JAN
27
“Home and Homeless” Tales of the Same City Photographs by Bonita Lei
Please join the Highlawn Library as we present photography exhibit entitled:“Home and Homeless: Tales of the Same City” featuring the photography of Bonita Lei who has spent three decades documenting lives in New York City. "It is often difficult...
Virtual English Conversation Group
Join other adults who are learning to speak English online on Zoom video.
Please register with your name and email to receive the information to join the group. The Zoom link will be emailed one (1) hour before the group...
Virtual Bushwick and Brownsville Brainy Babies
Join us for a brain-building program on Zoom for children 0-3 years and their parents or caregivers from Bushwick or Brownsville. Includes storytimes in English and Spanish, early literacy tips, craft ideas, songs with a...
Technology For All: Individual Sessions
Older Adults, 55 and up: are you having trouble with your computer and smartphone? Do you want to learn how to use and navigate applications and websites? Want to become tech savvy? The Brooklyn Public Library is offering its Digital...
COVID-19 Testing
Free COVID-19 walk-in rapid testing now available at BPL's Central Library. 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11238
Entrance is on Eastern Parkway to the lower level Dweck Lobby - no appointment needed. Ages 4 and above.
Please...
Gaming Grab & Go
Feeling Nostalgic? Want to relive past glories of leveling up in video games? Come and pick up some lightly pre-owned games compatable with your PS4 and Xbox1.Each Grab and Go Kit has between 2-6 video games. While Supplies Last.
We...
Grab and Go Crafts Kits
Come by the Flatbush Library on and pick up a free grab and go craft kit! Each kit contains everything you need to make your own fun crafts project.
Bags with supplies will be in Lobby from 1:00 PM – 4:00pm.
Pick them up...
Grab-and-Go: Teen
Advanced craft projects to make at home. For young people age 12-18 years old. Kits available while supplies last.
Resume & Career Help Live!
Get assistance with your résumé, cover letter, or career-related questions, live with a librarian via Zoom.
Virtual English Conversation Group
Join other adults who are learning to speak English for fun conversation online with Zoom video!
Please register with your name and email to receive the information to join the group. The Zoom link will be emailed one (1) hour before the...
Get To Know Gmail: A beginners Guide to Gmail
THIS A WEEKLY SERIES WHICH SHOWS YOU HOW TO CREATE A GMAIL ACCOUNT AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ITS MANY USES.
IF YOU HAVE ANY GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT GMAIL,YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME!!!!
Grab-and-Go: Teen Craft
Advanced craft projects to make at home. For young people age 12-18 years old. Kits available while supplies last. See Librarian on second floor for kit.
Virtual Book Discussion: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon from the Kings Bay Library
The Yiddish Policeman's Union is set in a fictional colony of Jewish immigrants that set up their own state in Alaska following WWII. The colony's time of self-rule is almost up, and it will soon become part of Alaska again. The main character,...
Teen Tech Time: Skribbl.io
Like drawing? Join us at this awesome Pictionary game. Every round someone must draw their chosen word and others must guess it to gain points. The person with the most points wins!
Ages 13-19
Please register
12 Slots...
East New York Reads Homework Help
Brooklyn Public Library is offering virtual homework help sessions via the East New York Reads Initiative to school aged students. ALL students from 1st to 5th grade are welcome to join. The sessions take place on Zoom. Link will be provided...
Afterschool Ready Set Kindergarten Series
Join us for Ready Set Kindergarten on Zoom! This is a virtual version of our popular school readiness program, led by educators, and designed to help children ages 3-5 get ready to read, and ready for school. Learn about every day early literacy...
City Harvest Cooking Matters for kids course.
This is a virtual program for kids. Presented by City Harvest with Arlington Library.
“Cooking Matters”, a 6-week progressive virtual workshop, which provides wonderful lessons on nutrition and gives great tips...
YA Book Discussion (virtual) "Sugar Town Queens" by Malla Nunn
Please join Ms.Yolande every Thursday at 4:00 pm for a book discussion during the month of January. Fifteen-year-old Amandla's mother has always been strange. For starters, she's a white woman living in Sugar Town, one of South Africa's infamous...
Virtual Financial Coaching
Do you have questions about credit or debt? The Financial Coaching Corps (FCC) can help you manage your money, find resources in a financial crisis, and make progress toward your financial goals.
Make an appointment with a coach...
YA Book Discussion (virtual)
Please join Ms. Yolande every Thursday at 4:00 pm for a book Disussion, We are currently readng January's title "Sugar Town Queens" by Malla Nunn. Fifteen-year-old Amandla's mother has always been strange. For starters,...
Chess Workshop
Join the Spring Creek Chess Club and improve your game with our Chess Instructor, Juan Tica!
This program will take place on lichess.org and Zoom simultaneously.
Registration is required.
Virtual English Conversation Group
Join other adults who are learning to speak English online on Zoom video.
Please register with your name and email to receive the information to join the group. The Zoom link will be emailed one (1) hour before the group...
Brighton Talks: Story Circle with The Working Theater
Have you lived in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn? We are looking for people of all ages and ethnicities who live or have lived in Brighton Beach to join us for a casual conversation about identity in connection with Brighton Beach. Come share your...
