We are thrilled to announce Hotline Ring, a virtual fundraiser led by the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in collaboration with 1Hood Media, BOOM Concepts, Braddock Carnegie Library Association, Dreams of Hope, The Legacy Arts Project, and PearlArts Studios. Join us here on Thursday, July 16 from 5:00pm – Midnight for the live streaming program (broadcast above!) as Hotline Ring brings together our aligned missions and our supporters to create a spectacular event as an opportunity for giving that will have an enormous impact on our region. Check out the full schedule of the artistic program below and join us on zoom for our Happy Hour (5:00pm – 6:00pm), Champagne Toast (8:25pm – 9:10pm) and Virtual Dance Party (11:00pm – Midnight)! Hotline Ring will raise money to support each participating organization while showcasing a dynamic representation of regional artists, projects, and programs. Use the button to the right to donate today! And download the Hotline Ring Evening Program to follow along!
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5:00 PM
Welcome, Libation, & Happy Hour
Register here to join us LIVE on Zoom for a Happy Hour to kick off the evening. The Happy Hour will begin with a libation, ancestor and community call in by The Legacy Arts Project (featuring Fode Camara, Anthony Mitchell, Dante Mitchell, Akinlana Lowman, and Lakeisha Wolf). It will also include an introduction from each participating organization and testimonials from State Representatives Ed Gainey and Jake Wheatley. In addition, you can preorder your Happy Hour Appetizer Box from Casa Brasil and celebrate collectively with a scrumptious snack and special surprise. Find out more about the Hotline Ring Snack Boxes on the next tab!
Please note, you can join the Happy Hour, Champagne Toast and Virtual Dance Party via the same link!
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6:05 PM
Braddock Carnegie Library Association
- BCL-ALIVE! with Lee Davis
- How we see the BCLA, past and present
- Abundant Gratitude through Poetry
- Party in the Neighborhood Print Shop!
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6:40 PM
Dreams of Hope
- Youth Voices: What We’re Proud Of!
- Dreams of Hope: The Work We Do with Adil Mansoor
- Chasing Elevation: The Break Up Song
- Queer Womxn: Community Makers
- E the Dragnificent! Groove is in the Heart
- Live Closing with Dreams of Hope Staff: Ali Hoefnagel, Bekezela Mguni, David Warga, & Seth Rosenberg
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7:20 PM
The Legacy Arts Project
- Legacy History and the Pittsburgh Black Theater Dance Ensemble
- Damballah Reimagined: Tribute to PBTDE
- Dance Africa at KST
- Legacy Programming overview
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7:55 PM
BOOM Concepts
- BOOM x BLM
- Sprezze Spells
- Groove Aesthetic Performance x Kinselland Mix
- Phone Call Drive
- Puppet Karaoke
- Sprezze Spells Remix
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8:25 PM
Champagne Toast!
Register here to join us LIVE on Zoom for a Champagne Toast! The toast will include a visit from KST’s board chair Yvonne Campos, a tribute to former KST Executive Director janera solomon as well as testimonials from the award winning choreographer Kyle Abraham and Second Lady of Pennsylvania, Gisele Fetterman! In addition you can preorder your Hotline Sugar Fix Dessert Box from Everyday’s a Sunday Cafe and celebrate collectively with a trio of desserts and a special surprise. Find out more about the Hotline Ring Snack Boxes on the next tab!
Please note you can join the Happy Hour, Champagne Toast and Virtual Dance Party via the same link!
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9:10 PM
PearlArts Studios
- Get to know PearlArts Studios | STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos
- Dance Maker: Blackness in White Spaces Conversation with Staycee Pearl, Tereneh Idia, Randal Miller
- CIRCLES: SPdp&SS latest work in progress with commentary by Jasmine Hearn
- Herman Pearl and Eko Chamber Collective
- Hot Minutes with LaTrea Rembert
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9:45 PM
1Hood Media
- Jasiri X CEO/Founder of 1Hood – Introduction, Mission and History of 1Hood Media
- Antwon Rose II Birthday Party and Celebration of Life Recap
- Miracle Jones, 1Hood Media Dir. of Policy and Advocacy on 1Hood’s involvement with Pittsburgh Activism
- Farooq Al-Said, 1Hood Media Dir. of Operations discussing 1Hood’s response to Covid-19 for Black Pittsburgh
- Bikari Kitwana & 1Hood Present: The Path Forward, A Conversation with Dr. Cornell West
- 1Hood Presents: Children of The Movement – with Malcolm X’s Daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz
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10:25 PM
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
- KST Deputy Director Orlana Darkins Drewery and KST Producer of Engagement and Social Impact Sondra E. Woodruff II discuss KST’s Sunstar Festival
- Vanessa German performs at Sunstar Music Festival 2011
- Excerpt from Alisha Wormsley’s Children of NAN: Mothership featuring Ingrid Lafluer and Jasmine Hearn
- Greetings from KST Staff!
- Sidra Bell, ReVUE (excerpt from 2010)
- Amm(i)gone discussion with Adil Mansoor and KST Senior Producer Ben Pryor
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11:00 PM
Virtual Dance Party
Register here to join us LIVE on Zoom for the Virtual Dance Party! We will unwind and celebrate our marathon evening! The Virtual Dance Party will feature DJ Nate da Barber!
Please note, you can join the Happy Hour, Champagne Toast and Virtual Dance Party via the same link!
Hotline Ring is partnering with Casa Brasil and Everyday’s A Sunday Cafe to offer attendees appetizer and dessert boxes as a way to celebrate together throughout the event. Happy Hour Appetizer Boxes will be opened during the Happy Hour from 5:00pm – 6:00pm, and the Hotline Sugar Fix Dessert boxes will be opened during the 8:35pm Champagne Toast.
