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Thursday Night Jazz: Mila Shadel Quartet’s Favorite Love Songs

Thursday Night Jazz: Mila Shadel Quartet’s Favorite Love Songs

Lifelong guitarist Mila Shadel, accompanied by Joe Sheehan, Anton DeFade, and James Johnson III, fills the air with love and jazz in this Valentine’s Day celebration concert ...
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World Literature: Patrice Nganang’s “Scale Boy” (Book Launch)

World Literature: Patrice Nganang’s “Scale Boy” (Book Launch)

In the first World Literature program of the year, Anderson Tepper will be in conversation with Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang to discuss his new memoir, “Scale Boy: An African Childhood.” ...
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Thursday Night Jazz: John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”

Thursday Night Jazz: John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”

Yoko Suzuki, Max Leake, Eli Namay, and Roger Humphries, legendary jazz musicians in the local Pittsburgh scene, breathe new life into John Coltrane’s iconic album ...
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PGHwrites: Free Association Reading Series with Laura Jackson, Dani LaMorte, Lauren Shapiro & James Tasillo

PGHwrites: Free Association Reading Series with Laura Jackson, Dani LaMorte, Lauren Shapiro & James Tasillo

Pat Hart and Marc Nieson’s Free Association Reading Series continues this February with four regional writers sharing new and in-progress works ...
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World of Music: LauraB (Spanish Folk Singer-Songwriter)

World of Music: LauraB (Spanish Folk Singer-Songwriter)

Spanish composer and musician Laura González Flores, also known by her “B-Side” LauraB, takes to the Alphabet City stage for her second-ever North American tour to share her latest, most intimate and personal project ...
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  • March 2026

  • Tue 24
    March 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

    World Literature: Cristina Rivera Garza’s “Autobiography of Cotton” (Mexico)

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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    Anderson Tepper joins Pulitzer Prize–winning author Cristina Rivera Garza in a reading and discussion of a fictionalized though deeply personal retelling of her grandparents’ journey through the mining towns and cotton fields along the Mexico-US border.

    Thu 26
    March 26 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

    Thursday Night Jazz: AurallaurA’s “The Critique of Capital: An Engaging Revue” (Album Launch)

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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    Vocalist and composer AurallaurA (Laura Chu Wiens) launches her sophomore album, "The Critique of Capital: An Engaging Revue," a confident, cabaret-like romp through jazz, world music, and other genres.

    Sun 29
    March 29 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

    PGHwrites: Free Association Reading Series with Shaheen Dil, Gary Jackson, Cedric Rudolph & Nina Sabak

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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    Pat Hart and Marc Nieson’s Free Association Reading Series continues this March with four regional writers sharing new and in-progress works.

  • April 2026

  • Sun 12
    April 12 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

    PGHwrites: Free Association Reading Series with Faith Barrett, Jessica Lanay, Frank Lehner & Joy Priest

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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    Pat Hart and Marc Nieson’s Free Association Reading Series continues this April with four regional writers sharing new and in-progress works.

  • May 2026

  • Thu 7
    May 7 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

    Jazz Poetry 2026: The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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    Six-time Jazz Poetry Month headliner James Brandon Lewis takes to the stage with his punk-jazz fusion band, the Messthetics, to herald in another month of poetry and improvisational jazz collaboration at City of Asylum.

  • July 2026

  • Tue 21
    July 21 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

    On Topic: Free Expression with Jacob Mchangama & Nadine Strossen

    Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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    Our On Topic series continues this season with a moderated discussion among free speech experts, who will get into the weeds of current controversies and the role free expression plays in maintaining a democratic government.

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