Community Calendar
27
8am Enlow Fork Wildflower Walk
8am Befriending the Forest: The Birds and Plants of Hays Woods in Partnership with Bird Lab
8am Together for a Cause - 5K & Vendor Fair
9am The Wildflower Pet Walk
10am Flea(less) Market
10:30am Frick Park Bioblitz – City Nature Challenge
11am Illusions Drag Brunch
11am Earth Day in Mt. Lebanon
12pm Vanka Block Party
1pm Primping with Peach (Beginners Makeup) x Oakland
1pm Bellevue Pride at the Putt & Pour
1pm Gatekeepers : A Conversation
1pm Treasures in the Archives
2pm Author Event: Snoopers & Sneakers
2pm Raising Our Voices
2pm Bad Bitch Bazaar
2:30pm Earth Month Book Talk by David P. Warners and Gail Gunst Heffner
2:30pm Annual Spring Dance Concert with Ronald K. Brown and Evidence, A Dance Company
6pm Creative Writing Workshop
6:30pm A Speaker Series: Americans and the Holocaust
7pm Spotlight: Monthly LGBTQ+ Theatre Jam Session
Show all
28
5:30pm Pittsburgh United's Mayoral Forum
6pm GASP Walk with Allegheny Land Trust at Barking Slopes Conservation Area
6pm ACLU-PA Moving Forward Mondays Issue Advocacy Webinar: Immigrant Rights
6pm Q Writers Roundtable
6:30pm Yes, There Is A Judicial Election This Year! Everything You Need To Know About Pennsylvania’s 2025 Judicial Races
7pm TruthSayers Speakers Series: Dr. Andre Perry
7:30pm R.F. Kuang
Show all
29
12pm April Lunch & Learn: Clean Air & Water Acts in 2025
1:30pm Save Our Service! Rally to Win the Transit Funding We Need
4pm Mosaic Apartments Eligibility Requirements Information Session
5pm Situational Safety Workshops for 2025 Pride Events: After Action Planning
5:15pm 2025 Pittsburgh Mayoral Forum
5:30pm City in the Streets 2025 - Perry South
5:30pm Creative Hive April 2025
6pm Create and Connect: Recycled Book Paper Roses
6pm Welcome to the Queerborhood! A Homebuying Workshop for Queer Folks and Allies
6pm Swimmable Waters Sampling Training (evening!)
6:30pm Earth Month Forest Bathing
6:30pm 100 Days In: The Fight for Workers & Immigrant Rights
7pm Fair Districts PA Southwest Region April meeting
7pm May Day: Know Your Rights
7:30pm The Struggle for Antiracist Education in Our Classrooms
Show all
30
National Animal Advocacy Day
12pm Fair Housing Empower Hour: Fair Housing Fundamentals
12pm Criminal Record Clearing Pro Bono Project Virtual Seminar
12pm Improving Health Outcomes for People with Disabilities, with Sarah Triano
12:30pm Building What We Know Works: The Power of Partnership, Investment, and Persistence in Appalachia
5pm Pittsburgh 2050: Equitable Economy Transition
5:30pm Pedaling for Conservation 2025
5:30pm Create & Learn with Creative Reuse
6pm Hugh Lane Volunteer Open House: North Side
6pm Savor Kenya: A Plant-Based Culinary Experience
6:30pm PUSHBACK: Mark Dixon's Environmental Documentaries
6:30pm Timely Topics: Civil Discourse - Speaker: Kevan Yenerall, Ph.D.
6:30pm Community Meeting: Is Living Near a Power Plant Bad for My Health?
7pm BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution to Homelessness
7pm Under the Blacklight (w/ASALH): Beyond the First 100 days
8:30pm PFLAG Academy Online: Be Kind, Even When It’s Tough
Show all
1
Mental Health Awareness Month
1ST Annual Greater Pittsburgh Civics Bee
Clean Air Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month
International Labor Day
9am Equitable and Just Greater Pittsburgh "Hot Topics" Meeting
10am 2025 Pennsylvania Health Equity Conference
12pm Becoming the System: A Raciolinguist Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era
1pm Mental Health America of SWPA Blood Drive
3pm Strawberry Preserves (Senior Group Ages 50+)
3:30pm Teen Time: Yayoi Kusama Polka Dot Art
3:30pm Stand for All Pittsburgh Hate and Bias Prevention Alliance Community Training Workshop
4pm Kids Club: Rangoli Paper Plates
4:30pm Teen Time: Koinobori Japanese Carp Windsocks or Kites
5pm An Evening with Andrea Vidaurre: Voices for a Sustainable Tomorrow
5pm MayDay Rally & March: Immigrants are Welcome Here!
