Events

REGISTER FOR REMINDERS NOW! View the livestream on NYPL's Teen Banned Book Club page on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 3 PM ET. Join bestselling author Stacey Lee, The New York Public Library, and teens across the country for a special virtual discussion of The Downstairs Girl, the latest title in our national Teen Banned Book Club. Do You Have Questions for the Authors? Email us: booksforall@nypl.org Get the Book Today—Free! Readers anywhere in the U.S. can borrow The Downstairs Girl for f…

Join us at Belmont for an in-person celebration to watch the livestream of our Teen Banned Book Club event with Stacey Lee about her book The Downstairs Girl. Snacks provided upon availability. Can't attend in person? Register free for the livestream! Throughout the year, The New York Public Library's Teen Banned Book Club is offering free, nationwide digital access to young adult titles that have been the subject of bans or challenges as part of our Books for All initiative. Start…

Stephen Graham Jones comes to the Library for a live conversation about his book, My Heart is a Chainsaw, as part of the World Literature Festival. The conversation will followed by a special musical performance from Frank Waln. The New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community. The April title is Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart is a Chainsaw , an homage to slasher films that a…

This program is in person. We will be showing the movie "Boogie" Alfred “Boogie” Chin is a talented high school basketball player from Queens, New York, who dreams of playing in the NBA. His parents, however, have a different plan for him: they want him to focus on getting a scholarship to an elite college instead. While already burdened with high expectations, he finds himself struggling more as he tries to navigate high school, a new girlfriend, and fierce on-court rivals. Directors Eddie…

Join us this May for our FIlm Series for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! A native New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country's wealthiest fam…

About This Event: The Schomburg Center hosts the first day of a two-day conference that extends the call for increased historical research on slavery in the Atlantic World. It will convene academic scholars, researchers, public historians, archivists, and librarians from the Netherlands and the U.S. Together, they will weigh the history and legacy of slavery, the slave trade, and colonialism in New Netherland, the Netherlands, and the Americas. Produced by the Lapidus Center for the Historical…

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Get cozy with wakefield. sit back, relax, and enjoy a movie of your choice all month long. May 4th: Happy Cinco De Mayo! Let's celebrate Mexican Culture with Coco! May 11th: Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! We're watching a Studio Ghibli marathon!

This event will take place in person at the Bronx Library Center / Este evento se llevará a cabo en la Biblioteca Central del Bronx Explore shape, color and texture with a variety of materials and techniques! Celebrate Japan's Children's Day during Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. ¡Explore la forma, el color y la textura, con una variedad de materiales y técnicas! Disfrute el Día de los Niños del Japón durante el Mes de la Herencia Asiático, Nativa Hawaiana…

This event will take place in person at the Wakefield Library. Get cozy with wakefield. sit back, relax, and enjoy a movie of your choice all month long. May 4th: Happy Cinco De Mayo! Let's celebrate Mexican Culture with Coco! May 11th: Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! We're watching a Studio Ghibli marathon!

Join us at the Bronx Library Center's Teen Zone for our Saturday Matinee series! On this ocassion, we will be celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage month by screening Yellow Rose (2019). Synopsis: In rural Texas, a Filipino teen longs to make her mark on the world of country music. When an unexpected opportunity comes her way, she must make a choice between upholding her family's traditions or leaving them all behind to pursue her lifelong aspiration.

This event is online and in-person. Join us every Monday for intriguing and compelling real life stories! Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of "Manzanar, Diverted". Program Description At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” Intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American and rancher communities form an unexp…

Join us for a monthly book discussion hosted at the Woodlawn Heights Library! Once a month, library patrons will meet for a fun and casual book discussion. Woodlawn Heights Library will be reading Pachinko by Asian American author Min Jin Lee for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnan…

This program is online and in person. In recognition of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we will read Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. Bird is 12, home is a 10th-floor dorm apartment without a working elevator. His Harvard professor father has been demoted to clerical duties at the library. Since his mother, Margaret, left three years ago, Bird is called Noah; anything to disassociate from her since she’s a PAO (person of Asian origin) who’s being hunted for thr…

This program is in person. We will be showing the movie "Boogie" Alfred “Boogie” Chin is a talented high school basketball player from Queens, New York, who dreams of playing in the NBA. His parents, however, have a different plan for him: they want him to focus on getting a scholarship to an elite college instead. While already burdened with high expectations, he finds himself struggling more as he tries to navigate high school, a new girlfriend, and fierce on-court rivals. Directors Eddie…

Join us this May for our FIlm Series for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Kim Ki-taek's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Parks' home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.

The Bowery is one of NYC’s oldest and most architecturally diverse streets. Stretching 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, it has been a Native American footpath, a Dutch farm road and the site of NYC’s first free Black settlement as well as an early social hub for the working class, gangs, gays, and immigrant Irish, Italians, Chinese, Jews and Germans. Stephen Crane once called it “the most interesting place in New York.” In this talk, David Mulkins, the President of the Bowery…

Join us this May for our FIlm Series for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.