Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall

Stage 62's 60th Anniversary Concert
2022-09-24 19:30 (America/New_York)
To celebrate 60 years of Stage 62, a cast of familiar faces (and a few new ones, too!) will share songs from musicals that opened in the 1960s. With a special guest host and heaps of memories, the night will sparkle like diamonds!​Featuring songs from: Oliver!, Hello, Dolly!, Calamity Jane, Cabaret, Camelot, Mame, Evening Primrose, Hair, She Loves Me, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Sweet Charity, Dear World, Fade Out – Fade In, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, 110 in the Shade, 1776, Anyone Can Whistle, Bye Bye Birdie

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Listen Locally: Brother Rick & The Throwbacks
2022-09-30 20:00
The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is pleased to welcome Brother Rick& The Throwbacks to Carnegie Carnegie Hall! Rick Mansfield – aka Brother Rick – is the former music director, arranger, and conductor of “American Soundtrack Series” on WQED/PBS. Mark the date to join us on Friday, September 30, 2022. Then throw back the pages on that calendar starting in the 50s through the 70s to relive those “Magic Moments” for an evening of vintage rock ‘n’ roll and great doo wop tunes!Join us beginning at 7:00 pm, an hour before the concert, for free tours of our Civil War Room, The Capt. Thomas Espy Post.

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$25 in Advance$30 at the Door

2nd Saturday Civil War Series: "Why Gettysburg?" A Conversation with Matt Callery of Addressing Gettysburg
2022-10-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 15106, United States
History Is Not Boring!

Addressing Gettysburg brings the historic reality of the Battle of Gettysburg and the experiences of the soldiers and civilians to the masses in a comprehensive, immersive, and entertaining way. With over one million downloads and a Today Show showcase to their credit, Addressing Gettysburg offers a fresh, engaging, and exciting approach to a defining moment in American history.

In this lively conversation, AG Founder and Host Matt Callery seeks to ask participants – and perhaps answer himself – Why Gettysburg? What is it about the town, the battlefield, the people, and the history, that continues to attract thousands of visitors and scores of new books each year?

Bio: Growing up in New Jersey, Matt’s fascination with history began at a very young age. Family trips to historic sites often included Civil War locations, with Gettysburg being a favorite. Over the years, Matt developed considerable skills in video and audio production. A fan of Howard Stern, Matt’s early efforts were to create material for his own podcast centered on pop culture topics. Having visited Gettysburg in his childhood, he later moved there, and went to work leading battlefield bicycle tours. Sometime later, he returned to New Jersey but it didn’t take long for him to feel something drawing him back to Pennsylvania. So, he came back to make Gettysburg his home.

A lifelong friend and fellow “history nerd” encouraged Matt to combine his love of history with his talents in studio production to create a podcast about Gettysburg. And so in 2019, with raw enthusiasm, a knack for making interesting conversation, and a makeshift studio, Matt launched the Addressing Gettysburg podcast. He’ll be the first to tell you that it has been a team effort and that he’s grateful for the support of many wonderful people along the way.

2nd Saturday Lectures made possible by the Massey Charitable Trust

Resonance Works presents "I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams"
2022-10-14 20:00, 2022-10-16 15:00, 2022-10-16 15:00 - 15:30
Performances on Friday, October 14 at 8:00 PM and Sunday, October 16 at 3:00 PM

Resonance Works opens its tenth anniversary season with the Pittsburgh premiere of Jorge Sosa and Cerise Lim Jacobs’ evocative contemporary opera, I am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams. A poignant and timely story, Dreamer explores the complex relationship between Rosa, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who is awaiting deportation, and Singa, her court-appointed attorney, an ethnically Chinese immigrant from Indonesia living in the U.S. on a green card. Through Rosa and Singa’s parallel yet divergent immigration experiences, Dreamer examines the complexities of American identity.Join Resonance Works one hour before each performance for a panel conversation with creators and community.

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Making with Artsmiths of Pittsburgh: Monster Lab
2022-10-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Calling all witches, warlocks and Mad Scientists! Join Jena Scheib of the Artsmiths of Pittsburgh and concoct a bubbling brew, transcribe an incantation or configure a creature from your imagination. Combine a variety of creative materials and methods with principles of engineering and science in our Monster Lab.

This program is funded by a Gismondi VITAL grant.

This class is intended for elementary-age kids.

Registration is required! Please click here to register.

Teen Gaming Night
2022-10-17 18:00 - 20:00
Attention teen and tween gamers: join us at the Library for a night of fun, pizza, and games! Compete in our Smash Brothers tournament, race your friends in Mario Kart, and show off your moves in Just Dance.

