South Hills Model Railroad Club track display
2025-04-05 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Come see an amazing room-sized model railroad track display, courtesy of the South Hills Model Railroad Club!

Featuring homes, businesses, landscape features, and even a carnival, this fully operational track creates its own tiny world to explore.

Members of the South Hills Model Railroad Club will be present from 10AM-5PM on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5 to discuss and explain the display. Drop in any time!

Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait with The Duquesne Wind Symphony
2025-04-06 15:00 | PA
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Join us for a symphonic tribute to Abraham Lincoln at the Music Hall, featuring Aaron Copland’s beloved work, Lincoln Portrait. This special event celebrates the upcoming return of our nationally recognized Civil War Symposium later in the week.

Dr. Josie Badger, a disability rights advocate, speaker, and consultant specializing in leadership development and healthcare advocacy, will narrate the Copland piece. She holds a doctorate in healthcare ethics and was crowned Ms. Wheelchair America 2012. Dr. Badger is dedicated to empowering individuals with disabilities and brings her expertise and passion for inclusion to her work.

James Gourlay, who is well known to Pittsburgh audiences as the Music Director of the River City Brass Band, will conduct Duquesne University’s Wind Symphony.

Aaron Copland composed Lincoln Portrait in 1942 during the tumultuous years of World War II. The orchestral score weaves together some of Lincoln’s most powerful speeches, delivered by a narrator alongside the music.

Before the concert, we invite you to join us for guided tours of a true national treasure: The Capt. Thomas Espy Post, one of the country’s last remaining Grand Army of the Republic Posts.

A dessert and coffee reception will follow the performance in the Lincoln Gallery. We hope to see you there!$20 in Advance$25 at the Door$5 for students with I.D. and children 12 and under.

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Poetry Workshops for Teens
2025-04-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
We invite teens ages 12-18 to join us for a series of poetry writing workshops in honor of National Poetry Month! Learn about different forms of poetry, try out writing prompts and activities, and express yourself through the written word. Each participant will receive their own notebook to decorate and keep! These workshops will be led by Rebecca Godlove, literacy advocate, writer, and theatrical teaching artist.

Registration is recommended but walk-ins are welcome, and attendance at all four workshops is not required.

AARP presents: Prepare to Care
2025-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Caregiving may be one of the most important and challenging roles you will ever take on. No matter where you are in your caregiving journey – starting to plan, taking care of a family member in your home, in a facility or from a distance, or managing end-of-life caregiving responsibilities – having resources will make the process easier for you.

AARP has developed a “Prepare to Care” program to support anyone who is or planning to or is currently involved in caring for a family member or close friend. It also provides a good, solid framework to guide and support individuals in making this often complicated process less stressful. Join Cheryl Lenhart of the AARP for this free educational program!

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

Carnegie Crafters - Craft Night at the Movies: "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999)
2025-04-07 18:30 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Tonight, join the Carnegie Crafters for a Craft Night at the Movies! Enjoy crafting in the comfortable Music Hall while we watch the classic 10 Things I Hate About You, with Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. All crafts are encouraged, but please refrain from using any paints, glue, or any liquids or materials that could cause mess in our historic Music Hall. Food and drink are not permitted.

Doors open at 6:30 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!

The Carnegie Crafters meet regularly at the Library to share advice and inspiration, chat with new friends, and work on fiber arts projects in a supportive group setting.

Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club presents Spring Suspense Classics: "Our Man in Havana" (1959)
2025-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Thrilling, edge-of-your-seat suspense is in store with the Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club’s Spring Suspense Classics series!

Tonight: Our Man in Havana (1959), directed by Carol Reed. An Englishman living in Cuba is recruited as a spy by the British Secret Service – but when he begins making up false information, danger surrounds him. Starring Alec Guinness, Maureen O’Hara, and Burl Ives.

