Thursday Night Jazz: Roger Humphries Big Band Plays the Music of Horace Silver
Legendary Pittsburgh percussionist Roger Humphries honors his former bandleader and friend, composer of “Song for My Father” Horace Silver.
City of Asylum
City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating creative free expression.
Upcoming Events
Tony Buba & Marcus Rediker Present: “Becoming Benjamin Lay”
Join us for a new documentary that explores the life of Benjamin Lay, a radical Quaker dwarf abolitionist.
City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating freedom of creative expression.
We provide sanctuary to endangered writers and artists, so that they can continue to create and their voices are not silenced.
We offer a broad range of free literary, arts, and humanities programs in a community setting to build social equity through cultural exchange.
And by transforming blighted properties into homes for our programs, we anchor neighborhood economic development.
Our History
City of Asylum was founded in 2004 by Northside residents Diane Samuels and Henry Reese. Our first writer, Huang Xiang, arrived in Pittsburgh in 2004.
We provide sanctuary to endangered writers and artists, so that they can continue to create and their voices are not silenced.
We offer a broad range of free literary, arts, and humanities programs in a community setting to build social equity through cultural exchange.
And by transforming blighted properties into homes for our programs, we anchor neighborhood economic development.
Our History
City of Asylum was founded in 2004 by Northside residents Diane Samuels and Henry Reese. Our first writer, Huang Xiang, arrived in Pittsburgh in 2004.
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40 W North Ave
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Pittsburgh, PA - Ages
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City of Asylum
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Past Events
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Aug 25
On Topic: America at 250 — Motherhood in America with Jamilah Lemieux (“Black. Single. Mother.”)
Reading
City of Asylum
Aug 24
PGHwrites: Pittsburgh Poetry Collective’s Steel City Poetry Slam
Workshop
City of Asylum
Aug 23
Artist in Exile: Mukhtar Shehata’s “Makaki de Afrika” (Egypt) with Translator Melissa Krawczyk
Reading
City of Asylum
Aug 18
On Topic: America at 250 — Profound Autism in America with Lynn Johnson, Amy S. F. Lutz & Jose Muniain
Lecture
City of Asylum
Aug 11
Details
Aug 9
World Literature: Karen Tei Yamashita’s “Questions 27 & 28” with Anderson Tepper
Reading
City of Asylum
Aug 6
Thursday Night Jazz: Colter Harper Quintet Celebrates the Music of Brazilian Singer-Songwriter & Activist Caetano Veloso
Concert
City of Asylum
Aug 2
"PGHwrites: “unmade place” (Sound-Text Experiments) with Varun Ravindran, 7D & Dade Lemanski, Viii Dorsey & Drew Collins, trē seguritan abalos & Jenna Peng"
Theater
City of Asylum
Aug 2
unmade place: sound text experiments with Varun Ravindran, 7D & Dade Lemanski, Viii Dorsey & Drew Collins, trē seguritan abalos & Jenna Peng
Reading
City of Asylum
Jul 30
Thursday Night Jazz: Kente Summer Madness Presents Thomas Wendt Quintet Celebrates Thad Mosley
Concert
City of Asylum
Jul 28
Artist in Exile: Fatimah Asghar’s “Daughter of the Mountains: Poems of Heartbreak and Homecoming”
Lecture
City of Asylum
Jul 27
World Literature: Dimitry Elias Léger’s “Death of the Soccer God” (Haiti) with Anderson Tepper
Lecture
City of Asylum
Jul 23
Thursday Night Jazz: Steve Ippolito Trio’s Minimalist Improvisational Roots Sounds
Concert
City of Asylum
Jul 21
On Topic: Free Expression with Jacob Mchangama & Nadine Strossen
Lecture
City of Asylum
Jul 13
Chamber Music Pittsburgh Presents: The Cowboy Evolves — Journeys Through the Music of the Americas
Concert
City of Asylum
Jul 12
PGHwrites: Sarah Valentine’s “Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin’s Bomb” (Book Launch) with Tahirah J. Walker
Lecture
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