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Events for Youth and Families: Ellis Island: Gateway to a Dream, presented by Sundog Theatre
Ellis Island served as the portal for immigrants coming into the USA from 1892 to 1954. Before its closing, an estimated 12 million people passed through on their way to a new life in America. This one-hour musical geared towards young audiences...
Read With A Therapy Dog
Grab your favorite book or current read and sign up for a virtual slot to read to Angel the therapy dog! Angel loves to hear stories!
Each child will have ten minutes to read to the dog. Registration is required for a slot....
Resume & Career Help Live!
Get assistance with your resume, cover letter, or career-related questions live with a librarian via Zoom. Participants will receive up to 30 minutes of feedback and guidance.
Please register here on our event page to reserve your spot....
A Musical Storytime with the Cooper Troopers
Join the Cooper Troopers for a melodic storytime that will leave you smiling from ear to ear!
On Saturday 4/17 @ 1pm Visit the Jamaica Bay branch courtyard for this live performance.
CyPurr Session: Street Smarts!
Spring! Time for life to bloom anew. After quite a winter indoors, there are a lot of people looking to celebrate the season by hitting the street, advocating for causes and ideals they believe in. Join Cypurr as we talk things to be aware of for...
Virtual English Conversation Group - CANCELED Cancelled
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...
Grab and Go: Citizen Science Kits!
To celebrate Citizen Science Month, the Genspace Teen Leadership Council and Biobus have put together activity kits based on growing edible plants, touch sensitivity and preserving flowers.
Pick up your kits in the Jamaica Bay...
NBA 2K Play with BPL
Looking for a fun way to kill time during quarantine? Missing Basketball? Got a PlayStation 4? Join us for NBA 2K with the Library!
Play with and against friends, family and the Library in various modes like “All Star Team Up, Pro-...
Virtual Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
All skill levels welcome!
Fall Guys is a massively multiplayer party game with up to 60 players online in a free-for-all struggle through round after round of escalating chaos until one victor remains!
No registration...
REGINE BASHA: THE MONEY QUESTION
Art & Society Census Working GroupApril 3, 10, 17, 24/ Saturdays at 4 pm
Working groups are free, facilitated courses, meeting once per week online for the month of April. Register for this first event and you are registered...
Earth Day Canvas Painting
Celebrate Earth Day during a FREE, live online session focusing on creating fluid art on canvas. The Teaching Artist—Danielle M. Chery will share a presentation of how this art practice can create a sense of calm and relaxation, all while being...
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Spoken Word Performance-Women’s History: Dominique Christina
Spoken Word Performance-Women’s History: Dominique Christina
Dominique Christina performs her own poetry in a virtual reading sponsored by Coney Island. Adults and Young Adults are welcome.
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Living Poets
Living Poets is a 10-week class exploring work by some of the most dynamic and groundbreaking contemporary poets writing today. Students will engage in close readings with each poet's work and will have opportunities to respond with poems of...
Living Poets
Living Poets is a 10-week class exploring work by some of the most dynamic and groundbreaking contemporary poets writing today. Students will engage in close readings with each poet's work and will have opportunities to respond with poems of...
Art in the Garden: Nannies' Fairy Tales and Music
Over the past four years, Brooklyn Public Library offered writing workshops with over 70 nannies and other childcare providers in a series of Nannies' Fairy Tale Writing Workshops, a model inspired by Mark Nowak's Workers Writers School....
Creating Your Own Startup
Are you interested in learning what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Do you ever wonder what the process of coming up with an idea for a company is like?
Join us for our entrepreneurship program that goes through the early basic steps of...
Classical Interludes: Sounds and Stories with Teju Cole: Concert followed by Conversation
Artist, critic, and photographer Teju Cole curates an event that pairs readings from his story “Radia” with musical works. He describes “Radia” as “a story about travel and discovery, a story of affliction and affiliation, set in a melancholy...
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Mindful Mondays
Learn and practice mindfulness with us. Increase calmness and feelings of wellbeing through stories, meditation, breathing, reflection and journaling. Tune in Mondays from April 12 through May 31 on the Paerdegat Branch Facebook page. https...
Borough Park Presents Storytime: Mr. Mike Reads About Art History Part Three
Mr. Mike Reads If da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur written by Amy Newbold and illustrated by Greg Newbold. This picture book shows how various artists throughout history would paint dinosaurs. Mr. Mike also takes the time to talk about the...
Many Voices Storytime presents “Everything Naomi Loved Book” by Katie Yamasaki and Ian Lendler
Our Many Voices program is an online virtual storytime event and in person book give away. We share a reading of a recent picture books that presents a different vital cultural voice and then have copies of the book to give away at the Clinton...
Application Available for Friends of Clinton Hill Third Artisanal Craft Fair
The Friends of Clinton Hill Library will co-sponsor an outdoor Local Artisans Craft Fair on Saturday, June 19th from 11 am – 4 pm (rain date June 26th):
Vendor applications and rules of conduct will be available from the Clinton Hill...
Grab and Go Craft Kit: My puppet and Me!
Come by the Leonard Library on and pick up a free Grab and Go craft kit! Each kit contains everything you need to make your own fun project: a felt puppet, felt shapes, yarn, wiggly eyes, glue…
Practice Singing, Playing, and, Talking...
