📢 Registration opens today at 12pm for these Pratt Events!

Registration opens today!

We are looking forward to an eventful September at the Pratt Library! Registration opens today, July 21st at 12pm for many speaker events held at the Central Library. Space is limited so please don’t delay in reserving your free spot once registration opens.

Robin Wall Kimmerer: Bud Finds Her Gift

Friday, September 5th at 7pm

Central Library

From the bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass comes a beautiful and lushly illustrated tale celebrating gratitude, reciprocity, and finding our place in the natural world, ideal for sharing with the youngest readers.

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Shaka Senghor: How to Be Free 
Thursday, September 11th at 7pm

Central Library

Drawing from his extraordinary journey from incarceration to bestselling author, resilience expert, and entrepreneur, Shaka Senghor reveals the mindset and proven practices that transformed his life—and can help anyone achieve their wildest dreams.

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Sonia Sotomayor: Just Shine!
Wednesday, September 17th at 5:30pm
Central Library

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Just Ask! comes a sweet and powerful story about being true to yourself and shining your brightest. How will you help people shine?

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Ian McEwan: What We Can Know
Thursday, September 25th at 7pm
Central Library

From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. Ian McEwan will be joined in conversation by Tom Hall, host of WYPR’s Midday.

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