Event List

Join Reno Bracchi, longtime blues musician and aficionado, for a two-part presentation “Origins of the Blues: A Uniquely American Music." Blues is a genre that originated amongst A...

Join Alan Richards, whose artwork is currently on display in the Library's Adler Gallery, as he offers a presentation about the current exhibit. Richards's art is primarily photomo...

Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), a Black woman artist of the twentieth century is finally receiving long overdue attention in a traveling exhibition of over 200 works at The Brooklyn...

Join presenter Danilise Diaz (AAMS™, CRPC™) for the first in a four-part series of Career and Finance programs designed to help you to establish and perpetuate personal financial s...

Join Reno Bracchi, longtime blues musician and aficionado, for Part Two of “Origins of the Blues: A Uniquely American Music”, as he explores how the electric guitar played a c...

As part of the Library's recognition of Black History Month, join award-winning stage and film director Stephen Nachamie as he celebrates the groundbreaking African American a...

Mary Sully, born on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota, was a little-known, reclusive artist who, between the 1920s and 1940s, created highly distinctive work informed b...

Join presenter Danilise Diaz (AAMS™, CRPC™) for the second in a four-part series of Career and Finance programs designed to help you to establish and perpetuate personal financial ...

Join author Claire Bellerjeau as she recounts the incredible true story of Elizabeth, or Liss, an enslaved Black woman from Oyster Bay, New York, who struggled for freedom during t...

Join presenter Danilise Diaz (AAMS™, CRPC™) for the third in a four-part series of Career and Finance programs designed to help you to establish and perpetuate personal financial s...

The Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy books speak of the mysterious Queen of Sheba. Did she have a relationship with King Solomon? Was their child Menelek the Great king of Ethiopi...

Join presenter Danilise Diaz (AAMS™, CRPC™) for the fourth in a four-part series of Career and Finance programs designed to help you to establish and perpetuate personal financial ...

In celebration of Black History Month, join Tanisha Mitchell for this special presentation, "Cotton: The Dream and Hope of the Slave," which honors the African American experi...

The Museum of Modern Art in NYC was founded in 1929 by three visionary women: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Mary Quinn Sullivan and Lillie Plummer Bliss. When Bliss died at 66, in 1931...

Join award-winning author Mark Torres as he discusses his new book, Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance.  In the early twentieth century, eugenics w...

As part of the Library’s celebration of Women’s History Month, join Stage and Film Director Stephen Nachamie as he celebrates Broadway Legend Patti LuPone.  Mr. Nachamie will ...

Born in India, English photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century.  Museum educator, Alice W. Iglehart, wil...

Join Ron Brown as he continues his series on lost civilizations with an exploration of the Lost City of Atlantis.  Plato was convinced that the already ancient city of Atlanti...

A financial advisor, dietitian and psychotherapist join forces for a unique event filled with fun, educational workshops centered around financial, physical, and mental health. Thi...

Join us for a FOL Special Event: A Non-Scary, Practical guide to "Generative AI" with Sree Sreenivasan.  Mr. Sreenivasan will explain why "Generative AI" can be useful and why...

In celebration of Women's History Month, join Tanisha Mitchell as she explores the careers and the rivalry between two legendary opera divas; Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi.  ...

As part of the Library's celebration of Women's History Month, join award winning teacher and art historian Dennis Raverty as he explores the work of 19th Century Impressionist pai...