Events

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 "Through The Night". Program Description Through the Night is a verité documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a child care provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York. Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festiva…

This event is online and in-person. Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of "Mayor" . Program Description Musa Hadid is the Christian mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority. As he tries to keep his city running while paving sidewalks, planning holidays and building a new fountain, his job is made increasingly difficult by the Israeli occupation of his home. Mayor asks with humor and quiet outrage: how do you run a city if you don’t have a…

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 "An Act of Worship". Program Description In An Act of Worship, Muslim-Americans recount the past 30 years of pivotal moments in U.S. history and policy from their own perspective. Weaving together observational footage of activists who came of age after 9/11, community-sourced home videos and evocative recollections from i…

This event is online and in-person. Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of "Uýra – The Rising Forest" . Program Description Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth in the Amazon to promote the significance of identity and place, threatened by Brazil's oppressive political regime. Through dance, poetry, and stunning characterization, Uýra confronts historical racism, transphobia, and environmental destruction, while emphasizing the interdependence of h…

This event is online via Google Meet. Are you a high school student who is about to attend college next year? Join us for a free CUNY Information Session from a CUNY Representative that will be there to answer questions and concerns you may have about the CUNY Admission Process. You must register with a valid email address in order to receive the link.

This event is online only. Need a new book for the month? Then come to our Virtual Book Tasting! Get a "taste" of a variety of new and popular books. Come and hear about the great books from our librarians that are in our collection! This event will take place over Google Meet.

This event is online and in-person. Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of "Until He's Back" . Program Description After learning that his son, Yahya, has died at sea trying to get to Spain, Ahmed Tchiche must find a way to bring his remains back home to Morocco so he and his family can have a proper goodbye. Through interweaving threads, Until He's Back explores the dangerous journey—crossing the Gibraltar Strait from Africa to Spain—and the difficulty of returning t…