Tag: talks-readings

Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in...

BPC Book Club

BPC Book Club

Book club discussion. Book for this month: Tracks by Louise Erdrich.

Seaport Museum Book Club

Seaport Museum Book Club

In partnership with McNally Jackson Books—located at 4 Fulton Street, just a few doors down from the Museum entrance—Seaport Museum staff and...

Concrete Solutions: Residential High-Rises in Chicago

Concrete Solutions: Residential High-Rises in Chicago

The most famous residential structures of postwar Chicago are still Mies van der Rohe’s 860-880 Lake Shore Drive with the modernist expression of...

Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in...

New York’s Culper Spy Ring

New York’s Culper Spy Ring

In this presentation, historian and author Bill Bleyer will illuminate the true tale of the Culper Spy Ring, a covert operation that provided...

The James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets: Readings with Heid E. Erdrich, J.K. Tsosie, and Kalehua Kim

The James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets: Readings with Heid E. Erdrich, J.K. Tsosie, and Kalehua Kim

Join Heid E. Erdrich and the 2023 James Welch Prize winning poets J.K. Tsosie and Kalehua Kim for an in-person reading and celebration of their work....

China Institute Calligraphy and Music Meetup

China Institute Calligraphy and Music Meetup

An evening of traditional Chinese music and calligraphy. No previous experience of calligraphy is required. Ink, paper, and brush will be provided...

Long Island City in 1776: The Revolution Comes to Queens

Long Island City in 1776: The Revolution Comes to Queens

1775 belonged to Boston but after April of 1776, the Revolutionary War's focus became New York City and the highly strategic Long Island, from...

The Future Direction of China’s Economy

The Future Direction of China’s Economy

Amidst declining net trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), a deceleration in infrastructure and capital investment, and persistently low...

Michael Cunningham presents Day: A Novel

Michael Cunningham presents Day: A Novel

Book reading and conversation. Night of music, drinks, and conversation to celebrate the publication of a “quietly stunning” (Ocean Vuong)...

Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Walk & writing session led by poet Jon Curley. Participants will be encouraged to use observations as a way to enhance their writing styles in...