Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall

Teen Crafternoons: Fiber Arts
2025-07-11 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | 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 explore fiber arts like embroidery, crochet, and knitting!

Registration is appreciated – please click here to register!

Summer Poetry Club
2025-07-15 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-07-22 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-07-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join us for a 5-week series of school-age poetry workshops for kids in grades 2-5! Retired Carlynton teacher Ms. Susan Cantwell will lead a creative exploration of poetry in all its forms. Read it, write it, love it!

By the end of the 5-week series, students will create their very own poetry scrapbook to take home. While this will be a cumulative project, you may attend one or all sessions!

Registration is suggested, but not required.

Teen Game Time
2025-07-16 15:30 - 17:30, 2025-08-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
This summer, teens ages 10-17 are invited to a monthly afternoon of gaming at the A.C. Free Library!

Come and play with our Nintendo Switch, one of our many card games or board games, or even bring your own!

Click here to register!

Kids' Chess Club: Beginners
2025-07-17 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-24 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-31 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Kids ages 8 and up are invited to join us for a weekly beginner-level Chess Club! Chess pro Kevin Thompson will teach the basics of chess, no experience necessary.

Registration is recommended, but you do not have to attend every week to register.

Summer Family Movies: "A Minecraft Movie" (2025)
2025-07-17 18:30 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
School’s out, cinema’s in! On the third Thursday of each month, come on down to the Studio for a family movie night. This summer, we’ll be screening several highly anticipated new releases!

Entry is free; please register to let us know if you’ll be able to make it. Click here to register!

Please feel free to bring your own snacks and beverages. Popcorn will be available for a donation.

June 19th: Dog Man (PG)

July 17th: A Minecraft Movie (PG)

August 21st: The Wild Robot (PG)

National Tattoo Day
2025-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
July 17 is National Tattoo Day! Join us to learn about the history and cultural significance of tattooing, and share the stories behind your own tattoos!

Tattooing has been a part of human cultural expression for over 5,000 years – the first known tattooed person is Ötzi, the Iceman, whose mummified remains were discovered in the Alps in 1991 (Ötzi had sixty-one individual tattoos!). Tattoos have been used in rites of passage, as marks of bravery and accomplishment, and as protective religious talismans. In the twentieth century, tattoos have been associated with sailors, prisoners, and gang members; today tattoos are so mainstream that almost everyone knows someone with some ink.

Join artist Tony Frank of Infinite Image Tattoo Studio and photographer Mark Perrott, author of Tattoo Witness, as they discuss this unique field of art. Afterwards, we invite attendees to share a few words about the personal meaning behind your own tattoos! If you would like to speak, please indicate that when you register.

Registration is appreciated, but not required for attendees who do not wish to speak. If you do wish to speak, registration is required. Please click here to register!

Interested in speaking? We ask that each speaker keep your comments to around five minutes or less. Please ensure that your story is PG-13 rated or lower. If the tattoo you wish to share is on a part of your body normally covered by clothing, you may bring a photograph to share (no nudity in the photo, please).

Zumba with Emonie!
2025-07-19 11:30 - 12:30
Join licensed Zumba instructor Emonie Smith for an hour of dance fitness! Get moving to Latin, pop, and international music as you improve cardiovascular fitness and strengthen your core – while burning calories and having fun!

$10 requested donation per person. All participants must sign a liability waiver. Participants under 18 must have a parent or legal guardian sign for them.

Slots are limited – please click here to register.

Global Performance Series: Steel City Calypso
2025-07-24 19:00
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The Carnegie Global Performance Series is a new initiative that celebrates the unifying power of music, performance, and art across cultures. All performances take place in the Studio.Steel City Calypso celebrates traditional Calypso and Soca music from Trinidad and Tobago, while fusing it with American jazz.TICKETS:$15 in Advance$20 at the Door$10 Students w/ ID

All ticket sales are final.

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"Homing: Instincts of a Rust Belt Feminist" - An author visit with Sherrie Flick
2025-07-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Acclaimed Pittsburgh author Sherrie Flick shares her journey from a Western Pennsylvania childhood through a decade of cross-country travel that led her to a new sense of home in Pittsburgh’s South Side Slopes, where she has lived for twenty-five years. With humor, curiosity, and heart, she reflects on the homes that we find and create, and the ways that time transforms our homes around us.

