The Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh

🌸🌺🪻🌼Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world!
to our friend and alumni council member, Natalie B, of treating our FC mamas to fresh flower arrangements straight from her farm! Thank you! 💐

Kennywood Day 2024 was a BLAST! We loved getting everyone together and meeting up in different areas of the park. Having all the FC families together enjoying the BBQ and going on rides together made for an incredible day for the FC community and it was so nice to have all the different age groups exploring and enjoying the day together. Joe C’s favorite ride of the day was Cosmic Chaos and Wesley enjoyed their time in Kiddieland! Back at the pavilion, we celebrated June birthdays with cake and cookies, and ate burgers and hot dogs while closing out another fantastic annual FC Kennywood Day. Although it wasn’t the sunniest, our day was filled with food, friends, and fun and we can’t wait to do it all again next year!

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends, Noah Weiner, Ross Ringold, and Riley Ringold.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends,Caroline Rock, Cavin Lee, Tomer Tuti, and Sara Friedman.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

Have you purchased your raffle ticket yet? One lucky winner will receive $1,800 in cash! Head to the link in our bio to buy your ticket today.

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends, Andrew Riesmeyer, Umur Turgut, Eyoha Teshome, Noa Solomon.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

Getting ready to celebrate 18 years of friendship and wanted to throw it back down amazing times over the years (early years!) at FCPGH 2006–>2024. Old friends are the best friends and we are so grateful to all of the alumni who helped build the foundation of our FC community.
Scroll through to go down memory lane!

This Sunday The Friendship Circle recognized all of our outstanding friends at our annual Friendship Awards! Thank you all for all of the great memories this year.

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends, Emma Zitko, Malka Rubin, and Clem Hooper.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends, Noa Shimshi, Bracha Shkedi, Ryan Winter, and Elana Sobol.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

Celebrating 18 years of friendship!! Thank you for the write-up
Link in story

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends, Abigail Peigh, Geri Pollak, and Daniel Seewald.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Pamela Schuller “Better Together” comedy show event on Monday!! We had such a great turnout and the laughs were endless! Thank you to all of our amazing community partners as well, what a great way to bring our awesome community together!

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends, Bree Lenthall, Katie Lieber, Everett Meade, and Emuna Naiditch.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends, Jacob Brodkey, Matthew Bordenstein, and Maya Golden.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

The Friendship Circle is proud to honor 2024 graduates and friends, Caroline Attebery, Gabriella Balyasny, Casey Bloom, and Bluma Boloten.

Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations! We know you will carry the mission of FC with you and share in friendship for years to come!

Organizations from the Greater Pittsburgh area invite you to be Better Together as a community as we welcome Pamela Schuller to Pittsburgh! It will be a night of comedy and storytelling as Pamela, an internationally acclaimed Jewish comedian, disability and mental health advocate, takes us on a journey to a more accessible world. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to be a part of this evening! Tickets are limited, sign up today!

This event is free and open to the community. You must RSVP via the link by clicking here https://one.bidpal.net/pamelaschullerpgh/ticketing(details:ticketing-summary)

Our teen leadership board had a fun-filled ‘cupcake wars’ social last night! They made cupcakes based on an animal theme, color theme, and holiday theme! Swipe to see some of their awesome and yummy creations! 🧁🧁🧁

Our 2024 Purim Party was full of laughing, dancing, and good fun this past weekend! Some of our very talented members showcased their talents for a crowd, including Grunnuh B with some martial arts and Brandon C breaking down some dance moves for us. Others showed some magic tricks, told jokes, hoverboarded, showed cool skip it and pogo stick tricks, sang, and read a story! We all had fun with our yummy pizza and candy while we decorated groggers, made some scratch art, and played some co****le. We celebrated March Birthdays with cake and ended the party with a Costume Showcase where members were able to walk across the stage sporting their outfits. Thanks to all for a great time and a happy Purim, it was so nice seeing how talented we all are and we can’t wait to do it all over again next year!

The snow did not stop the fun on Sunday Funday! This past weekend, FC was full of builders who helped create lego carousel kits and a robot with Girls of Steel from CMU. Members loved following steps to build moving carousels and used teamwork to construct and build the robot together. Ariel drew a fun tiger on his rainbow scratch crown and Menucha Leah made a beautiful flower crown. We also enjoyed group games in the great room and playing with the big parachute and hula hoops. Can’t wait to see all the craft crowns we made at our upcoming Purim Party!

This week’s sports league was super fun. In Squirrel Hill, we played our first-ever FC dodgeball game. We also built hula hoop forts for a great night. In the South Hills, we hosted our second Levys league, where we played the classic game of kickball. We can’t wait for our next sports league.

Friends on the Town went on a trip to Cool Springs this weekend and it was a total par-tee! Friends were able to test out the sports simulator and play fun games including zombie dodgeball, football, and hockey. We loved cheering our friends on during their times at the simulator. We also had our own bays to hit golf balls off of. Cece created her own style of golf that included hitting two golf balls at once. Logan loved playing Uno Josh and Sofia.

Calling all alumni! We are hosting a Young Adult Network event on March 12th from 6:30pm-8:30pm. If you are an alumni we would love for you to join us for a fun night of games, good food, and old friends. Follow the link below to sign up!

https://www.evite.com/event/02F257K34LMN3MBSQEPOZ4ZEQAHKRI/

Our last session of Art Club ended with tons of gift giving where members made each other and traded some Diamond Gem sticker crafts and bookmarks. We also chose from some pre-drawn canvas to make some oil pastel creations on. Members loved using paint pens to create little trinket dishes and some people made fun dishes to hold their jewelry and to hold game pieces! We have all loved getting creative together and exploring different art mediums throughout the year, can’t wait to do more art together!

Did someone say Bocce Ball? This month, we kicked off our winter sports leagues. At Squirrel Hill, we played flag football, led by our awesome host committee. Over the river at the South Hills JC, we played bocce as kicked off of Levy’s League, where we honored Jonathan Levy, a long-time friend of The Friendship Circle. Thank you to all the friends and family of Jonathan and FC alumni who came out for the program!

Family Fun was a sunny day out in our back lot where our youngest friends got together to talk to local firefighters from the Pittsburgh Fire Department and got to explore a fire truck! Members made gratitude cards for PFD, enjoyed some balloon twisting, created rice design crafts, and of course loved getting to be together for a music circle and story time. Elmo also made an appearance and everyone got to snap some polaroids to make lasting memories! We loved getting to celebrate Emerson M’s birthday and hang with our junior friends at Family Fun. Can’t wait for the next one in June!!

Throwing it back to Winter Camp! Winter Camp 2023 was a ton of fun with our members Under 18! We started off Day 1 by jumping and having a blast at Urban Air Adventure Park. Members enjoyed the zip line, ropes course, bumper cars, and trampolines. For Day 2, we got to ice skate at Hunt Armory Ice Rink and we put our minds to the test by creating robots and lego structures with Girls of Steel. We finished up Day 3 of Winter Camp with lawn games, bounce houses, inflatable games, and a super cool galaxy art workshop. Members got to take home cosmic illustrations and streamer tinfoil “comets”. Thanks to all our friends who made it such a fun week and looking forward to another magical year!

Some of our favorite Walk4Friendship 2023 moments. Tell us yours below!