Events at the Library of Congress
Wednesday October 16, 2024
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Event | lectures and symposia
Finding Pictures: Celebrating Indigenous American Creators
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT Online Only Join us in exploring a rich array of photographs, prints and posters by Indigenous American artists from the collections of the Library of Congress. Library specialists will feature historic and contemporary creators’ responses to such topics as relationships with traditional lands, first-person and outsider perspectives on Native cultures, convergence with non-visual artforms such as poetry and music, and more.This event will be livestreamed on zoomgov.com External. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Celebrating 30 Years of the Small Press Expo
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display highlights material from the annual SPX comics and graphic arts festival. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Northwest Gallery The Library of Congress preserves collective memories representing entire societies as well as intimate records of important moments and rites of passage in individual lives. The inaugural exhibition in the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery draws from the Library’s rich Americana and international holdings in more than 450 languages and in forms created across time and continents. "Collecting Memories" marks the ways and the… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT George and Ira Gershwin Room Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Hispanic Heritage: Oscar Hijuelos
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display features a variety of materials from the Library’s newly acquired personal papers collection of the New York based Cubano author Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013). -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Southwest Gallery A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Southwest Pavilion Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Experience the Main Reading Room
Wednesday
October 16, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT Main Reading Room The Library of Congress welcomes visitors to experience its grand Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Usually reserved for credentialed researchers, this access will offer visitors a glimpse inside one of Washington’s most beautiful spaces.
Thursday October 17, 2024
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Event | special events
Live! At The Library: Comedy Night
Thursday
October 17, 2024
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 | special events
The Voice of Words: A Conversation with Claudio Pozzani
Thursday
October 17, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Hispanic Reading Room Join us for an engaging conversation and poetry performance with Claudio Pozzani. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Celebrating 30 Years of the Small Press Expo
Thursday
October 17, 2024
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display highlights material from the annual SPX comics and graphic arts festival. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress
Thursday
October 17, 2024
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT Northwest Gallery The Library of Congress preserves collective memories representing entire societies as well as intimate records of important moments and rites of passage in individual lives. The inaugural exhibition in the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery draws from the Library’s rich Americana and international holdings in more than 450 languages and in forms created across time and continents. "Collecting Memories" marks the ways and the… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Thursday
October 17, 2024
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT George and Ira Gershwin Room Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Hispanic Heritage: Oscar Hijuelos
Thursday
October 17, 2024
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display features a variety of materials from the Library’s newly acquired personal papers collection of the New York based Cubano author Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013). -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Thursday
October 17, 2024
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT Southwest Gallery A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Thursday
October 17, 2024
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT Southwest Pavilion Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Experience the Main Reading Room
Thursday
October 17, 2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT Main Reading Room The Library of Congress welcomes visitors to experience its grand Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building. Usually reserved for credentialed researchers, this access will offer visitors a glimpse inside one of Washington’s most beautiful spaces.
Friday October 18, 2024
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Event | film and video screenings
The Shape of Water (Twentieth Century Fox, 2017)
Friday
October 18, 2024
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm EDT Packard Campus Theater A mute cleaning lady working in a secret U.S. government lab in 1962 tries to help an otherworldly, aquatic creature escape from captivity. Color, 119 min. (Digital) -
Event | concerts and performances
Eddie Palmieri
Friday
October 18, 2024
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A) Experience legendary Latin jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri, a multi-Grammy winner renowned for his innovative blend of jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythms. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Celebrating 30 Years of the Small Press Expo
Friday
October 18, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display highlights material from the annual SPX comics and graphic arts festival. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress
Friday
October 18, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Northwest Gallery The Library of Congress preserves collective memories representing entire societies as well as intimate records of important moments and rites of passage in individual lives. The inaugural exhibition in the David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery draws from the Library’s rich Americana and international holdings in more than 450 languages and in forms created across time and continents. "Collecting Memories" marks the ways and the… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Friday
October 18, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT George and Ira Gershwin Room Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Hispanic Heritage: Oscar Hijuelos
Friday
October 18, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display features a variety of materials from the Library’s newly acquired personal papers collection of the New York based Cubano author Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013). -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Friday
October 18, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Southwest Gallery A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary… -
Event | exhibits and tours
Thomas Jefferson's Library
Friday
October 18, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Southwest Pavilion Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.