Events

Join the NEW Roslindale Branch Anime/Manga Society for teens and pre-teens where we will watch Anime, talk about Anime and Manga, and try some Manga drawing. 

For ages 10-18.

No registration required.

Are you curious about vegetarian, vegan and plant-based diets and how these fit into a variety of cultural dishes? Join Stop & Shop Grove Hall registered dietitian Christine in celebration of cultural plant-based foods and their …

In honor of Pride Month 2022, join us for a "Know Your Rights” webinar for an overview of the process for obtaining gender affirming identification. The Center for Social Justice will provide relevant legal information and explain…

Children ages 8 and older, along with their families, are invited to join the Nigerian Authors Book Club for Children! Each month, we read and discuss a book written by an author from Nigeria or the African diaspora. This month’s book is My…

Join us where memoir meets the novel in Auto-Fiction! Blend creative techniques and truth to tell your life story in original, new ways.

Led by Kate Romain and Cheryl Buchanan of Writers Without Margins.

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Join us for a collaborative art project, where we all come together to create and be part of a work of art. Everyone will customize their own work, then all the individual pieces will be joined together to make one amazing mural.

This…

What better way to celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride than with a certified-fabulous drag queen...? Young children and families are invited to any of FIVE BPL branch locations to participate in a joyous, musical story time experience with the…

This Ain’t Normal is an Emmy nominated and award-winning documentary film that lasers in on this national crisis of gangs in major cities, introducing five young men, each with wrenching histories, and a proven Boston intervention model to…

We are a Boston Public Library book group geared toward young adults in their 20s and 30s that reads a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction. We meet the 4th Tuesday of every month at 6 pm at the Central Library in Copley Square, however,…

"City As Canvas: Above the Free Walls" is an award-winning documentary exploring the legal graffiti art movement along Modica Way in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Featuring personal, in-depth interviews with numerous graffiti artists who…

Radical Reads is a book club focusing on literature that critiques and challenges current feminist topics. Because the South End Branch is currently closed due to a facilities issue, this event will be held online.

Join us on June 28th…

Did you know you can access newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New Yorker, (and many more!) for free with your BPL library card? Learn how in this virtual workshop!

We will go…

In honor of Pride Month 2022, join us for a "Know Your Rights” live webinar for an overview of the process for obtaining gender affirming identification. The Center for Social Justice will provide relevant legal information…

Join guest floral artist Jan Gadson Louissaint from Artful Meditations as she demonstrates how to craft hanging floral wall canvases! Transform a 12" x 16" stretch canvas into a conversation piece for your home. The event also…

Are you a Teen*? Do you need to read this summer? Teen Central is hosting a Teen Summer Read Book Club! 

Join us every other Wednesday beginning June 29th, our last meeting will be August 31st.

This year's Summer Read Book…

Join Ian Spangler and Megan Nally from the Leventhal Map & Education Center as they discuss the use of historic maps for genealogical research. They will provide a demo of Leventhal Center's Atlascope tool, which overlays historic maps on…

Together, Kely Pinheiro and Ian Coury form the Pinheiro Coury Duo, hoping to share some fun and groovy Brazilian styles that are rarely performed in a cello - bandolim configuration. Kely is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and…

Join Andrew Durgin at the Honan-Allston Branch for a casual course in easy cooking and entertaining for the summer!

In this hands-on program, you’ll learn how to create a light and easy three-course meal that will include

Join us for the sound of the Caribbean when the Pan Loco Steel Band visits the East Boston Branch Library. In this family-friendly program, the audience will enjoy steel band music and learn about the history of the steel drum and…

WGBH presenter, Brian O’Donovan and his wife Lindsay, will trace the tragic and fascinating history of Ireland through music that has marked many of its most significant events in “A Short History of Ireland Through Song.”

Brian O’Donovan…