5:30pm Good Trouble
5:30pm Spring Forward with the URA
6pm Living on a Few Acres: Home Food Preservation
6pm Pride Sports PGH - Dodgeball Free Open Play
7pm PU Vietnam War: Class 5 - Backlash - The US Antiwar Movement (1964-1973)
7pm Lavender Arcade
7pm Made in America: With Hanif Abdurraqib
7pm Guest Label Writers in Conversation
7pm Jazz Poetry 2025: Thumbscrew, Mahogany L. Browne, Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko, Camille Rankine
7:30pm Talking Tough Topics: How to Handle Conversations Like a Pro
10pm Pittsburgh Public Theater's Transformations Ball
Show all
2
9am Helping Domestic Violence Victims Obtain Protection from Abuse Orders
11am How to Host an Event on Zoom and Build Successful Connections
12pm A Roadmap to a Safer Pennsylvania: PA's Office of Gun Violence Prevention's Strategic Plan
12pm Presentation by Boaz Munro
12pm Freedom Foods Coop Market Community Meeting
4pm Sunrise Pittsburgh People vs. Billionaires: Speak Out at Fetterman’s
6pm 27 Years Too Long: Vernon T. Bateman's Speaking Tour
6pm NAACP Washington Branch's 65th Annual Human Rights Award Banquet
6pm Youth Writer's Camp Showcase
6pm Artivist Academy Showcase; SpeciálK The Artist: The Special Affect
6pm Dyke March Bake Sale at Unblurred: First Fridays Art Crawl
7pm meTamorphosis Book Club: All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari
7pm Tails of Hope Animal Rescue - Spring Bingo Fundraiser
7:30pm Freshworks: Anya Collins
8pm Drag Bingo to Benefit New Castle Pride
Show all
3
Delivering End-of-Life Doula Support to the Unhoused Population
World Press Freedom Day
8am Birds & Blooms Hike
10am Native Plant Sale - Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy
10am East End Native Plant Pop-Up Sale
10am Sensory Friendly Weekend at CMNH
10am Arnold Community United Clean-Up
11am 2025 PNC Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Spring Hat Luncheon
11am #TeslaTakedown #Pittsburgh
12pm Paint & Plant
12pm Westmoreland County Pop Up Protest
12pm Container Gardening
12:30pm Pints & Paddles
12:30pm Feet in the Street: MAYDAY Pittsburgh
1pm Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Month Celebration with Flying Strings Youth Ensemble
1pm Brady's Run: Spring Ecology & Water Pollution Walk
6pm GlobalPittsburgh Painting Night
6pm Shenango Valley Drag Bingo
6pm Westmoreland Has Talent
6:30pm OUTrageous Bingo
7pm Gender Blender
7pm Here To Pee
7:30pm Freshworks: Anya Collins
9pm EnBeatz: A Non-Binary Dance Party
Show all
4
Anti-Bullying Day
10:30am Walls Can Talk: Street Art as Political Expression
12pm Sensory Friendly Weekend at CMNH
2pm May the Fourth Be a Fiesta
2pm Curator Talk – Mary Cassatt: An Artistic Legacy
Show all
5
1pm Mobile Crisis Hub Grand Opening
5:30pm Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts Spring into Action Benefit
6pm American Delivery Screening & Discussion
7pm Fair Districts PA Statewide Monthly Zoom Update
7pm Freedom House: Giving Life a Second Chance
7pm Black Teachers: A Pedagogy of Organized Resistance
Show all
6
5:30am March on Harrisburg for Behavioral Health
9am Pittsburgh Regional Transit Hearing (#2) on Service Reductions and Fare Increases
1pm Are you ready for the PA Home Energy Rebates? Hear from PA DEP and Case Studies from the field!
5:30pm 2025 State of Human Services in Allegheny County
6pm Irrigating Your Garden
7pm Laurence Leamer
7:30pm The Attacks on Reproductive Freedom You Haven't Heard About
Show all
7
1pm Disaster Resilience 101
5:30pm Community Clean up at Baum Grove
6pm Know Your Rights (LGBTQ+ & Allies) - A Social Justice Plant-Based Potluck
6pm ¡Acompáñanos a una charla especial sobre el Orgullo!