Virtual Nutrition Education: Spanish Language
Join the staff at Washington Irving as we collaborate again with our wonderful friends at City Harvest. This class is in Spanish for adults and it will teach you how to cook delicious healthy meals on a budget.
Únase a nosotros mientras...
Gerritsen Beach Book Club: The Liar's Dictionary
Welcome! This month, we are reading The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams. Copies will be available at the reference desk starting in mid-to-late December. Please join us on Zoom for literary fun in an informal and jovial...
Business & Career Center Book Discussion Club: The Ascent of Money Cancelled
Please join the Business & Career Center for a discussion about The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson's classic financial history of the world....
From the Renaissance to the French Revolution to the 2008 Financial Crisis...
Resume Coaching Cancelled
Get help writing your resume -so you can stand out!!!
Knit, Crochet & Sew Together
Looking for company while your hands are busy with yarn or textiles? Join the Windsor Terrace Library for a Zoom knitting/crocheting/sewing/fiber arts session to share your projects and hangout. All are welcome!
**...
JAN
28
“Home and Homeless” Tales of the Same City Photographs by Bonita Lei
Please join the Highlawn Library as we present photography exhibit entitled:“Home and Homeless: Tales of the Same City” featuring the photography of Bonita Lei who has spent three decades documenting lives in New York City. "It is often difficult...
COVID-19 Testing
Free COVID-19 walk-in rapid testing now available at BPL's Central Library. 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11238
Entrance is on Eastern Parkway to the lower level Dweck Lobby - no appointment needed. Ages 4 and above.
Please...
Grab & Go Craft - Windsor Terrace
Make a dragon puppet to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Kits will be available at the Windsor Terrace Library Customer Service Desk while supplies last.
Grab & Go: Lunar New Year
Create something new and all your own! Get a Grab and Go Arts & Crafts kit* to take home and create! (While supplies last.)
We are creating dragon puppets to celebrate Lunar New Year!
*Kits may contain small parts...
Virtual English Conversation Group
Join other adults who are learning to speak English online on Zoom video.
Please register with your name and email to receive the information to join the group. The Zoom link will be emailed one (1) hour before the group...
Virtual French Conversation Group
Join other adults who are learning to speak French online on Zoom video. This group is for beginners learning to speak French.
Please register with your name and email to receive the information to join the group. The Zoom link will be...
Chair Yoga: Strengthen Your Body & Breathe
We apologize Registration is closed. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or wish to be placed in a waiting list. Thank you.
Chair Yoga is a great way for Older Adults to get the wonderful health...
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...
Microsoft Excel Basics
Microsoft Excel Basics introduces new and returning spreadsheet users to the basics of storing, managing and analyzing data in a spreadsheet document. This lesson covers the core features of Microsoft Excel 2010.
Toddler Time Cancelled
Join us for storytime in the reading garden! We will be singing songs, learning rhymes, and reading books together.
*This is a storytime for mobile children, walkers or crawlers. Babies who are not yet walking should...
Gaming Grab & Go
Feeling Nostalgic? Want to relive past glories of leveling up in video games? Come and pick up some lightly pre-owned games compatable with your PS4 and Xbox1.Each Grab and Go Kit has between 2-6 video games. While Supplies Last.
We...
Meditation, Spirituality, Faith and Self-Knowledge
12:30pm - Guided meditation, breath-work, and group chanting of “OM” 🕉 mantra
01:00pm- Spirituality teachings of the week on realizing the True Self 💟, the divinity within us, and the practices of Self-knowledge 🕉, oneness and devotion...
Grab & Go Crafts
Come pick up a Grab & Go surprise craft every Friday afternoon at 2pm. First come, first serve as supplies are limited.
Please note: these bags are for children and teens only.
Grab & Go:Kids Create Snowman Puppets
Stop by the Gravesend library to pick up a kit with supplies for making Snowman Puppets! Kits will be available at the Gravesend Library until we run out.
This craft includes small parts not for a child under 3 years...
Virtual English Conversation Group
Join other adults who are learning to speak English for fun conversation online with Zoom video!
Please register with your name and email to receive the information to join the group. The Zoom link will be emailed one (1) hour before the...
Grab-and-Go: Kids Create
Create something new and all your own! Get a Grab and Go Arts & Crafts kit to take home and create! For kids age 5-12 years old. Kits available while supplies last.
*Kits may contain small parts that are not suitable for...
Grab n go Fridays
A surprise toy or DIY craft to do at home on any given Friday.
Play Skribbl.io: the Drawing Guessing Game!
Play a game with your fellow zoom participants. Users will pick one of the three words and draw it using a variety of colors and lines. The other players have a limited time to guess what the drawing represents. Can you do it? Come, join us!...
Virtual Chess Program
Enjoy a game of chess with BPL, led by qualified instructors, to improve your game or learn to play. Both beginners and advanced players are welcome. Registration required, limited to 15 participants.
Kids Coding: Block Coding
Ages 7 - 13
Jan 14 - Hello World
The first program many students create is a simple one that outputs an iconic line of text: "Hello World!" Say hello to the world of computer science with this introductory...
Teen Grab & Go Kits
Here's another Teen Grab & Go's!
Come join us at the Macon Branch, grab a kit and go create!
Limited Quantity! While supplies last! Hope to see you there!