PIPS:lab DIE SPACE, Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Thursday/Friday/Saturday, March 22/23/24, 2012 at 8:00PM
Trust Arts Education Center – Pittsburgh, PA
PIPS:lab’s US Premiere of DIE SPACE at the Distinctively Dutch Festival in Pittsburgh, PA
Wunderbaum presents World Premiere of ‘Detroit Dealers’ at the Distinctively Dutch Festival in Pittsburgh
Detroit Dealers, Photo: Courtesy of the artist
February 23-25, 2012 at 8:00PM
Trust Arts Education Center – Pittsburgh, PA
Date: January 18, 2012
Source: Beaver Country Times
News Item: Pittsburgh Goes Dutch
The culture and arts of the Netherlands will be celebrated in an array of U.S. and world premieres taking place in Pittsburgh.
It’s all part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival set for Feb. 18 to May 20 in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District and venues like MCG Jazz, Carnegie Museum and the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.
Sponsoring group, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, announced on Wednesday details for the three-month festival that will feature dance, theater, music, visual art, film, literature and architecture. (click link to read more)
Source: Beaver Country Times
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust hosted a reception in its education center Wednesday to welcome Arthur Kibbelaar, consul for cultural affairs for the Netherlands, and to kick off the three-month Distinctively Dutch Festival that opens in February. Board members, donors and supporters sampled Dutch fare prepared by Meat & Potatoes as they heard about the contemporary visual and performing arts programs that will be spread throughout the city, including the Cultural District, university campuses and the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. (click link to read more)
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In the spirit of the months-long Quebec and Australia festivals of the recent past, the Distinctively Dutch Festival arrives next month and stays through mid-May, with contemporary visual and performing arts programs stretching from the Pittsburgh Cultural District to Oakland’s university campuses to the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild on the North Side.The festival will open Feb. 18 with the U.S. premiere of “Anatomica” by Andre Gingras and performed by Dance Works Rotterdam and will culminate in May with family oriented programs in Oakland.
Arthur Kibbelaar, consul for the cultural arts for the Netherlands, joined Cultural Trust president and CEO Kevin McMahon on Wednesday in announcing the programs. He called the festival “a gateway” to cultural, economic and academic exchanges, while pointing out that his country is the third-largest foreign direct investor in the United States. (click link to read more)
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A pair of world premieres, as well as several U.S. premieres, are among the plans for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Distinctively Dutch Festival, set to begin Feb. 18.
In all, 18 events will take place during the four-month festival of art and cultural exhibits and performances, which Gabri Christa hopes will make Pittsburghers more aware of the richness of the contemporary Dutch art world.
“I’m hopeful they will see the diversity of Dutch art, and that innovation is a large part of the Dutch cultural tradition,” says Christa, director of performing arts for the department for cultural affairs at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York City, who assisted the Trust in organizing the festival. (click link to read more)
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
