Events at the Library of Congress

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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    December 28, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    December 21, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    December 14, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    December 7, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    November 30, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
  • Event | lectures and symposia

    Live! at the Library: An Evening with Simon Schama and Atul Gawande

    Thursday
    November 16, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Writer, surgeon, and public health leader Atul Gawande joins writer and public intellectual Simon Schama to discuss Schama’s latest book, “Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations.” The conversation will explore the complex and surprising history of pandemics in the 18th and 19th centuries—and its relevance to our current struggles with Covid-19 today.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    November 16, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
  • Event | concerts and performances

    Live! at the Library: Shakespeare Everywhere Festival Concert

    Thursday
    November 9, 2023
    6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Enjoy a wide ranging concert of Shakespeare-inspired music featuring the Cafritz Young Artists of the Washington National Opera as part of the citywide Shakespeare Everywhere Festival. Performers include Teresa Perrotta, Kresley Figueroa, Tiffany Choe, Winona Martin, Sahel Salam, Justin Burgess, Jonathan Patton, Sergio Martínez, Nicole Cloutier, and Pei-Hsuan Lin. Co-presented by the Library of Congress and Washington National Opera.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    November 9, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! At The Library: When a Book Holds Your Memories

    Thursday
    November 2, 2023
    5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     LJ 119     To mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, 1932-1933 famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine, artist Lesia Maruschak will offer a public talk about her ongoing exploration of memory surrounding this historic event, titled Project MARIA; The project has been hailed by the National Holodomor Genocide Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine) as one of the most important visual arts exhibitions addressing the famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    November 2, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    October 26, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! at the Library: Pick Your Poison—Mystery Night

    Thursday
    October 26, 2023
    6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     Pick Your Poison—Mystery Night at the Library of Congress celebrates mystery novels in all their confounding glory. Hear Louise Penny in conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. A panel of mystery writers will discuss the perfect murder. Get lost in a real-life mystery in our scavenger hunt! And guess who did it at Erick Acuña Productions’ improv murder mystery show.
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    Live! at the Library: Choosing the Breast Cancer Care That's Right For You

    Thursday
    October 12, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     LJ 119     In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, join for this conversation with two breast cancer experts. Dr. Rachel Brem, a breast radiologist George Washington University Hospital, and Dr. Cristy Teal, a breast surgeon at George Washington University Hospital, discuss best practices for taking control of your own healthcare.
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    Live! at the Library: Conversation with Kebedech Tekleab

    Thursday
    October 12, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Whittall Pavilion (LJ-G45E)     Poet, translator and artist Kebedech Tekleab joins the Library’s Ethiopic specialist Fentahun Tiruneh for a conversation on her work. Tekleab’s most recent poetry can be found in the anthologies “Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry” and “Soul Spaces: Poems on Cities, Towns and Villages.”
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    October 12, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Live! at the Library: Hispanic Reading Room Open House

    Thursday
    October 5, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Hispanic Reading Room     Join us for the grand opening of the Latinex Alcove in the Hispanic Reading Room. The Alcove contains a carefully selected collection of books, periodicals, posters and other reference materials that tell the stories of Latinidad in the United States.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    October 5, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
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    Live! at the Library: Danzón Class with Corazón Folklórico

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT     Great Hall     Join the Library as we continue our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with a Danzón class taught by Professor Manuel Cuellar (George Washington University) and Paulette Chavira, both members of the DC-based Corazón Folklórico dance group.
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    Live! at the Library: A Conversation with Bill Moyers and Judy Woodruff

    Thursday
    September 28, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Veteran journalists Bill Moyers and Judy Woodruff, chair of the executive advisory council of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, will be at the Library of Congress for a conversation and screening to mark the induction of five decades of Moyers’ programs in the archive.
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    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    September 21, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
  • Event | concerts and performances

    Alejandro Brittes Quartet, Masters of Chamamé

    Thursday
    September 21, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Join the Library as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a series of exciting programs and activities, beginning with a celebration of music from Brazil and Argentina. Alejandro Brittes Quartet innovatively explores the traditional, cross-border chamamé musical genre, a confluence of indigenous Guaraní and Iberian Baroque influences, slow-cooked over centuries.
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    Live! at the Library: A Conversation with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the Prime Minister of Iceland, and Co-Writer Ragnar Jónasson

    Thursday
    September 21, 2023
    5:00 pm - 5:45 pm EDT     Members Room (LJ-162)     This event is a rare chance to hear a foreign prime minister talk about her newly published thriller. “Reykjavík” is co-written with bestselling thriller writer Ragnar Jónasson and is about the long-unsolved murder of fictional character Lára, a 14-year-old in Iceland in 1956. Thirty years later, the murder is still unsolved—and there is someone who wants to keep it that way.
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    Live! at the Library: Literary Costume Ball

    Thursday
    September 14, 2023
    6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT     Great Hall     Join us for an evening of celebration at the Library of Congress Literary Costume Ball. Come dressed as your favorite literary figure and enjoy a DJ dance set, themed food and cocktails, curated displays of Library collections, photo ops within the shelves of our collections, caricature artists and other exciting experiences in D.C.'s most beautiful building.