Lectures + Readings
AMERICAN SHORTS READING SERIES:
412/622-8866, Website
301 S. Craig St., Suite 200, Oakland
Thursday evening readings consisting of hot topics, special guests, film, music and libations. Tickets $10. Events start at 7:30 p.m. Locations vary.
Hours: M-F, 9am-5pm.
ART AT NOON:
412/371-0600, Website
Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze
Free, informal lectures at Frick Art Museum auditorium.
BLACK, WHITE & READ ALL OVER:
412/622-8866, Website
301 S. Craig St., Suite 200, Oakland
Hosts children's book authors and illustrators. Sat. mornings in Oct. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland, $8, 10 a.m.
Hours: M-F, 9am-5pm.
CONFLUENCE: SONG & SPOKEN WORD:
412/392-4463
Hill District, Shadyside
Musical and literary series embracing diversity in ethnicity, artistry in Pittsburgh. Allows for interaction among students, working artists, teaching faculty, community organizers, neighborhood residents.
DRUE HEINZ LECTURE SERIES:
412/622-8866, Website
301 S. Craig St., Suite 200, Oakland
Lectures by important and influential authors, journalists and commentators. At Carnegie Library Lecture Hall at 7:30 p.m. Season subscriptions and single tickets available.
Hours: M-F, 9am-5pm.
GIST STREET READING SERIES:
Website
James Simon’s Sculpture Studio, 305 Gist St., Third Floor (access by stairs only), uptown
Readings by emerging local and national poets and writers publishing their first or second books. BYOB. Typically first Friday each month; 8pm, doors open 7:30pm. $5.
HISTORY ON SUNDAY LECTURE SERIES:
412/371-0600, Website
7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze
Explores Pittsburgh’s citizens and their cultural, social, economic and political values in the time of Henry Clay Frick. Adults, $10. Members, teachers, students, $8.
Hours: Sun., 1:30pm.
JOSEPH-BETH BOOKSELLERS:
412/381-3600, Website
2705 E. Carson St., South Side
Large, local and independent bookstore; Eclectic stationery and gifts; Music and DVDs; Kid's bookstore and gifts; Author events and book signings weekly.
Hours: M-Th, 10am-9pm; F-Sat, 10am-10pm; Sun, 11am-7pm
MYSTERY LOVERS BOOKSHOP:
412/828-4877, Website
514 Allegheny River Blvd., Oakmont
Crime, mystery fiction, gift baskets, games, puzzles, author events, book clubs, coffee bar.
PITTSBURGH POETRY EXCHANGE:
412/481-7636, Website
P.O. Box 4279, Pittsburgh
Community-based organization of local poets; functions as service organization and information exchange; promotes poets and poetry. Workshops, readings, forums and other special events.
PITTSBURGH SPEAKERS SERIES PRESENTED BY ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY:
412/392-4900, Website
Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., downtown
Seven-lecture series guaranteed to enlighten, entertain, inform and inspire, featuring some of the most celebrated, captivating and influential personalities of our time. Its eighth-year season celebrates heroes and legends.
TOWN HALL SOUTH:
412/831-1027, Website
2040 Washington Rd., Upper St. Clair
Five-lecture series at Upper St. Clair High School theater, Oct.-March. All five lectures, $105.
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