MAY
23
Grab & Go: Kids Create
Create something new and all your own! Get a Grab and Go kit to take home and create! For kids age 5-12 years old. Kits available while supplies last.
*Kits contain small parts that are not suitable for young children ages 0-4...
Teen Grab and Go: BPL’s 125th Celebration Beaded Bracelets!
Calling all teens! Create your own beaded bracelets in honor of Brooklyn Public Library’s 125th birthday!
Each kit contains an arrangement of various shades of blue and white beads that can be made into any pattern of your choice, a pipe...
Grab and Go Crafts: Make a Vegetable Garden!
Create a vegetable garden that you don't have to water or get your hands dirty. Pick up grab and go kits with all the supplies and instructions at the Williamsburgh Branch!
Reliving Legends Photobooth
Ever wondered what it would be like to stand next to a legend?Well, now you can at the Clinton Hill branch!
Standing in front of a green screen, we'll insert you into an iconic black and white photograph of famous legends or...
Virtual English Conversation Group CANCELED Cancelled
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...
Monday Matinee
Join us at the Clinton Hill branch this May for Monday Matinees!
May 9th and May 23rd from 1pm to 3pm.
May is Photography Month so we'll screen films about photography and the film industry.
As this is...
Menstruation Mondays! Free Period Kits for Those in Need
Period Product Distribution Days When: Every Monday through June 13, while supplies last Where: Central Library, Youth Wing--Young Adult Reference Desk What: A week's worth of menstruation products. Each kit may include 7 tampons, 7 maxi...
Mahjong
learn how to play Mahjong, meet new friends.
Drop-In Resume & Career Help
Stop by the Central Library's Business & Career Center for help with your job search questions. All sessions are one-on-one but timeslots are limited.
Borough Park presents Chess Workshop with Juan Tica
Join the Borough Park Library and improve your game with chess masterJuan P Tica. You are invited to our scheduled Chess Program via Zoom.
This program, for kids and teens, takes place on lichess.org. Please create...
Borough Park presents Chess Workshop with Juan Tica
Join the Borough Park Library and improve your game with chess masterJuan P Tica. You are invited to our scheduled Chess Program via Zoom.
This program, for kids and teens, takes place on lichess.org. Please create...
Borough Park Presents Chess with Juan Tica
Join Certified Chess Instructor, Juan P Tica virtually from Brooklyn Public Library Borough Park for instruction and competition. Please create a Free Online Chess account at this link: https//lichess....
Creative Writing Workshop
The writing workshop is designed to allow writers of all backgrounds, ages and experience levels to work together and grow as writers. Participants write to the prompt offered by the experienced and trained leader and are...
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 K to 5th grade are welcome to join. The sessions take place on Zoom. Link will be provided...
Anime Mondays
Come chill out with Librarian Kristian at the Mill Basin Library for an hour of anime every Monday. Woohoo!
Arts and Craft
Show your creative side. Make new friends.
Chess Workshop
Chess workshop for kids
Kahoot! Trivia
Challenge your friends to a trivia game. We will be using the online trivia platform Kahoot!
Register so that we can send you a secure Zoom link.
Join the Highlawn Chess Workshop with Chess Master Reinaldo Duran
Join the Highlawn Library and improve your game with chess master Reinaldo Duran.
This program, for kids and teens, takes place on lichess.org. Please create an account on lichess.org ahead of time. We will send you...
Bklynthology Information Session
Teens 13-18 are eligible to win gift cards by writing short stories! Join us on Zoom to learn about BKLYNthology, a short story anthology being published at the New Utrecht branch. During the Zoom meeting, we will be going over expectations...
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...
RESCHEDULED DATE: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends IV: Evidence of Things Not Seen
This listing is for the rescheduled date of this program. RSVPs from the original date will be honored here.
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends explores the moments that make up our lives in song. Works that bookend careers, meditate on...
Adult Book Club/Discussion: Diana Wynne Jones's "Cart and Cwidder"
Join the Diana Wynne Jones Adult Book Discussion as we discuss "Cart and Cwidder (Dalemark Book I)":
Cart and Cwidder is the first in the best-selling Dalemark Quartet of books and tells the story of Moril and his brother and sister who...
MAY
24
Virtual Kids Create! First 5 Years
Join us every Tuesday for a new art project you can easily replicate at home. These fun artistic exploration will help your little one develop their creativity and their fine motor skills.
New videos are posted...
Teen Grab and Go: BPL’s 125th Celebration Beaded Bracelets!
Calling all teens! Create your own beaded bracelets in honor of Brooklyn Public Library’s 125th birthday!
Each kit contains an arrangement of various shades of blue and white beads that can be made into any pattern of your choice, a pipe...
Bebés Geniales Bushwick and Brownsville
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...
Gathering Wool: knit and crochet
Join us for a virtual knitting/crocheting/needlework get together. Share your projects and your morning coffee.
Registered participants will receive an email with the Zoom link one hour before the program starts.
