Susan Cohen: “Journeys from There to Here”

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Journeys From There to Here is a stirring set of essays from leading immigration lawyer Susan Cohen, inviting us to walk alongside her clients as they share incredible journeys coming to America while overcoming unimaginable dangers and often heartbreaking obstacles.

Dialogues Reading Presented by Chatham University MFA

City of Asylum @ Home

"Dialogues" is Chatham's annual conversation around socially relevant themes, these year featuring the theme HOME. This program features Malcolm Friend, Adriana Ramirez, & Angela Velez reading their work and discussing Sandra Cisneros’ "The House on Mango Street," a seminal text in the exploration of home.

Actors Talk August Presented by August Wilson House : Mark Clayton Southers (2)

City of Asylum @ Home

August Wilson House celebrates America’s greatest playwright with substantial insider interviews, with leading August Wilson actors, directors and artists, national and regional. Hosted and moderated by Chris Rawson, veteran Pittsburgh Post-Gazette theater critic who chronicled Wilson’s career and became a friend. The goal is to capture the memories, anecdotes and insights of those who know Wilson’s epic American Century Cycle from the inside.

Love Unlimited Trio

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

A J Johnson's Love Unlimited Trio features cellist Akua Dixon, multi-instrumentalist Salim Washington (oboe, flute, bass clarinet), and multi-instrumentalist and leader A J Johnson (trombone, tuba, bass clarinet). In sharing and rotating the musical responsibilities, Love Unlimited is a model for collaborative work and play. The trio's music extends from funk to jazz to the church. Where there is Love Unlimited, joy follows.

In-Dialogue series Presented by the #notwhite collective

City of Asylum @ Home

The series reimagines the past and present history of the arts sector by engaging and presenting the wealth of experience, strategies, and tactics of the global majority, notwhite descendants, inheritors of colonialism, indigenous and immigrants who navigate a predominantly white arts sector. 

Story Slam with Story Club PGH

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Join City of Asylum and Story Club Pgh for a new monthly nonfiction storytelling series, mixing the spontaneity of an open mic with the experience of live theater. With featured performers and open mic storytellers. February's theme: For the love of the game 

Actors Talk August Presented by August Wilson House: Jerome Preston Bates

City of Asylum @ Home

August Wilson House celebrates America’s greatest playwright with substantial insider interviews, with leading August Wilson actors, directors and artists, national and regional. Hosted and moderated  by Chris Rawson, veteran Pittsburgh Post-Gazette theater critic who chronicled Wilson’s career and became a friend. The goal is to capture the memories, anecdotes and insights of those who know Wilson’s epic American Century Cycle from the inside.

Disasters Vol.1 Album Release

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Mostly Other People Do the Killing is a group founded on the idea that jazz should be enormous fun. They de-construct jazz standards and weave the remnants into new compositions that the quartet rips into with zest. 

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