City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, located at 40 West North Avenue, is the permanent home for City of Asylum programming and the arts. It promises to be a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation. It is a home for diverse voices from around the globe – a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh. It also serves as a home for many partnering artists and organizations in our own community. To view all of the events that are scheduled, visit the Alphabet City website. 

Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing
Sunday, February 23 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Come to Alphabet City for an evening of reading, discussion, and book signing with The New Yorker staff writer, Patrick Radden Keefe! Keefe’s Say Nothing is a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. This nonfiction presents a searing chronicle of the lengths that people are willing to travel in pursuit of political ideals, and the ways in which societies react in the aftermath of a long and bloody conflict. Richly atmospheric, Keefe’s portrayal of Belfast and the players on both sides of its turmoil offers a masterful and transporting account of passions, betrayals, vengeance, and anguish.