All scheduled activities for today’s Brooklyn Book Festival — see here — will be held indoors, except for the Literary Marketplace, which has been cancelled because of forecast high winds. You can still support participants in the Literary Marketplace by purchasing on line. (Official BKBF Poster by Johnnie Christmas courtesy @bkbookfest at Instagram.)
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Busy Weekend Coming
Yes, indeed! We have the Brooklyn Book Festival, with Children’s Day on Saturday, October 1 and Festival Day on Sunday, October 2. Also on Sunday we have the Atlantic Antic. For dance enthusiasts, and for those who would like to learn more about dance, and perhaps try some steps, the Mark Morris Dance Group will […]
Center for Brooklyn History Hosts Oklahoma Teacher Who Resigned After Giving Students Access to Banned Books through Brooklyn Public Library
As a highlight to its celebration of Banned Books Week, the Brooklyn Public Library will present on Saturday, September 24 at its Center for Brooklyn History, “The Battle for the Right to Read What You Want,” a discussion featuring Summer Boismier, an Oklahoma teacher who resigned after controversy erupted because she had provided students with […]
Brooklyn Book Festival: Children’s Day on Sat., Oct. 1, Festival Day on Sun., Oct. 2
The Brooklyn Book Festival is a can’t miss, best of Brooklyn, why we live here, what’s not to like, fun for all, books are not dead, no they’re magic! annual event that has something for everyone. Here are just a few highlights from the many planned events. Jazzed and Poetic Sunday, Oct. 2, 10:00 a.m., […]
St. Ann’s School Dumps Hundreds of Books On Clinton Street
One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, or so the adage goes. It started with a late-afternoon post to Buy Nothing Brooklyn Heights/Dumbo/Vinegar Hill. St. Ann’s School had just dumped hundreds of books in the trash. “Curb Alert: Close to 40 Clinton by the parking garage at 3:50pm Tuesday…Hundreds of books. So many good ones.” The post fomented […]
Brooklyn Book Festival September 25 – October 3
The Eagle reports that the Brooklyn Book Festival will return from September 25 through October 3, offering “events throughout Brooklyn as well as a full Virtual Festival Day (Sept. 25) to expand its reach to readers anywhere in the world.” As always, all events will be free. Books will be for sale at various publishers’ […]
BOOKS ARE MAGIC Coming to Montague St.!!!
Books Are Magic, the second coming, is opening on Montague St.! Owner Emma Straub announced via social media today that the wildly popular Cobble Hill book shop is opening a second location at 122 Montague St. (between Kiehl’s and Haagan-Dazs). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Books Are Magic (@booksaremagicbk) You might remember […]
Author Leigh Newman Reads from “Nobody Gets Out Alive” at Plymouth Church Wednesday, April 20
Leigh Newman, an award winning local resident author, will be at the Reception Room of Plymouth Church, of which she is a member, this coming Wednesday evening, April 20. There will be cocktails starting at 6:30, followed at 7:30 by Ms. Newman’s reading from her latest book, Nobody Gets Out Alive, “an exhilarating story collection […]
Theater 2020 Presents Shaw’s “The Dark Lady of the Sonnets” Next Saturday
This coming Saturday, March 12 Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ own award winning live theater company, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Public Library, will present an on line reading of George Bernard Shaw’s (photo) short one act play, “The Dark Lady of the Sonnets.” In the play, Shakespeare, played by Theater 2020’s Co-Producing Artistic Director and […]
“Hybrid” Brooklyn Book Festival Underway
The main events of this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival take place this coming weekend. This year’s Festival is “Hybrid,” with many events in person and many on-line. Children’s Day is Saturday, October 2; schedule and locations here. The main event, and Literary Marketplace (see photo) will be on Sunday, October 3; schedule and locations here. There are “Bookends” events taking […]
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