Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Eating Up Easter 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 The Soul of an Entrepreneur May 21, 2020 6:30pm We’ve been beguiled over the past decade by a romanticized, Silicon Valley-inspired take on entrepreneurship, glorifying its practitioners as darin... Read More
Signature Event Childhood in the COVID-19 Era May 14, 2020 6:30pm The Library begins a series of programs exploring issues related to COVID-19 with an examination of the immediate and long-term effects that the pa... Read More
Signature Event Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis May 12, 2020 7:00pm Can the U.S. and other coronavirus-ravaged countries take a cue from individuals in crisis and follow their own 12-step path to recovery?... Read More
Signature Event 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics May 7, 2020 6:30pm Francis Glessner Lee seemed an unlikely candidate to become the early 20th-century godmother of forensic science. But she had a bent for science an... Read More
Signature Event Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future April 28, 2020 6:30pm Feminism’s ultimate breakthrough remains elusive. America again will not elect a woman as president in 2020, despite the initial promise in a crowd... Read More
Signature Event Barbara Bush: Pearls of Wisdom April 21, 2020 6:30pm Online Family members and other close associates share what they learned from late first lady Barbara Bush in the newly released Pearls of Wisdom... Read More
Signature Event What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues April 16, 2020 6:30pm In an online discussion of his new book,What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues, author Cliffor... Read More
Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Bedlam 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 Driving While Black March 12, 2020 6:30pm Central Library In Person Perhaps no one took more meaning from the advent of the automobile—and its promise of freedom and adventure, power and self-expression—than African... Read More