Patrick Breiner's Double Double
Join us for an evening of jazz with Patrick Breiner’s Double Double! Patrick Breiner’s band Double Double features original compositions written for 2 upright bassists, tenor saxophone, and percussion. They will play pieces from their release Mileage in addition to newer long-form compositions written to highlight and juxtapose groove and openness. Featured Musicians: Patrick Breiner is a […]
Join Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and renowned violinist Alina Ibragimova for an evening celebrating “Fierce & Female” voices in the arts, featuring poets Clare Welsh and Kizza. Featured Musicians: TBD Alina Ibragimova, violin Rodrigo Ojeda, piano Featured Poets: Clare Welsh is a poet based in Pittsburgh, and a graduate of The University of New Orleans MFA […]
Free Association Reading Series
Join us for intimate readings with exceptional writers co-curated by Pat Hart and Marc Nieson of the Free Association Reading Series. Featured Writers: Dave Newman is the author of six books, including the novel East Pittsburgh Downlow (J.New Books, 2019), and the collection The Slaughterhouse Poems (White Gorilla Press, 2013), named one of the best […]
Choreographer Dean Moss: Excavated movements
Choreographer Dean Moss will explore the experience of assimilation with gentle twisted dances, in this performance work titled Your marks and surface. Choreographed and performed by Moss, the various dance solos feature music from acclaimed composer, sound artist, and long-time collaborator Stephen Vitiello, and a live reading of original poetry by Sandra Liu. Featured Performers: […]
Reading, discussion, and book signing with winner of the 2019 Booker Prize Bernardine Evaristo! “Evaristo is known for narratives that weave through time and place with crackling originality. Girl, Woman, Other is no exception.”–Vogue (UK) Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning British-Nigerian author of eight books. She is professor of creative writing at Brunel University London and a […]
Art of Translation Series: Erín Moure
Join us for a reading and discussion moderate by Michelle Gil-Montero celebrating the work and artistry of literary translation featuring Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure. Moure will read from her newest translations: Sleepless Nights Under Capitalism: The Poems of John Wendell by Argentine poet and political exile Juan Gelman (1940-2014), and The Uplands: Book […]
Join us for an evening of reading and discussion with debut novelist Gabriel Bump. In his alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, EVERYWHERE YOU DON’T BELONG, Gabriel Bump portrays the life of a young everyman. Claude McKay Love isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s just an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures […]
Youth Author Series: J. Albert Mann
Join us for a reading with author J. Albert Mann as she reads from her forthcoming middle grade novel, The DEGENERATES, and other stories from her many books. Audience Q&A will follow. In the tradition of Girl, Interrupted, this fiery historical novel follows four young women in the early 20th century who are locked up […]
American Monster: Love & politics in an age of corruption Join us for a multicultural poetry reading in our intimate Word Cellar venue with Christian Nowlin, Jose Padua, Nikki Allen and Michael Simms presented in partnership with Vox Populi. “It is conventional to call ”monster” any blending of dissonant elements. I call ”monster” every original inexhaustible […]
Latinx & Proud! Series: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Join us for a reading celebrating the work of Latinx literary voices. This installment of the Latinx & Proud! Reading Series will feature Melissa Lozada-Oliva and Ana Portnoy Brimmer! (+TBA) Melissa Lozada-Oliva is an American poet and educator based in New York. She is the author of chapbooks Plastic Pajaros, Rude Girl is Lonely Girl! (Pizza Pi Press), […]