The Library After Hours: Halloween Masquerade with Tim Gunn

Take your best literary look from the page to the stage at the annual Halloween Library After Hours! Join us for a costume parade judged by the one and only Tim Gunn, frightful films, drinks, dancing, a display of the spookiest items from Library’s vast collections, and more, all at the city’s most cerebral happy hour.

Reserve your ticket now for $15 and get guaranteed entry from 7—8PM and 10% off at the bar and the Library Shop during the event!

Featuring:

  • Literary costume parade judged by Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn, Gothamist, and Gwen Glazer and Frank Collerius, hosts of the New York Public Library’s podcast The Librarian Is In! (see rules for details)
  • A one-night-only collections display of some of the Library’s spookiest, scariest, and most ghoulish photographs, prints, and rare books
  • Curated selection of haunting 16mm films pulled from our archives
  • Arts & Crafts table: Create skeleton paper dolls and color Halloween-inspired images from the digital collections
  • Access to the Library’s new exhibition Blue Prints: The Pioneering Photographs of Anna Atkins
  • Games, coloring, and puzzles
  • DJ
  • Food & drinks available for purchase










When: Fri., Oct. 26, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: $15 priority tickets
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Take your best literary look from the page to the stage at the annual Halloween Library After Hours! Join us for a costume parade judged by the one and only Tim Gunn, frightful films, drinks, dancing, a display of the spookiest items from Library’s vast collections, and more, all at the city’s most cerebral happy hour.

Reserve your ticket now for $15 and get guaranteed entry from 7—8PM and 10% off at the bar and the Library Shop during the event!

Featuring:

  • Literary costume parade judged by Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn, Gothamist, and Gwen Glazer and Frank Collerius, hosts of the New York Public Library’s podcast The Librarian Is In! (see rules for details)
  • A one-night-only collections display of some of the Library’s spookiest, scariest, and most ghoulish photographs, prints, and rare books
  • Curated selection of haunting 16mm films pulled from our archives
  • Arts & Crafts table: Create skeleton paper dolls and color Halloween-inspired images from the digital collections
  • Access to the Library’s new exhibition Blue Prints: The Pioneering Photographs of Anna Atkins
  • Games, coloring, and puzzles
  • DJ
  • Food & drinks available for purchase
Buy tickets/get more info now