All proceeds from the Happy Hour and Sugar Fix boxes go directly to Casa Brazil and Everyday’s A Sunday Cafe. Join us in supporting these local women-owned businesses.
Casa Brasil is offering two options for the Happy Hour Appetizer Box
Try the $17 box which includes…
- Frango A Passarinho / Bone-in Fried Chicken w/ Yogurt Lime Sauce
- Pão de Queijo / Cheesebread rolls
- Mandioca Frita / Yuca Fries
- Banana Da Terra Grelhada / Grilled Sweet Plaintains
Or try the veggie box for $12 which includes…
- Pão de Queijo / Cheesebread rolls
- Mandioca Frita / Yuca Fries
- Banana Da Terra Grelhada / Grilled Sweet Plaintains
You can order your Happy Hour Appetizer box on GrubHub beginning Saturday, July 11.
The Hotline Sugar Fix Box by Everyday’s A Sunday Cafe
This $20 dessert box Includes a trio of …
- Four chocolate covered strawberries
- Two vanilla cupcakes
- Six chocolate chip cookies
You can order The Hotline Sugar Fix Box on GrubHub beginning Saturday July 11!
Or to order by phone call Everyday’s A Sunday Cafe at 412.363.2233, Tuesday – Sunday, 9:00am – 3:00pm.
Orders for The Hotline Sugar Fix Box must be placed by 5:00pm on Wednesday, July 15 and can be picked up on Thursday, July 16 from 11:00am till 3:00pm at: Everyday’s A Sunday and Cafe, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224.
Dear Pittsburgh Arts Community and Lovers of the Arts,
During this time of change, we write to you with care and hope that you are well. As we face many new changes in our lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we ask ourselves how can we support each other and continue to share the life-affirming power of art with those who have so generously supported us over the years?
We are thrilled to announce Hotline Ring, a virtual fundraiser led by the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, that brings together our aligned missions and our supporters to create a spectacular event as an opportunity for giving that will create an enormous impact on our region. Hotline Ring will raise money to support each participating organization while showcasing a dynamic representation of regional artists, projects, and programs. Will you make a gift today to ensure the future of the arts in Pittsburgh?
Our vision is for a future where we all operate from a space of abundance and celebrate shared resources by making the arts an entirely inclusive experience through affordability, multiple forms of access, a range of aesthetics, outreach, and education. By working together we can showcase the incredible arts that Pittsburgh has to offer! As organizations in community with or led by queer, Black, people of color it is in this space that unity draws us together to collectively face this time that is redefining our experiences.
Each of our organizations center art and an expansive community of artists and audiences as both a means and a vision for more justice throughout the Pittsburgh region. We come together as a way to weave our values, our care, and our vision for the future. Part of our vision for the future is to end the disproportionate ways that resources are distributed in our city, therefore, we are committed to providing Black femme led organizations with a greater portion of our shared fundraising as an explicit way to address this inequity. Instead of only considering the bottom line of each individual organization this fundraising effort will create shared resources that will benefit the interdependence of all of us.
As arts organizations, we are so encouraged by the relationships we have cultivated as institutions, individual artists, and independent collectives. We have had the great fortune of working together to support each other, collaborate on projects, and mentor one another in many different ways.
We are experiencing the impacts of the pandemic as individuals and organizations. Our planning, our markers of success, our funding, and our daily operations are interrupted – creating space for all of us to evaluate how we continue to achieve our missions. Together, we are experiencing art as a means for our spirits to survive unknown and painful times.
We partner and work together because art, creativity and culture reach forward and backward to affirm our lives and to nurture the well-being of our communities.
We are filled with gratitude for all of the ways that you show up for us, we are here because of you and we look forward to continuing to create with you.
With abundant and joyful gratitude,
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1Hood Media is a collective of socially conscious artists and activists who utilize art as a means of raising awareness about matters affecting people around the world. Our mission is to build liberated communities through art, education, and social justice.
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BOOM Concepts is a creative hub based in Pittsburgh dedicated to the advancement of POC and LGBTQIA creative entrepreneurs. BOOM Concepts serves as a space for field building, knowledge sharing, peer to peer mentorship, and storytelling.
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Braddock Carnegie Library Association has been the foundation for Andrew Carnegie’s legacy of lifelong, self-guided growth. The Association strives to continue this legacy by adapting our programs to the ever-changing needs of our community and the desires of our patrons.
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Through the power of the arts, Dreams of Hope provides the region’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and allied (LGBTQA+) youth a welcoming environment to grow in confidence, express themselves, and develop as leaders. Their creative contributions educate audiences, build awareness, and increase acceptance.
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Through education, instruction and interactions,The Legacy Arts Project preserves the history and traditions of African art as represented throughout the diaspora.The organization strives to share the presentation of art throughout the community in order to inspire the upliftment of individuals within the urban neighborhoods of Pittsburgh.
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PearlArts Studios is the safe creative space for STAYCEE PEARL dance project and Soy Sos to develop multi-media dance centered works. PearlArts also serves the greater Pittsburgh area and beyond with artistic opportunities such as movement residencies, creative collaborations and dance education.
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Kelly Strayhorn Theater is a non-profit community performing arts center in East Liberty, advancing live art through strategic vision and community collaboration with two venues running along Penn Avenue. The KST Alloy Studios is a cultural hub in the heart of East Liberty, and the historic Kelly Strayhorn Theater is located in the thriving business district. More than 15 years after the founding of the theater, KST continues to use its broad reach to impact the contemporary arts and the community.
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