Yart Sale – Buy Art/Supplies/Baked Goods, Support Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

2009 June 29

Buy some art, support Pittsburgh Center for the Arts – this sounds like it will be a great Art Yard Sale! Make a day of it and enjoy Bach Beethoven and Brunch at Mellon park from 10:30-Noon.

Join us in the PCA parking lot. Admission and parking are free for this lively, artistic spin on the traditional yard sale.

Featuring over 30 individual artists and several PF/PCA departments bringing affordable original works, prints, decorative arts, art books, art supplies, equipment for art making, and some collectibles.

Things are tight this year, so we thought we could make a little lemonade…We came up with the idea while trimming our budget, and cleaning out storage spaces.

Our department of School and Community Programs will be holding a bake sale, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting that department, and teaching artists specifically.

Ceramics-access Artist Members are producing ceramics to be donated to PCA, and sold to help pay for kiln repairs.

Sunday, July 5 – 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
6300 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh 15232 / 412-361-0873

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AIR SUPER-SUMMER-BEACH-FUN-TIME-PARTY

2009 June 25
by Lindsay
Monday night
Image by juliekaffe via Flickr

AIR = Artist Image Resource - a super awesome resource for anyone interested in printmaking. I taught myself to screenprint in a dark Pittsburgh basement because no one had told me about AIR. This place is a great place to learn about printmaking and screenprinting.

AIR is an artist-run organization that integrates the production of fine art printwork with innovative educational programs that explore the creative process. AIR provides print and imaging services to professional artists and educators. Our goal is to maintain an active and vital imaging laboratory that supports artists and facilitates creative activity.

SATURDAY JUNE 27 is the AIR SUPER-SUMMER-BEACH-FUN-TIME-PARTY

at AIR – 518 Foreland St. on the North Side

It’s time! Tiki torches, sand to sink your feet into, small pools of cool water, the occasional head band and YOU! Saturday June 27th from 4 -11pm start your summer at AIR!! with $5 at the door getting you

PERFORMANCES BY:

  • BUDAI the dj from 4:30-6pm pulling from air supply to slayer, budai will eat you
  • DANI unleashing ‘Dani Time’ at 7pm there is only one dani there is only one ‘dani time’
  • DAMARA ROSE BADILA MOON at 8pm http://www.myspace.com/damararosebadilamoon
  • DJ THERMOS at 9pm currently workin on translating his instrumental music into a live performance by banging on buttons, pads, levers, and knobs. He’s also 1/2 of the rap group Therm&Soul http://www.myspace.com/djthermostat
  • COLIN AND THE SHOTS at 9:45pm They say swamp rock, we say the reason why you breathe. Always a good time!
  • OUR LOVE PROJECT at 10:45pm www.myspace.com/deliciouspastries

FOOD!!

grilling by Craig ‘dr grillenstein’ Seder working up veggies, hamburgers, hot dogs (vegetarian friendly versions available) for everyone from 5 – 9pm. there’s talk of a mountain of cole slaw too – think double dare minus the flag.

DRINK!!

water, soda, lemonade = liquid summer plus the finest east end varieties on tap!

HANDS ON SCREENPRINTING

of beach summer fun!! bring your beach towels! bring your shirts! we’re printing big and small on paper and fabric from 4 to 8pm.

AND ON VIEW IN THE GALLERIES-A VISUAL HISTORY OF THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENCY

a traveling print portfolio of 15 different artists’ critical take on 15 different moments of the George W. Bush Administration’s tenure, as well as selections from the SEEING RED PORTFOLIO printed at Artists Image Resource in 2006.

PLUS the AIR artist submitted T-SHIRT RAFFLE!! one of a kind transformed threads on display throughout the AIR gallery. raffle tickets for $1. winners pulled at 10:45pm that night

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Happy Birthday Shadow Lounge Celebration!

2009 June 25
by Lindsay

The Shadow Lounge, which I think is one of the best venue’s in Pittsburgh, has planned a massive party to celebrate their 9th Anniversary!

They have put together an amazing line up of entertainment for the evening.  Get your tickets here.

the Beatnuts

Keelay & Zaire

KRTS

Dawn Canon

Support a Pittsburgh Filmmaker, Madagascar and check out Kickstarter

2009 June 23

I am really excited to learn about this project that Pittsburgh filmmaker Ben Hernstrom is working on about Madagascar.  Ben has worked on some great films about Pittsburgh.  You can learn more at Ambulantic.com and check out some of his other work on youtube.  Check out the interview with Bike PGH’s Scott Bricker and his feature on Modey Lemon.

Ben has just set up a page for a film about Madagascar on this great site Kickstarter – I had hoped that someone would create a site like Kickstarter and I think it is agreat way to build community support for projects.  I did a search for Pittsburgh on Kickstarter and couldn’t find any projects yet – so please let me know if you add a Pittsburgh project to thier site.  I had fun browsing the site and found some interesting projects to support.  I think that Kickstarter works like the website ThePoint – if the project doesn’t meet the fundraising goal then the supporters cards aren’t charged for the donation.  It is a nice way to give money to projects that have a broad base of support.

Celebrating the Stanley Cup on the South Side

2009 June 22
by Lindsay
Stanly Cup in Hockey Hall of Fame
Image via Wikipedia

One of the things that I have had the hardest time trying to explain to non-sports fans is what it is like to watch sports in Pittsburgh.  Even if you aren’t a sports fan – the sense of community that forms around watching football and hockey playoffs is unique.  Pittsburgh based filmmaker Chris Ivey had his camera out to capture the Penguins Stanley Cup win – the first 45 seconds does a great job of showing what it is like to watch the game with a bar full of fans.  Chris has put together some great footage of the post win celebrations too.  Check out Chris Ivey’s documentary on East LibertyEast of Liberty.

Technical Difficulties – IheartPGH Hacked

2009 June 18
by Lindsay
Twitter Fail Whale is back
Image by playerx via Flickr

Just wanted to post a quick update to let everyone know we are working on the problem.  I was away last week and returned to find that IheartPGH was reposting old posts as new ones.  The daily emails are automatically generated so I apologize that you have been getting emails with old information.  I am not sure what caused the problem – maybe some unhappy Detroit fans? Just kidding.

It looks like the site was hacked and I know that Google had listed it with a warning.  I have fixed some things up and it looks like the warning has been lifited.  The IheartPGH twitter account was also suspended – I have filled out the form to have the twitter account fixed and I am still waiting on that.

The great folks at WeFixWP are looking into the back end to check and see what the issue may be.  Hopefully we will be back to normal shortly. read more…