LitFest 2024: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Richard Powers Presents “Playground”
Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesPulitzer Prize-Winner Richard Powers shares his latest Booker Prize nominated novel, "Playground"
Pulitzer Prize-Winner Richard Powers shares his latest Booker Prize nominated novel, "Playground"
Terrance Hayes returns to Pittsburgh for this reading and relaunch of the International Poetry Forum at City of Asylum.
This latest concert in Yoko’s ongoing series features the compositions of Toshiko Akiyoshi as well as some beloved jazz standards.
Author Sandra Cisneros celebrates the 40th anniversary of her renowned novel "The House on Mango Street."
Story Club Pittsburgh (created by the former producers of The Moth Pittsburgh) organizes and hosts Story Slam, a monthly nonfiction storytelling series at City of Asylum. October's theme is Surprise!
Thursday Night Jazz returns with Thomas Wendt's "Off Minor" to honor jazz legend Barry Harris
Authors Joseph Earl Thomas and Aaron Robertson discuss the reality and utopia of Black life and its representation in their respective novels.
James Johnson III returns to City of Asylum for a performance with vocalist Carolyn Perteete and Pittsburgh Symphony musicians.
From filmmaker Jules Rosskam, Desire Lines is a hybrid feature documentary that blends personal interviews, archival materials, and narrative fiction as a framework for exploring the complicated and often unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality.
The HarmoniZing ensemble performs lead by erhu player and founding member Mimi Jong.
Alto saxophonist Antonio Hart celebrates the music of jazz icons Johnny Hodges and Billy Strayhorn in this Off Minor concert.
Lannan Literary Award winner Jamaica Kincaid comes to City of Asylum to share her latest book, in conversation with Anderson Tepper.
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