6pm Guided Evening Tour of Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
6pm A Decade of Difference: Neighborhood Allies 10-Year Anniversary
6:30pm Community Huddle: Meet the 2025 PPS School Board Candidates
7pm "Mal Goode Reporting"
7pm Jazz Poetry 2025: Nicole Mitchell Quintet, Chen Chen, Cameron Lovejoy, Roya Marsh, Ajibola Tolase
7pm "Why The Courts Matter" Pennsylvania, with Kadida Kenner of New Pennsylvania Project
7:30pm May Banned Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Show all
8
National Teacher Day
8:30am Annual Disability & Mental Health Summit
9am Maternal & Children's Health in a Dangerous Climate Forum (LIVESTREAM)
1pm Changes at NIH: What do they mean for environmental health?
4pm 2025 Environmental Science, Justice, and Healing Series: Series Opening
5:30pm Oil & Gas Waste Workers Safety Webinar
5:30pm Hill District Community Meeting
5:30pm Court of Common Pleas Candidate Event
5:30pm Emerald Evening Gala
5:30pm Empower Her Workshop
6pm You're Registered to Vote, Now What?
6pm Built Environment Conditions Dinner & Panel
6:30pm Meet the Moment Training
7pm PU Vietnam War: Class 6 - Vietnamization - Planned US Withdrawel (1969-1972)
7pm Big Sewickley Creek Watershed Association Meeting
7pm Jazz Poetry 2025: Stephanie Chou Quintet, Jan Beatty, Olena Boryshpolets, Mubanga Kalimamukwento
7pm Next Steps in Grassroots Political Change: a Conversation with Katie Fahey
7pm National FIGHT BACK Call
8pm Doing the Work without DEI: 3 Things You Need to Do This Summer to Become a Better Ally by the End of 2025
Show all
9
The Moon Show
8am Powdermill Avian Research Center Guided Tour
9am WCA's First Annual Clays for a Cause!
10am PA Equality Project FreeShop Spring 2025
10am 2025 State of Human Services in Allegheny County
4pm International Learning Party
6pm Pittsburgh School Board Candidate Forum
6pm The New Pittsburgh Courier Fab 40 Under 40
6pm meTamorphosis Book Club: Stage Dance by Torrey Peters
6:30pm 2nd Friday Nights Dinner
7pm The KiKi Lounge: Monthly Vogue Session
7pm Gaymes Night x Oakland
Show all
10
9am Help EECM Deliver Hope
9am May Operation HOME Workshop
10am 2025 Mother of All Pottery Sales
10am Accessible Bird Outing
11am Ukrainian Food Festival
11am 5th Annual Walk, Talk, and Roll Rally
11am Tool Demo @ GRC
11am New Castle Pride Presents: Brunch Eleganza
12pm Stop the Billionaire's Takeover Rally
1pm Sue Lau Memorial Labyrinth Walk
1pm Second Saturday Civil War Series: COMBEE: Harriet Tubman & Black Freedom with Dr. Edda Fields-Black
2pm All But Furgotten Animal Rescue Spring Purse Bash
6pm The Teal Ball
6pm Queer Cheap-Ass Prom
Show all
11
12pm Taste of Asia Asian Food Festival
6pm Passion and Angst: Variety Show Raising Funds for Casa San Jose
6pm The Cookie Table: A Very Pittsburgh Benefit for WPAFC
Show all
12
Pittsburgh Veg Restaurant Week
World Fair Trade Day
1pm Voices of Pennsylvania: The Power of Us - Tell Your Story - What it Matters
4pm Food Bucks Coalition call
6pm Allegheny Judicial Candidate Forum
6pm PA Primary Trivia Night (SWPA)
6pm Q Writers Roundtable
6:30pm Author Talk with Dr. Edda Fields-Black: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid
7pm Standing Up when Someone's Being Harassed: A Bystander Intervention Training with PAAR
7:30pm Elizabeth Kolbert in conversation with Terry Tempest Williams
Show all
13
7am Fund Our Schools - Get on the Bus!
11am Rivers of Steel presents: The Battle of Homestead
3:30pm Against All Odds: 20 Years of Grassroots Power
6pm 2025 CAAP Summit: Navigating Intersections
7pm PPAC General Info Meeting: How can art help your community?
7pm Jazz Poetry 2025: Reginald Dwayne Betts, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Anouar Rahmani
Show all
14
8am Camp Lucy: A Mental Health Conference for Middle School Students
12pm Ensuring Disability Rights in Healthcare with Jenee’ N. Oliver, Esq.
6:30pm America in Crisis II: Resisting the authoritarian takeover
6:30pm PFLAG Butler Monthly Meeting
7pm NOW Pride Safe Space Networking Event
7pm Air Quality Town Hall #15 - Are Elected Officials Abandoning Us?
