SEP
21
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 of soap and lavender, the poetry of the white...
SEP
23
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 soap and lavender, the poetry of the white linens...
SEP
26
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” moment is not something entirely new, but rather...
SEP
27
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 system that can save humankind and the planet in A...
SEP
28
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. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning...
OCT
2
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.
On the...
OCT
5
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 story. From the title story, featuring a so-called...
OCT
7
Events for Youth & Families: From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
ArtsPower’s enchanting musical, based on E.L. Konigsburg’s Newbery Medal-winning classic, follows Claudia Kincaid and her brother Jamie up the stone steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and right into the middle of an adventure sure to...
OCT
8
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 mat. Doors open at 9:00 am. Class...
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 projectionist (and an amateur detective) who is framed for...
Classical Interludes: Steven Masi
This is the sixth concert in an eight-part series of Beethoven’s sonata cycle.
OCT
10
Stomp, Clap & Sing with Dinosaur O'Dell
Whether he's counting monsters, fixing spaceships or swimming in peanut butter, Dino's interactive songs and tall tales are fun and engaging. Before 2003, Dino was an elementary music and drama teacher, and a professional musician. Now he...
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 Norman, and Roberta Smith.
OCT
12
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 portrait of the Irish-American experience in 1940s and...
OCT
14
Events for Youth & Families: Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats
Multi-award winning children's artist, Lucy Kalantari, brings delightful jazz age inspired music everyone can enjoy! Kids and families will love the interactive jazz-scat-along play, while singing about the simple joys and delights of life....
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.
This month, renowned writer, poet, playwright, and...
OCT
16
Nannies’ Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies, caregivers, and babysitters to participate in a dynamic eight-week writing workshop where you can develop your writing skills and create an original story.
Facilitated by writing teacher Fadwa...
OCT
17
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 Imagination, Music, and the Emotions: A Philosophical...
OCT
18
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 decades; moderated by collection editor Darryl...
OCT
19
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 mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern...
OCT
21
Taller para niñeras y cuidadores para aprender a escribir cuentos de hadas
La Biblioteca Pública de Brooklyn invita a niñeras y cuidadores a participar en un taller dinámico de ocho semanas donde podrá...
Events for Youth & Families: Rapunzel
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair," cries the Prince! Based on the original Brothers Grimm classic fairytale, this original musical is a funny and touching version that is sure to please even the most TANGLED fans. Rapunzel's parents...
OCT
22
Classical Interludes: Rolf Schulte and Nicolas Namoradze
Schulte, violin and Namoradze, piano, perform works by Medtner, Debussy, and Schumann.
OCT
23
Nannies’ Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies, caregivers, and babysitters to participate in a dynamic eight-week writing workshop where you can develop your writing skills and create an original story.
Facilitated by writing teacher Fadwa...
OCT
24
Stomp, Clap & Sing with Flor Bromley
Flor and her band will play songs from her brand new bilingual album “Chiqui Music Boom”, a collection of songs that transports you to a world of imagination inside a child’s mind. These songs along with bilingual versions of popular children’s...
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 childbirth.
The event will bring together...
OCT
28
Taller para niñeras y cuidadores para aprender a escribir cuentos de hadas
La Biblioteca Pública de Brooklyn invita a niñeras y cuidadores a participar en un taller dinámico de ocho semanas donde podrá...
Events for Youth & Families: School of Magic presents Mini Magic Camp!
Everyone wants to learn how to do magic! Mini Magic Camp begins with a 30-minute performance for kids from a professional magician and ends with everyone getting a free magic kit which they will be taught how to use. Magic is a confidence-...
OCT
29
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.
OCT
30
Nannies’ Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies, caregivers, and babysitters to participate in a dynamic eight-week writing workshop where you can develop your writing skills and create an original story.
Facilitated by writing teacher Fadwa...
NOV
4
Taller para niñeras y cuidadores para aprender a escribir cuentos de hadas
La Biblioteca Pública de Brooklyn invita a niñeras y cuidadores a participar en un taller dinámico de ocho semanas donde podrá...
