SEP
27
Plaza Performance: DJ Max Glazer
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...
SEP
28
CBH Talk | Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich
In-person attendance for this program is at capacity! Please join the livestream on the Center for Brooklyn History Public Programs YouTube Channel. To watch the broadcast live, click HERE. Note that we generally overbook our...
SEP
30
University Open Air: Lectura Mapa Sonoro de la Música Salsa en Nueva York. En Español
La lectura se realizará en español como un homenaje a todxs lxs inmigrantes afrocaribeñxs que llegaron a Nueva York en los años cuarenta y que, con su cultura y nostalgia por su tierra, crearon la música Salsa. Los participantes en esta lectura...
OCT
1
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Memoirs by Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Safiya Sinclair, and Phillip Lopate
Co-Presented by the Brooklyn Book Festival and BPL Presents, three authors discuss their memoirs.Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, Ingrid Rojas Contreras writes, in The Man Who Could Move Mountains, a...
OCT
4
CBH Talk | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
In Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, the struggle over Israel/Palestine is given a profoundly human face through the heart-wrenching story of a tragic accident that killed Abed Salama’s five-year-old son. Granular in its...
OCT
6
CBH Talk | Prison Imperialism: Indigenous and Black Histories of Subjugation and Global Freedom Dreams
In his explosive new book, historian Benjamin Weber reveals how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of American power around the globe. Join him in conversation with cultural strategist and organizer, Piper...
OCT
7
Nannies' Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies to participate in a dynamic eight-week FREE writing workshop where you can learn about some traditional forms of storytelling, from origin myths to fairy tales.
The Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing...
OCT
12
CBH Talk | College Behind Bars
There are more than two million people living behind bars in the United States—in state and federal prisons, local jails, and immigration detention facilities. Many live in dire conditions despite some efforts to create more humane prisons and...
OCT
14
Nannies' Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies to participate in a dynamic eight-week FREE writing workshop where you can learn about some traditional forms of storytelling, from origin myths to fairy tales.
The Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing...
OCT
15
Classical Interludes: Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner and Eleni Katz
In this program, featuring a double-bill of 2022 CAG Winners Eleni Katz (bassoon) and Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner (piano), the artists traverse the world with us in an international program featuring composers from France, Mexico, Germany, Poland,...
OCT
16
CBH Talk | Michael Waldman and Jesse Wegman on the Supreme Court
What happens when the highest court in the land no longer represents the country at large? Among the experts sounding the alarm over the Supreme Court’s hard swerve to the right is Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center. Waldman...
OCT
17
Pandora’s BoxX Project: Celebrating Womxn Artists & Visionaries
Pandora’s BoxX Project is a photographic portrait series that documents and celebrates the impact of womxn creators and art workers (including trans, non-binary, gender queer, and female) who reshape how we experience art and culture. ...
OCT
19
Teju Cole Discusses Tremor with Emily Raboteau
Co-presented with Greenlight Bookstore, BPL Presents features a powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world—from the award-winning author of Open City.Life is hopeless but...
OCT
21
Nannies' Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies to participate in a dynamic eight-week FREE writing workshop where you can learn about some traditional forms of storytelling, from origin myths to fairy tales.
The Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing...
OCT
23
CBH Talk | Jocelyn Simonson and James Forman Jr. Discuss “Radical Acts of Justice”
Across the country, ordinary people are challenging the ideas that prosecutions and prisons make us safer; that public officials charged with maintaining “law and order” are carrying out the will of the people; and that justice requires putting...
OCT
24
David Leonhardt discusses Ours Was the Shining Future
Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once...
OCT
26
Tanisha C. Ford on Our Secret Society, with Kaitlyn Greenidge
Join Tanisha C. Ford at Brooklyn Heights Library as she discusses her new book Our Secret Society with Kaitlyn Greenidge. Books will be available for purchase from The Center for Fiction. In partnership with Literacy...
BPL Book Prize Shortlist Panel Event
Join Brooklyn Public Library & the Brooklyn Eagles to celebrate the 2023 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Shortlist Finalists.This BPL Book Prize event will feature two panels featuring authors who have been shortlisted for the 2023...
OCT
28
Nannies' Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies to participate in a dynamic eight-week FREE writing workshop where you can learn about some traditional forms of storytelling, from origin myths to fairy tales.
The Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing...
OCT
29
Classical Interludes: Sofya Melikian
Pianist Sofya Melikyan is praised for being a “a highly sensitive performer, who always subordinates technical aspects to the rhetoric” (Remy Franck, Pizzicato) and “a musician with strong, self- confident voice” (Klassik...
NOV
4
Nannies' Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies to participate in a dynamic eight-week FREE writing workshop where you can learn about some traditional forms of storytelling, from origin myths to fairy tales.
The Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing...
NOV
5
Classical Interludes: Ensemble Pi presents Banned Books
Banned Books is an evening-length performance of six premieres commissioned by Ensemble Pi in response to recent U.S. bills, which ban books or curtail the discussion of critical race theory, LGBTQ+ issues, antisemitism and other disputed topics...
NOV
13
Authors in the Afternoon: Rob Eschmann and Jelani Cobb Discuss “When the Hood Comes Off”
AUTHORS IN THE AFTERNOON is CBH’s daytime series of book talks. Programs are followed by informal conversation with the author.Join Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker, Dean of Columbia Journalism School) and Rob Eschmann (Columbia...
NOV
14
CBH Talk | Joe Sexton and Errol Louis discuss "The Lost Sons of Omaha"
Veteran journalist Joe Sexton’s new book, The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy, unpacks two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests. It tells the story of James Scurlock, a 22-year old Black...
NOV
18
Nannies' Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies to participate in a dynamic eight-week FREE writing workshop where you can learn about some traditional forms of storytelling, from origin myths to fairy tales.
The Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing...
DEC
2
Nannies' Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies to participate in a dynamic eight-week FREE writing workshop where you can learn about some traditional forms of storytelling, from origin myths to fairy tales.
The Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing...
DEC
9
Nannies' Fairy Tales Writing Workshops
Brooklyn Public Library invites nannies to participate in a dynamic eight-week FREE writing workshop where you can learn about some traditional forms of storytelling, from origin myths to fairy tales.
The Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing...
DEC
10
Classical Interludes: Carnegie Hall Citywide: Sullivan Fortner Trio
Sullivan Fortner Trio
- Sullivan Fortner, Piano
- Tyrone Allen, Bass
- Kayvon Gordon, Drums
Hear one of today’s most exciting jazz pianists lead his trio in this free concert at the Brooklyn Public...
