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Jun 2023
Storytime with Chione
Featuring a musical story based on Twin Cities author Ka Vang’s "Shoua and the Northern Lights Dragon." Vang’s short chapter book tells the story of Shoua, a Hmong-American girl who discovers her voice as she saves an injured dragon while camping in the northern woods of Minnesota. Hear this story set to evocative music composed by Minnesotan Jocelyn Hagen. Chione will also share the stories of the instruments and the ensemble they create.
Find out more »Animal Story Time
Sarah Glesner of Sacred Serpents reads from Verdi by Janell Cannon, and kids can check out a real live snake.
Find out more »Book Signing: 100 Things to Do in Minnesota Before You Die
Author Julie Jo Larson will sign copies of her new book, 100 Things to Do in Minnesota Before You Die at Zenith Bookstore. In the land where Paul Bunyan statues are big and Bigfoot tales are even bigger, the Jolly Green Giant overlooks the North Star State of Minnesota. Larson's book will help navigate from Grand Portage on our northern border to Winona in the south while enticing everyone to try new outdoor activities, eat unusual foods, and sip flavorful…
Find out more »Meet & Greet: Superior Hiking Trail Association
June 3rd is National Trails Day! Lisa Luokkala, Executive Director of the Superior Hiking Trail Association will show off SHTA's publications and answer your questions about the trail and the Association. The store will have copies of the latest printing of the Superior Hiking Trail Guidebook (9th edition), which includes some small additions, as well as the Trail Databook (1st edition) and Trail Atlas. Lisa Luokkala joined SHTA in 2020, after serving as Senior Parks Planner for the City of…
Find out more »An event every week that begins at 1:00 pm on Sunday, repeating until Nov 19, 2023
Duluth Poetry Chapter: Weekly Coffee Chats
An event every week that begins at 1:00 pm on Sunday, repeating until Nov 19, 2023
Poets gather to read, workshop and free-write together. The coffee chats are casual, oriented around connection and organic mentorship among other people interested in writing and sharing poetry. During the meetings, the Duluth Poetry Chapter also organizes and plans poetry events, motivates and informs each other of grant-writing and submission opportunities. Once entering Wussow's, enter the door to the right and follow it upstairs. The chapter meets in the upper level in the "Misfit Room of Chairs." Generally, the meeting…
Find out more »Poetry Reading with Max Garland and Barton Sutter
Multiple award winning poets, Barton Sutter and Max Garland, read from their new books, So Surprised to Find You Here and Into the Good World Again, respectively. This event will occur at the Hartley Nature Center at 3001 Woodland Ave. in Duluth.
Find out more »Adventure Book Club
Join the Duluth Public Library for a book discussion in one of Duluth’s beautiful parks, followed by a low-impact hike led by Parks and Recreation. Hartley Nature Center is the location for June’s book selection, The Unlikely Thru-Hiker by Derick Lugo. This is the account of one man’s trek as a first-time hiker along the Appalachian Trail.
Find out more »League of Women Voters Duluth Annual Plant and Book Sale
Plants and books and maybe even books about plants.
Find out more »Boozy Book Fair
Remember the good old elementary school days going to the Book Fair? Now you can relive the magic with beer. Zenith Bookstore and Ursa Minor Brewing are partnering for a Boozy Book Fair.
Find out more »An event every month that begins at 6:00 pm on day Third of the month, repeating until Jan 18, 2024
Writers’ Salon
An event every month that begins at 6:00 pm on day Third of the month, repeating until Jan 18, 2024
The Writers' Salon takes place on the third Thursday of each month. Writers who would like to share may sign up, but relaxing and just listening is totally awesome, too. This event is open to all writers and all genres of written work.
Find out more »Jul 2023
Book Signing: Robert Silbernagel for The Cadottes
Author Robert Silbernagel will sign copies of his book The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior (Wisconsin Historical Society Press). The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the history of trade and trapping while exploring under-researched stories of French-Ojibwe political, social, and economic relations. Multiple generations of Cadottes were involved in the trade, usually working as interpreters and peacemakers, as the region passed…
Find out more »Adventure Book Club
Join the Duluth Public Library for a book discussion in one of Duluth’s beautiful parks, followed by a low-impact hike led by Parks and Recreation. We will meet at Overhang area at Lester Park for July’s book selection, The Wolf's Trail by Thomas D. Peacock. This book tells the story of the Ojibwe people through the eyes of an elder wolf.
Find out more »Aug 2023
Adventure Book Club
Join the Duluth Public Library in a book discussion in one of Duluth’s beautiful parks, followed by a low-impact, optional hike led by Parks and Recreation. We will meet at Enger Park to discuss August’s selection, H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald. This memoir weaves MacDonald’s struggle with grief into her pursuit of the sport of falconry. Registration is required! Reserve your spot for our August adventure here.
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