Embracing Our Differences: "Caste"
2021-09-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join our reading and discussion group about race & identity at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall! We’ll read and discuss Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, an Oprah book club pick that explores America’s hidden caste system.

Pick up your copy of Caste at the Library any time it’s open!

This four-part series meets on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 PM, in person at the Library:

Tuesday, September 21: Discuss Parts 1 & 2 (pages 3-98)Tuesday, October 5: Discuss Part 2 (pages 99-166)Tuesday, October 26: Discuss Part 4 (pages 167-262)Tuesday, November 16: Discuss Parts 5, 6, & 7 (pages 263-388)

Registration is required. Please click here to register.

Free Legal Advice with Attorney Giuseppe Rosselli
2021-09-23 16:00 - 19:00, 2021-11-04 16:00 - 19:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Sign up for a thirty minute appointment for free legal advice with attorney Giuseppe Rosselli! To schedule, please call us at 412-276-3456 or email evansw2@einetwork.net. Please be prepared to share your name, contact information, and the topic of your legal questions.
This program meets in person at the Library, in the upstairs Lincoln Gallery.

Listen Locally with Cello Fury
2021-09-24 19:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
6:30pm Doors / 7:30pm Start
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We couldn’t think of a better way to welcome audiences back to the Music Hall than with Pittsburgh’s own cello rock powerhouse, Cello Fury. Cello Fury’s cinematic, progressive rock sound appeals to a diverse audience. Composed of three cellists, Simon Cummings, Nicole Myers and Cecilia Caughman and drummer, David Throckmorton, their original music combines the cello’s symphonic sounds with a driving rock beat. The group delivers a fun, high energy show that will appeal to the whole family. It is an excellent introduction to live music for young audience members and seasoned concert-goers will especially appreciate the Music Hall’s exquisite acoustics.
Masks are required for this indoor event.
Limited parking available in lot. Additional parking is available on Main Street for free after 5pm with complimentary shuttle service from East Main Street and Pine.
TICKETS
Reserved Seating Adult……………..$25 advance / $30 at the door Reserved Seating Youth…………….$15 Get your tickets in advance here.
About the Artists
Questions? Contact Heidi Matthews at 412-276-3456 x6 or matthewsh (at) einetwork.net

Making with Artsmiths of Pittsburgh: Experiment with Watercolor!
2021-09-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Explore new art materials and processes and create unique artworks in this casual visual arts program. For the art timid or professional, we will focus on art as therapy and creative outlet. Play an art game with a variety of mark making tools and discover the unique properties of liquid watercolors through a series of guided experiments and challenges.
Classes offered in collaboration with The Artsmiths of Pittsburgh. Programming supported through generous community donations.
This class is intended for adults.
Registration is required – please click here to register!

Smalltime: A Book Discussion
2021-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join us for a discussion of author Russell Shorto’s Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Based on a family history of organized crime in post-war Johnstown, Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family.
Pick up your copy of the book at the checkout desk any time the Library is open.
Plus, don’t miss Russell Shorto’s visit to Firebox Art Studios (110 East Main Street in Carnegie) on Saturday, October 2! Learn more and register here.
Registration is required. Please click here to register for the discussion.

Smalltime: An Afternoon with Author Russell Shorto
2021-10-02 14:00 - 18:30 | Firebox Art Studio, 110 East Main Street, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join author Russell Shorto for an intimate reading among the contemporary fine art of downtown Carnegie’s Firebox Art Studios! Sip wine as Mr. Shorto reads from and discusses his 2021 book Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Based on a true family history of organized crime in post-war Johnstown, Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family.
This program will take place at Carnegie’s Firebox Art Studios at 110 E Main St.
Registration is required. Please click here to register!

Princess Ida
2021-10-08 19:30 - 22:00, 2021-10-09 19:30 - 22:00, 2021-10-10 14:30 - 17:00, 2021-10-14 19:30 - 22:00, 2021-10-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2021-10-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2021-10-17 14:30 - 17:00, 2021-10-24 14:30 - 17:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Running October 8-10 & 14-17, 2021

Princess Ida is a hilarious twist on a traditional medieval fairy tale. The operetta tells the tale of a Princess, who eschews her marriage obligations to the Prince of a neighboring kingdom (the wedding pact made when they were both infants) to run a women’s university. Women as warriors, men as maidens, something for everyone!

The operetta satirizes feminism, women’s education, Darwinian evolution, stuffy men and just about everyone else.

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2nd Saturday Civil War Lecture Series: A Civil War Husband
2021-10-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
October 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

In person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH

Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88157987607 Meeting ID: 881 5798 7607

The year is 1861. The United States was dividing over state’s rights and slavery. Thomas D. Nelson was working on his small farm in Plain Grove, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. On August 31 his life and the lives of his wife, Lydia Jane, and their four daughters would change forever.

Thomas was taken from the only life he knew and thrust into the life of a Union soldier of the American Civil War with the “Roundheads,” 100th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company E. Through Thomas’ letters, experience the places he traveled to, the people he meets along the way, his life as a Civil War soldier, and his concerns for his family he left behind.

Cindy Friend Crytzer is a former educator, event planner, and proud mother and grandmother living in Mercer, Pennsylvania. She volunteers with the Mercer County Library and Historical Society and enjoys transcribing documents for the Library of Congress in her spare time.

