Save on shoes and help the parks!

Need to complete your Hat Luncheon outfit, or just working on creating your spring wardrobe?  On Wednesday, April 22, Footloose’s Shadyside location celebrates Earth Day with a special celebration that benefits the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy.  From 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., Footloose will offer a 10% discount on all purchases, and 10% of all items sold will [...]

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Art in Bloom

 
The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is pleased to share news of another event that’s sure to be of interest to those who appreciate fine flowers.  The Women’s Committee of Carnegie Museum of Art will present Art in Bloom, a celebration of art and flowers, from April 16 - 18, 2009.  Floral designers from area garden clubs will [...]

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UEC fosters collaboration

This is the full-length version of an article excerpted in the Spring 2009 issue of The Voice.
For the past seven years, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy has been a part of the Urban Ecology Collaborative (UEC).  This multi-city network was founded in Boston to connect non-profits in metropolitan areas with missions relating to the ecological health [...]

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A Party with a Purpose

A Few Words with Spring Hat Luncheon Co-Chairs Peggy McKnight and Susie Dorrance
The Schenley Park Overlook will be flooded with a parade of hats on Saturday, May 2.  Two of our dedicated co-chairs for the Spring Hat Luncheon discuss the vitality of this fabulous event.

Over the past decade, the Spring Hat Luncheon has evolved into [...]

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Why the parks matter

The Spring 2009 edition of The Voice will be coming out in a couple of weeks.  We always seem to have more content than we anticipate.  Sometimes that means cutting bits and pieces from articles and including the full story on our blog, but sometimes it means that we have to cut the entire story [...]

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The Burgh and the Bees at Bioneers Monday

Here’s a cool event that should interest all you ecologically-minded folks out there.  The Parks Conservancy has some folks involved in the very worthwhile effort to bring the Bioneers conference to Pittsburgh, and they’re hosting a series of Monday-night events with cool guest speakers.
The next Bioneers Monday event will be March 30 at 6:30 p.m. [...]

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Westinghouse Quandary

How does a park landmark go from this…
to this?
And can it ever be put back together again?
These are the questions the Parks Conservancy started asking several weeks ago when the ice melted from Schenley Park’s Westinghouse Pond to reveal that most of the water had drained from the basin, replaced by leaves, sediment, and a [...]

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Calling all amateur DJs!

Wanna be a DJ?
f you have an MP3 player and an hour for lunch, we want you to share your favorite tunes with us at Schenley Plaza!  We’ll be opening the Plaza soon for the 2009 season, and we’re looking for music enthusiasts to create playlists for the lunch hour several days a week.  We’ll [...]

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