Events at the Library of Congress

Tuesday February 7, 2023
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Event | concerts and performances
Klangforum Wien
Tuesday
February 7, 2023
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST
Add to calendar St. Mark's Episcopal Church Klangforum Wien, one of Europe’s great contemporary music ensembles, opens the Library’s 2023 concert series with a fresh burst of recent and established new music. Beginning with a work by Beat Furrer, one of the founders of Klangforum Wien, the group traces the horizon and then peeks beyond. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Black History Month 2023: Black Resistance
Tuesday
February 7, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display explores how African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression—in many forms—from America’s earliest days into the 21st century. Items featured are from the Rare Book and Special Collections, Manuscript, and Prints and Photographs Divisions. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Tuesday
February 7, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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
Join In: Voluntary Associations in America
Tuesday
February 7, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar South Gallery This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to Statehood
Tuesday
February 7, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Northwest Gallery A part of this major exhibition, Abel Buell’s "New and Correct Map of the United States of North America" is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. The exhibition comprises maps of the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States. -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Tuesday
February 7, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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
Tuesday
February 7, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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.
Wednesday February 8, 2023
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Event | courses and workshops
African Americans in Business: Doing Historical Company Research
Wednesday
February 8, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Online Only Explore historical company research through the 2023 Black History Month theme of “Resistance,” featuring historic Black barbers who resisted the status quo by supporting black education and civil rights movements.This event will be livestreamed on zoomgov.com External. -
Event | concerts and performances
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Wednesday
February 8, 2023
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall "Style, energy, and a sense of risk. These four young Frenchman made the music smile" (The Guardian). The Paris-based Quatuor Van Kuijk comes to the Library to present an impressive program that includes a U.S. premiere by the French composer Benjamin Attahir. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Black History Month 2023: Black Resistance
Wednesday
February 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display explores how African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression—in many forms—from America’s earliest days into the 21st century. Items featured are from the Rare Book and Special Collections, Manuscript, and Prints and Photographs Divisions. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Wednesday
February 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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
Join In: Voluntary Associations in America
Wednesday
February 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar South Gallery This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to Statehood
Wednesday
February 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Northwest Gallery A part of this major exhibition, Abel Buell’s "New and Correct Map of the United States of North America" is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. The exhibition comprises maps of the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States. -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Wednesday
February 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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
February 8, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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.
Thursday February 9, 2023
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Event | special events
Live! at the Library
Thursday
February 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. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Black History Month 2023: Black Resistance
Thursday
February 9, 2023
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display explores how African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression—in many forms—from America’s earliest days into the 21st century. Items featured are from the Rare Book and Special Collections, Manuscript, and Prints and Photographs Divisions. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Thursday
February 9, 2023
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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
Join In: Voluntary Associations in America
Thursday
February 9, 2023
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EST
Add to calendar South Gallery This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to Statehood
Thursday
February 9, 2023
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Northwest Gallery A part of this major exhibition, Abel Buell’s "New and Correct Map of the United States of North America" is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. The exhibition comprises maps of the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States. -
Event | exhibits and tours
"Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library
Thursday
February 9, 2023
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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
February 9, 2023
10:00 am - 8:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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.
Friday February 10, 2023
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Event | film and video screenings
Love & Basketball (New Line Cinema, 2000)
Friday
February 10, 2023
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Packard Campus Theater Join us at the Packard Campus Theater for a showing of the film, "Love & Basketball (New Line Cinema, 2000)." Quincy and Monica love each other, but also love basketball. Which is the greater love? We shall see. Written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Color, 124 minutes. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Black History Month 2023: Black Resistance
Friday
February 10, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E) This small, curated display explores how African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression—in many forms—from America’s earliest days into the 21st century. Items featured are from the Rare Book and Special Collections, Manuscript, and Prints and Photographs Divisions. -
Event | exhibits and tours
Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin
Friday
February 10, 2023
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EST
Add to calendar 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,...