Celebrate the Central Library Grand Reopening with a Block Party & Open House! Check out the fresh spaces and enjoy activities, authors, musicians, performers, storytelling, and slam poetry all day. Participate in the Virtual Tour throughout the library.

Outdoor Stage: BLYSS Step Team, Baltimore School for the Arts, Ribbon cutting, Old Bay Brass, Line Dancing by Lisa Luv Cinnamon, Kondwani Fidel, Conjunto Bruja, food trucks.

Central Hall: A1 Chops, Tattered Hatters, face painting, Maryland Historical Society, Walters Art Museum, Dance and Bmore, Peter Quinn, and prize drawings.

Children's Department: Black Cherry Puppet Theater performance, Adam Gidwitz, National Aquarium, crafts, and more activities!

Creative Arts Center: 123 Andrés!, jazz with Contemporary Arts Inc., Morgan State Choir.

Wheeler Auditorium: Griots Circle, Laura Lippman, Sujata Massey, D. Watkins, Kondwani Fidel, and Chris Wilson.

Teen Space: OpenWorks, Future Makers, Wide Angle, game systems, recording studio, robotics, 3D printers, sewing, and more activities!

Poe Room: Nico Sarbanes performing smooth jazz all day.

Made possible by the generous support of Sandra R. Berman.