Posted in Arts | November 1, 2022
A picture from our 2017-2019 Queens Hip Hop Pioneers Photo Exhibit, curated by MFidel Photography. November is Hip Hop History Month! Join us and QPL Hip Hop Coordinator (and music legend) Ralph McDaniels all month long as we start getting ready for hip hop’s 50th anniversary…
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Posted in Arts | May 9, 2022
Join us this June for Queens Rising, a multi-disciplinary arts celebration created to highlight our borough’s culture and creative diversity! We’re proud to be one of the founding partners of Queens Rising, and we look forward to bringing you great in-person and virtual…
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Posted in Arts | September 22, 2020
This Saturday, September 26, we hope that you will join us for QPL Comics, a day-long online celebration of all things comics! You will (virtually) meet graphic novel creators, learn how to draw comics, watch a roundtable with the comic book expert librarians from our staff,…
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Posted in Arts | July 31, 2019
Above: Kids make paper by hand in Week 3 of our Book Creation Workshop. For the past two years, Queens Public Library Foundation’s Innovation Fund has supported creative initiatives at the libraries with awards of up to $10,000 each. In the Fund’s second year, winning projects…
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Posted in Arts | July 24, 2019
We asked Evelyn Kanter, author of the new NYC guidebook 100 Things To Do in New York City Before You Die, who visited the Forest Hills and Briarwood libraries this spring, for suggestions for the best summer locations in the city. She shared this collection of small NYC museums…
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