On Topic: Last Free Women with Rebecca Blumenstein and Diana Kapp
Co-authors Rebecca Blumenstein and Diana Kapp join City of Asylum’s On Topic series to discuss their upcoming book, which publishes on September 8, 2026.
City of Asylum
City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating creative free expression.
Upcoming Events
On Topic: Performing Womanhood with Cristina Modreanu
Join Cristina Modreanu for a conversation on her book Performing Womanhood in Eastern Europe: The Other White Woman as it approaches its first anniversary.
World Literature: Andrea Bajani’s “The Anniversary” (Italy) with Anderson Tepper
Strega Prize–winning novelist Andrea Bajani explores the aftermath of an abusive marriage, the son who bore witness to it, and his liberating decision to leave those family connections behind.
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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Past Events
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Aug 31
Tony Buba & Marcus Rediker Present: “Becoming Benjamin Lay”
Film Screening
City of Asylum
Aug 27
Thursday Night Jazz: Roger Humphries Big Band Plays the Music of Horace Silver
Concert
City of Asylum
Aug 25
On Topic: America at 250 — Motherhood in America with Jamilah Lemieux (“Black. Single. Mother.”)
Reading
City of Asylum
Aug 24
PGHwrites: Pittsburgh Poetry Collective’s Steel City Poetry Slam
Workshop
City of Asylum
Aug 23
Artist in Exile: Mukhtar Shehata’s “Makaki de Afrika” (Egypt) with Translator Melissa Krawczyk
Reading
City of Asylum
Aug 18
On Topic: America at 250 — Profound Autism in America with Lynn Johnson, Amy S. F. Lutz & Jose Muniain
Lecture
City of Asylum
Aug 11
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Aug 9
World Literature: Karen Tei Yamashita’s “Questions 27 & 28” with Anderson Tepper
Reading
City of Asylum
Aug 6
Thursday Night Jazz: Colter Harper Quintet Celebrates the Music of Brazilian Singer-Songwriter & Activist Caetano Veloso
Concert
City of Asylum
Aug 2
"PGHwrites: “unmade place” (Sound-Text Experiments) with Varun Ravindran, 7D & Dade Lemanski, Viii Dorsey & Drew Collins, trē seguritan abalos & Jenna Peng"
Theater
City of Asylum
Aug 2
unmade place: sound text experiments with Varun Ravindran, 7D & Dade Lemanski, Viii Dorsey & Drew Collins, trē seguritan abalos & Jenna Peng
Reading
City of Asylum
Jul 30
Thursday Night Jazz: Kente Summer Madness Presents Thomas Wendt Quintet Celebrates Thad Mosley
Concert
City of Asylum
Jul 28
Artist in Exile: Fatimah Asghar’s “Daughter of the Mountains: Poems of Heartbreak and Homecoming”
Lecture
City of Asylum
Jul 27
World Literature: Dimitry Elias Léger’s “Death of the Soccer God” (Haiti) with Anderson Tepper
Lecture
City of Asylum
Jul 23
Thursday Night Jazz: Steve Ippolito Trio’s Minimalist Improvisational Roots Sounds
Concert
City of Asylum
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