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Book Discussion: Interior Chinatown
Mon, June 5, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Bustleton Library
Join the Bustleton Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. Interior Chinatown is a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. “Meticulously…
Book Discussion: Interior Chinatown
Tue, June 6, 2023
5:30 P.M.
Wynnefield Library
Join the Wynnefield Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. Interior Chinatown is a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. “Meticulously…
“Mapping Imagination” Curator-Led Exhibition Tour
Thu, June 8, 2023
3:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
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Parkway Central Library
The Free Library’s newest exhibition, Mapping Imagination: The Art of World-Building explores the creative and artistic choices that mapmakers use to build worlds and enhance storytelling. The exhibition delves into the relationships between imaginary maps (found in fiction, fantasy,…
Winnie the Pooh and Honey Too!
Sat, June 10, 2023
11:00 A.M.
Culinary Literacy Center
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Parkway Central Library
Join us for a very special Saturday family program that combines maps, children's literature, and real live honeybees! The Free Library’s newest exhibition, Mapping Imagination: The Art of World-Building , explores the creative and artistic choices that mapmakers use to build worlds…
Book Discussion: Interior Chinatown
Wed, June 14, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Join the Chestnut Hill Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. Interior Chinatown is a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. …
Geraldine Brooks | Horse
Wed, June 14, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER Geraldine Brooks won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her novel March , an “honorable, elegant, and true” ( The Wall Street Journal ) retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women from the point of view of the titular family’s absent patriarch.…
Book Discussion: Interior Chinatown
Thu, June 15, 2023
3:30 P.M.
Overbrook Park Library
Join the Overbrook Park Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. Interior Chinatown is a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. …
Third Thursday Teen Book Club: Pride Month Edition
Thu, June 15, 2023
3:30 P.M.
Field Teen Center
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Parkway Central Library
Celebrate LGBT+ Pride with Field Teen Center's final monthly book club of the season, Friday, I'm in Love by Camryn Garrett. Teens who register at the Field Teen Center can pick up their free copy of this month's pick during May and June and return on Thursday,…
Mapping Afrofuturism: Samuel R. Delany in conversation with Science Fiction Scholar Alex Wermer-Colan
Thu, June 15, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Heim Center for Cultural and Civic Engagement
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Parkway Central Library
The writer Samuel R. Delany, in conversation with literary scholar Alex Wermer-Colan, reflects on a life of imaginative mapping, talking about his experiences growing up reading and writing science fiction, building and mapping alternate realities of our past and future. Join us for this rich…
Book Discussion: Interior Chinatown
Thu, June 15, 2023
6:30 P.M.
Haddington Library
Join the Haddington Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. Interior Chinatown is a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. “Meticulously…
Court Martial at Fort Devens
Thu, June 15, 2023
6:30 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Four WACs are denied the jobs for which they've been trained simply because of the color of their skin. Their fight to win what was promised to them by the U.S. Army takes them on a journey that goes through a court martial for treason and all the way to the White House. Winner…
Summer Solstice Sounds
Wed, June 21, 2023
3:30 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Multi instrumentalist Anne Martin joins poet and storyteller Michele Belluomini to present a lively improvisation of music and poetry in honor of the Summer Solstice. This event will take place onsite at Parkway Central Library in Room 108. The performance is free and open to the…
The Typewriter Revolution of Today
Wed, June 21, 2023
5:30 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join the Literature Department and Philly Typewriter for this 8-part typewriter series. Bryan Kravitz will share why the Typewriter is experiencing it’s Renaissance, and the figures who are leading the charge. The program will take place onsite in the Heim Center. You must enter through…
The Points Don't Matter: a FREE concert.
Fri, June 23, 2023
12:00 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
ENAensemble is back at the library! This will be a unique event, combining literature and music in an interactive setting. They are premiering a special piece for solo flute and narrator, written by Heidi Jacob . This piece, inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem, sets the tone for the rest of…
CHECK IT OUT! A Beardmobile Library Tour
Mon, June 26, 2023
12:00 P.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
DON'T MISS OUR BIGGEST PRIDE EVENT THIS JUNE! Facebook event HERE. 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 free libraries as places of…
PRIDE: Poets in the Park
Mon, June 26, 2023
6:30 P.M.
Shakespeare Park across Vine Street from Parkway Central Library
We begin the final week of Free Library of PhillyPRIDE with our first PRIDE: Poets in the Park featuring local poets Boston Gordon, Campbell Simmons and Sean Hanrahan reading selections from their works and discussing their craft. Time permitting, we will have the opportunity for open…
Christian Cooper | Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Tue, June 27, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition Central Park birder Christian Cooper is the host and consulting producer on the National Geographic channel’s Extraordinary Birder and is on the board of directors of the New York City Audubon Society.…
Author & Illustrator Visit: Sharee Miller
Wed, June 28, 2023
5:00 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Cost: FREE
Sharee Miller is an illustrator and author best known for her acclaimed picture book Don't Touch My Hair. Her other books include Princess Hair, and Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady planted seeds of Change. Sharee is currently working on her debut graphic novel series Curlfriends…
“Mapping Imagination” Curator-Led Exhibition Tour
Thu, June 29, 2023
12:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
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Parkway Central Library
The Free Library’s newest exhibition, Mapping Imagination: The Art of World-Building explores the creative and artistic choices that mapmakers use to build worlds and enhance storytelling. The exhibition delves into the relationships between imaginary maps (found in fiction, fantasy,…
“Mapping Imagination” Curator-Led Exhibition Tour
Thu, July 6, 2023
3:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
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Parkway Central Library
The Free Library’s newest exhibition, Mapping Imagination: The Art of World-Building explores the creative and artistic choices that mapmakers use to build worlds and enhance storytelling. The exhibition delves into the relationships between imaginary maps (found in fiction, fantasy,…