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Title |
Description |
Location |
10:00 AM
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"Click-on the Web." |
An introduction to the Computer and Internet for children ages 5 to 12 and parent/caregiver.
Audience: children.
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Allerton Branch
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10:30 AM
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"Toddler Time." |
Picture book stories, fingerplay and songs for toddler ages 18 to 36 months old with parent/caregiver.
Audience: children.
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Inwood Branch
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10:30 AM
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"Tales for Toddlers." |
Stories, songs, seasonal poems finger plays and felt board illustrations make books come alive. Recommended for children ages 18 to 36 months old with their parents/ caregivers. Presented by Jeannette Ornstein.
Audience: children.
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Kingsbridge Branch
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10:30 AM
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"Toddler Tuesday." |
Picture book stories and songs for 13 to 26 months old with their parent/caregiver.
Audience: children.
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Riverdale Branch
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10:30 AM
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"Toddler Time." |
Picture book stories, fingerplay and songs for toddler ages 18 to 36 months old with parent/caregiver.
Audience: children.
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Seward Park Branch
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10:30 AM
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"Preschool Time." |
Stories, craft and music for preschoolers' ages 3 to 5. Preregistration is required.
Audience: children.
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Todt Hill-Westerleigh Branch
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10:30 AM
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"Baby Lapsit." |
Songs, rhymes movement and picture books for babies from birth to 23 months old with parent/caregiver. Preregistration is required two weeks prior to program.
Audience: children.
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West New Brighton Branch
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11:00 AM
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"Blooming Babies." |
Story and activity hour to help your tot blossom, for babies and toddlers to 4 years old.
Audience: children.
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Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library
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11:00 AM
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"Baby Lapsit/Toddler Time." |
Songs, rhymes movement and picture books for new born baby to 36 months old with parent/caregiver.
Audience: children.
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Hamilton Grange Branch
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11:00 AM
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"Mother Goose Time." |
Songs, rhymes movement and picture books for ages 0 to 3 years old with parent/caregiver.
Audience: children.
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Soundview Branch
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11:00 AM
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"Toddler Time." |
Stories, fingerplay and songs for toddler ages 1 to 4 years old with parent/caregiver.
Audience: children.
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Van Nest Branch
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11:30 AM
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Picture Book Time |
For ages 3 to 5.
Audience: children.
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Soundview Branch
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1:00 PM
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Book Discussion |
Group will discuss Three Plays by Eugene O'Neill.
Audience: adults.
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Spuyten Duyvil Branch
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1:30 PM
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Book Discussion |
Group will discuss The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
Audience: adults.
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Throg's Neck Branch
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2:15 PM
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Haggadah 2.0 |
In April 2005, the Library exhibition "I am the Rose" celebrated a gift from the Rose family of a three-volume 20th-century illuminated haggadah (see page XX for the Library’s annual exhibition of a selection from the Rose Haggadah). For over half a century the Roses have commissioned major artists to add their interpretations of the Exodus theme to the haggadah for the extended family's seder. This extraordinary family haggadah serves as a starting point for an exploration of the ways in which successive generations have used the haggadah, and now emerging technologies, as a vehicle to express a particular experience within the context of an enduring universal narrative.
Cost: FREE.
Room: South Court Classrooms
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Humanities and Social Sciences Library
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3:30 PM
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MyTime Teen Tech Lab |
Need more time to IM, game, chat, email, research or do homework? If so, this hands-on, hour-long, teens-only computer lab time is just for you! For ages 12-18.
Audience: young adults.
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67th Street Branch
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3:30 PM
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Film |
For ages 4 to 8.
Audience: children.
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Jefferson Market Branch
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3:30 PM
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Picture Book Time |
For ages 6 to 8.
Audience: children.
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Morrisania Branch
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3:30 PM
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"Teen Advisory Group." |
What's on your mind? Choose events that will happen in your library! Help make it the place you want it to be. What's your fave book, song, magazine and movie? Voice your opinion! Advise the Library on what's hot and what's not. Earn community service credit for your school! Teens ages 10 to 18 are welcome.
Audience: young adults.
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Muhlenberg Branch
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3:30 PM
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Paint On Silk! With Patricia Jacobs |
Create your own patterns in this special textile design workshop using silk and paint! Artist , designer and fashion columnist Patricia Jacobs explains it all! Check her out at www.pjcobbsarts.com. For ages 12-18. All materials will be provided. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Christine Quinn and The City of New York.
Audience: young adults.
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Muhlenberg Branch
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3:30 PM
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"Tipingee, Brer Rabbit and the Mouse that Barked." |
Stories presented by LuAnn Adams for children ages 5 to 12. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member James Vacca and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Throg's Neck Branch
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3:30 PM
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Arts & Crafts |
For ages 4 to 8.
