EMPOWERING ARTISTIC EXPRESSION THROUGH FILM Submission Deadlines February 17, 2023 Earlybird Deadline May 19, 2023 Regular Deadline August 18, 2023 Late Deadline Submit Your Film Black Bottom Film Festival-August Wilson African American Cultural Center proudly accepts entries on FilmFreeway, the world's #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests. The August Wilson African American...
Storytime Spotlight is an educational series presented by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center that introduces young children to books that will feature stories, songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. This series highlights Black and Brown children’s book authors and will feature conversations and a live reading with the author. February's Storytime Spotlight Series reader will...
Join the August Wilson African American Cultural Center on Friday, March 3rd, 2023 for How I Learned What I Learned, the fourth event of the inaugural Beyond the Red Door: a theatrical event series. Beloved Pittsburgh actor, Wali Jamal, returns to the main stage with his critically acclaimed performance of August Wilson’s autobiographical, one-man-show. Wilson...
Join us for another night of our Soul Sessions series featuring Grammy Award winning Meshell Ndegeocello. Meshell Ndegeocello has survived the best and worst of what a career in music has to offer. She eschewed genre for originality, celebrity for longevity, and musical trends for musical truths. Fans have come to expect the unexpected and...
Join us for our Spring edition of AWCommunity Day - all in the name of sports, arts, and entertainment with giveaways from Dick’s Sporting Goods, live performances, demonstrations, and an artisan & small business market! We will have activity demonstrations from the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Point Park University. Come and learn about different...
August Wilson African American Cultural Center is proud to present original works by Pittsburgh artist and philanthropist, Jo-Anne Bates. She is a prolific artist and arts educator from Pittsburgh. As a prize-winning printmaker, she has exhibited at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, and numerous regional and national galleries. Named the...
Analyzing the August Wilson play, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, students will produce original writing surrounding the topics of self-identification/self-realization. The play, set in the post Great Migration years, shows how the main characters work hard to establish new and stable lives. Students will use the play to deepen their understanding of things that may...
TRUTHSayers Speaker Series features the Award-winning writer and poet Nikki Giovanni. She has written more than thirty volumes of poetry and prose, including several children’s books. Among the latter is Rosa, awarded the coveted Caldecott Medal. Her adult poetry books range from such early volumes as Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement and My House to...
Lit Fridays is a literary-focused, virtual salon presented by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, featuring conversations and guest performances on the last Friday* of each month at 6:00p EST via Facebook Live and Zoom Webinar. All conversations are moderated by AWAACC Literary Curator, Jessica Lanay. About Bettina Judd Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary...