Library for the Performing Arts Programs

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check this…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check…

Outdoor Storytimes with Lincoln Center When the Beat was Born: Dance Storytime with TweetBoogie and DJ Go BIZZY! Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop Internationally renowned dance teacher and artist TweetBoogie and DJ Go BIZZY! present a storytime focusing on the music and dancing styles of Hip-Hop. Beats and books combine for an activity that the whole family can enjoy. Participants will listen to the story, When the Beat was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip-Hop by Laban…

(Top Row, from left to right) Ana “Rokafella” Garcia, Buddha Stretch, Cholly Rock, Violeta Galagarza (Bottom Row, from left to right) Float Master John, Kim Holmes, Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionisio, TDK Zone Register here! In this panel discussion with hip-hop dance innovators, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division celebrates the launch of an ongoing Dance Oral History Project series on street and club dancers. Hosted by Ana “Rokafella” Garcia and Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionisio, We Out Here brings togeth…

To celebrate the recording of five street dance life story interviews by the Dance Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dances Division at the Library for the Performing Arts, Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionisio and Ana 'Rokafella' Garcia bring together the legendary Violeta Galagarza, Anthony G. "Cholly Rock" Horne, Kim D. Holmes, Float Master John, and Emilio Austin Jr. aka Buddha Stretch for a dance battle and silent disco on The Dance Floor. Different street and club styles will be on display…

Music lovers: come listen to music selected from the archives of the Library for the Performing Arts' collection! Sound Bites is a monthly outdoor listening event presented by the Music and Recorded Sound Division, on select Fridays on our terrace throughout the summer. Each event will feature staff or community DJs who will spin from the library's vast collection, and then talk about their digging process. In this iteration, we hear from DJ Figgy Smalls who will play hip hop.

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please check back for the rescheduled date. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the negotiations currently underway in both the SAG-AFTRA and Screenwriters Guild strikes. But how will this new technology affect theatre, and how is it already affecting it? The Library for the Performing Arts and Masie Productions invite you to an afternoon discussion of these issues at the Library at Lincoln Center. Moderat…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check this…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check this…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check…

Note schedule change: This formerly was scheduled for noon, it has been moved to 3 - 5pm. Music lovers: come listen to music selected from the archives of the Library for the Performing Arts' collection! Sound Bites is a monthly outdoor listening event presented by the Music and Recorded Sound Division, on select Fridays on our terrace throughout the summer. Each event will feature staff or community DJs who will spin from the library's vast collection, and then talk about their digging proces…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check this…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check…

The Library for the Performing Arts are teaming up with the Riverside Library to host their popular children's storytimes at our Outdoor Reading Room terrace. A Children's librarian will read stories, perform songs, and present other engaging activities with a focus on the performing arts. Bring your children ages 1 year old and up! Dates: Twice every Tuesday at 10:30am and 11:15am from June 27 - August 29, 2023. Inclement weather: In inclement weather, storytime will be canceled. Check…

Register here! The Billy Rose Theatre Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is pleased to host an in-person session and keynote of the international, virtual conference Original Cast Recordings: Art, Artefact and Analysis. This conference, held mostly virtually for participants around the world, aims to explore the enduring popularity, sonic heritage, cultural influence, and future possibilities of popular musical theatre on record. In this special, hybrid live and o…

Register here! Although best known for her work on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood as Lady Aberlin, Betty Aberlin had an extensive career on the New York stage in the 1970s and 80s. In this conversation with theater curator Doug Reside, Aberlin will discuss her lifelong love of live theater and review some of the archival video, photographs, and papers that document her career. SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Check-in line forms 45 minutes before t…

Register here! Set in the South Bronx, Beat Street is a dance film that tells the story of two brothers and their friends who are devoted to various aspects of hip-hop culture. Featuring real and fictional characters and dance groups of the era, the film captures a special moment in the history of hip-hop that went on to define the phenomenon, and even helped introduce the genre to new countries. The Library for the Performing Arts and Half Moon partner to screen Beat Street and features a pane…

Register here! Legendary Broadway icon, actress, singer, and dancer Chita Rivera joins the Library for the Performing Arts for a discussion about her life and career. In celebration of her acclaimed book, Chita: A Memoir, she will appear in conversation with her co-author, arts journalist Patrick Pacheco. The interview will include photographs, archival documents, and video clips of over six decades of performances, all preserved by the Library for the Performing Arts. A theatrical icon and on…

Register here! The Chilean painter, researcher, pedagogue, and modernist composer Carlos Isamitt Alarcón (1885-1974) began to make foundational contributions to Chilean arts institutions in the 1920s. As director of the School of Fine Arts in 1927, he launched an unprecedented reform in the teaching of visual and applied arts based on popular and indigenous practices which he had studied since the first decade of the 20th century. Later, in the 1930s, he spent long periods living together with…

Register here! One of the world’s most accomplished Bharatanatyam dancers, Malavika Sarukkai has been dancing professionally for five decades. The dancer who inspired the term “innovative within tradition,” Sarukkai has protected Indian Classical Dance while also finding individual space within it. Following on from Bijayini Satpathy in 2022, Sarukkai will deliver the second annual Kothari Lecture on Indian Dance. SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requ…

Germaine Tailleferre Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six. She lived a long life and was prolific as a composer, but today, much of her later music remains less well known and infrequently performed in the U.S. The French music publisher Editions de la Musique Fabrique has started issuing many previously unpublished Tailleferre scores revealing previously hidden facets of her musical language. Pianist Raj Bhimani was…

Register here! Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six. She lived a long life and was prolific as a composer,but much of her later music remains unknown, unpublished, rarely performed, and underappreciated. The French music publisher Editions de la Musique Fabrique has started issuing many previously unpublished Tailleferre scores. Pianist Raj Bhimani has been playing these works in recitals in Paris, and for the first ti…

Heiva Pasifika is a two-day festival celebrating Pacific Islander culture with music, dancing, singing, drumming, arts & crafts, and more. Over 37,000 Pacific Islanders live in New York—now, Te Ao Mana brings their culture and ancient genius of their tupuna, or ancestors, to the city through a free festival called Heiva Pasifika NYC, hosted by the Library for the Performing Arts. In Tahitian, the word Heiva refers to cultural activities, pastimes, physical exercise, and festivals. Music,…

Heiva Pasifika is a two-day festival celebrating Pacific Islander culture with music, dancing, singing, drumming, arts & crafts, and more. Over 37,000 Pacific Islanders live in New York—now, Te Ao Mana brings their culture and ancient genius of their tupuna, or ancestors, to the city through a free festival called Heiva Pasifika NYC, hosted by the Library for the Performing Arts. In Tahitian, the word Heiva refers to cultural activities, pastimes, physical exercise, and festivals. Music,…