Welcome to our biweekly update on events happening during the next two weeks at The New York Public Library. With 92 locations across New York City, a lot is happening at the Library. We're highlighting some of our events here—including author talks, free classes, community art shows, performances, concerts, and exhibitions—and you can always find more at nypl.org/events. If you want our round-up in your inbox, sign up here. We look forward to seeing you at the Library.  

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

6/2: The Library After Hours: Latin America Inside Out: Priority Access Tickets are now available for The Library After Hours, the city's most cerebral happy hour. This June's program features the Library's latest exhibition, Viewpoints: Latin America in Photographs. Take a guided tour of the exhibition, which features over 100 images from the Library's collections. Music DJ'ed by friends from Luaka Bop records, and special food, drinks, and photography activities will round out the evening. Priority Access Ticket holders will be able to enter from 7 to 7:30 PM; starting at 7:30 PM, entrance is first come, first served. Must be 21+ to attend. 7 PM.

5/12: The Path Forward: Our Age of Anxiety: New Yorker staff writer George Packer and National Review executive editor Reihan Salam discuss civics, politics, and sociopolitical questions in our modern age of anxiety, moderated by the President of The New York Public Library, Anthony Marx. 6:30 PM.

5/10: Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth: Historian Holger Hoock discusses the violence of the American Revolutionary War, as described in his new book Scars of Independence, with Lapham's Quarterly founder and editor, Lewis Lapham. 6:30 PM.

5/16: Journalism in the Age of Trump, Part 2: Join Katherine Boo, Philip Gourevitch, and Anand Giridharadas for a conversation on the shifting responsibilities, purposes, and even definitions of American journalism—part of a series of programs and podcasts celebrating the 30th anniversary of The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. 6:30 PM.

The Schomburg Center

5/10: Live from the Archive: Derrick Adams and the Patrick Kelly Effect: 2016 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize-winning multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams kicks off Live from the Archive to talk about his eagerly anticipated new work inspired by black fashion pioneer Patrick Kelly. Presented by the Schomburg Center and the Studio Museum in Harlem’s inHarlem initiative. 6:30 PM.

5/4: Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: The Long Fight Against New York's Police Brutality: Clarence Taylor, Cathy Schneider, Michael Flamm and Christopher Hayes discuss the latest research on the explosive issues of police brutality and prejudice that propelled the 1964 Harlem and Brooklyn uprisings and fuel urban unrest today. 6 PM.

5/15: Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert: Somi: East African singer-songwriter Somi returns to the Neighborhood Concert series with her blend of jazz and African music, presenting her new album, Petite Afrique, a song cycle dedicated to the gentrification of Harlem's African immigrant community. 7 PM.

Library for the Performing Arts

5/8: Michael Holman's Confessions of a Subculturalist: Celebrating the acquisition of The Library for the Performing Arts' first hip hop archive, musician, choreographer, and filmmaker Michael Holman presents a dramatized tour of his collection. With live storytelling and projected video/film scene-sequences, Holman will recount his personal history in the creation of hip hop culture. 7 PM.

5/6: Brahms Encounters: Master Work: New York Classical Players continue their series of concerts inspired by the Library’s collection of Johannes Brahms manuscripts, which includes a display and performance of Brahms’ hand-written Variations on a Theme by Paganini, then hear the work performed, a conversation with the performers, and Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor. 2:30 PM.

5/11: The Heart and Soul of the Piano: Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Michael Sellers returns for a recital of beloved favorites by Beethoven, Schumann, Barber, Chopin, Piazzolla, and Ravel.

Mid-Manhattan Library

5/10: Meme Machines: Novelist Siri Hustvedt and multi-media artist and scholar Ellen K. Levy discuss the complex interplay between books, ideas, and emotions on the occasion of Levy’s exhibition, "Meme Machines," created specifically for Art Wall on Third Exhibition Series at Mid-Manhattan Library. 6:30 PM.

Science, Industry and Business Library

5/10: Internet Business Day: In this all-day program, from 10 AM to 7:30 PM, you’ll learn the fundamentals of online marketing and sales, including how to leverage social media, build an email list; create a marketing strategy, and more. Online registration necessary. 10 AM.

Around the Library

5/5 & 5/6: Walk with a Librarian: Neighborhood Walking Tours: Who has a masterful understanding of your local community’s past and present history? A neighborhood librarian, of course! Learn from these amazing experts who live and breathe your neighborhood as they take you for a walking tour beyond their local library walls.

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