May 10 Friday
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.
Allies for Health + Wellbeing offers FREE testing with our partner Prevention Point Pittsburgh. Get screened for HIV, hepatitis C, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, with results in only 20 minutes for HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis!
No appointment is needed – just stop by. You can also talk with our knowledgeable community health team about your sexual health – they’re happy to answer any questions or address any concerns.
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.
Bidwell Presbyterian Women will present the one-and-only Etta Cox & Friends in a "Mother's Day Jazz & Gospel Extravaganza" on Friday, May 10, 6 p.m. at Bidwell Presbyterian Church. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased in advance at Bidwell Church or at the door. For information call 412-231-4663 or njbarnes42@gmail.com. Reception with light refreshments at 5 p.m., and Concert begins at 6 p.m. Don't miss this wonderful event!
Live music in the tasting room. Free entry!
Folk February left us wanting more soothing sounds, and since Sweet Jazz has become a staple at Sweetwater, this year the Community Room doors will open to one of our biggest ongoing concert series, Sweet Jazz.
Join us for six weeks of Sweet Jazz performances starting on May 10. The concerts will be held both on-site in Sweetwater’s Community Room and Club Thaw located at 174 Camp Meeting Road Extension, Sewickley, Pa., 15143.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. Music will be from 7 to 9 p.m.
Limited tickets available, seating is first come, first serve.
Please note that our indoor jazz concerts do not allow outside food or beverage. Meals will be available for purchase courtesy of Chef Alvarez, with select wines available for purchase by the glass for attendees 21+ with a valid I.D.
Film Pittsburgh’s JFilm Festival, Pittsburgh’s largest Jewish cultural event, runs May 2-12, both in person and online - so you get the best of both worlds! The festival will showcase 16 engaging and thought-provoking, Jewish-themed, independent feature films from around the world that you won’t see anywhere else. Highlights include opening night’s Pittsburgh premiere of Left Alone Rhapsody: The Musical Memoir of Pianist John Bayless at the newly restored Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland, which will be followed by a Q&A with Bayless and director Stewart Schulman, a John Bayless mini concert, and a dessert reception (special ticket price applies); and the films Remembering Gene Wilder about the great comedic actor; Shari and Lamb Chop about the beloved children’s performer; and The Catskills, a nostalgic look at that region’s much-loved resorts. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit FilmPittsburgh.org or email us at info@filmpittsburgh.org.
Join The Freeloaders and Reliable Child for a night of original music. Over 21, $10 cover, doors at 7 p.m.
FERALCAT AND THE WILD FAREWELL SHOW
with support from
ZINNIA'S GARDEN
F3RALCAT (solo)
7 p.m. DOORS / 8 p.m. MUSIC
ALL AGES
Zinnia's Garden is a Pittsburgh based ethereal rock band bringing you sublime moody vibes, with all four members surging in and out of harmony across a rich multi- dimensional musical terrain.
Feralcat and the Wild is a 6-piece prog rock/jazz fusion band from Pittsburgh, PA featuring Feralcat (saxophone), Emmanuel Berrido (keyboards/synth), Aedan Symmons (guitar), Matt Elias (guitar), Chris "Trip" Trepagnier (bass) and Allen Bell (drums). With deliberate use of a saxophone in place of a vocalist, Feralcat and the Wild treads the path of an instrumentalist who strays from pre-existing musical constructs. Their music uses sweeping lyrical melodies over heavy guitar-driven rhythms to create a sound that can be both heard and felt deeply. Influences like Underoath and Circa Survive are as treasured as those of Esperanza Spalding and Robert Glasper. Their songs break barriers and melt faces, stimulating the mind with improvised saxophone music that simultaneously rocks the listener onto their dancing feet. With the band’s first full length album, Disassembly, they made a musical style that wouldn’t be put in a box. It is chaotic and daring, and yet fully-realized; and most of all, it's as punk as can be.
Witness for the Prosecutionby Agatha ChristieDirected by Ponny Conomos JahnMay 3 – 12, 2024
Be one of the jurors and experience the shocking testimony and impassioned outbursts from witnesses as a young man and his attorney fight to escape a final verdict.
The mission of Prime Stage is to bring great literature to life through the transformative process of live theatre – to entertain, inform, enrich and inspire audiences with engaging programs that deliver long-lasting benefits to the students, educators, youth, families and theatregoers of our region.
Prime Stage Theatre is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and welcoming to all patrons.With our sensory-inclusive performance the last Saturday of each production at 2:30, we provide a social story with pre-theater preparatory activities for the person with a sensory, social, or learning disability so the person begins to understand and anticipate what might happen at a performing arts experience.
The last Sunday of each performance we offer Audio Description for the blind and visually impaired, along with signed interpreted and real time live caption for patrons who are deaf or have hearing loss.
The theatre facility provides hearing devices for all performances and is wheelchair accessible.
Please identify any special seating needs to our Box Office staff when reserving your tickets in advance on-line or by calling Prime Stage Public Performance Box Office at the New Hazlett 412.320.4610.