Show all
15
Owning Our Future: A Symposium On BIPOC Institutional Ownership
12pm Afrolatinidad & Mental Health
12:30pm How to Use Online Banking Workshop
1pm Voices of Pennsylvania: The Power of Us - Understanding How the System Works
3pm Strawberry Preserves (Senior Group Ages 50+)
3pm Abolition Action Hour
5:30pm Why Native Plants?
6pm Raising the Roof on the Rotunda: A Celebration of Community and Culture
6pm Money in Politics Training
6pm Scottdale Library Pushing the Limits Book Club
6pm Banned Book Trivia Night
6pm MHA Innovations
6pm Just Drinks
6pm Environmental Justice Monthly Meeting
6:30pm Rustic Ridge Community Town Hall
6:30pm Hidden History Trivia Night
7pm PU Vietnam War: Class 7 - Spring Offensive to the Fall of Saigon & Rise of Socialist Republic
7pm Queer Craft Night - Pride Month Prep!
7pm Jazz Poetry 2025: House of Waters ft. Priya Darshini, Safia Elhillo, Haleh Liza Gafori, Rania Mamoun, Nathan Osorio
7pm MomsRising Pennsylvania Monthly Call: for parents, advocates and allies
7pm Microplastics’ Impact on the Brain & Heart
7pm Ancestors - A May Poetry Reading
7pm On the Edge Of: Artist Panel Talk and Reception
Show all
16
5pm Bingo for YWCA Westmoreland County
5pm Sankofa Village Next Generation Mini Conference
7pm The Rose That Grew From Concrete
7pm BIPOCALYPSE: AAPI Heritage Month Show
Show all
17
Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
8:30am West Newton River Cleanup
10am Communities of Transformation - Awareness Walk
10am 3 Rivers Watch (Boating) @ Millvale
11am The Hanna's Town Resolves 250 Event
11am Composting 101
12pm Crafton Community Farm 10th Anniversary - Garden Party
12pm 2025 Pittsburgh Healing Festival
1pm AANHPI Heritage Month Celebration
1pm Trans Tailoring First Anniversary Party! (Oakland)
2pm The Rose That Grew From Concrete
4pm Barks & Brews
4pm North Hills Progressive Neighbors May Membership Meeting
6pm Big Gay Prom: A Night in Paris
6pm The Price of Resistance: Sala Udin, An American Agitator
6:30pm Pure Imagination: Out of Hand
6:30pm Homage to Ballroom: Fundraiser for Pride
7pm The Rose That Grew From Concrete
8pm UNIQUE – Mental Health Awareness Month Show
8pm Dine & Drag - Show 2! Venango Pride Fundraiser!
Show all
18
10am Sunday Fun Day: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
11:30am Friends of the Homestead Cemetery Bingo
1pm Remembering Mather: How Mining Shaped Greene County
3pm HCMT and Pittsburgh CAT Spaghetti Dinner
7pm The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Show all
19
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
1pm Voices of Pennsylvania: The Power of Us - Building Relationships with Change Makers
6pm Pitt Accessible Prosthetics Club
7pm Embracing Our Differences: "The Message" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Show all
20
Bridges – City of Asylum Pittsburgh Creative Summit
10am 2025 Environmental Science, Justice, and Healing Series: Transforming Land to Improve Public Health Outcomes
12pm Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group Policy Power Hour
3:30pm Understanding Exile: Essential Youth Connections with the LIGHT Education Initiative
5pm The Role of Music, Art & Journalism in Political Dissent
5:30pm May 2025 City of Pittsburgh LGBTQIA Commission Meeting
6pm Preparing for Insect and Disease Issues in Your Garden
6pm Power Hour: Safe Space Group
6:30pm TWIST: Building Empathy Through Literature with Colum McCann in Conversation with Tess Barry
7pm Reading and Conversation: Ocean Vuong “The Emperor of Gladness”
7pm Monongahela Lecture Series - Josh Gibson
8pm Jazz Poetry with Jerome Jennings & iLL Philosophy
Show all
21
10am Bridges Creative Summit: Welcome Ceremony
12pm Action Conversation on Race: Racism and Cognitive Health
1pm Fair Housing Laws and HUD Guidance Workshop for Service Providers
2pm Guantánamo: Mohamedou Ould Slahi & Larry Siems in Conversation with Adriana E. Ramirez
3:30pm An Interview with Bassam Aramin & Rami Elhanan, Co-Directors of the Parents Circle-Family Forum
4:45pm Meet the Cities of Asylum Network
