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Andre Robert Lee | A Conversation with the Documentary Filmmaker and Author
Wed, November 6, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Andre Robert Lee | A Conversation with the Documentary Filmmaker and Author REGISTER André Robert Lee most recently served as the Executive Producer of Notes From America With Kai Wright. The show is broadcast from WNYC, the largest public radio station…
FIRST PERSON ARTS: There is No Ethan: Anna Akbari in conversation with Sheila Watko
Wed, November 13, 2024
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join Anna Akbari and Sheila Watko for a bookish conversation about online dating Join First Person Arts for our inaugural StoryMakers series: Anna Akbari, author of There Is No Ethan in conversation with Sheila Watko of NBC10. This event is brought to you by the Free Library of Philadelphia.…
Lori Ginzberg | Tangled Journeys
Thu, November 14, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Lori Ginzberg | Tangled Journeys REGISTER In conversation with Tamala Edwards In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her…
Imagine More Story Adventures with Thembi Palmer
Fri, November 15, 2024
12:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Join the ever amazing Thembi Palmer of Imagine More: Story Adventures for a fantastic story time! Thembi Palmer is committed to promoting literacy by developing a love of reading and books in young children, pre-K through 4th grade. She collaborates with Philadelphia schools, libraries, museums,…
Judge David Tatel | Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
Fri, November 15, 2024
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Judge David Tatel | Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice REGISTER David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are…
Bill Clinton | Citizen: My Life After the White House
Wed, November 20, 2024
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Bill Clinton | Citizen: My Life After the White House REGISTER A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all. On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty…
Colin Hamilton | The Discarded
Thu, November 21, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Colin Hamilton | The Discarded REGISTER A dazzling array of metafictions, Colin Hamilton’s The Discarded focuses on the lonely work of a solitary librarian assigned to the discard room. This hidden basement space is piled high with books purged from the…
The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir
Thu, December 5, 2024
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir REGISTER Memoirists most often focus on the authenticity of their own voice and experience, and how best to render on the page the intersection of memory and current insight. This traditional approach creates…
The Dehumanization of Jews in Russian and Soviet Cartoons
Mon, December 16, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Room 108 In this evening’s talk Bob Weinberg of Swarthmore College will explore anti-Jewish visual imagery from the late tsarist era to the early years of the Soviet Union to reveal popular and official attitudes toward and perceptions of Russian and Soviet Jewry. Bob Weinberg is the…
Imagine More Story Adventures with Thembi Palmer
Sat, December 21, 2024
12:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Join the ever amazing Thembi Palmer of Imagine More: Story Adventures for a fantastic story time! Thembi Palmer is committed to promoting literacy by developing a love of reading and books in young children, pre-K through 4th grade. She collaborates with Philadelphia schools, libraries, museums,…
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow Author Visit
Tue, February 25, 2025
10:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us for a special visit with Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow. Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow is a Philadelphia-based author of popular educator-recommended children’s books. She is a two-time winner of the Muslim Bookstagram picture book award, and she has earned the prestigious Walter,…