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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mary’s x The Kindred Spirit Tattoo Co. Pride Party

1pm Bigger Gayer Picniq

1pm Primping with Peach

2pm Bad Bitch Bazaar

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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