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City of Asylum is one of Pittsburgh’s busiest arts presenters, offering free literary readings, live music and film screenings a few nights each week at…
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Iranian-born singer and composer Mahsa Vahdat is known around the world for her songs inspired by traditional Persian music, with lyrics drawn from…
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How artists are integrated into a community can be an indicator of how well a city welcomes outsiders overall, according to City of Asylum's new executive…
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Turkish author Asli Erdoğan is acclaimed around the world. She’s written four works of fiction, and her writings have been translated into 20 languages,…
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An immersive theater production will take visitors to places normally off-limits at the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History. Downtown-based…
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Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum started in 2004 with a mission of providing a voice and temporary home for one exiled, politically oppressed writer at a time.…
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A few blocks from where City of Asylum writers live and work during their residency, is the former Masonic Building. The organization is redeveloping that…
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Civil rights activist and self-taught lawyer Chen Guangcheng made headlines in 2012 when he escaped house arrest in China and fled to the United States…
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Civil rights activist and self-taught lawyer Chen Guangcheng made headlines in 2012 when he escaped house arrest in China and fled to the United States…
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Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba even though the U.S. has never charged him with a crime. A…