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..orCarnegie Nexus Project About Events Venues About Events Venues Search form Search APR 5–27 2018 Series Various Locations Carnegie Nexus: Becoming Migrant Join us for a month of thought-provoking programming at the nexus of natural and unnatural migrations—with live performances, films, workshops, and conversations that ask the question: What moves you? APR 5 2018 Film, Lectures & Talks CMOA Theater Mali Blues Mali Blues is a vibrant concert film and documentary that follows four Malian musicians who use their music to stand up to religious extremism. When dance and secular music are prohibited, these Malian artists use their music to inspire tolerance and peace. APR 6 2018 Lectures & Talks Carnegie Lecture Hall RadioLab with Jad Abumrad How do animals—birds, insects, mammals—sense the urgency to move or where to go? In what way is Pittsburgh and its surrounding natural environment a host site for thousands of migrating creatures? APR 9 2018 Lectures & Talks, Workshops Alphabet City Border Passages with Viet Thanh Nguyen Join us for a live reading and discussion, followed by a hands-on workshop that layers passages of text with memories of what we perceive to be home. APR 9 2018 Lectures & Talks Carnegie Music Hall An Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen As part of Migration , Carnegie Nexus and Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures are proud to host award-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen . Bold, elegant, and fiercely honest, Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer , won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. His collection of stories, The Refugees , gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. APR 12 2018 Lectures & Talks, Workshops CMOA Theater Out of Many: Stories of Migration Join Brian Cohen, Founder of The Documentary Works, a collaborative group of photographers, as he invites you into a more inclusive picture of our city and beyond with moving stories of passage, arrival, and the many encounters along the way. APR 13 2018 Performance Carnegie Lecture Hall Fatoumata Diawara Fatou will be performing her sweet smoky rhythms that originated from a homeland she escaped but one in which her art still resides. Her much-anticipated spring 2018 record follows her critically acclaimed debut album Fatou (2011), which was the No.1 album on the world music charts for six months in 2011. APR 19 2018 Lectures & Talks CMOA Theater Atlantic Currents: Winds, Waters, and Migrations Join us for a discussion at the nexus of art, oceanography, and ecology as we look at the modern history of the Atlantic currents and how they drive a changing world. Featuring Pitt distinguished professor of history Marcus Rediker and Michael Mann, Penn State distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center. APR 25 2018 Performance To Write is to Migrate Carnegie Nexus commissioned four writers to write about their encounters with museum artworks and natural specimens. Join us for a live performance of newly crafted prose, sci-fi, and poetry by, among others, Toi Derricotte, award-winning poet and Cave Canem co-founder; and Tom Sweterlitsch, author of the Pittsburgh-based sci-fi novel, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow." APR 26 & 27 2018 Performance New Hazlett Theater Birdie by Agrupación Señor Serrano Witness as the border between stage and screen, word and image, Hitchcock’s The Birds, and the game of golf dissolve before your eyes. Winner of the Silver Lion Award for Innovation in Theatre at the 2015 Venice Biennale. This is not to be missed! 4 museum objects and their stories of migration A taxidermy bird, a naturalization certificate, a 19th-century painting, a meteorite. What stories of migration do these museum objects have to tell? And what’s your story of passage? Get Email Updates Stay in touch with us and find out about up-and-coming exhibitions and events, receive discounts on admission, and more. Sign Up About Events Venues Accessibility 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh , PA 15213 (412) 622-3131 © 2024 Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Terms of Use Privacy...