Hear award winning author and illustrator Mo Willems, who will discuss his life, career, and creative process with Jane Werner, Executive Director of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Conversation followed by a Q&A with the audience. Educators, librarians, and aspiring children’s book authors won’t want to miss this event!
This New & Noted lecture is presented in partnership with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Mark Whitaker’s Smoketown is a captivating portrait of Pittsburgh’s renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour from the 1920s through the 1950s. Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about working-class strivers. But this community […]
February's theme is Curiosity! Join us on Friday, February 23 at Pittsburgh Glass Center for a free breakfast and lecture. We're excited to announce Ali Momeni as our speaker for this month's #CreativeMornings. A special thanks to Winchester Thurston School for sponsoring this month's event. Thank you to The Sprout Fund for serving as CreativeMornings/Pittsburgh's […]
Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust In her recent book, In the Darkroom, Pulitzer Prize-winning feminist journalist Susan Faludi investigates her transgender father’s lifetime of identity transformations, and the mysteries of identity—personal, political and cultural—transfixing our times. Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American […]
Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust Underwritten by Jewish Healthcare Foundation and presented with support by Pittsburgh Humanities Festival In her recent book, In the Darkroom, Pulitzer Prize-winning feminist journalist Susan Faludi investigates her transgender father’s lifetime of identity transformations, and the mysteries of identity—personal, political and cultural—transfixing our times. Susan Faludi is a […]
Please join us for the first lecture of our Spring 2018 Lecture Series! Prohibition Pittsburgh: Some East Liberty Tales of Vice and Crime Presented by: Richard Gazarik, Journalist and Author FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Following up from our March 2017 gathering where we discussed Pittsburgh’s urban renewal of the past along with present day concerns due to development pressures and other factors, Preservation Pittsburgh and the East Liberty Valley Historical Society are coming together again: this time to learn more about City-designated historic buildings and districts with a special […]
Doors at 7PM. Event time is 8PM. Sale Dates and Times: Public Onsale : Fri, 15 Sep 2017 at 10:00 AM
Words & Pictures is supported by The Grable Foundation and the Succop Family Charitable Foundation. Melissa Sweet has illustrated more than 80 children’s books including the Caldecott Honor books The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus and A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams. She also wrote and illustrated the beloved picture […]
Words & Pictures is supported by EQT Corporation Foundation, The Grable Foundation, PIC5K, and the Succop Family Charitable Foundation. Melissa Sweet has illustrated more than 80 children’s books including the Caldecott Honor books The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus and A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams. She also wrote and […]
The East Liberty Valley Historical Society hits the road! ELVHS President, Justin Greenawalt, visits the Wilkinsburg Historical Society with Part I of his In Plain Sight Series: Fragments of a Vanished East End. Doors Open at 7:00. Presentation starts at 7:30. If you missed the debut of this series in 2015, we look forward to […]
Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust Mohsin Hamid is the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Discontent and its Civilizations, and Exit West. His award-winning novels have been adapted for the cinema and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His essays and short […]
Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust and Underwritten by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh with additional support by Chatham University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program Mohsin Hamid is the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Discontent and its Civilizations, and Exit West. His award-winning […]
Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust Bold, elegant, and fiercely honest, Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. His collection of stories, The Refugees, gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in […]
Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust Bold, elegant, and fiercely honest, Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. His collection of stories, The Refugees, gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in […]