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

"Our Battle Flags Were Tattered..." The Maryland Campaign: A Civil War Symposium
2025-04-11 16:00 - 2025-04-12 16:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
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The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is pleased to announce the return of our annual Civil War Symposium, slated for April 11 – 12, 2025. Embracing attendee feedback from recent years, the 2025 symposium will focus on the 1862 Maryland Campaign, which culminated at the Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American history . Eight dynamic historians will explore the military, political, and social threads of this defining moment in our nation’s history.

Tickets are available for $85.00 until April 01, 2025 or sold out. Seating is limited, and our past three years have sold out, so please don’t wait to reserve your seat. Symposium proceeds help to preserve the priceless artifacts in the Captain Thomas Espy Grand Army of the Republic Post and helps to support our monthly Civil War programming at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall.

The ticket price includes light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar on Friday evening; breakfast refreshments, a boxed lunch, and light snacks on Saturday. Representatives from Arsenal Cider – Pittsburgh’s Civil War-themed hard cider distillery – will be on hand Friday evening for tastings and bottle sales. Ongoing tours of The Captain Thomas Espy Post will be available, as well as raffles, a Civil War book sale, and author book signings.

ACFL&MH is grateful to Civil War Trails for their sponsorship and ongoing support of our Civil War symposium!

Please contact Espy Post Curator, Jon-Erik Gilot, at gilotj@einetwork.net with any questions.

Speakers:

John Banks & Tom McMillan – The Antietam & Beyond Podcast: A Live Recording!

Historians John Banks and Tom McMillan, the creative minds behind The Antietam & Beyond Podcast will be on hand for a live, freewheeling recording of their popular podcast. Banks and McMillan dive deep into the Battle of Antietam as well as into the 1862 Maryland Campaign and other Civil War topics. Join these longtime journalists, who, along with their guests, share stories, knowledge and much more about the battle and the most compelling period in American history.

Dennis Frye – Harpers Ferry: Lee’s Achilles

A native of the Antietam and Harpers Ferry area, Dennis Frye recently retired from more than three decades in the National Park Service, including twenty years as chief historian at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. His honors includes the Department of Interior’s “Distinguished Service Award,” the highest honor conferred by the Department, and the American Battlefields Trust’s highest award – “The Shelby Foote Award.” Author of nearly a dozen books, and scores of articles, Frye is considered among the founding fathers of the modern Civil War battlefield movement. He will discuss the Federal garrison at Harpers Ferry, Robert E. Lee’s “Achilles” of the Maryland Campaign.

D. Scott Hartwig – Antietam: The Soldiers’ Experience

D. Scott Hartwig retired in 2014 after more than thirty years in the National Park Service, including twenty years as supervisory historian at Gettysburg National Military Park. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books, which includes a recent two-volume study of the Maryland Campaign and Battle of Antietam, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Utilizing a collection of letters and post-war accounts, Scott will examine the soldiers’ experience at the Battle of Antietam.

John Hoptak – “This Has Been a Glorious Victory…” The Battle of South Mountain: An Overview

John Hoptak is the author of several books including, The Battle of South Mountain. His articles have appeared in various publications, including Pennsylvania History, Civil War Times, and America’s Civil War. He has served as a Park Ranger and Educator with the National Park Service since 2006, first at Antietam National Battlefield, and, since 2012, at Gettysburg National Military Park. John will offer an overview of the critical, though often overlooked Battle of South Mountain, the first major battle fought north of the Potomac River.

Ashley Whitehead Luskey – “Nothing can be half so melancholy as a battle won…” Sharpsburg Civilians and Antietam’s Aftermath

Ashley Whitehead Luskey is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. A graduate of the College of William & Mary, she holds a both a master’s degree in history with a concentration in public history and a PhD in history from West Virginia University. She spent more than nine years working as a park ranger and historian with the National Park Service, including eight years at Richmond National Battlefield Park. An active public speaker and tour guide, Ashley is the author of numerous articles and essays. Ashley’s talk will focus on civilian claims and restitution following the Battle of Antietam, the rampant post-battle disease in the area, and the early “tourists” of the battlefield in the days and weeks after who sought relics and a direct window into the carnage.

