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The William Stamps Farish Fund Theater is a state-of-the-art facility in one of Main Street’s busiest places.
Fully renovated and updated, the theater on the Central Library’s first floor is home to theater, dance, live music, film, community events, and meetings. The Lexington Public Library makes the facility available at some of the city’s best prices, with affordable business, nonprofit, and government rates.
The William Stamps Farish, III Theater at the Central Library is available to the community for lectures, live music, community forums, film festivals, small theatrical productions, dance performances, literary readings, debates, and other creative uses.
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Classical Music Sundays opens its third season with the Eastern Kentucky University String Orchestra, conducted by Sila Darville with Bernardo Scarambone on piano. They'll be performing Coletânea N.
They came from different circumstances, with unique problems, and had their own talents. But they shared one thing in common. They were survivors— or as we like to say in the South, they had gumption.
Looking at the development of Lexington from the 1950s through 1980s, a panel will discuss the impact of that development on the walkability of the city. Panelists will include Mandy Higgins, director of the Lexington History Museum; Jeff Fugate, former head of Lexington Downtown Development Authority; and Urban County Councilwoman Hannah LeGris.
Now in its fifteenth season, Jazz at the Library presents live jazz performances on the second Thursday of every month. Sponsored by Jamey Aebersold Jazz and the Jazz Arts Foundation. Reservations suggested.
Winter Jamboree opens its third season with Fast Track. Live bluegrass music the third Thursday of every month, October through April. Sponsored by Southland Jamboree.
A performance of Mozart's Divertimento in E-flat Major K. 563 (1788). Classical Music Sundays presents live classical music the third Sunday of every month, September through April, with EKU music professor Bernardo Scarambone as emcee.
In 1970, Marshall University and the small town of Huntington, W.Va., reel when a plane crash claims the lives of 75 of the school's football players, staff members and boosters. New coach Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) arrives on the scene in March 1971, determined to rebuild Marshall's Thundering Herd and heal a grieving community in the process.
Monday-Thursday: 9:30am-7:00pm
Friday: 9:30am-6:00pm
Saturday: 9:30am-5:00pm
Sunday: 1:00pm-5:00pm
140 East Main Street
Lexington, KY 40507
Library meeting rooms are available for individuals, non-profit, for profit, study groups, and community organizations seeking to hold meetings, trainings, and workshops. Meeting rooms are free of charge. Sterno and other tools/equipment that have an open flame are prohibited.
9/30 - How to train your dragon (2025) (PG)
10/01- Lilo & Stitch (2025) (PG)
10/02 - Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) (PG-13)
Come to Central Library for a monthly Sunday movie matinee.
Based on the book by Ray Bradbury, and starring Jonathan Pryce, Jason Robards, Diane Ladd, and Pam Grier, Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1983 dark fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions.
9/30 - How to train your dragon (2025) (PG)
10/01- Lilo & Stitch (2025) (PG)
10/02 - Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) (PG-13)
9/30 - How to train your dragon (2025) (PG)
10/01- Lilo & Stitch (2025) (PG)
10/02 - Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) (PG-13)
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman.
Join the Lexington Public Library's Kentucky Room staff for a day of genealogy and local history.
Genealogists and historians Pam Brinegar, Mike Denis, and Amanda Higgins will present on different topics of interest.
Free. Registration required.
Join us for a conversation with sports commentators Tom Hammond and Mark Story, authors of Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams: A Sportscaster's Life.
The Morton School Number 1, Lexington’s first public city school in 1834, was originally built on the corner of Walnut (later Martin Luther King Dr.) and Short Street.
Stories of Lexington's history told through the Kentucky Room archives.
