Steel City Con traditional sources and
original compositions.
Tickets can be
purchased online.
Healing and holistic services and
products, presentations by industry
professionals, and more. A Comic Con that has over 100,000
square feet of convention space; there
will be dealers and artists, contests,
celebrities, and more! ‘The Traveler’
presented by
Edgewood Symphony
Orchestra
PAN Spring Coin Show Western PA Italian Festival
Mind, Body and Holistic Healing
Expo & Convention
Dates: March 14-15
Address: Monroeville Convention
Center, 209 Mall Boulevard, Monroeville
Contact: simoneventmanagement.com
Dates: May 7-9
Address: Monroeville Convention
Center, 209 Mall Boulevard, Monroeville
Contact: pancoins.org
Opportunities to learn about and buy,
sell, or trade coins, paper money, tokens,
medals, gold, silver, and bullion. There
is also the PAN Kids Zone program
on Saturday.
Phipps Spring Flower Show:
Canopy of Color
Dates: March 21 to Apr. 19
Address: Phipps Conservatory and
Botanical Gardens, 1 Schenley Drive,
Pittsburgh (Oakland)
Contact: phipps.conservatory.org, or
412.622.6914
Signature displays will delight not only
in beds below, but baskets and designs
above, creating a world of color waiting to
be explored.
21st Annual Pittsburgh Arts &
Crafts Spring Fever Festival
Dates: March 20-22
Times: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Sunday, 10-4)
Address: Monroeville Convention
Center, 209 Mall Boulevard, Monroeville
Contact: familyfestivals.com
One of the area’s biggest festivals—
over 180 booths of a wide variety of arts
and crafts!
Pittsburgh Fringe Festival
Dates: Apr. 2-5
Address: Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh
(Bloomfield/Garfield)
Contact: pittsburghfringe.org
Music, dance,
theater, comedy,
performance
art, visual
art, and more!
Dates: Apr. 17-19
Address: Monroeville Convention
Center, 209 Mall Boulevard, Monroeville
Contact: steelcitycon.com
Dates: May 29-31
Address: Monroeville Convention
Center, 209 Mall Boulevard, Monroeville
Contact: simoneventmanagement.com
Billed as the largest indoor Italian
festival in PA!
WILKPEX by Wilkinsburg
Stamp Club
Dates: Apr. 17-18
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Address: Gateway Hall/Monroeville Fire
Company No. 4, 4370 Northern Pike,
Monroeville
Contact: wilkinsburgstampclub.com/
wilkpex.php
Exhibits and sales related to stamp
collecting, including a youth area.
Concerts & Shows
The Brass Roots: ‘Movies,
Movies, Movies!’
Date: May 22
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Address: East Liberty Presbyterian
Church, 116 South Highland Avenue,
Pittsburgh (East Liberty)
Contact: thebrassroots.com
Iconic themes arranged for brass,
percussion and organ by composer
Danny Elfman for the “Batman” and
“Beetlejuice” films like you’ve never
heard before!
Le Vent du Nord Presented
by Calliope
Date: Apr. 25
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Address: Carnegie Lecture
Hall, 4400 Forbes Avenue,
Pittsburgh (Oakland)
Contact: calliopehouse.org
Calliope, an organization for
the promotion and preservation
of traditional and contemporary
folk music, hosts this award-winning
and acclaimed band, which features
button accordion, guitar and fiddle
in a repertoire drawing from both
Date: March 14
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Address: Katz Performing Arts Center
– JCC, 5738 Darlington Road, Pittsburgh
(Squirrel Hill)
Contact: edgewoodsymphony.org, or
412.473.8880
Journey around magical Pittsburgh
with the evocative compositions of Mark
Fromm, Paul Critser and James Whipple,
to Stravinsky’s elegant and whimsical
Pulcinella Suite, and ending with
Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony.
‘Miss Nelson is Missing!’ by the
Greasepaint Players
Dates: March 20-21
Address: Greensburg Civic Theatre,
951 Old Salem Road, Greensburg
Contact: gctheatre.org, or 724.414.1220
When the teacher of a crazy class
disappears, her tough substitute soon
makes the kids want to solve the mystery
and get their teacher back!
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at
Greensburg Civic Theatre
Dates: Apr. 30 to May 2
Address: 951 Old Salem Road,
Greensburg
Contact: gctheatre.org, or 724.414.1220
The famous Tennessee Williams
play about a Southern family in crisis,
especially husband and wife Brick and
Maggie, and their interaction with Brick’s
family over the course of one evening’s
gathering at the family plantation
home in Mississippi. (Adult themes/
situations.)
The Lamp Theatre Presents
Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
Date: Apr. 3
Time: 8 p.m.
Address: 222 Main Street, Irwin
Contact: lamptheatre.org, or
724.367.4000
This celebrated bluegrass band,
with contemporary touches on classic
bluegrass, returns to The Lamp!
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