Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst 

(1951, 86 minutes)

This classic adaption of Charles Dickens’s beloved novel follows the stingy businessman Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) as he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future in Victorian London. Scrooge is given one last chance to change his ways and learn the meaning of Christmas to save himself from the grim fate that befell his unfortunate business partner Jacob Marley (Michael Hordern).

Chamber Orchestra of New York
Christmas Concerti
Join music director Salvatore Di Vittorio and the Chamber Orchestra of New York for a Christmas inspired concert of Baroque works to coincide with the exhibition Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas. Featuring Davide Alogna, violin. 


Declan Kiely, Director of Exhibitions, The New York Public Library, and exhibition curator

Declan Kiely, Director of Exhibitions, The New York Public Library, and exhibition curator

Everyone’s Carol

Emma Cline & Erica Jong


In celebration of the relationship between art, literature, and film, join Emma Cline, author of The Girls, and Erica Jong author of Fear of Flying, in a conversation on the films that have inspired their lives and work. Moderated by Antonio Monda, Artistic Director of Le Conversazioni festival.

The exhibition Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas will be open at 6 pm for program attendees.

Jennifer Minnen, scholar of Victorian literature and PhD candidate at Princeton University, leads a reading group on two of Charles Dickens’s Christmas books, A Christmas Carol and A Cricket on the Hearth. The group will explore Dickens’s play with style, type, and genre in the founding of a modern holiday tradition. Participants will be reading from the Oxford World’s Classic 2008 edition of A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. Advance tickets are required, as space is limited.

Director: Bharat Nalluri
(November 2017, 104 minutes)

Director: Brian Henson
(1992, 85 minutes)

Gonzo the Great plays Charles Dickens, who narrates the story of a miser (Michael Caine) who is visited by three spirits and countless Muppets in this very merry adaptation of the book. Enjoy before or during the Winter Family Fair.

Director: Brian Henson
(1992, 85 minutes)

Gonzo the Great plays Charles Dickens, who narrates the story of a miser (Michael Caine) who is visited by three spirits and countless Muppets in this very merry adaptation of the book. Enjoy before or during the Winter Family Fair.