Not into video games? Board and card games will be available too!

Please click here to register. Hope to see you there!

Pop Classics: "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
2022-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join film buff Scott Nicolson for the launch of our new series Pop Classics, where we watch and discuss the movies that most influenced pop culture over the last few decades.

Tonight we’ll view Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), directed by John Hughes. Matthew Broderick stars as Ferris, a high schooler who skips school for a day of fun and mischief-making in Chicago. Come enjoy this classic story that reminds us to look around us and enjoy life while it lasts.

Registration is appreciated, although walk-ins are welcome. Please click here to register.

Listen Locally Downstairs with Gypsy Stringz
2022-10-20 19:00
From deeply emotional selections to fast, fiery traditional tunes, The Gypsy Stringz  will take you on a whirlwind tour of Eastern European culture. Whether soothing or rousing, this ensemble plays a mix of enchanting music enhanced by beautiful harmonies of foreign lands.

Join us in our newly improved Studio, an intimate space with a club-vibe venue! Complimentary snacks. Beer and wine by donation.

Click here for a PREVIEW of the Gypsy Stringz!

$15 in Advance$20 at the Door

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Pumpkins & Pajamas!
2022-10-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join Miss JoLynne for some Fall and Halloween jokes, stories, and songs. Come dressed up in your jammies and bring along a stuffed friend if you’d like. Don’t forget to grab a cookie to take home.

For children ages 3-10 and their families.

Registration is appreciated! Please click here to register.

Career of the Living Dead: The Life & Films of George Romero
2022-10-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Let Rebecca Shapass of Pitt’s Horror Studies Working Group take you on a terrifying tour of the life, work, and local connections of the legendary George A. Romero, visionary director of Night of the Living Dead and numerous sequels. Shot in and around Evans City in 1968, Night of the Living Dead revolutionized the horror genre and effectively redefined the term “zombie.”

Plus, don’t miss our special screening of Night of the Living Dead on Thursday, October 27, as part of our ongoing Pop Classics film series!

Registration is appreciated. Please click below to register.

JFCS Career Development Center Fall Career Fair
2022-10-26 10:00 - 13:00
Come meet with over 20 employers to learn about employment opportunities from entry to executive level. Connect with community resources that can assist on your career journey.JFCS Career Development Center is committed to providing the guidance, support and encouragement needed to reach career goals. This event is free and open to the public! Contact Shawnte Knox at sknox@jfcspgh.org to learn more!

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Pop Classics: 'Night of the Living Dead'
2022-10-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join film buff Scott Nicolson for our series Pop Classics, where we watch and discuss the movies that most influenced pop culture over the last few decades.

Tonight we’ll view Night of the Living Dead (1968), directed by George Romero. Shot in and around Evans City in 1968, Night of the Living Dead revolutionized the horror genre and effectively redefined the term “zombie.”

Registration is appreciated. Please click here to register.

"Halloween Showcase" presented by Pennsylvania Ballet Conservatory
2022-10-29 13:00
Join the Pennsylvania Ballet Conservatory for their Spooktacular Halloween showcase. Pumpkins, bats, cats, Willis and Evil Fairies will be dancing in a haunted forest. A fun event for the whole family!

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Pop Classics: "The Devil Wears Prada"
2022-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join film buff Scott Nicolson for our series Pop Classics, where we watch and discuss the movies that most influenced pop culture over the last few decades.

Tonight we’ll view The Devil Wears Prada (2006), directed by David Frankel. Young journalist Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is thrilled to land a position as the assistant to legendary fashion editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), but her demanding new boss proves to be a bigger challenge than she anticipated.

Registration is appreciated, although walk-ins are welcome. Please click here to register.

Listen Locally with Miss Freddye's Homecookin' Band
2022-11-04 20:00
Miss Freddye’s Homecookin’ Band is just that! They are cookin’ up music that’ll keep you coming back for more!While keeping it bluesy, award-winning vocalist Miss Freddye explores the genres of gospel, blues, classic rock, and even a hint of country and bluegrass along with her band. Hear Pittsburgh’s Lady of the Blues sing songs from her latest project!

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$25 in Advance$30 at the Door

Discover Medicare
2022-11-05 10:30 - 12:00
Licensed insurance agent Bess Adams will make it easy for everyone to understand how Medicare works and how to get the most out of it. This Medicare-approved presentation will cover how and when to enroll, and supplemental coverage options. Rx coverage and more. No cost or obligation to attend.

