Reading Room Author Series: Ben Mezrich, Straight Flush: The True Story of five College Kids Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Empire and How It All Came Crashing Down.

Another sure bet of a book by the bestselling author who dealt us The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Reading Room Author Series: Dan Savage, American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

Sex advice columnist and bestselling author of the book that inspired the Emmy-award winning campaign It Gets Better weighs in on other issues.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

QBG, Heritage Rose Foundation, Manhattan Rose Society and American Rose Society are collaborating and this full day event will include panel discussions on sustainable rose gardening and a presentation honoring Dr. Malcolm Manners and Dr. Walter Lewis.

Seating is limited. Please call to register.

Start time: 10:00 am

End time: 5:00 pm

Contact phone: (718) 886-3800 ext. 230

Location: Queens Botanical Garden

Spoke the Hub’s 20th annual Local Produce Festival of the Performing Arts – a grass roots, homegrown “green market” of dance, music, theater, poetry and everything in between – will be held this year at the Old Stone House!

Stay tuned for a schedule of fabulous events.

Start time: 10:00 am

End time:

Contact phone: (718) 768-3195

Location: Old Stone House (in J.J. Byrne Playground)

Urban Park Rangers specialize in interpretation of historic turning points, both natural and man-made, in our city’s long history.

Park history programs tell the story of your favorite parks from the past to their future.

Start time: 1:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (718) 722-3218

Location: Pier 1 (in Brooklyn Bridge Park)

BookClub discussion led by Jonathon Dee on Father and Son by Edmund Gosse

Produced in partnership with Oxford University Press

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Bryant Park Author Series:

Lionel Shriver's Big Brother: A Novel. Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, with a larger than life look at obesity and family relations. Hosted by Amy Bloom, bestselling author of Away

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Grow Your Garden Group
Karen Washington, Just Food Trainer

Since the weather is nice and the garden is looking lush with greenery, you must be getting a lot of visitors inquiring about becoming a member or getting a box to grow. By having a membership procedures and agreements in place, it will be very easy to welcome new folks. If you are having trouble getting folks to visit or stop by, what better way to draw them in than an exciting event or two. In this workshop, we will discuss the necessity of drafting membership procedures and agreements. We will go over successful event planning tips. We encourage groups to share their challenges and successes so we can learn from each other.

Supplies: Pathmark vouchers

Start time: 5:00 pm

End time: 6:30 pm

Contact phone:

Location: Bushwick Campus Farm

Reading Room Author Series: Lauren Weisberger, Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

A fascinating presentation by landscape ecologist and author Eric W. Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society followed by lunch outdoors on the pebble court. RSVP necessary.

Start time: 12:00 pm

End time: 2:00 pm

Contact phone: (718) 885-1461

Location: Bartow Pell Mansion

Bryant Park Kids: Clifford the Big Red Dog

Join us for stories, games, and an opportunity to meet Clifford.

Produced in partnership with The Scholastic Store

Start time: 12:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ice-age glaciers, Native Americans, Dutch traders, British Redcoats, and the Underground Railroad have all left their mark on New York City. Their stories can be found in the names of our streets, our architecture, and our parks. Urban Park Rangers specialize in interpretation of historic turning points, both natural and man-made, in our city’s long history.

Start time: 1:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (718) 846-2731

Location: Parking Lot (in Astoria Park)

Bryant Park Poetry BOA Editions presents poets Craig Morgan Teicher, Michael Waters, Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Christopher Kennedy.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Reading Room Author Series:

Phillip Petit, Why Knot? How To Tie More than Sixty Ingenious, Useful, Beautiful, Life-Saving, Magical, Intriguing, and Secure Knots!

French high-wire artist with his latest act.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Many of us use herbs at home, but what are the key remedies to have on hand that have been proven to be most effective for the more common ailments and minor injuries? During this workshop we will spend time discussing (and sampling) the herbal remedies that should comprise every family’s natural medicine cabinet. We’ll cover herbs for colds and flu, headaches, aches and pains, minor injuries and burns, and more, and will discuss in detail how to determine the best herbs to use and what form to use them in, including teas, tinctures, ointments, creams, and salves.

