Knife Sharpening with Dennis Snedden: Whetstone Tips, Tools, & Techniques
2025-07-29 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Look sharp – it’s a hands-on workshop on sharpening and caring for your knives! A well-sharpened edge is much safer and more effective than a dull one, and with a little guidance, anyone can learn to keep their knife edges in excellent condition. Experienced sharpener Dennis Snedden will teach participants how to keep their own knives sharp and ready to use.

Each participant should bring two or three 5″-10″ kitchen knives (non-serrated); a diamond, oil, or water stone (if you have one); a honing rod or steel (if you have one); your knife edge questions; and a will to learn! You will learn the best and safest techniques for honing a fine edge. Come with dull knives – leave with safer, sharper, functional edges!

No ceramic knives, hair or sewing scissors, please.

A suggested donation of $15 will be put towards funding the 2026 kids’ Summer Reading Program. Space is limited, so please click here to register! 18 years and older, please.

Carnegie Artists Showcase
2025-08-02 10:00 - 2025-08-16 17:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Celebrate our community’s creativity with the Carnegie Artists Showcase! Visit the Library’s Studio between August 2 and 16 to experience an eclectic collection of over twenty original artworks by Carnegie-based artists! From painting and illustration to sculpture, ceramics, and pop culture infographic designs, this is an exhibit with something for everyone.

Featured artists include Phil Salvato of 3rd Street Gallery; Dave Klug of Double Dog Studio; Bernadette Kazmarski; Ron Mahoney; Eva Trout of Firebox Art Studios; watercolor fantasist Kathleen Zimbicki; Anthony Vitale; Dave Columbus; and icon artist Michael Kapeluck.

Admission is free during all regular Library hours; donations will be gratefully accepted. Registration is not required to visit the Artists Showcase. Plus, don’t miss the exhibit’s official opening event at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, August 5, with the Steel City Ukuleles in concert!

Carnegie Artists Showcase Opening Reception & Ukulele Concert
2025-08-05 18:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Come hear the Library’s very own Ukulele Strum-Along group live in concert! Tonight, group members present several selections from their repertoire, accompanied by other members of Steel City Ukuleles. Enjoy the music, nibble a few refreshments, and explore the ongoing Studio exhibition of the Carnegie Artist Showcase.

Want to participate? It’s easy to learn the ukulele! For any newcomers, we’ll hold a special mini-lesson from 6:00-6:30 PM, and the concert will start at 6:45 PM.

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

Teen Crafternoons: Block Prints
2025-08-08 13:00 - 14:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Thanks to a generous grant from the Grable Foundation, the Carnegie Carnegie is home to a brand new Afterschool Creation Station—just for teens!

The Creation Station features 14 creative kits that you can use to make things, express yourself, and learn new skills anytime that you come to the library!

This program is designed to give you a taste of what you can do with these kits. Today we will try out block printing!

Registration is appreciated – please click here to register!

Embracing Our Differences: "Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen" by Jose Antonio Vargas
2025-08-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join us for community conversations about diversity & inclusion!

This Summer, we’re reading and discussing Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas. Writing with power and poetry, Pultizer Prize-winning journalist Vargas considers the emotional and psychological toll of living undocumented in America, the struggles faced by immigrant individuals and families, and the mutable nature of our ideas of “home.” Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, writes “This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.”

Copies are available for checkout at the Library’s circulation desk. Pick up your copy of the book any time the Library is open!

Registration is appreciated – please click here to register.

End-of-Summer Reading Celebration!
2025-08-16 11:30 - 13:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join us on Saturday, August 16th to celebrate our Summer Reading achievements and get ready for a new school year! We have a number of exciting activities you can participate in:

Cool down with Kona Ice from 11:30 – 12:30 pm!

Challenge your friends and family to lawn games!

Enjoy light refreshments!

Hop aboard the Pittsburgh Science Workshop‘s Science Bus!

Touch-a-Firetruck with the Carnegie Volunteer Fire & Rescue Bureau!

Get ready for school with B.R.I.D.G.E. People’s annual school supply giveaway!

… and more!

Parking: The Library’s parking lot will be closed for this event. Please plan to park on Beechwood Ave. or surrounding streets.

There will also be a Summer Reading Awards Ceremony, beginning at 1:00 pm. Here we will recognize all who participated in our 2025 Summer Reading program, our Super Readers who completed the 900 minute challenge, and announce the names of our Summer Reading prize winners!

