Wood Street Galleries601 Wood Street (above the "T")
Julien Marie: Matter and Memory
U. S. debut of French Installation artist, Julien Marie whose works represent experimental forms of projection, highlighting simultaneously both the simplicity and the complexity of reality.
www.woodstreetgalleries.org
Shaw Galleries805 Liberty Avenue
20th Century Master Prints
20th Century Master Prints and exhibit featuring original lithographs, woodblock and pochoir prints by Braque, Chagall, Dali, Miro, Motherwell, Picasso and Rouault
SPACE812 Liberty Avenue
Transfer Lounge
Guest curators: Carolina Loyola-Garcia and Ima Pico
A project that involves art professionals from Spain and the United States Transfer Lounge creates a unique opportunity for artists from different parts of the world to actively exchange their views and ideas around issues of mobility and transition.
Locally Toned: Mobile ringtone performance by T. Foley at 6pm and 8pm.
Trust InfoDesk and Membership Table outside of SPACE
www.spacepittsburgh.org
Trust Arts Education Center805-807 Liberty Avenue
Staged Readings / Dance Classes
Pierce Studio, lower level:
Pittsburgh Playworks staged readings:
Pittsburgh PlayWorks, a play development lab, presents concert readings of two plays!
BREAD of ANGELS @ 5:30 PM
STILLING the STORM @ 7:45 PM
BREAD of ANGELS concerns a group of individuals living on the Monongahela River, most of whom are mentally retarded or mentally ill, and the City's desire to beautify the area by sweeping them away.
STILLING the STORM highlights an ailing mother's efforts to find care for her adult children, one with Tourette's Syndrome and the other with mysterious developmental delays.
Playwright Jozef Spychala, a former Kennedy Center Fellow and current Artistic Director of Pittsburgh PlayWorks, writes plays that promote theatre as social intervention.
Movement Room, 2nd floor:
Sh'ome On! Artistry of Michael Jackson dance class6:30 pm, 8:00 pm (Wear comfortable clothing. No street shoes or barefeet. Dance shoes or socks only!) Partnership with Dance Alloy
Pennsylvania Culinary Institute808 Liberty Avenue
Culinary Sculptures
Various sugar and tallow sculpture pieces created by PCI faculty. Hot food and beverages prepared by PCI students available for $1.
ArtUp @ 820 Liberty820 Liberty Avenue
Workplace Funnies
A new exhibit of political cartoons, art, photography, and sculpture
Bricolage Space937 Liberty Avenue, 1st floor
ASMP Object Show: Featuring Rope
A Photography Exhibition Featuring The Object Rope, presented by The American Society of Media Photographers
After the Crawl: Bricolage's Midnight Radio Series Smackdown, 10 pm ($15)
937 Liberty, 2nd floor937 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor
Guitar Society of Fine Art and Handmade Arcade
Guitar Society of Fine Art (GSFA) Presents Rumba Flamenco
with Jose Oretea, Ricardo Marlow and Guest Flamenco Dancer 6pm to 9pm
Get Crafty with Handmade Arcade: Enjoy a sneak preview of Pittsburgh's largest indie craft fair, set for December 12, 2009 at The Hunt Armory
Pittsburgh Gospel Choir937 Liberty Avenue, 3rd floor
CON/text
A collaborative performance of African American merging gospel music, spoken word, hip hop & dance to celebrate, confront and re-interpret the conning of text we believe in, live by, discriminate with and just simply mis/understand. 8:00-9:00pm.
Artwork by Vanessa German.
August Wilson Center for African American Culture980 Liberty Avenue (enter from main entrance, Liberty at William Penn)
Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix
An exhibition that not only tells the story of African Americans living in Western Pennsylvania through imagery, film and oral history, but gives visitors their chance to retell it.
Salon Christine954 Penn Avenue
Mixed media
Artwork by Amy Epstein (jewelry collection and designer), Anita Buzzy (photography) and Heather George (clay master). Music by DJ Kelli Burns
Northside Urban Pathways Gallery914 Penn Avenue
Futures Built Here
Enjoy inspiring student artwork & performances by Sounds of Steel steelpan band & instrumental band music
901 Penn901 Penn Avenue
Branding the Cultural District with Light
Students from Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama and the School of Architecture?s Urban Laboratory exhibit the first phase of a semester-long project.
CAPA Gallery111 Ninth St. (enter at 9th and Ft. Duquesne)
Pittsburgh: Transforming
A 6-12 student exhibit visually exploring the history of Pittsburgh and it's transformation from a smoky industrial city to a green energy and technology leader.
Future Tenant819 Penn Avenue
Dividing the Goose
A multi-media exploration of fairy tales and folklore.
Co-curated by Jeffrey Schreckengost and Lisa Toboz.
www.futuretenant.org
709 Penn Gallery709 Penn Avenue
Soulpurpose
Art in a variety of media by local artists and designers
707 Penn Gallery707 Penn Avenue
The Secret Lives of Stories: New Work by Jen Cooney
Looking at how worlds are built and different fanciful creatures interrelate. Jen Cooney takes the viewer past the edges of the page to see the rest of the picture you've always known that's there. The viewer is lead into new, intensely detailed lands. Although somewhat anchored in reality these worlds are bursting forth with fantastic creatures of pure imagination. Jen Cooney invites you to question the delicate balance of worlds where, like our own, everything is connected and guides you through the secret life of stories.
Navarra (moved from Katz Plaza)7th and Penn Avenue
SOUL POWER w/ Fred Wesley and the JBs / First Commonwealth Hospi
SOUL POWER w/ Fred Wesley and the JBs
Featuring Dwayne Dolphin and /DJ Stephan Broadus
Everybody knows that nothing is funkier than James Brown?s band. Fred Wesley, along with saxophonist Maceo Parker and bassist Bootsy Collins, served as the driving force that transformed the Godfather of Soul?s sound from soul to funk. Feel the funk w/Fred Wesley and the new JB?s.
Navarra (next to Bossa Nova)
First Commonwealth Hospitality Spot
Stop by and visit the First Commonwealth stop for free giveaways and hot tea from Starbucks.
Backstage Bar655 Penn Avenue
The Wreckids
Live music by The Wreckids (formerly Scotts Roger)
Olive or Twist Lounge140 Sixth St, 2nd floor loung
Mix and Match
A mixture of medias from some of Pittsburgh's untapped talent.
Arthur Murray Ballroom Studio136 Sixth St. (above Melange Bistro)
Free Dance Classes
Celebrating our 80th year in Downtown Pittsburgh with free dance classes and demonstrations by our staff.
7:00 - Salsa, 7:30 Argentine Tango, 8 Cha Cha, 8:30 Swing
This location is not universally accessible
Throughout the District
The Pillow Project
The Pillow Project will be presenting a live, interactive-projection performance of everyday, organic actions "captured" in focused light
www.pillowproject.org
OTHER INFORMATION
-Avoid traffic and parking, and bike on down! Bike parking at various parking garages, or visit www.portauthority.org for public transportation information
-Text CRAWL to SMASH (76274) to receive exlusive offers and more!
-All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted.
-Download a printable Gallery Crawl schedule HERE