Richard Mandelbaum RH (AHG) is a clinical herbalist with a private practice in Brooklyn and in Sullivan County, NY. Richard has been passionate about plants for over twenty five years, with experience wild foraging and growing herbs in an organic, permaculture market garden, and has been practicing as an herbalist since 1997 with a background in both Chinese and Western traditions. In addition to seeing clients and teaching on a diverse range of subjects, he often leads workshops in field botany, wild edible plants and mushrooms. He has been a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG) since 2003, and joined the AHG Council (board of directors) in October 2012.

Please register below.

Start time: 10:00 am

End time: 1:00 pm

Contact phone: (718) 768-3195

Location: Old Stone House (in J.J. Byrne Playground)

Justin the Magician visits!

Start time: 12:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

BookClub discussion led by Domenica Ruta on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

Produced in partnership with Oxford Unifersity Press.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Come enjoy Roger Morris Park along with your family. Play colonial games, make a historic craft project, and enjoy the beginning of summer in our colonial garden! The day will also include docent led tours for adults and families. No advanced registration required.

Start time: 11:00 am

End time: 4:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 923-8008

Location: Morris-Jumel Mansion (in Roger Morris Park)

The High Line gets a lot of hype, but it is just one example of the many ways community leaders and creative thinkers are re-imagining public space.

Stop by for the launch of this year’s Beyond the High Line, a series of free talks about adaptive reuse projects around the world. The first talk features the Reading Viaduct, a 4.7-mile-long railway traveling through Philadelphia. Beginning in 1893, the railway carried both passengers and mail to and from the Reading Terminal, in downtown Philadelphia. When the railway ceased operations in the 1980s, nature took over, covering the tracks with wild grasses and self-seeded shrubs.

Paul Levy, of Center City District, will present plans for his business improvement district’s vision of a Philadelphia destination centered around a transformed Reading Viaduct. Leah Murphy, of Interface Studio, will speak on behalf of VIADUCTgreene, an advocacy group that seeks to preserve the viaduct’s historical industrial character and existing self-seeded landscape.

This High Line Program is free and open to visitors of all ages. No RSVP required. A free reception with the speakers will follow the presentation.

Start time: 6:30 pm

End time: 7:30 pm

Contact phone: (212) 206-9922

Location: 14th Street Passage (in The High Line)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

StoryTime with Cali Co Cat. Tales, meowsic, and arts & crafts to boot.

Start time: 10:30 am

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

HSBC Financial Literacy:

Sheila Bair, Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

FDIC former chair with a sound perspective on the financial crisis.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time: 1:45 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Poetry with The Keyon Review

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Bryant Park Short Story Writers Workshop led by Miranda McLeod, MFA, NYU.

Please register for this event below.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 726-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Story Time with Cali Co Cat. Tales, meowsic, and arts & crafts to boot.

Start time: 10:30 am

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Book Club discussion on Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson led by Justin Scott.

Produced in partnership with Oxford University Press.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Norma Cantú
Elizabeth Acevedo
Anthony Cody
Urayoán Noel

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Lou Gallo and Jean Rohe from The Very Hungry Band.

Start time: 12:00 pm

End time: 1:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Author series with Aisha Tyler, Self-Inflicted Wounds: How I Learned to Embrace the Epic Fail

Actress, author, and popular The Talk show host with comic essays appropriately named after her podcast segment Self-Inflicted Wounds.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Join the discussion led by Sean Pidgeon with The Hound of Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Produced in partnership with Oxford University Press.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

Mwahahaha...one of America's favorite pop-culturist takes a look at the villain through his mastery of essays.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Wayne Koestenbaum with The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka.

Produced in partnership with Oxford University Press.

Start time: 12:30 pm

End time:

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)

Ready…Set…Action...Reel insight into the movie of the week with resident film-buff Scott Adlerberg and guest experts in the crafts of screen-writing and movie-making.

Start time: 7:00 pm

End time: 8:00 pm

Contact phone: (212) 768-4242

Location: Reading Room (in Bryant Park)