Don’t forget to log ALL of your minutes and allocate tickets in Beanstack prior to this event! Friday, August 15th is the deadline for logging and ticket allocation.

Please note that you do not have to be present at this event to receive a prize. Winners who are not present at the time of the announcement will be contacted at a later time.

Bumps, Births, and Beyond: How Doulas Support Pregnancy and Childbirth
2025-08-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Note: this program has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Our apologies!

Join us for this engaging doula information session with Full Spectrum Doula Emonie Smith! Whether you’re expecting, supporting a loved one, or simply curious, this event is your chance to learn about the magic of doula care, ask questions, and explore how doulas can make a difference during pregnancy and childbirth. Let’s empower each other, one bump at a time!

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

Carnegie Crafters presents Craft Night at the Movies: "The Princess Bride" (1987)
2025-08-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Calling all knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, and fiber artists of every kind! Come join the Carnegie Crafters! We share advice and inspiration, chat with new friends, and work on our projects in a supportive group setting.

Tonight, join us for a Craft Night at the Movies! Enjoy crafting while we watch the classic The Princess Bride (1987), with Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, and Mandy Patinkin.

What makes this Craft Night at the Movies different? Due to ongoing renovations in our Music Hall, this movie will be held in our lower level Studio. Bonus: this means that you can bring snacks and drinks! (No alcohol though, please.)

Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the movie will start at 7:00 PM.

No craft? No problem! You are welcome to join, but keep in mind that that the lights will be on. Please email carnegiecrafters@gmail.com with any questions.

Registration is not required – all are welcome!

Native Plants Teaching Garden: Grand opening
2025-08-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Come learn about the Library and Music Hall’s newest outdoors feature: our Native Plants Teaching Garden!

Generously funded by the Gismondi Foundation, this collection of forty different Pennsylvania native plant varieties was designed and constructed as an Eagle Scout project by Carlynton eleventh-grader Jackson Keeney, with assistance from community member and native plants expert Chris Litherland.

Join us this morning for an official opening of the Garden, learn about the plant varieties in it, enjoy some light refreshments, and find out how you can increase the biodiversity of your own lawn!

No registration is required.

Conscience and Coercion: The Early Protestants of Amiens, 1530-1650; Traces of Their Lives
2025-08-27 10:00 - 2025-09-25 19:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Explore acts of resistance and official persecution of French Protestants during the early Reformation. This new exhibit from the research of Dr. David Rosenberg features the signatures of over 100 Protestants of Amiens, France, as well as the records of their official targeting for heresy.

This research demonstrates how French political and religious leaders surveilled and persecuted members of this new minority, while also illuminating the experiences of the Protestants themselves, including interrogations, exile, execution, and book burnings, as well as acts of resistance through civil disobedience.

This exhibit will be on display in the 2nd Floor Lincoln Gallery from August 27 through September 25 during regular Library hours. Registration is not required. Learn more about this project at www.protestantsofamiens.com.

Dr. David Rosenberg received a Ph.D. in European History from Yale University with a dissertation on the Protestant movement in Amiens in the 16th century, focusing on the attitudes of weavers and wool combers towards Protestantism. The exhibit “Conscience and Coercion” represents over fifty years of archival research on this topic. In 2013 Dr. Rosenberg was named a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and he received the Medal of the City of Amiens in 2023 for his contributions to the history and memory of that region.

Cultural Education with JFCS: Learn About Accessing Public Benefits - SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, and WIC
2025-09-02 12:00 - 14:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join JFCS for a series of cultural education classes for immigrants! Learn more about life in the United States, connect with resources, and meet new people! Each session is followed by one hour of socializing and conversation from 1:00-2:00 PM. Arabic language interpretation is provided! In this session, we’ll learn about how to apply for government benefits and support, including food and healthcare.

All sessions are in the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall at 300 Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie. Please enter through the ramp door on the side of the building.

Registration is not required. Please join us!

جلسات معلوماتية حول التعليم الثقافي

تتوفر الترجمة الفورية للغة العربية

.مع الموارد، وتعرف على أشخاص جدد تعرف على المزيد حول الحياة في الولايات المتحدة، وتواصل

.تتبع الجلسات ساعة واحدة للتواصل الاجتماعي والمحادثة من الساعة 1 إلى 2 ظه رًا!تعرف على أشخاص جدد واستمتع بفنجان من الشاي والمحادثة

الجلسة الأولى: تعرف على كيفية الوصول إلى المنافع العامةبرنامج SNAP، وMedicaid، وMedicare، وWICمن الساعة 12 ظه رًا حتى الساعة 1 ظه رًا

Ukulele Strum-Along
2025-09-04 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Come strum with us! Join Amber Rozel of Steel City Ukuleles for a free introduction to the simple, versatile instrument known as the ukulele. Learn just a few simple chords, and you’ll be able to play hundreds of songs – no prior experience needed, and you don’t need to own your own ukulele! Meet other uke-enthusiasts and join our strum-along group!

