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Last call for Pumpkin Palooza volunteers! 🎃 👻As many of you know, this year our popular Halloween Youth & Family program will be on Saturday, October 31 from 1pm - 4pm, and we would love a little extra help (Plus, it's going to be super fun for those who looove Halloween!)⁠ ⁠ 🍬 Help us create a magical Halloween celebration by setting up the photo booth, helping with pumpkin decorating, and handing out pumpkins to families. Sign up by Friday, October 16!⁠ ⁠ Friday, October 30⁠ Volunteer Shift: 2:00pm–7:00pm⁠ ⁠ Saturday, October 31⁠ Volunteer Shift: 12:00pm–5:00pm⁠ ⁠ 🖇️ Sign up link in bio. ⁠ ⁠ #volunteercall #halloween #familyevent by @kstheater
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Were you at the Community Dinner with artist Maree ReMalia @ma_ma_lia last Monday? 🥰⁠ ⁠ Next Friday and Saturday, October 23–24, we’ll welcome the world premiere of WITH OURSELVES, WITH EACH OTHER (WOWEO) at KST. At last Monday’s dinner, Maree shared how the work came together, and we had a chance to dive deeper into some of the themes behind WOWEO with Kelly Hughes, Founder & Executive Director of Foster Love Project @fosterloveproject. Lots to reflect on arts as a healing tool, adoption experience, foster care, and how we can all contribute to a community of care.⁠ ⁠ 💐So many of the artists who helped bring WOWEO to life were also there! @hatch.arts.collective ⁠ ⁠ Find tickets to WOWEO and the photo album to the Community Dinner via the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ #dance #mareeremalia #performance by @kstheater
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📸 Missed Freshworks: Mal MacKenzie, AURA? Take a peek at the photo album and step back into the experience! ⁠ ⁠ Curious what people had to say? Check out the coverage of @mal.m.mackenzie’s performance in progress from PublicSource, Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, and OnStage Pittsburgh. 📰⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Find the links in our bio!⁠ ⁠ Photo Credit: Beth Barbis⁠ ⁠ #KSTFreshworks #AURA #PittsburghArts #PittsburghTheater #ExperimentalTheater #ArtAndTechnology #QueerArt #PittsburghEvents by @kstheater
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2,500+ young people engaged each year at KST—creating pathways for youth to perform, build creative confidence, experience the stage for the first time, and access free arts programming.⁠ ⁠ This DAF Day, your gift can help make more of those moments possible.⁠ by @kstheater
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EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! A first person essay about my experience coming out as trans and how it inspired AURA (see it tonight and tomorrow at the Kelly Strayhorn) has been published by Pittsburgh's Public Source. You can read it online at the link in my bio. by @kstheater
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3 weeks until Remind Me, My Dream!⁠ ⁠ Seventeen AAPI artists from JADED explore layered identities and stories through the creative process, making space for dreams, grief, and connection.⁠ ⁠ The exhibition opens with a Kintsugi Grief Bowls workshop led by artist Kiyomi Knox, inviting us to reflect, repair, and reimagine what ⁠ we carry with us 🧩⁠ ⁠ Photo Credit: Justin Lin by @kstheater
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PGH friends! Hope you can join us for more WOWEO programming 💫 Acts of Remembrance: Moving, Writing, Speaking October 7 | 6:00pm–8:00pm The Alloy Studios This workshop is led by Maree ReMalia & David Bernabo. Participants explore movement, writing, vocalization, and sound that are drawn from the creative process of WOWEO. Open to ages 16+, no prior experience is necessary. Pay what moves you ✨ Register at 🔗 in bio. 📸 @salsaschwartz taken in KST's Alloy Studios by @kstheater
