News Around the Neighborhood
PHLF: Virtual Neighborhood Tour of Western Shadyside
Thursday, July 28
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Fee: $7.50
This tour will be conducted via Zoom Conference. Click here to purchase a ticket. You will receive an e-mail with a link to the Zoom event on July 28. (Tickets will not be available after 9:00 am on the day of the event.)
Please log in at 5:45 pm to allow us enough time to let you into the tour.
Shadyside is a veritable museum of the forms and styles of domestic architecture built in Pittsburgh’s East End between the 1860s and 1920s. This tour focuses on the neighborhood’s western part, bounded by North Neville Street and South Aiken Avenue. Learn how innovations in transportation, the growth of the middle class, and the initiative of significant people in local history combined to produce Western Shadyside’s stellar architecture.
Ranging across styles from the Second Empire to Arts & Crafts, the tour explores single-family and multi-family dwellings, individual homes and planned developments, and main streets and cul-de-sacs. A deeper look at a home featured in an early-twentieth-century memoir rounds out our excursion into this lovely neighborhood.
Because this is a virtual event, please disregard the QR code information in the ticket emailed to you.
Award-winning Film about What it Means to Make a Family
Reel Q Film Festival Presents
Venus
Wednesday, July 27
7:00 pm
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll want more of this delightful, award-winning film. Venus (2017), written and directed by Eisha Marjara, received the EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Feature at Whistler Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Cinequest Film Festival, Reelout, MIX Milano, among others.
Sid’s mother has one wish: for Sid to get married and have some kids. Sid’s not opposed to the idea, but to get there…Sid has to introduce their boyfriend to the family and come out as a transgender woman. Oh, and by the way, a fourteen-year-old boy pops up claiming to be Sid’s son. Join us for this heartwarming film that explores what it means to be a family.
Remember you can dine at the in-house restaurant 40 North before or after the show. Please visit Open Table or call 412-435-111 to make a reservation.
Be Part of the Largest Mural in the History of Pittsburgh
PHLF: Walking Grant Street from Sixth to Liberty Avenues
Wednesday, July 13
6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
$20.00 per person
This tour is limited to 20 participants.
(Tickets will not be available after July 12)
Click here to purchase a ticket.
You will receive a ticket with a QR Code by e-mail. Please PRINT and bring it with you for the tour
This tour covers the northern half of a street the American Planning Association designated one of America’s Ten Great Streets in 2012. From the quintessentially Modernist U.S. Steel Tower to the elegant Beaux-Arts Pennsylvanian (formerly Union Station), and with glorious Art Deco gems in between, this part of Grant Street is populated by outstanding civic and corporate buildings.
Examples of adaptive re-use of historic buildings in this corridor demonstrate the economic value of historic preservation. Tour participants also will learn of the wide influence—sometimes explicit, other times less so—of businessman, philanthropist, politician, art collector, and Pittsburgh native Andrew W. Mellon on this important street.
PHLF: Sewickley Walking Tour
Saturday, July 9
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
$20.00 per person
This is an in-person tour and is limited to 20 participants.
(Tickets will not be available after July 8.)
Click here to purchase a ticket.
You will receive a ticket with a QR Code by e-mail. Please PRINT and bring it with you for the tour.
Located 12 miles west of Pittsburgh, Sewickley is nestled between hills to the north and the Ohio River to the South. Taking its name from the Native American word for “Sweet Water,” Sewickley was incorporated as a borough in 1853 and dubbed “the Queen of Suburbs” by one writer in 1895.
The tour focuses on the commercial and residential neighborhoods of the Borough’s Third Historic District, in central Sewickley. Here you will see excellent examples of many of the architectural styles popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, including work by a number of regionally and nationally important architects who lived and worked in the area.
Featuring places of worship, civic buildings, and handsome homes, the tour will demonstrate why this historic community continues to delight.
Keep Quiet or Die: The Struggle for Democratic Change in The Congo
Keep Quiet: The Struggle for Democratic Change in The Congo
Monday, June 27
7:00 pm
In October 2015, a few months before the end of his final constitutional term, General Denis Sassou Nguesso—President of the Republic of Congo—decided to change the constitution to enable his running for another term. After 18 years in power.
Keep Quiet is a feature length documentary film chronicling the struggle of journalists and pro-democracy advocates in their fight against the constitutional change and in favor of democracy in the Republic of Congo.
Following the release of this film, director, and producer Aunel Arneth was persecuted in the Republic of Congo and Senegal. As a result, he went into exile in the United States where he is currently a visiting scholar at the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and sponsored by the Artist Protection Fund (APF).
This program contains violent materials and may be unsuitable for certain audiences. Parental discretion is advised.
WPA Juneteenth Homecoming Celebration
WPA Freedom Days 2022
Point State Park
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (June 17-19)
11:00 am-9:00 pm
Celebrate the conclusion of Juneteenth with a weekend blowout. The Downtown event, hosted by the city of Pittsburgh in partnership with Stop the Violence Pittsburgh, will feature vendors, musical performances, and activities for everyone to enjoy. This event is free and open to the public.
