Festival of Combustion<\/a>, presented by Rivers of Steel at the historic Carrie Blast Furnaces, is a celebration of the region\u2019s rich industrial heritage. Attendees can expect an afternoon of live demonstrations by artists and craftspeople exhibiting traditional and contemporary metalworking techniques, including blacksmithing, copper smithing, riveting and aluminum casting.<\/p>\nVisitors also can shop a marketplace of locally made trinkets, grab a bite to eat from a food truck or make their own souvenirs through an assortment of hands-on activities and crafts.<\/p>\n
Once the sun goes down, folks can sit in the glow of smoldering embers and watch as fireworks illuminate the site\u2019s dramatic silhouette.<\/p>\n
The pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance is the annual iron pour, carried out by Rivers of Steel staff artists and students enrolled in the three-day Intro to Iron Casting workshop. The spectacle involves a tall, heated iron furnace \u2014 iron needs a higher heat than other metals in order to liquify \u2014 and an impressive gantry crane to transport the molten heavy metal. The orange, lava-like iron is then poured into molds created by workshop participants to cast everything from sculptural art to household items and trinkets, which will be sold in the Rivers of Steel gift shop.<\/p>\n
The Festival of Combustion blasts off from 3 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3. Tickets can be purchased at the gate for $30, but you can snag them for $25 if you buy online. The event is free for those younger than 18 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rivers of Steel is celebrating the 10th annual Festival of Combustion at Carrie Blast Furnaces on Oct. 3.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79086,121624,73,75,74,65355],"class_list":["post-293601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-carrie-blast-furnaces","tag-festival-of-combustion","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rivers-of-steel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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