The event will start with a special lesson for first-timers at 6:00 PM. If you already know your way around a ukulele, join us at 6:45 to play along!

This group is intended for teens and adults. Please click here to register!

Conscience and Coercion: The Early Protestants of Amiens, 1530-1650; Traces of Their Lives - A gallery talk by David Rosenberg
2025-09-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Explore acts of resistance and official persecution of French Protestants during the early Reformation. This new exhibit from the research of Dr. David Rosenberg features the signatures of over 100 Protestants of Amiens, France, as well as the records of their official targeting for heresy.

This research demonstrates how French political and religious leaders surveilled and persecuted members of this new minority, while also illuminating the experiences of the Protestants themselves, including interrogations, exile, execution, and book burnings, as well as acts of resistance through civil disobedience.

Tonight, join Dr. Rosenberg for a discussion of his research, the delicate process of piecing together an individual’s life from scattered archival clues, and the continued resonance today of this striking example of historical oppression.

Dr. David Rosenberg received a Ph.D. in European History from Yale University with a dissertation on the Protestant movement in Amiens in the 16th century, focusing on the attitudes of weavers and wool combers towards Protestantism. The exhibit “Conscience and Coercion” represents over fifty years of archival research on this topic. In 2013 Dr. Rosenberg was named a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and he received the Medal of the City of Amiens in 2023 for his contributions to the history and memory of that region.

This exhibit will be on display in the 2nd Floor Lincoln Gallery from August 27 through September 25 during regular Library hours. Learn more at www.protestantsofamiens.com.

Registration for this gallery talk is appreciated, but not required. Please click here to register.

Robinson Run: The Story of a Frontier Community with historian Brady Crytzer
2025-09-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join Robert Morris University professor Brady J. Crytzer for an engaging exploration of the American Revolution-era history of Robinson Run! Brady has published seven books about this period of history in Western Pennsylvania, and is currently researching the stories of three families who settled along Robinson Run, in what was then the frontier of America.

Tonight he shares those stories: the lives of these settlers, their meetings with groups of Native Americans living in the area, how they engaged with and responded to the American Revolution and the Whiskey Rebellion, and more. Copies of Brady’s books will be available for purchase and signing.

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

Cultural Education with JFCS: Learn About Accessing Health Insurance - Resources for medical, vision, and dental insurance
2025-09-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join JFCS for a series of cultural education classes for immigrants! Learn more about life in the United States, connect with resources, and meet new people! Each session is followed by one hour of socializing and conversation from 1:00-2:00 PM. Arabic language interpretation is provided! In this session, we’ll learn about how to access health insurance, including resources for medical, vision, and dental insurance.

All sessions are in the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall at 300 Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie. Please enter through the ramp door on the side of the building.

Registration is not required. Please join us!

الجلسة الثانية: تعرف على كيفية الحصول على التأمين الصحي

مصادر للتأمين الطبي والبصري وطب الأسنان

من الساعة 12:00 ظهرًا إلى الساعة 2:00 ظهرًا يوم 9 سبتمبر

Paperback Platoon Book Club: "People We Meet on Vacation"
2025-09-11 18:30 - 19:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Calling all women veterans and family members: join us to connect with other women through a love of reading!

Paperback Platoon is a book club for women filled with veterans, service members, and their families. Our goal is to build connection with each other through a shared interest and love for reading. This group meets on the second Thursday of each month from 6:30-7:30 PM.

For our first meeting, we’ll discuss People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the Library’s circulation desk.

Join our BookClubs.com page or our Facebook group for more details or to register!

2nd Saturday Civil War Series: Western Pennsylvania in the Maryland Campaign with Matt Borders
2025-09-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MHZoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279

Prior to the Conscription Act of 1863, Pennsylvania was the largest contributor to the Federal war effort in terms of manpower. There are few better examples of this than the 1862 Maryland Campaign. Pennsylvania put 81 different regiments or batteries into the field for the Maryland Campaign and organized thousands of militia on the homefront in anticipation of a potential invasion.

