An interview with Pamela Pennywell, development manager of the Young Men and Women’s African Heritage Association. This interview is the first in a series featuring the Northside community leaders emceeing at this year’s Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Sampsonia Way sits down with members of Cyberpunk Apocalypse, Pittsburgh’s writer’s cooperative, at their new Northside home. In this interview they discuss the residency program, zines, and how they hope to grow in their new home.
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The Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church is hosting an event this Sunday, January 15 to raise funds to benefit the Thompson family and the Diggs family, whose homes were destroyed by a fire, December 2011.
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Slide show featuring students from CAPA, Pittsburgh’s creative and performing arts school, on a recent visit to Sampsonia Way, the street that houses City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh partners with Cave Canem to host a poetry reading with Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Natasha Trethewey and Amiri Baraka.
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On June 18, the New Hazlett Theater will present ‘Speaking of…Noir!’ — a night of mystery stories, dubstep/ballet/break dance fusion, soul and jazz, and the spoken word, including a reading by Terrance Hayes.
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In Knocking on the Door of… we present interviews with fellow residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside. Our second interview is with Doug Nimmo, owner of Doug’s Market, who talked to us about his love of the Northside, a ghost in the building, and his market’s opening day.
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