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Treaders Choice: Two Opening Receptions at the Mattress Factory

[note] From Lindsay: another great event suggestion from Treading Art!  I’m particularly interested in seeing the photos from the DETROIT artists.  If you are interested in Detroit and other rust belt cities – keep an eye on the GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchange) Facebook page here. [/note]

Treading Art has been putting together an amazing list of weekend events around Pittsburgh.  Each week we feature one of the events from their Weekend Treadings list.

This weeks Treader’s Choice event is an awesome opening reception at the Mattress Factory.  Check out all of Treading Art suggestions for this weekend here.

Opening Receptions: Janine Antoni, DETROIT: Artists in Residence and Chiharu Shiota: Trace of Memory

mattress-factorySeveral Detroit Artists in Residence works are reaction to socio-economic status of Detroit Michigan. Janine Antoni brings to question the human condition by interacting directly with the viewers and Chiharu Shiota’s exhibition is christening the new 516 Sampsonia space. Show up early! They expect a full house.

Mattress Factory @ 500 Sampsonia Way- Mexican War Streets

7-9pm // $15 adults, $10 students

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Writing about the Rust Belt – GLUE and Rustbelt Almanac

I’ve got two great projects to share with you, both are related to sharing stories about rustbelt cities including Pittsburgh.

If you have been a regular reader of IheartPGH over the years, you have probably read a few of our posts about GLUE.  GLUE stands for Great Lakes Urban Exchange – a project that was started by a Pittsburgher and a Detroiter (is there a Detroit equivalent to the word Pittsburgher?).  I’ve been fortunate to attend many of the GLUE conferences, the most recent conference was held in September 2011 here in Pittsburgh.  Through GLUE I have had the chance to meet my blogging counterparts from other rust belt cities.  Some of my fellow GLUE friends have been discussing another GLUE conference for this fall.  We’ve also launched the GLUE Tumblr blog – which is open for submission.  If you have a story, link, photos or video that you would like to share with fellow city lovers please submit here – http://gluespace.tumblr.com/submit

Speaking of story sharing.  Meet Rustbelt Almanac – a new magazinge that will be launching very soon with a first issue about Pittsburgh.  Congrats to the Rustbelt Almanac team on not only meeting but beating their fundraising goal.  Check out the video below.  (There is one more day to contribute – you can still donate to the Rustbelt Almanac kickstarter campaign here.)

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Post-Gazette Article on the Upcoming Why Pittsburgh Party

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Building
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I wrote about the Why Pittsburgh Party on Friday and I wanted to post a follow up because I was worried that the info would get lost in the weekend emails.  The Post-Gazette beat me to it with a great article about the upcoming Why Pittsburgh Party on September 17, 2009 (click here for the party details).

Here are some highlights from the article:

Carrie Hagan, a graduate student in history and policy at Carnegie Mellon University, met Ms. Wilson through the League of Young Voters and joined the party committee “and the next thing I know I am throwing the party,” said Ms. Hagan. “I couldn’t stand the idea of not being part of something like this.”

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The Detroit party was “a qualified success,” said Ms. Szurpicki. “We had around 100 people and collected over 80 good photos” of participants holding a white board with the phrase “I Will Stay If …” completed.

“The photos show that people want better regional cooperation, public transit, bike lanes, curbside recycling, things like that. And what has come out of this is people saying ‘I am staying to be a part of something,’ ‘I am staying because I want to help build that curbside recycling program.’

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“I fell in love with this city the moment I crossed the bridge and have not looked back since,” she said. “I’ve been a lot of places and this is the kind of place I want to live.

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Eat Detroit for Lunch

Yet another reason to love Franktuary – they come up with good ideas for lunch.  You can literally can eat Detroit for lunch at Franktuary.

Try our Stanley Cup Combo! Two Detroit Franks (chili, yellow mustard, chopped white onions), side of pierogies, and a Pennsylvania Punch! Only $7.50 including tax!

You can support Pittsburgh hockey and a great Pittsburgh business in one convenient combo.