Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he’s bought over the years.

Producer, composer, keyboardist and vocalist, Sergio Mendes is one of the most internationally successful Brazilian artists of all time. His hit single, “Mas Que Nada,” is the first Portuguese language song to ever hit Billboard’s U.S. Pop chart and Mendes’ signature mix of bossa nova and samba and distinctive pop instrumentation have ultimately come to define Brazilian music.

With a career spanning five decades, his enduring influence on the music industry continues to evolve. A three-time Grammy® Award winner, with three additional Grammy nominations, he has recorded more than 35 albums, with numerous gold and platinum albums among them. In 2012, following year, Mendes received an Oscar® nomination for Best Original Song for “Real in Rio” from the animated film Rio.

This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.

One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial bestseller, WATCHMEN has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V FOR VENDETTA, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and THE SANDMAN series.

This 6-week class is designed for those new to the wheel, or who have not been on a wheel in a while. We will focus on centering the clay, learning to pull the clay into a cylinder and throwing a basic form.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.
Please wear clothes you do not mind getting dirty, and please bring an apron or towel if you are able.

Build, paint, and decorate your own dreamhouse! In this two day camp, students will build a miniature house of wood then paint and decorate. We will use the laser cutter, woodworking tools, and the creative reuse of materials to make furniture and populate the house!
There is a snack time, but no lunch.

This 6-week advanced ceramic wheel throwing intensive class the next step for those who took the intro to wheel class or for those who have experience on the wheel but want to sharpen their skills.
Students will be shown how to take the basic forms taught to them at the intro class to a higher, more refined level. Adding more definition to a character to a cylinder, or adding a lid to a pot are some of the next steps in the ceramic process.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.

Interested in being a CHANGE MAKER on Staten Island?

Continuing with our commitment to equity in the arts, we are excited to announce a FREE workshop series built for artists and community members interested in coming together to work towards social justice under the lens of art and culture.

The goal of this series is to provide participants with an opportunity to community build and acquire the necessary tools to begin dismantling systems of oppression internally, through their art practice, within an office environment, and/or in their own neighborhoods. With an opportunity for self-reflection and a more clear understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants will emerge from the series better equipped to begin to work for change. A key component to the training will be the opportunity for participants to join a community cohort that will provide support for one another after the workshops are completed.

This 6-week class is designed for those new to the wheel, or who have not been on a wheel in a while. We will focus on centering the clay, learning to pull the clay into a cylinder and throwing a basic form.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.
Please wear clothes you do not mind getting dirty, and please bring an apron or towel if you are able.

Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class is a dark comedy set on a dilapidated California farm inhabited by the doomed Tate family: a satirical picture of dysfunction, drunkenness and disorder.

Featuring: John Griffin, Jenny Kelly, Jack Dawson, Keleigh Principi, Alex Pennise, Coryanne Cook, Tony Sallemi, Ken Tirado, and Zachariah Tirado.

This 6-week advanced ceramic wheel throwing intensive class the next step for those who took the intro to wheel class or for those who have experience on the wheel but want to sharpen their skills.
Students will be shown how to take the basic forms taught to them at the intro class to a higher, more refined level. Adding more definition to a character to a cylinder, or adding a lid to a pot are some of the next steps in the ceramic process.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.

Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class is a dark comedy set on a dilapidated California farm inhabited by the doomed Tate family: a satirical picture of dysfunction, drunkenness and disorder.

Featuring: John Griffin, Jenny Kelly, Jack Dawson, Keleigh Principi, Alex Pennise, Coryanne Cook, Tony Sallemi, Ken Tirado, and Zachariah Tirado.

Join us for a poetry open mic in celebration of NYPL’s 125th Anniversary! In collaboration with 4 prominent Staten Island poets (host Thomas Fucaloro and featured readers M.A. Dennis, Beth Gorrie, and Staten Island’s own poet laureate Dr. Marguerite Maria Rivas), we will open the floor to the original poems of participants and also to notable poetry from 1895, the year New York Public Library first opened its doors. Historical poems will be provided to those interested.
This event is free to attend and participate in. Refreshments will be provided.

Hear Hugo and Nebula award winning author N.K. Jemisin read from her new book The City We Became.

Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got six. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

Speculative fiction master N.K. Jemisin stops by St. George Library Center to celebrate the new book, hailed as "a glorious fantasy" by Neil Gaiman.

Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class is a dark comedy set on a dilapidated California farm inhabited by the doomed Tate family: a satirical picture of dysfunction, drunkenness and disorder.

Featuring: John Griffin, Jenny Kelly, Jack Dawson, Keleigh Principi, Alex Pennise, Coryanne Cook, Tony Sallemi, Ken Tirado, and Zachariah Tirado.

