City of Asylum Director Andrés Franco Goes Live on Business as Usual

City of Asylum creates a thriving community for writers, readers and neighbors. By establishing a safe haven for writers and artists who voice ideas that are new, different or provocative in a diverse urban community, it encourages new lines of communication, cultural exchange and collaboration.

Today, we welcome Andrés Franco, Executive Director of City of Asylum @Alphabet City, to detail how it provides sanctuary to endangered literary writers, and offers a broad range of literary programs in a community setting to encourage cross-cultural exchange.

As a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation, the COVID-19 Pandemic greatly impacted City of Asylum. Andrés will talk about the ways City of Asylum navigated the pandemic and how it plans to continue to positively impact the community moving into the future.