Events at the Library of Congress

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    Live! At The Library

    Thursday
    December 26, 2024
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST     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 19, 2024
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST     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 12, 2024
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST     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 5, 2024
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST     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 21, 2024
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST     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: A Conversation About Luís de Camões With Glória Alhinho

    Thursday
    November 7, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EST     Hispanic Reading Room     Join the Hispanic Reading Room in commemorating the birth of Luís de Camões, whose profound influence on world literature has earned him the title of Portugal’s national poet. Professor Glória Alhinho of Georgetown University will join Library staff in presenting on the Library’s vast and unique collections by and about Camões.
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    Live! At The Library

    Thursday
    November 7, 2024
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST     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: Halloween Happy Hour

    Thursday
    October 31, 2024
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Great Hall     Celebrate Halloween in the Great Hall for spooky-themed happy hour food and drinks. Visitors are encouraged to wear costumes and share candy.
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    Live! At The Library

    Thursday
    October 24, 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.
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    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 | film and video screenings

    Live! At The Library: "Cartooning America" Screening and Conversation

    Thursday
    October 10, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Director Asaf Galay, winner of the 2024 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for the Film, will discuss the importance of archival footage and the Library’s collections in making the film with Katherine Malone-France of The Better Angels Society. Moderated by Guha Shankar of the Library's American Folklife Center.
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    Live! At The Library

    Thursday
    October 10, 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.
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    Live! At The Library

    Thursday
    October 3, 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 | concerts and performances

    Live! At The Library: "War Words" Live

    Thursday
    September 26, 2024
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Join the Library of Congress Veterans History Project for a live performance of "War Words," a performance drawn from the funny, strange, heroic, and heartbreaking stories of those we sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, those we brought home, and those we left behind. Based on the playwright’s interviews with veterans of the 20-year war and their families, “War Words” aims to create a bridge…
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    Live! At The Library

    Thursday
    September 26, 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.
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    Live! At The Library: A Celebration of Nordic Writers

    Thursday
    September 26, 2024
    5:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     LJ 119     As we move toward hygge season, when the temperatures get cooler and we start bundling up for the fall and winter, join us at the Library of Congress for an event in collaboration with the Nordic embassies in Washington, D.C., celebrating vibrant fiction and nonfiction being published in five Nordic nations: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
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    Live! At The Library: Latino Poets Spotlight

    Thursday
    September 19, 2024
    6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Hispanic Reading Room     A reading and conversation with Latino poets in the Library's "Collecting Memories" exhibit and the PALABRA Audio Archive. Featuring former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and award-winning poets Ruth Behar and Maria Kelson. Moderated by poet Dan Vera. In partnership with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Book signing to follow.
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    Live! At The Library: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

    Thursday
    September 19, 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.
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    Live! At The Library

    Thursday
    September 5, 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 | courses and workshops

    Live! At The Library: Acoustic Jam Session with Christylez Bacon

    Thursday
    September 5, 2024
    6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT     LJ 119     Join us for a special acoustic jam featuring Hip-Hop, Go-Go, and other urban African American styles, with Grammy nominee Christylez Bacon. Although these genres are usually amplified, our jams are acoustic.
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    Live! At The Library: The Rise and Expansion of Islam in Somalia

    Thursday
    September 5, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT     Whittall Pavilion (LJ-G45E)     Professor Mohamed Haji Mukhtar of Savannah State University takes visitors on a journey into a lesser-known chapter in the spread of Islam – its diffusion through the nomadic Somali-speaking clans of the Horn of Africa.
  • Event | concerts and performances

    Windborne: Old Songs, Bold Harmony

    Thursday
    August 29, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Windborne singers Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan share a vibrant energy onstage with a blending of voices that can only come from decades of friendship alongside dedicated practice of polyphonic harmony singing. They will draw their audience along on a journey that spans continents and centuries, performing nature related songs from a variety of traditions in celebration of Labor day.
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    Live! at the Library: Café Concert Hot Club de Bibliotèque – Tomáš Drgoň Gypsy Jazz Trio

    Thursday
    August 22, 2024
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)     Join us for a night on the sidewalks of Paris as this band delivers an honest, authentic, and entertaining mix of folklore, jazz and dance music pulled from the collections of the Music Division, the American Folklife Center, the Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division, and the France in America exhibition of the European Division.
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    Live! at the Library: Café Concert Les Zazous

    Thursday
    August 15, 2024
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT     Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)     Les Zazous has charmed audiences from all over the country with its stylish and innovative bistro jazz sound, inspired by the alluring café music of Paris, the raw energy of drifter jazz, and the passionate pull of French chanson. Les Zazous bring their signature blend of hip French cabaret & pop, sultry Latin jazz, bossa nova cool and sizzling American swing that will transform…
  • Event | film and video screenings

    Summer Movies on the Lawn: "Love and Basketball" (2000)
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    Thursday
    August 15, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT     Southeast Lawn     Join us for a special screening of the film, “"Love and Basketball" (2000) starring Sanaa Lathan.