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VIRTUAL - Senator Mazie K. Hirono | Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story
Mon, April 26, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $10.00-Ticket or $33.00-Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Natalie Cohn Memorial Lecture A “hero on the left” ( Washington Post ) for her vocal support of progressive legislation and issues, Mazie K. Hirono is the only immigrant and the first…
Virtual Nonprofit Nerds: Civil Discourse Content Strategy - Turning Conflict into Collaboration
Mon, April 26, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Regional Foundation Center
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Parkway Central Library
What choices can we make to encourage collaboration instead of conflict? Join Nonprofit Nerds Philly and David Dylan Thomas to find out! About this Event In the current political climate, it seems like we’ve all but given up on productive, respectful discourse. However, there are simple…
Virtual Fiscal Sponsorship 101
Tue, April 27, 2021
10:00 A.M.
Regional Foundation Center
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Parkway Central Library
In April, the Regional Foundation Center is pleased to offer two workshops for individuals who are thinking of starting a nonprofit organization. On April 20 we will offer Is Starting a Nonprofit Right For You? This session will be followed by Fiscal Sponsorship 101. During this…
Virtual Author Visit with Lexie Bean
Tue, April 27, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Friends, please join us for a virtual author visit and book talk with Lexie Bean , author of the middle grade epistolary novel, The Ship We Built. Lexie will read a chapter of the book and then your librarians, Mx. Kate and Ms. Naomi, will moderate a discussion about the book with YOU! This…
RESCHEDULED: Paul Farmer | Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Tue, April 27, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
RESCHEDULED TO JUNE 14, 2021 AT 7:30 P.M. PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AND LINKS ARE STILL VALID. Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture In conversation with Dr. Steven Larson, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Acclaimed for his…
“Death by a Thousand Cuts: How a Broken Promise and a Boston Brahmin Destroyed Joe McCarthy” with Peter Siskind
Wed, April 28, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual Program
Lies. Alternative facts. Demonizing the opponent. Former Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) has been dead for 63 years, but the political tools and techniques that he pioneered are very much alive. They are as fresh as today’s headlines. The Free Library is proud to present…
VIRTUAL - Yusef Komunyakaa | Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2021
Wed, April 28, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Yusef Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Neon Vernacular , a collection of poems that spoke about the realities of the Vietnam War, of which he was a veteran. His other collections include Warhorses , Taboo , and The Emperor of Water Clocks . The Distinguished Senior…
VIRTUAL - Ross King | The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
Thu, April 29, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Celebrated for his skill at “elucidating crucial episodes in the history of art and architecture” (Time ), Ross King is the author of many bestselling nonfiction books that peak behind the curtain of history of the studios, workshops, and inner toils and torments of…
VIRTUAL - Cate Doty | Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages
Tue, May 4, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Selena Coppock, standup comedian, writer, author, and creator and voice of @NYTVows , the parody Twitter and Instagram account that lampoons the New York Times Wedding section A former writer and editor at the New York Times , Cate…
PCB Open Book: Vault tour of the Art Department
Wed, May 5, 2021
5:30 P.M.
Art Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us for a virtual tour of highlights from the Art Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia presented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Center for the Book. Located on the second floor of the Parkway Central Library, the Art Department holds the most extensive reference and…
VIRTUAL - Alison Bechdel | The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Wed, May 5, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $29.50 - Signed Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS Alison Bechdel is the author of Fun Home , a bestselling graphic memoir that details bittersweet revelations made by her distant father in his final days. "A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds” ( Time ), Fun Home was adapted…
Making Her Mark Spotlight: Generation to Generation | Digital Discussion
Thu, May 6, 2021
5:30 P.M.
Zoom
Join curators from regional institutions whose exhibitions look at the multi-generational women-led movement building around voter rights and enfranchisement leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment and beyond. This discussion will provide additional context on exhibitions accessible…
VIRTUAL - Brian Greene | Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Thu, May 6, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $23.45 Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS In conversation with Dennis Overbye, science reporter for the New York Times and author of the books Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos and Einstein in Love “The single best explainer of abstruse science in the world today” ( Washington Post ), Brian Greene is a Professor…
“The Strange Afterlife of Roy Cohn” with Marie Brenner
Mon, May 10, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual Program
Lies. Alternative facts. Demonizing the opponent. Former Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) has been dead for 63 years, but the political tools and techniques that he pioneered are very much alive. They are as fresh as today’s headlines. The Free Library is proud to present…
VIRTUAL - Annette Gordon-Reed | On Juneteenth
Mon, May 10, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist Annette Gordon-Reed won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family , a history of the African…
VIRTUAL - Ian Manuel | My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
Tue, May 11, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts, essayist, poet, and author of the award-winning collection, Felon When Ian Manuel was 13 years old he shot a young mother of two in the face during a botched robbery. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he spent the next 26 years in prison,…
VIRTUAL - Martha C. Nussbaum | Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation
Wed, May 12, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Please note the new event time is 6:00 p.m. Martha C. Nussbaum is the author of numerous watershed books and articles concerning moral, legal, and political philosophy, including The Fragility of Goodness , Sex and Social Justice , and Cultivating Humanity . The Ernst Freund…
Looking Out and Building Up: Imagining Black Masculinities After Patriarchy
Wed, May 12, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Online
Moving through the themes of Black masculinity discussed in Jericho Brown's The Tradition , this intergenerational conversation will focus on deconstructing and reimagining the narratives and myths that define life for Black men and other Black masculine people. Panelists will explore…
VIRTUAL - Caleb Azumah Nelson | Open Water
Thu, May 13, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Megha Majumdar, bestselling author of A Burning British–-Ghanaian writer Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel Open Water is, “an intense, elegant” ( Guardian ) tale of two young Black British artists who find love as they struggle to…
VIRTUAL - Amy Klobuchar | Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Mon, May 17, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $10.00 General Admission; $39.00-Signed Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS In conversation with Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics The senior United States Senator from Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar chairs the Senate Rules Committee; the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights; and the Democratic…