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CLP – Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall
Located inside the Carnegie Museums and Library complex in Oakland, the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall seats just over 600 people. Click here to see interior images of the space, courtesy of Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
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Events at this venue
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Words & Pictures” – Lauren Tarshis
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 November 21, 2024. The Black Death was a pandemic of unimaginable proportions, taking the lives of … Continued
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Poets Aloud” – Victoria Chang
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesREGISTER to save your seat. This lecture is livestreamed and available to view on the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures YouTube channel for one week. “Chang thrives at embodying and vocalizing universal feelings of anxiety, joy, grief, fear, and wonder. Further, it’s as if readers of her poetry are invited to visit a theater designed to … Continued
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Words & Pictures” – Jamar Nicholas
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 October 24, 2024. In Leon: Worst Friends Forever, Leon struggles with a super ego — and … Continued
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Grant Writing Bootcamp
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesJoin us for a comprehensive Grant Writing Bootcamp led by the esteemed Maureen Ryan. This intensive workshop is designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to craft successful grant proposals. Whether you're a novice or experienced grant writer, Maureen's expertise will guide you through the intricacies of grant writing, providing valuable insights … Continued
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International Poetry Forum Presents: Poetry Reading with Sam Hazo
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesSamuel Hazo, inaugural Poet Laureate of Pennsylvania and founder of the International Poetry Forum, will offer a poetry reading at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall. The reading will celebrate the relaunch of the International Poetry Forum, a nonprofit organization which Hazo led for 43 years (1966–2009) as host to poets and public figures such as Seamus … Continued
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Made Local” – Liann Tsoukas & Rob Ruck
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesRegister to attend in-person. Joined in conversation with Edwina Kaikai Mal Goode (1908–1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to become a journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier and later for … Continued
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Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures “Made Local” – Anna Monardo
CLP - Main (Oakland) Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesRegister to attend in-person. To tell my family’s story, I could dig in anywhere—1915, 1950, 2024. I could begin in Italy, Pittsburgh, New York, or Nebraska. Begin with my parents, my grandparents, or me, and from every point of entry, our story is the same: three generations unhappy in love. After Italy: A Family Memoir … Continued
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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