The Tartan

Happenings in Pittsburgh arts, culture, etc.

1. Market — Vintage Pittsburgh — Featured Event

• April 5, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., Heinz History Center, free
• The Neighborhood Flea and the Heinz History Center are hosting the 11th iteration of this sale for vintage clothing and goods. Check out the “Louise Silk: A Patchwork Life” textile exhibit while you’re there.

2. Workshop — April Hot Jam — Featured Event

• April 4, 6–9 p.m., Pittsburgh Glass Center, free or $35
• The Pittsburgh Glass Center’s open house occurs on the first Friday of each month. Explore the studio, attend workshops and demonstrations, meet artists-in-residence, and, for $35, make your own glass art.

3. Historic Site —  Old Economy Village

• April 1–Dec. 31, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Sunday 12–4 p.m., Ambridge, $10
• This nearby village’s cobblestone streets, vast gardens, and historic buildings are open to the public for the season starting April 1. 

4. Film — “Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse”

• April 7–9, various times, Harris Theater, $9
• This documentary tracks the career of author and cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus,” which represents the Holocaust allegorically — with Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs.

5. Performance — Story Club PGH Presents: Story Slam! (Second Chances) 

• April 1, 7–8:30 p.m., City of Asylum, Story Club, free
• This themed monthly event is an open-mic performance but for nonfiction stories.

6. Musical — “Jesus Christ Superstar” 

• April 3–13, 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. times, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, Byham Theater, price varies
• Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock-opera musical retells the Gospels’ endings through Judas’ eyes.

7. Workshop & Art Exhibit — August and the Four B’s Workshop 

• April 5, 10–11 a.m., The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, free
• DS Kinsel, the artist behind this month’s “August Taught Us…” exhibition, hosts a workshop based on Wilson’s source of education and inspiration, “The Four B’s”: The Blues, Romare Bearden’s art, Amiri Baraka’s writing, and Jorge Luis Borges’s stories.