Story Club PGH Presents: Story Slam! (Breaking Point)
Share the story of when you reached your Breaking Point this July at Story Club PGH’s Story Slam, for the chance to win prizes and storytelling glory!
City of Asylum
City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating creative free expression.
City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating freedom of creative expression.
We provide sanctuary to endangered writers and artists, so that they can continue to create and their voices are not silenced.
We offer a broad range of free literary, arts, and humanities programs in a community setting to build social equity through cultural exchange.
And by transforming blighted properties into homes for our programs, we anchor neighborhood economic development.
Our History
City of Asylum was founded in 2004 by Northside residents Diane Samuels and Henry Reese. Our first writer, Huang Xiang, arrived in Pittsburgh in 2004.
We provide sanctuary to endangered writers and artists, so that they can continue to create and their voices are not silenced.
We offer a broad range of free literary, arts, and humanities programs in a community setting to build social equity through cultural exchange.
And by transforming blighted properties into homes for our programs, we anchor neighborhood economic development.
Our History
City of Asylum was founded in 2004 by Northside residents Diane Samuels and Henry Reese. Our first writer, Huang Xiang, arrived in Pittsburgh in 2004.
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Contacts
City of Asylum
contact@cityofasylumpittsburgh.org
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Upcoming Events
Artist in Exile: Mai Khôi & the Dissidents (Vietnamese Pop)
Award-winning singer, composer, and activist Mai Khôi and her group the Dissidents, featuring Mark Michelli, Jeff Siegfried, Eli Namay, and PJ Roduta, take to the Alphabet City stage for a farewell concert.
Thursday Night Jazz: Kente Summer Madness Presents the Mark Strickland Quartet
Mark Strickland kicks off the three-part Kente Summer Madness jazz series, leading a killer quartet this summer at City of Asylum.
PGHwrites: Sarah Valentine’s “Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin’s Bomb” (Book Launch) with Tahirah J. Walker
In a new work as groundbreaking as “Code Girls” and “Hidden Figures,” author Sarah Valentine unearths the true story of Black cryptologists’ critical contributions to national security during the civil rights era.
Chamber Music Pittsburgh Presents: The Cowboy Evolves — Journeys Through the Music of the Americas
This Pittsburgh Performs concert, curated by Carlos Clark, features music by composers from the US, Uruguay, and Brazil, offering a vibrant vision of discovery while simultaneously reflecting on the complex history of the Americas.
unmade place: sound text experiments with Varun Ravindran, 7D & Dade Lemanski, Viii Dorsey & Drew Collins, trē seguritan abalos & Jenna Peng
unmade place: sound text experiments with Varun Ravindran, 7D & Dade Lemanski, Viii Dorsey & Drew Collins, trē seguritan abalos & Jenna Peng
Past Events
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Jun 25
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Jun 15
Chamber Music Pittsburgh Presents: The Cowboy Evolves — Journeys Through the Music of the Americas
Concert
City of Asylum
Jun 9
Artist in Exile: Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko’s Ceramic Knives (Ukrainian Spring Songs)
Concert
City of Asylum
May 21
Jazz Poetry 2026: Poet-Vocalist Erika Denae J’s “In the Mood For” (Book Launch & Album Teaser)
Concert
City of Asylum
May 14
Jazz Poetry 2026: Spanish Pianist Marta Sánchez’s “For the Space You Left” & Poems by City of Asylum Writers-in-Residence
Concert
City of Asylum
May 7
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