Audience: children.
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Tompkins Square Branch
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4:00 PM
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"How the Monkey Tricked the Crocodile and other Trickster Tales." |
Presented by Regina Ress. Recommended for children ages 5 to 12. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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96th Street Branch
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4:00 PM
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Arts & Crafts |
For ages 5 to 12.
Audience: children.
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125th Street Branch
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4:00 PM
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Make Your Own Belt Buckle With Susan Hale |
Bling out this spring by designing your own belt buckle with photographs, jewels and more! Al materials will be supplied. For ages 12-18. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Melissa Mark Viverito and The City of New York.
Audience: young adults.
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125th Street Branch
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4:00 PM
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Picture Book Time |
For ages 3 and older.
Audience: children.
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Belmont Branch
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4:00 PM
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Picture Book Time |
For ages 4 to 12.
Audience: children.
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Belmont Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Cool Rainforest Connections." |
Join super hero, Captain Cocoa on an adventure to save the rainforest and discover that it might be the average person who can really save the day. Presented by the Wildlife Theater from the Central Park Zoo. Recommended for children ages 4 to 10. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Melissa Mark Viverito and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Bloomingdale Branch
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4:00 PM
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Game On @ The Library |
You want games? We got games! Play your favorite Playstation 3 and Wii games like Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, Mario Party and more! Challenge yourself and your friends! Create your own tournament in The Library! For ages 12-18.|
Audience: young adults.
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Bronx Library Center
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4:00 PM
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Picture Book Time |
For ages 3 to 8.
Audience: children.
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Bronx Library Center
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4:00 PM
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Picture Book Time |
For all ages.
Audience: children.
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Columbus Branch
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4:00 PM
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Teen Advisory Group |
What's on your mind? Choose events that will happen in your library! Help make it the place you want it to be. What's your fave book, song, magazine and movie? Voice your opinion! Advise the Library on what's hot and what's not. Earn community service credit for your school! Teens ages 12 to 18 are welcome.
Audience: young adults.
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Donnell Library Center
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4:00 PM
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Teen Advisory Group |
What's on your mind? Choose events that will happen in your library! Help make it the place you want it to be. What's your fave book, song, magazine and movie? Voice your opinion! Advise the Library on what's hot and what's not. Earn community service credit for your school! Teens ages 12 to 18 are welcome.
Audience: young adults.
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Donnell Library Center, Teen Central at Nathan Straus Young Adult Center
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4:00 PM
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"Big Jeff Music." |
Presented by award-winning singer/songwriter “Big Jeff” DeSmedt. For children ages birth to 4 years old and their families.
Audience: children.
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Early Childhood Resource & Information Center
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4:00 PM
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"Song and Play Time." |
Presented by Ivan Ulz. For children ages 2 to 4 with parent/caregiver.
Audience: children.
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Early Childhood Resource & Information Center
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4:00 PM
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"Drawing your Favorite Manga Characters." |
Learn to draw to your favorite Manga characters with Mark Z-man. Recommended for ages 5 to 12. Preregistration is required. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Larry B. Seabrook and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Eastchester Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Beyond Cat's Cradle." |
A workshop with string figures presented by Tom Cutrofello. Recommended for ages 7 to 11. Preregistration is required. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Miguel Martinez and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Fort Washington Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Sensational Sharks." |
Explore the biology of these majestic creatures. Presented by the Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation. Recommended for ages 6 to 12. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Robert Jackson and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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George Bruce Branch
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4:00 PM
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Get Food Smart With Green Gourmet! |
Are you really what you eat? Find out in this special, organic vegetarian cooking series with Elizabeth Johnson and Ludie Minaya. All materials will be supplied. For ages 12-18. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Robert Jackson and The City of New York.
Audience: young adults.
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George Bruce Branch
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4:00 PM
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Teen Advisory Group |
What's on your mind? Choose events that will happen in your library! Help make it the place you want it to be. What's your fave book, song, magazine and movie? Voice your opinion! Advise the Library on what's hot and what's not. Earn community service credit for your school! Teens ages 12 to 18 are welcome.
Audience: young adults.
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George Bruce Branch
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4:00 PM
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"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." |
Leap into to the exquisite Land of Narnia! In a mysterious old house children find a musty, magical wardrobe containing a secret entrance that leads them into a fantastic world. More than just a delicious story of make-believe, C.S. Lewis' Narnia is a land where a malicious Witch, and a beautiful and dear Lion touch the hearts and influence the choices of all who enter. Presented by the Traveling Lantern Theatre Company. Recommended for ages 4 and older. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Robert Jackson and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Hamilton Grange Branch
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4:00 PM
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Sing Out! With Grace Testani! |
Are you a karaoke diva? Or do you prefer to sing in the shower? Hone your vocal talents in this special workshop with vocal coach Grace Testani! Learn to sing your favorite songs in the style you want: hip-hop, reggae, heavy metal, pop, and more! For ages 12-18. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Miguel Martinez and The City of New York.
