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Neighborhood with Heart, Celebrates with Art – Polish Hill Arts Festival – Sun. July 17

Polish Hill is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, that according to Wikipedia is only .25 square miles large, while it may be geographically small, this neighborhood had a big heart.  

We are happy that the Polish Hill Civic Association does an amazing job of updating resident of Polish Hill and Pittsburgh on neighborhood happenings and important civic info via their appropiatly named blog – Blogski

BLOGSKI

July 7th, 2011 houndsbay Posted in West Penn Recreation Center | No Comments " Shawn Shreckengost, the director of West Penn Community Recreation Center, just updated us about what’s going on at the center lately. First, he asked us to mention their free breakfast and lunch program for kids.
Sunday, July 17, 2011- The Polish Hill Arts Festival

Noon-9pm
Intersection of Dobson and Brereton Streets
Awesome poster designed by Andy Scott – check out his Etsy shop here.
Here are a few links to some of the festival highlights – the entire line up is available here.
Music by Timbeleza
Timbeleza

Timbeleza – General Manager: sambapittsburgh@gmail.com – Booking Agent: Kevin Seklecki or Siamak Malek – Artists We Also Like: Grooversity, Marcus Santos – Influences: Samba, Samba Reggae, Funk, Maracatu, Pagode, Forro – Biography: Timbeleza is a batucada based out of Pittsburgh, PA. We work closely with master drummers from Brazil, continually striving to expand our repertoire and gain new fans.

Art out of the Box, which brings artists into four Pittsburgh-area neighborhoods to make work, is sponsoring Deanna Mance in Polish Hill. 

Art Out of the Box

Art Out of the Box mobile art studio opens into an all-inclusive artist studio space.   One artist, per 5 different city neighborhoods, will create an original piece of visual art work from beginning to end within a one-week residency.

give-and-take is a community-based project that is developing services, activities and events to circulate pre-loved clothing throughout the local area. Along the way we share ideas and thoughts on how to re-use, repurpose and rethink the clothes that pass through our hands.

Delicious Information: At long last: give-and-take

give-and-take is a community-based project that is developing services, activities and events to circulate pre-loved clothing throughout the local area. Along the way we share ideas and thoughts on how to re-use, repurpose and rethink the clothes that pass through our hands. Join us at the give-and-take Kick-off The Polish Hill Arts Festival Sunday, July 17th from Noon-9pm.

Movies, Parks, Urban Chickens and St. Anthony Festival

Here is a run down of our weekend top picks that we shared on WDVE this morning – lots of things to do this weekend in Pittsburgh!

Beat the Heat @ The Movies

  • Shaun of the Dead @ The Oaks
  • Midnight showing of The Big Lebowski @ The Hollywood Theater in Dormont (The theater just reopened in May!)
  • Arts Festival @ The Harris Theater – All Films are free!

Cinema in the Parks is back!

  • Free movies all summer long in Pittsburgh parks
  • New movies each week
  • Saturday June 11, 2011 – Batman at Riverview Park

National Women’s Collegiete Rugby Championships

  • are being held here in Pittsburgh – Friday and Saturday
  • USA Rugby
  • Games will be played at Founders field in Cheswick

Riverview Park Heritage Day

  • Saturday, June 11, 2011 Noon-4pm
  • Nature and Arts activities for the whole family
  • Read about the history of Riverview Park here

Redd Up, Thread Up

  • Saturday, June 11, 2011, Noon-6pm
  • 120 Federal St. North Side (Old Firewaters)
  • Community Clothing Swap to benefit East End Cooperative Ministires
  • $10 you can fill a bag of clothes, bring a bag of clothes and save $5

Urban Chicken Coop Tour

  • Sunday, June 12, 2011, 9am-2:20pm
  • Self guided tour of urban chicken coops in Pittsburgh
  • Meet coop owners and learn about urban farming

Feast of Saint Anthony Festival

  • a big fat Italian celebration in the Strip District
  • Sunday, June 12, 2011
  • mass, procession of the statue of Saint Anthony
  • Food, Fun, music by Bon Journey and Fireworks


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Donut Day, Free Concerts and Kayaking (Radio Round Up for June 3)

Launch Donuts @ FlickrHQ

Image by pkingDesign via Flickr

Friday is National Donut Day

  • Free donut with any beverage purchase at Pittsburgh Dunkin Donut locations

First Fridays on Penn Avenue (forgot to mention this on DVE – but definitely worth a stop this eve)

Allegheny County Marbles Tournament

  • yes! Marbles! like glass Marbles! – actually the national champion in girls marbles was from Pittsburgh.
  • Tournament runs Thursday – Saturday in the courtyard of the Allegheny County Courthouse

Kayak Pittsburgh Downtown Opens FRIDAY

  • Finally! The rivers have calmed down and Kayak Pittsburgh is open for business
  • Weekdays Kayak Pittsburgh opens at 11am, Weekend Kayak Pittsburgh opens at 10am

Penn Brewery Microbrewers Festival

  • Say hello to summer with 3 hours of beer sampling at Penn Brewery
  • Saturday, June 4 – 2 sessions 1-4pm and 6-9pm
  • Live entertainment from the Flow Band and the Blues Orphans

Free Concerts All Weekend Long

Urban Hike South Oakland

  • Sunday, June 5, 2011 – 9:30am
  • Free guided hike through the neighborhood  – will take 3-4 hours

Highland Park Yard Sale

  • HUGE neighborhood wide garage sale
  • Sunday, June 5, 2011
  • Then check out the Bryan Street Festival from Noon-5pm
  • Over 40 household participating – check out the entire list here.

FRIDAY is the Last Day for 40 Under 40 Nominations

  • Each year PUMP and Pittsburgh Magazine honor 40 awesome people under the age of 40.
  • Submit your nominations today!

Links Worth a Look – February 24th

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

Follow IheartPGH on Twitter – we share more links there almost daily!

Arts Festival Pick: Take Me Out


I have been waiting for the Arts Festival to kick off because there are some great things happening at the festival this year.  Pittsburgh based theater group and friend of Iheart PGH, Barebones Productions  is bringing what is sure to be an interesting theater presentation to the festival – Take Me Out.  The play Take Me Out is the story of a baseball player who announces he is gay.  Barebones has brought some other great plays to town in the past few years – (click here to see some past blog posts about Barebones Productions).  I have had the opportunity to talk with Barebones founder and I know they have recruited some top notch actors for this performance.  I think this play will be a really interesting look at another side of sports that isn’t often seen.

more info: www.barebonesproductions.com

when
June 6th – 22nd, 2008
8:00 PM, Wednesday – Sunday

where
Navarra (next to Bossa Nova)
131 7th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

tickets
All tickets $10
On sale starting May 9th, 2008
Go to artsfestival.net or call 412-456-6666