Art of Translation Series: Dunya Mikhail
Join us for our last reading celebrating the work and artistry of literary translation. This program is the 4th and final installment of our Art of Translation Series featuring poet Dunya Mikhail. Dunya Mikhail will be reading from several of her collections with focus on her forthcoming work: In Her Feminine Sign. It is the first book she […]
The art of concise presentations. PechaKucha Night, now in over 1,000 cities, was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. PechaKucha Nights are informal, fun gatherings held cities world-wide, where creative people share their ideas, works and thoughts in a 20×20 format; […]
The Pittsburgh Poetry Collective is proud to present our annual slam competition to select the spoken word poet to represent the city of Pittsburgh at the Individual World Poetry Slam 2019! Spoken Word Poets will compete in 3 rounds of slam with 3 different time limits (4 minutes, 1 minute and 2 minutes), using their […]
Sembène Film Festival – Queen of Katwe
Join us for a screening of Queen of Katwe presented by Sembène–The Film & Art Festival. (Runtime: 124minutes) Queen of Katwe, based on the true story of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, traces her journey from the Kampala slum of Katwe, where she is forced to abandon her formal schooling at the age of nine, to the […]
Join us for an evening of reading and discussion with debut novelists Pitchaya Sudbanthad and Ingrid Rojas Contreras! A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz […]
Join us for a reading with Mary Norris presenting her memoir Greek To Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen. Best-selling New York Times author and renowned New Yorker copyeditor—the Comma Queen herself—Mary Norris is again delighting readers with her wit, knowledge, and exploration of language in Greek To Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen. In this […]
Kenia: The Sultry Sounds of Brazil
Join us for an evening of jazz and Brazilian music with local vocalist, Kenia. Brazilian songstress Kenia returns to City of Asylum after delighting audiences last summer. She is renowned for her ability to translate the complex rhythms of her homeland into jazzy creations that embody the best of the Brazilian sound–deep and sultry, richly diverse, […]
Experience 123 Andrés with an engaging program of music and movement all about the Spanish language! Latin Grammy Award-winner 123 Andrés are Andrés and Christina, a high-energy duo with catchy songs and a fun-filled show that gets kids and families singing and dancing, in Spanish and English. 123 Andrés performs their joy-filled concerts for students […]
Join us for a reading and conversation with PEN/Open Book Award winner Gina Apostol! Featuring her new novel, Insurrecto, one of Publishers’ Weekly’s Best Books of 2018. About Insurrecto: Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the […]
Join us for a swinging evening of retro jazz with The Das/Rossman/Potter Jazz Trio! The Das/Rossman/Potter Jazz Trio, based in Pittsburgh, PA, performs music from the 1940s to present day, mixing in a few original compositions. Each member has been influenced by many genres of music… and it shows! As a collective, they draw from classic […]