Allegheny Regional Asset District

Woohoo! Perfect timing. 🎇 ☀️ 🌊

South Park Wave Pool will open on Thursday, July 4! 🌊

Let's celebrate opening day with fun giveaways, free popsicles, a picture frame photo-op, and a prize wheel to win cool items like sunglasses, sunscreen, and other mystery prizes.

Learn more about the Allegheny County Swimming and Wave Pools: https://www.alleghenycounty.us/Parks-and-Events/Activities/Swimming-and-Wave-Pools

🦖🦕 DINO-MITE! Anderson Playground at Schenley Park is back open after a major RAD-funded renovation.

RAD Board Chair Dusty Elias Kirk was honored to be part of Monday's ribbon-cutting ceremony. And what a beautiful day for it! HUGE thanks to everyone at the City of Pittsburgh, CitiParks, and the partners and workers who helped to complete these upgrades.

🥳 Congratulations to our friends at the Heinz History Center for another big win!

We see plenty of RAD Pass reservations available for the History Center in July -- be sure to book your RAD Summer Staycation ticket today at RADpass.org/

It’s a three-peat for the Heinz History Center! 🏆🏆🏆

We’re proud to be named Pittsburgh’s Best Museum by readers of Pittsburgh Magazine for the third year in a row.

A huge thank you to everyone who voted in the Best of the ’Burgh poll – plan your visit to the History Center this summer to celebrate!

Check out all the winners: https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/2024-best-of-the-burgh-winners-entertainment-leisure/

🎙️ Thanks to our friends at Classical WQED FM 89.3 for having us on to talk about all things RAD and Summer Staycation!

Check out this awesome interview with our friends from the Allegheny Regional Asset District on WQED Pittsburgh's "Voice of the Arts" Podcast discussing all things libraries, Summer Staycation and our new RAD funded PCs 😁🤝

Link ➡️ www.wqed.org/podcasts/james-santelli-allegheny-regional-asset-district-rad/

Northland gets a nice shoutout around the 3:00 minute mark...and a name drop around the 13:45 mark as well ☺️

SO very thankful for our partnership with RAD 🫶🤝🙌

IMPORTANT UPDATE!

RIVERVIEW POOL is CLOSED today (Tuesday, June 18) due to a mechanical issue. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

👏👏 We thank all of our RAD-funded public libraries for serving their communities amid the heat waves and power outages.

PSA: Cooling Centers are open throughout the City of Pittsburgh this week for those who need to get into air conditioning.

COOLING CENTERS ACTIVATED beginning Monday June 17!

Temps are predicted to soar into the 90’s this week and CitiParks will offer Cooling Centers for to have another option to beat the heat!

Monday, 6/17 to Friday 6/21—hours will be 8 AM to 7 PM with the exception of Wednesday-Juneteenth Holiday—hours on Wednesday will be 12-7 PM.

Read Press Release HERE: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PAPITT/bulletins/3a2a9e2

Make your plans! FREE events throughout Allegheny County are posted at RADworkshere.org/events as part of the RAD Summer Staycation.

From the return of Fridays at the Frick - photo courtesy The Frick Pittsburgh - to the 2024 edition of Carnegie Museum of Art's Inside Out series, our Regional Assets are welcoming everyone this summer.

See you at the pools! 🏊‍♂️

Pools OPEN this Saturday!

Here is your 2024 POOLS Hours/Days Schedule. We can't wait to see you at the pool!

Read Press Release HERE: https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/PAPITT-3a1ff52?wgt_ref=PAPITT_WIDGET_4

FYI for Zoo patrons

🗓️ Ready to turn the calendar and check out some FREE events? Visit radworkshere.org/events for the full rundown.

FRIDAY, MAY 31
🎶 Pokey LaFarge at Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

🎺 River City Brass at South Park

📸 Silver Eye Center for Photography Salon meet and greet

SATURDAY, JUNE 1
🥽 Pittsburgh Glass Center free tours

🌈 Dreams of Hope Art in Bloom at Schenley Plaza

🎸 Los Lonely Boys at Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

SUNDAY, JUNE 2
🎼 Pittsburgh Opera at Hartwood Acres

🎤 Marta Redbone at Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

MONDAY, JUNE 3
🎻 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

TUESDAY, JUNE 4
🐾 Allegheny County Parks Dog Days of Summer at Harrison Hills Park

🔥 Pittsburgh Glass Center Free Summer Lecture Series

🎹 Nicole Zuraitis at Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
🎷 Ozomatli at Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

🏁 CitiParks Gran Turismo movie at Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park

THURSDAY, JUNE 6
🎬 Elemental movie at Deer Lakes Park

🎵 Say She She at Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival

Photo courtesy The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

🎭 BroadwayWorld confirms what we already knew: Pittsburgh is one of the best cities in the U.S. for theatre!

👏 Kudos to Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre, Quantum Theatre and the venues of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for getting some love in this article.

The 15 Best US Cities to See Theatre Ready for a vacation and want to fit some theatre-going into your itinerary? You're in luck, because all the world's a stage. Literally! BroadwayWorld has pulled together a list of the fifteen best cities across the country for seeing theatre.

Sing it with us:
🎤 🎶 Having fun isn’t hard
🎤 🎶 When you’ve got a library card!

We issued 460 new library cards in the month of April, the most since June of 2018 🤯🤩🥳 We are so thankful and so looking forward to seeing all the new smiling faces at the library, engaging with our events, programs, materials and resources 🤝

Shoutout to Allegheny Regional Asset District's "Summer Staycation" which helped provide us a boost in new cards issued in April 🙏🫶

👏👏 See you next to the stadium in 2026!

