
Gatsby: A Jazz Age Celebration
Join us for Gatsby: A Jazz Age Celebration! This year's benefit offers an opportunity to show your support for the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall during a one-of-a-kind evening celebrating the Jazz Age and 100 years of a classic American novel. The Adam Lee-Morgan Jazz Orchestra will kick-off the event in the Music Read More

Cultural Education with JFCS: Know Your Rights – Staying safe from legal scams and how to interact with the police
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesJoin 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 Read More

Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival: “The Freshman” (1925), with live organ accompaniment by Eric Cook
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesThe 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 Read More

PLAY, LEARN, GROW: Playtime & Parent-Child Workshop
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesJoin 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 Read More

Carnegie Crafters – Craft Night at the Movies: “Practical Magic” (1998)
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesCalling 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 Read More

Anne Frank, Otto Frank, and the Holocaust: with Father John Neiman
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesWhen 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 Read More

Ukulele Strum-Along
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesCome 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 Read More

Paperback Platoon Book Club: “Broken Country”
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesCalling 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 Read More

PLAY, LEARN, GROW: Playtime & Parent-Child Workshop
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesJoin 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 Read More

Pittsburgh Savoyards presents “Utopia, Limited”
For all ticket inquiries contact Pittsburgh Savoyards at 412-734-8476 or tickets@pittsburghsavoyards.org Gilbert & Sullivan’s Utopia, Limited is a delightfully absurd operetta in which a small island decides their surest path to greatness is to copy Victorian England—down to the last legal loophole and layer of red tape. The island’s ruler calls in a troupe of overconfident British “experts” Read More

Civil War Gaming: Battle Cry – Cedar Creek
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesJoin 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 Read More

2nd Saturday Civil War Series: “After I am Gone…” The Battle for Gen. Philip Sheridan’s Legacy & Memory with Jonathan Noyalas
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesIn Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Following the death of General Philip H. Sheridan in the summer of 1888, fierce debates arose over how Sheridan, regarded as one of the Union’s “three great generals” during the Civil War and a divisive figure, should be remembered. “After I Read More

AARP presents: Understanding Social Security
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesDo you understand how Social Security works? Have you wondered who is eligible for Social Security payments? Join Mike Rosenberg of the AARP for this free Understanding Social Security workshop. This workshop focuses on building a basic understanding of Social Security, exploring how claiming decisions affect payments and identifying resources that can help you along the Read More

Darkness at the Edge of Victory: Discovering Pittsburgh’s Liberators of Nazi Concentration Camps – with Richard Murphy
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesBy the end of World War II, Nazi Germany had established over a thousand concentration camps, where millions of Jews, Communists, gay Germans, and others were incarcerated and eventually killed. Allied soldiers spent months liberating the prisoners of these camps following the end of the War. Some of those soldiers had come to Europe from Read More

Historical Fiction Book Group: “The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club” by Martha Hall Kelly
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesJoin us for the first meeting of the Library's new historical fiction book group! We'll explore different eras of history, share our thoughts and responses, and make new friendships as we share a different historical fiction title each month. This group meets on the third Thursday of the month at 11:00am. For this meeting, we'll Read More

Carnegie Carnegie Studio Jazz Series – James Johnson III Jazz Ensemble
James Johnson III is a versatile musician who effortlessly navigates various musical genres. His journey began at Pittsburgh’s High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) under the mentorship of jazz legend Roger Humphries, which laid the foundation for his remarkable career. He has performed regularly with jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal and has graced Read More

PLAY, LEARN, GROW: Playtime & Parent-Child Workshop
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesJoin 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 Read More

Pittsburgh Savoyards presents “Utopia, Limited”
For all ticket inquiries contact Pittsburgh Savoyards at 412-734-8476 or tickets@pittsburghsavoyards.org Gilbert & Sullivan’s Utopia, Limited is a delightfully absurd operetta in which a small island decides their surest path to greatness is to copy Victorian England—down to the last legal loophole and layer of red tape. The island’s ruler calls in a troupe of overconfident British “experts” Read More

PLAY, LEARN, GROW: Playtime & Parent-Child Workshop
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesJoin 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 Read More

Meeple Meet-Up: Euro-Gaming for Adults
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesDo you like Terraforming Mars? Settlers of Catan? Agricola? Ark Nova? Or other “Euro” or Euro-flavored strategy games with wooden meeples, worker placement, tableau building, and so forth? Come to the Library for an afternoon of board gaming! You can also come if you are interested in learning how to play Euro board games. This Read More

Emerging Artist Jazz Series: Jonathan DiGiulian
The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall and the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra launch an exciting new collaboration spotlighting rising stars alongside some of Pittsburgh’s most accomplished jazz musicians. This multi-generational series celebrates the city’s rich jazz heritage while showcasing fresh voices shaping its future.Our next featured artist is guitarist Jonathan DiGiulian, a rising talent on the Read More

“Nosferatu”: The Horror Classic, with Live Musical Accompaniment by Tom Roberts
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesExperience the 1922 masterpiece that defined horror cinema for decades, with a live musical score by acclaimed pianist and composer Tom Roberts! Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror takes viewers on a chilling journey through the mists of 19th century Transylvania, as the hapless Thomas Hutter finds himself at odds with the mysterious Count Orlok - Read More

The Termination of USAID: What’s at Stake for Global Relief and Local Impact
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesSince 1961, the U.S. Agency for International Development has saved countless lives and strengthened communities around the world with programs focused on hunger, poverty, disease, and education. The loss of U.S. foreign aid opens the door to needless suffering for some of the most vulnerable people in the world. Join us for an evening of Read More

PLAY, LEARN, GROW: Playtime & Parent-Child Workshop
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United StatesJoin 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 Read More