Green Market @ Cadman Plaza!
Your new Brooklyn Heights Library is opening June 8th - let's celebrate together!
Join us at the Green Market on Cadman Plaza on Tuesdays. We'll be there - with some giveaways! - to answer any questions about the new...
Virtual Resume & Career Help
Get assistance with your résumé, cover letter, or career-related questions, live with a librarian via Zoom.
Tech Help for your Job Search
Stop by to get answers to your tech questions and build your computer skills in:
Formatting & uploading resumes Formatting & uploading cover letters Navigating job application websites Filling out job applications...
OATS/BPL Technology For All Summer Series
Join us for a FREE 10-week technology course for adults ages 50 and over.
Tuesdays from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Topics:
All Things Zoom – April 26 Food Delivery Apps – May 3 How to Spot Fake News – May 10 Internet of...
Reliving Legends Photobooth
Ever wondered what it would be like to stand next to a legend?Well, now you can at the Clinton Hill branch!
Standing in front of a green screen, we'll insert you into an iconic black and white photograph of famous legends or...
Borough Park Presents Chair Zumba For Seniors
Chair Zumba for Seniors is a 30 minute, seated, gentle aerobics/physical therapy class for seniors and other people with mobility issues taught by Zumba Instructor Evie Aronson - who has several years of experience teaching this...
Kids Create! Grab & Go Kits - Tissue Paper Suncatchers
We are bringing back one of our favorite grab n' go kits. These kits have what you'll need to make suncatchers, a colorful craft that helps brighten up any well lit space. We give you some tissue paper, sticky contact paper, and string...
Dancercise: Dance, Move and Stretch with Akwesi Asante
Join our fifth virtual Dancercise workshop on Tuesday, 05/24 at 1:00 PM on Zoom. Lead by instructor Akwesi Asante, you will learn to do light movement, stretching, strengthening, breathwork, and self-massage techniques...
Grab & Go: Kids Create
Create something new and all your own! Pick up a Grab and Go Arts & Crafts kit from the second floor to take home and create! Limited kits available while supplies last.
*Kits may contain small parts that are not...
BKLYN Fashion Academy: Model Casting Calls
BKLYN Fashion Academy is back, and we are casting models for our Runway Show!
Models will also have the opportunity to be casted, with our partner, Fashion Week Brooklyn's showcases.
We are looking for womenswear models, ages...
Grab & Go: Kids Create
Create something new and all your own! Get a Grab and Go kit to take home and create! For kids age 5-12 years old. Kits available while supplies last.
*Kits contain small parts that are not suitable for young children ages 0-4...
Grab & Go STEAM Craft kit: Create your own Color Mixing Tops
What color would you get after mixing blue and yello? Let's find out in today's visual colormixing activity.
Recommended Age:Kids
This Grab & Go STEAM Craft Project is a blank DIY Puzzle, to decorate to...
Babies & Books (1:15 Session)
Explore books, sing songs, learn fingerplays, and meet other babies and caregivers! Best for 0-18 months.
Space is limited and registration is required. If the program fills, check our Babies and Books at 2:15pm.
Babies & Books
Lap songs, fingerplays, board books, and playtime for our littlest pre-readers! This program is designed for lap-sitting babies 0-12 months old and their caregivers. This program will be held in our beautiful Story Garden. In case of...
Inside Dyker: National Wildflower Week #PlantWildflowers Papercut with Master Mingliang Lu 学剪纸
As reported in the New York Times and seen at The American Museum of Natural History, Master Ming Liang Lu creates art using only a pair of scissors and a single piece of thin paper. His technique is a performance that must be seen to be believed...
Inside Dyker: National Wildflower Week #PlantWildflowers Papercut with Master Mingliang Lu 学剪纸
As reported in the New York Times and seen at The American Museum of Natural History, Master Ming Liang Lu creates art using only a pair of scissors and a single piece of thin paper. His technique is a performance that must be seen to be believed...
Creative Aging: Drawing & Watercolor Registration Closed
In this 7-weeks series, participants will develop drawing and watercolor painting skills through step-by-step demonstrations and exercises via Zoom.
This will end in a culminating event in which teacher will prepare a slide show of 2 – 3...
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...
Storytime in the Garden
Listen and grow through stories, songs, movement, play and experiences in our Reading Garden! We'll also make a visit and do an activity each week in our Demonstration Garden.
Physical distancing will be encouraged Masks are not...
Chair Yoga: Strengthen Your Body & Breathe
Chair Yoga is a great way for Older Adults to get the wonderful health benefits of yoga. Staying seated means that everyone can safely do the exercises. Yoga is an excellent way for Older Adults to loosen and stretch painful muscles, reduced...
Virtual Technology Program: Introduction to Linked In Learning from the Kings Bay Library
WHAT IS LINKED IN LEARNING?
LinkedIn Learning offers more than 16,000 online courses in seven languages, hosted by expert instructors with real-world experience. Courses on LinkedIn Learning include Leadership, Project Management, Mental...
