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.

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