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Free Kwanzaa crafts workshop for teens

Get festive at the New York Public Library with a special Kwanzaa crafts workshop for teens ages 12 to 18, and make a special Kwanzaa ornament for family, friends, teacher, or another special someone to show your holiday wishes.   All materials will be provided.  The free crafts program is at the 125th St. Branch, [...]

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Free Dixieland jazz performance at Lincoln Center

Get those toes tapping at this free performance by the six-piece Gotham Jazzmen.  It’s the last performance of 2011 for Toe Tappin’ Tuesdays  at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in Lincoln Center.  The music is Tuesday, December 27th, noon to 1:30 PM at the Bruno Walter Auditorium.  There are no [...]

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Free performances for kids of A Christmas Carol at NYPL branches

Reminder — the next few days are the final special free performances of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, at different branches of the New York Public Library throughout New York City.  Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the timeless and universal tale of miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit. Through [...]

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Free performances for kids of A Christmas Carol at NYPL branches

Get ready for the holidays with these special free performances of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, at different branches of the New York Public Library throughout New York City.  Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the timeless and universal tale of miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit. Through visits from [...]

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Free performances for kids of A Christmas Carol at NYPL branches

Get ready for the holidays with these special free performances of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, at different branches of the New York Public Library throughout New York City.  Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the timeless and universal tale of miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit. Through visits from [...]

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See Mikhail Baryshnikov free at the New York Public Library

You won’t meet legendary dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov live and in person, but see him in photos, video footage and more, including personal letters from other legends of film and dance and culture including Frank Sinatra, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Fred Astaire.  This FREE exhibit is at the New York Public Library for [...]

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Free lecture about Walter Cronkite, CBS News, current news trends

Walter Cronkite was called ‘the most trusted man in America’, and along with fellow CBS News icons Edward R. Morrow and Andy Rooney, possibly the most famous and influential TV news person in broadcast news history.  Spend a FREE evening with Sanford Socolow, executive producer of Cronkite Productions, Inc., and former executive producer of [...]

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Register now for free video gaming events at NYPL November 12th

Who knew that there’s a National Gaming Day, and that it’s on Saturday, November 12, 2011.  Thousands of public libraries across the country — including the New York Public Library — are holding  events to help you get your game face on.  The Mid-Manhattan Branch second annual National Gaming Day program is from 1:00 [...]

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9/11 Anniversary free events: NYPL lectures on how it changed us forever

World Trade Center before 9/11

The New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan branch is focusing on 9/11 throughout the month of September, with a series of free lectures by authors and other experts on how the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center affected and changed us all, and how it changed the city.  [...]

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9/11 anniversary event: free lecture on role of WTC photos, video

World Trade Center, not Ground Zero

The images of the destruction of the World Trade Center are seared into our collective memory.   What’s the story of the people in those mages, and the photographers and videographers who took them?  David Friend was Life Magazine’s director of photography, and the author of the photo [...]

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9/11 anniversary events: free lecture on role of WTC in NYC history

World Trade Center, not Ground Zero

Tuesday, August 30th — Best-selling author Eric Darton talks about the role of Lower Manhattan in  New York City, from Colonial times through the construction of the World Trade Center.  It’s a FREE author lecture at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NYPL on Tuesday, August 30th.  His [...]

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Free Winnie the Pooh birthday party for kids at NYPL on Fifth Ave.

NYC on the Cheap

You and the kids are invited to a FREE birthday party to celebrate the 90th birthday of Winnie-the-Pooh.  It’s an afternoon  of activities, including face painting, balloon animals, and crafts. Bring your favorite stuffed toy — especially if its a toy bear named Winnie — and have your picture [...]

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