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Thursday Night Jazz: Colter Harper Quintet Celebrates the Music of Brazilian Singer-Songwriter & Activist Caetano Veloso

Thursday Night Jazz: Colter Harper Quintet Celebrates the Music of Brazilian Singer-Songwriter & Activist Caetano Veloso

A dedicated musician and staunch activist in his own right, Colter Harper and bandmates Kelsey Jumper, José Luis Martins, Tony DePaolis, and Lucas Ashby honor nine-time Latin Grammy winner and member of the Tropicália arts movement Caetano Veloso ...
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World Literature: Karen Tei Yamashita’s “Questions 27 & 28” with Anderson Tepper

World Literature: Karen Tei Yamashita’s “Questions 27 & 28” with Anderson Tepper

Author of National Book Award finalist I Hotel shares a new novel illuminating the lives of laborers, artists, scholars, informants, and activists who, over three generations, defined the Japanese American community post–Pearl Harbor ...
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World Literature: Madeleine Thien’s “The Book of Records” with Anderson Tepper

World Literature: Madeleine Thien’s “The Book of Records” with Anderson Tepper

Booker Prize–shortlisted author Madeleine Thien discusses her latest work, a “Time” Must-Read Book of the Year ...
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Thursday Night Jazz: Bassist Paul Thompson Explores the Bass-Drum Connection with Drummers (& Best Friends) David Throckmorton, Paul Wells & Thomas Wendt

Thursday Night Jazz: Bassist Paul Thompson Explores the Bass-Drum Connection with Drummers (& Best Friends) David Throckmorton, Paul Wells & Thomas Wendt

In a tribute to the myriad ways jazz builds and becomes community, lifelong friends and iconic musicians explore themes of connection both within and beyond the making of music ...
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On Topic: America at 250 — Profound Autism in America with Lynn Johnson, Amy S. F. Lutz & Jose Muniain

On Topic: America at 250 — Profound Autism in America with Lynn Johnson, Amy S. F. Lutz & Jose Muniain

Filmmaker Jose Muniain, photographer Lynn Johnson, and writer Amy S.F. Lutz ("We Walk: Life with Severe Autism") share their creative projects, which all center on the stories of real people living with profound autism ...
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  • August 2026

  • Tue 18
    August 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

    On Topic: America at 250 — Profound Autism in America with Lynn Johnson, Amy S. F. Lutz & Jose Muniain

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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    Filmmaker Jose Muniain, photographer Lynn Johnson, and writer Amy S.F. Lutz ("We Walk: Life with Severe Autism") share their creative projects, which all center on the stories of real people living with profound autism.

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    August 31 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

    Tony Buba & Marcus Rediker Present: “Becoming Benjamin Lay”

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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    City of Asylum hosts a screening of a new documentary from director Tony Buba and historian Marcus Rediker, which explores the life and ideas of an unknown radical Quaker dwarf abolitionist Benjamin Lay.

  • October 2026

  • Mon 5
    October 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

    Reel Q Film Festival Presents: An International Queer Film Screening

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
    Free In-Person TicketsFree Livestream Tickets

    Join in on the film festival fun this October with an international queer film screening from Reel Q as they celebrate their nine-day film festival!

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