Pittsburgh Events Listing

20 Events You Need to Know About – September 2014

Pittsburgh Events Listing

So much to do in this town, so little time! Here are 25 events around town.  Some are from our favorite organizations, many are new organizations hosting launch events, volunteer training and business fairs.

  1. Boundaries: A collection of photographs that explores what holds us back @ Miss L Photography – Friday, September 12 // 7pm
  2. The Pitch (Part of Thrival Festival) @ AlphaLab Gear – Saturday, September 13 // 11am-1pm // @ThrivalFestival @AlphaLabGear
  3. Pittsburgh Brown Mamas Makeup N’ Martini Launch Party @ Alloy Studios – Saturday, September 13 // 5-8pm [Congrats to Brown Mamas on being the most recent Awesome Pittsburgh grant recipiant!]
  4. Lungs Face Feet Record Release Party @ The Shop – Saturday, September 13 // 7pm
  5. MakerFest @ TechShop Pittsburgh – Sunday, September 14 // 11am-2pm // @TechShopPgh
  6. Downtown CDC Happy Hour @ Las Velas – Tuesday, September 16 // 6-8:30pm
  7. TJ Dema Poetry Reading @ City of Asylum – Tuesday, September 16 // 6-7:30pm // $Free // @cityofasylumpgh
  8. Literary Arts Boom Volunteer Training @ Union Project – Wednesday September 17 // 10-11am // @theLAB_pgh
  9. Adventure Bingo @ Harvard & Highland – Wednesday, September 17 // 8-10pm
  10. PUMP’s Volunteer Speed Dating @ Bayardstown Social Club – September 18
  11. #CNBSEEN Happy Hour @ C-leveled – September 18 // 4-7pm // @c_leveled
  12. Yelp’s ‘Burgh Bash @ Pittsburgh Public Market – Thursday, September 18 // 8-10pm
  13. MakeNight @ Pittsburgh Children’s Museum – Thursday, September 18//6:30-8:30pm //
  14. PARK(ing) Day Pittsburgh 2014 @ Parking Spots around Pittbsurgh – Friday, September 19
  15. 7th Annual Challenge the Champions Gala @ Downtown Wyndham – Friday, September 19 // 6:30-9:30pm// @everychildinc
  16. PANDEMIC 3rd Saturday Edition @ Brillobox – Saturday, September 20 //9:45pm
  17. Small Business Resource Fair @ Hill House Kaufmann Center – Monday, September 22 // 4:30-7pm
  18. Adventure Bingo @ Harvard & Highland – Wednesday, September 24 // 8-10pm
  19. Wilkinsburg House & Garden Tour @ Mifflin Avenue United Methodist Church – Saturday, September 27 // 10am-3pm
  20. Venture Outdoors Happy Hour @ Wigle Whiskey – Monday, September 29 // 5:30-8:30pm // @ventureoutdoors

Have an event you would like to add to this list?  Submit your event to our events calendar here.

Awesome Pittsburgh to Hold Office Hours on Sunday

Awesome-Pittsburgh-bannerIf you are interested in who in Pittsburgh is helping others to turn ideas into reality then one of the organizations that you need to know about is Awesome Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh needs more people coming up and trying out crazy ideas.  And I love Awesome Pittsburgh and the Awesome Foundation because they help people try out these ideas.  One of the major theories in the world of startups in the idea of Lean Entrepreneurship and MVP (minimum viable product).  How soon can you get your business to market to try the idea and get feedback.  I think that Awesome Pittsburgh grants bring a much needed support to help Pittsburghers get turn ideas in to actual projects.

