Presentations should be 45 minutes in length including Q&A. The Symposium will provide audio visual support. Presenters will be thanked for their service and sharing, and will also be able to go to the front of the buffet line for Deluxe Taco Bar.  Call for Proposals closes on February 24th, with presentation schedule released in mid-March.

The Lake Superior Libraries Symposium is a conference developed by local librarians from Wisconsin and Minnesota. Our goal is to develop and foster an enhanced network of skills, programs, and literacy types that will benefit the libraries of Northern Wisconsin, Northern Minnesota, and their respective communities. Recognizing the limitations of budgets and time available to most library staffs, the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium is designed to be a low-cost, centrally located event to maximize our reach. This inaugural conference will be held on Friday, June 1st at WITC-Superior with minimal costs for attendance.

Save the date for one of four upcoming bicycle/pedestrian meetings in Duluth. Each two-hour meeting starts promptly at 6 p.m.

• Tuesday, February 21^st, at
  City Center West (5830 Grand Ave)
• Thursday, February 23^rd, at
  Portman Community Center (4601 McCulloch St)
• Tuesday, February 28^th, at
  Central Hillside Community Center (12 E 4^th St)
• Thursday, March 1^st, at
  UMD Kirby Student Center, Griggs Room (KSC 201)

These meetings will be hosted by the Healthy Duluth Area Coalition, and will cover a number of ongoing bike and pedestrian projects happening in Duluth. If you attend, you will learn more about these projects, have an opportunity to provide input, and learn how you can help make walking and bicycling safer in Duluth. Each meeting will follow the same format, so feel free to attend whichever one fits best within your schedule.

Projects that will discussed include…

• Results from the 2010 Duluth Bicycle Assessment
• City of Duluth Trails and Bikeways Master Plan
• Lakewalk to Munger “Cross-City Trail”
• The Safe and Walkable Hillside community group
• Redesign studies of 6th Avenue East
• Lincoln Park/Western Middle School pedestrian studies
• Higher Education Small Area Plan
• Duluth citywide sidewalk study
• COGG’s “Duluth Traverse” citywide mt. bike trail
• Possibility of a bike share program in Duluth
• Possibility of a mid-hill bike lane through the hillside

Food and coffee will be provided. Each meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, please email codie@healthyduluth.org.

When you look at old pictures of Duluth’s Cascade Park there is a creek that runs through it. Whatever happened to it? Why did people change it?

If you haven’t heard, the Duluth Art Institute will soon be starting screenings of Robert Hughes’ Shock of the New, which is a fantastic eight-part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement. Not only will you be able to rest your eyes on the handsome and talented Robert Hughes, but you will be able to do it for free.

Screenings will be every Saturday at 11 a.m. from Feb. 11 to March 31.
Now for the even more fun stuff:

Have you dudes and dudettes ever heard of Ryan Gosling, museum lover? Well if you haven’t, here’s a link: museumheygirl.tumblr.com

We got a little inspired after logging way too much time on this site, and this blog was a product of that time well wasted:
roberthughesartloverdai.blogspot.com

(januaryinduluth.wordpress.com/).

Before he flees, he has agreed to give us a presentation on what he’s been up to.

Please join us in celebrating our Fair City, and Adam too, at a reception in his honor, with drinks and social and a presentation by the blogger himself.

Thursday, Feb. 2, 8 to 10 p.m. @ 2104

All friendly people welcome.

** Original Photography by @Kip Praslowicz

** 8 p.m. – The Monday Night Player’s Club (Jazz Quartet)
** 9 p.m. – Adam Carr

Dance Party to follow @ Rex Bar with Big Wave Dave and the Ripples.

The Facebook event is here.

Who knew

Steven Ball occupies a rather unique place in both the worlds of the organ and carillon. In addition to being a Fulbright Scholar, he is part of a small number of artists in the world of the theater organ ever to have achieved a Doctoral degree in music, and the first to have ever done so with a degree in Organ Performance (DMusA U of M, 2008). Widely known for his scholarship with Silent Film, he has already traveled and performed extensively in both the United States and abroad.

More Info on First Lutheran Church website

Daren Streblow performs in Duluth on Feb. 17 as part of the Duluth Christian Singles Event. To purchase tickets go to: duluthchristiansingles.org.