Night in the Library: Out of Darkness

Brooklyn Public Library presents Night in the Library: Out of Darkness.

Throughout the evening, presenters will offer varied takes on facing hardship—rather than evading it—with conviction and curiosity.

Now in its eighth year (and formerly known as Night of Philosophy), this FREE event will take over the entire Central Library building and feature:

• Talks, including:
  • Astra Taylor on risk, Kafka and rethinking security
  • Fred Moten reading poetry on darkness and light
  • Ross Perlin on preserving New York’s endangered mother tongues
  • Philip Gourevitch on the Rwandan genocide, 30 years after
  • Sasha Issenberg on elections in the age of disinformation
  • Alissa Quart on the American bootstraps myth
  • Chester Higgins Jr. of the Sacred Nile
  • Sarah Lewis on how we teach truth
  • Simon Crichtley on music and mysticism

• Live podcasts, including Ms. Foundation’s United Bodies and the ACLU’s At Liberty; performances by Bread & Puppet Theater; musical performances (co-curated by National Sawdust), including Holland Andrews, yuniya edi kwon, Molly Joyce, Erica “Twelve45” Blunt; and DJ Zenon Marko—plus food and drink throughout the night

• Our intimate debate project, “The Dilemma Series”; the debut of “Life Learnings”—15-minute-or-less teaching sessions, including Buddhist monk Lama Justin von Bujdoss offering a midnight meditation; fermenter Ampersand Paris; death doula Gabrielle Gatto; plus, mending, The Dream Project, healer/musician ArinMaya and more

You’re invited to spend a Night in the Library!