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Extravaganza 2024
August 11 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join us on Sunday, August 11 from noon – 5 pm at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Summer Reading Extravaganza, a family-friendly outdoor festival for all ages. Grab your friends and head to the Library in Oakland for music, games, crafts, historic tours, storytelling, food trucks and so much more!
Enjoy activities and experiences presented by CLP partners, including:
- Animal Friends
- Bike PGH
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Carnegie Science Center
- CitiParks
- Duolingo
- Eat n’ Park
- First National Bank
- Fund My Future
- Hello Bistro
- JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- Kids of STEEL
- Kidsburgh
- Mike the Balloon Guy
- O’Ryan the O’Mazing
- Ozanam, Inc.
- Pitt Kids’ Thinking Lab
- Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
- Pittsburgh Public Schools
- Pittsburgh Science Workshop Bus
- Pittsburgh Toy Lending Library
- Reading is FUNdamental
- Special Olympics
- Steel City Roller Derby
- Union Project’s Wheel Mobile
Satisfy your cravings and support the Library with food and sweet treats for purchase from:
- Gari Shoyu Sando Co.
- Kona Ice Pittsburgh
- Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream
- Pittsburgh Smokehouse
- The Roaming Bean
- Vaya Mexican Street Food
- Yinzer Dogs
Don’t miss performances by:
- Allderdice Marching Band
- Byron Graves, author of Rez Ball
- Level Up Studios
- Gallo Locknez
- Shannon Reed, author of Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
- Tom Sarver’s Puppet Talent Show
- Don Tate, author and illustrator of Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton and Jerry Changed the Game: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever