by Nick Smerker | Oct 29, 2017 | Happenings
Black Detroit Friday, November 3rd 7:00 pm Join the Sembène Film & Arts Festival for a reading with award-winning journalist/activist Herb Boyd, as he discusses his latest book, Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination. Black Detroit is a...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 23, 2017 | Happenings
Sembène – The Film & Art Festival Presents The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till Thursday, November 2nd 7:00 pm Abducted, severely beaten, and finally thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a weight fastened around his neck with barbed wire, 14-year-old Emmett...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 22, 2017 | Happenings
Part of the CSA Performance Series October 26th Stella is seventeen and ready for what’s next. Chafing at the confines of her increasingly strict religious upbringing, music has become her escape. She shares a too-small town with Jacky, a restless fellow songwriter. A...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 20, 2017 | Happenings
Jeff Bush Presents 4 & 7: Music for Quartet and Septet Tuesday, October 29th 6:00 pm Pittsburgh-based international jazz trombonist Jeff Bush presents his own take on the contemporary jazz ensemble. 4 & 7: Music for Quartet and Septet will feature Jeff’s...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 15, 2017 | Happenings
Saturday, October 21 7:00-9:00 pm Please join City Books as we welcome Rachel Mabe, Rachel Brickner, Jennifer Bannan, and Shannon Reed, four Pittsburgh-based writers with some serious writing credits in McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review, The...
by Nick Smerker | Oct 15, 2017 | Happenings
Cowboys & Frenchmen Tuesday, October 24th 8:00 pm NYC-based quintet Cowboys & Frenchmen presents a new take on instrumentation, orchestration, and composition for the jazz quintet. The front line of two alto saxophones plays loose with the role of horns, in an...
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