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Rap It Up! Virtual Workshop with Jeffery Weatherford
Wed, August 4, 2021
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Hip Hop and high tech collide, in this virtual workshop from spoken word artist and award-winning illustrator Jeffery Weatherford. Learn about hip hop history and the technology behind the beats and rhymes; see the hardware and software for recoding and mixing tracks at home; and compose your…
Philly Storied-City Read Aloud!
Wed, August 4, 2021
7:00 P.M.
VIRTUAL
Cost: FREE
The Literature Department at the Free Library of Philadelphia and Philly-Short Edition brings you an evening of short stories to delight and inspire you! Join Sophie Greer, Sanjana Ramanthan, Sam Price, and more Philly Storied City writers as they share a short story found as one of the…
OUTDOOR Summer of Wonder Sendoff featuring Janay Anderson, author of I Love My Curls
Sat, August 7, 2021
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us in Shakespeare Park on Saturday, August 7 at 10:30 a.m. for a special event to close out Summer of Wonder 2021! Local author Janay Anderson will read her book I Love My Curls and teach us about hair positivity & self love. About the book: Curls are Magical! I Love My…
VIRTUAL - Rebecca Donner | All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Mon, August 9, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER In conversation with David Clay Large, professor at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco, Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, U.C. Berkeley, and author of ten books including Berlin, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich,…
VIRTUAL - James Lapine | Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created “Sunday in the Park with George”
Tue, August 10, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER In conversation with Benj Pasek, Tony Award-winning songwriter and New York Times bestselling author of Dear Evan Hansen A celebrated director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, James Lapine earned three Tony Awards for “Best Book of a Musical” for Passion…
VIRTUAL - Rita Dove | Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Wed, August 11, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER In conversation Trapeta Mayson, Philadelphia Poet Laureate Former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah , a semi-fictional collection of verse that examined the lives of her grandparents. In addition to her many other collections, she is…
VIRTUAL-Carole Hopson | A Pair of Wings: A Novel Inspired by Pioneer Aviatrix Bessie Coleman
Thu, August 12, 2021
7:30 P.M.
VIRTUAL
Cost: FREE
REGISTER In conversation with Lorene Cary, author of the memoirs Ladysitting and Black Ice , three novels, and a book for young readers. She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and has written a one-act opera of Ladysitting and a play, My General Tubman .…
Virtual Implementing an Annual Appeal at Your Nonprofit
Thu, September 16, 2021
10:00 A.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center
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Parkway Central Library
Annual Appeal campaigns are a great way to raise money for your nonprofit. We will touch on the importance of matching gifts, challenge gifts, stock transfers and recurring gifts to capitalize on your donors’ giving potential. This workshop will walk you through the details of how and when…
“Oklahoma: The Show That Changed American Musicals Forever”
Wed, September 22, 2021
11:00 A.M.
Senior Services
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Parkway Central Library
If ever a musical show seemed marked for disaster, it was Oklahoma. Since the producers had insisted on casting singers who could act, rather than actors who could sing, the show opened without a single star in the cast. As all Broadway insiders knew, the show’s lyricist, Oscar…
VIRTUAL - Anthony Doerr | Cloud Cuckoo Land
Tue, October 19, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: TK
TICKETS ON SALE HERE | SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 AT 10:00 A.M. Books with signed book plates will be available to the first 100 book with ticket buyers. Anthony Doerr won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Cannot See , “a beautiful, daring, heartbreaking, oddly joyous novel”…