and joy — and to set their creative spirits free. This year’s Artists-in-Residence are Imani Batts, Armanis Fuentes, Finn Dugan, Joshua Challen Ice, Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum, Sophie Thompson, and Caroline Yoo.
May 19 Sunday
Indulge in the ultimate relaxation experience with our 75-minute Sunday Serenity Flow. 🧘♀️
We’ll begin this journey with a serene 15-minute session in our Salt Cave. As you breathe in the salt-infused air, you’ll feel tension melt away from your body and mind, preparing you for the ultimate therapeutic experience ahead.
Transition seamlessly into the yoga room for a 60-minute flow designed to center your mind, energize your body, and nurture your spirit. ✨
Our yoga classes are more than just traditional sessions. Each class includes a 15-minute Halotherapy Salt Cave session, adding a unique dimension to your experience.
While individual Halotherapy sessions in Pittsburgh can cost between $30 and $40, our combined Salt Cave Session with a Yoga class is priced at $40, offering exceptional value and a one-of-a-kind wellness experience. 💎
Join us for this blissful 75-minute session to cultivate inner peace and radiant well-being.
Yoga mats and props ARE INCLUDED!
Beginner and intermediate adult Mandarin classes will be offered in 2024.
Hard Rock Cafe and CE Presents welcome The Ditch (Tribute to CSNY) at Unplugged Brunch on Sunday, May 19, 2024!
Unplugged Brunch features a stripped down performance that pays tribute to the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Brunch cocktails and food items will be made available in addition to all regularly featured menu items.
Reserved table and bar seating options are available for advance purchase on Eventbrite.com.
Doors open at 11 a.m. / Show starts at 11:30 a.m.
This event is open to all ages with alcohol available to attendees ages 21 and over.
Explore an immersive environment of color at MuseumLab! This inflatable structure by art and design studio Pneuhaus lets you interact with color in a tactile and joyful way in a shoes-off, socks-on shared experience from Nov. 18, 2023, through Sept. 24, 2024.
MuseumLab is open Saturday and Sunday, 12 p.m. – 5 p.m., and included with Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh admission.
Learn more at https://museumlab.org/
#notwhite collective presents: the fifth annual LOVE PARTY on Sunday, May 19 from 1-4 p.m. The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, 5006 Penn Avenue, in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Free for all ages.
Love Party brings a liberatory afternoon of performances, storytimes, artmaking and other hands-on activities that brings our community closer and that grows our hearts wider. See below for featured hands-on art making activities.
This event is intersectional, intergenerational and inclusive. The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination is physically accessible to wheelchairs. Please contact the #notwhite collective for additional accommodations to support your participation.
All children should be accompanied by a responsible adult, 18 years or older.
Featured Activities Include:
POW WOW NOW Screenprinting & Collage:Join Maritza in creating a new vision of Power, Love and Joy with printing and dialogue Pow Wow Now! print materials, images and all kinds of papers included.
HOJALATA Enamel Painting: Hojalata, also known as Mexican Tin Art, is loved around the world. Join artist, Alison Zapata, as she shows you how to paint intricately handmade corazóns from Las Mariposas Hojalata located in Oaxaca, Mexico.
SUGAR COOKING DECORATING: Join Jasmine Cho of Butter & Joy to decorate your own cookie with colorful icing and an edible printer to bring your dreams to sugary reality.
Live music in the tasting room. Free entry!
Jazz Poetry continues into its final week, welcoming Juno Award–winning pianist Andy Milne all the way from Canada. Andy Milne’s Unison Trio will be sharing his new album, Time Will Tell, which explores the intersection between heritage, identity, and destiny. Performing with Andy are renowned poets Justin Perez (a leading Deaf storyteller sharing work via visual vernacular), Kundiman and Sewanee Writers Conference fellowship awardee Noah Arhm Choi, winner of the Cave Canem/Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Jonathan Moody, and Monica Sok, a recipient of the Discovery Prize from the 92nd Street Y.
Each Jazz Poetry program begins with a 40-minute performance by the band, followed by 30 minutes of collaborative performance with the featured poets. In these collaborations, poets share their work while the musicians interpret and accompany their poetry with jazz, adding a unique, improvisational dimension to each performance.
ASL interpretation will be provided.
Featured Musicians:
May 20 Monday
In recent decades, digital data has been added to the physical objects housed in natural history collections around the world, allowing researchers, educators, and policy makers easy access to centuries of information about Earth’s biodiversity. In addition to an influx of digital data, efforts to digitize collections have also supported an increasingly engaged collections community.
Digital data provide the opportunity to link information about biodiversity across databases, such that analysis beginning with a two-hundred-year-old plant specimen, for example, can lead a researcher to associated environmental, genetic, and climate data pertinent to informing their scientific research. This extensible network of information has been termed the Digital Extended Specimen (DES), and once fully implemented will provide an efficient, standards-based, interdisciplinary approach to collections-based research.
In support of a DES and other initiatives, US collections professionals have been organizing around the concept of a Biological Collections Action Center. An Action Center has the potential to provide the infrastructure for maintaining, expanding, and supporting myriad activities that are currently disparate, institution-specific, or otherwise siloed. These two components – enhanced collections data and an active professional community – have led to advancements that are likely to continue to shape this community for another decade or more.
Speaker: Libby Ellwood, iDigBio.
This event will take place Monday, May 20, 2024 at Noon in person at Earth Theater.
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Live Animal Encounters run daily from 1:30-2 p.m. in the Earth Theater, located in Discovery Basecamp. Led by knowledgeable museum staff, encounters feature 4 live animal ambassadors, a mix of reptiles, mammals, birds, and invertebrates, from all around the world. Learn about the natural history, adaptive behaviors and unique stories of animal ambassadors that call our museum home.
For the safety of animal ambassadors and presenters, no late entries to the show will be permitted.