Reel Q Reel Stories: Belonging: Trans Indian Story
Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesPresented in partnership with Reel Q, Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival, City of Asylum presents "Belonging: Trans Indian Story."
Artist in Exile: Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s “Signals of Being” (Ukraine)
Writer-in-Residence Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s latest work comes to life in this staged reading and discussion of “Signals of Being,” a three-act play depicting the tensions of a country at war and the critical bonds formed among community ...
World of Music: Steel City Calypso (Caribbean Steel Drums)
Dan Meunier, Chantal Joseph, Greg Lutz, Paul Thompson, and Subha Das bring the sounds of Trinidad and Tobago to the Pittsburgh music scene in an exciting concert where steel drums are the star of the show ...
Thursday Night Jazz: Hugo Cruz & Caminos Perform the Music of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (with a Cuban Twist!)
Hugo Cruz and the Caminos honor the music of home, past and present, in this tribute to highly influential Pittsburgh jazz musician Art Blakey, infusing seven of his classic compositions with the sounds of Cuban styles ...
World Literature: Poet Bertony Louis
City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence and celebrated Haitian poet, Bertony Louis, shares his oeuvre in conversation with fellow Haitian poet Sony Ton-Aime ...
World Literature: Cristina Rivera Garza’s “Autobiography of Cotton” (Mexico)
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 ...