For example, one of the amazing people I met last month on the Millennial Trains Project trip is Jennie Gottstein who has created an interesting project in San Francisco called Score.  I would love to see if we could bring Jennie and Score to Pittsburgh and I am certainly going to see if Awesome Pittsburgh can help make that idea a reality.  [By the way – Jennie is also the brains behind a zombie themed disaster preparedness game that would be great to bring to Pittsburgh too – be sure to follow her on Twitter @jettstein]

Learn More at the Awesome Pittsburgh Office Hours

So if you have an idea, or just the beginnings of an idea for something you would like to see in Pittsburgh – head over to Social at Bakery Square on Sunday to meet the Awesome Pittsburgh team and get some feedback on your idea and how to apply for an Awesome grant.

Awesome Pittsburgh Office Hours
Sunday, September 14th // 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Social, Bakery Square – 6425 Penn Ave, Larimer
No RSVP necessary

Some of the amazing projects that Awesome Pittsburgh has Already Supported

You can check out the whole list here – all are truely awesome.  But here are a few that you can check out to see what $1000 can do for the community

  • Smiles for Hilltop – helping local doctors test a program to provide dental care and prevention in the Hilltop neighborhoods.
  • ZipPitt – exploring a zipline for Pittsburgh
  • GLAD Bags for Foster Children – creating comfort bags for kids who are removed from a home to replace the trash bag which is what is currently used.

What is Awesome Pittsburgh?

The short answer – a group that gives out $1000 grants to great ideas

The long answer…

Awesome Pittsburgh is a chapter of the Awesome Foundation, a global network of people devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe.

The Awesome Foundation grants money – cold hard cash – to people or groups with brilliant ideas, with a new project getting funded each month by chapters around the world. Pittsburgh, already a hotbed of awesomeness, is brimming with smart, passionate, creative, crazy people. Awesome Pittsburgh is giving some of you $1000 to do something amazing. We want to hear the best ideas for making Pittsburgh stand out in the global economy, for connecting our communities, for celebrating art or technology, for making the city a better place to live, work, and play, or for simply surprising and delighting us and our fellow Pittsburghers.

Read more about the Awesome Foundations in other cities…
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Pittsburgh

October 16 – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me Comes to Pittsburgh

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me PittsburghJust a heads up that the NPR show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me will be here in Pittsburgh on Thursday, October 16, 2014.  There are some tickets still available – it looks like the $29 tickets have sold out but there are some $49 tickets in the first and second tier still available.

From the WESA website:

Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me! features host Peter Sagal, judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, and a panel of comedians, humorists and journalists. In popular segments such as “Bluff the Listener,” and “Not my job,” celebrity guests and listener-contestants vie for the most coveted prize in all of public radio: a custom-recorded greeting by Wait Wait’s Scorekeeper Emeritus Carl Kasell for their voicemail.

Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me airs on 90.5 WESA on Saturdays and Sundays at 11:00 a.m.

Rise of the Rest Website - Pittsburgh skyline

The Best View of Pittsburgh featured on Steve Case’s RiseoftheRest.com

This morning I clicked on the link in a recent tweet from Steve Case…

… and I spotted a familiar site on the Rise of the Rest website.

Rise of the Rest Website - Pittsburgh skyline

Take a look at the video that is on the front page of RiseoftheRest.com – while everyone talks about the view from Mt. Washington, I never get tired of the view of Pittsburgh as you come through the tunnels.

The Rise of the Rest tour, which is organized by AOL co-founder Steve Case stopped in Pittsburgh earlier this summer.  Pittsburgh startup SolePower was the winner of the $100,000 prize.

Click here to see just the video that is being shown on the Rise of the Rest homepage.

Here are some other articles and posts about the Rise of the Rest summer visit to Pittsburgh… articles
Pittsburgh Events August 22-24, 2014

#Stufftodo412 – Carrick Cornfest, Little Italy Days, Pedal Pgh & More

It’s hard to believe that we are nearing the end of August.  Back to school shopping has begun and this might  be the last unofficial weekend of summer.  If you are lucky enough to be in Pittsburgh this weekend – there are plenty of ways to seize the summertime fun.

Know of an event that should be on the list?  Leave a comment below or share on Twitter with the #stufftodo412

Pittsburgh Events August 22-24, 2014

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