Fiber Art Crafts Studio
Join this group of fiber art crafters for a fun afternoon of creativity and camaraderie. Bring your projects, which can include—but are not limited to—knitting, crocheting, embroidery and small-loom weaving.
Free
Events
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Immigrant Stories Film Series: An Autumn’s Tale
Immigrant Stories is a winter film series that illustrates the American experience as it progresses along the generations. Free popcorn will be served, and a discussion will follow the screenings. In An Autumn’s Tale (Mabel Cheung, 1987), a young woman from Hong Kong travels to New York to join her boyfriend, only to be heartbroken […]
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30th Poets House Showcase Reading
A night of readings features four visionary collections of 2024 and 2025. Ching-In Chen reads from Shiny City (Airlie Press, 2025), jason b. crawford reads from YEET! (Omnidawn, 2025), charles […]
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Calligraphy, Music & Mandarin Meetup
Experience captivating live performances featuring some of China’s most iconic instruments — from the graceful guqin (古琴) to the ethereal, harp-like konghou (箜篌) and the lush, harmonizing sheng (笙)— performed […]
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Literature, Wounds, and Renewal: The Life Journey of Lu Xinhua
Online lecture by Lu Xinhua. In 1978, a short story published in The Wenhui Paper changed the course of contemporary Chinese literature. Lu Xinhua’s Scar exposed the psychic wounds inflicted […]
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“Children of Chabbanes” Screening and Discussion
In the spirit of Louis Malle’s Au Revoir les Enfants and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, the Emmy® Award-winning documentary The Children of Chabannes has been called “a moving record of […]
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BPC Book Club
Join fellow readers for lively discussion and thoughtful socializing. Today's discussion will be about Overstory by Richard Powers.
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Stories Survive: “Irena’s Gift” Book Talk
A 2025 National Jewish Book Award Finalist that judges described as “reads like a thriller” and winner of Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama & Best Story of Overcoming, Irena’s […]
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Downtown Beats Chorus
Directed by Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult chorus is open to all who love to sing! Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year.
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Lunch & Learn: Language City
Ross Perlin, author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, examines the past, present, and future of the world’s most linguistically diverse city, New York. He will also discuss multilingualism, language policy, and the role technology plays in the evolution and documentation of languages. Today, half of the world’s […]
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Scale Boy: An African Childhood
Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country’s history and in his life. Scale Boy is a memoir […]
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“Plunder and Survival” Book Talk
Writer, art historian, and Holocaust survivor Suzanne Loebl, whose life paralleled much of the events revisited in Plunder and Survival, takes a new look at the Nazis ruthless attack on modern art and at their unprecedented looting of private, mostly Jewish art collections in Austria, Holland, and France. Eighty-five years after the end of the […]
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