Details on the 5th annual East Village Arts Festival at the Tompkins Square Library branch

This week, the fifth annual East Village Arts Festival returns to the Tompkins Square Library branch with a handful of free in-person programs starting tomorrow afternoon. 

Highlights include (via the EVG inbox)

• Wednesday, Dec. 1, 3–5 p.m.

Join us in our main reading room as the Rocco John Quartet plays adventurous jazz standards

• Thursday, Dec. 2, 2–7 p.m.

East Village Arts Festival Bonanza!  

We are happy to have local writers and artists showing their work in our library. Featuring B Scene Zine, Carpo, Delphine Le Goff, Eve Packer, Frank New, Greg Masters, Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes, Ron Kolm, Ruth and Valery Oisteanu, and Sara Ann Rutherford. 

• Saturday, Dec. 4, 3:30–5 p.m. 

Clayton: Godfather of Lower East Side Documentary: A Graphic Novel.  

For the first time, photographer and videographer Clayton Patterson ... is the subject of a biographical graphic novel anthology. Patterson will discuss the graphic novel with author Julian Voloj.

Visit this link for all the programs. 

The library is at 331 E. 10th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.