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One Book, One Philadelphia: True Biz Discussion
Thu, May 16, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Haddington Library
Join the Haddington Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. True Biz is a fast-moving novel following students of the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, "a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil…
Food & stories of Haiti
Sat, May 18, 2024
12:00 P.M.
Walnut Street West Library
Whitney Frederic of It's Seasoned is back with her Mais Moulin (Cornmeal) and Piklis (Spicy Pickled Veggies) in honor of Haitian Flag Day! Register at bit.ly/May1803 . "Flag Day has been a major holiday in Haiti since 1803, when the revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines…
One Book, One Philadelphia: True Biz Discussion
Sat, May 18, 2024
3:00 P.M.
Walnut Street West Library
Join the Walnut Street West Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. True Biz is a fast-moving novel following students of the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, "a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability…
One Book, One Philadelphia: True Biz Discussion
Mon, May 20, 2024
5:00 P.M.
Oak Lane Library
Join the Oak Lane Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. True Biz is a fast-moving novel following students of the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, "a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil…
One Book, One Philadelphia: True Biz Discussion
Mon, May 20, 2024
5:30 P.M.
Fox Chase Library
Join the Fox Chase Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. True Biz is a fast-moving novel following students of the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, "a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil…
Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld | The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics
Tue, May 21, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with author and Pennsylvania State Senator, Nikil Saval In The Hollow Parties , Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld present a comprehensive history of the rise of American mass party politics through the Jacksonian era up through the years of Barack Obama to the…
MK Asante | Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
Thu, May 23, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with Molefi Kete Asante MK Asante is a writer, filmmaker, and hip-hop artist, and recipient of the Langston Hughes Award. His books include It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop , the poetry collection Like Water Running Off My Back , and the bestselling…
Omar Tyree| Control
Fri, May 24, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
REGISTER In conversation with Kimberly S. Reed Omar Tyree is a New York Times bestselling author, a 2001 NAACP Image Award recipient for Outstanding Literature in Fiction, and a 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award Winner for Body of Work in Urban Fiction. He has been cited in…
CHECK IT OUT! A Beardmobile Library Tour
Tue, May 28, 2024
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
The Bearded Ladies Beardmobile gets into her finest book-lover drag for a family-friendly show about libraries and the people who make them so wonderful. CHECK IT OUT! celebrates Philly's libraries as places of freedom for all families with special love to families who are queer,…
Emma Copley Eisenberg | Housemates: A Novel
Tue, May 28, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with Jennifer Wilson Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia , the chronicle of a long-reverberating 1980 double murder in a remote area of West Virginia. A New York Times…
CHECK IT OUT! Celebration with the Bearded Ladies
Thu, May 30, 2024
3:00 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
C H E C K I T O U T ! Celebration begins at 3:00pm; show starts at 4:00pm! The Bearded Ladies Beardmobile gets into her finest book-lover drag for a family-friendly show about libraries and the people who make them so wonderful. CHECK IT OUT! celebrates Philly's libraries as…
Authors and Their Typewriters: Octavia Butler
Now through Fri, May 31, 2024
5:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Visit the Literature Department on the 2nd floor of Parkway Central to learn about author Octavia Butler and type on the same model of typewriter she used, an Olivetti Studio 46 . You can also check out this booklist to explore all things Octavia. The typewriter is on loan from Philly…
CHECK IT OUT! A Beardmobile Library Tour
Tue, June 4, 2024
4:00 P.M.
Wynnefield Library
The Bearded Ladies Beardmobile gets into her finest book-lover drag for a family-friendly show about libraries and the people who make them so wonderful. CHECK IT OUT! celebrates Philly's libraries as places of freedom for all families with special love to families who are queer,…
Mark Harman (Centenary Celebration) | Kafka: Selected Stories
Tue, June 4, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER Mark Harman gained public recognition for his 1998 translation of Franz Kafka's The Castle , for which he won the Lois Roth Award of the Modern Language Association. Professor Emeritus of German and English at Elizabethtown College, he has translated some of…
Garth Risk Hallberg | The Second Coming: A Novel
Wed, June 5, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER A panoramic pastiche of figures who are forever changed in the darkness of an infamous 1977 power blackout, Garth Risk Hallberg’s debut novel City on Fire was a New York Times bestseller, named a best book of 2015 by a slew of publications, and…
Treasures from the Literature Vault
Thu, June 6, 2024
4:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Do you love old books? Then join us for Treasures from the Vault– a casual, hands-on book club program spotlighting items from the Literature vault! The vault, home to our closed reference collections, is a treasure trove of hundreds of fascinating pieces of literary history. This program…
Julian Randall | The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit
Thu, June 6, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with Kirwyn Sutherland Julian Randall is the author of the poetry collection Refuse , winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He was a contributor to the no. 1 New York Times bestseller Black Boy…
Rev. William J. Barber II | White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
Mon, June 10, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ATTEND THIS EVENT In conversation with Matthew Desmond A Protestant minister, professor, social activist, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, Reverend William J. Barber II is president…
Mr. Los Angeles: "Raymond Chandler & His World"
Fri, June 14, 2024
11:00 A.M.
Senior Services
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Parkway Central Library
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was one of the greatest mystery writers that America ever produced. His eight classic novels and the six movies that followed brought the dark, disturbing underbelly of Los Angeles fully alive in a way that no other writer has been able to match. His…
Samuel R. Delany | Pride Month: How Science Fiction Dances to the Music of Time
Sat, June 15, 2024
3:30 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
“A visionary novelist & a revolutionary chronicler of gay life” ( The New Yorker ), Samuel R. Delany speaks with Music Department library trainee & Hollywood indie film composer Mark Inchoco on the intersections between science fiction & music. Hear how great…