Signature Event Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S... Read More
Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Eating Up Easter Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:00pm Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R... Read More
Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Bedlam Tuesday, April 14, 2020 6:30pm This Indie Lens Pop-Up event goes online with a screening and discussion of the 2019 documentary Bedlam, which takes an inti... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Boy Erased Sunday, February 23, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f... Read More
Signature Event Always in Season Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Disobedience Sunday, February 9, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: The Outsiders Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the... Read More
Signature Event The First Rainbow Coalition Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm Plaza Branch Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po... Read More
Signature Event Ghetto Uprising: The Untold Story Wednesday, January 22, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch Facing overwhelming obstacles, Jews and others in occupied Europe resisted Nazi rule in a variety of ways during World War II. Some instigated u... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Wild Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc... Read More