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Feed More Festival
Saturday, June 10
Location: Stage AE, 400 North Shore Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Time: 2 p.m.
Indie electronic band The Naked and Famous are headlining this year's Feed More Festival. The Festival benefits the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and promotes the Food Bank's mission of feeding people in need and mobilizing the community to eliminate hunger through music.
Stage AE opens at 2 p.m. with the first band taking the stage at 2:30 p.m. In addition to The Naked and Famous, the lineup includes national act Max Frost and local acts Bad Custer, Joy Ike, Molly Alphabet, Balloon Ride Fantasy and Donora.
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Open Streets Sharpsburg 2017
Saturday, June 10
Times: 11 a.m. to 4 pm.
Dozens of local organizations and businesses will be on hand for six blocks of free, family-friendly fun along Main Street. Main Street will be closed to motor vehicles from 6th Street to Station Street, including the first block of North Canal Street off of Main, so residents and visitors can enjoy free activities, live music and dance performances, food, games, and more.
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Penguins Stanley Cup Final Away Game Watch Party at PPG Paints Arena
Sunday, June 11
Time: 8 p.m.
The Pittsburgh Penguins will host a Game 6 watch party inside PPG Paints Arena, with the NBC broadcast of the 8 p.m. game against the Predators playing on the arena video board.
Tickets are $10 and are on sale viaTicketmaster.com and the arena box office. There’s a limit of eight tickets per order, and all seating will be assigned. Parking will be available in PPG Paints Arena surface lots for $10.
Doors will open at 7 p.m. Concession stands will be open, but no outside food or beverages will be permitted in the building.
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PrideFest
Saturday, June 10, and Sunday, June 11
Location: Liberty Avenue between 6th Street and 10th Street.
Times: Noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 1-7 p.m. Sunday
The events features more than150 vendors, family-friendly games and inflatable attractions, a wide variety of continuous entertainment on three stages. Pride Radio dance party area, and a 300′ mobile zip line.
Grammy and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson headlines on Saturday, and the EQT Equality March 2017 will step off at 12:30 p.m. Sunday from PPG Paints Arena and ends at Liberty Avenue. The march will include floats, marching, and a few surprises.
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Three Rivers Arts Festival
The Three Rivers Arts Festival continues through Sunday in Downtown Pittsburgh.
For nearly 60 years the10-day event has taken over a large part of Downtown, with an epicenter in the Cultural District. Hundreds of thousands of people attend the event, which includes a wide variety of live music, visual art exhibitions, handmade craft sales, food trucks, children’s activities and performing arts shows.
Festival cornerstones like the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the juried visual art exhibition will be joined by musical artists like Dawes and Michael Kiwanuka and unique performances from groups like aerial dance team Blue Lapis Light.
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Senator John Heinz History Center Free Admission Weekend
All visitors to the Senator John Heinz History Center will receive free admission this weekend.
The museum's newest exhibition, #Pixburgh: A Photographic Experience, highlights Pittsburgh's passion for photography from the early 1850s through today, culled from the History Center's extensive vault of nearly one million photos. Many of the nearly 400 featured photographs have never been displayed to the public.
Visitors can also see the original set from the "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" television show, Pirates' legend Bill Mazeroski's bat and uniform from Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, the field turf and cleats from Franco Harris' Immaculate Reception, and the world's oldest jeep.
The Jack Buncher Foundation Free Admission Days also marks the last chance to experience nearly 80 paintings by more than 75 local artists in the Gift of Art: 100 Years of Art from the Pittsburgh Public Schools' Collection exhibition before it closes on Sunday.
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Steel City Comic Con -Special Horror Fan Edition
Friday, June 9, through Sunday June 11
Location: Monroeville Convention Center, 209 Mall Blvd, Monroeville, PA 15146
The Steel City Comic Con - Special Horror Fan Edition show is one of the largest horror conventions in the United States with more than 100,000 square feet of convention space and filled with 750 vendor tables, artist alley and celebrity guests.. In conjunction with the event will be the Living Dead Weekend’s Dawn of the Dead reunion! This horror show will also feature more than 30 horror guests and massive horror displays provided by Hundred Acres Manor.