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May 2020
Info Session on Zoom: Graduate SSBT Certificate Programs
The Stender School of Business and Technology offers four graduate certificate programs. Join this Zoom session to learn about graduate certificate offerings and courses, hear from a former student and meet faculty in the program. The session is on Zoom at css.zoom.us/j/968734320.
Find out more »Frontline Leadership Certificate Program: Building Effective Teams (Canceled)
This event has been canceled. This professional development series consists of five full-day, non-credit workshops designed to build a foundation of knowledge and skills for emerging leaders or to reinforce core components of leadership for existing leaders.
Find out more »Jun 2020
An event every 2 weeks that begins at 5:30 pm on Monday, repeating until Jun 1, 2020
Virtual Yoga and Book Club for Grades 2-5
An event every 2 weeks that begins at 5:30 pm on Monday, repeating until Jun 1, 2020
An activity for kids that promotes a healthy mind, body and spirit. Miss Melissa of Konjo leads this series. Register to get a book mailed to you and get the Zoom login for class. This series will run every other Monday, starting on April 20th and ending on June 1st. Each class session will run 60 minutes and include a yoga class created specifically for youth and a book-club discussion. This series is a safe, fun and intentional environment to…
Find out more »Let’s Do Lunch
The Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce's "Let's Do Lunch" series features guest speakers on select Tuesdays throughout the year. This edition will be a virtual presentation. Admission is $35 for chamber members and $45 for non-members. To register, visit duluthchamber.com.
Find out more »Duluth Monarch Festival 2020
The fifth annual Duluth Monarch Festival is an opportunity to learn about saving monarch butterflies. Special guest Vicki Bonk will present the photo-filled keypoint “Grow Monarch Habitat.” Bonk is the volunteer stewardship and outreach coordinator for Nokomis Naturescape, a 4-acre native planting, working with the local neighborhood association and park board in Minneapolis. Another session this year: “Rearing Monarchs: Why or Why Not?” by Duluth Monarch Buddies. Shoreview Natives, from Two Harbors, will be selling milkweed and other native pollinator…
Find out more »Clayton Jackson McGhie Day of Remembrance 2020
The Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial Committee was hoping to ask for more than 10,000 community members and visitors to join in honoring Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie at the intersection where they were lynched by a mob in 1920. The COVID-19 pandemic, however has led the committee to postpone the major elements of the commemoration until June of 2021. Virtual events will occur, but the large commemoration is postponed until next summer. To learn more, partner or sponsor,…
Find out more »10th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference
A one-day conference for networking and making connections with leaders in the field of education. The conference begins with a keynote address and offers breakout sessions designed to meet the MED re-licensure strands. K-12 teachers, higher-education faculty, college students and other learning practitioners are welcome. Presentations will include hands-on workshops and research-based "best practices" in teaching, learning and leading.
Find out more »Chamber Skills Series: How to Manage Your Time and Stay Organized
In this virtual workshop, Mickey Fitch-Collins from the University of Wisconsin-Superior will present time-management skills for staying organized. The presentation is free for Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce members and $25 for non-members.
Find out more »Author Event: Sue Leaf Presents Minnesota’s Geologist
Zenith Bookstore and Cafe Scientifique Twin Ports host Sue Leaf, who will present her new book Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell. This is the story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesota’s geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state. Tracing Newton Horace Winchell’s path to becoming a leading light of an emerging scientific field, Minnesota’s Geologist recreates the early days of scientific inquiry in Minnesota, when one man’s passion for learning could…
Find out more »Author Event: The Cadottes
Robert Silbernagel presents his new book The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior. 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 from French to British to American control.…
Find out more »Jul 2020
Let’s Connect at Clyde: Bayfront Festival Park
The Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce's Let's Connect at Clyde luncheon series features guest speakers in the Clyde Iron Works event center. This month, Duluth Entertainment Convention Center Venue Operations and Bayfront Festival Park Director Jeff Stark discusses Bayfront Festival Park's role as a gathering place. The cost is $30 for chamber members and $40 for non-members.
Find out more »Aug 2020
Let’s Do Lunch
The Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce's "Let's Do Lunch" series features guest speakers on select Tuesdays throughout the year. Admission is $35 for chamber members and $45 for non-members. To register, visit duluthchamber.com.
Find out more »Chamber Skills Series: Easy Ways to Connect with Clients
Bonnie Jacobson from Farmers Insurance Bonnie J. Jacobson Insurance Agency presents techniques to help connect with clients. The presentation is free for Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce members and $25 for non-members.
Find out more »Resilience: A Positive Psychology Approach to Difficult Moments
The daylong seminar offers "pragmatic and easily applied tools that enable each of us to increase a sense of inner capacity and to build that capacity within our homes and with our teams at work." Maria Sirois is a master teacher, facilitator and author. As a positive psychologist and international consultant, she focuses on the resilience of the human spirit when under pressure and/or during significant transition. She consults with the Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry at Champlain College, develops…
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