Today's Events for Adults at NYPL for Manhattan

Investment Choices: What is Right for Me. @ Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL)

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 21 at 12:15 PM — This class is designed to help investors focus on their goals, to recognize the potential risks and rewards of different investments, to teach some basic information about different asset types, and to help match individual goals to investment choices. Also, we review useful information sources.

RefUSA: Company Information for Job Hunting & Business Leads @ Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL)

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 21 at 2:00 PM — Learn about using RefUSA, an online company directory, to customize your company list, using research strategies, and locate the desirable companies to contact for employment or business leads. Bring a flashdrive to download your search results!

Spreadsheet Basics with MS Excel 2003 @ Mid-Manhattan Library, Technology Training Center

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 21 at 2:30 PM — Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to the features of Excel 2003. Topics include entering text & formulas, moving & copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets. Online registration begins Tuesday, July 14 at 1:00pm. This class takes place on the 4th floor from 2:30pm-4:30pm.

Discovering Primary Sources @ Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 21 at 3:15 PM — Primary sources provide firsthand evidence of historical events from the perspective of someone who was there. This class offers an overview of how to use primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, and how to locate primary sources both here at NYPL and on the web.

Job Search and Career Change: Demonstrate Your Strengths @ Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL)

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 21 at 5:30 PM — Two-Session Workshop: Tuesdays, July 21 & 28, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Knowing your own strengths, and putting them across effectively, adds real power to your quest in the job market. This workshop will be an opportunity to focus anew on what you have to offer that employers want. Both sessions (July 21 and 28) will feature individual and group exercises that include clarifying your assets, creating a nutshell introduction, and rehearsing how to showcase yourself in your resume, profiles, networking and interviews. Instructor: Lee Frankel, a career coach and marketing writer, helps job seekers develop the skills and tools required for success in their search. She is an expert in resumes, cover letters, profiles and interviews, and a specialist in company branding, product promotion, and client communications. Lee’s motto is: When you succeed, I succeed.” Prerequisites: Five+ years of employment experience and a complete, current resume. You are required to submit your resume with your registration. Workshop is limited to 10 participants, and a commitment to attend both of the two sessions is necessary. Registration is by email only. Send your resume to sibleref@nypl.org with a message in the subject line: Job SearchTuesdays 7/21 & 7/28-Application. You will be notified by email if your registration is accepted. Please note: Due to the nature of this workshop a very limited number of applicants will be accepted.

Play Reading by Reading67 @ 67th Street Library

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 21 at 5:45 PM — Please join us for a staged reading of a play by Marc Lamberg.

"Creating Green Collar Jobs," with Omar Freilla, founder of Green Worker Cooperatives and winner of the Jane Jacobs medal for significant contributions in urban design and Mo George, Cooperative Organizer with over 10 years of organizing experience. @ Mid-Manhattan Library

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 21 at 6:30 PM — Learn about the new wave of green collar jobs and how local community organizations are training South Bronx residents to launch their own green worker owned businesses.

PowerPoint Basics with MS PowerPoint 2003 @ Mid-Manhattan Library, Technology Training Center

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 21 at 6:30 PM — Hands on using wireless laptops. Topics include the basic features of PowerPoint 2003. Start PowerPoint, create a presentation, copy a slide from one presentation into another, create a specified type of slide, delete slides, change the layout for one or more slides, apply formatting, preview and save a new presentation. Online registration begins Tuesday, July 14 at 1:00pm. This class takes place on the 4th floor from 6:30pm-8:30pm.

Jill Kupin Rose Gallery - Ongoing @ Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jan 1 — This ongoing exhibition consists of large wall panels with photographs, text, objects, and videos illustrating the history and the vast array of collections, services, and users of The New York Public Library's Branch and Research Libraries. The Jill Kupin Rose Gallery was created in 1998 by former New York Public Library Chairman Marshall Rose in memory of his late wife, Jill Kupin Rose.

St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Bicentennial Exhibition @ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

May 3 — St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Bicentennial Exhibition presents the 200 year history of St. Philip’s, from 1809 to 2009. Notable church members include Rev. Peter Williams Jr., James McCune Smith, Elizabeth Jennings, Kenneth Clarke, and Thurgood Marshall.

Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files @ New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jun 10 — Katharine Hepburn’s elevation to the status of “icon” was due undoubtedly to her singular success on the screen. But her acting career began on the stage and it was there that she honed the skills that would later serve her so well in Hollywood. Yet even after her stature as a screen actress was solidified, she returned repeatedly to the stage, where each time she found new challenges, new audiences, new risks, and, more than once, failure. Her role models as serious actresses (Jane Cowl, Katharine Cornell, Lynn Fontanne) avoided film work, so she served as the role model for the current generation.

The Katharine Hepburn Papers, Billy Rose Theatre Division, document the actress’s life and stage career from the late 1920s through the mid-1990s. Among the papers are typescripts (some—like the script for Coco—annotated in Hepburn’s hand),hundreds of photographs (publicity shots and formal portraiture as well as informal snapshots and rehearsal candids, scrapbooks, promotional ephemera, and sixty years of correspondence includes fan mail, congratulatory notes, and general letters from such notable friends and admirers as Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Richard Burton, George Cukor, Vivien Leigh, Peter O’Toole, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Gielgud, and Joan Crawford, among scores of others. A few personal notes are signed “Pot,” Hepburn’s pet name for long-time friend Spencer Tracy. A journal of sorts (1950–51) contains an account of her arrest for speeding in Kansas—a minor misadventure during which, in typical Hepburn fashion, she proclaimed the arresting officer “a moron.” Notable also are a copy of a curtain speech she delivered in tribute to the fallen students at Kent State and an impassioned plea she composed for Joe Papp’s Save-the-Theatres campaign. Also included are such unique items as her annotated vocal exercises, pages and pages of handwritten rehearsal notes, and a rather severe full-length photo of her from The Big Pond in 1930, a production she appeared in for one night only before being fired.

Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath @ New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jun 26 — Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath, curated by dance historian Lynn Garafola, celebrates the legendary company that transformed 20th-century ballet and made it modern. Founded in 1909 by the Russian impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev, the Ballets Russes taught audiences to hear, see, and respond to the art of the moving body in unprecedented ways. For the 20 years of its existence, a new repertory came into being—now-classic works like Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides and Petrouchka, Vaslav Nijinsky's L'Après-midi d'un Faune, and George Balanchine's Apollon Musagète and Prodigal Son—choreographed by artists whose talents Diaghilev was quick to discern and passionate to guide. He carried his quest for new expressive forms to music and design, commissioning scores from Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Manuel de Falla, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, and Darius Milhaud, thus creating a new body of work both for ballet and for the concert hall. The list of his painters, headed by Pablo Picasso, Natalia Goncharova, and Henri Matisse, reads like a who's who of international modernism, underscoring the fact that Diaghilev's stage also served as a gallery of modern art.

The influence of the Ballets Russes reverberated throughout the dance world. After his death in 1929, this legacy was most closely identified with the companies directed by Colonel Wassily de Basil and Sergei Denham that took over not only the name of their legendary predecessor but also selected repertory, personnel, and an increasingly diluted notion of Russianness.

To celebrate the centennial of the Ballets Russes, Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels will depict this remarkable era of 20th-century dance history through visual, documentary, and recorded materials from various divisions of The New York Public Library. Drawing on the unparalleled resources of the Library's Slavic and East European Collections, which include the book collections of Diaghilev's two greatest Imperial patrons, Grand Dukes Vladimir and Sergei, the exhibition will highlight Diaghilev's St. Petersburg career as an exhibition curator, author, and the founding editor of the art journal Mir iskusstva. His career as the indefatigable captain of the Ballets Russes, his passionate quest for new forms, commitment to developing young talent, and far-ranging influence will be told through the Jerome Robbins Dance Division's dazzling collection of designs, drawings, photos, souvenir programs, rare books, scrapbooks, magazines, and archival documents, including one of Diaghilev's "black books," in which he jotted notes about repertory and other matters, as well as artifacts from the Music and Billy Rose Theatre divisions, and a small number of private and institutional lenders.

Evolution @ Hamilton Grange Library

2009-07-21 1:10 AM

Jul 1 — Ms. Barnett, a resident of Harlem was born in Jamaica, West Indies. Although having no formal training, she loved to sketch the beautiful memories of her homeland, scenes of the colorful houses and palm trees. In December 2002, Ms. Barnett officially debuted as an artist to overwhelming success. Opening Ceremony-July 1st, 2009 from 5-7 pm