City of Asylum
Giving Voice.
If I asked you “What is a book for?”, you might also ask: What is a book anyway? What is reading? What is writing? What is publishing? What is a story? What is knowledge? What is language? On November 18, we will ask (but not answer) these questions and more.
All-new compositions inspired by the work of artists such as Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Join us as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the International Poetry Forum, a local, independent nonprofit organization dedicated to spoken poetry and poetry education. Founded by Dr. Samuel Hazo in 1966, the International Poetry Forum has hosted hundreds of the world's most celebrated poets and performers in its reading series and educational outreach programs, including legends like Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mary Oliver, James Earl Jones, Grace Kelly, and many more.
Prolific author and essayist Jamaica Kincaid shares new PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay–winning collection in conversation with Anderson Tepper.
Composer and pianist Joe Sheehan shares his latest project: a suite of all-original compositions inspired by fictional legendary places.
Sometimes you have it. And sometimes, you just…lose it. This December, join Story Club PGH for their monthly Story Slam as storytellers share tales under the umbrella “Slipped Through My Fingers.”
Lifelong guitarist Mila Shadel shares her fully original arrangements of the music of Joni Mitchell, one of her musical heroes.
Saxophonist Lou Stellute leads two other saxophonists—Scott Boni and Ben Opie—and a rhythm section filled out by Paul Thompson and George Heid III in a program featuring multiphonics and completely improvised tunes.
