City of Asylum
Giving Voice.
Rich Zabinski, Rick Matt, Howie Alexander, and Benjamin May celebrate the birthday of bebop jazz legend Benny Golson.
Fall in love with sharing stories with Story Club PGH’s Story Slam, a monthly nonfiction storytelling series hosted by Alan Olifson.
Etta Cox, eight-time winner of “Best Jazz Vocalist,” brings her Broadway chops and unparalleled vocal performance to the Alphabet City stage for a night of transformed jazz favorites.
Lifelong guitarist Mila Shadel, accompanied by Joe Sheehan, Anton DeFade, and James Johnson III, fills the air with love and jazz in this Valentine’s Day celebration concert.
In the first World Literature program of the year, Anderson Tepper will be in conversation with Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang to discuss his new memoir, “Scale Boy: An African Childhood.”
Yoko Suzuki, Max Leake, Eli Namay, and Roger Humphries, legendary jazz musicians in the local Pittsburgh scene, breathe new life into John Coltrane’s iconic album.
Pat Hart and Marc Nieson’s Free Association Reading Series continues this February with four regional writers sharing new and in-progress works.
Spanish composer and musician Laura González Flores, also known by her “B-Side” LauraB, takes to the Alphabet City stage for her second-ever North American tour to share her latest, most intimate and personal project.
Jazz vocalist Delana Flowers honors her late mentor, professional composer, musical director, performer, visual artist, and sculptor Ernest McCarty, as well as Queen of the Blues, Dinah Washington.
Award-winning writer and professor Namwali Serpell shares her new work on Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison in this reading and discussion moderated by Anderson Tepper.
Feeling lucky? Share your story this March at Story Club PGH’s Story Slam, for the chance to win prizes and storytelling glory!
Vocalist and composer AurallaurA (Laura Chu Wiens) launches her sophomore album, "The Critique of Capital: An Engaging Revue," a confident, cabaret-like romp through jazz, world music, and other genres.
Pat Hart and Marc Nieson’s Free Association Reading Series continues this March with four regional writers sharing new and in-progress works.
Pat Hart and Marc Nieson’s Free Association Reading Series continues this April with four regional writers sharing new and in-progress works.
Six-time Jazz Poetry Month headliner James Brandon Lewis takes to the stage with his punk-jazz fusion band, the Messthetics, to herald in another month of poetry and improvisational jazz collaboration at City of Asylum.
Our On Topic series kicks off in 2026 with a moderated discussion among free speech experts, who will get into the weeds of current controversies and the role free expression plays in maintaining a democratic government.
