PGHwrites: Pittsburgh Poetry Collective’s Steel City Poetry Slam

City of Asylum welcomes back longtime friends and partners at Pittsburgh Poetry Collective for a night of poetry competition, audience participation, judge scrutiny, and community connection at the Steel City Poetry Slam ...

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On Topic: America at 250 — Motherhood in America with Jamilah Lemieux (“Black. Single. Mother.”)

Our final America at 250 program offers a personal meditation on and tribute to Black single motherhood from “one of the most important feminist writers of the 21st century” (Brittney Cooper) ...

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Thursday Night Jazz: Roger Humphries Big Band Plays the Music of Horace Silver

Legendary Pittsburgh percussionist Roger Humphries honors his former bandleader and friend, composer of “Song for My Father” Horace Silver ...

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

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 ...

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Story Club PGH Presents: Story Slam! (Double Life)

Who do you let see the real you? Who do you become when day turns to night? This September, share the facets of your Alter Ego with at Story Club PGH’s “Double Life” themed Story Slam! ...

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Concert

Name: Thursday Night Jazz: Lou Stellute Quintet (with Three Tenors!) Presents Something to Talk About
Start: 2026-12-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-12-10T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Alphabet City