Though he failed to save Rome, Cicero developed the template for all modern republics. Can Ciceronian creativity help us forge a new model of democracy?
3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour featuring stories, songs, and more!
Family history, national memory, and international justice collide in Linda Kinstler’s non-fiction debut Come to This Court and Cry, a searching account of the Holocaust’s legacy in the present day.
This interactive program features songs, rhymes and stories in English for very young children.
When a 10-month migraine made writing impossible, author Oliver Mol started a new role as train guard. He discusses a life derailed by chronic pain and the surprising trajectory of his journey back to himself.
3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands speaks on British colonialism, international law, and his time before the International Court of Justice defending the Chagossian population.
The London Library partners with the American Library in Paris to host Anne de Courcy in a discussion on writer, heiress political activist, and icon of the Jazz Age Nancy Cunard.
Teen Advisory Group (TAG) members provide valuable feedback and share ideas about the Library’s teen programs, services, and collections.
Explore fairy tales and fables, then mix them up and make your own!
What happens to the self when the mind begins to deteriorate? Science humanist Noga Arikha speaks with Rachel Donadio on neuropsychiatry and philosophy.
3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
President of ARTE Bruno Patino speaks on media consumption, human connection, and information as a public good faced with the digital age.
This interactive program features songs, rhymes and stories in English for very young children.
Participate in science fiction trivia at the start of the evening, then settle in with popcorn and enjoy a film screening
Explore all aspects of film-making, including script-writing, camera work, directing, acting, editing and more!
How is the story of fashion written? What goes into the records, and what is lost to time? A panel on the history of fabric and fabricating fashion archives.
3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
What has gone wrong in Macron's second term, and what has gone right? Where do we go from here? In partnership with the Overseas Press Club of America, journalists convene in a panel moderated by Vivienne Walt to discuss.
Meeting four of Critical Conversations, an expert-led discussion series. This season: a reflection on how to lead a contemplative, vital, and unmediated life in an ever-faster digital world.
Explore superstitions and the origins of good luck charms.
Explore what research-backed strategies and practices can be implemented at home to strengthen reading.
Explore what makes for strong and engaging characters in this writing workshop.
Simone de Beauvoir’s lived experiences were instrumental to the development of her philosophy. Who was the woman behind The Second Sex?
3–5 year-olds and their grown-ups are invited to join us for an interactive Story Hour full of songs, stories, and fun!
How does one write one’s way out of a traumatic event? Does disaster inevitably resist narrative? Preti Taneja speaks on language, loss, and possibilities of resolution.
Meeting three of Ecologues, a series of interactive webinars featuring experts on various aspects of the environmental crisis. Organized in partnership with News Decoder and the Climate Academy at the European School of Brussels.
Come in and try it out yoga exercises adapted for young children!
Submit your original short story for the Young Authors Fiction Festival (YAFF)!
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.
