The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Celebrates RADical Days with Free Gallery Crawl In The Cultural District 10/2

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Department of Education and Community Engagement, in celebration of the Allegheny Regional Asset District's "RADical Days," hosts a free Gallery Crawl on Friday, October 2, 2009, from 5:30-9 p.m. This fall's program features an exciting array of venues throughout the Cultural District and an eclectic mix of visual art, dance, music and more.

All Gallery Crawl events are FREE and open to the public. For more information and a map of the events, please visit www.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.

GALLERY CRAWL EVENTS

Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street (above the "T")
Julien Marie: Matter and Memory
U. S. debut of French Installation artist, Julien Marie whose works represent experimental forms of projection, highlighting simultaneously both the simplicity and the complexity of reality.
www.woodstreetgalleries.org

Shaw Galleries
805 Liberty Avenue
20th Century Master Prints
20th Century Master Prints and exhibit featuring original lithographs, woodblock and pochoir prints by Braque, Chagall, Dali, Miro, Motherwell, Picasso and Rouault

SPACE
812 Liberty Avenue
Transfer Lounge
Guest curators: Carolina Loyola-Garcia and Ima Pico
A project that involves art professionals from Spain and the United States Transfer Lounge creates a unique opportunity for artists from different parts of the world to actively exchange their views and ideas around issues of mobility and transition.
9pm Locally Toned: Mobile ringtone performance by T. Foley at 6pm and 8pm.
Trust InfoDesk and Membership Table outside of SPACE
www.spacepittsburgh.org

Trust Arts Education Center
805-807 Liberty Avenue
Staged Readings / Dance Classes
Pierce Studio, lower level:
Pittsburgh Playworks staged readings:
Bread of Angels @ 5:30 PM
Stilling the Storm @ 7:45
Movement Room, 2nd floor:
Sh'ome On! Artistry of Michael Jackson dance class
6:30 pm, 8:00 pm (Wear comfortable clothing. No street shoes or barefeet. Dance shoes or socks only!) Partnership with Dance Alloy

Pennsylvania Culinary Institute
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.

ArtUp @ 820 Liberty
820 Liberty Avenue
Workplace Funnies
A new exhibit of political cartoons, art, photography, and sculpture

Bricolage Space
937 Liberty Avenue, 1st floor
ASMP Object Show: Featuring Rope
A Photography Exhibition Featuring The Object Rope, presented by The American Society of Media Photographers
After the Crawl: Bricolage's Midnight Radio Series Smackdown, 10 pm ($15)

937 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor
Guitar Society of Fine Art and Handmade Arcade
Guitar Society of Fine Art (GSFA) Presents Rumba Flamenco
with Jose Oretea, Ricardo Marlow and Guest Flamenco Dancer 6pm to 9pm
Get Crafty with Handmade Arcade: Enjoy a sneak preview of Pittsburgh's largest indie craft fair, set for December 12, 2009 at The Hunt Armory

Pittsburgh Gospel Choir
937 Liberty Avenue, 3rd floor
CON/text
A collaborative performance of African American merging gospel music, spoken word, hip hop & dance to celebrate, confront and re-interpret the conning of text we believe in, live by, discriminate with and just simply mis/understand. 8:00-9:00pm.

Artwork by Vanessa German.
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue (enter from main entrance, Liberty at William Penn)
Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix
An exhibition that not only tells the story of African Americans living in Western Pennsylvania through imagery, film and oral history, but gives visitors their chance to retell it.

Salon Christine
954 Penn Avenue
Mixed media
Artwork by Amy Epstein (jewelry collection and designer), Anita Buzzy (photography) and Heather George (clay master). Music by DJ Kelli Burns

Northside Urban Pathways Gallery
914 Penn Avenue
Futures Built Here
Enjoy inspiring student artwork & performances by Sounds of Steel steelpan band & instrumental band music

901 Penn
901 Penn Avenue
Branding the Cultural District with Light
Students from Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama and the School of Architecture's Urban Laboratory exhibit the first phase of a semester-long project.

CAPA Gallery
111 Ninth St. (enter at 9th and Ft. Duquesne)
Pittsburgh: Transforming
A 6-12 student exhibit visually exploring the history of Pittsburgh and it's transformation from a smoky industrial city to a green energy and technology leader.

Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
Dividing the Goose
A multi-media exploration of fairy tales and folklore.
Co-curated by Jeffrey Schreckengost and Lisa Toboz.
www.futuretenant.org

709 Penn Gallery
709 Penn Avenue
Soulpurpose
Art in a variety of media by local artists and designers

707 Penn Gallery
707 Penn Avenue
The Secret Lives of Stories: New Work by Jen Cooney
Looking at how worlds are built and different fanciful creatures interrelate. Jen Cooney takes the viewer past The Edges of the page to see the rest of the picture you've always known that's there. The viewer is lead into new, intensely detailed lands. Although somewhat anchored in reality these worlds are bursting forth with fantastic creatures of pure imagination. Jen Cooney invites you to question the delicate balance of worlds where, like our own, everything is connected and guides you through the secret life of stories.

Katz Plaza
7th and Penn Avenue
SOUL POWER w/ Fred Wesley and the JB's / First Commonwealth Hosp
SOUL POWER w/ Fred Wesley and the JB's
Featuring Dwayne Dolphin and /DJ Stephan Broadus
Everybody knows that nothing is funkier than James Brown's band. Fred Wesley, along with saxophonist Maceo Parker and bassist Bootsy Collins, served as the driving force that transformed the Godfather of Soul's sound from soul to funk. Feel the funk w/Fred Wesley and the new JB's.

First Commonwealth Hospitality Spot
Stop by and visit the First Commonwealth stop for free giveaways and hot tea from Starbucks.
First Night Ice: Free snow cones when you mention the phrase "So...I'll see you at First Night."

Backstage Bar
655 Penn Avenue
The Wreckids
Live music by The Wreckids (formerly Scotts Roger)

Olive or Twist Lounge
140 Sixth St, 2nd floor loungE
Mix and Match
A mixture of medias from some of Pittsburgh's untapped talent.

Arthur Murray Ballroom Studio
136 Sixth St. (above Melange Bistro)
Free Dance Classes
Celebrating our 80th year in Downtown Pittsburgh with free dance classes and demonstrations by our staff.
7:00 - Salsa, 7:30 Argentine Tango, 8 Cha Cha, 8:30 Swing
This location is not universally accessible

Throughout the District
The Pillow Project
The Pillow Project will be presenting a live, interactive-projection performance of everyday, organic actions "captured" in focused light
www.pillowproject.org

OTHER INFORMATION
Avoid traffic and parking, and bike on down! Bike parking at various parking garages, or visit www.portauthority.org for public transportation information
Text CRAWL to SMASH (76274) to receive exlusive offers and more!
All locations are wheelchair accessible unless otherwise noted.

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, 91.3fm WYEP

This Gallery Crawl is a special activity of the Allegheny Regional Asset District's free RADical Days. Visit www.radworkshere.org for more information.

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