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A network of Black artists who m/other in Pittsburgh PA— and beyond✨ We are a collective and residency program rooted in radical care, rest & support✨

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Tonight!
Join Defy the Design: Poetry Circle on Friday, October 16th, a community reading meets creative workshop!

Let’s gather in the Defy the Design art gallery. Together, we will read select poems from Defy the Design: a poetry anthology from inside prison walls (the poetry part of Let’s Get Free’s 8th art show). Afterward, we will take time to create in response to prompts based on the art exhibit and poems.

See you there! It will be a moving time.

💫 Fri Oct 16th 6-9pm @ 937 Liberty Ave (Sibyls Shrine, Buzzer #2) Downtown Pgh, 15222
💫 Get your copy of the poetry book for $10-$30
💫 Food provided
💫 RSVP for event reminders & to help us plan at dreamsofhope.eventbrite.org / link in Dreams of Hope’s bio

✨ Presented in collaboration by Dreams of Hope’s speaQ and Let’s Get Free as part of the Defy the Design art show
✨ Defy the Design is showing until October 25. Visit creative-resistance.org for weekly gallery hours and the full event schedule

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This Sunday! Come meet director BL Shirelle and see amazing documentary about B. Alexis. Last day of the Auction and Quilt Raffle.

📽️ Sun Oct 18, 2-4pm

Sibyls Shrine
937 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Downtown Pittsburgh — next to planned parenthood

To enter: Press Buzzer 2 — labeled art gallery. Gallery on 2nd floor, you can take elevator or stairs.

Wheel Chair Accessible Space, with slight ramp rise to enter bathrooms. Bathrooms are single occupant, without accessible bars.

9th & Gasoline: Visual Album & Documentary about the life of B. Alexis with special guest director BL Shirelle. The event will feature a 56 minute documentary with call-in Q & A from B. Alexis.

From inside a Southern prison, B. Alexis transforms nearly two decades of incarceration and survival into a history-making project, as her visual album journeys beyond the walls into the community and girlhood that shaped her.

9th & Gasoline is a 56-minute documentary and visual album directed by BL Shirelle, centered on the music and life of B. Alexis. The music videos offer visual context for her songs.

The documentary journey goes further – into her family, her South Carolina hometown, the places that formed her, the losses she carries, and the community she remains connected to throughout nearly two decades of incarceration.

The film shows an artist continuing to create and be heard under extreme circumstances, even as her access to the world is restricted and censored.

Music video directors include BL Shirelle, Fury Young, and Theodore Rex King.

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6 Days left to bid!!! 6 days left to get quilt raffle tickets! And a stream of amazing events this week, including poetry on Friday, musicians on the inside on Sunday, and a new scheduled event for ASL tours the following weekend. More info coming soon!

📝 Fri Oct 16, 6-9pm - Poetry Circle
📽️ Sun Oct 18, 2-4pm - 9th & Gasoline: Visual Album & Documentary film
🧘‍♂️ Thurs Oct 22, 6-7:30pm - Yoga for All Bodies
🤟 Sat Oct 24, 2 -5pm - ASL in the Gallery
🚀 Sunday October 25, 12 - 4pm - Art Pick Up - Last day of the show. The gallery will slowly start to peal away as people arrive to pick up their winning pieces.

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Gallery Hours Today! 12-4pm
free parking sunday!

Let’s Get Free’s 8th Art Show & Fundraiser
@ Sibyls Shrine 937 Liberty Ave
Downtown PGH, 15222

buzzer 2/2nd floor
an ADA accessible building
next to planned parenthood

Exhibition Runs: Sept 25-Oct 25
Auction Runs: Sept 25-Oct 18

Gallery Hours: Friday’s 2-7p, Saturday’s 2-7p, Sunday’s 12-4p

Photos include different shots of the gallery, including a scene from our quilting day.

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I wasn’t ready for summer’s end 🌄 (sound awn)

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Gallery hours from 12 to 4, Quilt Circle from 12:30 to 3:30 free parking all day downtown

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Today! Gallery Hours & Parent time

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Defy the Design! Today ⭐️

Gallery Hours
Friday 2-7pm
Saturday 2-7pm
Sunday 12-4pm

This art show features over 200 pieces from 66 artists in prison, 63 poets in prison, and 36 artists in solidarity. Auction opens on September 25th and Ends on October 18th

Sibyls Shrine
937 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Downtown Pittsburgh — next to planned parenthood

To enter: Press Buzzer 2 — labeled art gallery. Gallery on 2nd floor, you can take elevator or stairs.

Wheel Chair Accessible Space, with slight ramp rise to enter bathrooms. Bathrooms are single occupant, without accessible bars.

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Events at the art show! Come thru!!!

let’s get free’s 8th art show ft. art from both sides of prison walls. 937 liberty ave (downtown, sibyls shrine, buzzer #2 “art gallery”) elevator & bathrooms on site.

🦄 Saturday October 3, 2 – 6pm—Parent—time at Gallery
🪡 Sun Oct 4, 12:30 – 3:30pm—Community Quilt Circle
🫂 Thurs Oct 8, 6-8pm— Caregiving x Incarceration Community Discussion
📝 Fri Oct 16, 6-9pm – Poetry Circle
📽️ Sun Oct 18, 2-4pm – 9th & Gasoline: Visual Album & Documentary film
🧘‍♂️ Thurs Oct 22, 6-7:30pm – Yoga for All Bodies
🚀 Sunday October 25, 12 – 4pm – Art Pick Up

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OMG Let’s Get Free’s online auction is LIVE we have already raised of 2,000 with just 27 people bidding. Get your bid on!! Most of the artwork can be shipped. The Auction Ends on October 18, at 8pm!! Most of the art is donated by our incarcerated community. Over 150 pieces for Auction!! It’s amazing! please check out the show online or in person through October 25.

Link in bio!!
linktr.ee/womeninprison

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THIS SATURDAY 11am @sccpgh Join artists Amber Doe, Bekezela Mguni, and Alisha B Wormsley for a closing ritual at Contemporary Craft, co-hosted by Sibyls Shrine.
Rooted in the spirit of Revolutionary Care, this gathering centers Black femme care, sovereignty, and collective healing as both practice and offering.
Through guided ritual, participants are invited into a shared space of reflection, grounding, and intention-setting—honoring ancestral knowledge, embodied presence, and the power of communal care. Drawing from each artist’s interdisciplinary practice, the ritual weaves together gesture, voice, and spiritual inquiry to hold space for restoration and affirmation.
As a closing to the exhibition, this event offers a moment to gather, witness, and carry forward the exhibition’s call: to imagine and enact care as a liberatory force, sustained through community, ritual, and the ongoing work of remembrance.

Note: A “Sound Bath”, led by artist Ayana Sade, will be offered. You are welcome to bring a cushion or yoga mat to participate in the program!

Sibyls Shrine is a network of Black artists who m/other in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and beyond. We are an art collective and residency program rooted in our own radical care, rest and support. Sibyls Shrine is a homage to the Sibyls, the original priestesses of the African goddess Mami Wata. The term was used to name the divine status, quality, and nature of the matriarchal guardians. Sibyls Shrine was created in 2019 by Alisha B Wormsley, developed with Jessica Gaynelle Moss, in partnership with Shiftworks Community + Public Arts.
https://www.sibylsshrine.com

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Dear Sibyls Shrine
You are a place to come home to — conjuring necessary light and cave. A floor that feels like butter to dance on within a building that expands with so much memory.

Thank you Sibyls Shrine for partnering with Memory Fleet – thank you for offering space to tend, opportunities to connect, and nourishment to imagine. Thank you for being a part of our remembering. The work would not have landed as it did without your care.

The beautiful exhibition “Practices of Holding” was a fortified dream to be in conversation with. I appreciate the curatorial brilliance of Jessica Gaynell Moss @jesseplane and the prisming work of participating artists; Elizabeth Burden, Tiara L. Burtin, Lisa Brown, Dail Chambers, Lish Danielle, Cheré D. Gordon, Olivia Guterson, sarah huny young, Miracle Jones, Melike Vivastine Konur, Sasha-Loriene McClain, Zllen McCollum, Victoria Ramlalsingh-Hinton, and Anqwenique.

Thank you for the resources to further this devotional practice.

Pictured: Ursula Payne, Staycee Pearl, Jasmine Hearn. Photography: Dahlia Saenz, Courtesy of Sibyls Shrine and PearlArts Movement and Sound, March 2026.

“Legacy” by Anqwenique (image 1)
Weaving by Alisha B. Wormsley (Image 2 & 3)

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