Saturday, November 21, 1:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Bob McGrath from Sesame Street

Bob McGrath--award-winning author, musician and original cast member of the show--performs his own music. THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY AND REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Sunday, November 22, 1:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Hard Times Film Series: American Madness

Frank Capra directed this Depression-era story of an honest everyman assailed by thievery, adultery, mobsters, gambling and capitalism gone mad. Tom Dickson, president of Union National Bank refuses to let his bank get taken over by the New York Trust. Tom is not interested in profits, but rather sees depositors as decent citizens. His idealism costs him. This program will last approximately 90 minutes.

Sunday, November 22, 4:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Classical Interludes: Trio Solisti

Trio Solisti is comprised of three brilliant instrumentalists - violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Jon Klibonoff. Trio Solisti has earned a reputation for its passionate and adventurous performances. They will play a program of Mendelssohn, Piazzolla, and Mussorgsky. This program will last approximately 90 minutes. Please exit via Eastern Parkway Exit

Tuesday, November 24, 6:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

(Some of) The World's Best Movies: Late Spring

Director Yasujiro Ozu explores the relationship between a father and daughter as the traditional patterns of family life are affected by a changing society. While the film's themes are deeply rooted in Japanese culture, they nevertheless speak directly to audiences around the world. This program will last approximately 90 minutes.

Tuesday, December 1, 6:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

(Some of) The World's Best Movies: Smiles of a Summer Night

Director Ingmar Bergman is not known for comedy, and yet this film is a fast-moving, witty, and utterly delightful farce enacted by a superb ensemble cast. Set in upper-middle class Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century, Bergman's characters have little but their romantic adventures and misadventures to trouble them.

Thursday, December 3, 7:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Brooklyn Sings, Brooklyn Swings: Mark Winkler

Winkler is a platinum award-winning singer and lyricist who has had over 150 of his songs performed by such artists as Dianne Reeves, Randy Crawford, Liza Minnelli, Bob Dorough and Lea Salonga. He has written songs for the hit musical review "Naked Boys Singing!" and has penned lyrics for tunes by composers Wayne Shorter, Dexter Gordon, Joshua Redman and David Benoit.

Saturday, December 5, 1:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Musical Puppet Show

Come sing, giggle and dance with Mary Ellen of Company's Coming! Children's Entertainment. She will do a Puppet Sow with Songs, PUppets, Musical Activities and lots of audience Participation! the puppets are very colorful, friendly looking and age appropriate for 1-5 year olds. The songs include many all time children's favorites: Old MacDonald Had a Farm, The ABC Song, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, The More We Get Together, etc. There will be Music and Movement with Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes, The Hokey Pokey, If You're Happy and You Know It and Shake Your Sillies Out. We will also do Fignerplays and catch Bubbles. Join us and shar ein the fun on December 5th!

Saturday, December 5, 4:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Russian Literary Series: Andrei Bitov

Bitov reads from his latest book "Prepodavatel' simmetrii" ("The Symmetry Instructor"). A novelist, writer, geologist, Bitov was born in Leningrad in 1937. Bitov first became well known internationally through his novel Pushkin House. This program is presented in Russian. Please RSVP for tickets at 718-230-2222. Limit 2 per person.

Sunday, December 6, 1:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Silent Film Series: Celebrating Charley Chase

Chase's on-screen persona was a harried, much embarrassed, put-upon everyman, but behind that mask he was one of film comedy's greatest and most influential pioneers as seen in the short films Too Many Mammas (1924) His Wooden Wedding (1925); No Father to Guide him (1925) and Dog Shy (1926). Curated by Ken Gordon with live piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman.

Sunday, December 6, 4:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Classical Interludes: Sofya Melikyan

Pianist Melikyan performs works by Franz Liszt, Joseph Hayden, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Faure, and Henri Dutilleux. Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sofya Melikyan began her musical training at the age of five at the Tchaikovsky Specialized Music School of Yerevan, studying piano with Anahit Shahbazyan. This program will last approximately 90 minutes. Please exit via Eastern Parkway Exit

Tuesday, December 8, 7:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Russian Film Series: Perestroika

Slava Tsukerman, director of the cult classic Liquid Sky, will screen and discuss his new film a scientist who returns to Russia in 1992 after his exile 17 years earlier. Once branded a traitor, he returns as a hero to face the friends who denounced him and a homeland in turmoil. The program is in English and Russian.

Thursday, December 10, 7:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Tony Fletcher and Alan Vega in Conversation

Fletcher's new book All Hopped up and Ready to Go provides a compelling history of the NYC music scene from 1927 to 1977. Brooklyn-born Vega was one half of the seminal electronic duo Suicide. Vega?s venue Project of Living Artists served as a stomping ground for the likes of the New York Dolls, Television, and Blondie.

