Bronx Library Center

Celebrate the Bronx’s new state-of-the-art Library Center with two days of free music, dance, theater, and lots of family fun!

SATURDAY JANUARY 21, 2006
10 am to 5 pm

Concourse Level - Auditorium

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Louie and Subanda!
Interactive family fun and music

1:00 – 1:45 pm

The Simple Stories
Adaptation of Langston Hughes’s Simple Stories presented by WorkShop Theater

2:30 – 3:15 pm

Arthur Aviles Typical Theater
Contemporary dance

4:00 – 5:00 pm

Ibrahim González Orchestra
Ten-piece contemporary salsa band

First Floor
10:00 am – 3:00 pm

The Valentinos
Classic doo wop from the Bronx

10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Willie Guzman
Balloon twister

10:30 am – 2:30 pm

Julie Pasqual
Stilt Walker and Entertainer

Second Floor

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Maria Sangiolo
Singer-songwriter presents “Fairy Houses – Fairy Moon”

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Sandra & Myles Pinkney
Author and Illustrator of the award-winning children’s book Shades of Black, published by Scholastic

3:30 – 4:15 pm

Storyteller Julie Pasqual
Loud and rowdy tales for kids

Third Floor

12:00 – 2:00 pm

Ice Sculpture Designs
Live demonstrations on the Reading Terrace

2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm

Suitcase Players
Delightful and zany theater troupe performs 15-minute versions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

Fourth Floor

10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Angel Rodriguez
Percussionist

2:00 – 5:00 pm Trio Sentimiento Latino
Romantic Spanish ballads
 

 

SUNDAY JANUARY 22, 2006
1 pm to 5 pm

Concourse Level – Auditorium
1:30 – 2:00 pm
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Drum Café NY
Everyone in the audience drums along with this exciting percussion group
3:00 – 3:30 pm

Retumba: A Caribbean Journey
Afro-Caribbean dance and percussion group

4:00 – 5:00 pm

Ray Mantilla Quintet
Latin jazz master and his band

First Floor
1:00 – 5:00 pm

The Valentinos
Classic doo wop from the Bronx

1:00 – 4:00 pm

Laine Barton
Stilt Walker and Entertainer

1:00 – 5:00 pm

Willie Guzman
Balloon twister

Second Floor – Children’s Reading Room
1:30 – 2:30 pm Felix Pitre
Latin American singer-storyteller presents “Animal Tales”
3:30 – 4:30 pm Felix Pitre
Latin American singer-storyteller presents “Stories & Songs of Latin America”

Third Floor

1:30 – 4:30 pm

Ebony Hillbillies
Old-time string band

Fourth Floor
1:00 – 4:00 pm

Mariachi Real de Mexico
Traditional Mexican music

For more information:
  • phone: (718) 579-4244
  • TTY: (718) 579-4244
  • email: bronxlibrarycenter
    @nypl.org

Throughout both days:
  • Informative Tours of the new library leave from the main desk on the 1st floor, every hour on the hour.
  • Meet & Greet Scholastic Characters: Clifford the Big Red Dog® and Maya & Miguel™
  • “Make and Take” Kids Bookmark Activity
  • Surprise Story Time

This building was generously funded by The State of New York: George A. Pataki, Governor; Charles A. Gargano, Chairman, Empire State Development Corporation; the New York State Assembly and Assemblyman José Rivera; and The City of New York: Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor; A. Gifford Miller, City Council Speaker; Adolfo Carrión, Jr., Bronx Borough President; the Bronx City Council Delegation and City Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera.

A major grant from Roger and Susan Hertog provided lead private support for the Bronx Library Center. Support for cultural programming was provided by a generous grant from Bank of America, with additional funding from the New York Community Trust.

More information about the Bronx Library Center

 

Travel Directions

Subway

D Train imageB Train image – to Fordham Rd.; follow signs indicating exit to Grand Concourse and 188th St. On Grand Concourse walk north one block to Fordham Road, then east two blocks to East Kingsbridge Road.

#1 Train image – to 207th St.; change to BX12 bus eastbound to Marion Ave.; walk two blocks west to Kingsbridge Road, then north on Kingsbridge Road.

#2 Train image – to White Plains Rd. and Pelham Parkway; then take BX12 bus west to Decatur/Marion Aves.; Walk three blocks west to Kingsbridge Road; then north on Kingsbridge Road.

Metro North – to Fordham Rd.; walk west four blocks, then north on Kingsbridge Road.

Bus

BX12 –to Valentine Avenue and East Fordham Road; walk east on East Fordham Road, keeping left, one curved block to East Kingsbridge Road then north on East Kingsbridge Road half a block.

BX9 –Going south: to Fordham Road and East Kingsbridge Road. Then back on East Kingsbridge Road half a block. Going north: to East Kingsbridge Road. Bus stops across the street from the library.

BX1, BX2 - to Fordham Road; walk east two blocks on East Fordham Road, keeping left, to East Kingsbridge Road; then north on East Kingsbridge Road half a block.

BX15, BX17, BX22, BX55 – to Fordham Plaza; walk west three blocks then north on East Kingsbridge Road half a block.

BX41 – to Fordham Road; walk west three blocks then north on East Kingsbridge Road half a block.

BX28, BX34 –to 192nd Street, Valentine Avenue and East Kingsbridge Road. Walk south on East Kingsbridge Road half a block.

Liberty Lines Express Bus: BXM4, 4A, 4B – Grand Concourse to Fordham Road; walk east on East Fordham Road, keeping left, two blocks to East Kingsbridge Road then north on East Kingsbridge Road half a block.