Audience: young adults.
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Inwood Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Spiders." |
Explore how various species of spiders create different types of webs. Draw your own web design using the letters in your name. Presented by the Children's Museum of Manhattan. Recommended for children ages 5 to 10. Preregistration is required. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Jefferson Market Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Space Oddities: The Sun." |
Discover how the sun produces heat and light and explore how it sustains life on earth. Presented by the Children's Museum of Manhattan. Recommended for children ages 6 to 11. Preregistration is required. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member G. Oliver Koppell and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Mosholu Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Art Adventures: Geometric Shapes." |
Create a geometric shape collage experimenting with color and size in design. Then play the geometric shape twister game. Presented by the Children's Museum of Manhattan. Recommended for children ages 3 to 4 with parent/ caregiver. Preregistration is required.
Audience: children.
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Mulberry Street Branch
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4:00 PM
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Teen Advisory Group |
What's on your mind? Choose events that will happen in your library! Help make it the place you want it to be. What's your fave book, song, magazine and movie? Voice your opinion! Advise the Library on what's hot and what's not. Earn community service credit for your school! Teens ages 12 to 18 are welcome.
Audience: young adults.
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Ottendorfer Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Recycled Technology Art." |
Join Beth Bennett and create a unique 3-D mixed media relief sculpture using recycled materials, watercolors and much more! An Erik Wood workshop recommended for ages 4 to 12. Preregistration is required. Attendance is suggested a both sessions: May 6 and May 13. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Annabel Palma and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Parkchester Branch
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4:00 PM
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Arts & Crafts |
For ages 4 to 11. Preregistration is required.
Audience: children.
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Port Richmond Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Junior Reactors." |
Create a tiny world of atoms with your very own set of atomic coins. Learn to recognize chemical reactions and mix up a few reactive ingredients for some sensational results. Presented by Mad Science of Staten Island. Recommended for ages 6 to 12. Preregistration is required. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Vincent Ignizio and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Richmondtown Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Space Oddities: The Moon." |
Create your own moon calendar and learn about the lunar phases. And make your own telescope and discover how astronomers such as Galileo first used them to look at the moons of Jupiter. Presented by the Children's Museum of Manhattan. Recommended for children ages 6 to 11. Preregistration is required. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Rosie Mendez and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Seward Park Branch
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4:00 PM
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Film |
For ages 5 to 12.
Audience: children.
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Soundview Branch
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4:00 PM
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Picture Book Time |
For all ages.
Audience: children.
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South Beach Branch
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4:00 PM
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Picture Book Time |
For all ages.
Audience: children.
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Stapleton Branch
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4:00 PM
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"Circus Tales." |
Storyteller Julie Pasqual combines folk tales with puppets, clown makeup and stilts. Recommended for children ages 6 to 12. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Larry B. Seabrook and The City of New York.
Audience: children.
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Wakefield Branch
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4:00 PM
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Picture Book Time |
For ages 3 to 6.
Audience: children.
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Webster Branch
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4:00 PM
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Make Jewelry With Jennifer Jacobs! |
Get your bling on this spring by making your own jewelry from marbles! Jennifer Jacobs, jewelry designer extraordinaire, sells her own creations in showcases, exhibitions, major stores like Barneys and more! All materials will be provided. For ages 12-18. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Larry B. Seabrook and The City of New York.
Audience: young adults.
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Baychester Branch
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4:00 PM
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Manga Drawing Workshop With Ivan Velez |
Are you a manga maniac? If so, then create your own characters and storylines in this special comics workshop with artist and educator Ivan Velez, author of Tales Out of the Closet and editor of Dead High Yearbook. All materials will be provided. For ages 12-18. This program was generously funded through the Cultural After School Adventure Program by New York City Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo and The City of New York.|
Audience: young adults.
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Woodstock Branch
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5:30 PM
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How to Transition Your eBay® Hobby into a Thriving Business. |
Take advantage of the 200 million people in the eBay marketplace to turn your hobby into a profitable business. Whether you do eBay full-time or part-time, learn to work smart to maximize your sales efforts, minimize your taxes, and avoid trouble. A presentation by Barbara Weltman, a noted small business and eBay expert
Cost: Free.
Room: Room 018
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Science, Industry and Business Library
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6:00 PM
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"The Great War of the Architects: Religious Architecture in New York during the Victorian Period"
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An illustrated lecture given by Dr. Ronald J. Brown, assistant professor of history, ethnic studies, and political science at Touro College and adjunct professor of world religions at Unification Theological Seminary. Presented by the Victorian Society.
Audience: adults.
