Events

The Library is here to help you learn and connect with your community through our wide array of free events, programs, classes, book clubs, and more. Please check listings to confirm if a program is in-person, online, or outdoors.

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10 events found.

Date/TimeTitle/DescriptionLocationAudience
Tue, April 2
@ 5:30 PM
Author at the Library
This program will be presented in-person at the Tompkins Square Library. The Tompkins Square Library is honored and delighted to welcome author Ada Calhoun to this seventh meeting of our monthly Adult Book Group. We will be discussing Ada's highly acclaimed non-fiction work, St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street (Norton, 2016) and Ada will be joining us to provide insight into the book and to answer questions from attendees. Copies of the book are available at and th…
Tompkins Square Library, BasementAdults,

Book Lovers
Thu, April 4
@ 6:30 PM
Author at the Library
Join us for an insightful and empowering panel discussion with Amy Chu, Arielle Jovellanos, Soo Lee, and Amy Reeder, as we delve into the diverse and influential roles women play in shaping the world of comics. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor. To join the event in person | Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who h…
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Event CenterAdults,

50+,

College & Graduate Students
Tue, April 16
@ 2 PM
Author at the Library
Join us for an author talk with bestselling author C.J. Tudor! This is an online event. C. J. Tudor is the author of The Drift, The Burning Girls, The Other People, The Hiding Place, and The Chalk Man, which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, the Barry Award, and the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel. Over the years she has worked as a copywriter, television presenter, voice-over artist, and dog walker. She is now thrilled to be able to write full-time, a…
Epiphany Library
Online via Google Meet
Adults
Thu, April 18
@ 5 PM
Author at the Library
This event is presented online via Google Meet by Todt Hill-Westerleigh Library. Some of the themes that will be found are loss, heartbreak, religion, soulmates, destiny and choice. Come along with us as we get to meet two extraordinary women as they meet their quest for matchmaking. We meet Sarah who was born during a time where women were not allowed to be in this profession and a lot of her work was done in secret. As years pass on, we meet Abby who is this lawyer but now inherits he…
Todt Hill-Westerleigh Library
Online
Adults
Thu, April 18
@ 6 PM
Author at the Library
This program will be presented in-person at the Tompkins Square Library. The Tompkins Square Library's popular year-long, monthly series devoted to East Village/Lower East Side music and writing, "The East Village in Music and Words," presents a very special event highlighting the history and creative work of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (NPC), a Lower East Side cultural icon since 1973. This program will feature a conversation between three extrordinary NPC artists, including Caridad de la Luz (a…
Tompkins Square Library, BasementAdults
Wed, April 24
@ 4 PM
Author at the Library
This event will take place in person and over Google Meet. Join Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Librarian in a discussion with comic book writer, Chris Condon, author of the popular series, That Texas Blood, as they talk about his writing and career and also his latest graphic novel,The Enfield Gang Massacre! Although not required to attend the program, feel free to place That Texas Blood on hold with your library card! Author Bios Chris Condon is the writer of the ongoing Image Comics serie…
Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library
Online via Google Meet
Adults,

Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years),

Young Adults/Pre GED (16-24 years)
Tue, April 30
@ 7 PM
Author at the Library
This program is in-person. Join the 53rd Street Library and journalist Elizabeth Winkler with Academy Award-winning actor Mark Rylance for an “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be. To attend, please RSVP using the 'Register Now' link below. Presenting her book, Shakespeare Was a Woman a…
53rd Street LibraryAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers,

Teachers
Fri, May 10
@ 6 PM
Author at the Library
Esta actividad es presencial - Incríbete haciendo click en "REGISTER NOW" aquí arriba. CUANDO SALÍ DE CUBA VIERNES, 10 DE MAYO, 2024 HORA: 6 PM SALA 303 - TERCER PISO Biblioteca Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library - 455 Quinta avenida, Nueva York, NY 10016 Entre los años 1966-1974 miles de niños salieron solos de Cuba hacia España con la idea de reunirse posteriormente con su familia en los Estados Unidos. Esta es la historia de los hermanos Remberto y María Luisa Pérez que, a través de…
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)Adults
Thu, May 30
@ 3 PM
Author at the Library
This event will take place over Google Meet. Join Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library in a discussion with author Natalie Jenner, bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society" and Bloomsbury Girls, as she talks about her latest book, Every Time We Say Goodbye! Book Description: In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. T…
Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library
Online via Google Meet
Adults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Tue, July 16
@ 6:30 PM
Author at the Library
Join Karen Berger, Amy Chu, and Soo Lee as they discuss their Bram Stoker Award nominated graphic novel series Carmilla. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 1st floor. Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was . . . CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care. A series of cl…
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)Adults,

50+,

College & Graduate Students