Kevin Pawlak – In the Wake of Antietam: The Loudoun Valley Campaign of 1862

Kevin Pawlak is a Historic Site Manager for the Prince William County Historic Preservation Division and works as a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Antietam National Battlefield. He is also active with the Shepherdstown Battlefield Preservation Association, Save Historic Antietam Foundation, and the Antietam Institute. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays, and is a contributing historian at Emerging Civil War. Kevin will examine the clashes of Loudoun Valley Campaign in late October and early November 1862.

Harry Smeltzer – Col. Albert L. Magilton and the Pennsylvania Reserves at Antietam

Since 2006 Harry Smeltzer has hosted Bull Runnings, a website dedicated to the digitization of primary resources and original content related to the First Battle of Bull Run. A native of Southwestern PA, he earned degrees at The Pennsylvania State University and the Katz School of the University of Pittsburgh. He has been published in print and digital media including in the journal Civil War History, The Civil War Monitor, Civil War Times, and America’s Civil War. He sits on the board of directors of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation, and has presented programs relating to and lead tours of the Bull Run battlefield. Harry will discuss Pennsylvania-native Col. Albert L. Magilton and the Pennsylvania Reserves at the Battle of Antietam.

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Ukulele Strum-Along
2025-04-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Come 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 uke-enthusiasts and join our strum-along group!

The event will start with a special lesson for first-timers at 6:00 PM. If you already know your way around a ukulele, join us at 6:45 to play along!

This group is intended for teens and adults. Please click here to register!

Earth Day Free Clothing Market
2025-04-18 10:00 - 2025-04-26 15:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Refresh your wardrobe for Spring!

First, donate your new and gently used clothing (all ages and genders) at the Library between now and April 26. Then join us at our Earth Day celebration and take what you like from the donated clothes. It’s a great way to make fashion more sustainable, reduce waste, and support families in need!

(We also appreciate donations of clothes hangers. We are unable to accept stained or damaged items, used socks & undergarments, or items covered in pet hair or permeated with odors such as smoke – thank you for your understanding.)

Questions? Call us at 412-276-3456 x12!

Wellness with Ronda: Recycling 101
2025-04-19 10:30 - 11:30 | PA
Please join our quarterly Wellness presenter Ronda Snow as we get ready for Earth Day and welcome guest presenter Marty Smyczek, founder of Zieros in Dormont and sustainable living expert. Together we will learn recycling basics and how to most effectively recycle using local resources and residential waste services.

AC Free’s Earth day celebration is Saturday, April 26. Please visit carnegiecarnegie.org for more details.

Registration is requested but not required beginning March 16 and ending April 16. Walk-ins are welcome as space allows on a first come first served basis. Please click here to register!

Wellness with Ronda is a quarterly discussion group for adults that covers a wide range of Natural Health and Wellness topics. This group does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any illness and it does not replace professional medical or mental health care.

Zumba with Emonie!
2025-04-19 10:30 - 11:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
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!

"Twelve Angry Men": Courtroom Drama in Pop Culture and Real Life, with Prime Stage Theatre
2025-04-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join Rebecca Godlove of Prime Stage Theatre for a night of pop culture (and real life) courtroom drama! Test your trivia knowledge, examine scintillating true crime cases of hung juries and mistrials, and explore the places where fiction diverges from real legal procedure, as we prepare for Prime Stage’s production of Twelve Angry Men, directed by Shane Valenzi. Performances run from May 2 through 11 – tickets and show information are available here.

Registration for this program is appreciated, but walk-ins are welcome as well. Please click here to register.

