Upcoming Events
October 18-20, 2019
New Horizon Theater, COWBOY
Layon Gray's powerful story of Bass Reeves, a freed slave who protected the Wild West as the first African-American United States Deputy Marshal. Many people said he inspired the Lone Ranger character. Layon has brought the plays "Black Angels Over Tuskegee", "Black Sparta", "The Girls Of Summer", "Kings Of Harlem" to Pittsburgh.
KST Presents
October 26, 2019
12th Annual Halloween Mayhem
With spooky activities, hands-on crafts in our lobby, and a series of youth-led performances in our theater, Halloween Mayhem has become an East Liberty family tradition.
KST Presents
November 1, 2019
Jameelah Platt & Lost Culture Dance Crew, Freshworks Residency Presentation
Visual artist Jameelah Platt teams with the Lost Culture Dance Crew to combine dance, film, photography, and painting into a visual language that illustrates underrepresented, misrepresented and concealed narratives.
KST Presents
November 9, 2019
Toi Derricotte, Writing the Difficult Poem: A Writing Workshop
Award-winning Pittsburgh poet Toi Derricotte offers a series of workshops that invite writers of all levels to find their way into, and through, the difficult poem.
KST Presents
November 14-16, 2019
My People: A QTPOC Festival of the Arts
This year’s edition of My People—KST’s annual series that centers QTPOC artists through performances, screenings, and conversations—is curated by Pittsburgh theater director Adil Mansoor and includes featured guest artist Mariana Valencia.
KST Presents
November 15-16, 2019
Mariana Valencia, ALBUM
With observations both humorous and grave, Mariana Valencia unites text, song, and dance inside the content of her "ALBUM." Valencia’s body becomes an archive—a photo album, a record album, a herstorical album—in her effort to frame, to preserve, and perform her self.
KST Presents
November 20, 2019
Performance on Screen: Ralph Lemon
Staycee Pearl presents Ralph Lemon’s 2010 work, "How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?" and guides a discussion into the work, sharing context and perspective on the artist—paired with a wine chosen to fuel this evening of heady fun.
KST Presents
November 21, 2019
Neighborhood Happy Hour
This monthly social at the KST Lobby Bar offers an opportunity to meet your neighbors and grab a snack from a local food truck and features invited guests to spark conversation.
Classes + Workshops
November 9, 2019
Toi Derricotte, Writing the Difficult Poem: A Writing Workshop
Award-winning Pittsburgh poet Toi Derricotte offers a series of workshops that invite writers of all levels to find their way into, and through, the difficult poem.
October 18, 2019
Philip Wesley Gates & Jamison Edgar, Queer History in Motion
In this movement-based workshop, we will use our bodies to investigate histories found within the archives of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project.