PRESENTED BY THE CULTURAL TRUST AND THE HUMANITIES CENTER AT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

SMART TALK ABOUT STUFF THAT MATTERS

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TRUSTARTS.ORG/HUMANITIES BOX OFFICE AT THEATER SQUARE MARCH 20–22, 2020 412-456-6666 • GROUPS 10+ 412-471-6930 TRUSTARTS.ORG/HUMANITIES THE PITTSBURGH YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT , DRAG QUEENS, COOKIES, AND MORE FROM ARTISTS, CULTURAL TRUST COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND INNOVATORS FROM AND THE HUMANITIES PITTSBURGH AND AROUND THE WORLD— CENTER AT CARNEGIE ALL IN A LIVELY, ENTERTAINING, ACCESSIBLE FORMAT IN THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. MELLON UNIVERSITY IT’S SMART TALK ABOUT STUFF THAT MATTERS. WELCOME YOU TO THE PITTSBURGH HUMANITIES FESTIVAL.

Virginia Johnson at 2017 Pittsburgh Humanities Festival SCHEDULE Core Conversation FEATURED EVENT TIME FRIDAY, MARCH 20 TIME SUNDAY, MARCH 22

8:00 PM SH!T-FACED Byham Theater 12:00– Predicting Elections: Fourth Floor Trust Arts Education Center SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH 1:00 PM Trump’s Chances of Winning in 2020

1:30– Brewing Black Beer: A Fourth Floor Trust Arts Education Center TIME SATURDAY, MARCH 21 2:30 PM Conversation with Fresh Fest Founders and Black Frog Brewing 12:00– Kennywood Behind the Fourth Floor Trust Arts Education Center 1:00 PM Screams: and Brian Butko Don’t Google This: Peirce Studio Offline Curiosity in Trust Arts Education Center 1:30– Janis Joplin: Her Life Fourth Floor an Online World Trust Arts Education Center 2:30 PM and Music Public Open Call Winner

Becoming a Queen Peirce Studio Life Sentences: The Fourth Floor Trust Arts Education Center 3:00– Trust Arts Education Center 4:00 PM Amazing Journey of Walking Out of an 3:00– Drinking with Shakespeare Fourth Floor American Prison Trust Arts Education Center 4:00 PM Cookie Activism: Using Peirce Studio Dance Maker: Peirce Studio Sugar as a Platform for Trust Arts Education Center Trust Arts Education Center Blackness in White Social Justice Spaces 4:30– Everybody Wants to Go Fourth Floor to Heaven but Nobody Trust Arts Education Center 4:30– PARTNER EVENT Peirce Studio 5:30 PM Trust Arts Education Center Wants to Die 5:30 PM Amanda Little Climate Change at Home: Climate Storytelling in Peirce Studio Bringing a Global Problem to the Dinner Table Film Trust Arts Education Center 6:30– FREE! Official Preshow Backstage Bar 8:00 PM IRA GLASS Byham Theater Performance prior to Blair Imani at the Greer Cabaret Theater 7:15 PM BRITTNEY CHANTELE

7:30 PM BLAIR IMANI Greer Cabaret Theater FEATURED EVENTS

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Sh!t-faced Shakespeare is back! BOOKS Your favorite boozy Bard family is FOR BLAIR IMANI SALE coming round to Pittsburgh again and plunging into the hearty world of SUNDAY, MARCH 22 • 7:30 PM tragedy with their hit show, Sh!t-faced GREER CABARET THEATER | 655 PENN AVENUE Shakespeare®: Macbeth. Upon hearing TICKETS START AT $16.25 the weird sister’s prediction, Macbeth In her talk Making Our Way Home and his tiger wife take matters into their Blair explores issues like voting rights, own hands and manage to burn down domestic terrorism, discrimination, and everything in their wake. Well, almost. segregation alongside the flourishing Fair is foul and foul is fair in this tale of arts and culture, activism, and of prophecy gone slightly off the rails. civil rights. Imani shows how these Perhaps we should add a bit of liquor to influences shaped America’s workforce help the process along? and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and DENTONS COHEN & GRIGSBY TRUST PRESENTS events, relevant data, and family