Homing: Instincts of a Rust Belt Feminist powerfully explores the people, the history, and the unique culture of Western Pennsylvania, with thoughtful examinations of feminism, labor, and popular culture lending dimension and depth. One of the essays in Homing, “All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts,” was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Copies of the book will be available for purchase through Woolly Bear Books & Gifts.

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

Teen Crafternoons: Jewelry Making
2025-07-25 13:00 - 14:30
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 experiment with jewelry making, using beads and rubber bands!

Registration is appreciated – please click here to register.

Carnegie Crafters - Craft Night at the Movies: "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar" (1995)
2025-07-25 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 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), with Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo.

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!

Knife Sharpening with Dennis Snedden: Whetstone Tips, Tools, & Techniques
2025-07-29 19:00 - 20:30 | 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.

Studio Jazz Series: RML Jazz
2025-08-07 19:00
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Enjoy a mix of jazz, from smooth to hot, classic to modern, bebop, and Dixieland, with RML Jazz. Whether you want to unwind or are seeking the excitement of live jazz music, RML Jazz has you covered.Beer and wine by donation. Outside alcohol/BYOB is not permitted.Doors open at 6:30 pm || Concert begins at 7:00 pm

TICKETS:$20 in Advance$25 at the Door$10 Under 18/Students with ID

All ticket sales are final.

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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!

Saturday Soirées: An Evening at the Cabaret with Missy Moreno
2025-08-09 19:30
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Join us for Saturday Soirées! These performances transform our Studio space into an intimate nightclub. Your ticket includes hors d’oeuvres, drink, and memorable music while benefitting the ACFL&MH.Missy Moreno brings her signature blend of music, comedy, and heart to the Carnegie Carnegie Studio in the debut of her original cabaret, From the Mon to Manhattan: A Farewell for Now ‘N At!A proud Steel Valley native, Pittsburgh performer, and alum of Chicago’s Second City, Missy takes the stage here in the ‘Burgh one last time before heading to the Big Apple this summer.

Expect an evening full of laughter, song, heartfelt tributes, and hometown tales—honoring where she’s been and looking ahead to all that’s next.

Missy Moreno is an actor, singer and comedian based out of her hometown and fave city of Pittsburgh. She was recently seen on The Kelly Clarkson Show giving Jonathan Groff a Yinzer titile and making laughs with Tony Award Winner Lea Delaria as part of the City Theatre BASH. Missy is so grateful to have done wonderful shows with wonderful companies like Bricolage, City Theatre, Front Porch Theatricals, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, The REP, Kinetic Theater Company, St. Vincent Summer Theater, Strand Theater and No Name Players. As an improv comedian, Missy has trained and worked at the legendary Second City in Chicago and The Annoyance Theater. In Chicago, she was part of the Jeff Award winning production of “The Original Grease (Jan, replacement) under the guidance of Jim Jacobs (creator of Grease) at the American Theater Company. babyGRAND, the musical comedy duo featuring Missy Moreno and her comedy partner Connor McCanlus, was named Best Improv Group by City Paper. They have performed at prestigious events such as the Chicago Improv Comedy Festival, Philly DuoFest, and as opening acts for The Skivvies and for Laura Hall of Who’s Line Is It Anyway?. As a comedian, Missy has played the Chicago Music Improv Festival, New York Music Improv Festival, Philly Duofest and had the blessing to work a COVID charity show with comic Sinbad. Missy is graduate of Point Park’s Conservatory of Performing Arts, Missy has continued life in education as a Teaching Artist all over the city for people of all ages in the areas of Improvisation and Acting. She will be up to more adventures in NYC, learn more at missymoreno.com and stay in touch!Select your table in the Studio for you and a group of friends, a date, or just treat yourself to a great evening out!Concerts begin at 7:30.Doors open at 7:00.

Tickets are $55 per seat.

Outside alcohol/BYOB is not permitted.All ticket sales are final.

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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.

Teen Crafternoons: Watercolors
2025-08-15 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 paint with watercolors!

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!
