May 2019

May 2019

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“Paw it Forward” • May 2019 Adult Reading Challenge It’s National Pet Month! Complete any 10 activities in DPL’s “Paw it Forward” challenge to earn your LION badge. Once you earn the badge, you’ll be entered into a drawing for gift cards to Marcus Theatres and Caribou Coffee, along with a DPL mug and MORE! For ages 18+. Sign up at DuluthLibrary.org

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12 pm: Depression 101: There is Help and Hope (Green Room) 3:30: Sons & Daughters of the Northern Lights (Mt. Royal) 6 pm: Digging into Library Archives (Green Room)

1 pm: Depression 101: There is Help and Hope (Mt. Royal)

12 pm: Book Bingo (Green) 3:30 pm: Read to a Dog (Mt. Royal) 6 pm: Container Gardening & Raised Beds (Mt. Royal)

12 pm: Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia (Green Room)

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3 pm: West Duluth Book Club (West)

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10:15: Baby & Toddler Time (Green Room) 10:30: Storytime (West Duluth) 11:15: Preschool Storytime (Green Room)

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10:15: Baby & Toddler Time (Green Room) 10:30: Storytime (West) 11:15: Preschool Storytime (Green Room) 3:30 pm: Read to a Dog (West Duluth) 3:45: Squad Car ST (YS) 6 pm: Depression 101 (Mt. Royal)

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10:15: Baby & Toddler Time (Green Room) 10:30: Storytime (West Duluth) 11:15: Preschool Storytime (Green Room)

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10:15: Baby & Toddler Time (Green Room) 10:30: Storytime (West) 11:15: Preschool Storytime (Green Room) 3:30: Luffarslojd: Scandinavian Wirework (Mt. Royal) 3:45: Squad Car ST (YS)

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10:15: Baby & Toddler Time (Green Room) 10:30: Storytime (West Duluth) 11:15: Preschool Storytime (Green Room)

Thursday 10:15: Storytime (Mt. Royal) 11:30: Vegan Cookbook Club (Mt. Royal) 4 pm: Teen Scene (Green Room)

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10:15: Storytime (Mt. Royal) 3:30: LEGO at the Library (West Duluth) 4 pm: Teen Anime & Manga Club (Green Room) 6:30: DPL Book Group (Gold Room)

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2 pm: Movie: The Mule (Green Room)

11 am: Movie: Mother’s Day (Green Room) 1 pm: Mother’s Day Crafts (Gold Room) 3:30: Sons & Daughters of the Northern Lights (Green Room)

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2 pm: Movie: Bumblebee (Green Room)

2 pm: Perler Bead Art for Kids (Green Room)

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2 pm: Movie: The Upside (Green Room)

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11 am: Wellness Day (Green & Gold Room) 1 pm: Make Your Own Lipgloss (Green Room) R 1 pm: STEAM in your Library (Youth Services)

Spring Staff Development & Training

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10:15: Storytime (Mt. Royal)

Saturday

All Libraries Closed:

10:15: Storytime (Mt. Royal) 1 pm: Luffarslojd: Scandinavian Wirework (Green Room) 3 pm: Crafternoons for Kids (Mt. Royal) 5:30: Grief and Loss (Green Room) 6 pm: Container Gardening & Raised Beds (West Duluth)

10:15: Storytime (Mt. Royal)

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that help promote healing. Certificates of attendance with program objectives will be provided for those who determine that this program Baby & Toddler Storytime • Every Wednesday at 10:15 am could be used for their continuing education requirements.

20 minutes of stories & fingerplays for infants and toddlers.

10 - Movie: The Mule - 2 pm, Green Room • Rated R; 1h 55m Preschool Storytime • Every Wednesday at 11:15 am 11 - Movie: Mother’s Day - 11 am, Green Room • Rated PG-13; 1h 58m 30 minutes of stories, songs & fingerplays for ages 3 to 5.

11 - Mother’s Day Crafts for Kids - 1 -3 pm, Gold Room • Drop in for a Squad Car Storytime • Stories read by a Duluth police officer. fun afternoon of Mother’s Day crafts!

