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Events

  • Creativing Writing

    Battery Park City Library

    Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

    Free
  • Russell Shorto Taking Manhattan

    Join the Seaport Museum and celebrated historian Russell Shorto for a presentation focusing on Shorto’s newly-released book Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. The […]

    $10
  • Trespassers at the Golden Gate

    Book reading and signing by Gary Krist, author of Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded Age San Francisco.

  • Walking Book Club

    This month, read and discuss Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson.

    Free
  • Figure Drawing

    Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. Artists/ educators will offer constructive suggestions and […]

    Free
  • Stories Survive: “My Mother’s War” Book Talk

    My Mother’s War is a gripping memoir by Holocaust survivor Michael Fryd about his mother Evelyn, an indomitable woman who saved her family from the Nazis by demonstrating extraordinary courage […]

    $10
  • Passwords: Kwame Dawes on Neville Dawes

    Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry and current Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Kwame Dawes discusses the life and work of acclaimed novelist and poet and former director of the […]

    Free
  • Craft Studio

    Open studio craft session.

    Free