The Bluford branch will be closed Saturday, August 17 due to staffing issues.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
6:30pm
Was the Bard an old-school Jay Z?
Shakespeare’s theatre isn’t as far removed from modern-day hip hop as you might think. Both represent ener...
Signature Event
Monday, June 20, 2016
1:30pm
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Friday, June 17, 2016
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Romeo & Juliet’s timeless tale of star-cross’d lovers adds an undead element in...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2016
6:30pm
Erik Didriksen, a New York musician and Tumblr poet featured in Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, and the A.V. Club, has cleverly reimagined more tha...
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2016
6:30pm
Early on, the women in Shakespeare’s works tended to be simple caricatures – shrews to be tamed or sweet little things with no discernible independent...
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2016
1:30pm
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2:00pm
Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 11, 2016
11:00am
Claressa “T-Rex” Shields rose from impoverished Flint, Michigan, to a place in Olympic history, becoming the first American woman to win a gold medal...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 9, 2016
6:30pm
From ancient times to today, people have loved nothing more than to listen to a well-told story, a tall tale, a good yarn. Indeed, the spirit of th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:30pm
When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a rare...