About Juneteenth
Juneteenth is the celebration of the end of chattel slavery and was first started in Texas in 1865 when the last enslaved people learned that the Civil War was over and that the Union had won the war.
Juneteenth is celebrated in 50 States across America and is the Country’s second Independence Day. Our Festival started in 2013 and this year marks the first Pittsburgh and Allegheny County legal holiday in this region. In 2021, the U.S. Congress declared Juneteenth a Federal holiday.
Register for Friday’s Free “SHRINE” Opening Block Party!
Where: 1400 Block of Monterey Street
Date: Friday, June 17
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Price: FREE (pre-registration encouraged)
We invite you to join us on Friday, June 17 from 6-8 PM for SANCTUARY, a free one-day public outdoor event that celebrates SHRINE, an exhibition of new installation works opening the same day at the Mattress Factory Monterey Annex. Featuring more than ten local entrepreneurs and small businesses, SANCTUARY will be located at the 1400 Block of Monterey Street, between Jacksonia Street and Sampsonia Way.
SANCTUARY includes free family artmaking activities in the City of Asylum garden, a Mommas’ Market featuring local artists and vendors, a live DJ set from Pittsburgh-based Yadirtydaughter, free admission to the brand-new exhibition SHRINE in the Monterey Annex, and an opportunity to fellowship with Northside neighbors. Food from soul food favorites Mommalicious and vegan Trinidadian food stand ShadoBeni will also be available for purchase. Local artists and vendors featured in SANCTUARY include Schereéya, Marietta Altenor, Dail Chambers, Nikki Delice, Chere Gordon, Desa Kishar, and Tiara LaShawna.
Free & Inclusive Programs in Allegheny Commons Park
Free & inclusive programs are taking place throughout June!
Explore the programs below and be sure to register in advance!
Join YMCA fitness instructors in the park for weekly exercise classes every Wednesday, June through August. Click here to register!
Saturday, June 11 @ 10:00 A.M. | Allegheny Commons Park
Come and flow with some of Pittsburgh’s best yoga instructors from Yoga Studios in this free all levels yoga event. Bring your kids and enjoy the feeling of practicing yoga beneath the trees in this city park! Participants should bring their own mat. Click here to register!
Wednesday, June 15 @ 6:30 P.M. | Allegheny Commons Park
Join YMCA fitness instructors in the park for weekly exercise classes every Wednesday, June through August. Click here to register!
Saturday, June 18 @ 10:00 A.M. | Allegheny Commons Park
Come and flow with some of Pittsburgh’s best yoga instructors from Yoga Studios in this free all levels yoga event. Bring your kids and enjoy the feeling of practicing yoga beneath the trees in this city park! Participants should bring their own mat. Click here to register!
Sunday, June 19 @ 2:00 P.M. | Allegheny Commons Park
Visit Allegheny Commons the third Sunday of the month from June through October for free activities for children (and children at heart) including balloon artist, craft activities, with special guests and performers! Click here to register!
Wednesday, June 22 @ 6:30 P.M. | Allegheny Commons Park
Join YMCA fitness instructors in the park for weekly exercise classes every Wednesday, June through August. Click here to register!
Saturday, June 25 @ 10:00 A.M. | Allegheny Commons Park
Come and flow with some of Pittsburgh’s best yoga instructors from Yoga Studios in this free all levels yoga event. Bring your kids and enjoy the feeling of practicing yoga beneath the trees in this city park! Participants should bring their own mat. Click here to register!
Wednesday, June 29 @ 6:30 P.M. | Allegheny Commons Park
Join YMCA fitness instructors in the park for weekly exercise classes every Wednesday, June through August. Click here to register!
PHLF: Downtown’s Best Special Places and Spaces
Thursday, June 9
9:45 am – 12:00 pm
$30 per person
The ticket price includes a guidebook, Exploring Pittsburgh: A Downtown Walking Tour
This tour is in-person and is limited to 10 participants.
Click here to buy a ticket. (Tickets will not be available after June 8.)
You will receive a ticket with a QR Code by e-mail. Please PRINT and bring it with you for the tour.
Downtown Pittsburgh’s built environment is a remarkable array of buildings and places old, new, and restored. In this brisk tour of architectural landmarks, spectacular interiors, and significant urban spaces you will learn how Pittsburgh developed from a military outpost in the 18th century into a beautiful, walkable, and livable 21st-century city.
Tour Meeting Point: One Oxford Centre Plaza, 301 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Tour Ending Point: PPG Plaza, 1 PPG Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Please arrive 10 minutes before the start time in order to ensure that the tour gets underway on time. Dress for the weather (PHLF tours proceed rain or shine!), and wear comfortable shoes. By purchasing a ticket for this tour, you acknowledge that you are physically able to undertake the tour, assume all personal risk during the tour, consent to being photographed during the tour, and permit PHLF to use your image in our communications.
This tour is handicap accessible. Please notify us of your needs 2 Business Days in advance of the tour.