Creative Writing Club

Mon, September 23, 2019 3:30 P.M.
Teen Center at Parkway Central Library

Need an outlet for your writing skills or share a poem? Come join us for our weekly writing group! Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more info. Follow @FLPTeenCenter on Facebook and Instagram.

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Banned Together: 2019 Censorship Cabaret Philadelphia Premiere!

Mon, September 23, 2019 7:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Banned Together: A Censorship Cabaret is back for its fourth year in a row and appearing for the first time in Philadelphia! The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund (DLDF) created Banned Together as a celebration of songs and scenes from shows that have been censored or challenged on America’s…

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Ann Patchett | The Dutch House

Tue, September 24, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $47/$32 - two seats + book/seat + book

SOLD OUT! BUT--you can still buy tickets for Ann Patchett's event with the Open Book Bookstore “Exquisite” and “impossible to put down” ( New York Times ), Ann Patchett’s many novels include the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning Bel Canto , the  New…

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Chestnut Hill Library Contemporary Book Group

Wed, September 25, 2019 7:00 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library

This group meets on selected Wednesdays.  For more information and to reserve a copy of the month's selection, please contact the library at 215-685-9290. Upcoming book selections are: June 19: Mad, Bad Dangerous to Know by Colm Toibin July 24: A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee…

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Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Water Dancer

Wed, September 25, 2019 8:00 P.M.
Irvine Auditorium | 3401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Cost: $30 - $60 book included with ticket
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In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom ( Two seats + one book option ) Ta-Nehisi Coates won the 2015 National Book Award for  Between the World and Me , a “searing meditation on what it means to be black in…

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Gabby Rivera | Juliet Takes a Breath

Fri, September 27, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

In conversation with Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Speak, Shout, Fever 1793, and the Seeds of America trilogy The first Latina to write for Marvel comics, Gabby Rivera created the popular AMERICA series, featuring the eponymous multiverse-hopping superpowered queer Latina dynamo…

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Creative Writing Club

Mon, September 30, 2019 3:30 P.M.
Teen Center at Parkway Central Library

Need an outlet for your writing skills or share a poem? Come join us for our weekly writing group! Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more info. Follow @FLPTeenCenter on Facebook and Instagram.

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TRIPOD: Conversations with Place

Now through Mon, September 30, 2019 6:30 P.M.
Art Department at Parkway Central Library

The  Writers Room 's second annual Canon TRIPOD photo exhibition is on view throughout Pepper Hall, home of the Art & Literature Department . Head up to Art & Literature on the 2nd floor of Parkway Central, look for the photos hanging on and above…

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Chestnut Hill Classics Book Group

Thu, October 3, 2019 10:30 A.M.
Chestnut Hill Library

Join us the first Thursday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Today we'll be talking about Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. Upcoming selections include: November 7th - Pnim by Vladimir Nabokov December 5th - Persuasion by Jane Austen  

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Chris Ware | Rusty Brown with Chip Kidd | Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World’s Mightiest Marvel

Thu, October 3, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Pushing “the form of comics into unexpected formal and emotional territory” ( Chicago Tribune ), Chris Ware ’s graphic novel  Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  won the Guardian First Book Award, the first time a work in that genre won a major United…

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Remembering Amiri Baraka on His 85th Birthday

Sun, October 6, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Amiri Baraka is the author of numerous books of poetry over a career that spans nearly 50 years.  His themes range from black liberation to racism. Baraka's plays, poetry and essays continue to be defining texts for African American culture.  Join us in celebrating his life and…

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Creative Writing Club

Mon, October 7, 2019 3:30 P.M.
Teen Center at Parkway Central Library

Need an outlet for your writing skills or share a poem? Come join us for our weekly writing group! Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more info. Follow @FLPTeenCenter on Facebook and Instagram.

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First Monday Writers Group

Mon, October 7, 2019 6:30 P.M.
Oak Lane Library

Are you a writer who needs some motivation and encouragement? We can provide this, as well as technical skills and information that can direct you towards completing tasks for publication and discovery.  A great support group no matter what stage of the process you are in,…

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School Age Storytime

Wed, October 9, 2019 4:00 P.M.
Children's Department at Parkway Central Library

Please join Ms. Kate for tall tales and silly stories during School Age Story time! This program is intended for children ages 6-11.

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Storytime Yoga with Beth Heed

Sat, October 12, 2019 10:30 A.M.
Children's Department at Parkway Central Library

Yoga instructor Beth Heed from Oak and Acorn Wellness will host a class filled with stories, yoga, and fun for 2 to 5 year-olds and their caregivers. Move, play, and explore your body in creative ways as we read stories! No prior yoga experience is necessary.  Wear something comfy. Mats are…

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Creative Writing Club

Mon, October 21, 2019 3:30 P.M.
Teen Center at Parkway Central Library

Need an outlet for your writing skills or share a poem? Come join us for our weekly writing group! Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more info. Follow @FLPTeenCenter on Facebook and Instagram.

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Monday Poets | Reginald Dwayne Betts and Daisy Fried

Mon, October 21, 2019 6:30 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of a memoir and three books of poetry. His memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (Avery/Penguin, 2009), was awarded the 2010 NAACP Image Award for non-fiction. His books of poetry…

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Jeanette Winterson | Frankissstein

Tue, October 22, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary landscape at the age of 25 when she published the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , the coming-of-age tale of a young lesbian rebelling against her conservative English Pentecostal upbringing.  Winterson is also the author of…

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School Age Storytime

Wed, October 23, 2019 4:00 P.M.
Children's Department at Parkway Central Library

Please join Ms. Kate for tall tales and silly stories during School Age Story time! This program is intended for children ages 6-11.

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Shakespeare in the World Lecture Series: Shakespeare and the Supernatural

Wed, October 23, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Lecture will be in room 406. Shakespeare’s plays are full of supernatural elements and entities, but how did these fantastic spectacles appear on stage during Shakespeare’s time? What did Shakespeare’s fairies look like? How were ghosts recognized on stage? What were the…

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