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The Shadow Lounge Legacy: Igniting a Cultural Scene

Before the final party, Justin Strong reminisces about Shadow Lounge’s early days and talks about the exciting next chapter

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Artists and Film Makers Lend Talents to Health Care Movement

Healthy Artists hosts a movie poster exhibition around their documentary series, opening January 4th at Modern Formations

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Seed Award – Round 100!

We here at Sprout are thrilled to announce the winners of the Round 100 Seed Award! After another competitive round and tough decision making on behalf of our Advisory Committee, Sprout is pleased to fund four new exciting projects.

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Handmade Arcade Offers More Than Crafts

The festival of all things do-it-yourself returns, bigger than ever, this Saturday, December 8 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh

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Pittsburgh Zine Fair brings print to the people

A Sprout Seed Award helps writers, artists, illustrators, printers, and bookbinders host the second annual celebration of DIY publishing

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A Pocketful of Seeds Blooms in Pittsburgh

The Sprout Fund Celebrates its 100th Round of Seed Awards

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Jasdeep Khaira with volumes from Encyclopedia Destructica / photo: post-gazette.com

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profiles Sprout board member Jasdeep Khaira

Jasdeep’s Encyclopedia Destructica project first received Sprout support in 2005; she has served on the Sprout Board since 2008

The CI13 Apartment Space, 113 44th Street in Lawrenceville / Photo source: Carnegie Museum of Art

CI13 Apartment Talk features friends of Sprout

Re-posting a message from our friends at the Carnegie Museum of Art, whose next Apartment Talks event features several Sprout-supported folks

A frack water pipe traverses a field belonging to Tim Grossik. The pipe ran between two Rex Energy sites on either side of a small stream that feeds in to Crab Run Creek lower down the hill. 01/15/2012. / Photo: Brian Cohen

A Conversation with Brian Cohen of the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project

A Sprout Seed Award supported exhibit of photography documenting the impact of Marcellus Shale gas exploitation in Pennsylvania continues through January 6, 2013 at Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery

Vendors at Handmade Arcade range from jewelry and textiles to fine art and woodwork / Photo courtesy Handmade Arcade

Handmade Arcade Offers More Than Crafts

The festival of all things do-it-yourself returns, bigger than ever, this Saturday, December 8 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh

Photos by Alessandra Hartkopf

Sprout and Vibrant Pittsburgh offer new funding opportunities

Bringing together multicultural groups to enhance regional diversity, funding deadlines coming up

Prints on sale at the Pgh Zine Fair / Photo: Anna Lee-Fields

Pittsburgh Zine Fair brings print to the people

A Sprout Seed Award helps writers, artists, illustrators, printers, and bookbinders host the second annual celebration of DIY publishing

Point Marion Mosaic / Photo: Sandra Hartkopf

Point Marion’s Public Art Project Helps Shape the Community’s Future

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.” -David Herbert Lawrence.

The Parkway Theater / Image courtesy Community Reel Arts Center

Parkway Theater Restoration

A Seed Award is helping “Bring Back Your Community Theater” in Stowe Rocks. Phase One of the renovation occurred in in May 2012, and Phase Two of volunteer work begins this Saturday, November 10, 2012.

Photo courtesy of Attack Theatre

A Pocketful of Seeds Blooms in Pittsburgh

The Sprout Fund Celebrates its 100th Round of Seed Awards

Photo by Alessandra Hartkopf

A New Crop of Seed Award Projects Crop Up in Fayette and Greene Counties

Seed Awards support 14 projects through four funding rounds in the Fayette and Greene Counties

Sycamore Colony / Image courtesy The Drift

Sycamore Colony

Experience an immersive re-imagining of Pittsburgh’s last undeveloped island

ADP Workshop / Image courtesy ADP Workshop

ADP Workshop hosts Pop-Up Exhibition at VIA space in East Liberty on Sunday, October 14

For one night only, the ADP Workshop will host a pop-up exhibition of photography and films created by participants of the semiannual ADP Weekend Review.

Pittsburgh Day of Giving is October 3rd

Support Sprout on Pittsburgh’s Day of Giving

Your gift will seed transformative initiatives making Pittsburgh a vibrant place to live, work, play, and raise a family.

Writing headlines for the news of 2015 at SiX / Photo: Matt Hannigan

Social Innovation Exchange asks participants to write headlines of the future

Read the headlines produced by the most eclectic editorial board in town and find out how to apply to The Sprout Fund to make those headlines happen.

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Social Innovation Exchange, September 2012

The second Social Innovation Exchange (SiX), an initiative of The Pittsburgh Foundation in partnership with Pop City Media and The Sprout Fund, was held at the New Hazlett Theater on September 24, 2012.

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