Events

EMERGENCY ALERT!
 
RINGLING GIVING AWAY 75₵ CIRCUS TICKETS AT CONSOL ENERGY CENTER TOMORROW MORNING!! PLEASE PROTEST IF YOU CAN!!
 
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This is urgent!! We have just discovered that there is going to be a special event this morning, Thursday, August 18th, at the Consol Energy Center: Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus is celebrating their 200th birthday in coordination with the Consol Energy Center’s 1st birthday, by giving away 200 tickets for each circus performance for 75 cents each!! This means they are giving away 1000 tickets! The tickets will start to be given out at 9 AM and the birthday bash Consol and Ringling are jointly throwing will also include free refreshments, games, and prizes, as well as special appearances by a Ringling Bros. clown and Iceburgh, the official mascot of the Pittsburgh Penguins! Guests can start lining up to get in at 7 AM at the Trib Total Media Gate.
 
Every year attendance at Ringling Bros. Circus performances has been dwindling as their deplorable record of animal abuse becomes more well-known and more and more compassionate people choose to forego the circus in favor of ethical animal-free entertainment. It is not surprising therefore that Ringling is trying to fill more empty arena seats by practically giving away circus tickets. What is surprising and extremely disappointing however, is that Consol Energy Center is is giving Ringling a leg up in this endeavor by partnering up and holding this joint birthday celebration together. This is inexcusable. By supporting and partnering with Ringling, Consol is giving their direct support to Ringling’s animal cruelty.
 
We know this is extremely last minute and most people are not able to attend events on a weekday morning, but if there is any possible way for you to attend this, WE NEED YOU!!  VFA volunteers will be protesting outside the Consol Energy Center’s Trib Total Media Gate (where the crowds will be lining up) tomorrow morning starting at 8:30 AM (please feel free to come later as well if you need to). We will bring signs and leaflets. If you are able to come, please do, bring others along, and spread the word WIDELY.

If you are not able to come tomorrow, you can still help by calling the Consol Energy Center and voicing your outrage that they would partner with Ringling Bros. Circus and help them boost their dwindling ticket sales, which is only rightly deserved for their abysmal treatment of animals.
 
Please call Alyssa of Consol Energy Center’s marketing division and express your outrage:
 
Alyssa, Marketing: 412-642-1800 ext 2689
 (412 804 2689)
 
If you would rather send an email, send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (There is a possibility the the management may be more on the animals' side than we think, so please be polite in your emails)

You might also want to contact The Bagel Factory and Airheads Balloon Art as well, which are providing the refreshments and prizes at the event, and complain:
 
The Bagel Factory: 412-521-8100
Airheads Balloon Art: 412-793-7144
 
We will post the Consol Energy Center’s email with this event announcement below so you can see the full details. If you have any questions or to let us know that you can make it, please email Voices For Animals: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
THANK YOU FOR TAKING ACTION ON THIS URGENT ALERT! PLEASE COME AND STAND AGAINST RINGLING BROS’S ANIMAL ABUSE TOMORROW MORNING IF YOU CAN!

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Tickets for Just 75 Cents!

To celebrate the 200th Birthday of P. T. Barnum, as well as the 1st Birthday of CONSOL Energy Center,
200 tickets for each circus performance will be available for just 75 cents -
the price of a ticket when P. T. Barnum was born. Celebrate with us on Thursday, August 18!

Join us for games, prizes and refreshments provided by The Bagel Factory and Aramark.
Balloons provided by Airheads Balloon Art.

Special guest appearances by Iceburgh, the official mascot of the Pittsburgh Penguins
and and a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey®  clown!
                      
Please enter through the Trib Total Media Gate. Guests may begin lining up at 7 AM. Offer valid only at the Dick's Sporting Goods Box Office at CONSOL Energy Center beginning at 9 AM on August 18. 25¢ facility fee to be added per ticket at time of purchase. Limit six (6) tickets per person for one performance only. Available while supplies last. Not valid on Circus Celebrity or VIP seats.