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ALSC 2024 Children’s Literature Lecture Featuring Rita Williams-Garcia:
“A Funny Thing About Memory”
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, together with the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information, is honored to welcome the Association for Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) 2024 Children’s Literature Lecture presented by bestselling and award-winning author Rita Williams-Garcia. Last held in Pittsburgh in 1989, the ALSC Children’s Literature Lecture is an annual event geared … Continued
Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt Lecture: Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThis April, during National Library Week, April 7 - 13, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is proud to announce the establishment of the annual Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt Lecture intended to honor and celebrate the first Black librarian at CLP, who served the Hill District community in the 1940s. The inaugural lecture will be presented by … Continued
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Made Local” – Edda Fields-Black
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesRegister to attend in-person. The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman’s legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the … Continued
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Made Local” – Cameron Barnett
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesMurmur A poetry collection that explores the complexity of race and the body for a Black man in contemporary America. The second book by NAACP Image Award finalist Cameron Barnett, Murmur considers the question of how we become who we are. The answers Barnett offers in these poems are neither safe nor easy, as he traces a … Continued
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Words & Pictures” – A.S. King
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesRegister to attend IN-PERSON or WATCH ONLINE. The video link for the livestreamed event will be emailed to all registrants on the day of the lecture. The captioned video will be available to view for one week, expiring on February 29, 2024. In her new book Attack of the Black Rectangles, Amy takes on censorship and intolerance in a … Continued
An Afternoon with Terrance Hayes
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesJoin us for a multi-media author event and Q&A with Poet Terrance Hayes. Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase, very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a Black man. Registration encouraged. Seating is first come, first serve. An overflow … Continued
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “New & Noted” – Alex Michaelides
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe Fury A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient. This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s … Continued
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Words & Pictures” – Mac Barnett & Shawn Harris
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesRegister to attend IN-PERSON or WATCH ONLINE. Please note that the video link for the livestreamed event will be emailed to all registrants on the day of the lecture. The captioned video will be available to view for one week, expiring on December 7, 2023. Award-winning creators Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris are back with … Continued
A Pittsburgh Playlist Celebrating Willa Cather @ 150
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesTo honor the sesquicentennial of Willa Cather's birthday, a group of academics and students from area universities will read selections from the celebrated author's letters, fiction, poems, and journalism written in and about Pittsburgh, which was her home 1896-1906 and a favorite writing retreat until 1915. Discussion and birthday cookies will follow the reading. Registration … Continued
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Words & Pictures” – Rachel Renée Russell
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesRachel Renée Russell With Nikki Russell, illustrator of the Dork Diaries series “Dream big dreams, because little dreams have no magic.” RACHEL RENÉE RUSSELL, DORK DIARIES: TALES FROM A NOT-SO-TALENTED POP STAR Will Nikki FINALLY make it to Paris?! Or will she and her BFFs plan a Paris-themed fundraiser to help her crush, Brandon, raise … Continued