Some G-20 Events for Everyone

Here are a few of the events going on this week for everyone to attend.  Please let me know of any other events that are G-20 related and open to the public.

GET Larimer: G-20 Walking Tour – Friday, Sept. 25 3-6pm

The GET:Larimer Project is the first installment of a new concept, Green Environmental Tourism in the neighborhood of Larimer, Pittsburgh, PA. Held Friday, September 25th from 3pm-6pm, during the weekend of G20 Summit in the city of Pittsburgh, GET:Larimer will be highlighting an existing community and how a group of individuals and organizations with shared vision can leverage the natural opportunities of blighted areas through sustainable economical development and social entrepreneurship to create real, positive, and lasting change.

While Larimer is a small neighborhood in the East End of the City of Pittsburgh, the solutions and ideas that will be described, demonstrated, and discussed can be applied to communities around our country and throughout the world. For this reason, GET:Larimer will also stress the idea of application of these concepts outside of the community of Larimer coupled with the knowledge that a community can be reborn through the determination of group of individuals seeking neighborhood improvement.

The event of GET:Larimer on September 25th with begin at 3pm with a 1 hour, 1 mile guided walking tour of the neighborhood. Guides will take attendees through this East End community showing over 20 points of interest ranging from project sites for green design and community mobilization, to historic buildings, to empty lots with ideas of new creative green and sustainable reuse, to local existing small businesses, to long standing social organizations. Proposed points of interest will specifically include sites where our partner organizations have begun work including the GTECH and Grow Pgh community gardens, Larimer School, and the Kingsley Center.

During the course of the walking tour, participants have the ability to see the true fabric of the community, by learning the history, viewing the present and imaging the possible future of the neighborhood. Demonstrations will be provided by partner organizations and community members showing how green and sustainable community based concepts will be implemented. For example, samples of vegetables from the community garden will be offered to participants and energy generation demonstrations will be held on site.

Drawn to the Summit @ The Warhol Museum (Presented with The Toonseum)

• “The cartoons in Drawn to the Summit will highlight the work of the leading cartoonists from the G-20 nations and will provide an alternative perspective on G-20 themes such as the global economy and its impact on the environment, human rights, world trade, etc. This exhibition offers the public an opportunity to view a diversity of cartooning styles worldwide and see the important role editorial cartoons plays in this global conversation.”
• Sept. 18 – Oct. 18, 2009
• curated by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers and art historian Sylvia Rhor

Franktuary is OPEN all week! Eat local for the G20!

Visit and enjoy a Welcome to Pittsburgh special: our organic, grass-finished Locavore frank, 2 pierogies, and a Natrona Bottling Company soda for just $8!

Visit us during our extended hours on your day(s?) off: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10 am to 5 pm.

Though we are downtown, 325 Oliver Avenue is well outside both the hard and soft security perimeters. Your best bet is to walk or bike from the North Side or the South Side, though we hope there will also be some access points from the Strip District. Check out BikePGH.org for cyclist access information.