Get ready to party like it's your Earth Day! Join the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall for a fun family festival about ecology, sustainability, and nature! Make your very own seed balls and sidewalk chalk! Create catch-all boxes out of recycled book pages with Modern Mercantile, and shop a selection of their eclectic Read More

Quilling is a simple but flexible art form made with delicate rolls of paper strips, manipulated into lovely shapes and forms. In this workshop for tweens and teens, we'll embellish our initials with vibrantly colorful quilled shapes. Get creative and make a truly personal and unique work of art! All supplies will be provided. This Read More

This is an online event: Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No account required. Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 In early 1861 there were many in Philadelphia who supported secession, including one of the city's newspapers, The Palmetto Flag. Following the attack on Fort Sumter, as patriotism swept across the North, Philadelphia residents galvanized behind the Union. On April Read More

Sunday, May 16, 2021 7:00pm TICKETS It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter without live music at the Carnegie Carnegie but things are about to heat up! We’re kicking off Listen Locally OUTSIDE! with Jimmy Adler Band. With 4 CDs to his credit, Pittsburgh-based blues guitarist and singer, Jimmy Adler has recorded many original songs Read More

Come fly with us! Pick up your paper airplane kit at the Library starting on May 17, experiment with some different designs during the week, and then join us on Saturday for some outdoor test flights! Whose airplane will fly the farthest? Please click here to register.

The Collective is an intimate process-based theater academy teaching the foundations of acting through song, character development, and text. Each month this summer, The Collective will host one unique 2-week intensive focusing on the process of Performance, Development, and Showcasing   June / The Performance Project (ages 14-18) - June 14th through June 25th - Read More

Get vaccinated! The Allegheny County Health Department is offering free one-dose vaccines for anyone who wants one, ages 18+. The CDC says that fully vaccinated individuals may now go unmasked. If you're not yet vaccinated, don't miss this free opportunity! No registration is required.

Come quill with us! We'll work with some different types of quilling strips to make beautiful flowers and designs. The sky is the limit as you use your imagination to make an initial or a wreath-shape on canvas. All supplies will be provided. This program will meet in person, in the Library's Lincoln Gallery. Registration Read More

This is an In Person and Online event! This event will be held live and in person in the Music Hall at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. Come early to tour our national treasure Captain Thomas Espy Post and the Lincoln Gallery. Speak with reenactors and take in a 19th century military drill Read More

Drag Academy kicks off pride month with an epic show starring Plastique Tiara from Rupaul's Drag Race, Season 11 and hosted by Pittsburgh's own Monongahaley. Tickets include pre-show reception and VIP tickets are available for an exclusive post-show meet and greet. Masks are required for attendees who are unable to provide proof of vaccination. Masks Read More

Join your neighbors at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall for a four-part conversation about how we experience race in the US. We'll read & discuss Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, a 2020 graphic novel which explores diversity through conversations between the author and her six year old mixed-race son. Read More

TICKETS Enjoy Stage 62 all summer long with a 3-part outdoor concert series!  Building on the success of last year’s pilot show, Songs from the Steps will take place on the steps in front of the beautiful Music Hall entrance with audience seating in the parking lot. Each concert will highlight a wide variety of Read More

Come still the waters of your mind in a supportive, friendly group through mindful meditation! Regular meditation has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, and to enhance focus and wellbeing. This group meets in the Studio on the first and third Thursdays of each month, from 2:00-3:00 PM. This group is intended for adults, Read More