The Place: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust hosted PGH Rewind on Saturday night, an event celebrating the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s at the Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown.
The Purpose: To raise funds for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
The Party: The party started with a VIP reception featuring entertainment by Jezebel and VyVyan Vyxn. Nearly 300 guests, many wearing ensembles from the decade that most influenced them, circulated amid the basement and third and fourth floors of the building to experience a different decade at each stop.
“We wanted to do something different and some of us were born in the ’70s or ’80s and we grew up in the ’90s, said event co-chair Mark Cibulka.
He and Bethany Miller helped create a party with that “Back to the Future” vibe: “Ghostbusters,” video games such as Tetris, pinball machines with Pac-Man and, of course, the music that shaped those decades.
The Ferris Bueller’s Revenge! band was focused on the sounds of the ’80s while DJ Selecta and DJ Jesley Snipes covered all the bases. Flyspace Productions helped turn the Downtown space into a time machine.
Makeup artists were offering their skills to anyone who wanted to do a rewind on their face.
The People: Remembering the good ol’ days were Dennis Wilson, Dr. Beverly Wise, Matt Phillips, Becky Cibulka, Toni and Rob Boothe, Marco Femiani from Flyspace, Dan Unkovic, Jessica Simon, Kassie Cable, Christy Brodbeck, Abigail Hnath, Mark Freeman, Sheri Giger and Mike and Lisa Newman.
First Published: August 28, 2017, 4:00 a.m.
