Tickets on Sale: Radical Reels goes faster, steeper, higher, deeper!

Monday, October 4 at the Byham Theater, catch the Banff Mountain Film Festival’s extreme little sister, the Radical Reels tour. Radical Reels comes from the same cream-of-the-crop picks as the films you saw this spring, but when film critics and judges watch the 300-some entries every year, they save those that hurtle down the steepest untouched slopes, capture the cold spray of stomach-dropping kayak first descents, fly high with the worlds wildest BASE jumpers, and much more in extreme mountain sports. They’ll be screening these, the extreme of the extreme, on October 4^th.

Tickets are on sale now through the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust here.

For more information on the Radical Reels tour, you can visit their website, www.radicalreels.com

July 31, Meet us at McKinley!

Our next FREE Family Outdoor Festival is in McKinley Park—our first-ever festival there. The festival will feature family bike rides, geocaching, the ever-popular bike bowling (if you haven’t tried it, it looks goofy but is really fun!), and a fishing game. Watch with awe as little kids and big kids scamper up our Rock Climbing Wall. Wait, watch? What are we saying…you may want to scamper up yourself!

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Water and Woods in Beaver County!

Water or woods? Perhaps both?

Take your pick of activities this Saturday, July 11, as two parks in Beaver County play host to Venture Outdoors programming: Raccoon Creek State Park and Brush Creek Park. Read more

Family Programs kick off summer festivals at Venture Outdoors Festival

Despite the torrential rains, the Family and Community Programs tent at the Venture Outdoors 2010 Festival was a success!

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Dynasty was a hit in Pittsburgh!

Fans of winter were treated to sights and sounds from all across the globe this past Friday at the Warren Miller film festival. World class athletes flew down the slopes to a grooving soundtrack during Dynasty and filled the Carnegie Library and Music Hall with laughter and amazement.

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Warren Miller: A Little Clarification

So you’re thinking about going to Warren Miller on Friday, November 27… but you don’t have tickets yet and you’re not really sure this Dynasty film is going to be that sweet…

Let’s clarify a few things:

• The makers of Warren Miller have been waiting 60 YEARS to make this film!
  It’s their 60th anniversary, so of course they chocked it full of action and adventure as well as vintage footage of the old timers doing their thing. Still not convinced? Watch the three minute preview and see for yourself (click the play button to the right).

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2009 Venture Outdoors Festival Wrap-up

Thank you to everyone who came to the Venture Outdoors Festival. Point State Park made a great setting for thousands to enjoy kayaking, biking, climbing, yoga and fishing. Even a little rain in the afternoon couldn’t tarnish the mood; exhibitors, volunteers and festival goers enjoyed an entire day of festivities.

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Venture Outdoors Festival Kayak Give Away

The Venture Outdoors Festival is only a week away on May 16th at Point State Park! To celebrate our new location we’re giving away a kayak, thanks to Emotion Kayaks, to one lucky Twitterer. Just follow the two steps below and you’ll be automatically entered into a drawing to win a free Emotion kayak!

Step 1: Retweet the EXACT message below on Twitter:

RT @ventureoutdoors is giving away a FREE Kayak! Join us May 16 at the VO Festival. To enter visit: http://tinyurl.com/VOFestraffle

Step 2: Follow us on Twitter. It’s easy. Click the link below and click the follow button below our logo: http://www.twitter.com/ventureoutdoors

That’s it! The winning name will be drawn at the Venture Outdoors Festival on May 16th. We’ll announce the winner via tweet and at the WYEP tent at the Festival!

Good luck and we hope you can join us May 16th for the region’s premiere outdoor recreation event with tons of exciting activities for the whole family – from kayaking, canoeing, fishing, yoga, biking, climbing and more! For more info click here

Venture Outdoors Initiative to Bring Minorities Closer to Nature

Venture Outdoors Fest kicks off new programs and summer events

(Pittsburgh, PA –May 1, 2009) – Venture Outdoors aims to engage minority populations in outdoor recreation through a multi-year Family and Community Programs Initiative kicking off at the Venture Outdoors Festival, Saturday, May 16.

For eight years, Venture Outdoors has served the Pittsburgh community as a nonprofit organization, now engaging over 30,000 people a year through Kayak Pittsburgh and public and private programming. The organization’s membership exceeds 5,000, a definite sign of a growing outdoors community. However, only five percent of those who participate in these programs are not Caucasian, whereas 16 percent of Allegheny County is African American, Hispanic and Asian. Venture Outdoors would like to close that gap.

The initiative’s official kickoff event, the Venture Outdoors Festival, will be held at Point State Park, Saturday, May 16 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. This free festival is part of the city’s Great Outdoors Week. A Family and Community Programs booth will be set up where participants will try bike bowling and have the opportunity to meet the organizations working on this initiative. Venture Outdoors is working with the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Kingsley Association and the AGH Northside Partnership.
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Great Outdoors Week Brings Venture Outdoors Festival

New Family and Community Programs initiative kicks-off

(Pittsburgh, PA – May 1, 2009) The Ninth Annual Venture Outdoors Festival, the region’s premier outdoor recreation event, will be held Saturday, May 16, 2009, rain or shine at Pittsburgh’s Point State Park from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. This year, the Venture Outdoors Festival will kick off the organization’s new Family and Community Programs initiative.

“The Venture Outdoors Festival itself brings together the numerous outdoor recreation groups of the region,” said Sean Brady, Assistant Executive Director of Venture Outdoors. “This year we are putting special emphasis on growing the diversity of the outdoors community to include even more people from urban neighborhoods through our Family and Community Programs initiative.”

The Venture Outdoors Festival, sponsored by UPMC Health Plan, is a free event where individuals and families can sample the many outdoor activities available in our region. The event features kayaking, biking, dragon boating, rock climbing, fishing and more. Participants can hone their skills or try these activities for the first time — with experienced instructors to provide guidance — and learn where to enjoy these activities all season long.
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