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What to do in Pittsburgh this weekend (November 15-17)
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What to do in Pittsburgh this weekend (November 15-17)

Find your way out of a new “Enter the Imaginarium” escape room, watch a documentary at the Three Rivers Film Festival, or hear from a former U.S. Poet Laureate—here’s what to do in Pittsburgh this weekend.

games
Enter the Imaginarium, a project of Pittsburgh’s Bricolage Production Company, unveils its ambitious new escape room, “The Mind’s Eye.” The experience uses augmented reality projections to create A fantastic, immersive environment for interactive play and team puzzle solving. The new escape room is located in Shaler Plaza in Shaler, and tickets for two games, “The Mind’s Eye” and “Inventor’s Paradox,” are on sale as of Wednesday, Nov. 13.

Film
43rd annual Three Rivers Film Festival It opens on Wednesday, November 13, with a new locally produced documentary. Pirates legend and philanthropist Roberto Clemente. But there’s so much more: 20 additional independent and foreign-language dramas, comedies and documentaries; all playing in three theaters over eight days in Pittsburgh.

Dance
Attack Theater presents “Finding the Place of Clarity” A program of new and reimagined works developed in collaboration with New York-visiting choreographer and artist Christian Warner. The evening features site-specific solos for Attack dancers developed with Warner; 2014’s “Beginnings,” inspired by banned or challenged books and reworked with Warner; and a new duet performed by Warner and Elinor Kleber-Diggs, “a study in trauma and cycles.” There are three shows at the Attack’s Lawrenceville home base from Friday, November 15 through Sunday, November 17.

Dance
liked Taiwan Cloud Gate Dance Theater It combines Qi Gong, meditative martial arts practices, modern and street dance, and ballet. This week, the world-touring group makes a rare appearance in Pittsburgh, courtesy of the Pittsburgh Dance Council, with a performance of “13 Languages,” inspired by an area of ​​Taipei and a famous street artist. The show is at the Byham Theater on Saturday, November 16.

Film
Filmmakers at Sync present their latest film Extended Cinema Night at the Glitterbox Theater (newly moved to Homestead). Expanded cinema blends multimedia with projected film images to exceed ordinary perceptual expectations. In the show held on Saturday, November 16, local artists projected abstract videos through various glassware; Original works on super 8 mm film; experimental sound; and SOS Lightshow’s “Turn On, Drop In, Freak Out” interactive TV installation allows viewers to make mistakes with a VHS collection.

Words
“Walking by the lake this morning / I fell in love with a wren / and later in the day I fell in love with a mouse / the cat had fallen under the dining table.” One of the nation’s best-known poets visited Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. Former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins returns to town It comes on the heels of his new collection “Aimless Love”. Collins will speak at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland on Monday, November 18.