August Wilson African American Cultural Center

08/29/2026

08/29/2026

🎷 GET UP, PITTSBURGH! It’s time for some Saturday morning JAZZ! ☀️🎶

Grab your coffee ☕️, snag a donut 🍩 and head to the North Shore for jazzJAM on Shore Thing with Riverlife and the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival!

🎤 Anyah Nancy LIVE!
⏰ 10AM–12:30PM
📍 Shore Thing | 2 Federal Street
🚗 Parking tip: Park on Isabella Street!

Come experience live jazz ON THE RIVER aboard the award-winning Shore Thing barge—with beautiful views, a bar, and food available for purchase. 🌊🎷

Bring the kids. Bring Grandma. Ride your bike. Heck… pull up in your BOAT! 🚲🛥️😂 Just get here and spend your Saturday morning enjoying some great music with us!

See you on the river! 💙🎶

08/29/2026

Saturday Aug 29 at 2pm
Carnegie Library of HILL DISTRICT
Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival and Carnegie Libraries bring you...

Quiet as Kept: Jazz at the Library
Made Possible by FEEL WELL ARTS Dr. Felicia Snead and RAD Pass
Stop by and catch HOWIE ALEXANDER LIVE at Hill District Library

08/29/2026

Get up! Saturday , August 29! Grab your coffee and a donut (from Dana's Bakery in Homewood) and go to the North Shore (park on Isabella Street) and join us Riverlife and Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival for

jazzJAM on the award-winning Shore Thing, barge in the river with great views a bar and food for sale!
Anyah Nancy is LIVE from 10am-12:30pm
Bring the kids, grandma, ride your bike, pull up in your boat and enjoy the music in the morning with us

08/29/2026

Here, entertainment is more than something you watch.

It is something you feel, sing along to, move with, remember, and carry long after the lights come up.

As Give 8/28 comes to a close, there is still time to make an impact.

Your gift tonight helps AWAACC continue bringing extraordinary artists and unforgettable experiences to Pittsburgh, creating space for Black stories, sound, movement, and expression to be experienced at their fullest.

Give before midnight and help keep the culture moving.

Thanks to two generous anonymous donors, the first $10,000 AWAACC receives through the Give 8/28 campaign will be matched dollar for dollar!

There are three ways to support our campaign:

▪️Donate to us using this link today!,

▪️Text AWAACC to 844-844-6844 to make your gift by midnight tonight and take advantage of our matching challenge.

▪️Share your support on social media and encourage your friends to join you in giving.

Tag us in your posts and use to join the national Black giving community.

The Black experience takes center stage, unapologetically. At AWAACC, world-class entertainment is curated to do more than fill a room—it is designed to move you. Through music, theater, dance, and storytelling, artists create experiences that pull audiences into worlds entirely their own, transporting us to another place, another time, another memory, or another possibility.

For a moment, the distance between artist and audience disappears, and the experience becomes something shared.

Join us in celebrating Give 8/28, a national day of giving dedicated to uplifting Black-led and Black-benefiting nonprofits.

Your support for AWAACC empowers our ongoing mission to preserve and celebrate Black arts, culture, and creative expression.

DONATE HERE: https://www.give828.org/organization/AugustWilsonCenter

08/28/2026

EDUCATION TAKES ALL FORMS AT AWAACC

Education is one of culture’s most powerful tools for creating change. Learning at AWAACC extends far beyond the classroom. Through youth programs in art, music, and dance, community education, artist talks, panels, and conversations, we create opportunities for people of all ages to discover, question, create, and grow.

Your Give 8/28 gift helps us continue creating those moments of discovery and ensuring that knowledge, creativity, and culture remain accessible to our community.

Thanks to two generous anonymous donors, the first $10,000 AWAACC receives through the Give 8/28 campaign will be matched dollar for dollar!

DONATE HERE: https://www.give828.org/organization/AugustWilsonCenter

There are three ways to support our campaign:

▪️Donate to us using this link today!,

▪️Text AWAACC to 844-844-6844 to make your gift by midnight tonight and take advantage of our matching challenge

▪️Share your support on social media and encourage your friends to join you in giving.

Tag us in your posts and use to join the national Black giving community.

08/28/2026

Supporting Black art also means ensuring that people have access to experience it. With galleries that are free and open to the public, AWAACC removes barriers and invites everyone to engage, explore, and discover.

In doing so, the Center creates opportunity on both sides of the experience: for artists to be seen and supported, and for communities to see themselves—and the world—differently. Your Give 8/28 gift helps us continue creating that access, expanding opportunity for artists, and ensuring Black art remains visible, vibrant, and within reach for generations to come.

Thanks to two generous anonymous donors, the first $10,000 AWAACC receives through the Give 8/28 campaign will be matched dollar for dollar!

There are three ways to support our campaign:

Donate to us using this link today!,
Text AWAACC to 844-844-6844 to make your gift by midnight tonight and take advantage of our matching challenge, and
Share your support on social media and encourage your friends to join you in giving. Tag us in your posts and use to join the national Black giving community.

Link to give: https://www.give828.org/organization/AugustWilsonCenter

08/28/2026

Your support through Give 8/28 helps ensure AWAACC can continue to be a thriving space for community enrichment, cultural discovery, and meaningful connection.

Every gift helps sustain the programs, artists, exhibitions, performances, and experiences that keep our doors open and our community engaged—strengthening a cultural home where Black stories are elevated, creativity is nurtured, and people from Pittsburgh and beyond can continue to gather, learn, and belong.

Thanks to two generous anonymous donors, the first $10,000 AWAACC receives through the Give 8/28 campaign will be matched dollar for dollar!

There are three ways to support our campaign:

▪️Donate to us using this link today!,
▪️Text AWAACC to 844-844-6844 to make your gift by midnight tonight and take advantage of our matching challenge, and
▪️Share your support on social media and encourage your friends to join you in giving.

▪️Tag us in your posts and use to join the national Black giving community.

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08/27/2026

🍸✨ COCKTAILS & CONVERSATION WITH THE CURATOR

Kick off tomorrow’s Gallery Crawl at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center!

📅 Friday, August 28
⏰ 6–8 PM

Start your evening with a cocktail, mocktail, coffee, or something sweet from Café Asé, then join curator Kimberly Jacobs for an engaging conversation and guided tour of Shaheed Rucker: (re)Covering the Iconic.

And of course, stop by the bar and try one of our signature drinks created especially for the evening:

🍹 The Iconic Spritz
🥃 Jet Set — non-alcoholic

Art. Conversation. Culture. Cocktails. The perfect way to start your Gallery Crawl! 🎨🥂

We’ll see you tomorrow night at the AWAACC!

Register here: https://bit.ly/4qGpOlP

08/26/2026

Text to give is now live! Text AWAACC to 844-844-6844 to make your gift by midnight on 8/28 and take advantage of our matching challenge.

Thanks to two generous anonymous donors, the first $10,000 AWAACC receives through the Give 8/28 campaign will be matched dollar for dollar!

When you support AWAACC this , you are preserving our collective memories for the next generation.

You are honoring the vibrancy and resilience of the African diaspora.

And you are preserving the Center as a place where the next generation can come for inspiration and connection to history.

Share your support on social media and encourage your friends to join you in giving.

Tag us in your posts and use to join the national Black giving community.