Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Education and Community Engagement Department Announce 'Distinctively Dutch' Gallery Crawl, 4/27

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Education and Community Engagement Department will present the "Distinctively Dutch" Gallery Crawl on Friday, April 27, 2012, from 5:30-9 p.m.

This spring's crawl features a dozen Dutch visual artists exhibiting in all four of the Cultural Trust's galleries, two-dozen venues and activities and performances throughout the Cultural District. The evening culminates with the world premiere of Dutch composer JacobTV's THE NEWS, a remix of popular media and culture set to live orchestration, vocal performance and video. The 90-minute world premiere begins at 9 p.m. at the Byham Theater. Tickets may be purchased at trustarts.org; Box Office at Theater Square; and by calling 412-456-6666.

Gallery Crawl Events

Wood Street Galleries—601 Wood Street
Global Navigators
Peter Bogers and Guido van der Werve
Part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival
Global Navigators explores and embodies our fascination with global cultures through various media, forms and processes.

SPACE—812 Liberty Avenue
Global Navigators
Marc Boulos, Gerard Holthuis, Folkert de Jong, Geert Mul, Marnix de Nijs, and Karen Sargsyan
Part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival
Global Navigators explores and embodies our fascination with global cultures through various media, forms and processes.

Music by DJ Soy Sos

WYEP Music Station
WYEP Live Remote Broadcast outside of SPACE

Tito and Exchange Way
Cell Phone Disco
A surface that visualizes the electromagnetic field of an active mobile phone. Several thousand lights illuminate when you make or receive a phone call in the vicinity of the installation.

803 Liberty Avenue
VIA Presents Gentrification Battlefield
Jeroen Beekmans and Joop de Boer & Coen Rens of Golfstromen
Part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival
Elderly inhabitants of Amsterdam-Noord fight for possession against advancing hipsters and yuppies. By presenting the process of gentrification as a real battle, the game provides insight into the political and social complexities of the Netherlands.

Shaw Galleries—805 Liberty Avenue
Degas: The Monotypes
A selection of heliogravure prints after Edgar Degas' famous monotypes, from a rare edition posthumously printed in 1948 by Les Ateliers G. Bouan & Dreux-Barry, Paris.

Trust Arts Education Center—805-807 Liberty Avenue
Peirce Studio (Lower Level):
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase
PPS solo and small group performances. Also featuring Pittsburgh Westinghouse Academy hip hop performance “Blow Ya Mind.”

3rd & 4th floors:
Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Visual Arts Showcase
All-City K-12 Visual Arts and Cultures Exhibitions

Harris Theater—809 Liberty Avenue
Harris Theater Short Films
Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents locally made short films shown on a loop throughout the evening.
Tiny Harris Gallery: In a Different Light by the artist collective, Ag Works.

Catholic Charities Susan Zubik Welcome Center—212 Ninth Street
MCG Youth and Arts Program
Founded in 1968, Manchester Craftmens Guild Youth & Arts’ mission is to educate and inspire urban youth through the arts.

937 Liberty Avenue
1st Floor: Bricolage
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Train Station
Bricolage is turning its theater into a train station for its upcoming play Dutchman. Experience the atmosphere, enjoy the buskers, and even add some "graffiti" to the wall.

2nd floor:
Strange Radiance
Emily Newman and John Pearson
Artists from Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, whose visual language orbits each other and collides at points, collaborate to create a video installation.

943 Liberty Avenue
Path: Installation by Elin Hansdottir
A special maze-like installation incorporating light and space. Held over from “Long are the Days, Short are the Nights,” an exhibit at Wood Street Galleries.

Toonseum—945 Liberty Avenue
Grand opening of the Sprout Fund Comics Courtyard
Join us for the grand opening of the ToonSeum's new outdoor comics reading area! Free comic books, entertainment and more!

Will Eisner's New York
Rarely seen original works are featured in this remarkable exhibition celebrating one of comics most iconic and legendary creators.

Lou Scheimer Gallery at the ToonSeum:
This #*?! Isn't Very Funny: Comics and Drawings by Jim Rugg
An exhibition of acclaimed comics artist Jim Rugg in his first solo exhibition! Exhibition is recommended for adults only.

Tonic—971 Liberty Avenue, 2nd floor Gallery. NOT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE
It Is What It Is
People. Art. Music. Drinks. Food.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture—980 Liberty Avenue
Theater: Pittsburgh Public Schools All-City Music Showcase
All-City Culturally Responsive Arts Education Performing Ensembles Concert and Exhibit

Strength in the Struggle: Civil Rights
A new exhibition featuring two distinct displays: 381 Days is a Smithsonian Institution exhibit about the genesis of the Civil Rights Movement. Bridge Builders is a local exhibit celebrating influential African American women involved in the women's movement during 1967-1987.

Josh Gibson: Negro League Legend
Features a 100-year timeline and photographs of the life of the Negro League baseball player and his continuing legacy.

Pittsburgh: Reclaim, Renew, Remix

CAPA Gallery—111 Ninth Street
Art as a Record and Reflection of Time
Student work circles the perimeter of the gallery to represent a literal and conceptual timeline, highlighting major art movements and significant historical events from the Stone Age to present day.

Urban Pathways 6-12 Gallery—914 Penn Avenue
SPRING IT!
Urban Pathways Charter School student artwork showcase, with a special Poetry Extravaganza from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Sounds of Steel Pan performances: 5:30pm to 6:30pm and 7:30pm to 8:30pm.

Future Tenant—819 Penn Avenue
Broken Slogan
Featuring work by Jonathan Chamberlain, John Phillip Abbott, and Arthur Mohagen III. Each artist's work maintains a rich visual vocabulary incorporating the use of text, both as image and subject.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council—810 Penn Avenue, Suite 200
Art on the Walls
Digital and mixed media artist, Gwyn Rohrer, focuses her work on the feminine and female struggles through the use of the human body, landscapes, sewing, embroidery, and fabric patterns.

709 Penn Gallery—709 Penn Avenue
Girls ‘N’ Guns
Rachel Nieborg and Ine Mulder
Part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival
The famed “still life” of old masters is reinterpreted by two young Dutch artists. Working with a metronome to fine tune the precision timing, one would literally shoot a gun while the other shot photographs.

707 Penn Gallery—707 Penn Avenue
Global Navigators
Guido van der Werve
Part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival
Global Navigators explores and embodies our fascination with global cultures through various media, forms and processes.

Katz Plaza—7th St. and Penn Avenue
Live Music by The Color Fleet

Backstage Bar—655 Penn Avenue
I Want to Ride My Bicycle
A large triptych bicycle painting, created by kids at The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and facilitated by Bob Ziller during his artist residency in March 2012.

Live Music by Cool Breeze, 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Verve Wellness—142 Sixth Street, Third Floor
kNOT Dance Presents One Lonely House (Preview of a Work in Progress)
What connections do we make with others, only to open our door to feel like one lonely house on the hill? See, feel, and hear the connections between individuals in this sneak preview: 7:30pm, 8:30pm, and 9:30pm.

Heinz Hall Garden—corner of Penn Ave. and 6th St.
5:30pm to 6:30pm
In celebration of opening night of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Paris Festival: The City of Light (April 27 – May 13) enjoy live Parisian street music in the Heinz Hall Garden with beautiful waterfall display and Arpeggio steel sculpture by British artist Angela Conner. *Please note that in the instance of inclement weather, this event will be cancelled.

AFTER THE CRAWL
JacobTV in “The News” WORLD PREMIERE
Byham Theater, 9:00pm
Part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival
Special discount offer! $5 off per ticket, use code: GALLERY
Called the “Andy Warhol of new music” by the Dutch press, classical music outlaw and avant-pop composer JacobTV presents the world premiere of his new reality opera, The News. This unique synthesis of speech, music and video is performed by JacobTV and contemporary classical music ensemble, Fulcrum Point.
For tickets, 412-456-6666, trustarts.org/dutchfestival or the Box Office at Theater Square.

PROJECT POP UP: DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS
Awesome Books—929 Liberty Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
An independent bookstore offering new and used books of high quality.
The Steel Curtain—1035 Penn Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
The greatest defensive line of all time comes alive in this installation.
131 Seventh Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
Society for the Advancement of Miniature Curiosa
A gallery, toy theater parlor, performance space, and workshop that seeks to spark the resurgence of curiosity and wonderment in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Symbiotic Collusion
A modern music initiative presenting visual and musical art concepts through installation, education, and performance.

Boutique 208—208 Sixth Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
A retail boutique featuring handmade wares from local artisans.
Robot Repairs—210 Sixth Street
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
Is your robot experiencing technical difficulties? Consider visiting this place for a potential fix.
Dream Cream Ice Cream Parlor—539 Liberty Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
More than just a great place for a scoop. A portion of designated flavor sales will be contributed to causes in exchange for community service of the recipient, aka “the dreamer.”
Summer Sky Eternal—604 Liberty Avenue
Part of Project PopUp: Downtown
No matter what the season, this inter¬active digital installation will make you feel a bit warmer on the city street.

ALL INFORMATION AND LOCATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE!
Sponsors: City Paper, WYEP 91.3 FM, Kreider Printing, Table Magazine

All official Gallery Crawl locations will be marked with a Cultural District Stop sidewalk sign.

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