Kelly Strayhorn Theater

Kelly Strayhorn Theater is a home for creative experimentation, community dialogue, and collective action rooted in the liberation of Black and queer people.

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😆We're competing for @PGHCityPaper's Best of PGH award in the Best Gallery for Local Artists category. Vote for us today! https://t.co/ykc7qvAJsy
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DELICIOUS AND UNEXPECTED! Step into @KSTheater’s most anticipated summer benefit House Party on Sat, July 13. 🧿👾🌃🌆From the neon-noir VIP Reception at 7:00pm to the down and dirty Dance #Party at 9:00pm - Get ready to feel that good-GOOD energy! https://t.co/fnONFEmgsS
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Mita Ghosal's performance Lost on a Loom was a beautiful mix of #dance, storytelling, video imagery, and familial narratives. Were you there? 😉Take a look at this photo album to see Mita's magic on #stage. 📷: Chad Isaiah https://t.co/rWM715lFT0

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Freshworks artist Anna King Skeels & collaborator Annie Morehead dance and move through the heart & lungs in their performance unstitch, encountering knots and scars that are obstacles to connection. 🫀🫁

Check out the show through Beth Barbis's photos: https://t.co/Wxz6i91fZN

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We got some beautiful shots from Mita Ghosal's dress rehearsal on Lost on a Loom to pique your curiosity. 👀🙋‍♀️ How about joining us on Friday and Saturday, May 17th and 18th, at 7:30 pm? 📷: Matt Huggins Tickets and More Info: https://t.co/ozsgfL9bW8

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🗣️ OPEN CALL FOR PERFORMANCES IN PROGRESS 🗣️

Are you an artist in Pittsburgh? Apply for the 24/25 Freshworks Residency!

The residency includes...
📌 $1000 honorarium
📌 $1,500 budget

Learn more at the info session on Zoom May 14, 6-7pm. Register here: https://t.co/ClmOub5PAD

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Artist Edisa Weeks joined community members at KST's Alloy Studios for a Welcome Dinner and Artist Talk. Participants also assembled roots out of paper and twine that were used in the 3 RITES: Liberty performance installation.

Check out the photos: https://t.co/v7APaKApu6

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Dance performance Lost on a Loom examines lost #SouthAsian histories through Indian textiles & fabrics, using #dance, storytelling, video imagery, & familial narratives. 🤸📍See #artist Mita Ghosal at KST's Alloy Studios, Fri & Sat, 5/17 & 5/18 at 7:30pm. https://t.co/InBm2YB3Tw

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Connected like a puppet to objects that have informed the Black experience in America, #artist Edisa Weeks digs into the pathologizing of African Americans & the foundations of liberty in America. @KSTheater on Fri. & Sat., April 26-27 at 7:30pm
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In preparation for next week's DELIRIOUS Dances / Edisa Weeks' 3 RITES: Liberty, check out the reading list Edisa and her team curated.

Get a chance to talk to Edisa at her Welcome Dinner & Artist Talk this Monday, April 22 at 6pm. Get tickets here: https://t.co/k1FgmOA2KG

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Swipe right to see how Freshworks artist Anna King Skeels and their friends built their BIG heart! 👀🫀🫁❣️Anna will have their show unstitch on Fri & Sat, May 3-4 at 7:30pm at KST's Alloy Studios. https://t.co/BkYZyblHFT
#performativesculpture #theater #performingarts #fiberarts

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📢 KST's Freshworks #Residency #application is opening up on Monday, May 6. Aimed at Pittsburgh-based #artists, the program provides financial resources, studio space, production staff, lighting and sound design, professional development, and feedback. https://t.co/VKCz1XrXtR

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Last Saturday, the Alloy School Showcase brought down the house ❤️‍🔥 After a season of recreational classes, students showed off their monologues, their dance moves, and their crafty side. See the full album here: https://t.co/HginHNwLYy

📷: Randall Coleman
#family #afterschool

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In their Freshworks performance Prophecies & Soy Sauce Shots, Caroline Yoo and Davine Byon explored the futures their dreams imagined, the pressures of diaspora storytelling, and the liberation we want in the present.

📸 : 1st photo, Audrey Medrano; 2-4, @ChadIsaiahPhoto

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Create, take risks, and dance! During the week leading up to DELIRIOUS Dances/ Edisa Weeks' performance 3 RITES: Liberty, there will be a #dance #workshop, Precision & Abandonment, on Wed, April 24, 9:00am - 10:15am. Co-presented with PearlArts. #theater https://t.co/jTF52v1QtI

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This video is going to give you a glimpse of DELIRIOUS Dances/ Edisa Weeks' #performance 3 RITES: Liberty. https://t.co/DebGhHJG1Z 🙌🔗🎫Don't forget to get your tickets for Friday & Saturday, April 26 - 27: https://t.co/kTwtx5cJBn #theater #blackartist #africanamericanhistory

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Celebrate the end of the ten-week Alloy School journey! Our Showcase and Let’s Move! Family Dance Party is this Sat., April 6, 10am-12pm. 🎉 https://t.co/fZvwq3fL5V #pittsburgh #thingstodo #familyfriendly #kids #dance

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👀 #Artists Caroline Yoo and Davine Byon are preparing for their work in progress, Prophecies & Soy Sauce Shots, which will be shown this Friday and Saturday, April 5 - 6, at 7:30pm. 🌾Come and support them at KST’s Alloy Studios! https://t.co/kC87s1wDJS #theater #aapi

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"How do I hear what my community is telling me & then make that come to fruition through art?" reflects artist Caroline Yoo interviewed by @BOOMConcepts. https://t.co/RyD4dc0Ysk

See Caroline in Prophecies & Soy Sauce Shots 4/5 & 4/6, 7:30pm. Tickets here: https://t.co/abDmIqJUfM

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FROM OUR FRIENDS: On Saturday 3/30 at 2pm, Conservatory of Performing Arts students are holding a sensory-friendly variety show called ARTfully UPlifting @PlayhousePGH. This show brings in themes of hope, acceptance, & inclusion.

More info & tickets here: https://t.co/lOnqiSkIHU