Western Pennsylvania had a huge role to play in this effort. Fully 20 different Pennsylvania units that fought in the Army of the Potomac during the Maryland Campaign were either entirely or partially from Western Pennsylvania. Join us as we investigate the participation of Western Pennsylvania in the Maryland Campaign, where they fought, and who they fought with.

A graduate of Michigan State and Eastern Michigan University, Matthew Borders holds a BA in United States History with a focus in the American Civil War and a MS in Historic Preservation. Following graduation, he taught at Kalamazoo Valley Community College before accepting a position with the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program. He worked as the historian for the ABPP for six years, during which time he became a certified battlefield guide at Antietam National Battlefield and Harpers Ferry National Historic Site. He is also the President of the Frederick County Civil War Roundtable and a founding member of the Antietam Institute.

Currently, Matthew is a Park Ranger at Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland. He, along with fellow guide Joe Stahl, had published four books in their Faces of Union Soldiers series. These works look at Federal soldiers at a variety of battles, their stories, and their regiments.

Cultural Education with JFCS: Budgeting - Tools, tips, and staying safe from scams
2025-09-16 12:00 - 14:00
Join JFCS for a series of cultural education classes for immigrants! Learn more about life in the United States, connect with resources, and meet new people! Each session is followed by one hour of socializing and conversation from 1:00-2:00 PM. Arabic language interpretation is provided! In this session, we’ll learn about budgeting, including tools, tips, and how to stay safe from scams.

All sessions are in the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall at 300 Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie. Please enter through the ramp door on the side of the building.

Registration is not required. Please join us!

الجلسة الثالثة: وضع الميزانية

الأدوات والنصائح والحماية من عمليات الاحتيال

من الساعة 12:00 ظهرًا إلى الساعة 2:00 ظهرًا يوم 16 سبتمبر

"Wild for Austen": An author visit with Devoney Looser
2025-09-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with Devoney Looser, professor of English at Arizona State University and the author of Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane (St Martin’s Press, 2025)!

Jane Austen’s books are considered some of the best novels ever published in English, but her reputation as the epitome of propriety and politeness fails to tell the full story. With expertise, authority, warmth, and humor, Looser offers a riveting tour of Austen’s writings, biography, and how she was viewed in her time – from her family’s involvement in the abolition and women’s suffrage movements to early sightings of her ghost and the film adaptations that never were.

Packed with compelling new details that the true Austenphile will find irresistible, Wild for Austen is a welcome reassessment of this iconic creative mind and its place in her society. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Devoney Looser (Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University) is the author of several books, including Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës and The Making of Jane Austen. A Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar, Looser has published essays in The Atlantic, New York Times, Salon, Slate, The TLS, and The Washington Post. She is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America and played roller derby under the name Stone Cold Jane Austen.

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

Free Legal Advice Clinic with the Allegheny County Bar Foundation's Pro Bono Center
2025-09-17 16:30 - 18:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join us for a Free Legal Advice Clinic! Attorneys from the Allegheny County Bar Foundation’s Pro Bono Center will be available for thirty-minute appointments to provide free legal advice.

To request an appointment, please call the library directly at 412-276-3456, or email Library Director Walker Evans. Be prepared to share your name, contact information, and the topic of your legal questions.

Spots are limited, so don’t wait to schedule your appointment! We look forward to seeing you on September 17th!

Vitalant Community Blood Drive
2025-09-22 12:00 - 17:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood. Be part of the solution with Vitalant’s community blood drive!

When you give blood, platelets or plasma, we’ll thank you with a special Halloween treat! Select from one of two glow-in-the-dark T-shirts and get it in time for Halloween. Plus, you’ll be entered for a chance to win one of two $10,000 gift cards! (Details here.)

Donors must be at least 16 years old and weigh at least 110 pounds. Click here to reserve an appointment slot.

Questions? Please call Kathy from Vitalant at 412-444-6563.

Cultural Education with JFCS: Know Your Rights - Staying safe from legal scams and how to interact with the police
2025-09-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join JFCS for a series of cultural education classes for immigrants! Learn more about life in the United States, connect with resources, and meet new people! Each session is followed by one hour of socializing and conversation from 1:00-2:00 PM. Arabic language interpretation is provided! In this session, we’ll learn about knowing and asserting your rights, including information about staying safe from legal scams and how to interact with the police.

All sessions are in the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall at 300 Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie. Please enter through the ramp door on the side of the building.

Registration is not required. Please join us!

