Venture Outdoors is a Pittsburgh non-profit organization dedicated to make it easy for everyone in Western PA to access the outdoors. Each year, Venture Outdoors brings the Banff Mountain Film Festival to Pittsburgh and the proceeds from the film screening benefit Venture Outdoors and helps expand the outdoor programming, making it possible for more people to get outdoors.
The Banff Mountain Film Festival will be in Pittsburgh on April 2 & 3.
On Saturday April 2, there is a reception before the films screening. Tickets for the fundraising reception are $100 and include your ticket to the film. General admission…
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To celebrate the 2009 Venture Outdoors Festival (which is this weekend)!!! and Great Outdoors week – Venture Outdoors is giving away a a kayak to one lucky Twitter follower. Here are the details…
The Venture Outdoors Festival is only a week away on May 16th at Point State Park! To celebrate our new location we’re giving away a kayak, thanks to Emotion Kayaks, to one lucky Twitterer. Just follow the two steps below and you’ll be automatically entered into a drawing to win a free Emotion kayak!
Step 1: Retweet the EXACT message below on…
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Happy Friday! It’s looking like another amazing weekend in Pittsburgh. Here are the weekend events we talked about on WDVE this morning. Per Randy’s request – we have dug up some info on Dracula-Con as well. If anyone has been to DraculaCon please let us know! Scroll down for our listing of events around Pittsburgh this weekend.
If you are are looking for a darker festival in Windber, PA
Dracula-Con IV, Saurday, May 19, 2012
The Grand Midway Hotel
$6 at the door
Bands include: Devilz in the Detailz (coming in from Pittsburgh), Damien Youth (coming in from New…
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To support the outdoors, I am suggesting you head inside for the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Venture Outdoors, an amazing organization that exists to make it easier for Pittsburghers to do things outdoors is responsible for bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival here to Pittsburgh. This is big, this is huge!!! Even if you aren’t a lover of the outdoors, you will appreciate this film festival. So if you love the outdoors, or if you are a film lover who loves being indoors this is the perfect event for you.
I have been watching and loving ski films, back in…
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Embark on a guided float trip that is wacky and irreverent while paying tribute to the 1790s Whiskey Rebellion. We’ll tell the story of this historically significant rebellion in entirely new way – by hearkening the voice of David Bowie. Why Bowie? We believe that a spirit of rebellion–revolution even–threaded the experiences of the rebels and David Bowie (albeit nearly 200 years removed). We’ll use music and interpreters in such a way that you won’t possibly forget what the Whiskey Rebellion meant to both the region and a young nation.
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
-A 4.5 mile guided kayaking trip on the…
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