Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Announces Free Gallery Crawl 7/16

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Department of Education and Community Engagement heats up the summer streets of the Cultural District with its free and festive Gallery Crawl on Friday, July 16, from 5:30 - 9 p.m. This exhilarating arts open house showcases an array of activities throughout the Cultural District with the trademark, eclectic mix of visual art, dance, music and more.

New, featured events for the crawl include a live outdoor performance by indie-soul recording artist Eric Roberson on the JazzLive Summer Stage, a break-dancing Block Party at the corner of 9th and Penn and a performance by Chatham Baroque on the rooftop terrace of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

All Gallery Crawl events are free and open to the public. For more information and a map of the Gallery Crawl events, visit pgharts.org or call (412) 456-6666. The Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District is sponsored by First Commonwealth with media support from City Paper and 91.3fm WYEP.

After the Crawl, visitors are welcome to join the rooftop party at Theater Square, Cosmopolitan Pittsburgh, from 9 p.m. - midnight, featuring culinary and cocktail delights by Cultural District restaurants. For tickets ($50 in advance, $75 at the door), visit pgharts.org. Special VIP tickets and Jetsetter Packages also available by calling 412-471-3519.

GALLERY CRAWL EVENTS

JAZZLIVE SUMMER STAGE
7TH AND FORT DUQUESNE PARKING LOT

Chelsea Baratz Quartet Forging new sounds in jazz music, Pittsburgh native, Chelsea Baratz is a rising star on the national and international jazz scene. 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Eric Roberson from NYC, indie-soul royalty, Eric Roberson brings his band to perform live in Pittsburgh for the very first time. 7:00 - 9:00pm

BLOCK PARTY
9TH AND PENN

DJ Mike Canton (WYEP Soul Show) and DJ Nate da Phat Barber spin early soul and hip hop. Pick out your ‘fro or break out your B-Boy gear, Member's Only jackets and bamboo earrings for this old school party. With special guests, Get Down Gang, local break dance crew!

It will be over in a "FLASH"---don't miss it. 7:30pm

WOOD STREET GALLERIES
601 WOOD STREET

Outer Body/Inner Experiences
Interactive artwork inviting viewer participation in an outer body experience. Artists: Airan Kang, Matt Stokes, Lawrence Malstaff, Luc Courchesne and Jim Campbell.

David Lawrence CONVENTION CENTER
1000 FORT DUQUESNE BOULEVARD

A New View
Come and enjoy a view of Pittsburgh that is rarely seen. Appreciate the skyline and public works of art on the Convention Center's North Terrace while listening the gorgeous sound of Chatham Baroque. Also, be sure to stop by the Handmade Arcade table for some DIY activities.

SPACE
812 LIBERTY AVENUE

Congo Women
This exhibition sheds light not only on The Situation facing women of the Democratic Republic of Congo but on gender-based violence around the world and demonstrates why the arts have a powerful role as mirror and map to influence social change.

Music by Delicious Pastries
91.3fm WYEP - Live Radio Broadcast

TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER
805-807 LIBERTY AVENUE

404 Strand discusses the upcoming production, FAUST US, in an intimate setting. See the set and learn more about this show, described as "unorthodox...visceral...beautiful" by Pittsburgh City Paper

Movement Room (2nd floor)]
Be Beyonce
Jamae of Jam Dance will teach you the moves you see in music videos to the music that will make you want to drop it like It's hot! 6 - 7pm, 7:30 - 8:30pm

Shaw Galleries
805 Liberty Avenue

Mo Knows Pittsburgh: The Photojournalism of Morris Berman.
Exhibition includes a variety photographs, including his nationally acclaimed photograph of NY Giants football player Y. A. Tittle (1964), which many consider the most important sports photograph of the 20th-century.

CRAZY MOCHA COFFEE CO
801 LIBERTY AVE
Have a cup with beat-up indie rock group, The Wrong Airport.

707 PENN GALLERY
707 PENN AVENUE

SLUSH PUPPIES
A winter spectacle meets a summertime beverage. An immersive installation featuring paintings, sculpture, and icee delites. by Jonathan Chamberlain and Chris Beauregard

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue

Tar Baby and Doowop: Everything You Need For Your Modern Household, Mercantile
Installation and performance by Vanessa German. An imagined extravaganza of useful things circa 1908.

LE CORDON BLEU INSTITUTE OF CULINARY ARTS
808 LIBERTY AVENUE

Culinary Sculptures
Various sugar and tallow sculpture pieces created by PCI faculty. Hot food and beverages prepared by PCI students available for $1-$1.50

937 LIBERTY AVENUE

Bricolage Space - 1st floor:
4 Real 4 Real
Pittsburgh's own yarn-spinning extravaganza. Featuring only a microphone, an audience, and the true-to-life narratives of local performers, and Real People Just like you! 7:00-8:30pm

2nd floor
Justin Hopper: Public Record
Poems written from 19th-century newspaper crime reports, Public Record makes the prosaic into the poetic, and populates the city with these unknown, powerful, ghostly layers.

Pittsburgh Gospel - 3rd floor:
Get lifted on the top floor with Deryck Tines and company

TOONSEUM
945 LIBERTY

The Art of Akira
Original hand-drawn cells, backgrounds, and production art from Katsuhiro Otomo's anime masterpiece. Also, an exclusive preview of the upcoming exhibit, Cartoon Canines, a celebration of the history of the dog in comics!

August Wilson CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
980 LIBERTY AVENUE

Enjoy new art from Anire Mosley throughout the building, food and entertaining hip hop performances celebrating African American culture. The FutuRisticz at 6:00 pm and Shinobi at 8:00 pm

SALON CHRISTINE
942 PENN AVENUE

Image Interlude A Episode In Time
View the works of historian local photographer, Curtis E. Reave. Music by DJ Kelli Burns

FUTURE TENANT
819 PENN AVENUE

Acid Rain Production, Experimental Video and Experimental Popsicles
Future Tenant and Acid Rain Production present a special looped screening of 3 videos by 3 artists who work with snowy landscapes. Also a window installation on view, "Recreating Havoc" by Darrell Kinsel.
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NORTHSIDE URBAN PATHWAYS GALLERY
914 PENN AVENUE

Photo Show
Photographer and guest teacher Mike Robinson displays personal and student photographs; Steel pan band plays throughout the night!

BACKSTAGE BAR
655 PENN AVENUE
Eastern Watershed
Live music by high energy polka band Eastern Watershed 5:30-7:00 pm

KATZ PLAZA
7TH ST. AND PENN AVENUE

Come dance with the Azucar Latin Band with their salsa and world music on our dance floor, co-presented by Global Beats, LACU & Hispanic Chamber of Commerce with DJ Carla Leininger.

First Commonwealth Hospitality Spot
Cookies, prizes and giveaways courtesy of First Commonwealth

ARTHUR MURRAY DANCE STUDIO
136 SIXTH STREET

Free Dance Lessons
7:30 - Swing
8:00 - Tango
8:30 - Salsa

ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE! Visit www.pgharts.org for updated and more detailed information
Lead Sponsor: First Commonwealth, Other Sponsors: City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, Kreider Printing

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