BPL Presents is BPL’s curated cultural program, with arts and culture offerings including author talks, live performances, music, film and visual art exhibitions that explore the critical issues of our time in Brooklyn and beyond.
Upcoming
CBH Talk | “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance” with Kellie Carter Jackson and Lauren N. Williams
author talks book discussion BPL Presents
In We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, historian Kellie Carter Jackson presents a radical reframing of Black resistance, exploring the many forms of activism employed against white supremacy over centuries, and offering a fundamental corrective to the historical record.…
Plaza Concert: Swingtime Big Band
BPL Presents live music plaza performances
Dedicated to the performance of America's greatest popular standards, SWINGTIME BIG BAND is a 20-piece authentic swing band comprised of master interpreters of music from the Swing Era (mid-1930's through early 1950's). Hailed by The New York Times as “Musicians who make the sounds of the…
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Plaza Performance: sexdeathvoid
BPL Outdoors BPL Presents live music
Come sit on the plaza for a summer evening of improvised electronic music created in real time by sexdeathvoid.
sexdeathvoid is a Brooklyn-based experimental music duo. Their improvised compositions are reflections of and odes to the city and its people. The recent release of their nearly…
Create Your Own Character Artmaking Workshop
BPL Presents Events for Youth and Family
Join author illustrator Isabel Roxas for a hands-on artmaking workshop making your own character. You will get a zine to fill in to develop the creature, human, robot or vegetable you will create.
Plaza Performance: DJ Max Glazer
BPL Presents live music plaza performances
Max Glazer has represented New York City touring the world DJing parties for superstars like Naomi Campbell, Puff Daddy, Missy Elliott, 50 Cent, Branford Marsalis, and Jay-Z, to name just a few. Separate from the glamorous celebrity parties he was known for, Max was always cultivating…
From the West Indies to Eastern Parkway: Caribbean Migration and Diaspora in Brooklyn
BPL Presents brooklyn history Center for Brooklyn History
Just as the Great Migration brought waves of African-Americans from the South to the North, a parallel migration with as important an impact came from Afro-Caribbeans moving to the US from the island nations of Jamaica, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobego, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican…
Plaza Performance: sexdeathvoid
BPL Outdoors BPL Presents live music
Come sit on the plaza for a summer evening of improvised electronic music created in real time by sexdeathvoid.
sexdeathvoid is a Brooklyn-based experimental music duo. Their improvised compositions are reflections of and odes to the city and its people. The recent release of their nearly…
CBH Talk | The Embattled University
BPL Presents Center for Brooklyn History conversations
As the new academic year starts, join three former and current higher education leaders for a conversation about the crises and controversies on campuses across the country.Nicholas B. Dirks, veteran university administrator at both the University of California Berkeley and…
Claudia Rankine & Jess Row Discuss Don’t Let Me Be Lonely & The New Earth
Co-Presented with Books Are Magic, BPL Presents welcomes Claudia Rankine and Jess Row. A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious…
Rachel Kushner Discusses Creation Lake with Emma Straub
Co-Presented with Books Are Magic, BPL Presents welcomes Rachel Kushner—a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of the most gifted authors of her generation” (The New York Times Book Review)—discusses Creation Lake, a new novel about a seductive and cunning…
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