Things to do in Western Pa.: March 31, 2021

Have you ever wanted to hear “Old McDonald” played by an orchestra? Learn more about Bigfoot or acupuncture? Dance to some funk in the privacy of your own home?

Now is your chance, with these upcoming events.

The details are here, in this week’s Big List.

Art

• Online art crawl: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is offering “Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District: Virtual Edition” with releases in March, April and May. The first stop, available now, explores “202021: a new constellation,” a public art installation also on view in-person in the Cultural District. Curated by Tereneh Idia, it includes work by 12 Pittsburgh-based artists.

The crawl, with photos and audio commentary, can be seen at crawl.trustarts.org.

• Get the point: The “Acupuncture Photography Project,” a collaboration of photographer Autumn Stankay and acupuncturist Emily Andrews, will run April 9-May 9 in The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. The exhibition features a series of photographs representing the ancient medicine of acupuncture in the modern world.

Details: thewestmoreland.org

• Picture This at the Library: “Reflective Roles,” with Maura Taylor’s recent oil and acrylics with a twist on fairy tale characters, is available for viewing through May 13 during regular hours at the Greensburg Hempfield Area Library, 237 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Greensburg. Exhibit is sponsored by Greensburg Art Center.

Details: greensburgart center.org

Kids’ stuff

• Legends and myths: Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and MuseumLab has launched “The Cryptid Critter Crawl,” with eight outdoor installations created by Pittsburgh-based interactive artist Owen Lowery. Sculptures located on the grounds of the museum in Pittsburgh’s North Side portray creatures from myth and legend such as Bigfoot, Nessie and Mothman.

Signs direct viewers to a mobile website, cryptidcrittercrawl.com, that offers each cryptid’s back story, audio tales, a map and supplemental materials such as coloring sheets. Access to the installation is free.

Details: pittsburghkids.org

• What’s that sound?: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Fiddlesticks Family Concert Series is offering a “Sound All Around” activities kit for children ages 3-8. Activities help kids investigate sounds around us and how they are made. Order deadline is April 16 for $10 kit to be shipped in late April.

Details: pittsburgh symphony.org

Music

• Get funky: Progressive funk band Trailheads will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday in Greensburg’s The Palace Theatre, as part of the weekly VIP Experience live­stream concert series featuring regional acts. The free concert will stream on The Palace Theatre and Westmoreland Cultural Trust Facebook pages.

Details: thepalacetheatre.org

• Down-home sounds: “American Traditions,” a new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra program of folk songs, gospel and blues, will premiere online at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Led by Principal Pops Conductor Byron Stripling, the program was recorded March 12 in Heinz Hall and celebrated American music from “Old MacDonald Had A Farm” to “Blues Suite for String Quartet.”

Link to the program is $15, available at pittsburghsymphony.org.

• The ‘Bird’: Pittsburgh Opera will offer a free livestream of its upcoming production, “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird,” at 7:30 p.m. April 16 on its YouTube channel and Facebook page. Seats for in-person performances April 10-22 are sold out, although a wait list is available for seats that may become available.

Details: pittsburghopera.org

Shopping

• Now that’s a garage sale: Car Bazaar: Parking Garage Flea Market is open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays in April in the Sixth and Penn Parking Garage in downtown Pittsburgh. Makers, artists and other sellers spread out over multiple floors for a socially distanced event offering new, vintage, second-hand or recycled items from car trunks. Hot food and craft cocktails from Downtown restaurant partners and live music also are featured.

Details: downtownpittsburgh.com

Theater

• Audio stories: Quantum Theatre will present “10 for 21,” an audio experience based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century work, “The Decameron,” a series of tales told by people sheltering in a villa near Florence, Italy, to escape the Black Death. Quantum’s production features 10 actors telling tales on walks through iconic Pittsburgh locations. “10 for 21” will be available beginning April 5 at quantumtheatre.com.