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92NY HIGHLIGHTS NEW EVENTS FROM FEBRUARY 13 – MARCH 14
 
IN PERSON AND ONLINE 

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***In Person & Online***
STAR TREK: PICARD FINAL SEASON – ADVANCE SCREENING AND PATRICK STEWART, MICHAEL DORN, JONATHAN FRAKES AND GATES McFADDEN IN CONVERSATION

In Person – Screening + Talk – Mon, Feb 13, 7 pm, from $25 
Online – Pre-recorded Talk only – Tue, Feb 17, 6 pm, $20

Join the iconic cast members of Paramount+’s Star Trek: Picard — Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes and Gates McFadden — for a special advance screening of the premiere episode of the third and final season of their acclaimed series. The final season of Picard is the concluding chapter of Jean-Luc Picard’s journey and features the return of his  Star Trek: The Next Generation crewmates as they come together in a thrilling conclusion 35 years after The Next Generation first premiered. Following the screening, hear Stewart, Dorn, Frakes, and McFadden talk about revisiting their The  Next Generation characters years later, why their stories have proven so durable and creatively fruitful, what Star Trek has meant to them throughout their careers, stories from behind the scenes, and much more.

***NOTE – THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE AT NYPL’s BRUNO WALTER AUDITORIUM, 111 AMSTERDAM AVE.***
***In Person***
GWENDOLYN BROOKS’S MAUD MARTHA: A READING BY ROSLYN RUFF
INTRODUCTION BY MARGO JEFFERSON

Thu, Feb 23, 7:30 pm, from $20

What she liked was candy buttons, and books, and painted music (deep blue, or delicate silver), and the west sky…Join us for a rare reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s first and only novel, Maud Martha— an “exquisite portraiture of black womanhood by one of America’s most foundational writers” (Claudia Rankine). This reading, which marks the 70th anniversary of Maud Martha’s publication in 1953, is by acclaimed actor Roslyn Ruff, “a fantastically talented performer whose great gift is her ability to dissect long speeches, searching them for pleasing rhythms and hidden melodies,” wrote The New Yorker . “Maud Martha cherishes her own mind. To her, Brooks gives the sensibility and consciousness of an artist,” wrote Margo Jefferson. “What does Maud Martha want? She wants to give shape to the varied materials of life around and inside her. The daydreams and duties, the nagging habits and treasured rituals, the ‘knots of grief’ and surges of pleasure. Her quest is to become the best possible version of herself.”

***In Person and Online***
STACY SCHIFF AND KERRY K. GREENIDGE

Thu, Mar 2, 7:30 PM, from $20

An evening of reading and conversation with two award-winning biographers and historians: Stacy Schiff (The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams) and Kerri Greenidge (The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family ). “Schiff’s previous books [on Cleopatra, The Witches, Véra Nabokov and Antoine de Saint-Exupery] offer complex, thoroughly imagined, stylishly written portraits of figures whose histories have previously been subsumed in a murk of myth or otherwise obscured,” wrote Ruth Franklin. In her new book, she reintroduces readers to the shrewd, eloquent and intensely disciplined man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. Kerri K. Greenidge, whose previous book, Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, won the 2020 Mark Lynton History Prize, now publishes The Grimkes , a landmark biography of the most important multiracial American family of the nineteenth century. It is “remarkable for its deft storytelling; its intelligent interweaving of themes such as slavery and abolitionism, race and gender, family and high society; and its definitive painting of an extraordinary American family across multiple generations,” wrote Gene Andrew Jarrett.

***In Person & Online***
REAL LOVE: RACHEL LINDSAY IN CONVERSATION WITH MATT JAMES

Mon, Mar 6, 7:30 pm, from $20

Join former stars of The Bachelor  and The Bachelorette , Rachel Lindsay and Matt James, on  Lindsay’s debut novel, Real Love . Following the story of a driven young woman who turns down the opportunity to take part in a nationally beloved reality dating show called  Real Love — offering the role to her best friend instead —  Lindsay’s novel is at once an insider’s look at the world of reality TV and a magnetic, moving story about the paths we choose and the ones we don’t. Hear her and James on her inspiration for the book, why she turned to fiction to tell the story, the eternal struggle to find the right work-life balance, and much more.

***In Person & Online***
Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis | MICHAEL KORS

Tue, Mar 7, 7:30 pm, from $25

Fresh off the celebration of his 40th anniversary, the designer rejoins Fern Mallis on the stage for the first time in over a decade to talk about how he continues to reinvent the jet set dream, making it more relevant than ever before. From unique collaborations and exciting events to larger-than-life campaigns, the designer has redefined the glamour of the jet set for life today. Michael first appeared at Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis in 2012. Since then, with the creation of Capri Holdings Limited, the Michael Kors brand has joined a portfolio of global luxury brands. The past ten years have also seen the designer named a Global Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and the opening of the Michael Kors Building at God’s Love We Deliver. Find out what it takes to become one of the most celebrated leaders in fashion when Michael rejoins Fern at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Michael’s first appearance at the 92NY is chronicled in Fern’s first book, Fashion Icons 1: Fashion Lives with Fern Mallis, published by Rizzoli and out now exclusively at Nordstrom.

Audie Cornish & Viola Davis

***In Person & Online***
ADAM GOPNIK IN CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM GLADWELL: ON THE MYSTERY OF MASTERY

Mon, Mar 13, 7:30 pm, from $25

Join award-winning New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik with New York Times-bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell on the nature of talent — and Gopnik’s fascinating new book, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery . Apprenticing himself to an artist, a dancer a boxer, and even a driving instructor, Gopnik’s new book is a movingly persistent study of knowledge itself — how we acquire it, and why we must rely on one another to learn — a fascinating intellectual companion to Gladwell’s bestselling Outliers. Together, Gopnik and Gladwell pose elemental, essential questions about the nature of the human mind: who are we? How do we learn? Does our knowledge define us? How can we better understand each other and ourselves? Don’t miss this unforgettable evening of conversation and inquiry. NOTE: Adam Gopnik will be selling and signing copies of his new book following the talk.

***In Person and Online***
FRANZ KAFKA’S DIARIES: A READING WITH ROSS BENJAMIN AND OTHERS

Mon, Mar 13, 7:30 pm, from $20

Join us for a dramatic reading from Franz Kafka’s Diaries, now published in a complete and newly translated edition by Ross Benjamin. Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams and finished stories. “This new and scrupulously faithful translation of the Diaries brings us, unembellished by theory, the true inner life of the twentieth century’s most complex and enigmatic literary prophet,” wrote Cynthia Ozick. “Kafka’s very name has come to us as symbol and vision of innocent vulnerability in the face of irrational force. Yet warns: beware interpretation!”

***In Person & Online***
MICHELLE MILLER AND GAYLE KING IN CONVERSATION: BELONGING

Tue, Mar 14, 7 pm, from $25

Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning Michelle Miller had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, “Go and find your mother.” In her candid new book Belonging  she chronicles her decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice. “Belonging is my witness,” Miller says. “In its simplest terms, it is the story of one woman’s search for herself.” A lifelong quest that would shape her voice as a Black woman in white newsrooms. What emerges is an intimate story about secrets—secrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.

About The 92nd Street Y, New York:  The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92NY offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y, New York is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92NY’s programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit  www.92NY.org.