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Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: Pop City – Spark lights the creative, high-tech spirit of children and young families – This is a new program from the Sprout Fund that is focused on providing funding for kid activites. "Spark provides funding for projects and initiatives that will energize children ages birth to more
Image by katherine of chicago via FlickrI saw this event on the Venture Outdoors blog today and I think this will be a really interesting talk about the history of the trails system in Pittsburgh. The parks and trails here are pretty amazing and it is strange to think that these assets are relatively recent to the city.Trails, Riverfronts, Local HistoryWednesday, more
Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: Workshop featuring the founder of Kiva.org – I know this is a little pricey but Kiva.org is an amazing website and would love to hear more from the founder. The Gobblerito lands at Mad Mex – MadMex puts an entire thanksgiving dinner in a burrito for the month of November. xmittens :: Xmittens more
RiverQuest is awesome and one of those cool things that didn’t exist when I was a kid. RiverQuest, which used to be called Pittsburgh Voyager, is a floating classrom that is here to provide hand on learning on the rivers. Earlier this summer, RiverQuest moved to a new vessel that is a green, environmentally friendly ship – the Explorer is one of more
I mentioned this last month, but this festival is worth another post. This is the 10th Anniversary of the Black Sheep Puppet Festival – which is not the longest running yearly puppet festival in the country (who said Pittsburgh was lacking creativity and innovation). They have over 25 events scheduled during the month of October – some of them free more
In 2007, I think this was part of the Arts Festival or the Celebration of Glass but i can’t seem to find any pictures from this, there was an amazing display here in Pittsburgh where these photos were projected on a bunch of buildings downtown. The event was so popular in 2007 they extended the display. The Festival of Lights is back to celebrate more