Saturday, December 12, 1:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Jigsaw Jones: The Case of the Class Clown

Athena Lorenzo has been slimed and she doesn't think it's very funny. Someone in Ms. Gleason's classis playing practical jokes. Theodore "Jigsaw" Jones claims to be the very first dectedtive in the whole school. It's up to Jigsaw and his friend Mila to investigate the sliming and track down the class clown. This could be their stickiest case yet! Brimming with music, charm and humor, ArtsPower's new production - based on the book by renowned author James Preller - will make audiences laugh and think as they learn the secret codes that Jigsaw must decipher to solve the mystery.

Saturday, December 12, 4:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Cosmopolis: Jessica Hagedorn

Hagedorn was born and raised in the Philippines and came to the United States in her early teens. Her novels include Dream Jungle, The Gangster of Love, and Dogeaters, which was nominated for a National Book Award. She will read from her new novel, Toxicology. WNYC's Leonard Lopate hosts.

Sunday, December 13, 1:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

The Guys from The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

Pat Donohue, Richard Dworsky, and Gary Raynor take a break from entertaining a well-known Lake Wobegon resident to perform their eclectic mix of music. A Prairie Home Companion music director, Dworsky is masterful keyboard player, composer and improviser in any style. Chet Atkins called Donohue (guitar) one of the greatest finger pickers in the world. Raynor (bass) has performed with the Count Basie band, Sammy Davis Jr. and the Minnesota Klezmer Band.

Sunday, December 13, 4:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Classical Interludes: BPL Chamber Players

Jessica Lee, violin, Adela Pena, violin, Ah Ling Neu, viola, Roberta Cooper, violoncello and Peter Weitzner, double bass, perform works by Mozart and Ravel, as well as some holiday classics. This program will last approximately 90 minutes. Please exit via Eastern Parkway exit.

Wednesday, December 16, 2:00PM
Central Library

Gods, Warriors, Women: Exploring Identities in The Iliad

The Iliad is famously the great epic of war; it is also the epic of the human condition--our mortal fates, our struggle to make and preserve community, our attempts at love, our capacity for violence, lust, affection, grief. The Iliad continues to speak to us, but it is not always or only about "us": its gods, its vision of the human, of war, of family, and of love, are both very strange and deeply familiar. In her lecture, "Gods, Warriors, Women: Exploring Identities in the Iliad," Professor Laura Slatkin will introduce the Page and Stage discussion series with an inquiry into the richness and strangeness of the Iliad. Further meetings will take up these motifs, exploring more fully the relations of and impasses between gods and mortals; the bonds among warriors; the status of women in the Iliadic universe. Our program will feature some forays into the modern world, including 20th C. responses to the Iliad by Simone Weil W.H. Auden, and Christopher Logue, as well as contemporary American reckonings with core Iliadic concerns, such as Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.

Thursday, December 17, 4:00PM
Bushwick

Holiday Crafts

Make a colorful craft to brighten up the cold days of winter.

Thursday, December 17, 7:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History

On the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons debut as a stand alone program, journalist John Ortved offers a behind-the-scenes look at America?s best-loved show that takes you into the Writers? Room and through the making of an episode.

Saturday, December 19, 1:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Jon Samson presents Co-Creative Music

Original songs for kids and parents of all ages. co-Creative Music is a highly adaptive program with a multifaceted design involving private instruction, sing alongs, interactive music making and improvisation.

Saturday, December 19, 4:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Latin American and Caribbean Modern and Contemporary Art

Museum of Modern Art Lecturer Angela Garcia considers artworks by Latin American and Caribbean artists such countries as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Patrons also have the opportunity to receive a family pass to MoMA good for up to 5 people

Sunday, December 20, 1:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Hard Times: Gold Diggers of 1933

This classic Warner Brothers musical, staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, follows four aspiring actresses as the Great Depression nearly darkens their theater production. In 2003, Gold Diggers of 1933 was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Sunday, December 20, 4:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Classical Interludes: yMusic

This uniquely configured chamber ensemble, comprised of string trio, flute, clarinet and trumpet, is equally comfortable in the often overlapping classical and pop music worlds. This concert is the premiere of Gabriel Kahane's Concerto for Trumpet and Small Ensemble and a new work by British composer, Simon Hale. The rest of the program will draw on contemporary classical works by composers such as Arvo Part and Nico Muhly and arrangements of instrumental pieces by Sufjan Stevens and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Saturday, January 9, 4:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

Russian Literary Series: Vadim Yarmolinets

Originally from Odessa, Yarmolinets lives in Brooklyn and works as a freelance writer and journalist, writing in Russian. He is an author of several books of short stories; his latest novel Lead Zeppelin was short listed this year for a prestigious Russian literary award "Big Book".

Tuesday, January 19, 6:30PM
Central Library, Dweck Center

(Some of) The World�s Best Movies: Guantanamera

This 1995 romantic comedy from Cuba, directed by Tom?s Guti?rrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tab?o, tells the story of Gina, a former economics professor married to Adolfo, a bureaucrat who is the head of a committee on burials. They must travel across Cuba to bury Gina?s aunt, Yoyita, in Havana.