Studio Jazz Series: Norside Organ Trio
2025-04-24 19:00 | PA
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Originating in Pittsburgh, PA, Norside is made up of Glenn Strother (Guitar), Steve Ippolito (Drums), and Skip Sanders (Hammond Organ). Together, they have a feel that is rooted in the tradition of the organ trio, with fans often defining their sound as “Rust Belt Funk”, a phrase that gives homage to their Western PA roots. Their 2023 debut album, ‘Mean Streets’, features a captivating mix of original compositions that highlights the depth and variety of sound the trio can put forth. Norside’s virtuosic musicianship shines through on every track, showcasing their deep love for the music and commitment to pushing its boundaries. In their time together, Norside has been privileged to share the stage with other amazing acts such as The Bar-Kays, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Chris Cain, Steeltown Horns, and more.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 Students w/ ID

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Earth Day at the Carnegie Carnegie!
2025-04-26 12:00 - 15:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Our Earth Day celebration returns for its fifth year! Join us for a day of all-ages fun and learning with live animal encounters, games and eco-crafts, live music, food, and all kinds of environmental education.

Guests include: Hoshi Hibachi; Rachel Carson Homestead; Mystic Mamas live chickens; Carnegie Shade Tree Commission; Attawheed Islamic Center; a food drive with Salvation Army Chartiers Valley Service Center; Steel City Amateur Radio Club; Carnegie Crafters; singer Jessica Lee; David Brunco offering demos of En-ROADS climate simulator; and more!

Scheduled events:

12:00 PM – Opening bagpipe performance by Matt Taylor

12:00 PM – Juggling with Lindsay Surmacz

12:30 PM – Storytime with BB the Book Fairy

12:30 PM – En-ROADS climate simulator demonstration

1:00 PM – “Song of Nature” with Jessica Lee

1:30 PM – En-ROADS climate simulator demonstration

2:30 PM – En-ROADS climate simulator demonstration

Plus, shop our Free Clothing Market any time from 12-3pm! We’re accepting clothing donations (new and gently used, all ages and genders) up until April 26 – see more details here! It’s a great way to make fashion more sustainable, reduce waste, and support families in need – see more details here!

(We also appreciate donations of clothes hangers. We are unable to accept stained or damaged items, used socks & undergarments, or items covered in pet hair or permeated with odors such as smoke – thank you for your understanding.)

Registration is not required – please stop by any time!

This event will take place outdoors if weather permits, and inside our building if necessary. Generously sponsored by Landau Building Company.

"Songs of Nature" with Jessica Lee
2025-04-26 13:00 - 14:00 | PA
Join us for the musical portion of Earth Day at the Carnegie Carnegie! Acclaimed jazz and blues vocalist Jessica Lee, known for her soulful blend of classic, contemporary, and crossover styles, will present “Songs of Nature.” Pianist Rick Gallagher and saxophonist Eric DeFade will accompany Jessica

Jessica Lee is an American jazz and blues singer with a unique voice influenced by jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, and inspirational music. She has produced shows with innovative, customized themes for various venues nationwide. Her recorded songs have been featured on multiple international vocal compilation albums, and she has released five solo albums, with plans to release several new live recordings in the coming years. You can read more about Ms. Lee at jessicaleejazz.com.

This performance is part of the fifth annual Earth Day at the Carnegie Carnegie celebration, scheduled for April 26 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. The event will feature games and eco-crafts, food, and various environmental education activities. Other participants include Hoshi Hibachi, Rachel Carson Homestead, Mystic Mamas with live chickens, the Carnegie Shade Tree Commission, Attawheed Islamic Center, Salvation Army Chartiers Valley Service Center, Steel City Amateur Radio Club, Carnegie Crafters, and David Brunco, who will be offering demos of the En-ROADS climate simulator.

The event will take place outdoors, weather permitting, and inside the building if necessary. Landau Building Company generously sponsors this celebration.

Knife Sharpening with Dennis Snedden: Whetstone Tips, Tools, & Techniques
2025-04-28 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 2025 kids’ Summer Reading Program. Space is limited, so please click here to register! 18 years and older, please.