Learn to knit / learn to crochet
In this half hour, you will get basic instruction to begin to knit or crochet. Then stay with us for the 11:00 hour to practice and ask questions of more advanced fiber artists!
You will need yarn, knitting needles or crochet hook....
Gathering Wool: knit and crochet with Sheepshead Bay
Join us for a Zoom knitting/crocheting/needlework get together. Share your projects and your morning coffee.
**Registration required! Registration ends one hour before the program starts.
We will be using Zoom to...
Mill Basin, Windsor Terrace and Park Slope Brainy Babies
Join us for a brain-building program on Zoom for children 0-3 years and their parents or caregivers in the Mill Basin, Windsor Terrace and Park Slope communities. This program will include stories, early literacy tips, baby...
Creating Content Your Customers Value | NYC SBS
Many businesses think that marketing only means advertising. As effective entrepreneurs know, however, customers are more interested and loyal to businesses whose marketing content provides value.
This course will provide you with the...
McKinley Park Branch Preschool Book Adventures: Pete the Cat the Wheels on the Bus!
Come join McKinley Park Branch virtually on zoom with a read out loud and craft.
Registration Required!
Materials needed: paper plate, construction paper, glue, scissors and crayons/markers.
Zoom information...
Virtual Ask-A-Tech
Do you have a specific question about how to use computers or find your way around the Internet? No time to attend a formal class? Join our virtual drop-in computer lab for personalized assistance.
We will be using Zoom to host this...
Dancercise: Dance, Move and Stretch with Akwesi Asante
This popular Windsor Terrace class continues for five sessions on our Facebook Page. Each session will premiere on Mondays at 1:00 PM and will be available for ongoing viewing.
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...
Covid Remembrance Candles
Please come into the Dekalb Library to remember and honor your loved one by making a covid candle . All supplies are included in your grab and go bag .
We The Readers: A Virtual Roundtable for Adults
Welcome to our Readers’ Roundtable! Please tell us what kind of book you love to read, who is your favorite author, etc. Share with us your thoughts and comments on a book you have read recently.
Resume & Career Help Live!
Get assistance with your resume, cover letter, or career-related questions live with a librarian via Zoom. Participants will receive up to 30 minutes of feedback and guidance.
Please register here on our event page to reserve your spot....
Virtual American Sign Language 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 American Sign Language storytime with stories, songs and rhymes for children and...
Creative Aging: Watercolor for Beginners - ESOL
Learn the techniques of watercolor painting. This workshop is sure to awaken your creative side or expand your knowledge and vision. This 9-week workshop will teach you the basics that will enable you to broaden your artistic expression!
...
Kids Create Grab and Go: Pocket Poetry Activity Journal Kit
Grab and Go Kits are ready for you to pick up Monday April 19, 2021 at 2:30 pm for Pocket Poetry Activity Journal Kits. Just come into the Ulmer Park Branch (2602 Bath Avenue 11214) and ask for a kit.
In the Kit you will receive:
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Borough Park Presents Juan Tica - Chess Workshop
Virtual Chess Workshop
Kids and teens, learn to play or improve your game, with instructor Juan Tica from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm. For beginners or advanced players. Please register for information on how and where to participate!...
Tiny Techs: Coding (ages 3-5)
Children Ages 3-5
We invite you to help us code the Monkey to the banana by following instructions, counting, and sequencing. This is a block coding program to introduce the ideas and concepts of coding to your children....
Gaming for Teens
Join Labib our LoT (Librarian of Tomorrow) every Monday at 3:00 PM for an afternoon of gaming. Lets show other gamers what you've got!
Songwriter’s Studio
Itching to write a song but don't know where to start? Have lyrics written but no music to pair with it? In this workshop, students will be able to craft a fully produced song from scratch! Students will be introduced to Soundtrap, a...
Create with Canva Workshop for Teens
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Canva, where the designs of your dreams can come to life! Canva is the most accessible and widespread tool for graphic design from beginner to pro-level. Use Canva to create everything from merch, to flyers and...
Virtual Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
All skill levels welcome!
Fall Guys is a massively multiplayer party game with up to 60 players online in a free-for-all struggle through round after round of escalating chaos until one victor remains!
No registration...
Virtual Chess Workshop
Virtual Chess Workshop
Kids and teens, learn to play or improve your game every Moday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm. For beginners or advanced players. Please register for information on how and where to participate!...
Virtual Chess Workshop
Virtual Chess Workshop
Kids and teens, learn to play or improve your game every Moday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm. For beginners or advanced players. Please register for information on how and where to participate!...
Virtual Chess Workshop
Virtual Chess Workshop
Kids and teens, learn to play or improve your game every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm. For beginners or advanced players. Please register for information on how and where to participate!...
Virtual Chess Workshop
Virtual Chess Workshop
Kids and teens, learn to play or improve your game every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm. For beginners or advanced players. Please register for information on how and where to participate!...
Virtual Chess Workshop
Virtual Chess Workshop
Kids and teens, learn to play or improve your game every Moday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm. For beginners or advanced players. Please register for information on how and where to participate!...
Kids Explore: Wangari Maathai
Join us for a special reading of Seeds of Change for Earth Day. This children's program will explore the life and legacy of Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. ...
Virtual Chess Workshop
Virtual Chess Workshop
Kids and teens, learn to play or improve your game every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm. For beginners or advanced players. Please register for information on how and where to participate!...