Born in Macon, GA but moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was about a year old. It was there that her lifelong affair with music began, pretending to sing in clubs using her stairs as a stage.
   Mauri began performing at six years old and writing at eleven years old. After spending all of high school performing in the chorus and musical productions of all sorts, she found some success with a song called Soul Pop she recorded with fellow classmates.
   Mauri Bellz is now ready to return to her passion. She recently released a self-produced EP “Delayed Adolescence,” on all platforms.

This 6-week class is designed for those new to the wheel, or who have not been on a wheel in a while. We will focus on centering the clay, learning to pull the clay into a cylinder and throwing a basic form.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.
Please wear clothes you do not mind getting dirty, and please bring an apron or towel if you are able.

Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse, will lead a six-session writing workshop that will cover the topics of storytelling basics, the writing process, first draft, editing, putting together a query package, and sending the work to agents and editors. Hart’s novel The Warehouse has sold in 21 countries and has been optioned for a film by Ron Howard.

Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class is a dark comedy set on a dilapidated California farm inhabited by the doomed Tate family: a satirical picture of dysfunction, drunkenness and disorder.

Featuring: John Griffin, Jenny Kelly, Jack Dawson, Keleigh Principi, Alex Pennise, Coryanne Cook, Tony Sallemi, Ken Tirado, and Zachariah Tirado.

This 6-week advanced ceramic wheel throwing intensive class the next step for those who took the intro to wheel class or for those who have experience on the wheel but want to sharpen their skills.
Students will be shown how to take the basic forms taught to them at the intro class to a higher, more refined level. Adding more definition to a character to a cylinder, or adding a lid to a pot are some of the next steps in the ceramic process.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.

Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class is a dark comedy set on a dilapidated California farm inhabited by the doomed Tate family: a satirical picture of dysfunction, drunkenness and disorder.

Featuring: John Griffin, Jenny Kelly, Jack Dawson, Keleigh Principi, Alex Pennise, Coryanne Cook, Tony Sallemi, Ken Tirado, and Zachariah Tirado.

Interested in being a CHANGE MAKER on Staten Island?

Continuing with our commitment to equity in the arts, we are excited to announce a FREE workshop series built for artists and community members interested in coming together to work towards social justice under the lens of art and culture.

The goal of this series is to provide participants with an opportunity to community build and acquire the necessary tools to begin dismantling systems of oppression internally, through their art practice, within an office environment, and/or in their own neighborhoods. With an opportunity for self-reflection and a more clear understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants will emerge from the series better equipped to begin to work for change. A key component to the training will be the opportunity for participants to join a community cohort that will provide support for one another after the workshops are completed.

Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class is a dark comedy set on a dilapidated California farm inhabited by the doomed Tate family: a satirical picture of dysfunction, drunkenness and disorder.

Featuring: John Griffin, Jenny Kelly, Jack Dawson, Keleigh Principi, Alex Pennise, Coryanne Cook, Tony Sallemi, Ken Tirado, and Zachariah Tirado.

This 6-week class is designed for those new to the wheel, or who have not been on a wheel in a while. We will focus on centering the clay, learning to pull the clay into a cylinder and throwing a basic form.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.
Please wear clothes you do not mind getting dirty, and please bring an apron or towel if you are able.

Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse, will lead a six-session writing workshop that will cover the topics of storytelling basics, the writing process, first draft, editing, putting together a query package, and sending the work to agents and editors. Hart’s novel The Warehouse has sold in 21 countries and has been optioned for a film by Ron Howard.

This character-driven documentary follows Staten Islander Brooke Guinan, the first openly transgender firefighter in New York City.

This 6-week advanced ceramic wheel throwing intensive class the next step for those who took the intro to wheel class or for those who have experience on the wheel but want to sharpen their skills.
Students will be shown how to take the basic forms taught to them at the intro class to a higher, more refined level. Adding more definition to a character to a cylinder, or adding a lid to a pot are some of the next steps in the ceramic process.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.

This character-driven documentary follows Staten Islander Brooke Guinan, the first openly transgender firefighter in New York City.

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong?

With astonishing compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon’s life. Do No Harm provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life’s most difficult decisions.

This 6-week class is designed for those new to the wheel, or who have not been on a wheel in a while. We will focus on centering the clay, learning to pull the clay into a cylinder and throwing a basic form.
This workshop is open to anyone 18 and up.
Please wear clothes you do not mind getting dirty, and please bring an apron or towel if you are able.

Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse, will lead a six-session writing workshop that will cover the topics of storytelling basics, the writing process, first draft, editing, putting together a query package, and sending the work to agents and editors. Hart’s novel The Warehouse has sold in 21 countries and has been optioned for a film by Ron Howard.