Events for Youth & Families: Tall Ships & Pirate Tales
Ahoy! People don’t just build on land. They build on water, too! Set sail with us on a thrilling action-packed adventure about a crew of quirky pirates marooned on a deserted island. With mutiny and high-tide looming, they must rescue their salty...
NOV
6
Nannies’ Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies, caregivers, and babysitters to participate in a dynamic eight-week writing workshop where you can develop your writing skills and create an original story.
Facilitated by writing teacher Fadwa...
NOV
7
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 mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day...
NOV
11
Taller para niñeras y cuidadores para aprender a escribir cuentos de hadas
La Biblioteca Pública de Brooklyn invita a niñeras y cuidadores a participar en un taller dinámico de ocho semanas donde podrá...
NOV
12
Silent Movie Matinee: Beggars of Life
BEGGARS OF LIFE (1928) 82 minutes
In celebration of Louise Brooks' upcoming birthday, on November 14th, we present her best American film and dramatic role. She plays a young woman, who, in self-defense, kills her guardian when he tries to...
Classical Interludes: Ensō String Quartet
Susie Park and Ken Hamao, violins, and Melissa Reardon, viola and Richard Belcher, cello, perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No.3, Op.18 No.3, String Quartet No.7, Op.59 No.1 and Webern’s 6 Bagatellen, Op.9.
NOV
13
Nannies’ Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies, caregivers, and babysitters to participate in a dynamic eight-week writing workshop where you can develop your writing skills and create an original story.
Facilitated by writing teacher Fadwa...
NOV
15
Philosophy in the Library: Corey Robin on the Reactionary Mind
Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's...
NOV
18
Taller para niñeras y cuidadores para aprender a escribir cuentos de hadas
La Biblioteca Pública de Brooklyn invita a niñeras y cuidadores a participar en un taller dinámico de ocho semanas donde podrá...
Events for Youth & Families: Monsterpalooza Puppet & Fairy Tale Time
Join Nicola McEldowney, puppeteer, and her band of monster puppets for a rollicking good time of songs and fairy tales. Kids will get to be the characters in different well-loved stories led by our puppet hosts. There will be singing, dancing,...
NOV
20
Nannies’ Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies, caregivers, and babysitters to participate in a dynamic eight-week writing workshop where you can develop your writing skills and create an original story.
Facilitated by writing teacher Fadwa...
NOV
25
Taller para niñeras y cuidadores para aprender a escribir cuentos de hadas
La Biblioteca Pública de Brooklyn invita a niñeras y cuidadores a participar en un taller dinámico de ocho semanas donde podrá...
NOV
27
Nannies’ Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies, caregivers, and babysitters to participate in a dynamic eight-week writing workshop where you can develop your writing skills and create an original story.
Facilitated by writing teacher Fadwa...
NOV
30
The First International Literary Film Festival
The literary film festival will be the first international film festival in New York City.
The four-day festival celebrate films that tell the stories of writers, editors and the literary world. Featuring documentaries about writers,...
DEC
2
Taller para niñeras y cuidadores para aprender a escribir cuentos de hadas
La Biblioteca Pública de Brooklyn invita a niñeras y cuidadores a participar en un taller dinámico de ocho semanas donde podrá...
DEC
3
Classical Interludes: Attacca Quartet
The internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet is one of the most dynamic ensembles of their generation. The Quartet’s most recent album release included string quartet works of Michael Ippolito. These works were performed as part of the group’s...
DEC
4
Nannies’ Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies, caregivers, and babysitters to participate in a dynamic eight-week writing workshop where you can develop your writing skills and create an original story.
Facilitated by writing teacher Fadwa...
DEC
9
Taller para niñeras y cuidadores para aprender a escribir cuentos de hadas
La Biblioteca Pública de Brooklyn invita a niñeras y cuidadores a participar en un taller dinámico de ocho semanas donde podrá...
Events for Youth & Families: Scrooge
This holiday musical tradition, based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, A Christmas Carol, once again tells the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge as he learns the true spirit of the holidays!
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