The 2026 NFL Draft is headed to Pittsburgh! 🏈

Dust off the picnic blanket and get ready for Cinema In The Park! 📽

Grab your lawn chairs, Pittsburgh - summer is coming fast, and that means it's time for another year of Dollar Bank Cinema in the Park!

Kicking off in June, the 2024 movie season will showcase recent blockbuster hits “Barbie”, “Kung Fu Panda 4” and “Wonka”, and beloved family classics such as “Toy Story” and “Pete’s Dragon”.

Your favorite weekly neighborhood locations are back, with movies taking place at Arsenal Park, Banksville Park, Brookline Memorial Park, Flagstaff Hill, Grandview Park Bandstand, Highland Park, McBride Park, Ormsby Park, Riverview Park (following “Stars at Riverview” concerts), Schenley Plaza, and the West End/Elliott Overlook. August will see a month of pop-ups at varying locations across the city. All movies start at dusk.

Read the full press release here for more details: https://tinyurl.com/PghCinema2024

For the full Dollar Bank Cinema in the Park schedule, visit pittsburghpa.gov/events/cinema, and follow on social media for all weather updates!

Our friends at Pittsburgh Regional Transit and Allegheny County Department of Human Services just announced a permanent half-fare program for SNAP beneficiaries -- effective in June 2024.

While RAD is not directly funding this program, we know there are more than 130,000 Allegheny County residents who will be eligible. Spread the word!

FREE events to start your summer early:

🆓 RAD Summer Staycation isn’t just about expanding RAD Pass. All summer, we’ll be highlighting FREE events and experiences at our regional assets for ALL to enjoy. Head to radworkshere.org/events for the full calendar.

🎨 THURSDAY - Associated Artists Pittsburgh Featured Artists Closing Reception

🎺 THURSDAY AND SUNDAY - City of Asylum Jazz Poetry

🎭 FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY - The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust EQT Children’s Theater Festival (note: mix of free activities and paid-admission performances)

💾 FRIDAY - Mattress Factory - Museum of Contemporary Art Exhibition Opening: Akwasi Afrane

🌳 SATURDAY - Allegheny County Parks Foundation presents Park ‘til Dark at South Park

🚣 SATURDAY, SUNDAY - Venture Outdoors kayaking in Sharpsburg

🛝 SATURDAY - Playful Pittsburgh Ultimate Play Day at Riverview Park (CitiParks)

🛞 SUNDAY - Allegheny County Parks Settlers Cabin Park Car Cruise

🎻 SUNDAY - Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra in concert at Heinz Hall

These are EXACTLY the kinds of messages we've been hoping to see from library patrons! 😄 Check in with your local library -- new PCs are on the way (or in some cases, already installed!)

"I briefly stopped in the library earlier today to use the computer room. Your new computers are outstanding and it's great to see resources being utilized for an important upgrade that will benefit many."

We received this lovely comment from a patron via email this week ☺️❤️

Shoutout and "thank you" to Allegheny Regional Asset District for funding this PC refresh project for libraries throughout the county 🤝🫶

RAD followers, we’re listening. See today’s update about the first-timer hiccups with RAD Summer Staycation.

In short: Only a fraction of the 100,000+ tickets that will be available this summer have been reserved, and our biggest piece of advice is to check RADPass.org daily as your regional assets continue to add more tickets.

Our full message, and what we’re working on, can be found here:

RAD Summer Staycation Message - May 3, 2024 A Staycation message to our RAD friends and Allegheny County residents.

🎟️ RAD Summer Staycation has just the ticket for summer fun!

radpass.org/ has just added FREE tickets for Allegheny County residents to visit top Pittsburgh attractions. Grab your library card to book a reservation today. And this is just the start -- more attractions and reservation dates will be added in the weeks ahead.

RAD Pass – Your ticket to culture in the city RAD Pass brings cultural literacy and learning to life by connecting library cardholders to the region’s vast array of cultural assets.

😎 Ready for a RAD Summer Staycation?

Launching May 1, the will offer 100,000+ FREE admissions to popular regional assets. All you'll need is an Allegheny County library card and a RAD Pass reservation.

https://buff.ly/3Qk8bXR

🌺 Flora looks fantastic!🌸

RAD was proud to provide a RADical ImPAct grant to this project through our Art In Parks program. Artwork isn't just for our city's world-class museums -- it's for everyone to see in their daily lives.

🦩 🦆 🦅 Happy to all of our feathered (and non-feathered) friends!

📆 BROADWAY FANS, MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

RAD is proud to be a longtime supporter of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust as it brings art to life in Downtown Pittsburgh. While we're not done yet with this season (can't wait for Company this week!), we're delighted to look ahead to 2024-25.

🎭 The 2024-2025 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh season is here! Season tickets are on sale now and season ticket renewals are now available! 🎭

TrustArts.org/Broadway

FYI for our followers:

The Zoo is closed today, April 13, due to a loss of power at our front entrance caused by high winds overnight. The Zoo will reopen once repairs have been made. We will provide updates on our social media pages and website. Thank you for your understanding.

📻 Did you know RAD provides funding to 91.3 WYEP? The station was able to replace its out-of-date FM transmitter this year with the help of a RAD capital grant.

Congratulations to WYEP on 50 years of public radio!

"The Little Radio Station That Could" Turns 50 | Pittsburgh Magazine WYEP has come a long way from its start in a South Oakland basement — it’s celebrating its golden anniversary this month.

📚 RAD is proud to be the Pittsburgh region's largest supporter of libraries, but we don't do it alone!

📖 Your contributions to the libraries of the Allegheny County Library Association ensure that vital programs can continue year-round.

Libraries support communities! From sharing early literacy skills at storytime to teaching digital skills classes for adults of all ages, CLP helps people meet their needs. Please help support us by donating today! https://www.carnegielibrary.org/give/