5pm LGBTQ+ Youth Prom Planning Committee Meeting
5:30pm The Future of Publishing & Literature in Translation
6pm Our Place
7pm The Freedom of Expression Address by George Packer
8:30pm Philippe Olle-Laprune on Mexico’s Casa Refugio
Show all
22
World Biodiversity Day
Harvey Milk Day
9am The Future of Philanthropy & Funding for Arts, Culture, and Human Rights
9am WorkSmart Salary Negotiation Workshop
12pm Fur-Ever Well Pet Expo
1pm Remembering the Forgotten: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Nursing Homes
1pm Voices of Pennsylvania: The Power of Us - Understanding Your Place in the Movement
1pm Protecting Freedom of Expression with Sarah Rose & Larry Siems
2:30pm Arab Voices in Exile
4:30pm Translation Slam Emceed by Michael Reynolds with Esteemed Translators and Authors
6pm Intermission: An Artful Networking Series
6pm BW4BE On the Agenda: With Dwayne, PPS School Board Member
6pm Trans Peer Group
6:30pm Aleksandar Hemon: Language, Exile, & The Many Forms of Artistic Expression
6:30pm MAD-FACTS Documentary Screening
6:30pm Lavender Book Club: An LGBTQ Book Discussion Group
7pm National FIGHT BACK Call
7pm Chernobyl: Aftermath of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster - with author and photographer Michael Haritan
8pm James Brandon Lewis Quintet with Chinese Poet Huang Xiang, Eritrean Poet Haile Bizen & Others
Show all
23
10am The Power of Public Art with Rania Mamoun & Diane Samuels in Conversation with Sylvia Rhor Samaniego
11am Tour the Malta Foundation’s International Art Collection
12pm Borderlines: with Architect and Urbanist Teddy Cruz and Writer and Documentarian Philippe Olle Laprune
2pm The Big Sampsonia Way Cookout
3pm 33rd Annual Heartwood Forest Council
5:30pm The Purple Party
6:30pm Frazé-Frazénko & The Happy Lovers
7pm meTamorphosis: a queer and trans led reading series
8pm DJ Cielo Hemon – Also Known as Award-Winning Novelist, Aleksandar Hemon
Show all
24
12pm Better Together 2025
1pm Annual Japan Association of Greater Pittsburgh Picnic
1:30pm Queery Coding Club
3pm 9th Annual Full Spectrum Pasta Dinner Fundraiser
5pm Soft Sapphic Saturday Picnic
Show all
25
Mary’s x The Kindred Spirit Tattoo Co. Pride Party
1pm Bigger Gayer Picniq
1pm Primping with Peach
2pm Bad Bitch Bazaar
Show all
26
11am 3rd Annual Back to Roots: Native Plant Fest
4:30pm Monarch Butterfly Project: Student Art Workshop
6pm Q Writers Roundtable
7pm Reading & Conversation: Sarah Schulman “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity” (w/Moshe Zvi Marvit)
Show all
27
11am Thriving in Recovery: Stepping into Recovery
12pm PA's Beloved Community in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, & Westmoreland Counties
5:30pm Creative Hive May 2025
6pm Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board Monthly Meeting
6:30pm Storytime Spotlight
7pm Connecting to Nature Through Photography
Show all
28
Postpartum Health Equity: Bridging Gaps in the Fourth Trimester
12pm Fair Housing Empower Hour: Fair Housing & Hoarding
6pm Documentary Film Club: Plan C
6:30pm Shared Experience
7pm Roz Hernadez Does Comedy in a Gay Bar
Show all
29
5801's Pride Weekend
8am 2025 Youth Homelessness Policy Breakfast
1pm SolarPunk Future 2025
5pm Steel Carabiner: Dyke Mic
6pm Radical Hour #5 Self-Sufficiency & Community Reliance with Farmer Girl Eb
7pm ANDS – Trans & Neurodivergent PGH Virtual Event
9pm 5801's Glitzburgh Pride Pageant
Show all
30
2pm All Out Music Fest
6pm Lit Friday
6pm Pittsburgh Pride: YOUniting Diversity Prom
7pm Pride Disco 2025
8pm The Rocky Horror Picture Show + Drag Show Homage
10pm Pittsburgh Pride KiKi Ball
Show all
31
10am Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books
11am Affordable Housing Roadshow
12pm Beauty Beyond Limits
1pm Pittsburgh PRIDE Festival
2pm 18th Century Roundtable - The Jumonville Affair
3pm Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
6pm LGBTQ+ Youth Prom 2025
7pm Runways and Fashion and Drag - Oh My!
7pm Pittsburgh Pride 2025 (Free Show!)
8pm Pittsburgh Pride at Blue Moon Bar
10pm The Afters
Show all