Past Events
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | for members and their guests | free of charge | drop inJoin us for an informal celebration of the Library's "official" 270th anniversary, with live music from the era of our founding.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us in April for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM | Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us in April for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $100 for the four sessions/$25 per session | registration required“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” Henry James put these highly quotable lines into the mouth of the main character of “The Middle Years.” In this four-session seminar, we’ll read that tale and three others that James wrote about authors.
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Monday, April 15, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredA hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.
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Monday, April 15, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.
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Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Saturday, April 27, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Special Event | Reference Room | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us in April for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThe First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire. In this unique event, Mr. Korda discusses the book with An Odyssey author Daniel Mendelsohn.
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Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredThe First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier-poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire. In this unique event, Mr. Korda discusses the book with An Odyssey author Daniel Mendelsohn.
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Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 2:00 PM | Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 2:00 PM | Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 2:00 PM | The Writing Life | on the Zoom Meetings platform | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration requiredJoin poet and teacher Esther Cohen to write the poems we've always intended to write.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 3:30 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | All Ages | For Members Only | Registration RequiredCome celebrate the Library’s 270th anniversary with cupcakes, card-making, and more!
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us in April for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM | Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us in April for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - 5:15 PM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members and guests | $75 for the three sessions | registration required
This event has been postponed. With questions, contact the Events Office.
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Sunday, January 7, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members and their guests | free of charge | registration requiredWe gather monthly to read aloud a play by William Shakespeare.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 7:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredOne of the most versatile current critics of literature and film shows movie clips and discusses great forgotten cinema with Antonio Monda. This event is fully registered.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 2:00 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members and guests | free of charge | registration requiredHow do you share your connection to an artwork, and give words to the seemingly irrepressible so that others will feel, see, and sense what you feel so deeply about? We’ll explore the enthusiasms and emotions that accompany our favorite art by reading poems of experiences with art.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | Ages 24 Months and Younger | For Members Only
Join us for songs, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers.
Pick up a ticket in the lobby. -
Monday, March 25, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThe New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—this time burrowing deep inside the secretive world of art and artists.
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Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredA stunning life of the iconic American artist Keith Haring, by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch. Stacy Schiff calls it "A keen-eyed, beautifully written biography, atmospheric, exuberant, and as radiant as they come.”
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Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 2:00 PM | Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 2:00 PM | Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 2:00 PM | The Writing Life | on the Zoom Meetings platform | open to the public; free for members | separate sessions | registration requiredJoin poet and teacher Esther Cohen to write the poems we've always intended to write.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredLibrary members read from their own short stories, novels, poetry, criticism, memoir, and plays.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 3:30 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | registration requiredWhat works and what doesn’t when it comes to publicizing a book? After publishing her memoir with an award-winning independent press that made it clear that they would rely on her to create a marketing plan, Elizabeth Winthrop got to work. In this talk, she’ll provide tips and takeaways from her journey, and lead a discussion useful for all writers: those who are self-publishing, publishing with a small academic or independent press, and even those publishing with one of the big five.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | Ages 24 Months and Younger | For Members Only
Join us for songs, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers.
Pick up a ticket in the lobby.
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Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Zoom | for members only | free of charge | registration requiredBooks Walter Bode edited have won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this seminar, he’ll help writers find the most effective words and make the best use of them – based on participants’ own writing samples.