Wednesday, May 8 & 22 • 3:45 pm in Youth Services 11 - Sons and Daughters of the Northern Lights - 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Green Room • The Sutter Brothers—Ross and Bart—will present a music and 2 - Teen Scene - 4 - 6 pm, Green Room Games, crafts, movies, pizza & stories, poetry and song that explore the experience of Scandinavian more. For teens in grades 6-12. immigrants, their ancestors, and their descendants. “Sons and Daughters 4 - Wellness Day - 11 am - 2 pm, Green & Gold Rooms • Busy of the Northern Lights” will offer glimpses of early settlers, memories of schedule? Feeling stressed? Join us for some relaxation and enter to a vanished village school, a lament for ghost towns, and celebrations of win great prizes! Chair Massage will be available in the Gold Room colorful farm folk and fishermen. The show will be specially designed from 11-2. First come, first served. Self-Care Inside and Out will be to evoke memories and provoke curiosity about regional history, ethnic located in the Green Room from 11-1. Samples will be provided by culture, and the presence of the past in our contemporary lives. Paid for Local Market Day Artisan, Lanae Rhodes. Participants will be able in part by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. to do a make-and-take project with either green cleaning or lotion 13 - Book Bingo - 12 - 1 pm, Green Room • If you like Bingo, you’ll love scenting. Samples and make-and-take projects will be available while Book Bingo. Instead of numbers, we draw book titles. Bring your lunch supplies last. Make Your Own Lip Gloss in the Green Room from 1-2. and play to win a gift card to Barnes & Noble.

Limited space is available for 15 people. Registration Required. Sign up 14 - Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia - 12 - 1 pm, Green Room online at duluthlibrary.org or see a staff member.

Alzheimer’s disease is not a normal part of aging. Jenna Pogorels, Senior 4 - STEAM in your Library - 1 - 3:30 pm, Youth Services • Drop in and Program Manager with the Alzheimer’s Association, will talk about the try out activities from our STEAM Cart. Join us as we share many cool impact of Alzheimer’s; the difference between Alzheimer’s and dementia; toys and creative challenges from our STEAM collection! Science, stages and risk factors; current research and treatments available for technology, engineering, art, and math can all be a part of the library some symptoms; and Alzheimer’s Association resources. Refreshments experience. Made possible by the Northland Foundation and the will be served. Registration suggested at duluthlibrary.org. Light lunch Duluth Library Foundation. provided for those that pre-register.

6 - Depression 101: There is Help and Hope - 12 - 1 pm, Green Room 16 - Teen Anime & Manga Club - 4 - 6 pm, Green Room • Anime, Based on the DVD series “Understanding Depression: Hope Through cosplay, manga, food & games. For teens in grades 6 - 12.

Treatment”, this presentation will begin with a short DVD that outlines 16 - DPL Book Group: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García the common symptoms, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatments of major Márquez - 6:30 - 7:30 pm, Gold Room depression. Afterward, Patricia Michals, MS, RN, will lead a discussion 17 - Movie: Bumblebee - 2 pm, Green Room • Rated PG-13; 1h 54m with a question/answer session. Educational materials from NAMI MN 18 - Perler Bead Art for Kids - 2 - 4 pm, Green Room • Drop in and will be available at no charge. Certificates of attendance will also be make your own Perler bead creation. For kids in Kindergarten and up. available.

Made possible by the Friends of the Duluth Public Library.

6 - Digging into Library Archives - 6 - 7:45 pm, Green Room • You 24 - Movie: The Upside - 2 pm, Green Room • Rated PG-13; 2h 6m have the names, dates, and places, but how can you add daily life details if no one kept a diary? Clues to a bigger picture of your relatives’ past can lie in high school yearbooks, city directories, company scrapbooks, weekly grocery ads from your grandmother’s Preschool Storytime • Every Wednesday at 10:30 am time, the index to the Newspaper Record of the Physical Growth of 20-30 minutes of stories, songs & fingerplays for children from birth Duluth, Minnesota, 1888 to 1928, and so much more. Often one clue through age 5. can lead to another! Learn about library archives and how they work together to bring out hidden gems.