Reserve your seat today by phone at 1-800-800-1999 or visit www.discovermedicare.com

"Traveling Our Road": An author visit with Dylan Weiss
2022-11-09 18:30 - 21:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Author Dylan Weiss (aka Gail Neustadt) shares and discusses her new book Traveling Our Road, which gently explores issues of illness, caregiving, communication, and love. Join us for an evening of storytelling, light bites, and book signings and sales.

Traveling Our Road is a complex story simplified for children of all ages. The “Road” becomes a central character shared by Dylan and DJ, both of whom are faced with tragic circumstances – DJ’s early onset Alzheimer’s disease, and Dylan’s role as a caregiver. Sustained by love and commitment, the author explains some of the challenges they face along their Road and the illustrator makes the story jump off its pages into your heart.

Replete with verbal and visual symbolism, the story invites children to consider how they might communicate with impaired loved ones.

Registration is appreciated, although walk-ins are welcome. Please click here to register.

Stage 62 presents "Urinetown"
2022-11-10 13:30 - 14:00, 2022-11-10 20:00, 2022-11-11 20:00, 2022-11-12 20:00, 2022-11-13 14:00, 2022-11-17 20:00, 2022-11-18 20:00
Performances on November 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, & 19 at 8:00 pm and 13 & 20 at 2:00 pm

In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage caused by a 20-year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!

Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the “comedic romp” into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit, and sustained ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter.

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Veterans Day Ceremony
2022-11-11 13:30 - 14:00
Please join Congressman Conor Lamb, members of Carnegie American Legion Post 82, members of the 9th Pennsylvania Reserves, elected officials, friends and colleagues at 1:30 pm on Veterans Day, Friday November 11. We are delighted that sixth graders from Carnegie Elementary school are participating in the program with brief poetry readings. The short, moving ceremony ends with a bugler playing Taps.

When we developed Library Park, a flagpole opposite the Library entrance became an essential part of the design. Since November 2017, a Veterans Day ceremony has become tradition at the Library & Music Hall.

As home to the Captain Thomas Espy Post No. 153 of the Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans Day has a special resonance at the Carnegie Carnegie. Founded in 1866 for veterans of the Union Armed Service, the G.A.R. laid the foundation for all veterans’ organizations to come. The Espy Post has been documented as the most intact G.A.R. post in the country.

The ceremony will be followed a coffee and cookies reception in the Lincoln Gallery. The Captain Thomas Espy Post will be open from 12:30 until 3:00.

The ceremony takes place rain or shine.

Making with Artsmiths of Pittsburgh: Fall Feasts
2022-11-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join Jena Scheib of the Artsmiths of Pittsburgh for a closer look at the food that we gather to enjoy together this month. We’ll build, stamp, and create unique art recipes inspired by fall feasts. This program is funded by a Gismondi VITAL grant.

This class is intended for one adult with one child. Masks are optional if you are fully vaccinated.

Registration is required! Please click here to register.

2nd Saturday Civil War Series: Fraternity, Charity, and Loyalty: Politics & Memory at Pittsburgh's 28th National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic with Rich Condon
2022-11-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
**PLEAESE NOTE THE LATER 2:00PM START TIME**

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279

As thousands of onlookers descended on the City of Pittsburgh in September 1894, they did so with anticipation – a chance to see aging Union veterans of the War of the Rebellion alive and in the flesh. The thinning ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) were gathering for their 28th National Encampment, and members from across the country prepared to meet old comrades once again.

The G.A.R. represented certain values for all of its members through their main principles, “Fraternity, Charity, Loyalty,” yet there were still many inequities to overcome for the organization’s African American membership. An event such as this was the perfect opportunity for those in attendance to discuss national issues at large, at a time when political and social strife intersected with how the late war would be remembered.

Rich Condon is a historian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a BA in public history from Shepherd University. For ten years he has worked with a multitude of sites and organizations including The Battle of Franklin Trust, Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Flight 93 National Memorial, and since Spring 2020 Rich has served as a park ranger at Reconstruction Era National Historical Park in Beaufort, South Carolina. He has written for Civil War Times, The American Battlefield Trust, as well as Emerging Civil War, and operates the Civil War Pittsburgh blog, which focuses on the interpretation of Western Pennsylvania’s role in the Civil War.

2nd Saturday Lectures made possible by the Massey Charitable Trust

Musical Storytelling
2022-11-14 11:15
Join PSO musicians, Assistant Conductor Moon Doh, and author Brittany Thurman for playful, interactive workshops featuring Brittany’s book Fly. Designed especially for children ages 3-5, each 45-minute workshop combines reading, music, and dance to tell the story of Africa and her quest to learn how to double Dutch. Put on some comfy clothes and discover how to “jump, fly, double Dutch to the sky!”

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