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Light Up Night is a family festival in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania coinciding with the unofficial start of the Christmas holiday shopping season.Many retailers in Downtown Pittsburgh remain open late, and street vendors and other concessionaires sell food and give away hot beverages, treats and promotional items.
Picklesburgh is an annual pickle-themed festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.It has taken place in Downtown Pittsburgh every summer since 2015 (excluding 2020), [1] originally on the Three Sisters bridges and along the Allegheny Riverfront, before relocating to the Boulevard of the Allies and PPG Place for its 2023 installment.
DOP’s first Annual Event (AE) in 2016 invited over 3,000 visitors into 39 historic, commercial, residential, and government buildings in Downtown Pittsburgh. With that event, Pittsburgh joined the ranks of more than 40 cities with “doors open/open house” events around the world, including New York, Toronto, and Paris.
Tekko (formerly Tekkoshocon) is an annual four-day anime convention held during July at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [6] The convention has been held in various locations around the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and is run by a non-profit organization, the Pittsburgh Japanese Culture Society (PJCS).
Today, the park provides recreational space for workers, visitors, and residents in downtown Pittsburgh, and also acts as the site for major cultural events in the city, including the Venture Outdoors Festival, Three Rivers Arts Festival and Three Rivers Regatta. The park is operated by the Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks. [6]
Downtown Pittsburgh, colloquially referred to as the Golden Triangle, and officially the Central Business District, [2] is the urban downtown center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River whose joining forms the Ohio River. The triangle is bounded by the two ...
The Petersen Events Center (more commonly known as "The Pete" [3]) is a 12,508-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the Oakland neighborhood. The arena is named for philanthropists John Petersen and his wife Gertrude, who donated $10 million for its construction. [ 4 ]
"I came to Pittsburgh in 1992. And when I married my late husband, I married this festival," she said when interviewed by The Pittsburgh Press the day before the festival's Memorial Day weekend opening. The theme of that year's festival was "A Taste of the Old World." Live cooking demonstrations were sponsored by Equitable Gas. [24] [25]