Pour at the Park South Park is almost here!
Limited tickets still available.
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Pour at the Park South Park
Saturday, May 15
5-8 pm
Drive-thru or eat-in at safe distance under tent.
Hurry! Pizza tickets are limited!
Pick up some limited edition Mindful Brewing "Buffalo Brew" and a delicious Earth, Wheel and Fire wood-fired pizza at Pour in the Park South Park. Choose your pizza and pick up time in a pre-purchased ticket and then head over to South Park. One $55 ticket is enough for two adults!
Or order some beer and a snack pack of Pittsburgh Popcorn, Hammond's Hand Rolled Pretzels and Weaver's Jumbo Salted Peanuts in the Shell. Click on TICKETS below to see all the details.
Enjoy live music featuring singer, guitarist and percussionist Josh Jams. Josh, a 40-under-40 local talent by Pittsburgh Magazine, draws from the influences of Dave Matthews, the Grateful Dead and Bruce Springsteen in his original work.
Hurry! Pizza tickets are limited. We missed you last year when our Pour was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. This event supports Parks Foundation projects in all nine parks - including the Cascades restoration!
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Thanks to our Pour at the Park sponsors! |
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Showing the love on Earth Day |
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Thanks to everyone who stepped up to support the Allegheny County Parks during Earth Day 2021. Missed your chance to donate to this vital campaign? Do it now! |
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And a special thanks to EQT! On Earth Day, 20 EQT volunteers gathered at South Park for a spring trash cleanup event with support from Allegheny County Park Rangers Max Bader and Amanda Watts. |
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Featuring jazz musician Benny Benack III
Saturday, August 21
Hartwood Acres Park
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Benny Benack III
Photo: @jazzaddikt
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Mark your calendars for the August 21 return of Twilight Picnic for the Parks: Back in the Swing. Pittsburgher-turned-New-Yorker, Benny Benack III returns to his roots to celebrate this night of jazz, cocktails and a grazing picnic dinner. We missed you last year during our COVID pause but we're back at Hartwood Acres Park to celebrate the Allegheny County Parks. Guests will gather in an open, tented park setting and sway to live jazz under the stars with Pittsburgh musicians backing up Benack, a high-energy, singer-musician.
A new twist on our gala calls for a new site. Twilight Picnic for the Parks: Back in the Swing will be staged at the Hartwood Acres Meadow off Middle Road. This project of the Parks Foundation will delight guests with native species blooms while construction of the Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres is underway on the Mansion Lawn.
Twilight Picnic for the Parks is the signature fundraising event of the Allegheny County Parks Foundation. Since its inception in 2017, Twilight Picnic has raised over $1.275 million to improve, conserve and restore the nine County Parks, thanks to the support of our corporate community and generous individuals.
Would you like to sponsor this event? Email Barbara Brewton or call her at 724.327.7627. Stay tuned for ticket information!
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Spring project site visits |
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l to r: Joel Perkovich, landscape architect, Allegheny County Parks; Maggie Pike, Program Officer, Allegheny Regional Asset District; Caren Glotfelty, ACPF Executive Director; Richard Hudic, Executive Director, Allegheny Regional Asset District; Andy Baechle, County Parks Director; Ron Schipani, ACPF Project Director; Nicole Oeler, ACPF Project Manager; Timothy Jaczesko, Maintenance Supervisor, Allegheny County Parks.
With the conserved sculpture Hence by Clement Meadmore peeking from behind, representatives from several agencies gathered recently to view the progress of the Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres. As warmer weather returned to the region, workers have been able to place sculptures on new concrete foundations, which will allow visitors to better appreciate their grandeur and significance once the site is completed later this year.
The Sculpture Garden will feature ADA-accessible walkways connecting the artworks, which will be surrounded by new native landscape plantings. Driveways and parking areas will also be reconfigured, designed using "green" principles.
The Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres is made possible in part by the RADical ImPAct Grant program, which was launched in celebration of the Allegheny Regional Asset District’s 25th anniversary with the intention of funding bold, forward-looking, creative projects that will have a radical impact on the region.
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l to r: Caren Glotfelty, ACPF Executive Director; Robin Baum and Susanna Hegnes, members, Fox Chapel Garden Club.
The Fox Chapel Garden Club has made a generous donation that will support landscape planting of native species surrounding the sculptures.
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l to r: Caren Glotfelty, ACPF Executive Director; Judy Roscow, member, Fine Foundation Board of Directors; Shelia Reicher Fine, Chair, Fine Foundation Board of Directors; Nina Friedman, ACPF Development Assistant; Kathy Lachenour, Fine Foundation Executive Director; Susan Brownlee, member, Fine Foundation Board of Directors.
The Fine Foundation provided an early planning grant that enabled the Parks Foundation to develop the concept for the reimagined Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres.
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TOMORROW! AC Parks Spirit Day at Blue Line Grille |
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Visit the Blue Line Grille tomorrow!
4112 Brownsville Road, South Park
(across from the Library Fire Hall)
Saturday, May 1 from 12-6pm
Breakfast served all day - BYOB
Mention Allegheny County Parks when you order and a portion of the profits will be donated to the Parks Foundation!
Pre-ordering available: 412.714.4896
Enjoy the music of singer/guitarist Matty T from 1-3pm.
Dine-in, Take-out, Curbside touchless pick-up and Delivery available!
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Suffragist Grove Conceptual Design |
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The Board of Directors of the Allegheny County Parks Foundation recently approved this conceptual design for the Suffragist Grove at Hartwood Acres Park. This unique design was a collaboration of landscape architects at the Parks Foundation and Allegheny County Parks Department.
The grove was founded on August 18, 2020, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. This feature is part of the Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres. Hartwood Acres Park was selected as the site for the grove because Mary Flinn Lawrence, who owned the mansion with her husband before it was acquired by Allegheny County, had a long history of advocating for women’s voting rights.
The inspiration to plant this stand of trees rose from the early days of the movement. Activists who had been jailed were encouraged to plant trees upon their release as part of their healing process. This grove was inaugurated with one ceremonial Tulip Poplar tree. The will be planted in partnership with Allegheny County as funds are raised to support the project.
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This is the new lower reservoir basin, one of the three reflecting pools currently under construction at the Cascades of South Park. The site is slated for a July 2021 opening.
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Order pickup at the South Park Plant and Flower Fundraising Event |
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Don't forget to pick up your plants!
Home Economics Building at South Park
Saturday, May 8, 10am - 3pm
Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered flowers through our fundraising event. Don't forget to pick up your order of locally grown perennials and annuals. Limited items available for sale on May 8 if you forgot to order.
Questions? Call the Parks Foundation at 724.327.7627
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Think of the Parks Foundation when making any purchase. |
Whenever you make any purchase on Amazon Smile, select the Allegheny County Parks Foundation as your charity recipient. At no cost to you, the AmazonSmile Foundation will make a donation to the Parks Foundation! It's a simple click away. Mobile orders work too!
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Allegheny County Parks Foundation | 675 Old Frankstown Road | Pittsburgh, PA 15239
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