This annual exhibit showcases interactive pieces created by four artists-in-residence that are tough enough to withstand kid handling.

With this year's featured projects you can communicate with squirrels, make music out of magnets, journey through a tunnel of braided fabric and climb a podium to voice your views.

For more information, call (412) 322-5058.

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"Likeness" is a group exhibition that examines human depiction during an era in which new technology plays an influential role.

Portraits are everywhere these days: our wallets; our computers, cell phones and desktops; on the walls of corporate offices, banks and schools.

For more information, call (412) 231-3169.

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Help warm up the winter for area families by dropping off gently used adult- and child-sized sweaters in the Children's Museum's lobby during regular Museum open hours.

"Mister Rogers Neighbrohood" (1968-2001) was a children's show produced in Pittsburgh starring Fred Rogers (1928-2003). The museum has a permanent exhibit based on the series.

For more information, contact the Museum's Sweater Donation Hotline at (412) 322-5058, ext. 311.

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Experience a local staging of David Mamet's play about four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.

Show times and tickets are available from ShowClix by calling (888) 718-4253.

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Children ages 18 months through 3 years and their caregivers can learn through hands-on activities, songs and stories based on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory.

The theory argues that intelligence, particularly as it is traditionally defined, does not sufficiently encompass the wide variety of abilities humans display.

For more information, call (412) 322-5059.

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Designed specially for ages 18 months to five years, kids coming to this program learn about birds through a story and a close-up encounter with one of the National Aviary’s birds.

For more information, call (412) 323-7235.

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Kids ages 2 to 6 can hear stories from the National Aviary's bird hospital and learn how to be a junior veterinarian.

For more information, call (412) 323-7235.

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Enjoy a lobby full of hands-on holiday activities that are appropriate for the whole family.

Activities include contemporary portraiture, model installation making and more.

For more information, call (412) 231-3169.

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Bring your cameras as aerialists from the new local troupe KnotDance perform acrobatic dances suspended 16 feet above the floor of the museum's Main Lobby in a special Thanksgiving show.

There will be an additional performance a t 2:30 p.m.

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The entire family will enjoy seeing a live broadcast of the radio program "Saturday Light Brigade".

The show features puzzles, games, live musical performances and special guests.

For more information, call (412) 322-5058.

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