NHFPL is partnering with the Pride Center to celebrate PRIDE New Haven with the community

August 24, 2022

PRIDE New Haven is an 8-day festival celebrating the culture, art, and history of New Haven and Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ community. Attend film screenings and social events, make creative projects, and more at NHFPL the week of September 11-18. Don’t forget to visit our booth at PRIDEfest, which takes place Saturday, September 17 on the New … Continued

Call for Applications for Entrepreneur-In-Residence and Creative-In-Residence

July 5, 2022

Submission Deadline: July 30, 2022 Ives Squared and the New Haven Free Public Library (an anchor institution of the New Haven Innovation Collaborative) are seeking applications for two, four-month, in-residence opportunities starting September 2022 in Ives Squared, the Main Ives Library’s innovation commons Information about these appointments – including guidelines and application forms – is … Continued

Lessons on Social Commentary and Censorship From Russian Literary Classics

June 2, 2022

Written by Julia Chamberlain In March of 2022, the University of Milano-Bicocca canceled a planned course in Russian literature as an act of protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Although the university quickly reversed its decision, the debate alone points to a disquieting comfort with censorship. No one can doubt the sincerity of the … Continued

May Happenings / Novedades de Mayo

May 5, 2022

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NHFPL Partners with Arts and Ideas to explore Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

March 21, 2022

Take a deeper dive into the timely themes of the the citywide One City. One Read selection. Explore topics such as climate change, poverty, Afrofuturism, and more with our micro branches and events. Today, Parable of the Sower is heralded as one of the first major works of climate fiction. It was the winner of … Continued