Local Pittsburgh happenings in arts, performance, culture, etc.
Nov. 25 – Dec. 1
Through Jan. 18, 2025, Contemporary Craft, 5645 Butler Street
Ikebana (生け花), the Japanese art of flower arrangement, can be translated as “giving life to flowers.” It involves flower selection and combination, flower positioning, vessel design, and decoration. The form, celebrated in Lawrenceville studio Contemporary Craft’s new exhibit, is strikingly ancient (dating back to the Heian Period) and ephemeral. Artists, including Carnegie Mellon Professor Emerita Carol Kumata, Yoko Sekino-Bové, and Tadao Arimoto, paradoxically use precise technique to capture natural beauty.
Nov. 30, 2 p.m., Carnegie Museum of Art, Art Theater, $8
The newest installment of the Carnegie Museum of Art’s art film series, […], is a screening of seven short films that each explore the concept and the material of the archive. Archives, including art museums, are facilities that contain primary source materials of all types. But is the archive objective? Who gets to control and access the archive? What is included and what is excluded in the archive? The artists riff on these questions in each of their films. Programmer Astria Suparak explains how the title reflects this theme, describing it as “Lapses of time, a pause (dot, dot, dot) An indeterminate amount of words omitted or disappeared [from the archive].”
Nov. 30 – Dec. 22, City Theater
This post-Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice” holiday play is the second installment of a trilogy by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. This one tells the story of how, “Mr. Wickham — the uninvited husband of Lydia and sworn enemy of Mr. Darcy — appears in the middle of the night.” Last winter’s “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” began a collaboration between City Theater and Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. This year, several faculty members, current students, and alumni are involved, including director Kyle Haden, dramaturg Lindsay Barr, and actors Anna Bakun, Evan Vines, and Alex Sheffield.
Most days at 10 a.m., prices vary, 1049 Penn Ave
Bike the Burgh offers 3 hour or 6–9 mile tours of Pittsburgh’s historical sites, public art, and various neighborhoods by bike. Their main tour route, Beauty of the Burgh, covers all of the must-see, tourist-y Pittsburgh sites. They also offer their Gems of Pittsburgh Tour, which focuses on North Side spots you might be more unfamiliar with. These tours offer a fun and active way to explore a lot of Pittsburgh in a shorter amount of time.
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