May 13 Monday
Monday, May 13, 20246 p.m. – 8 p.m.
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.Pay What Moves You: $0 – $25
Celebrate the world premiere of Mita Ghosal’s new evening-length dance work Lost on a Loom! A long-time KST artist, Ghosal has appeared in the newMoves Dance Festival and Freshworks. Following a community dinner, Ghosal will discuss her new process creating this new work and her practice as an artist in Pittsburgh.
Jazz Poetry 2024 welcomes some of the most incredible talents the Alphabet City stage has ever seen, including Fatimah Asghar, a South-Asian American Muslim writer with National Book Award and Emmy nominations; Deaf poet, storyteller and founder of ASL NYC Jeremy Lee Stone; Sudanese activist and City of Asylum writer-in-residence Rania Mamoun; and celebrated Argentinian poet and novelist Andrés Neuman, traveling all the way from Spain. Setting the tone for this third night of Jazz Poetry is acclaimed violinist Leslie DeShazor, who will make her debut at City of Asylum with an exciting quintet.
Each Jazz Poetry program begins with a 40-minute performance by the band, followed by 30 minutes of collaborative performance with the featured poets. In these collaborations, poets share their work while the musicians interpret and accompany their poetry with jazz, adding a unique, improvisational dimension to each performance.
ASL interpretation will be provided by Heather Gray and Josh Stresing.
Featured Musicians:
May 14 Tuesday
Live Animal Encounters run daily from 1:30-2 p.m. in the Earth Theater, located in Discovery Basecamp. Led by knowledgeable museum staff, encounters feature 4 live animal ambassadors, a mix of reptiles, mammals, birds, and invertebrates, from all around the world. Learn about the natural history, adaptive behaviors and unique stories of animal ambassadors that call our museum home.
For the safety of animal ambassadors and presenters, no late entries to the show will be permitted.
Join us for May's Family Night!
Kids Eat FREE* w/ the purchase of an adult entree!
Plus, we've got CoCo The Clown for the kids with face painting and balloon art!
Don't miss the family fun!
*Limit one Kids Meal per child.
Looking for free live entertainment? Or looking to perform yourself? Starting April 18th, we have an inclusive mic every other Tuesday for all the people and all the arts. Do what you do best! 10 minutes per person of whatever: comedy, music, improv, juggling, scatting, etc. See ya there!
We come together on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month to share wisdom on a multitude of consciousness-raising topics including spirituality, psychology, metaphysics, ecology, quantum science, music, art, holistic health and many more. Please join us!
Particle physicists in the U.S. have gone through a three-year exercise to discuss the future of the field. We have come up with an exciting plan that is meant to address the question "How did we come to be?" In this public lecture, Hitoshi Murayama of the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss essential parts of this question: dark matter, Higgs boson, neutrinos, inflation.
Murayama is a well-known theoretical particle physicist who works broadly, even on cosmology and condensed matter physics.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1991 and has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2000. He is also the founding director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, serving from 2007 to 2018. He received numerous awards and served on many advisory committees around the world. Most recently he chaired the 2023 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) that was charged with developing a 10-year strategic plan for US particle physics.
Get ready to SHINE on stage with this 7-week Salsa shines technique and performance camp by Stan! This amazing 7-week intensive will help you elevate your technique, improve your musicality skills, and get you ready to perform at our Love in Bloom Social and Showcase on May 17th! Open to dancers of all levels, genders, and body-types.
Salsa 1 course recommended. Great for performers, and the performance-curious!
May 15 Wednesday
We're celebrating 15 Years In the Steel City with a special keg tapping. For the first time ever, we'll be tapping our Jubiläum (Anniversary) Lager, especially crafted for this celebration. This is a full-bodied Märzen style bier, light copper in color, with a malty-sweet taste accompanied by slight notes of honey, almond and hazelnuts...delicious!
BOB-FM will be in the Haus as well for some fun and games. Plus, we'll be giving away tickets to see Brothers Osborne at Stage AE on June 20!
We'll get things started at 5 p.m. ...the Grkmans bring the live music vibes beginning at 6 p.m. ...the keg tapping parade starts at 7 p.m.
See hope to see you there to show our appreciation for your 15 years of support!