Join Library for Arts & Science for a collaborative visioning session focused on designing for the future and shaping public possibilities. Together, you will imagine what the civic and educational spaces might look like 10–15 years from now. The session will explore how emerging ideas, hopeful design characteristics, and community-centered innovations can evolve into tangible […]
Brooklyn Made invites you to Ignite Brooklyn Made, a live pitch competition celebrating Brooklyn’s most promising entrepreneurs. Funded by Wells Fargo and administered by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce through Brooklyn Made, Ignite Brooklyn Made is a new access to capital and advisory services program supporting the growth of small businesses across the borough. What […]
Join The Center for Fiction for a virtual discussion with beloved Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich on her new short-story collection, Python’s Kiss. In Python’s Kiss, one of America’s most significant authors explores the connections between humans, animals, and the environment in her first short fiction anthology since 2009. Written over the last two […]
Celebrating her first book in over a decade, Lena Dunham returns to the stage for a night of fearless storytelling and no holds barred conversation. A candid, funny, and bracingly honest reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, Famesick marks a bold return from the award-winning creator of Girls and Too Much.
Join FourOneOne and Sound+Science in celebration of producer, bassist, and author Melvin Gibbs’ new book How Black Music Took Over The World, which will be published by Basic Books on April 14th. Gibbs will be in conversation with Stephon Alexander, theoretical cosmologist, jazz musician, and author of The Jazz of Physics and Fear of a Black Universe. This event […]
Join a panel of writers, organizers, and elected leaders for a powerful and urgent conversation about how movements are built quietly, locally, and out of public view, before erupting into collective action. Moderated by Saul Austerlitz, author of How to Assemble an Activist, this program explores the sparks that turn private alarm into public action. Drawing on […]
Join The Center for Fiction for an evening with Olga Ravn, the acclaimed author of Booker Prize finalist The Employees and My Work, as she introduces her haunting new novel, The Wax Child, translated by Martin Aitken. Set amid the witchcraft trials of seventeenth-century Denmark, The Wax Child follows Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman accused of sorcery, and the […]
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Join the Center of Brooklyn History for a free tour of The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered. In August of 1776, the first and largest battle of the American Revolution took place in what is now Brooklyn, NY. The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered uses primary source material from the Center for Brooklyn History's collection […]
BASIS Independent Brooklyn is presenting its Spring Open Houses! These events are one of the best ways for families to experience the BASIS Independent community, hear from teachers, and see firsthand how they are redefining education across the school's two Brooklyn campuses. Spring Open House: Saturday, April 18 (PreK-Grade 2) Saturday, April 25 (Grades 3-12) […]