Enjoy a 5% discount with your NHFPL library card when you visit the brand new Ives Squared location for G Café Bakery and enjoy the view from the patio overlooking the historic New Haven Green while you sip and snack on their goodies. Come to network with entrepreneurs and creatives in Ives Squared, where we promote and celebrate the innovative culture of New Haven. Ives Squared includes a maker space and a collaborative working space designed for active learning, teamwork, and creative exploration. Learn more and register for workshops! Follow us on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook and share #IvesSquared!

Yale’s Lot 51, located on Temple Street between Wall and Elm Streets, is available after 4:30 pm for the public, Monday through Friday and all day on Saturday. Yale’s Lot 51 has capacity for about 70 cars.

For Labor Day Weekend, the New Haven Free Public Library will close:

 

For all our 2018 holiday hours, please refer to Holiday Closings.

Read or listen to a book between July 1 and August 18 and enter to win a weekly prize! Turn in the completed entry form at the Wilson Library. Each entry must include name and telephone number. For adults 18 and over. 

An interactive session offering a look at how to prepare for your future so you can live your best life the way you choose. Presented by the AARP.

Sew your own dashiki with Rahkiya Davis. Beginners are welcome! Participants must be committed to learn and purchase their own fabric. First come, first served. For details and to register call (203) 946-8119.

Concepts for Adaptive Learning (CfAL), in collaboration with the New Haven Free Public Library, invites you to attend this 4 workshop series offered to parents to help you engage in educating your children, age birth to 5, so your children can start kindergarten with the critical skills they’ll need to learn and succeed in school. Light snacks, childcare for children 3 and older, will be provided, along with a raffle in the 4th workshop that includes an Android Tablet as the first prize. To register call (888) 351-7667 or email [email protected] . 

Come help us care for our community garden supported by the New Haven Land Trust! Whatever your age or ability we can use your help planting, watering, harvesting, and weeding. Thanks to you our garden will be even bigger this year—including fruit trees!

Featuring fast-paced juggling routines, mind-blowing escape artistry, comedy magic, contortion, balancing, LED light manipulation, and nearly endless amazing stunts, all mixed with a hearty dose of off-the-cuff comedy. If you're looking for non-stop entertainment and ​laughs for the ​whole family, ​this show has it all!

Ives Squared is a new space to inspire and contribute to the vibrant civic and innovative culture of the New Haven community. Ives Squared includes a maker space, a collaborative working space, and a café all designed for active learning, networking, and creative exploration. Learn more and register for workshops!

Workshops for entrepreneurs in the planning stages or ready to launch their business. To register, go to: nhfpl.org/ives-squared .

Elmseed Office Hours | Ives

Saturdays, 10 am-12 pm

In partnership with the New Haven Free Public Library, Elmseed offers regular weekly drop-in hours to address your business questions and concerns. Learn more.

Join Lauren Johnson from SCSU’s Buley Library for a variety of STEM programming! Create with KEVA Planks, make anything a touch pad with MakeyMakey, or design your own 3D printed objects! Families and children/teens of all ages welcome! Children under the age of 9 need adult supervision.

Are you a poet or do you take pleasure in listening to poetry? If so, join us as we meet up with other poets and enjoy the relaxed ambience of The Lounge.

An interactive session aiming to bridge the gap between generations by focusing on aging from an intergenerational perspective. Presented by the AARP.



Masterful, insightful, astute, award-winning Haitian filmmaker and political activist, Raoul Peck tells stories that matter. Echoing Peck’s rare personal background-born in Haiti, raised and educated in the Congo, France, the USA, and Germany-NHFPL is screening three of his films that reflect Peck’s international outlook. Each film will be followed by a discussion.  

Beginning one year before the fatal police shooting of a Black teenager in nearby Ferguson, Missouri, For Ahkeem is the coming-of-age story of Daje Shelton, a Black 17-year-old girl in North St. Louis. Presented by Project Longevity.

Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds star in the romantic musical set in the period when the movie industry was switching to sound films and the anxieties performers had about the transition. Popcorn included!

Leonard Bernstein was Americas musical ambassador to the world. This fascinating documentary shows why Bernstein was one of the most influential classical musicians of the last century. He was an inspirational teacher, a brilliant conductor, a fine composer, and an accomplished pianist. Discussion to follow screening.

What is the New Haven community reading? Check out our list of the most popular books borrowed last month! Visit our catalog and add one of these to your reading list!

 

Educated by Tara Westover

The President is Missing by Bill Clinton

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

A Higher Loyalty by James Comey

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudio Rankine

Origin by Dan Brown

A resident of Westville, John Kabala is a folk artist who uses color and abundance of vision in his paintings to create a unique style of art. Many of his pieces involve historical figures, past events, fantasy, childhood scenery and children’s fairy tales.

In this exhibit, Marsha Borden exploits the sculptural qualities of the single-use plastic bag while examining its place in our culture. What do we consume? Can we ever really throw things “away?” Can waste be beautiful? Do we have an obligation to save the planet by cutting down on our use of plastic? Can we carry a plastic bag without feeling guilty? Is there a place for plastic?

Join us for the exhibition and book launch! This exhibition is a photo-documentary project by Daniel Eugene that captures both the unfamiliar and more common places throughout New Haven, CT. This event will feature an extensive presentation of New Haven Photographs images, and will celebrate the limited release publication of Eugene’s photo-book New Haven Photographs: A Future History , published by Lunch Money Print. Learn more.

Are you a Connecticut builder, entrepreneur, or activist? The Collab Accelerator provides funding, education, mentorship, and more for entrepreneurs. Learn more.

We are once again proud to partner with the Windham Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University! Search our catalog under "Windham-Campbell 2018" to find titles to borrow from this year’s authors. Join us for these two sessions at Ives Main Library.

 

Epic Transformations

Thursday, September 13, 12-1 pm | Ives

Professor of Classics Emily Greenwood talks with Suzan-Lori Parks, Jennifer Makumbi, and Cathy Park Hong.

 

Memories, Secrets, and Lies: Writing on Family

Friday, September 14, 12-1 pm | Ives

Anthony Domestico talks with Olivia Laing, Jennifer Makumbi and Lorna Goodison. 

Alice Mattison will read from her new book, Conscience, published by Pegasus Books on August 7, 2018.

50+ years of age and just starting or have a computer dilemma? Sign up for one-on-one free computer help at your own pace. To register call 203.946.7001.

A monthly opportunity to receive general legal information during a free 15-minute consultation. Sign-ups start at 5:10 pm.

Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven presents free classes to help adults learn to read, write and understand more words in a small class setting. 

Weekly conversational English Class for new Americans, co-sponsored by Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven. Learn to improve your pronunciation, listening and speaking skills in an informal English conversation group. Please call (203) 776-5899 or email [email protected] to register for classes.

Come armed with your own needles and yarn – join anytime, newcomers and beginners welcome!

Classes all require some familiarity with using a keyboard and mouse. Classes include different levels for Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint and Keyboard/Mouse/Email. For detailed class schedule please see our calendar.

Stop by the lower level Information Desk for on demand one-on-one sessions on technology and employment assistance. Our knowledgeable staff is ready to help you find the answers to many of your questions! 

Meet one-on-one to discuss your individual technology needs. To schedule an appointment at Fair Haven call 203.946.8115; for Mitchell, call 203.946.8117; for Stetson contact Rory at 203.946.8119 or [email protected]; and at Wilson call 203.946.2228.

All levels of training in software, creative and business skills are available through Lynda.com, free with your NHFPL library card. Learn software, creative techniques and business strategies for all levels with thousands of video tutorials. Go at your own pace, follow a curriculum and absorb new skills!

Beginners and experienced practitioners are invited to join this guided mediation brought to you in cooperation with the New Haven Zen Center. Instruction for beginners at 5:45 pm.