2026 Winter Holidays Party & Panel Discussion

You’re Invited! Celebrate a successful 25th Anniversary year at our annual Winter Holidays Party! Join Team Upstream as we say “thank you” to our community of supporters through good food and good company at the Frick Environmental Center in Squirrel Hill.

This year’s party kicks off with a panel discussion and archival exhibit, Improbable or Indispensable: The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Nine Mile Run Greenway Project, with some of UpstreamPgh’s original visionaries. Join us for the discussion, party, or both!

Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, music, mingling and a cash bar with libations from East End Brewing Company. Non-alcoholic beverages, tea and hot cocoa will also be available.

Evening Agenda

5:00pm Doors open, cash bar opens
5:30pm Panel Discussion
6:30pm Holiday party with hors d’oeuvres, cash bar
8:30pm Party ends

About the Panel Discussion & Exhibit: Cap off our year-long 25th anniversary celebration with us in the most special of ways. UpstreamPgh, in partnership with the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, will host an exhibit and panel on the Nine Mile Run Greenway Project at the Frick Environmental Center. The NMR Greenway Project kicked off this nationally acclaimed stream and watershed restoration. Hear from the artists, planners, and funders who started it all – Bob Bingham, Tim and Reiko Goto Collins, John Stephen, and Andrew McElwaine. Harrison Apple from the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry will be moderating the panel, which will include multi-media and an exhibit of archival materials that will be on display for the month of December in the Frick Environmental Center.

Transit: Frick Environmental Center is located near the Forbes + Dallas Ave. bus stop and can be accessed via 61A, 61C or 74 bus routes.

Parking: Plenty of free parking is available near the Frick Environmental Center along Beechwood Blvd. For closest access, limited spaces are available at the Center and can be accessed using the circle driveway out front.