Welcome to the Queerborhood! A Home Buying Workshop for Queer Folks and Allies
2025-04-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join Janette Schafer of Realty ONE Group for an LGBTQIA+ friendly First-Time Home Buyer Workshop, where we’ll guide you through every step of the home buying process in a welcoming and supportive environment. From getting preapproved for a mortgage and choosing the right realtor, to writing a competitive offer, navigating home inspections, understanding title work, and preparing for closing, this workshop covers it all. Enjoy a stress-free evening with refreshments provided, and bring the little ones—childcare is on us! Whether you’re just starting to explore homeownership or ready to take the next step, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to make your home-buying dreams a reality.

Won’t you be our neighbor?

Venue, room, and bathrooms are fully accessible to people with disabilities. If you need other accessibility assists, please let us know in the registration.

In solidarity with our immunocompromised friends, we recommend you wear a mask, if possible. If you are feeling ill, we respectfully request for you to stay home! We’ll likely be having more of these.

Sponsored by Realty ONE Group and Three Rivers Community Foundation.

Registration is required. Please click here to register!

PLAY, LEARN, GROW: Playtime & Parent-Child Workshop
2025-05-02 10:15 - 11:30, 2025-05-09 10:15 - 11:30, 2025-05-16 10:15 - 11:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join 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 with experts in different areas of your child’s development.

Weekly topics will include: music and movement, early literacy, child development, nutrition, among others. Partner organizations include Kathy’s Music, Literacy Pittsburgh, the Alliance for Infants and Toddlers (AFIT), and more.

If you register for this series, we ask that you please commit to attending at least 3 of the 5 weekly sessions. If you are unable to attend this workshop series at this time, another series is in the works for October 2025.

English Language Learners: Do you need language interpretation? Please let us know when registering!

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Pittsburgh's Historic Ballparks: An Author Visit with Mark Fatla
2025-05-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Pittsburgh has an incredible baseball history with great players, teams and historic moments, but few realize that Pittsburgh has often been in the lead in ballpark design and development.

Mark Fatla, lifelong baseball fan and author of Pittsburgh’s Historic Ballparks (Arcadia Press, 2023) chronicles the nine ballparks that hosted major league baseball in Pittsburgh between 1876 and the present, including the Negro Leagues. Historic photographs illustrate design and construction phases, the major changes as parks expanded and aged, and eventually their demolition. This talk and the accompanying book provide a unique perspective on the rich history of Pittsburgh’s ballparks. Copies of Pittsburgh’s Historic Ballparks will be available for purchase.

As a young attorney, Mark authored more than 200 Federal Court opinions, including several in one of Pittsburgh’s most important civil rights cases. As Executive Director of several community development non-profits over a 25 year career, he wrote hundreds of grant proposals and reports. As a freelancer, he has written feature cover stories for the Pittsburgh City Paper, as well as alternative weekly newspapers in Baltimore and Cleveland. Pittsburgh’s Historic Ballparks is his first book, and its sequel Pittsburgh’s Historic Stadiums and Arenas is due to publish in 2025. He has presented at national and regional conferences, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Main Street Center and others. He is a lifelong baseball fan and lives on Northside in an 1870 house just a short walk from the site of 4 of the historic ballparks he’ll discuss today.

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

Stage 62 presents "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change"
2025-05-09 20:00 - 2025-05-11 14:00, 2025-05-16 20:00 - 2025-05-18 21:00 | PA
For all ticket inquiries call Stage 62 at 412-429-6262.

May 9-11 & 16 – 18Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM | Sundays at 2:00 PM

The longest running off-Broadway revue in history has been revised for the 21st century! This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as “the relationship.” Through sketches and songs, Act I explores the journey from dating and waiting to love and marriage, while Act II reveals the agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, trips in the family car and pick-up techniques of the geriatric set. This hilarious revue pays tribute to those who have loved and lost, to those who have fallen on their face at the portal of romance, to those who have dared to ask, “Say, what are you doing Saturday night?” The 2018 version features two new songs, revised lyrics and dialogue throughout the show to reflect dating in modern times.

This performance will take place in the Studio while the Music Hall is temporarily closed for HVAC system installation.

