Weekend Treadings - Sept. 7,8, 9
Weekend treadings of the cultural nature. Some bites and sounds, some artistic expressions, and whatever else you add to the mix.
There’s a ‘Burgh full of events happening this weekend!
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Good Friday
Andy Warhol Museum – North Shore
5pm // FREE + cash bar
Art walk found off of South Penn Ave. Join lots of enthusiastic treaders as they gallery hop through Friendship.
6pm-2am // FREE
Pittsburgh Irish Festival (Sept. 7,8,9)
Riverplex at Sandcastle, 1000 Sandcastle Drive, West Homestead (Pittsburgh)
With four different stages to showcase live music, the 22nd Annual Irish Festival will be rocking out for the next three days. Don’t forget to wear green and enjoy some traditional Irish cooking.
4pm -12am // $10
“Feminist and…”
Opening Reception at the Mattress Factory, RSVP online at www.mattress.org
“Feminist and…, organized by Guest Curator Hilary Robinson, Ph.D., will present new work by six women artists from throughout the world whose artistic practice shows that feminism is not a single-issue set of politics but rather a multi-vocal, multi-generational and multi-cultural evolution of thinking and practices.”
7-9pm// Free!
Pirates vs Cubs @ 7:05 pm, PNC Stadium
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK, TEMPEST
Arsenal Park, 39th St & Butler St, Lawrenceville
“The Tempest is a revenge play – but also about family, and, of course, romance – with comical results. The enemies who stole Prospero’s kingdom from him are now in his power. Will Prospero succumb to the temptation for revenge? Or will forgiveness win out? “
2pm// Free
Fair in the Park (Sept. 7,8,9)
Presented by Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh
2012 is the 43rd year of A Fair in the Park, an annual contemporary craft festival, presented by The Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh. A Fair in the Park is held in the lush surroundings of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Mellon Park, adjacent to the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and along Fifth and Shady Avenues in Pittsburgh’s upscale Shadyside area.
10 am -7 pm // FREE! // Click link above for Friday and Sunday’s schedule
Pirates vs Cubs @ 7:05 pm, PNC Stadium
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
River of Steel Heritage Market
The Sunday Heritage Market is a Farm and Artist Market sponsored by Rivers of Steel Heritage Area. This Spring marks our second year of operation. The Market takes place every Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm beginning May 6th, and runs through October. We are located at the Pump House in the Waterfront of Homestead. The site is a trail head for the Great Allegheny Passage, and brings a high volume of traffic to the market.
10am-2pm //FREE!
Celebrate the Arts Sundays
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main (Oakland) celebrates local music, dance, poetry, arts and culture, as well as foreign film, on Sunday afternoons on the First Floor.
2-3pm// Free! //For details call 412-622-3116 or visit Carnegie Library’s site.
Please feel free to email us at info@treadingart.com if there is an event you are organizing or one you think should be included.
