Symposium

KST Presents
Ongoing
Owning Our Future: LIVESTREAM RECORDING PASS
Couldn’t join us live or in-person? No problem. You can still experience the full symposium on your own schedule!

KST Presents
Wednesday, February 4 - Sunday, June 14
Sibyls Shrine: Practices of Holding
Practices of Holding honors our ancestral and living matriarchs by the ways they hold us, featuring works by members of Sibyls Shrine, a collective of Black artists who m/other.

KST Presents
Tuesday, February 10
Civics Cypher: How the Arts Community Responds to Government Action
This session explores the intersection of the arts and civic life — how creative expression has been and can be used to respond to, challenge, and inform the systems that govern us.

KST Presents
Wednesday, February 11
Citizens Financial Workshop Series: Retire Ready
Learn how to plan for retirement now to support the future you envision. Citizens experts guide you through strategies that build long-term assets and create a path to financial freedom.

KST Presents
Tuesday, February 17
Info Session: Freshworks Residency 2026/2027
Interested in applying for a Freshworks Residency? Join us for this online information session about the program led by KST Presents Programming Manager Sarah Gilmer!

KST Presents
Saturday, March 14
Marvin Gaye: A Tribute to the Prince of Soul
An unforgettable evening honoring the timeless artistry of Marvin Gaye, featuring some of Pittsburgh’s finest vocalists and musicians reimagining his legendary catalog.

KST Presents
Friday & Saturday, April 3 - 4
Freshworks: Lucy Chen
Femininity. Sexuality. Perception. Expectation. Inspired by Classical Chinese dance and contemporary movement, Dressed in Red explores these ideas and our shifting self and social identities.

KST Presents
Tuesday, April 7
Civics Cypher: Where Community Meets Urban Development
This session examines the connections between economic growth and community wellbeing, looking at how development influences opportunity, equity, and belonging in our neighborhoods.

KST Presents
Saturday, April 18
Spectrum of Strength with Jasmine Hearn
Jasmine Hearn guides an interdisciplinary workshop open to all bodies that want to move, imagine, remember, listen, and respond.

KST Presents
Saturday, April 18
Citizens Community Dinner with Jasmine Hearn
Get to know Jasmine Hearn before the Pittsburgh premiere of their latest dance performance, Memory Fleet: Stay in the Circle. Enjoy a free buffet dinner with one complementary drink ticket!

KST Presents
Friday - Sunday, April 24 - 26
Dreams of Hope: A theatriQ Original Production
Dreams of Hope presents a theatriQ original production – a brand new play collaboratively created by Pittsburgh’s premier queer and Trans performing arts youth ensemble!

KST Presents
Friday & Saturday, April 24 - 25
Jasmine Hearn, Memory Fleet: Stay in the Circle
Memory Fleet: Stay in the Circle by Jasmine Hearn celebrates the stories, dances, and gestures passed on through intergenerational lineages.

KST Presents
Friday & Saturday, May 1 - 2
Freshworks: LaTrea Derome
A Conversation. by multi-disciplinary artist LaTrea Derome explores the vantage point of the often quieted, dismissed, and overlooked Black bisexual men. We're still here. Let's talk about it.
