Summer Reading Extravaganza

Save the date for CLP’s Summer Reading Extravaganza, a family-friendly outdoor festival for all ages! Enjoy an afternoon of music, storytelling, games, crafts, food trucks and so much more!Join us for performances by: • Dig into A Garden for Lili with award-winning author and illustrator Melissa Iwai! Her storytime and interactive presentation will showcase the celebration of urban gardening and the ways food connects our communities. Free signed copies of Melissa's book will be distributed to attendees.*(1 per household,*while supplies last)• Squonk will perform their new show, Joy Machine, a large-scale music spectacle, inviting the audience to power the performance with their energy — activating a playground of immersive sculptures, fanciful instruments, and kinetic machines alongside Squonk's raucous live band. It will be both a celebration and an invitation: a shared act of creation, joy, and civic engagement.• Burghblooms presents a Bouquet Bar workshop, where you can learn facts about local flowers and create a mini floral bouquet.• The Frick Pittsburgh invites patrons to get creative and contribute to a collaborative mural showcasing the Summer Reading "GROW" theme.Enjoy activities and experiences presented by CLP partners, including: • Animal Friends• Attack Theatre• Burgh Blooms• Carnegie Museum of Natural History• Center for Creative Reuse• CitiParks• Duolingo• Eat n' Park• Face Paint Pittsburgh• Fund My Future• Hello Bistro• NextGen:Pgh• O'Ryan the O'Mazing• Phipps Conservatory• Pitt Kids' Thinking Lab• Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures• Pittsburgh Public Schools• Pittsburgh Toy Lending Library• PSU Extension Master Gardener Program of Allegheny County• Reading is FUNdamental• Reading Ready Pittsburgh• The Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh• The Frick Pittsburgh• The Hood Garden• The Pittsburgh Zoo• WQEDSatisfy your cravings and support the Library with food and sweet treats for purchase from:• Beedle's Ice Cream• El Rincon Oaxaqueño• Fat Cat Mac Attack• Hot Ash Pizza• Kona Ice• Mr. Bulgogi• Nicky's Hot Dogs• Pita My Shawarma• The BoonSeek• The Roaming Bean• Vaya Mexican Street Food