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🌍 Carnegie Celebrates Earth Day Join us from 12-3PM on Sunday, April 19 Our annual Earth Day celebration returns for our sixth year with all-ages fun and learning, featuring live animal encounters, eco-crafts, and all kinds of environmental education! Throughout the event, you can: 🍂 Explore a mini-museum of nature with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 👕 Upgrade your wardrobe at our second annual clothing swap 🐝 Meet honeybees from a local beekeeper 🌊 Learn about water stewardship from Three Rivers Waterkeeper 🚲 Talk bikes with members of BikePGH 🌱 Get garden-ready with our free seed library and find inspiration during a tour of our Teaching Garden of Native Plants 🔍 Explore nature with scavenger hunts and challenges …and lots more No need to register -- drop in anytime 12-3PM on Sunday, April 19! Learn More 📰 Spring/Summer 2026 Newsletter: Celebrating 125 Years See what's coming up this spring and summer in the latest edition of our newsletter. We're celebrating 125 years of the Carnegie Carnegie with lots of exciting updates and events that will make this milestone truly memorable. Check your mailbox for your copy, stop by the Library & Music Hall to pick one up, or take a look at the digital version right now! We hope to see you here this season. LIBRARY South Hills Model Railroad Club Two-Day Track Display April 10 & 11, 10AM-5PM Meet members of the SHMRRC, explore the tiny world of their large track display, and be entered to win a TYCO Chattanooga train set! Learn More Career Check-Up & Resume Review with JFCS April 22 | 11AM-12:30PM JFCS Career Services counselors will share tips and best practices for job seekers. Participants can meet with a counselor one-on-one for a personalized resume review. Space is limited. Free; registration is required. Learn More & Register Chernobyl 40 Years Later: A Day of Commemoration April 25 | 11AM-3PM Join us for education, dance, poetry, food, and an expert panel discussion on the four decades since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 that shook the city of Pripyat, Ukraine. Free; registration is appreciated. Learn More & Register Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson with Playwright Tammy Ryan April 28 | 7PM Join Tammy Ryan of Prime Stage Theatre for a discussion on Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Ryan's stage adaptation. Copies of the book are available for checkout. Free; registration is appreciated.  Learn More & Register MUSIC HALL & STUDIO Mai Khôi & The Dissidents Album Release Concert April 10 at 8PM Vietnam's exiled pop star turned dissident activist brings her band for a night of deeply personal music weaving jazz, art song, and rock through themes of love, longing, and resistance. Learn More & Get Tickets PJO Emerging Artists  Grace Elliott April 12 | 3PM  The Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra spotlights the next generation of jazz talent during this intimate Sunday afternoon concert series. An up-close look at tomorrow's stars.  Learn More & Get Tickets Studio Jazz  Dr. Alton Merrell April 23 | 7PM Dr. Alton Merrell blends lyrical melodies, rich harmonies, and fluid technique across jazz traditions for spirit-filled journeys of technical mastery and profound musical storytelling. Learn More & Get Tickets CPAC Presents: Beauty & The Beast  April 25-26 Carnegie Performing Arts Center brings Beauty & The Beast, the beloved tale as old as time, to the Music Hall stage for an enchanting experience the whole family will love.  Learn More Wait there's more! Check out our Upcoming Events page for even more fun activities & events coming up at the Carnegie Carnegie. CIVIL WAR 2nd Saturday Civil War Series May 9 at 1PM Our May 9 lecture features historian David Welker discussing The Veteran Reserve Corps: The Most Significant Civil War Force You've Never Heard Of. Organized in 1863, the Veteran Reserve Corps performed important rear-area duties, serving as a unifying and stabilizing force during the Civil War's darkest days. Welker chronicles the VRC in his forthcoming book "Now I'm with the Invalids:" The Union's Veteran Reserve Corps in America's Civil War. Free! Join us in-person in the Lincoln Gallery or via Zoom.  Learn More Annual Civil War Symposium Returns April 17 & 18 Our annual Civil War Symposium, 1861: Small Battles, Big Outcomes, is coming right up on April 17 & 18. We'll explore the advances and setbacks, the trials and tribulations, the personalities and decisions of 1861 that shaped how the remainder of the Civil War came to be fought. The symposium will feature an impressive lineup of dynamic historians, a silent auction, raffles, book sales, Arsenal Cider tastings, and all the camaraderie you've come to expect from our annual symposium. Ticket sales close April 6 -- reserve your seat now! Learn More & Get Tickets Visit the Captain Thomas Espy Post Every Saturday - Visit our national treasure for a FREE guided tour with one of our friendly and knowledgeable docents. The Post is open every Saturday, 11AM to 3PM. Learn More One more thing... Our work at the Carnegie Carnegie is made possible thanks to our friends and supporters, like YOU! Here are two great ways to get involved and give back to the Library & Music Hall this year.  Keep our diverse and eclectic programming going - make a donation today! Donate Now Give us a hand in the Library, Music Hall, or Espy Post - sign up to volunteer! Volunteer Sign Up The mission of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is to build community with a library, theater, and historic site that welcome, inform, entertain, and engage the community and the region in lifelong learning. At the Carnegie Carnegie, we offer something for everyone. We hope to see you here soon! The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is supported in part by the taxpayers of Allegheny County through the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD). Thank you! Photography by Greg Sciulli