Staten Island OutLOUD

Saturday, September 19th at 2pm

At Every Thing Goes Book Cafe, 208 Bay St, SINY 10301 (btw Victory Blvd & Hannah St). Located 2 blocks from the Ferry Terminal, and close to multiple bus lines. Plenty of parking on surrounding streets. FREE

Best for ages 16 and up.

“Things In Nature Merely Grow” by YiYun Li, is a powerful memoir, a meditation, an examination of how one might find a way of understanding and dealing with a loved one’s suicide.

September is Suicide Awareness Month, and Staten Island OutLOUD offers this event for anyone who has been impacted by suicide, and for anyone who wants to better understand this complex issue.

6pm Friday, September 11, 2026. At the North Shore Esplanade, 301 Richmond Terrace, Richmond Terrace & St Peters Place, SINY 10301. (Located directly across the street from the Harborview School).

Join your neighbors for a short event on the North Shore Esplanade, Richmond Terrace & St Peters Place, SINY 10301 (across the street from 300 Richmond Terrace, the Harborview School). We’ll remember the food service workers who died on Sept 11, 2001, on the job at Windows On the World, the restaurant on a top floor of the World Trade Center. We’ll read and explore Martin Espada’s poem “Alabanza: In praise of Local 11”, which honors their lives, their work, their families, their aspirations, their memory. Free. This location is right next to bus stops for the #41 & #44 bus. Limited free parking on Richmond Terrace.

2pm Sunday, June 21st at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tobetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island NY 10306

Join us for a free community reading and conversation on selected poems by Audre Lorde, pioneer poet, civil rights advocates and educator, 1934-1992. She lived and worked on Staten Island during the 1970s and 1980s.

Sunday, August 2nd at 2pm

Greenbelt Nature Center, 700 Rockland Ave, SINY 10314 (at Brielle)

Staten Island OutLOUD hosts a community reading & conversation on Prof. Phillip Pappas’ intriguing history text “That Ever Loyal Island” as we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the nation’s Declaration of Independence.

Did you know that in 1776, Staten Island was considered a Tory stronghold? Join us as we examine this aspect of American history.

Free & open to the public. Free parking on the grounds of the Greenbelt Nature Center, and at the nearby Greenbelt Recreation Center, 501 Brielle Ave SINY 10314, located just a few hundred feet up Brielle (across from the Seaview Hospital grounds).

PLEASE NOTE: In January 2026, Prof. Papas published an article, “In Any Character Except That of a British Subject”, on the historic peace conference that took place on September 11, 1776 on Staten Island. His article appears in Gotham, an online journal/blog sponsored by the Gotham Center of New York City History. Please visit his link below:

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/sidiplomaticpeace-d8deabxrnler965-ce7wl

Monday, June 22nd at 4:30pm. At the St George Library Center – NYPL. 5 Central Ave, SINY 10301.

Staten Island OutLOUD joins our friend, Librarian Kristen Strmel, as we read and discuss “A Hymn To Life” by Gisele Pelicot. She made history during the recent criminal trial in the south of France. Her husband and about 50 other men were convicted of drugging and raping her on multiple occasions. (Mme. Pelicot’s husband was also accused of raping & photographing their daughter.)

Her decision to insist on a public trial shifted prevailing attitudes on many gender-based issues. In “A Hymn To Life”, Gisele Pelicot shares her story with stunning clarity and with remarkable perspective.
This event is open to readers age 18 and over. FREE. The St George Library Center is just a block from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, where many SI bus lines, SIR train, and the Ferry converge. Several municipal parking ramps and lots are located within 2 blocks of the library. Also, metered and some limited free parking on surrounding streets.

Saturday, May 2nd at 2pm (rain date Sat, May 9th). At Christ United Methodist Church, 1890 Forest Ave (3 blocks west of Richmond Ave), SINY 10303.

Staten Island OutLOUD co-hosts with our neighbor Sarah Clark – We’ll read and explore “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankel.  A powerful witness to history, a compelling account.  FREE.

Weather permitting we’ll also take a short stroll through Graniteville Quarry Park next door on Forest Ave.
  Plenty of free parking on surrounding streets. Public transportation: #44 & #48 buses stop nearby.

Saturday, April 11th at 2pm at the St George Library Center, 5 Central Ave, SINY 10301 (located 2 blocks from the Ferry, and just uphill from Borough Hall). The S42 and S52 bus stops at the Library’s front door. Parking on surrounding streets.

Staten Island OutLOUD celebrates National Poetry Month with this event, as we explore the work of Arthur Sze, Poet Laureate of the United States. Mr. Sze is a second-generation Chinese American writer whose poetry fuses the traditions of Chinese, Japanese, Native American and Western culture. He win the National Book Award for “Sight Lines”. He currently serves as the 25th United States Poet Laureate for 2025-26.

This event is free. Best for ages 18 and up.

Friday, Feb 6th at 7pm

At Hub 17 NYC, 73 Wave Street (just off Bay St), SINY 10304.

Join Staten Island OutLOUD, together with our friends Kimbra Eberly & everyone at Hub 17 NYC as we explore Dr. King’s historic 1964 speech as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

Free. Plenty of parking on surrounding streets. Accessible via the S51 bus and the SIRT train.