Out & About category, Page 13

The homecoming Blue & Gold Celebration 2019 at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg includes the third annual Art Show @Pitt-Greensburg, sponsored by the alumni association. Running through Founders Day on Oct. 10, the show in Millstein Library features 126 works by 49 amateur and professional artists, including students, faculty,...

Art exhibition jurors often say how difficult it is to choose pieces for a show, not to mention the added difficulty of choosing those deserving of awards. Imagine the difficulty, then, of having multiple jurors come to a meeting of the minds. That was the scenario for Seton Hill University’s...

Following its Sept. 12 world premiere in Uniontown, “Kecksburg” finally made its Westmoreland County debut. Westmoreland Historical Society hosted a Sept. 28 showing of the new movie in the Westmoreland History Education Center at Historic Hanna’s Town. Director/producer Cody Knotts was on hand to introduce his take on the infamous...

The Cheap ‘N Chic shopping benefit, held Sept. 26 in the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center, accomplished two purposes. First, it raised money for the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra. Second (some might put this first), it helped a roomful of thrifty fashionistas to look good on a budget. “This is the...

What better way to kick off Greensburg Craft Beer Week than with Blues, Brews & BBQ? Held Sept. 20 in the downtown Helman-Ghrist Parking Lot, the event was hosted by Westmoreland Cultural Trust and organized by Kelli Brisbane, the trust’s director of corporate engagement and events. The blues came courtesy...

Organizers did a bang-up job with Fort Ligonier’s Cannon Ball, securing 450 RSVPs for the annual fundraiser. There was plenty to draw a crowd to the Sept. 20 event, not least the prospect of bidding on a rare 1911 bottle of Old Overholt Rye during the live auction. For those...

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will have a part in an upcoming segment of the PBS news magazine series “Retro Report.” “Retro Report” is doing a piece on Frances Moore Lappé, author of “Diet for a Small Planet,” a pioneering 1971 book on the global impact of meat production...

The Fred Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College was the setting for a Sept. 21 reception prior to a concert by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh in Saint Vincent Basilica. Reception attendees gave a warm welcome to Manfred Honeck, PSO musical director and renowned conductor,...

Around these parts, re-enactors are usually portraying figures from the French and Indian or Revolutionary wars. For the first installment of the 2019-20 History Dinner Theater Series, the Foster and Muriel McCarl Coverlet Gallery at Saint Vincent College ventured a little further back in time. On Sept. 14 in the...

An art show that is “a testimony to the strength, work, voice and beauty of all women” is on display through Sept. 30 in the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center. Appropriately titled “The Art of Woman,” the exhibition features 35 pieces by Mary Ellen Raneri of Latrobe and Raven Cintron...

Students at the Westmoreland County Community College Youngwood campus can see what their artistic peers are up to by popping into the art gallery in the Science Innovation Center. A new show of student art opened with a Sept. 4 reception and continues through Sept. 20. And it’s not just...

A group of sharp-dressed men and women gathered Sept. 7 in the Greensburg Country Club to lend support to Our Clubhouse, a Pittsburgh- and Greensburg-based nonprofit that provides support to lives touched by cancer, via the third annual GOAL Magazine Gala. You may have seen a complimentary copy of Latrobe-based...

The nights are getting a little cooler and darkness is coming a little earlier, but summer isn’t over quite yet. There’s still one more chance to say “Thank Goodness It’s Summer,” at the final installment of the Westmoreland Cultural Trust’s free TGIS summer concert series on Sept. 5. Jeff Perigo...

Greensburg Art Center’s inaugural Young Artists Show was hung on the walls of the center’s all-purpose kitchen-classroom. Next year, it might have to take over the main gallery. The one-afternoon show took place Aug. 25, highlighting the work of children ages 3 to 18 who took summer art classes or...

A unique waterside dining option is open inside Aspinwall Riverfront Park. Farmer x Baker, a repurposed shipping container-turned-cafe nestled along the Allegheny River in the scenic 10-acre park, is the first of its kind in Pittsburgh. All 160 square feet of it. The eco-friendly creation of owner Jennifer Urich, Farmer...

Nighttime drivers on Route 711 south of Ligonier will see a glowing orb as they pass the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley. It’s “Dark Planet,” a newly installed sculpture by artist David Harber of Oxfordshire, England, donated to the museum by Donald Green, in memory of his...