Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall

Princess Ida
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 (America/New_York) | 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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Embracing Our Differences: "Caste"
2021-10-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-16 19:00 - 20:00 | 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.

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.

Bilingual Storytime, with Award-Winning Author Taghreed Najjar
2021-10-22 16:30 - 17:00 | PA
Join Attawheed Islamic Center, Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, and Crafton Public Library in welcoming award-winning Palestinian-Jordanian author Taghreed Najjar as she reads from her book The Ghoul, which was selected for Chicago Public Library’s “Best of the Best” books of 2020.

In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls it “a stimulating and funny fantasy about acceptance… Inspired by Arab folklore, the story revolves around life in a quiet and peaceful village somewhere in Arabia, where the only thing disturbing the surrounding peace is the ghoul living up in the mountains – a monster everyone dreads and fears. …Perplexed by the idea of a monster that nobody has seen or heard, Hasan decides to defy his parents and investigate himself.”

Attend via Zoom, or watch at www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie.

Autumn Card Class
2021-10-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Teens and tween (ages 10 and up) are invited to join us as we make an autumn-themed card. We will talk about addressing the envelope and where to put the stamp. Participants may bring an address if they would like to mail their card.

Free Legal Advice with Attorney Giuseppe Rosselli
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 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, 2021-11-18 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-11-19 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-11-20 20:00 - 22:00, 2021-11-21 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.

Listen Locally Downstairs with Tom Breiding: Storytelling through Song
2021-11-17 19:00 | PA
Listen Locally Downstairs with Tom Breiding: Storytelling through Song

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Tom Breiding, local Americana, folk-rock artist, and celebrated writer, chronicles small-town America through original music. His songs tell the stories that history has all but forgotten – stories that sink so deep into a person’s psyche that they have to be told again. A singer in the traditions of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seger, and Pittsburgh’s own Anne Feeney, Tom’s music is especially relevant in today’s tumultuous times.

Tom’s work has taken him all over the U.S. and through every back road and coal town of his home state, West Virginia. He is also a regular performer at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Woody’s hometown of Okemah, OK. The Carnegie Carnegie is thrilled to welcome him to the Studio for the next installment of our Listen Locally Downstairs series.

TICKETS$15 in Advance || $20 at the DoorClick here to get your tickets.
