City of Asylum
Giving Voice.
As part of our Partner Presents series, SCREENSHOT: Asian Film Festival brings the award-winning documentary "Yalla Parkour" to Alphabet City on November 2. Directed by Areeb Zuaiter, "Yalla Parkour" won the Grand Jury Prize in the International Competition at DOC NYC and was selected for the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival.
If I asked you “What is a book for?”, you might also ask: What is a book anyway? What is reading? What is writing? What is publishing? What is a story? What is knowledge? What is language? On November 18, we will ask (but not answer) these questions and more.
Devilish Merry is a traditional music ensemble from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that blends Appalachian and Irish melodies with powerful, ballad-based songs on American history and heritage. It’s a lively mix of old-time fiddle tunes, Irish jigs and reels, Pennsylvania folk and labor ballads and riveting new songs from the musicians’ own life experience.
All-new compositions inspired by the work of artists such as Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Join us as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the International Poetry Forum, a local, independent nonprofit organization dedicated to spoken poetry and poetry education. Founded by Dr. Samuel Hazo in 1966, the International Poetry Forum has hosted hundreds of the world's most celebrated poets and performers in its reading series and educational outreach programs, including legends like Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mary Oliver, James Earl Jones, Grace Kelly, and many more.
Prolific author and essayist Jamaica Kincaid shares new PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay–winning collection in conversation with Anderson Tepper.
Join Maxwell King and Heinz History Center curator Anne Maderasz to discuss “Fire in the Night Sky,” Pittsburgh’s steel history, Aaron Harry Gorson's art, and more.
