URBAN GARDEN PARTY

Soul Factory: Motown at the Museum

Friday, June 21, 2013
7 - 11pm

Save the date for the 2013 Mattress Factory Urban Garden Party, the summer event you don’t want to miss. This year's party, Soul Factory: Motown at the Museum, will feature live entertainment, dancing, over 40 local food and beverage vendors, audience participation, a costume contest and a silent art auction. Each year, a sell-out crowd comes out to help support the museum’s mission and celebrate this unique Pittsburgh institution, so don't wait to get your tickets! For more information please click here or call (412) 231-3169.

MUSEUM CLOSED

Friday, June 21, 2013
10am - 5pm

PLEASE NOTE THE MUSEUM WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY, JUNE 21 AND SATURDAY, JUNE 22 TO ACCOMMODATE OUR ANNUAL FUNDRAISER, THE URBAN GARDEN PARTY.

For ticket information please click here or call (412) 231-3169.

MUSEUM CLOSED

Saturday, June 22, 2013
10am - 5pm

PLEASE NOTE THE MUSEUM WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY, JUNE 21 AND SATURDAY, JUNE 22 TO ACCOMMODATE OUR ANNUAL FUNDRAISER, THE URBAN GARDEN PARTY.

For ticket information please click here or call (412) 231-3169.

2013 Community Garden Party

Sunday, June 23, 2013
1 - 5 p.m.
FREE activities for the entire family

Join us at the Mattress Factory for a FREE community day celebrating our neighbors!

Hands-on activities will include screen printing with AIR (Artist Image Resource); an interactive animated collage inspired by Smokey Robinson's Motown hit, "Cruisin'" by the puppeteers from The Schmutz Company; an art-making activity using old vinyl record albums with Assemble, a community space for Arts + Technology; creating work to add to our MoTOWN art installation; and crafting instruments from recycled materials for a noise party.

Throughout the afternoon music will be provided by DJ Andrew Edmonds' Vinyl Showcase, and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh will be on site along with Reading is FUNdamental to share and read with guests. Purchase lunch from the Pittsburgh Taco Truck, participate in theater workshops and impromptu performances by The Zany Umbrella Circus, or hang out with the Allegheny YMCA to watch a screening of Art21: New York Close Up.

SCHEDULE:

1:15PM     Hip-Hop Performance with Pittsburgh Heat Hip-Hop Dance Company on Main Stage
2PM     Prop-Manipulation Workshop with Zany Umbrella Circus in Cafe Courtyard
2:15pm     Hip-Hop Dance Workshop with Pittsburgh Heat Hip-Hop Dance Company in Lower Level
2:45pm    Prop-Manipulation Performance with Zany Umbrella Circus + Workshop Participants on Main Stage
3pm     Acting Through a Mask Workshop with Zany Umbrella Circus in Cafe Courtyard
3:15pm     Break-dancing / Popping Workshop with Pittsburgh Heat Hip-Hop Dance Company in Lower Level
3:45pm     Acting Through a Mask Performance with Zany Umbrella Circus + Workshop Participants on Main Stage
4pm    Clown Class with Zany Umbrella Circus in Cafe Courtyard
4:45pm     Clown Performance with Zany Umbrella Circus + Workshop Participants on Main Stage

ALL DAY:
Vinyl Record Re-do with Assemble
Hangin' with Carnegie Library
Silkscreening in with Artist Image Resource
Animation with the Schmutz Company
Book Share with Reading is FUNdamental
Noise Party!
Build a MoTown
Pittsburgh Taco Truck
Live Music by DJ Andrew Edmonds' Vinyl Showcase

Admission to, and activities at Community Garden Party are free and open to the public. All ages are welcome, but children must be accompanied by an adult.

MUSEUM CLOSED

The museum is closed July 4, 2013 in observance of Independence Day.