histories. The experiences of prominent BOOKS FOR figures such as James Baldwin, Fannie SALE IRA GLASS Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz SATURDAY, MARCH 21 • 8:00 PM (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others BYHAM THEATER | 101 6TH STREET are woven into the larger historical SOLD OUT! and cultural narratives of the Great Ira Glass, the beloved host and creator Migration to create a truly singular of iconic public radio program This record of this powerful journey. American Life, invites us into his creative process, mixing audio clips, BRITTNEY CHANTELE music, and video to tell captivating BACKSTAGE BAR AT THE stories live onstage, and sharing CABARET THEATER lessons and insights gathered over his 6:30–7:15 PM career. This American Life is heard each FREE! week by over 2.2 million listeners on more than 500 public radio stations, Official Preshow Performance with another 2.5 million downloading prior to Blair Imani each podcast.

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BECOMING A QUEEN WITH KIERRA DARSHELL INTERVIEWED BY RICHARD PARSAKIAN SATURDAY, MARCH 21 PEIRCE STUDIO 1:30–2:30 PM Pittsburgh Drag Queen, Kierra Darshell, will discuss her KENNYWOOD BEHIND THE SCREAMS: journey as a drag performer and her efforts to make drag

BOOKS FOR mainstream in Pittsburgh. RICK SEBAK AND BRIAN BUTKO SALE SATURDAY, MARCH 21 FOURTH FLOOR 12:00–1:00 PM Did you grow up screaming on the Jack Rabbit? Do you remember riding the Steel Phantom? Relive some of your favorite Kennywood memories and learn about the park’s history in a discussion with author and historian Brian Butko and WQED documentarian Rick Sebak.

JANIS JOPLIN: HER LIFE AND MUSIC DANCE MAKER: BLACKNESS WITH HOLLY GEORGE-WARREN IN WHITE SPACES INTERVIEWED BY DAVID SHUMWAY WITH STAYCEE PEARL SATURDAY, MARCH 21 FOURTH FLOOR INTERVIEWED BY TERENEH IDIA 1:30–2:30 PM SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Holly George-Warren is one of the most highly regarded PEIRCE STUDIO chroniclers of American music history. Her latest work is 3:00–4:00 PM a blazingly intimate biography, illuminating the Queen of Staycee Pearl will discuss her experiences working with Rock & Roll as a true rule-breaking musical trailblazer and a predominantly white dance companies and organizations complicated, uncompromising artistic revolutionary. that inspired her to create a path for artists of color with programs designed specifically to be more inclusive. TRUSTARTS.ORG/SMARTTALK • 6 7 CORE CONVERSATIONSTRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER | 807 LIBERTY AVENUE $5 EACH

EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN

BOOKS FOR BUT NOBODY WANTS TO DIE SALE DRINKING WITH SHAKESPEARE WITH JONATHAN D. MORENO INTERVIEWED BY SARAH BODEN INTERVIEWED BY RANDAL MILLER SATURDAY, MARCH 21 SATURDAY, MARCH 21 FOURTH FLOOR FOURTH FLOOR 4:30–5:30 PM 3:00–4:00 PM Americans today pay far more for health care while having After performing Macbeth on Friday, March 20, at the among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant Byham Theater, cast members from Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: mortality of any affluent nation. Jonathan D. Moreno explores Macbeth will discuss the process of engaging with the work the problem with America’s wanting everything that medical of Shakespeare and telling his stories while drunk on stage. science has to offer without debating its merits and its limits.

PREDICTING ELECTIONS: TRUMP’S CLIMATE STORYTELLING IN FILM CHANCES OF WINNING IN 2020 EMMY-NOMINATED DIRECTOR AND NYTIMES WITH JONATHAN WOON SUNDAY, MARCH 22 BESTSELLER JARED P. SCOTT FOURTH FLOOR SATURDAY, MARCH 21 12:00–1:00 PM PEIRCE STUDIO On November 3, 2020, will there be a 70% chance of rain 4:30–5:30 PM and a 52% chance Trump will win re-election? Professor Documentary filmmaker Jared Scott The( Great Green Wall, Jonathan Woon will examine the ways pollsters, social 2019; The Age of Consequences, 2016/17; Requiem for the scientists, and data scientists harness the wealth of American Dream, 2015/6) was featured in the Carnegie information available to them. Mellon University International Film Festival on Friday, March 20, and will discuss how film can respond to the climate crisis, addressing questions about avoiding audience fatigue in climate messaging and how to harness the power of film TRUSTARTS.ORG/SMARTTALKto make • 8 a difference. 9 $5 EACH

