Past Events
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Open to the public | online | by donation | no registration requiredGrab a glass of your favorite beverage and join us from your couch or kitchen table to watch Library members read new and recent work.
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Thursday, April 9, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop inTalks in the gallery will return when regular Library events resume.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredThe Events Department is in touch with registrants regarding an online format for the remaining sessions of this seminar. With questions, email events@nysoclib.org.
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Monday, April 6, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Online | open to the public | by donation | no registration requiredAn award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry - and have done little to bring equality to America's major industries and institutions.
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Monday, April 6, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThis event will be re-announced with a new date for fall 2020.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 3:00 PM | The Writing Life | Separate sessions | open to the public | online | by donation | no registration requiredWe're all inside. There are so many words to say how we feel. Let's try together.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
Gallery talks are for anyone interested in learning more about artist Margaret Armstrong and her family. Talks last roughly 30 minutes.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | advance registration requiredThis event has been canceled. Live from the Library will return in the fall.
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Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
Gallery talks are for anyone interested in learning more about artist Margaret Armstrong and her family. Talks last roughly 30 minutes.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Special Event | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredEarly American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce - the book trade and the slave trade. In conversation with the New-York Historical Society’s Edward O’Reilly, Prof. Sean Moore discusses the Society Library’s place in those worlds and his use of our City Readers database in his research.
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Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Online | for members only | $60 per person | registration requiredThe Events Department is in touch with registrants regarding an online format for the March and April sessions of this workshop. With questions, email events@nysoclib.org.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration required"If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it." -Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredThe March, April, and May sessions of this seminar are canceled. Registrants are being contacted.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
Gallery talks are for anyone interested in learning more about artist Margaret Armstrong and her family. Talks last roughly 30 minutes.
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Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThe meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world - for contemporary art - is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers, who can make and break careers and fortunes.
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Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 5:00 PM | Children | Members’ Room | open to the public | for grades 3 and up | $10 per person | registration requiredRebecca Behrens reads from her newest book, The Disaster Days, and shares how she researches the fascinating and famous places she portrays in her fact-based fiction.
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Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 2:00 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
Gallery talks are for anyone interested in learning more about artist Margaret Armstrong and her family. Talks last roughly 30 minutes.
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Sunday, February 9, 2020 - 2:30 PM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | by donation | advance registration requiredThe March and April sessions of this seminar are canceled. Registrants are being contacted.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members’ Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredIn this occasional series, writers and patrons interested in the publishing world are invited to an insightful discussion with one of its stars. Here, a widely acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry shares cutting-edge insights and answers questions from writers and anyone interested in publishing.Event Recording
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredPraised by midcentury critics, questioned by opponents of colonialism, Joseph Conrad’s fiction has entered a third phase of reappraisal. Join favorite seminar leader Prof. Birns in discussion.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 5:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | for members and guests in grades 3 and up | $15 per person | registration requiredExplore visual storytelling and make your own comics with author and illustrator Ruth Chan.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop in
Gallery talks are for anyone interested in learning more about artist Margaret Armstrong and her family. Talks last roughly 30 minutes.
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Monday, January 27, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | open to the public | $25 per person | registration requiredAmerican Songbook expert Deborah Grace Winer tells the story of the female pioneers of songwriting – those few who crashed the boys’ club and wrote hit shows and songs like On the Town, ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street,’ and so much more - with performances by Tony award-winning Broadway star Karen Ziemba and musical director Mark Hummel.
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Saturday, January 25, 2020 - 3:00 PM | Children | Members’ Room | open to the public | for all ages | $10 per child | registration requiredDiscover stories through songs with Bobaloo: a musician, storyteller, and Pied Piper of Song.
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Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredThe Events Department is in touch with registrants regarding an alternative format for the March and April sessions of this seminar. With questions, email events@nysoclib.org.