MAY
29
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu: The 2018 Kahn Humanities Lecture
**Please note: We have reached capacity for this event and are no longer accepting reservations.
In a commissioned lecture at Brooklyn Public Library, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who removed the city’s Confederate statues...
JUN
11
Dear America: Isolation
Dear America is a cultural initiative founded in 2017 that provides a platform for artists of all genres to express their views of America.
Dear America examines America and Isolation as part of the Democracy Lab. Artists will consider...
JUN
12
Lynne Tillman and Nell Painter
Authors Lynne Tillman and Nell Painter discuss their newest books.
Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic, comic, tragic, and philosophical, Tillman’s Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist...
JUN
15
Mike Reiss on The Simpsons at 30
As part of BPL Presents’s Democracy Lab in the Spacebuster at Grand Army Plaza, four-time Emmy winner Mike Reiss shares stories, secrets and scandals from his thirty years writing for The Simpsons. The raucous program examines the show’s use of...
JUN
27
Meet Nelson Mandela’s family, authors of the new book Grandad Mandela
Join us for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Nelson Mandela’s grandson and Director of The Mandela Legacy Zondwa Mandela and his children, the co-authors of this book, Zazi (age 8) and Ziwelene (age 6).
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