The Bridges City of Asylum Pittsburgh Creative Summit is organized in collaboration with the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN). This three day summit brings together colleagues and artists, experts, and partner organizations from both the U.S. and European Networks. Each day includes exciting activities such as panels, one-on-one conversations, plenaries, working sessions, cultural events, […]

City of Asylum is thrilled to host this Jazz Poetry performance in collaboration with our first-ever Bridges Creative Summit! Each Jazz Poetry program begins with a full set by the band, followed by a collaborative performance with each poet. In these collaborations, poets share their work alongside the musicians, the two art forms melding to […]

The final Jazz Poetry performance of 2025, and the second in collaboration with the Bridges Creative Summit at City of Asylum, goes out with a bang, welcoming back a legendary headliner and the first initiate of City of Asylum’s sanctuary program. Each Jazz Poetry program begins with a full set by the band, followed by […]

From the award-winning author of 2007’s The Slave Ship, we celebrate the book launch of Marcus Rediker’s latest work: Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea. Freedom Ship is a definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad’s long-overlooked maritime origins, deftly navigated by Marcus Rediker, a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and […]