BPL PRESENTS is Central Library's series of arts and culture events, including talks, conversations, and readings with authors, artists and scholars; live music, dance and theater performances; film screening; and art exhibitions. Events are free or ticketed and are taking place at Central Library's Dweck Center, unless noted otherwise.
Dweck Center programs are free of charge and reservations are required for most adult programs. Patrons who RSVP to programs will be seated before walk-ups. Unclaimed reservations will be released five minutes before the start of an event. We recommend arriving early. RSVP online at BrownPaperTickets.com or by phone at 718.230.2200.
Reservations for adult programs can be made with a BPL representative Monday-Friday from 9 am – 4 pm. For weekend events, reservations must be made by 4 pm on the Friday before the event takes place. Any reservations received after 4pm will not be processed. If leaving a message, please slowly and clearly state your first and last name, your phone number, the name and date of the program you would like to attend, and the number of tickets you are requesting (the maximum allowable is 3).
Reservations for adult programs can be made 24 hrs. a day, 7 days a week. Enter "Dweck Center" in the Find the Event search field. Reservations can be made up to approximately one hour before the scheduled program start time. More info: brownpapertickets.com
Upcoming
Taking Care: A Story of Common History
Rain date: Friday, September 22 from 10am to 3pm.
There is healing in the simple pleasures of domestic life, especially washing laundry.
It is familiar to all of us: the smell...
Taking Care: A Story of Common History
Rain date: Sunday, September 24 from 12 to 4pm.
There is healing in the simple pleasures of domestic life, especially washing laundry.
It is familiar to all of us: the smell of...
Kurt Andersen on Fantasyland, with Baratunde Thurston
With Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe. He argues that our post-truth, “fake news”...
Muhammad Yunus presents A World of Three Zeros, in Conversation with Karenna Gore
*Please note: This event is at capacity and reservations are no longer being accepted.
Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers his vision of an emerging new economic...
William Taubman on Mikhail Gorbachev, with Kai Bird
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era comes the definitive volume on one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century, Mikhail Gorbachev...
Orhan Pamuk on The Red-Haired Woman
From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk weaves a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them...
T.C. Boyle
The author of a string of well-regarded novels, including the Pen Faulkner Award winner World's End, Boyle's The Relive Box and Other Stories shows that Boyle is also a master of the short...
Yoga & Poetry
Imagine starting your yoga class with the wise words of your instructor, who calls out a pose or two, and the pose is followed by a poem read live by its author.
Please bring your own yoga...
Silent Movie Matinee
SHERLOCK JR. (1924) 45 Minutes
We celebrate Buster Keaton's recent birthday, on October 4th, with a classic feature where Buster plays a movie-theatre...
Classical Interludes: Steven Masi
This is the sixth concert in an eight-part series of Beethoven’s sonata cycle.
The Review Panel, with moderator David Cohen
Leading art critics join in lively debate about current exhibitions around the five boroughs. Presented in association with Artcritical.
This month's guests are Dennis Kardon, Lee Ann...
Alice McDermott on The Ninth Hour, with Rebecca Mead
In coversation with The New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead, National Book Award-winning author Alice McDermott discusses The Ninth Hour, a...
Campfire Conversations: Sonia Sanchez
Prospect Park Alliance and Brooklyn Public Library present Campfire Conversations, a series of themed community conversations around an outdoor campfire at the Lefferts Historic House.
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Philosophy in the Library: Saam Trivedi on the Emotions of Music
Saam Trivedi, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, discusses the emotions as well as some philosophical theories of musical expressiveness and arousal. He is the author of...
NYRB & BPL Presents: Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Writers and scholars discuss the first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for...
Alone, a film by Garrett Bradley, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and other panelists
With her fiancé in jail, single mother Alone Watts must decide whether to go through with their wedding. This documentary short film investigating the layers of...
Classical Interludes: Rolf Schulte and Nicolas Namoradze
Schulte, violin and Namoradze, piano, perform works by Medtner, Debussy, and Schumann.
ProPublica, NPR & BPL Presents: Lost Mothers: Key Ways to Improve Maternal Health
Join ProPublica, NPR and BPL Presents for a community forum on what the health care system and expectant families can do to prevent more women from dying, and nearly dying, in pregnancy and...
Classical Interludes: American Brass Quintet
The American Brass Quintet will perform a varied program that includes Consort music of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Canons of the 16th Century, and contemporary works by Steven Franklin.
Isabel Allende in Brooklyn
New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a...
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BPL Presents
Brooklyn Public Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
bplpresents@bklynlibrary.org
718.230.2247
Past Events
Theater of War: Hercules in Brooklyn, November 2016
Oliver Stone and Ben Wizner, September 2016
Edwidge Danticat and Jacqueline Woodson, April 2016
Alash, January 2016
Slavoj Žižek and Hari Kunzru, November 2016
The Night of the Cookers, February 2016
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Vu Tran, April 2016
Night of Philosophy. January 2017
Salman Rushdie with Joel Whitney, October 2015
John Irving, November 2015
SYBARITE5, February 2016
Yaa Gyasi, June 2016
Brooklyn Public Library gratefully acknowledges the many donors who have provided generous support for public programs at the Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Cultural Center, including:
Brooklyn Public Library gratefully acknowledges the many donors who have provided generous support for public programs at the Dweck Center, including: The David Berg Foundation, Fund for the Humanities, Cheryl and George Haywood Endowment for Cultural Diversity, The Hearst Foundation, Inc., The Kahn Endowment for Humanities Programs, The Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin Fund, Los Blancos, Mapleton Endowment, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, James J. O’Toole, Janet Anderson, the Estate of Pearl S. Reuillard in memory of her parents Yetta and Louis Schwartz, Sandra and Peter Schubert Endowment Fund, and numerous individuals.
WNYC is a media partner of the 2016-2017 BPL Presents Season.