The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy announced today that the newly refurbished PNC Carousel in Oakland’s Schenley Plaza, one of city’s most cherished park attractions, has reopened to the public.

On behalf of DEMASKUS Theater Collective, a national service-oriented collective of artists and administrators seeking to make known the messages of the marginalized through the production and presentation of quality, compassionate, and inclusive artistic events. We are excited to announce that tickets are currently on sale for BLACK MARY, an interactive experience honoring the life and times of Mary Fields, the first African American female United States Star Route mail carrier. The production is presented by DEMASKUS and in association with Post Theatrical, a festival of plays that use the post as a theatrical medium conceived and coordinated by RealTime Interventions.

Irma Freeman Center for Imagination is proud to present F.A.E. (Friends Are Everywhere), an exhibition by Anthony Queen and Casper Pauclul.

F.A.E. opens on Friday, April 2nd, 2021 with a reception from 3 - 7 PM. The show will be up through April, with a soft closing on April 18th - 19th. Gallery Hours will be on Sundays from 2 - 5 pm, or by appointment. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination is located on 5006 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224.

Family history researchers can celebrate their Irish roots safely from home this year during the Senator John Heinz History Center’s seventh annual Irish Genealogy Workshop, which will be presented virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, March 30 at 9 a.m.

Maggie Negrete is a Pittsburgh-based illustrator and designer known internationally as Art Director for Women in Sound, a diy zine and now, a podcast on Sonos Radio. Her personal work includes comics, hand-lettering and drawings that incorporate her experience as a mother and witch.

Carnegie Museum of Art presents Reign of Winter (2012-2013), an animated video work by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh, as the next installment of its online exhibition series. Haerizadeh’s film is accessible to audiences worldwide now through May 16, 2021 on cmoa.org.

Searching for Home—a solo exhibition of Seattle-based, Pakistan-born artist Humaira Abid—opens at Contemporary Craft on Friday, April 9 and runs through Saturday, August 21, 2021. This powerful exhibition presents a human-scaled look at the worldwide refugee crisis, focusing on women and girls, who make up a disproportionate percentage of the millions of people who have fled their home countries as a result of political conflict and strife, ethnic cleansing and persecution, domestic abuse, climate change and crimes against humanity.

Following the success of its inaugural virtual marketplace this past December, Handmade Arcade is thrilled to announce the launch of its first hyperlocal marketplace for makers in Allegheny County. This virtual event, which will run from April 30 through May 2, provides a new opportunity for locally-minded shoppers to connect with and support the resilient makers who face incredible challenges in maintaining business during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Daisy Lampkin, a dynamic Pittsburgh woman who was a leader in the civil rights and women’s suffrage movements and who lived on Webster Avenue in Pittsburgh for most of her adult life is the Miniature Railroad & Village honoree in 2020. Mrs. Lampkin started her public career in 1912 and her priorities were organizing efforts to end discrimination against and oppression of all African Americans

Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) unveils Diane Severin Nguyen’s video work Tyrant Star (2019) as the third installment of its online exhibition series. The museum’s inaugural presentation of Tyrant Star corresponds with the museum’s acquisition of the artwork for its permanent collection. Now through February 14, 2021, audiences can experience Nguyen’s film on cmoa.org.

This holiday season, Western Pa. families can relive cherished memories and make new ones at the Senator John Heinz History Center. The “Smithsonian’s home in Pittsburgh” has announced that it has extended FREE admission for kids (age 17 and under) through the end of 2020, thanks to the support of community partner Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

This holiday season, the award-winning Senator John Heinz History Center Museum Shop is a one-stop shop for uniquely Pittsburgh gifts.

Located at 1212 Smallman Street in the Strip District and online at shop.heinzhistorycenter.org, the History Center Museum Shop offers hundreds of one-of-a-kind gifts for the Pittsburgh fans on visitors’ holiday shopping lists.

The University Library System (ULS) at the University of Pittsburgh has acquired the archive of the late playwright and Pittsburgh native son August Wilson, best known for his unprecedented American Century Cycle—10 plays that convey the Black experience in each decade of the 20th century. All 10 of the plays have had Broadway productions and two earned Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives of the Senator John Heinz History Center will host a private ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 1 to accept the donation of a special object: the Act of Valor Award given to Pittsburgh Police Officer Tim Matson for his bravery in the line of duty during the attack at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018.