[Pittsburgh, PA March 4, 2025] Honoring Black Herstory Month and queer family stories of reconciliation from the diaspora, the Carnegie Museum of Art will host a screening of the documentary film "A Mother Apart" in Pittsburgh on March 30, 2025 at 2:00 pm.

Pittsburgh, PA | Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - Dreams of Hope: Queer Youth Arts is celebrating 20 years of service to Pittsburgh's LGBTQA+ youth with the premier of our first theatrical production since 2019-a show produced by youth participants in theatriQ, our signature performing arts program.

Pittsburgh, PA - The Pride Youth Theater Alliance, a growing network of LGBTQ youth theater organizations and individual artists located across the country, announces its 10th annual conference, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA. The PYTA strives to advance the practice of Queer Youth Theater by providing emerging and established leaders in the field with resources and opportunities to exchange, collaborate, and learn. The conference will be hosted by Dreams of Hope - a PYTA Member Organization also located in Pittsburgh. The conference has been held in 8 different cities, including San Francisco, Orlando, Memphis, and last year, Boston, with attendance continually growing. Last year’s conference brought in over 100 attendees, with nearly 50% of the attendees identifying as youth (ages 18 or under). The conference invites practitioners, artists, and leaders to showcase their art, talents, skills, and knowledge with their peers from across North America. Dreams of Hope will also partner with local arts organizations and artists to connect attendees with the vibrant local arts and LGBTQ scenes of Pittsburgh. The conference weekend will also provide opportunities for Pittsburgh residents to witness performances, engage with artists, and learn more about youth programs locally and nationally.

There will be a special reading of Your Healing Is Killing Me by Virginia Grise: a fundraiser benefiting Dreams of Hope on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at Falk Auditorium (entrance on Ellsworth Avenue), Winchester Thurston School. 555 Morewood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA. Doors open at 7:00 pm and reading begin at: 8:00 pm. Ticket are: $25 for general admission and $10 for people 21 years and under. The cast are members of theatriQ Youth Ensemble for Dreams of Hope, director is Moses Garcia, and stage manager is Ally Ricarte.

Pittsburgh, PA – The UPMC Center for Engagement and Inclusion presents Hearts on Hold, a new play created and performed by Dreams of Hope's theatriQ Youth Performance Ensemble, the weekend of March 17-18 at the Alloy Studios, 5530 Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh's Friendship neighborhood.

We are excited to announce Dreams of Hope is accepting applications for our cornerstone program: theatriQ, a performing arts group of queer, trans, and allied youth (ages 13-21) in the Pittsburgh region.

After doing an incredible job as Office Manger for two years, Cavanaugh Quick is going off to graduate school out of the area. We are all really excited for Cav, and we also now need someone else to be the glue that holds things together at Dreams of Hope.

Pittsburgh, PA – Dreams of Hope presents Love Your Selfie, an EP and music video release party hosted by LGBTQA+ youth, on Friday, June 10, from 7:00 until 10:00 p.m. at the East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 South Highland Avenue. Suggested donation at the door is $5.00, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. One of the highlights of the evening will be the release of the six-song EP, Home. More information about the event is available at www.facebook.com/dreamsofhopeorg. Earlier in the week, Dreams of Hope will release their new music video, also titled Home. It is intended to bring visibility to several issues affecting LGBTQA+ youth, including homelessness and discriminatory school policies and practices, and to help Dreams of Hope raise money to support more LGBTQA+ youth. To view the new Home music video, please visit www.dreamsofhope.org/ImHomeWhen starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 8. #ImHomeWhen

Pittsburgh, PA - Pittsburgh's only arts-focused LGBTQIA youth organization, Dreams of Hope, will host their annual fundraiser, Absolute Disco, on Saturday, April 2, 2016, 7:00 p.m. – VIP Pre-party at 6:00. Join us for an evening of food, libations, music, live performance, and dance – while we honor Bruce Kraus, President, Pittsburgh City Council, with the Dreams of Hope Champion Award. Be serenaded by Etta Cox and Friends, enjoy performances by the theatriQ Youth Ensemble, and join in both live and silent auctions – Michael Bartley serving as auctioneer.

sQool at Dreams of Hope presents multiMEdia, a four-part workshop series surrounding intersectionality and art, led by program manger Cavanaugh Quick and featuring local artist Katie Kaplan (pennysmasher.tumblr.com). The workshop is hosted at Winchester Thurston Upper School in conjunction with their student Gay-Straight Alliance and will culminate in a free and public youth reception on Friday, April 10, at the Winchester Thurston Upper School, 555 Morewood Avenue, in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood. Over the course of four sessions, students will work with Dreams of Hope teaching artists to engage in critical analysis of art across a range of mediums, including music, prose, and visual pieces. This workshop will focus on the intersection of queerness with other social identities, in an examination of multidimensional systems of privilege and oppression.  Students will work together to create a mixed-media paneled mural in response to their analyses, to be unveiled at the youth reception. For more information about the youth reception, please email cav@dreamsofhope.org.

Pittsburgh's only arts-focused LGBTQA youth organization, Dreams of Hope, will host their annual fundraiser, Absolute Motown, on March 28, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – VIP Pre-Party at 6:00. Join us for an evening of food, libations, music, live performance, and dance – while we honor Betty Hill, Executive Director of Persad Center, with the Dreams of Hope Champion Award. Be serenaded by Etta Cox and Friends, enjoy a performance by the theatriQ Youth Performance Ensemble, and join in both live and silent auctions – with award-winning artist Alexi Morrissey serving as auctioneer. General admission includes heavy hors d'oeuvres, beer, wine, and  desserts. VIP Pre-party features specially crafted VIP hors d'oeuvre, photo opportunities with Etta Cox, and all- evening access to open bar. Tickets and information at www.dreamsofhope.org.

The creative and performing arts group "Dreams of Hope" will be performing their first performance in Butler County, Pennsylvania at the Butler County Community College on November 1st beginning at 6:30pm in the Succop Theater. The group will be presenting the season finale of their original program titled, "Being In, Being Out." This program is about the struggles of LGBTQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and allied) youth and the coming out process. Their message is one based on belonging with a message of acceptance and equality.

The Pittsburgh-based Dreams of Hope will perform in Oil City on March 28 at the Clarion University-Venango campus.