Upcoming Events
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Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell
Thu, January 23, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell have been friends in poetry for over twenty-five years, sharing manuscripts, and working together to coordinate events at Swarthmore (where Anderson directed the program in Creative Writing before her recent retirement) and at Villanova (where Sewell…
Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement
Tue, January 28, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes REGISTER In Conversation with Marsha Levick In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who are its heroes? Where is it headed? What fires,…
The Literature Department presents: Louis Parascandola - A Black Philadelphia Reader
Sat, February 1, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Louis J. Parascandola is a Professor of Humanities at Long Island University, Brooklyn. He has published several books on Black authors including Eric Walrond, Gwendolyn Bennett, J. A. Rogers, and Amy Jacques Garvey. He is currently working on two projects, one a collection of the writings of…
Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds, Aminata Sy in conversation with Cherri Gregg
Mon, February 3, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Join us for an evening with Philadelphia author and American diplomat, Aminata Sy , in conversation with award-winning journalist, Cherri Gregg . Aminata Sy left Senegal in 2001, starting a new life in Philadelphia with the challenges of being a high school dropout who did not speak English. In…
Brian Kelly | How to Win at Travel
Mon, February 3, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Brian Kelly | How to Win at Travel REGISTER In Conversation with Haley Sacks In How to Win at Travel, Brian Kelly shares his greatest tips and strategies to experience the world in ways you never thought possible. This comprehensive guide is a road map with…
Author Event: Menika Dirkson's Hope and Struggle in the Policed City
Tue, February 4, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in Philadelphia. Dirkson's book reveals…
Anthony Jack | Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
Wed, February 5, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Anthony Jack | Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price REGISTER In Conversation with Desmond Upton Patton Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their…
Julie Fortenberry Author Visit
Thu, February 6, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us in welcoming author and illustrator, Julia Fortenberry. Julia has an MFA from Hunter College. Her paintings have been in the Whitney Museum of Art. Now she paints and writes for children. Astronaut Sisters, her newest book, has just been released. This event will…
Judy Giesberg & Lee Hawkins | Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families AND I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free
Thu, February 6, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Judy Giesberg & Lee Hawkins | Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families AND I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free REGISTER In Conversation with Cherri Gregg Judith Giesberg…
John Sayles | To Save the Man
Mon, February 10, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents John Sayles | To Save the Man REGISTER In Conversation with Brenda Child In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by Captain Richard Henry…
Author Event: Wendy Horwitz's Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments
Tue, February 11, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
In Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments , Wendy A. Horwitz shares stories about celebration, loss, change,and the best way to open a pomegranate. With observations from nature, religion, and literature, Horwitz explores how ritual can exalt ordinary moments and frame the…
Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change
Tue, February 11, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change REGISTER Endowed Lecture: Pine Tree Foundation It Takes Chutzpah is an inspirational call to action by a senior U.S. politician, describing how Americans of…
Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti
Thu, February 13, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti REGISTER In Conversation with Grace Sanders Johnson Slave, revolutionary, traitor, king, and suicide, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born in 1767 to an enslaved…
Rick Steves | On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Tue, February 18, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Rick Steves | On the Hippie Trail Montgomery Auditorium is now sold out, but tickets are still available for a live simulcast screening in Room 108 at the Parkway Central Library. REGISTER Meelya Gordon Memorial Endowed Lecture Stow away with Rick Steves for a…
Katherine Stewart | Money, Lies, and God
Wed, February 19, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Katherine Stewart | Money, Lies and God REGISTER In Conversation with Anthea Butler Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings,…
W.E.B. DuBois & His Artistic Approach to Social Science
Thu, February 20, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
In the Social Science & History Department W.E.B. Du Bois viewed sociology as a human science. In his effort to understand and explain the human capacity to transform society he employed art in its many forms including music, painting, novels and poetry. This talk, from DuBois Scholar…
Author Event: Amy Jane Cohen
Sat, February 22, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Black Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia's history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape , Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history is marked in the contemporary…
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow Author Visit
Tue, February 25, 2025
10:30 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,…
Sophia Rosenfeld | The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
Tue, February 25, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Sophia Rosenfeld | The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life REGISTER In Conversation with Emily Wilson Ellis Wachs Memorial Endowed Lecture Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to…
Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call
Mon, March 3, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call REGISTER We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in…