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Expecting and New Parents Support Group
Facilitated by Jennette Selig, PD (DTI), CLEC, CCCE. Jennette is a neighborhood mom in North Brooklyn, childbirth educator, and lactation educator/counselor.
**Registration Required!
We will be using Zoom to host this...
Coronavirus and Your Small Business- Live Q&A with SCORE Mentors
Small businesses have been hurt deeply by the coronavirus, and the impact will be felt for months. We know you have questions and need help now. SCORE is here for you with our trusted business mentors and resources.
Join SCORE’s expert,...
Using Bookkeeping Systems to Create Financial Statements for Relief Funds & Lenders
Claiming a 25% sales slowdown due to COVID-19? You may need financial statements for that. This workshop follows-up on our earlier bookkeeping webinar. Participants will be walked through bookkeeping systems creating and editing the 3...
Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Data Analytics for Everyone!
SimplyAnalytics is a mapping, visualization, and data analytics application that makes it easy for anyone to create maps, charts, and reports using thousands of demographic, business & consumer behavior data variables including census data,...
New York International Children’s Film Festival – Short Takes
Piñata Love (Ages 7+)
By Joel Ramirez, NYICFF 2018
6 mins. No dialogue
Watch: https://vimeo.com/254028271
Mexican craft meets-cute with NYC street style in this tale of a near-perfect mâche.
Talking points:...
Kids Create: Flipbooks
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
All you need is paper, a pen or pencil or markers or crayons or something else to write with...
BPL Virtual Super Smash Bros Tournament
Social distancing got you down? Got a Nintendo Switch? Join us at BPL's Smash Ultimate arena!
Play against your friends and folks from all across Brooklyn! All skill levels welcome!
No registration required! Just follow these...
Become Certified As a Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE)
Businesses certified as a Minority/Women-Owned (M/WBE) business are able to increase their visibility, capacity and contribute to the City’s economy through the bidding on public contracts. If you are a business owner and would like to learn how...
Suicide Survivors Grief Support Group
Join support group on first Thursday of every month to find some comfort and understanding among fellow survivors. The group is informal and completely free. No need to struggle alone.
Come and share your story with other survivors for...
How Your Credit Can Survive A Pandemic
Participate in the latest series of Small Business webinars at IMPACCT Brooklyn! This FREE webinar focuses on the process of building & using credit to grow your business.
Topics include:
Credit Ratings Establishing Business...
Timothy Snyder discusses On Tyranny
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the...
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Toddlers in Rhythm
In this virtual movement workshop for parents/caretakers and their little ones, we will explore the fundamentals of rhythm and movement, using the lens of African Dance. Listening to the beat of the drum, participants and their parents will...
Knit Together
We can all sit in our homes and knit by ourselves, or we can knit together! Join us for a Zoom knitting/crocheting hangout and share your projects and your morning coffee.
**Registration required!
We will be using Zoom to...
Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Tax Implications of the CARES Act with PKF O'Connor Davies, LLP
Tax Implications of the CARES Act with PKF O'Connor Davies, LLP
Presenters:
Bruce Blasnik, CPA, CGMA, Partner
Bryan Decker, CPA, Partner
Christopher Migliaccio, Senior Manager
Sandy Weinberg, JD,...
Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Book Adventures
This afternoon, we'll read Michael Ian Black's I'm Bored and learn how to do something simple and silly that totally destroys indoor boredom.
Come ready with your supplies and view the program at the Adams Street Library and the...
Virtual Board Games
Meet up online and play a really easy game using Tabletopia or BoardGameArena.
We will have a meeting in Zoom or Discord at first. I will send out a link at 3:45. Then we can decide on a game and I can walk you through joining...
BPL Virtual Mario Kart Tournament
Social distancing got you down? Remote learning stressing you out? Got a Nintendo Switch? Join us for BPL's Virtual Mario Kart session!
Play against your friends and folks from all across Brooklyn and dominate the race! All skill levels...
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Virtual Ready Set Kindergarten
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual Ready Set Kindergarten! Explore early literacy practices...
The Writhing Society: A Salon for Constrained Writing Techniques
The Writhing Society meets to practice and discuss the techniques of constrained writing. We practice the methods invented by ourselves and by other writers, artists, musicians, and mathematicians. Today's exercise: At home with Fodor & Perec...
Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Team Up To Read: Mind Movies
Improve comprehension by making mind movies to visualize a story. Get some inspiration for creating an artistic visual reader's response.
This program will be broadcast on the Brooklyn Public Library Family Facebook...
Jennifer Egan on Manhattan Beach
ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK winning author Jennifer Egan, in conversation with Meredith Wisner, former Asst. Director of Archives at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Manhattan Beach researcher and oral historian Zaheer Ali from the Brooklyn Historical...
28th Amendment Town Hall: Park Slope/Windsor Terrace, moderated by Brynna Tucker
BPL Presents, the programming team of Brooklyn Public Library, started the 28th Amendment Project earlier this year and, continuing the project, now invites the public online to help to draft the 28th amendment to the Constitution. The 27th...
