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    • Teaching Lenape History & Presence in New York City Schools

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    The Brooklyn Public Library, in collaboration with the Lenape Center, presents a talk to introduce and discuss a new Lenape curriculum developed for PK-12 students. This curriculum aims to bring Indigenous history to life and address the often overlooked narrative of the Lenape people in New York City. The talk features key contributors to the […]

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    • Author Talk: Amitava Kumar Discusses My Beloved Life with Katie Kitamura

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    An absorbing, exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn. Jadunath Kunwar’s beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935 in a village near George Orwell’s birthplace, Jadu’s mother, while pregnant with him, nearly dies […]

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    • Author Talk: Jinwoo Chong on I Leave It Up To You, In Conversation With Grant Ginder

    Brooklyn Public Library - Brooklyn Heights 286 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Join us at Brooklyn Heights Library to hear Jinwoo Chong discuss his new novel I Leave It Up to You with Grant Ginder. From the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than […]

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    Poetry Café of the National Black Writers Conference

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    As part of Brooklyn Public Library's longtime partnership with National Black Writers Conference, the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College co-presents an annual poetry café featuring four amazing poets: Angela Du, Kaiyah Ellison, Bonafide Rojas, and Zora Satchel. Participants Angela Du is a young poet, actress, and model. Angela grew up in the […]

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    Music: Classical Interludes: Orchestra of St. Luke’s: The Music of Chen Yi

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    Discover the remarkable music of Chen Yi, a celebrated Chinese-American composer whose work connects cultures and tells stories that resonate around the world. This special program brings Chen Yi’s music to life offering an experience that blends tradition, inspiration, and creativity. Born in China and thriving as an artist in the United States, Chen Yi combines […]

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    • Author Talk: Katie Kitamura Discusses Audition

    Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, NY, United States

    Join BPL Presents as Katie Kitamura takes the Dweck stage to discuss Audition, an exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough […]

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