Thursday
August 11, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
August 11, 2022
5:00 pm -
7:00 pm
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American Folklife Center Reading Room
Take a tour inside the American Folklife Center Reading Room from 5 to 7 p.m, inside the Thomas Jefferson Building.
Thursday
August 11, 2022
8:00 pm -
10:00 pm
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Southeast Pavilion
Join us on the lawn of the Thomas Jefferson Building for a screening of "Wall-E" (2008), part of our fifth annual “Summer Movies on the Lawn” outdoor film festival.
Thursday
August 18, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
August 18, 2022
5:00 pm -
7:00 pm
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Great Hall
Join an open house in the Prints and Photographs Division from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Great Hall. Curators will discuss the collection of photographs featured in the new exhibition Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America’s Library, which draws on the more than 15 million photographs in the Library’s collections.
Thursday
August 25, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
August 25, 2022
7:00 pm -
9:00 pm
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Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)
Attend Voices in the Stacks: Celebrating the Audiobook at the Library of Congress at 7 p.m. in the Coolidge Auditorium, featuring authors and professional narrators reading from works in the Library’s collections. Explore a pop-up exhibit from the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled in the Great Hall from 5 to 7 p.m.
Thursday
September 1, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
September 8, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
September 15, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
September 15, 2022
6:30 pm -
8:30 pm
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Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)
Come join The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) in conversation with Academy Award-winning actor Frances McDormand live at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Thursday night, September 15 to celebrate the recent acquisition by the Library of The Kitchen Sisters.
Thursday
September 22, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
September 29, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
September 29, 2022
7:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)
Award-winning poet Ada Limón will give her inaugural reading as the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, with an introduction by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The historic reading marks the beginning of Limón's laureateship, and it traditionally launches the Library’s literary season.
Thursday
October 6, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
October 13, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
October 20, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
October 27, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
November 3, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
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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.
Thursday
November 10, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
EST
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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.
Thursday
December 1, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
EST
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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.
Thursday
December 8, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
EST
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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.
Thursday
December 15, 2022
5:00 pm -
8:00 pm
EST
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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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