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A jazz band performance hosted by City of Asylum's in-house restaurant, Cucina Alfabeto, and lead by bassist Stephan Crump.
Thursday Night Jazz: University of Pittsburgh Jazz Program Showcase
Master and doctoral students of the University of Pittsburgh Jazz Program—Juwon Adenuga, David Adepegba, Laura Gonzalez Fidalgo, Godfrey Lubuulwa, Danny Fratina, Táyé Máyègha, and Elad Sobol—share their performance and compositional chops ...
World Literature: Genre-Defying Writer Dimitris Lyacos (Greece) with Cellist Liam Battle
Dimitris Lyacos, a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, brings his trademark genre-defying flair to Alphabet City in this combination reading and musical collaboration celebrating his literary oeuvre and writing process ...
Thursday Night Jazz: Anton DeFade Quintet’s “Gaijin” (Single Release)
Bassist and composer Anton DeFade celebrates the release of his latest single and its accompanying cassette tape at Alphabet City, joined by quintet members JD Chaisson, Evan David, Jacob Pleakis, and Brian Wolfe ...
PGHwrites: Sony Ton-Aime’s “Konbit” (Book Launch) with Fellow Poets Shara McCallum & Joy Priest
Celebrate the launch of Sony Ton-Aime’s debut poetry collection, a masterwork in imagining an alternative future, navigating our present, and finding language for our common past ...
Artist in Exile: Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s “Signals of Being” (Ukraine)
Writer-in-Residence Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s latest work comes to life in this staged reading and discussion of “Signals of Being,” a three-act play depicting the tensions of a country at war and the critical bonds formed among community ...
