Apr 26 Friday
Enjoy a free guided tour of the bird banding lab and research facility including the flight tunnel. Visit the bird banding lab and see up-close how researchers safely capture and band birds, and learn about the data they gather. Hear about how we’re studying avian perception of glass to provide glass manufacturers and building designers with important information that will help reduce bird-window collisions.
Guests must pre-register for the tour and arrive at PARC by 8 a.m. The tour is 1.5 hours long.
“Oneness: Brie Ruais”, 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 is a large survey of work, spanning eight years and exploring 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.
“Oneness: Brie Ruais” is on view Feb. 2 - May 4, 2024. Admission is free.
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.
Live music in the tasting room. Free entry!
A magical evening awaits in Wonderland when Outreach Teen & Family Services will take guests 'through the looking glass' to celebrate the agency's 50th Anniversary at their annual Connections Gala! Guests will enjoy cocktails, dinner, silent auction, and more at this black tie optional event. Proceeds from the evening will go to general operating support and subsidized counseling sessions. Since its inception in 1974, Outreach has been committed to supporting the mental health needs of youth, young adults and families across the Greater Pittsburgh Area.
Join Assemble for this extra-special 21+Night: Thirst Traps–Bottle Harnesses with Devon Dill
Spring has sprung and the temps are rising, time to give your trusty water bottle a hot new home to swing from!
This workshop will lead participants in the step by step process of cutting and assembling the leather into a functional bottle carrier.
Clip the harness onto a bag, belt, or backpack for when things get hot on the go, and never be without again. Each participant will get to choose from one of two harness designs that can be adjusted for any size bottle, or feel free to customize your own! Genuine leather and pleather will both be available for use.
21+ Nights include instruction, materials, drinks and snacks. Free tickets are available for Garfield residents, with a selected number of scholarship tickets also available to anyone for whom full-price tickets are prohibitive!
Ticket prices for 21+ Nights cover the cost of staff time, materials, and food & beverages. Any amount made beyond these expenses goes towards supporting Assemble’s free STEAM programs, such as afterschool and summer camps!
Artist Bio:
Devon Dill is a queer multimedia artist and educator with a passion for community building, informal education, and making things. They specialize in a variety of fiber art, and take joy in making art and craft skills accessible to all.
Directed by Andrew William Smith, starring Lisa Velten Smith
Sly Howard Baker offers 16th century Venice as the setting to provoke 21st century audiences, Rebel female painter Galactia is commissioned by the Doge to paint a vast canvas celebrating a triumphant battle. Yes, there are tensions between personal ambition and moral responsibility seen through the lens of sexual politics. But this play defies expectation (you’ll laugh quite a bit) and how you feel at the end is anyone’s guess. Note: Oxford Dictionary's first definition of the word ‘execution’… to ‘carry out, render.’
Connected like a puppet to objects that have informed the Black experience in America, multidisciplinary artist Edisa Weeks alternates between blackface, whiteface, storytelling, and visceral dance to dig into the pathologizing of African Americans and the foundations of Liberty in America.
3 RITES: Liberty begins with an installation of roots made out of paper and twine that hang from the ceiling to the floor. You are invited to move through the roots as if moving through the underbelly of history before eventually meeting the “Liberty” character played by Weeks. Her hair is braided to resemble the Statue of Liberty’s crown. Each spoke of the hair crown is connected via tie-lines and pulleys to specific objects — Bible, black dick, blonde wig, gun, lightbulb, sneakers, watermelon that represent the Black experience in America.
As our nation grapples with confederate monuments, Black Lives Matter, fake news, and economic stratification; 3 RITES: Liberty humorously and poignantly insists on a reckoning with our past and present.
Immediately after the performance in the theater, we invite you to join us for a conversation to provide a moment of communal digestion, and to discuss what is resonating with you after experiencing the liberty rite.
Warning: The show contains mature themes and potentially triggering content about psychological and sexual violence. Not recommended for children under thirteen.
Photo Credit: nicki lee
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage-until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, RADIUM GIRLS traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, RADIUM GIRLS offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science." - Dramatic Publishing
Witness this true story retold on the stage!
On April 26/27, the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh presents “A Satire: Carmina Burana Africana,” an adaptation of Carl Orff’s masterpiece. This fascinating rhythmic and multi-disciplinary performance features Chanel Holte, soprano, and Graham Fandrei, baritone; the West Virginia University African Drum Ensemble, Michael Vercelli, Director; dancers from the K-Theatre Dance Complex, Kontara Morphis, Artistic Director; and James Burns and Amin Carrillo Rosado, piano (yes, there are two grand pianos in this performance!).
Carmina Burana is a collection of mostly bawdy, irreverent and satirical medieval poetry includes the Latin, German and French vernacular. The songs and poems were written by Goliards, clergy (mostly students) who satirized the Catholic Church.
Performances will be held at the Campbell Memorial Chapel on the campus of Chatham University.