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DON’T GOOGLE THIS: OFFLINE CURIOSITY IN AN ONLINE WORLD WITH BOAZ FRANKEL, PUBLIC OPEN CALL SUNDAY, MARCH 22 LIFE SENTENCES: THE AMAZING PEIRCE STUDIO 1:30–2:30 PM JOURNEY OF WALKING OUT OF

BOOKS Boaz Frankel is a filmmaker, writer, and talk show FOR host who moved to Pittsburgh 13 months ago. AN AMERICAN PRISON SALE Shortly after he moved, Boaz began a quest to WITH ROBERT “FARUQ” WIDEMAN make a documentary in each of Pittsburgh’s INTERVIEWED BY ELAINE FRANTZ ninety neighborhoods. SUNDAY, MARCH 22 FOURTH FLOOR 3:00–4:00 PM Wideman will discuss his collection of essays and other writings, Life Sentences: The Amazing Journey of Walking Out of an American Prison, including moments of joy after reuniting with family and the trials and struggles of reintegrating into life outside of prison after 44 years of incarceration.

BREWING BLACK BEER: A CONVERSATION WITH FRESH FEST FOUNDERS AND BLACK FROG BREWING COOKIE ACTIVISM: USING SUGAR AS SUNDAY, MARCH 22 FOURTH FLOOR A PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 1:30–2:30 PM WITH JASMINE CHO The Drinking Partners Day Bracey and Ed Bailey will be in SUNDAY, MARCH 22 conversation with Fresh Fest participant, Chris Harris from PEIRCE STUDIO Black Frog Brewery in Toledo, Ohio, about Fresh Fest, the 3:00–4:00 PM nation’s first festival to promote black beer culture. Jasmine Cho will discuss her work as a baker based in Pittsburgh and how she uses the art of cookie making and decorating as a therapy and to promote Asian American representation. TRUSTARTS.ORG/SMARTTALK • 10 11 279 ALLEGHENY RIVERPARTNER EVENTS EXPLORE THE FESTIVAL CRY IT OUT CRAZY MOCHA & SMART TALK LOUNGE PRESENTED BY CITY THEATRE Did that last Q&A session leave you with more to discuss? FEBRUARY 29–MARCH 22 1300 BINGHAM STREET Head next door to Crazy Mocha between events, connect When it comes to being a new parent, you’re damned if you do and damned if you with fellow festival-goers, and keep the conversation going. don’t. Brilliantly funny and painfully true, Cry It Out confronts the pressure to have it FORT DUQUESNE BOULEVARD FORT DUQUESNE BOULEVARDall when having it all is a giant lie. WHITE WHALE BOOKSTORE ANNE ENRIGHT Our friends from White Whale Bookstore are on-site with many of the books discussed at the Festival. Visit PRESENTED BY PITTSBURGH ARTS & LECTURES them inside Crazy Mocha during the Core Conversations MONDAY, MARCH 16 CARNEGIE LIBRARY LECTURE HALL, 4400 FORBES AVE or at the Byham Theater during Ira Glass and Greer STANWIX STREET

Dublin-based writer Anne Enright discussed her newest novel Actress. STREET SIXTH Cabaret Theater during Blair Imani.

AMANDA LITTLE Events marked with a on previous pages will have associated books for sale. Some authors will offer COMMONWEALTH PLACE CLIMATE CHANGE AT HOME: BRINGING A GLOBAL PROBLEM TO THE DINNER TABLE a signing session post-event, based on availability and subject to change. PRESENTED BY CREATIVE NONFICTION SUNDAY, MARCH 22 • 4:3O PM TRUST ARTS EDUCATION CENTER FREE • RSVP AVAILABLE How will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades? Amanda TRUST PENNARTS EDUCATION AVENUE CENTER PENN AVENUE

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