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Exhibition Tour: Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Art
Sat, December 21, 2024
11:00 A.M.
Map Collection
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Parkway Central Library
Join us Saturday, December 21 at 11 AM for a tour of the latest exhibition from the Free Library's Special Collections Division: Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Ar t . Meet on the Second Floor of Parkway Central Library in West Gallery 2. All ages can enjoy the…
Exhibition Tour: Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Art
Sat, December 21, 2024
11:00 A.M.
Print and Picture Collection
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Parkway Central Library
Join us Saturday, December 21 at 11 AM for a tour of the latest exhibition from the Free Library's Special Collections Division: Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Ar t . Meet on the Second Floor of Parkway Central Library in West Gallery 2. All ages can enjoy the…
Philadelphia Reads James Baldwin
Mon, December 23, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
As part of the Year of James Baldwin, the Free Library is hosting one of many Philadelphia Reads James Baldwin reading groups throughout the city in collaboration with the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation . Celebrate the life, work, and legacy of James Baldwin as we…
Philadelphia Reads James Baldwin
Mon, December 30, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
As part of the Year of James Baldwin, the Free Library is hosting one of many Philadelphia Reads James Baldwin reading groups throughout the city in collaboration with the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation . Celebrate the life, work, and legacy of James Baldwin as we…
Philadelphia Reads James Baldwin
Mon, January 6, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
As part of the Year of James Baldwin, the Free Library is hosting one of many Philadelphia Reads James Baldwin reading groups throughout the city in collaboration with the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation . Celebrate the life, work, and legacy of James Baldwin as we…
James Baldwin Reading Group
Tue, January 7, 2025
4:30 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays at 4:30pm at the Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional…
Exhibition Tour: Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Art
Sat, January 11, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Print and Picture Collection
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Parkway Central Library
Join us Saturday, January 11 at 11 AM for a tour of the latest exhibition from the Free Library's Special Collections Division: Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Ar t . Meet on the Second Floor of Parkway Central Library in West Gallery 2. All ages can enjoy the…
Exhibition Tour: Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Art
Sat, January 11, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Map Collection
at
Parkway Central Library
Join us Saturday, January 11 at 11 AM for a tour of the latest exhibition from the Free Library's Special Collections Division: Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Ar t . Meet on the Second Floor of Parkway Central Library in West Gallery 2. All ages can enjoy the…
"Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Art" Exhibition
Now through Sat, January 11, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Print and Picture Collection
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Parkway Central Library
Storytelling has shaped cultures and captivated imaginations throughout history. Whether teaching moral lessons or celebrating epic heroes, each tale reflects our values, fears, and dreams. Stories reflect the context—past or present—in which they are created, told, and retold.…
"Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Art" Exhibition
Now through Sat, January 11, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Map Collection
at
Parkway Central Library
Storytelling has shaped cultures and captivated imaginations throughout history. Whether teaching moral lessons or celebrating epic heroes, each tale reflects our values, fears, and dreams. Stories reflect the context—past or present—in which they are created, told, and retold.…
"Telling Tales: From Oral Tradition to Art" Exhibition
Now through Sat, January 11, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Children's Literature Research Collection
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Parkway Central Library
Storytelling has shaped cultures and captivated imaginations throughout history. Whether teaching moral lessons or celebrating epic heroes, each tale reflects our values, fears, and dreams. Stories reflect the context—past or present—in which they are created, told, and retold.…
Philadelphia Reads James Baldwin
Mon, January 13, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
As part of the Year of James Baldwin, the Free Library is hosting one of many Philadelphia Reads James Baldwin reading groups throughout the city in collaboration with the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation . Celebrate the life, work, and legacy of James Baldwin as we…
James Baldwin Reading Group
Tue, January 14, 2025
4:30 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays at 4:30pm at the Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional…
Poe-sers: Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe
Sat, January 18, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
The Literature Department in celebrating Edgar Allen Poe's birthday with a performace of Susan DiPronio 's “Poe-sers”. “Poe-sers” is an autobiographical performance piece. The stories of four personas: child, teenager, woman and The Raven - the one…
James Baldwin Reading Group
Tue, January 21, 2025
4:30 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays at 4:30pm at the Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional…
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell
Thu, January 23, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell have been friends in poetry for over twenty-five years, sharing manuscripts, and working together to coordinate events at Swarthmore (where Anderson directed the program in Creative Writing before her recent retirement) and at Villanova (where Sewell…
A Celebration of the Canadian Literary Scene
Fri, January 24, 2025
11:00 A.M.
Senior Services
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Parkway Central Library
Canada is brimming with talented novelists, playwrights, and short-story writers that most Americans have never heard of. We hope that this program will be the first step in addressing this issue. We are proud to partner with the Ottawa Public Library in Canada’s capital city to bring you…
Monday Poets 30th Anniversary Season: Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela and Andrea Walls
Mon, January 27, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Widener Library
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Literature Department in celebrating the 30th Anniversary season of Monday Poets. This year’s theme is Sankofa (SAHN-koh-fah), a Twi word from the Akan Tribe of Ghana which loosely implies that to move forward, one must “go back and get…
Film Screening: If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Mon, January 27, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us for a screening of Barry Jenkins' 2018 film, If Beale Street Could Talk , an adaptation James Baldwin's 1974 novel by the same name. Set in Harlem, the film follows Tish, a young, pregnant woman, as she seeks to clear the name of her lover, Lonny, charged for a…
James Baldwin Reading Group
Tue, January 28, 2025
4:30 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
"The People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin" is a citywide series of book clubs at several locations across Philadelphia. Facilitated by the Saturday Free School as part of their "Year of James Baldwin." Tuesdays at 4:30pm at the Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional…