Events

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This event will take place in person at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 Register Here About this event 2 hours 30 minutes Join The New York Public Library's Center for Educators and Schools for a special screening of The Truth About Reading (2023). This powerful documentary explores the current state of literacy across the nation, shedding light on challenges and opportunities for parents, teachers and students. Following the screening, we will…

This event will take place in person at Francis Martin Library. Do you want to learn about computers? Do you want to be a techie? Here is a list of possible one-on-one computer sessions you can inquire about our staff. Our computer classes take place Monday - Friday for 1 hour. Possible topics of interest include: . Internet Basic . Online Shopping . Understanding your SmartPhone . Email Basic . Facebook Basic . Online Banking . SimplyE . Resume Basic . Google Drive/Docs Learn…

This event is online only. Register About this event 1 hour Join The New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools and Kareen Khubchandani in a conversation about the so-called “dangers” of drag, which has been challenged by our society for a number of motives and reasons, to confront misconceptions, challenge censorship, and discuss how we can work toward a more equitable future for all. Educator, scholar, and performer Kareem Khubchandani will guide audiences through th…

Author Jasper Fforde joins us to discuss his new book Red Side Story. This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 1st floor. Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something That Happened” five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision–segregated, everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Col…

This event is online only. Register About this event 1 hour Join The New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools in taking a close look at how Black Americans navigated the complex history of emancipation through primary sources from our free curriculum guide, To Make Public Our Joy: Black New Yorkers Commemorating Emancipation, 1808–1865. This will be followed with a look into video oral histories from HistoryMakers, an extensive database of oral histories spanning dec…

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…