List: Week from August 17 – twenty-four
The fresh Moth Mainstage visits Pittsburgh again having possibly their really varied throw here but really. This new York-built experience provides people informing their stories, versus notes. The brand new Aug. twenty five Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures repayment called Uphill: Tales of the Hopeless is actually hosted by comedian Rudy Hurry (Def Funny Jam). Storytellers become Kimberly Reed, good transsexual New york-oriented filmmaker who earlier try an excellent Montana senior high school quarterback named Paul McKerrow; Said Sayrafiezadeh, composer of acclaimed memoir When Skateboards Would-be Free, throughout the growing upwards from inside the Squirrel Slope about eighties because man away from an Iranian father and Jewish-Western mother, each other socialist activists; checking out comedic storyteller Elna Baker, writer of The York Regional Mormon Single men and women Halloween night Moving; and you can seasoned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Sally Kalson.