3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour in a small group!
American history expert Marc Selverstone offers a new and surprising response to a famously unanswerable question: what were JFK’s intentions for Vietnam?
Try classic American recipes!
Learn research skills, and uncover facts about the city of light!
Gayatri Spivak and Emily Apter appear on Zoom to discuss translating thought and thinking translation. A conversation at the Library organized in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour in a small group!
Philosopher Simon Critchley speaks about the most fundamental questions in philosophy, their relevance in the contemporary age, and how we might try to answer them.
This interactive program features songs, rhymes and stories in English for the very young.
Join Anjali Morard for a workshop dedicated to creating your own original story!
Celebrated author and activist Azar Nafisi speaks with journalist Caroline Fourest on her work Lire Lolita à Téhéran at the mk2 Bibliothèque. The American Library in Paris is co-sponsoring this event.
The Library will be closed on the following days in May:
Wednesday 1 May – Fête du Travail (Labor Day)
Wednesday 8 May – Fête de la Victoire 1945 (WWII Victory Day)
Thursday 9 May – Jeudi de l’Ascension (Ascension)
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.
