Sembène Film Festival: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ at Alphabet City

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.

Sembène Film Festival: If Beale Street Could Talk
Sunday, November 17 from 2:00 to 4:30 pm
You are invited to a matinee screening of If Beale Street Could Talk presented by Sembène – The Film & Arts Festival. Based on the novel by James Baldwin, the film is the story of Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while carrying their first-born child to term. It is a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families and their lives, trying to bring about justice through love, for love and the promise of the American dream.

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