Seeking your next great read? Convo with thought-provoking authors? Fun projects and performances for kids? Grab a “Smashing Pumpkin” from Gregory’s Coffee on Court St. and visit the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival! A digital guide to this weeklong Festival (Sept. 22 – 30, 2024) will be available through the free Bloomberg Connects arts and culture app.
Everyone can be a part of Virtual Festival Day on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 (noon – 5 pm). Whether you seek a new food book (panel: Memory & Flavor: An Expansive Vision of Food & Recipe Writing) or a recent book from an international author (program: Who? New! International), there will be a virtual program to engage you.
Brooklyn Law School will host one of the Festival’s Bookend Events on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024: Protect Your People: Challenging Mass Incarceration Together (RSVP required for this free event.)
This event will highlight the recent book Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration (The New Press, 2024).
The event will feature: Raj Jayadev, the book's author and a MacArthur Fellow, Heather Lewis, Executive Director of the Reuniting Family Bail Fund, and Justine “Taz” Moore, Director of Training at the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. These speakers will converse with Brooklyn Law School Professor & Associate Dean Jocelyn Simonson, author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration (The New Press, 2023). As noted here, this program will highlight “the innovative storytelling techniques of groups of people who have changed the outcomes of criminal cases by intervening collectively through ‘participatory defense.’” Brooklyn Law School's Center for Criminal Justice is a sponsor of this event.
- Date & Time: Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- Place: Brooklyn Law School, 250 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, NY
This Festival’s Children’s Day will be on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 from 10 am – 4 pm in Brooklyn Commons (= MetroTech in downtown Brooklyn).
Activities will include:
Goosebumps & Beyond: A Spooky Conversation with R.L. Stine
Mad Libs: Graphic Novel Edition!
Puppet Making Workshop with writer Vojtěch Mašek
A gameshow, Are You Smarter than an Author?, in which participants can test their skills against middle grade novelists.
Festival Day & Literary Marketplace will be on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024 from 10 am - 6 pm. It features local, national and international authors, publishers and vendors. Many of these programs will occur in Brooklyn Law School and in our “front yard”: Brooklyn Borough Hall. Click here to view the many authors participating in Festival Day.
These are two of many Sept. 29, 2024 Festival Day events that will occur at Brooklyn Law School (w/ links to entries for the authors' books in BLS Library's catalog):
Dreaming of Freedom: How We Move Beyond an Expanding Police State
Brooklyn Book Festival's program description: "With 'robot dogs' at the border, automated surveillance, and arbitrary decisions controlling probation and parole, a system of policing and punishment seems less concerned with fairness or safety than with social control. What does it all have to do with justice?" Program participants will be: sociologist Ruha Benjamin (author of Imagination: A Manifesto), journalist Ben Austen (Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change), and lawyer and anthropologist Petra Molnar (The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence). The moderator will be Vincent Schiraldi, former Probation Commissioner of New York City and author of Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom.
- Date & Time: Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, 4 pm
- Place: Brooklyn Law School, Moot Court Room, 250 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, NY
Debt, Solidarity, and Economic Justice presented by Brooklyn Law School
- Brooklyn Book Festival's program description: "A conversation about the legal, political, and economic forces shaping debt markets and horizons for change and the abolition of debt featuring: Luke Messac (Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine), Chrystin Ondersma (Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice), Melissa Jacoby (Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal) and Astra Taylor (co-author of Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future Of A World-Changing Idea and founder of the Debt Collective). Moderated by Vijay Raghavan, Associate Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School."
- Date & Time: Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, 5 pm
- Place: Brooklyn Law School, Moot Court Room, 250 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, NY
See you at the Festival!