Purloined from the NYS Writers Institute email(United States, 2025, 92 minutes, color. Directed by Kim Snyder)
Here’s the official trailer.
Join us for a screening of this surprise hit documentary film, followed by a conversation and Q&A with a panel of local librarians, including:
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Alicia Abdul of Albany High School
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Roger Green of the Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library
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Amanda Lowe of the University at Albany Libraries.
The film profiles librarians across America as they face and combat book-banning— defending intellectual freedom on democracy’s frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond. The film features librarians who have been fired for refusing to remove books from the shelves, or simply for questioning the directive to do so.
The New York Times said, “From its superb opening-credits sequence paying tribute to card catalogs of yore to its sharp selection of vintage clips and intimate reportage, ‘The Librarians’ is as well-crafted as it is profoundly alarming.”
Cosponsored by the Capital District Library Council (CDLC)
FFAPL
Speakers for the Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library, Tuesdays at 2 pm at the 161 Washington Avenue branch.
January 27 | Book Review | These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore. Reviewer: James Collins, PhD, Prof. emeritus, Anthropology Dept, Program in Linguistics & Cognitive Science, U. at Albany, SUNY.
February 3 | Book Review | The Trial, the 1925 German novel by Franz Kafka. Reviewer: Joshua Bovee, copy editor and local author.
February 10 | Book Review | An Afternoon with the “Slow Horses,” Mick Herron’s Spy Thriller series in Books and TV. Reviewer: John Rowen, former president, Friends of APL.
February 17 | Illustrator Talk | Marcus Kwame Anderson, Deputy Director, Underground Railroad Education Center, discusses his most recent graphic novel, written with David Walker, Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined.
February 24 | Author Talk | Avery Irons, prize-winning author, now a local but born & raised in central Illinois, discusses & reads from her new book, Belonging to the Air.
First Pres, Albany
Beacon In The Park is a two-day arts celebration at First Presbyterian Church of Albany, featuring a juried art show, a Gershwin concert, docent-led tours, and a special lecture on Tiffanyʼs influence in the Capital Region.
Free and ticketed events welcome all ages.