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  • Carnegie Celebrates Juneteenth

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join us for food, dance, art, and more as we celebrate the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States: Juneteenth! Featuring free food; games and face-painting; a dance performance by Dance INK; artwork by members of Carlynton's Black Student Union; and special talks from Pitt professor Alaina Roberts and Carnegie's own Read More

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  • Become a SKYWARN Storm Spotter

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Since the 1970s, the National Weather Service's SKYWARN program has trained storm spotters to identify and report severe thunderstorms, allowing the NWS to issue timely public warnings for extreme weather events. Come learn about storm development and formation, severe weather safety, and how to report a severe storm. People who work with hospitals, schools, churches Read More

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  • 2nd Saturday Civil War Series: Behind the Scenes of Gettysburg with Michael G. Kraus

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MHFacebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Arguably the Battle of Gettysburg is the most studied event of the Civil War, with countless books, articles, and documentaries dedicated to fleshing out the event. In 1992, the Pulitzer Prize winning book The Killer Angels was Read More

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  • Summer Reading Kick-Off!

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join us at the Carnegie Carnegie for an exciting Kick-Off for our kids' Summer Reading Program! There will be games, crafts, and treats provided. If the weather is nice, we'll be outside—if it rains, we'll be in the Library. Come and get your family signed up for Summer Reading for a chance to win fun Read More

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  • Free Legal Advice

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Sign up for a thirty minute appointment for free legal advice with attorneys from the Allegheny County Bar Foundation's Pro Bono Center! To request an appointment, 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.

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  • Comedies of the 1930s

    Comedies of the 1930s: Twentieth Century

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join the Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club for "Comedies of the 1930s," a special four-part series celebrating some of history's funniest flicks! Tonight: Twentieth Century (1934), directed by Howard Hawks. In this screwball romantic comedy, Broadway and Hollywood collide as a failing producer seeks career help from his former-lover-turned-movie-star. With John Barrymore and Carole Lombard. Registration Read More

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  • Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Come celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month! This event will feature a welcome note from Kanak Iyer, President of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce Pittsburgh; remarks by Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato, Pittsburgh mayor Ed Gainey, and Representative Arvind Venkat, MD; and stories of the immigrant experience and the home countries of residents Read More

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  • Ukulele Strum-Along

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 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 Read More

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  • Middle Eastern Cooking with Kenana

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Note: This event will be rescheduled for June due to instructor availability - a new date will be announced here soon! Join Kenana Albani for a hands-on guide to Middle Eastern cooking! Tonight, we’ll learn to make Lahma bi Sahen, a traditional dish made with ground lamb, potato, tomato, parsley, onion, and spices. No experience Read More

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  • 2nd Saturday Civil War Series: A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime with John Banks

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MHFacebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Over more than a year, John Banks crisscrossed the country, exploring battlefields, historic houses, forts, and more. He rode on the back of an ATV with his "psychotic connection" in Mississippi, went under the spell of an Read More

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  • Mother’s Day Sculpture Night

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Celebrate Mother’s Day by completing a guided themed sculpture to keep or to gift. Join Selva Priya Sahadevan of Getitfromnature Arts for this family focused, hands-on workshop. Limited seats are available! Please click here to register.

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  • Comedies of the 1930s

    Comedies of the 1930s: “The Thin Man”

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join the Pittsburgh Classic Movie Club for "Comedies of the 1930s," a special four-part series celebrating some of history's funniest flicks! Tonight: "The Thin Man" (1934), directed by W.S. Van Dyke. Married detectives Nick and Nora take on the murder of an eccentric inventor's mistress in this comic murder mystery based on the novel by Read More

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  • Knife Sharpening: Whetstone Tips, Tools, & Techniques

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join Dennis Snedden for 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. Each participant should bring two or three 5"-10" kitchen knives (non-serrated); a Read More

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  • Embracing Our Differences: “They Called Us Exceptional,” discussion session 2

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join us for community conversations about diversity & inclusion! This Spring, we’re reading and discussing They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta. This unflinching personal memoir examines the experience of Indian American families, exploring ideas of success, exceptionalism, and compassion. Author Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere) called this book Read More

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  • Earth Day at the Carnegie Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join us for a day of all-ages fun as we have a blast with our fourth annual Earth Day celebration, sponsored by Landau Building Company! Come enjoy: Plus, don't miss a fascinating talk at 1:00 PM from Brian Charlton of the Donora Smog Museum about the toxic 1948 industrial smog that killed twenty people in Read More

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  • Embracing Our Differences: “They Called Us Exceptional,” discussion session 1

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join us for community conversations about diversity & inclusion! This Spring, we're reading and discussing They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta. This unflinching personal memoir examines the experience of Indian American families, exploring ideas of success, exceptionalism, and compassion. Author Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere) called this book Read More

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  • Middle Eastern Cooking

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join Kenana Albani for a hands-on guide to Middle Eastern cooking! Tonight's recipe will be a dish with rice and peas. No experience is necessary. Limited spots are available - please click here to register!

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  • Riding a Raid: A Civil War Symposium

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Purchase Tickets Here! The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is pleased to announce the return of our annual Civil War Symposium, slated for April 13, 2024. With galloping hooves, clanking sabers, and larger-than-life personalities, Civil War raids invoke all the romantic notions of 19th century warfare. Five dynamic historians will explore the planning, Read More

  • Book discussion group: “The Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town”

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    October 1948 saw a deadly ecological disaster befall the little mill town of Donora: a toxic smog that blanketed the town for six days and left twenty-one people dead and made hundreds more ill. Author Andy McPhee tells the fascinating story of how this tragedy came to pass, how the workers and residents of Donora Read More

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  • Get to Know Ramadan

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join members of the Attawheed Islamic Center for a fun exploration of Ramadan! You'll learn about the history of this important month, the significance of the Quran in Ramadan, the effects of fasting, and a day in the life of a Muslim during Ramadan. Come learn about this period observed by over two billion people Read More

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  • Ukulele Strum-Along

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, 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 Read More

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  • Carnegie Celebrates World Poetry Day

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Celebrate a world of poetry! Join us as we recognize and honor the poetic traditions of the many countries and world cultures represented among the diverse residents of Carnegie. Hear Carnegie residents read poems in languages like Arabic, Ukrainian, Hindi, and more, including English translations of each poem prepared by AddVerse Poesia! Each reading will Read More

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  • Movies in the Music Hall: “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join us for free films on the big screen in our luxurious Music Hall! Tonight: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. An unlikely band of adventurers find danger and magic as they battle to retrieve a lost relic. Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, and Read More

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  • Legacy Ukulele Ensemble in Concert!

    Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall 300 Beechwood Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States

    Join us for a FREE, family-friendly hour of music, reimagined in surprising ways. The Legacy Ukulele Ensemble will have you vibing and grooving right along with some rock and pop classics! The Legacy Ukuleles are led by internationally acclaimed ensemble leader, Peter Luongo. From across the US and Canada, this group meets once a month Read More

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