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Freshworks artist Mal MacKenzie @mal.m.mackenzie introduces some of the knick-knacks you will see on stage for their upcoming performance in progress, AURA. 🖼️ ⁠ ⁠ It's on October 2-3, this Friday and Saturday, at KST's Alloy Studios. ⁠ ⁠ 🤖 The story goes that a mother creates an AI chatbot of the daughter she’s lost to help her mourn. But her child is very much alive, and he goes by Dustin. Now spending more time talking to a version of her child who never transitioned, the mother’s memory of the past fractures the present, leaving Dustin trying to hold the pieces together. ⁠ ⁠ Learn more via link in bio! ⁠ ⁠ #theater #performance #performingarts #lgbtq by @kstheater
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This Monday (and the Mondays to come), explore Guinean and Senegalese percussion through djembe, kutiro, balafon, and more, led by master musicians from the Balafon ensemble.⁠ ⁠ 💫 All levels welcome.⁠ 🥁 Sept. 14–Oct. 19 + Nov. 16–Dec. 21⁠ Drop-in: $5–$15⁠ Full session: $50–$100⁠ ⁠ 💃🏿 Staying after music class? Balafon Dance Classes (@balafondance) begin right afterward.⁠ ⁠ Photo Credit: Linsey McDaniel taken in KST's Alloy Studios by @kstheater
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If the stores can start selling Halloween candy in September, we can start talking about Pumpkin Palooza. 👻 🎃⁠ ⁠ This year, Kelly Strayhorn Theater's Pumpkin Palooza lands on Halloween itself: Saturday, October 31! Bring the whole family to KST for an afternoon of candy, crafts, and fun activities with our community partner organizations in the KST lobby.⁠ ⁠ 🎭 Then at 2:00 PM, educator and community leader @kang_chase K. Chase Patterson hosts a special performance featuring @ktheatredancecomplex K-Theatre Dance Complex, @yanlaidanceacademy Yanlai Dance Academy’s K-pop Class, @pmtmusicals PMT Conservatory's Creative Learning, and more!⁠ ⁠ After the performance, we welcome all princesses, monsters, superheroes, and magical creatures in a costume parade on stage to show off their Halloween looks! ⁠ ⁠ Link in bio⁠ Photo Credit: Randall Coleman, Pumpkin Palooza 2025 ⁠ ----⁠ ⁠ Pumpkin Palooza⁠ Saturday, October 31, 2026⁠ 1:00pm – 4:00pm: Activities with Community Partners⁠ 2:00pm – 3:00pm: Youth Performance Program⁠ ⁠ Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.⁠ ⁠ #thingstodo #pittsburgh #halloween #family taken in Kelly Strayhorn Theater by @kstheater
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🤔 Curious about the theme and creative process behind the upcoming world premiere of WITH OURSELVES, WITH EACH OTHER?⁠ ⁠ Come to the Community Dinner with artist Maree ReMalia @ma_ma_lia on Monday, October 5, from 6:00–8:00pm 🍽️ Free buffet-style dinner on us!⁠ ⁠ Founder & Executive Director of Foster Love Project @fosterloveproject, Kelly Hughes, will also join us. We’ll talk about adoption, identity, belonging, and the creative process behind this new performance that touches on these themes.⁠ ⁠ Dinner is catered by Manduhandu @manduhandu in the KST Lounge, arranged in a cozy living-room-style setup.⁠ ⁠ Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.⁠ Pay What Moves You: $0 – $25⁠ ⁠ Link in bio. ⁠ by @kstheater
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🎉 💫 Huge congratulations to WITH OURSELVES, WITH EACH OTHER (WOWEO) for being selected as the 2026 National Dance Project Production Grant Recipient! You can now see its World Premiere at Kelly Strayhorn Theater⁠ on Friday & Saturday, October 23 - 24. ⁠ ⁠ What happens when karaoke becomes a way to grieve?⁠ ⁠ In WOWEO, Korean adoptee and dance-maker Maree ReMalia (@ma_ma_lia) takes us into a karaoke-funeral-lounge where dance, storytelling, and pop music make space for grief, memory, joy, and connection.⁠ ⁠ A new work about the people we come from, the people we choose, and the stories we carry with us.⁠ ⁠ 🎟️ October 23–24, 2026 | Pay What Moves You: $20–$35⁠ 🖇️ Link in bio⁠ ⁠ WITH OURSELVES, WITH EACH OTHER is co-directed by Adil Mansoor (@adilman) and produced and created with Hatch Arts Collective (@hatch.arts.collective).⁠ ⁠ With creative contributions by:⁠ Maree ReMalia · Adil Mansoor · David Bernabo ⁠ Kolton Cotton · Sasha Jin Schwartz · Jenny Johnson ⁠ Iliana Tomasa Sharp · Nicole White⁠ ⁠ #WOWEO #MareeReMalia #KSTPresents #PittsburghDance #PittsburghArts #LivePerformance⁠ by @kstheater
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