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Donnell Library Center
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6:00 PM
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Game On @ The Library |
You want games? We got games! Play your favorite Playstation 3 and Wii games like Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, Mario Party and more! Challenge yourself and your friends! Create your own tournament in The Library! For ages 12-18.|
Audience: young adults.
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Donnell Library Center
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6:00 PM
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Game On @ The Library |
You want games? We got games! Play your favorite Playstation 3 and Wii games like Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, Mario Party and more! Challenge yourself and your friends! Create your own tournament in The Library! For ages 12-18.|
Audience: young adults.
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Donnell Library Center, Teen Central at Nathan Straus Young Adult Center
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6:00 PM
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S.C.O.R.E Business Workshop |
Get free, confidential business advice from a business expert.
Audience: adults.
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New Dorp Branch
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6:00 PM
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Book Discussion |
Group will discuss Summer by Edith Wharton.
Audience: adults.
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Tremont Branch
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6:00 PM
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Periodically Speaking |
Each event presents writers from three influential literary magazines One Story, Aufgabe and Ep;phany (one poet, one fiction writer, one nonfiction writer) introduced by their publishers/editors.
Cost: Free.
Room: DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room
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Humanities and Social Sciences Library
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6:30 PM
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Poetry about Poetry: One Page Poetry Circle @ Bloomingdale |
The One Page Poetry Circle is open to all who are interested in poetry. Bring a single page of poetry by a known poet, plus your thoughts and curiosity about the poems others bring. The Circle will be moderated by Abigail Burnham Bloom, PhD in English literature and AnnaLee Wilson, MFA.
Audience: adults.
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Bloomingdale Branch
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6:30 PM
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Author @ the Library presents: "Heroes, Lovers & Others: The History of Latinos in Hollywood, with Clara Rodríguez.
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See a slide lecture about the long and engrossing history of Latino film stars, and hear a series of stories about some of Hollywood's most famous and enduring stars - from Desi Arnaz to Ramon Novarro, and Dolores Del Rio to Rita Hayworth. The lives of these amazing people are full of triumph and pathos, determination and lucky breaks.|
Audience: children, adults.
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Mid-Manhattan Library
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6:30 PM
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Book Discussion |
Group will discuss Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert|
Audience: adults.
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Ottendorfer Branch
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6:30 PM
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Book Discussion |
Group will discuss Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.
Audience: adults.
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Woodlawn Heights Branch
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7:00 PM
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PHILIP GOUREVITCH & ERROL MORRIS
Carne Ross, moderator:
Standard Operating Procedure |
All I did was what I was told to do. I didn’t make the war. I can’t end the war. I mean, photographs can’t just make or change a war. It just doesn’t make sense. I mean, how do people see me as the villain? The government is just putting the blame on me because they can—just like a decoy. I can’t get mad. I mean, I’m over it. I’m fine. I mean, I’m not fine with it but whatever.
---Private First Class Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib, 2003.
From Standard Operating Procedure
When the infamous photographs from Abu Ghraib prison were first made public four years ago, they seemed to constitute an awesome expose of the profound corruption of America’s response to September 11th. The sanction of torture, and the decriminalization of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners in wartime, have become defining legacies of the current Administration—and have given us the defining images of America’s changing standing in the eyes of the world. But it didn’t take long for the soldiers who took and appeared in the Abu Ghraib photographs to be singled out as depraved rogues, when in fact they were implementing America’s de facto policy in Iraq. Just as criminality had become the norm, the expose now became the cover-up.
Now, two of our keenest moral and political observers, author Philip Gourevitch and filmmaker Errol Morris, have taken on the story of the soldiers who took and appeared in the photographs—and they have produced a war story that explores the horror at the core of the ongoing campaign to fight terror with terror. In their new book, Standard Operating Procedure, Gourevitch and Morris expand on the investigation Morris conducted for his just-released film of the same title, to tell the story of Abu Ghraib from the inside out and the bottom up.
Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris will be joined by Carne Ross to discuss the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Grraib prison based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the Americans involved.
About Philip Gourevitch
Philip Gourevitch is the author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and A Cold Case. He is the editor of The Paris Review and a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker.
About Errol Morris
Errol Morris is a filmmaker, the Academy Award-winning director of The Fog of War, and the recipient of a MacArthur genius award. His other films include Mr. Death, Fast Cheap & Out of Control, A Brief History of Time, and The Thin Blue Line.
About Carne Ross
Carne Ross was the UK's Iraq specialist at the United Nations Security Council from 1997-2002, where he worked on weapons of mass destruction and sanctions. After giving secret evidence to an official inquiry into the Iraq war, he resigned from the British diplomatic service and founded Independent Diplomat, the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group. He is author of Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite.
Cost: $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification
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Room: Celeste Bartos Forum
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Humanities and Social Sciences Library
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