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LIVE from the NYPL is the public programming series at The New York Public Library. Curated by Director, Paul Holdengräber, LIVE is "Cognitive Theater!"  With a mission to provoke, engage, enlighten, instigate and agitate the mind, LIVE IS: provocative conversations, real debates, irresistible performances, original ideas.

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LEARNING FROM THE ABSURD:
A Conversation with William Kentridge

Paul Holdengräber hosts William Kentridge, in a conversation about Gogol, Shostakovich, and Kentridge’s creative process.

In Collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera

Friday, March 12, 2010
7:00PM in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library

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GEORGE CARLIN: A TRIBUTE
Hosted by  WHOOPI GOLDBERG

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
7:00PM in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library

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DAVID REMNICK & Ta-Nehisi Coates
in conversation
THE BRIDGE: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
7:00PM in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library

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GEORGE PROCHNIK
in conversation with
Paul Holdengräber & others
In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise

Friday, April 9, 2010
7:00PM in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library

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PETER CAREY
in conversation with Paul Holdengräber & others
Parrot and Olivier

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
7:00PM in the South Court Auditorium of The New York Public Library

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PHILIP PULLMAN
in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
7:00pm in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library

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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Hitch 22: Some Confessions and Contradictions
A Memoir

Friday, June 4, 2010
7:00pm in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library

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JOHN WATERS
in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Role Models

Monday, June 7, 2010
7:00pm in the South Court Auditorium of The New York Public Library

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LENA HERZOG in conversation with  LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Lost Souls

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
7:00pm in the South Court Auditorium of The New York Public Library

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THE WORLD CUP
An evening celebrating and exploring the cultural, political, and literary nuances of soccer.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
7:00pm in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library

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Made possible with generous support from Celeste and Armand Bartos and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund.

Events take place either in the Celeste Bartos Forum or the South Court Auditorium. Both of these rooms are inside The New York Public Library building on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, adjacent to Bryant Park.

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