The Penn Avenue Arts District in nearby Friendship/Garfield would like to invite you to our monthly art event, Unblurred: First Fridays on Penn. The complete schedule of events is below. Hope to see you there! View Past Unblurred Schedules Friday, May 1 1PM-11PM | TWEEK - 4913 PENN AVE. GRAND OPENING Stop by Penn Avenue's newest clothing store. Inventory is updated bi weekly all clothing is limited edition and time so once its gone its gone, keeping the clothes and styles fresh. The first 20 customers receive 20% off coupons and anyone who makes a purchase will be entered to win a 50$ gift card for the store. At 10pm enjoy music in the store while TWEEK films for a video blog about the opening complete with interviews of customers and more. www.tweekclothing.com. 5PM-2AM | ENVY - 4923 PENN AVE. DINNER, DJ & SPECIALS Stop by Envy from 5 – 9PM for $8 dinner special, happy hour & $2.20 drink special. From 9:30 – 10:30PM receive free admission to Unblurred After Party. $5 after 10:30. $2.50 & $3.30 drink special all night. Free food while it lasts. At 10PM enjoy our live DJ. 5:30PM-6:30PM | RETAIL SPACE - 5469 PENN AVE. GLASS LOFTS & ICE CREAM SOCIAL Create your own ice cream sundae and learn what's new with the Glass Lofts project! Stop by and let FDA staff tell you the in's and out's of the project, loft living and how to make the Glass Lofts your home! Free t-shirts will be given away throughout the night for the most creative sundaes! 412-441-6147. 5PM-7PM | BRILLOBOX - 4104 PENN AVE. SOFT ROCK HAPPY HOUR Come start your art-world wanderings listening to the smooth sounds of soft rock. $2 domestic bottle specials, $3 well drinks specials. 6PM-8PM | FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST - 5427 PENN AVE. TREE :: PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEY KENNEDY Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest will have their storefront office open to the public for the first time. View tree-themed photography by Joey Kennedy. www.pittsburghforest.org 6PM-8PM | VOLUTO COFFEE - 5467 PENN AVE. GYPSY PIANO BLUES Join Voluto Coffee on the street for some piano based blues rock and funk! Visit www.volutocoffee.com or www.myspace.com/gypsybluespiano for more information. FREE 6PM-9PM | PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER - 5472 PENN AVE. HOT JAM Free open house featuring heat defying acts of art in Pittsburgh Glass Center’s state-of the-art glass studios. Don’t miss the “Neighborhood Mosaic Project,” a glass mosaic panorama of Pittsburgh created by Daviea Davis and many students and community members. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 412-365-2145 ext. 201. www.pittsburghglasscenter.org. 6PM-9PM | EASTSIDE GALLERY - 6401 PENN AVE. (In the Village of EastSide) OPENING Featuring new work by CAPA High School students and live demos. Show runs through May 30th. 6PM-10PM | MOST WANTED FINE ART - 5015 PENN AVE. GENE FENTON SCREAM QUEEN Stencil works by Mohawk Mike and Gene Fenton scream queen art. Get your picture taken as a scream queen during our live photo shoot! Grand Snafu will perform at 9pm. www.most- wantedfineart.com. 6PM-11PM | STUDIO 5013 - 5013 PENN AVE. KIRSTEN ERVIN Stop by and take a look at the windows at Studio 5013. Kristen Ervin exhibits High School year book portraits from the 1970s. 7PM-10PM | ARTica, ART GALLERY & ANTIQUES - 5110 PENN AVE. QUILTS, ART, AND OTHER WOMEN'S WORK--FREE RED BULL DRINKS! An event featuring: Susan Constanse, Amy Kerlin & Christiane D's Art-onomic Stimulus Sale! Come meet and mingle with 3 of Pittsburgh's most dynamic and creative artists selling their original work at recession era prices; sample FREE RED BULL Energy Drinks get their 2009 contest info, plus see the branding created by La Roche College design students to give Passports and ARTica Gallery a face lift! Details at www.passportsart.blogspot.com 7PM-10PM | GARFIELD ARTWORKS - 4931 PENN AVE. WORKS BY ERIK GORR Paintings with a sense of humor and a touch of the macabre. Donation requested. 412-361-2262. www.garfieldartworks.com. 7PM-10PM | IMAGEBOX - 4933 PENN AVE. 66 SHOTS Recent Photographs by Scott Roller. Dignified decay, still- vibrant color, and surprising humor and beauty in photographs taken while tracing 2,876 miles of the original roadway of Route 66. Stately tin grain barns in Illinois, whitewashed billboards, a bizarrely cool bottle sculpture garden on the border of California and Arizona, and Native reservation skies that are the epitome of blue are among the pieces included in 66 SHOTS. For more information, call 412-441-0930. www.scottroller.com 7PM-10PM | KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER - 5941 PENN AVE. KST LIVE! SPRING MIXER Join us Friday, May 1st as we celebrate the return of spring with singers Sonji & Joy Ike. You’ll be inspired and opened up to the possibilities that the new season and songs promise. Enjoy new and old friends at the mixer and dance to the sounds of DJ Illeso starting at 7pm. All are welcome. Visit www.kelly- strayhorn.org or call 412.363.3000 ext 100. Tickets are $5. 