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For all ticket inquiries call Stage 62 at 412-429-6262.

Civil War Gaming: Battle Cry - Battle of Olustee
2025-05-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Join Pittsburgh wargamer Paul Lawson 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’ll play through the Battle of Olustee scenario of the game Battle Cry. Both the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment and the 35th United States Colored Troops fought in this battle, the largest fought in Florida during the American Civil War.

Battle Cry is a low-complexity wargame published by Avalon Hill and suitable for ages 10+. No experience is necessary. Please join us!

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

2nd Saturday Civil War Series: COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War with Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black
2025-05-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279**Please note this event will not be streamed via Facebook, and will not be recorded for our YouTube channel**

Harriet Tubman’s legendary life is widely known: escaping enslavement, leading others to freedom via the Underground Railroad, and tirelessly fighting for change. But a crucial chapter often overlooked is her daring Civil War service as a spy for the Union Army, detailed in Dr. Edda Field Black’s groundbreaking book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.A direct descendant of a participant in the raid, Field-Black unveils Tubman’s command of spies and pilots, and intelligence gathered from freedom seekers, which led to a raid that liberated 756 enslaved people from bondage on seven rice plantations as the largest slave rebellion in US history. Through unexamined documents, she brings to life the Combahee River Raid and the untold stories of those freed, their resilience, and the lasting impact of Tubman’s heroism.Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University and has written extensively about the history of West African rice farmers, including in such works as Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. She was a co-editor of Rice: Global Networks and New Histories, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Fields-Black has served as a consultant for the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture’s permanent exhibit “Rice Fields of the Lowcountry,” and is the executive producer and librettist of “Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice,” a widely performed original contemporary classical work by celebrated composer John Wineglass.Fields-Black is a descendant of Africans enslaved on rice plantations in Colleton County, South Carolina; her great-great-great grandfather fought in the Combahee River Raid in June 1863. Her determination to illuminate the riches of the Gullah dialect, and to reclaim Gullah Geechee history and culture, has taken her to the rice fields of South Carolina and Georgia to those of Sierra Leone and Republic of Guinea in West Africa.

Standing Up when Someone's Being Harassed: A Bystander Intervention Training with PAAR
2025-05-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
What do you do if you see someone being harassed or threatened? Bystander intervention trainings have been proven to reduce interpersonal violence. Learn to be an upstander!

Community involvement and partnership is important when thinking about how to prevent street harassment and sexual violence. Bystander intervention can be a way to engage people in keeping their community safe. The PAAR Bystander Intervention Training seeks to move beyond the concept of just being a bystander to building skills around safe intervention and de-escalation strategies, while recognizing that safety is always key.

Presented by Pittsburgh Action Against Rape.

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

Musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the Carnegie Carnegie
2025-05-13 18:30 - 19:00 | PA
Due to today’s rain and wet ground, tonight’s Brass Quintet performance by the Musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will take place indoors in our Lincoln Gallery.

Join us for a special performance featuring a brass quintet from the world-renowned Musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This 30-minute concert is perfect for audiences of all ages and promises an evening of outstanding music.

Due to the ongoing renovation of the Music Hall and the installation of our new HVAC system, this event will take place outdoors in Library Park, weather permitting. Guests are welcome to bring a picnic and enjoy the performance in the park.In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be moved indoors to the Lincoln Gallery.

This performance is free and open to the public.General seating.Registration is appreciated but not required.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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Top 10 Scams Against Seniors - with the PA Office of the Attorney General
2025-05-15 13:30 - 14:30 | Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 15106, United States
Scammers and fraudsters target Pennsylvanians every day in an effort to gain access to our money or personal information. They target our emotions in hopes that we will let our guard down and believe the scams they are perpetrating. From robocalls to social media messages, texts to emails, Pennsylvanians must be on the lookout for these “too good to be true” hoaxes.

This free presentation by Phil Little of the PA Office of the Attorney General will break down the top 10 scams currently being used in PA. Please join us!

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