Name: Extravaganza 2024
Start: 2024-08-11T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-11T17:00:00-04:00
Location: CLP - Main (Oakland)

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
- 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 Hardball Academy
- 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.
- Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream
- Pittsburgh Smokehouse
- The Roaming Bean
- Vaya Mexican Street Food
- Yinzer Dogs
Don’t miss performances by:
- Allderdice Marching Band
- 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"
- Byron Graves author of "Rez Ball"
- Puppets for Pittsburgh
- Shannon Reed author of "Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries and Just One More Page Before Lights Out"