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Classical Interludes: Piano duo with violinist Rolf Schulte and pianist James Goldsworthy
Piano duo with violinist Rolf Schulte and pianist James Goldsworthy, performing works by Josef Suk and Edvard Grieg.
Click here to view this event at our BPL Presents page beginning from 4 PM, April 12, 2020. Please note: this...
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Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Kids Create: Origami and Folded Cards
Join us on the Brooklyn Public Library Family Facebook page at 12:30 for origami fun!
Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Virtual Dungeons and Dragons
Hey teens! Are you bummed about social distancing but still want to game with your friends? Join us for a Dungeons and Dragons online game! Our librarians are going to make some awesome adventures for you!
We are using...
Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Cuentos virtuales para niños en español (Virtual Spanish Storytime)
Acompáñenos con cuentos y canciones en español para niños y sus padres o cuidadores en la página Brooklyn Public Library Family Facebook. (Join us for stories and songs in Spanish for children and their parents or caregivers on the Brooklyn...
Cuentos virtuales para niños en español (Virtual Spanish Storytime)
Acompáñenos con cuentos y canciones en español para niños y sus padres o cuidadores en la página Brooklyn Public Library Family Facebook. (Join us for stories and songs in Spanish for children and their parents or caregivers on the Brooklyn...
Poetry with Zetta Elliott
Teens are invited to join author Zetta Elliott for a poetry workshop.
Participants must register and a Zoom link to join the program will be emailed in advance.
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Jack & Friends: Toddler Yoga with Kelly Brennan
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join Kelly Brennan for a fun yoga practice! Toddlers will explore yoga poses and breathing in...
Drag Queen Story Hour with Miz Jade
Enjoy Drag Queen Story Hour from the comfort of your own home as Miz Jade reads children's books, sings songs, and does movement activities for kids ages 3-8. Through storytelling and creativity, DQSH teaches children about gender diversity and...
Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
SBA Webinar on Economic Injury Disaster Loan
This free seminar is designed to provide information to business owners about the SBA economic injury disaster loan (EIDL) for businesses and private non-profit organizations impacted by COVID-19.
Online link will be shared to...
Stop Motion Animation
BRIC Media Education is offering the following FREE online class.
In two hours, learn the tools and techniques to create an animated film. Spend course time working on a short, animated video, with the potential to exhibit online or on...
Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Team Up To Read: Story Mapping
Try fun game techniques to build comprehension. Design a comic strip to learn the parts of a story.
This program will be broadcast on the Brooklyn Public Library Family Facebook page.
Digital Meditation for Teens
Brooklyn Public Library invites teens to come together to find a moment of peace in these stressful times. Instructor Lavender Suarez will guide participants through simple meditation techniques (breathing exercises, gentle movement, relaxing...
Virtual Board Games
Meet up online and play a really easy game using Tabletopia or BoardGameArena.
We will have a meeting in Zoom or Discord at first. I will send out a link at 3:45. Then we can decide on a game and I can walk you through joining...
Astra Taylor on "Philosophical Publics: Ruling Ourselves, Thinking Together"
In her Night of Philosophy talk, "Philosophical Publics: Ruling Ourselves, Thinking Together" Astra Taylor considers ways philosophers have dealt with inequality, long seen to be an enabler of tyranny.
Click here to view this event at our...
28th Amendment Town Hall: Boerum Hill/Gowanus, moderated by Brian Tate
BPL Presents, the programming team of Brooklyn Public Library, started the 28th Amendment Project earlier this year and, continuing the project, now invites the public online to help to draft the 28th amendment to the Constitution. The 27th...
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Virtual Storytime
**While our in-person events are on hold, we are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts from our branches!**
Join us for virtual storytime with books, songs, and tips for your child to acquire...
Creative Aging: What's Your Story? We'd like to know!
WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IT'S IMPORTANT!
Sometimes it’s hard to find the right words to tell the story we want to tell. Your experiences, your feelings, your thoughts, your struggles – it’s all part of your story.
And your story is...
Prepare Your Business for Disruptions
From gas leaks and fires, to major hurricanes, flooding, and blackouts, NYC business owners face many challenges that can impact your operations and assets. The Department of Small Business Services (SBS) is here to help guide you through the...
Cuentos virtuales para niños en español (Virtual Spanish Storytime)
Acompáñenos con cuentos y canciones en español para niños y sus padres o cuidadores en la página Brooklyn Public Library Family Facebook. (Join us for stories and songs in Spanish for children and their parents or caregivers on the Brooklyn...
Female Founders: Leading with Empathy / Crisis Management with WE NYC
Join Alley and WENYC for a virtual panel exploring the different experiences of being a young female leader in a world where gender norms and biases exist.
We’ll chat with our panelists about how this has impacted their leadership style...