With this love of transcription and a passion for family history and genealogy, Cindy took special interest in the discovery of letters from her great-great-grandfather Thomas D. Nelson to his wife Lydia Jane during the American Civil War. She decided to transcribe these letters for clarity and to share them with her family and others interested in reading about the life of a Civil War soldier. After an exciting six-year journey, Cindy’s first book, A Civil War Husband, was born.

2nd Saturday Lectures are made possible by the Massey Charitable Trust.

Free and open to the public. No reservations required.

Making with Artsmiths of Pittsburgh: Paint/Print/Paste!
2021-10-15 11:00 - 11:45 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Create an artwork based on the beautifully photographed story Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert. Experiment with new processes like printmaking, stamping and collage!
Classes offered in collaboration with The Artsmiths of Pittsburgh. Programming supported through generous community donations.
This class is intended for preschoolers aged 2-5, with a parent or other caregiver.
Registration is required – please click here to register!

Making with Artsmiths of Pittsburgh: Autumn Experiments!
2021-10-16 11:00 - 12:00 | PA
Become inspired by the colors, textures and shapes of the season and create a layered mixed-media artwork all your own! Experiment with processes like relief printmaking, monoprinting and collaging.

Classes offered in collaboration with The Artsmiths of Pittsburgh. Programming supported through generous community donations.

This program is intended for school-aged kids (ages 6+).

Registration is required! Please click here to register.

Listen Locally with Mark Dignam, Molly Thompson & Friends featuring Bell School of Irish Dance
2021-11-05 19:30 - 21:00 | PA
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Irish Voice, Fiddle & Feet come together for Listen Locally

Enjoy an evening of traditional, contemporary, and original songs, with Dublin-born singer/songwriter Mark Dignam. Also, a part of the show will be fiddler Molly Thompson and singer/guitarist Kathy Fallon, along with certified Irish Dance teacher Catie McCarthy & students from the Bell School of Irish Dance.

Join us in the Music Hall, for a dazzling musical performance, steeped in Irish tradition.

Visit https://markdignam.bandcamp.com for a sound preview.

TICKETS

Reserved Seating Adult……………..$25 advance / $30 at the doorReserved Seating Youth/Student…………….$15Click here to get your tickets in advance here.

Veterans Day Ceremony
2021-11-11 13:30 - 14:00 | PA
Libraries are civic organizations. 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 a tradition at the Library & Music Hall.

Please join members of Carnegie American Legion Post 82, 9th Pennsylvania Reserves, elected officials, friends and colleagues at 1:30 pm on Veterans Day, Thursday, November 11. Let’s set politics aside to honor and celebrate the men and women who sacrificed so much for the democracy we are privileged to call home.

The ceremony will be followed a coffee and cookies reception (cookies courtesy of Rep. Anita Astorino Kulik) in the Lincoln Gallery. The Captain Thomas Espy Post will be open.

The ceremony takes place rain or shine.

Sourdough Culture: An Author Visit with Eric Pallant
2021-11-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
From the Egyptian Pyramids to ancient Rome, sourdough has propped up some of humanity’s great achievements. Explore the history, enjoy sampling Eric’s own breads, and bring your questions about caring for sourdough starters and baking the perfect loaf. Eric will have copies of the book and heirloom sourdough starters for sale. Join us!

Want to pre-order the book and pick it up at this event? Click here!

Advance registration is appreciated – please click here to register.

9 to 5
2021-11-11 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-11-12 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-11-13 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-11-14 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
With music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, this fun-filled show is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.

2nd Saturday Civil War Lecture Series: Armistead and Hancock - Behind the Gettysburg Legend
2021-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 | PA
In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH

Armistead and Hancock:Behind the Gettysburg LegendWith Tom McMillanSaturday, November13, 2021 1:00 PM IN PERSON & ONLINE

Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 In a war of brother versus brother, theirs has become the most famous broken friendship: Union general Winfield Scott Hancock and Confederate general Lewis Armistead. Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels (1974) and the movie Gettysburg (1993), based on the novel, presented a close friendship sundered by war, but history reveals something different from the legend.In his deeply researched book, Tom McMillan sets the record straight. Even if their friendship wasn’t as close as the legend has it, Hancock and Armistead knew each other well before the Civil War. After emotionally parting ways when the Civil War broke out, their lives wouldn’t intersect again until Gettysburg, when they faced each other during Pickett’s Charge.Part dual biography and part Civil War history, Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend clarifies the historic record with new information and fresh perspective, reversing decades of misconceptions about an amazing story of two friends that had defined the Civil War.Tom McMillan, a lifelong student of the Civil War, has served on the board of trustees of Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center, the board of directors of the Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial, and the marketing committee of the Gettysburg Foundation. His other books are Flight 93: The Story, The Aftermath and The Legacy of American Courage on 9/11 (2014) and Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers (2017), which won the Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award. He retired earlier this year after a forty-three-year career in sports media and communications.

2nd Saturday Lectures made possible by the Massey Charitable Trust

Open Mic Night
2021-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
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Join us for an eclectic evening of live entertainment at our curated Open Mic Night with host, Ed Auth. The evening will definitely include live music and perhaps some poetry, comedy and more! Local performers gather to share whatever it is that they do best with our community.

The Studio, home to our Listen Locally Downstairs concert series, is a favorite spot for local artists for its intimate club vibe, new acoustic treatment and performance centered atmosphere.

Doors open at 6:30pm / Performers start at 7:00pmThere is a $5 cover charge for this event at the door.Or you can purchase a ticket in advance to guarantee your seat here.

Refreshments will be available by donation.
