Wednesday, May 23rd | 2:00pm An award-winning documentary about how the world’s children go to school, by French filmmaker, Pascal Plisson. This discussion is free and open to the public. We just ask that you register in advance. Discussion to follow with our librarian, Isabella Rowan, who...
Wednesday, May 9th | 2:00pm Isabella, our Programs and Volunteer Manager, is going to Kenya to deliver library books to villages and schools in the bush. What will that be like? Find out when you read “The Camel Bookmobile” by Masha Hamilton and then join her...
Whether it’s a house or a car, college tuition or groceries — it’s always about money. As your partner in lifelong learning, Delray Beach Public Library is pleased to bring you this series of financial literacy classes to help you manage your financial present and future. ...
LUCKY (2017) Directed by John Carrol Lynch Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Beth Grant, and James Darren. Harry Dean Stanton, who passed away last year only a couple of weeks before the opening of Lucky, had “America” writ large on his lean face, all bone-hollows...
Nevertheless She Persisted: don’t miss this special film screening and discussion for Women’s History Month. Suffragette is a stirring historical drama, inspired by true events, that inspires all who struggle for equality in our own day and age. Discussion will follow with very special guest,...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 | 6:00pm Large Meeting Room FREE Margot Cheel is a pilot, aerial photographer, author, and a woman who proves that the sky is the limit! The 20-year member of The Ninety-Nines, the international organization of women pilots founded by Amelia Earhart, will talk about women...
Saturday, March 10, 2018 | 2pm Auditorium FREE Registration requested Critically-acclaimed, award-winning crime fiction author, Brad Parks, will talk about his new stand alone thriller, Closer Than You Know — hot off the press in 2018. He is the only author to win the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three...
Certain Women (2016), Directed by Kelly, Reichardt – Staring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone Certain Women, the latest film from Kelly Reichardt, opens with an approaching freight train making its way over the austere beauty of a Montana landscape; a grey, snow-etched mountain butte...
[gallery size="medium" ids="4775,4776,4774"] It’s officially August…the last month of summer vacation! We had such a great summer with everyone here at the Delray Beach Public Library. We hoped you made use of and enjoyed all of our summer programming, and will take the nation-wide summer theme,...
The Delray Beach Public Library is officially out of eclipse viewing glasses. On Monday, August 21st, 2017, a solar eclipse is cutting across the US! This will be the first total solar eclipse viewable from the continental U.S. in 38 years! (Shout-out to 1979.) From our location...