الجلسة الرابعة: تعرف على حقوقك

تقدم معلومات حول كيفية البقاء آم نًا من عمليات الاحتيال القانونية

والتفاعل مع الشرطة

من الساعة 12:00 ظهرًا إلى الساعة 2:00 ظهرًا يوم 30 سبتمبر

Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival: "The Freshman" (1925), with live organ accompaniment by Eric Cook
2025-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
The Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival presents The Freshman (1925), directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, and screened with live musical accompaniment provided by Eric Cook on theater organ!

The Freshman features the beloved silent film icon Harold Lloyd as a hapless first-year college student whose dream of becoming popular on campus leads him to try out for the football team – but his plans go repeatedly awry. Can our nerdy young hero find success on the gridiron? Lloyd’s most successful film of the 1920s, The Freshman inspired a wave of college films in its wake.

The film will be introduced by film scholar Shane Bliss, whose essays have appeared in the book Thoughts on the Thin Man (2014) and issue #2 of The Pre-Code Companion (2015). Shane is currently writing a book on the careers and filmographies of silent film actors whose films are mostly lost.

Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted! Pre-registration is appreciated, but walk-in attendees are more than welcome. If you wish to register, please click here!

PLAY, LEARN, GROW: Playtime & Parent-Child Workshop
2025-10-03 10:15 - 11:30, 2025-10-10 10:15 - 11:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join us for a FREE 5-week, play-based workshop series, specially designed for children 3 and under and their parents/caregivers! Registration is required for this event series; please register each child who will be in attendance!

During each 75-minute session, children and their caregivers will have an opportunity to play together, connect with other families, and talk with experts in different areas of your child’s development.

Weekly topics will include: music and movement, early literacy, child development, nutrition, among others. Partner organizations include Literacy Pittsburgh, the Alliance for Infants & Toddlers (AFIT), and more.

If you register for this series, we ask that you please commit to attending at least 3 of the 5 weekly sessions. If you are unable to attend this workshop series at this time, another series is in the works for early 2026.

English Language Learners: Do you need language interpretation? Please let us know when registering!

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Carnegie Crafters - Craft Night at the Movies: "Practical Magic" (1998)
2025-10-04 18:00 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Calling all knitters, crocheters, embroiderers, and fiber artists of every kind! Come join the Carnegie Crafters! We share advice and inspiration, chat with new friends, and work on our projects in a supportive group setting.

Tonight, join us for a Craft Night at the Movies! Enjoy crafting while we watch Practical Magic (1998), with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.

Doors open at 6:00 PM, and the movie will start at 7:00 PM.

No craft? No problem! You are welcome to join, but keep in mind that that the lights will be on. Please email carnegiecrafters@gmail.com with any questions.

Registration is not required – all are welcome!

Anne Frank, Otto Frank, and the Holocaust: with Father John Neiman
2025-10-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
When John Neiman first read The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, he couldn’t have anticipated the lifelong impact that this iconic account of the persecution of European Jews would have on him. Unable to forget Anne’s words, he wrote a letter to her surviving father, Otto Frank, in 1974 and the two men soon became close friends. Otto’s steadfast belief in the goodness and dignity of all people would later inspire John to join the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church.

Tonight, Father John offers a rare opportunity to learn about the Franks and their experiences during the Holocaust from a source close to the family. Please join us as we experience this important connection with history – a powerful reminder that hatred and dehumanization can lead to the darkest of places, but that the power of hope and belief in goodness can inspire us to acts of kindness and beauty.

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

Paperback Platoon Book Club: "Broken Country"
2025-10-09 18:30 - 19:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Calling all women veterans and family members: join us to connect with other women through a love of reading!

Paperback Platoon is a book club for women filled with veterans, service members, and their families. Our goal is to build connection with each other through a shared interest and love for reading. This group meets on the second Thursday of each month from 6:30-7:30 PM.

For our October meeting, we’ll discuss Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall.

Join our BookClubs.com page or our Facebook group for more details or to register!

Civil War Gaming: Battle Cry - Cedar Creek
2025-10-11 11:00 - 13:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join Pittsburgh wargamers Paul Lawson and Brian Palmer for a free introduction to historical tabletop wargaming! Command your troops and experience the strategy and tactics of the battles that determined our nation’s future.

Today we play through the Cedar Creek scenario of the game Battle Cry. Battle Cry is a low-complexity wargame published by Avalon Hill and suitable for ages 10+. No experience is necessary. Please join us!

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