Silly Songs with Matt Black (all ages)
The American Library in ParisSing along with popular children's songs, and surprise creations.
Sing along with popular children's songs, and surprise creations.
Play a mash-up word game, in teams!
Join fellow aspiring writers in a relaxed and creative setting where you can share your ideas, get feedback and work on your technique.
Explore the application and admissions process for universities in the U.S. and how best to prepare.
Jami Attenberg discusses life in transit, the creative process, and finding a home in herself in new memoir I Came All This Way to Meet You.
After a three year hiatus, the San Francisco-based performing arts company Word for Word will be returning to Paris with their performance of HOME by author George Saunders.
3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
As enrollment in English and history classes at universities falls, literary study has begun to find professional outlets outside of academia. Are the humanities in crisis?
This interactive program features songs, rhymes and stories in English for very young children.
In-person at the Brooklyn Center for Fiction, Dorothee Elmiger and Kate Zambreno discuss translation: how to translate, who gets to translate, for whom to translate, and how stories are told.
Sundays and Mondays: CLOSED
Tuesdays and Wednesdays: 13h00 to 19h00
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays: 10h00 to 16h00
We’ll be CLOSED all day on the following: Bastille Day Sunday 14 July; Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Friday 26 July; Assumption Thursday 15 August.
Lending Policy During the Games: No books will be due between 14 July and 15 August, and no overdue fines will accrue during the Games.
If you have questions about how to get to the Library in July and August, please see our webpage Accessing the Library during the Games.
Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.
Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.
Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.
Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.
A charitable gift from your estate is simple to implement and is easy to change if you should need to access the assets during your lifetime. If you would like to include a gift to the Library in your will, ask your estate planning attorney to add this suggested wording to your will or living trust. Please make sure to use the Library’s correct legal name appears in all final documents as: The American Library in Paris Inc.
Unrestricted Gift: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc, (insert dollar amount) Dollars* to be used for its general purposes.
Residuary Bequest: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc , (insert percentage amount) percent of the residue of my estate to be used for its general purposes.