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Thursday Night Jazz: Kente Summer Madness Presents The Jevon Rushton Group

Thursday Night Jazz: Kente Summer Madness Presents The Jevon Rushton Group

Jevon Rushton shares his world, where rhythm becomes touch, melody becomes color, and every note tells a story in the final Kente Summer Madness concert of the summer ...
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On Topic: Nina Sharma’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” (Interracial Relationships)

On Topic: Nina Sharma’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” (Interracial Relationships)

Author Nina Sharma shares her debut memoir, “The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown,” a hilarious and moving story of her interracial relationship, told in essays ...
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Writer-in-Residence: Rania Mamoun (Sudan) & Reem Alghazzi's "Becoming Iphigenia"

Writer-in-Residence: Rania Mamoun (Sudan) & Reem Alghazzi’s “Becoming Iphigenia”

A film screening curated by Writer-in-Residence Rania Mamoun, highlighting filmmaker Reem Alghazzi’s feature-length creative documentary following the story of nine Syrian women’s escape from war ...
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Thursday Night Jazz: Theron Brown’s “Spirit Fruit” (Album Launch)

Thursday Night Jazz: Theron Brown’s “Spirit Fruit” (Album Launch)

A discussion and performance from master pianist Theron Brown, in conversation with Grammy Award–winning producer Kamau Kenyatta, on his expertly blended gospel and jazz album, "Spirit Fruit." ...
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World Literature: Cleyvis Natera’s “The Grand Paloma Resort”

World Literature: Cleyvis Natera’s “The Grand Paloma Resort”

Praised as a “gripping…lush and suspenseful summer read” (Al Dìa) with echoes of the pop culture phenomenon The White Lotus (Crime Reads), "The Grand Paloma Resort" grabs readers and refuses to let go.  ...
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Sun 20
July 20 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

PGHwrites: “Keystone Poetry” (Book Launch)

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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This reading features nine of the poets from the Keystone Poetry anthology’s “The Allegheny Highlands” and “Three Rivers and Old Mills” sections sharing their poems about Pennsylvania, for Pennsylvanians.

Tue 22
July 22 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

Writer-in-Residence: Mukhtar Shehata (Egypt)

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Writer-in-Residence Mukhtar Shehata shares newly written work and reflects on his time in Pittsburgh.

Sun 27
July 27 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

World Literature: Aatish Taseer’s “A Return to Self”

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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A life laid bare, a wandering search for meaning, an immersive portal into history and its accompanying reverberations. All this and more can be found in Aatish Taseer’s "A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile."

August 2025

Sun 3
August 3 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

On Topic: Michelle Adams’s “The Containment” (Racial Justice in the North)

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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This second installment of our On Topic series welcomes esteemed legal scholar Michelle Adams to explore class and race in a discussion of her new book, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North."

Tue 12
August 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

Writer-in-Residence: Volodymyr Rafeyenko (Ukraine) & Translator Mark Andryczyk

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence Volodymyr Rafeyenko discusses three of his works with his translator Mark Andryczyk, exploring the process of translation and the relationship between writer and translator.

Sun 17
August 17 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

On Topic: Nina Sharma’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” (Interracial Relationships)

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

Author Nina Sharma shares her debut memoir, “The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown,” a hilarious and moving story of her interracial relationship, told in essays.

Sun 24
August 24 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

World Literature: Cleyvis Natera’s “The Grand Paloma Resort”

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

Praised as a “gripping…lush and suspenseful summer read” (Al Dìa) with echoes of the pop culture phenomenon The White Lotus (Crime Reads), "The Grand Paloma Resort" grabs readers and refuses to let go. 

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