Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am Online How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm Online One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event Writers at War: Literature and the Wartime Experience Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: A Crankenstein Valentine Sunday, February 5, 2017 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists read from Samantha Berger’s story of an ordinary boy who transforms into a grumbling Crankenstein on what he... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: Sam and Dave Dig a Hole Sunday, March 5, 2017 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists read from Mac Barnett’s and Jon Klassen’s witty, award-winning story of two young boys looking – and digging... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: Blizzard Sunday, December 4, 2016 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists read from the book by award-winning author and illustrator John Rocco about the wonder of a winter storm – in... Read More
Signature Event We're Going on a Bear Hunt Sunday, April 8, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Michael Rosen’s award-winning classi... Read More
Signature Event We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: The Watermelon Seed Sunday, April 2, 2017 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Coterie Theatre artists read from Greg Pizzoli’s hilarious book about a watermelon-loving crocodile who worries about swallowing the... Read More
Signature Event Voices of the Big Read: Open-Mic Poetry Thursday, May 5, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet... Read More