7PM-10PM | MODERNFORMATIONS GALLERY & PERFORMANCE SPACE - 4919 PENN AVE. KEPT CLOSER: NEW WORKS BY JAMIE ADAMS, BRETT DOUGLAS DAVIS, AND ROB KATKOWSKI ModernFormations Gallery presents recent prints, drawings, and paintings that jointly discuss a renewed intimacy in the work of Jamie Adams, Brett Douglas Davis, and Rob Katkowski. The works included in this show detail the artists’ reevaluations of their driving influences. Familiar working materials have been renegotiated in order to probe ongoing themes. Essentially, all three artists have reassessed previous boundaries in an attempt to pin down a more personal understanding of the fuel and fodder of their images and craft. Exhibit runs to the 29th. www.modernformations.com 412.362.0274. 7PM-10PM | 5131 PENN - 5131 PENN AVE. AU NATUREL Kansas City's abstract artist, Melinda Esmond, collaborates with Pittsburgh photographers, Allison Pochapin and Mara Rago to create unique works of art. Melinda's organic style compliments Allison's landscapes taken in Joshua Tree, California and Mara's fine art nudes taken in the mountains of Boulder, Colorado. Come join us in welcoming Melinda to our city, get excited for Allison's first exhibit & just say hi to our old veteran Mara! 8PM-11PM | ATTACK THEATRE - 4805 PENN AVE. GAME NIGHT AND THE SEVEN-MINUTE DANCE SERIES Join Attack Theatre for some good old-fashioned schoolyard fun and games: Four-Square, backgammon, 3-D tic-tac-toe, vintage Atari games, darts and Connect Four. Between games, enjoy seven minutes of dance at 9 and 10pm featuring work from Attack Theatre's upcoming tour to North Carolina and St. Louis! Everyone is welcome, donations suggested. Sponsored in part by UPMC. www.attacktheatre.com 412.441.8444. 8PM-11PM | EDGE STUDIO - 5411 PENN AVE. AFTER BABYLON/ FUTURE IMPERFECT Architectural explorations of the post-apocalyptical landscape: Carnegie Mellon Architecture students confront our current socio-economic decay through a fictional narrative of their creation. Student’s design projects strive to reinterpret issues of globalization, environment, technology, mass- consumption, global pandemics, corporate greed, libertarian enclaves, and the hubris of mankind. Join us as we critique the dystopic reality of our built world. www.edge-studio.com 412.345.5005 10PM-2AM | BRILLOBOX - 4104 PENN AVE. PANDEMIC DJ DANCE PARTY Come end your art-world wanderings by getting down with the global groove sounds of Pandemic. Saturday, May 2 5PM-2AM | ENVY - 4923 PENN AVE. DINNER, DJ & SPECIALS Stop by Envy from 5 – 10PM for $8 dinner special, happy hour & $2.50 drink special. $5 after 10:30. Free food while it lasts. At 10PM enjoy our live DJ. 8PM-11PM | GARFIELD ARTWORKS - 4931 PENN AVE. EMPIRE Distortion Productions presents the monthly gothic/industrial night, featuring live performances by national bands Bella Morte (Charlottesville, VA) and Ego Likeness (Baltimore), with locals Jordan Decay and DJ Mizz Jenacyde. $12-$15. All ages welcome. 412-361-2262. www.garfieldartworks.com Friday, May 8 7PM-9PM | UNION PROJECT - 801 N. NEGLEY AVE. UPWORDS READING SERIES Ave Fiction Lalita Noronha, Poet Sharon McDermott. For more info visit http://www.unionproject.org/About_Us/events/UPWords FREE. Saturday, May 9 10AM-4PM | PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER - 5472 PENN AVE. SPRING STUDIO SALE + MAKE-IT-NOW FLOWERS A garden of glass is growing at PGC. Stop by for the annual Spring Studio Sale. Local artists with have all types of glass art for sale. One day only! The sale runs in conjunction with our Make-It-Now Glass Flower event. You can buy a glass flower or make your own for $25. Make-It-Now” workshops are an opportunity to try glass making on-the-spot in 20 minutes or less. For more information, call 412-365-2145 ext. 201. www.pittsburghglasscenter.org. 11AM-4PM | BAUM GROVE - Corner of Roup, Fairmount & Harriet FRIENDSHIP FLOWER & FOLK FESTIVAL The birds will be singing, the flowers blooming and your neighbors will be swinging at the annual Friendship Flower and Folk Festival! The event features folk music, fresh flowers and good times! Jam to folk music and get your garden started and purchase beautiful, locally-grown plants, heirloom vegetables and special Mother's Day Baskets. Enjoy all day long events including grilled food, book sale, Penn Avenue artist vendor tables and a raffle. Live demonstrations by the Pittsburgh Glass Center, skateboarding with Mr. Smalls, Fresh Heirlooms, Voluto and Zumba by Penn Avenue's Jennifer Quinio. Cool kid stuff too, including a special kids raffle and street room for wheels! 412-441-6147 x 7. Sunday, May 17 6:30PM-11PM | THE NEW HAZLETT THEATER - 6 ALLEGHENY SQUARE EAST (Northside) AN EVENING WITH SEAN JONES A Benefit to Support Dance Alloy Theater. Join Pittsburgh's consummate jazz musician, lead trumpet for The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, accompanied by his band Mission Statement, for an evening that promises to thrill & entertain! Indulge in a blend of gourmet culinary delights, and a cocktail or two, as Jones shares his internationally renowned trumpet skills. Have your checkbook or credit card ready as DAT auctions off prizes you won’t believe! All proceeds benefit Dance Alloy Theater--as Sean Jones helps support DAT's outstanding artistic & educational programming. Call 412-363-4321 or visit www.dancealloy.org for more information. 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