Sembène Film Festival Presents Struggles in Steel

City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, located at 40 West North Avenue, is the permanent home for City of Asylum programming and the arts. It is 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: Struggles in Steel
Monday, March 9 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm
Come to Alphabet City for a free screening of Struggles in Steel presented by Sembène – The Film & Arts Festival. When a local television station did a program about the closing of the major steel mills in the Pittsburgh region, Ray Henderson, a former mill worker, who had worked in the mills for 18 years, couldn’t help but notice that not one black worker was shown. With his old friend and independent filmmaker Tony Buba, Henderson set out to collaborate on a history of African-Americans and their contributions not just to the steel industry, but to the labor movement itself.

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