9 - Luffarslöjd: Scandinavian Wirework with Faith Clover - 1 - 2:30 pm, 8 - Read to a Dog - 3:30 - 4:30 pm • Kids are invited to read a story to a Green Room • This old craft is part of the tradition of making beautiful good listener with big ears! One-on-one sessions with therapy dogs are a great way to practice reading in a comfortable environment. Drop-in and useful objects for everyday use using one’s hands and simple sessions available on a first come first served basis. tools. Learn more about luffarslöjd and make a basic hook or two to take home! All tools and materials will be provided. Paid for in part by 9 - Container Gardening and Raised Beds - 6 - 7 pm • St. Louis County Master Gardeners will share their ideas about how to set up, plant, the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. For ages 14 and up.

9 - Grief and Loss: The Impacts of Trauma on Survivors - 5:30 - 7 pm, water, and care for container gardens and raised beds.

16 - LEGO® @ the Library - 3:30 -4:30 pm • LEGO® playtime! Bring Green Room • Learn how trauma impacts survivors as they cope with your imagination and the library will supply the LEGO® bricks! For kids grief and loss that come with traumatic experiences. Psychotherapist in grades K-5. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. and Compassionate Bereavement Care provider, Deb Semmelroth, will discuss current research on the impact of trauma and interventions 20 - West Duluth Book Club - 3 pm

Preschool Storytime • Every Thursday at 10:15 am 20-30 minutes of stories, songs, & fingerplays for children from birth through age 5.

2 - Vegan Cookbook Club - 11:30 am - 12:30 pm • Share great recipes and meet new friends! Bring one or more vegan cookbooks and one or more recipes from the books that you’ve tried or would like to try.

6 - Sons and Daughters of the Northern Lights - 3:30 - 4:30 pm The Sutter Brothers—Ross and Bart—will present a music and stories, poetry and song that explore the experience of Scandinavian immigrants, their ancestors, and their descendants. “Sons and Daughters of the Northern Lights” will offer glimpses of early settlers, memories of a vanished village school, a lament for ghost towns, and celebrations of colorful farm folk and fishermen. The show will be specially designed to evoke memories and provoke curiosity about regional history, ethnic culture, and the presence of the past in our contemporary lives. Paid for in part by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

7 & 8 - Depression 101: There is Help and Hope - 2 Sessions : Tuesday, May 7, from 1 - 2 pm, and Wednesday, May 8, from 6 - 7 pm Based on the DVD series “Understanding Depression: Hope Through Treatment”, this presentation will begin with a short DVD that outlines the common symptoms, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatments of major depression. Afterward, Patricia Michals, MS, RN, will lead a discussion with a question/answer session. Educational materials from NAMI MN will be available at no charge. Certificates of attendance will also be available.

9 - Crafternoons for Kids - 3 - 4 pm • Spring into Crafternoons for a fun make-and-take craft project, enjoying the company of other crafters. No experience or sign-up required.

13 - Read to a Dog - 3:30 - 4:30 pm • Kids are invited to read a story to a good listener with big ears! One-on-one sessions with therapy dogs are a great way to practice reading in a comfortable environment. Drop-in sessions available on a first come first served basis.

13 - Container Gardening and Raised Beds - 6 - 7 pm • St. Louis County Master Gardeners will share their ideas about how to set up, plant, water, and care for container gardens and raised beds.

21 - Make Your Own Lip Balm - 3 - 5 pm • Get your lips ready for summer by learning how to make your own lip balm! Led by Local Market Day artisan Lanae Rhoads, you’ll create and take home lip balm made with 100% natural ingredients. Registration Required. Sign up online at duluthlibrary.org or see a staff member.

22 - Luffarslöjd: Scandinavian Wirework with Faith Clover 3:30 - 5 pm • This old craft is part of the tradition of making beautiful and useful objects for everyday use using one’s hands and simple tools. Learn more about luffarslöjd and make a basic hook or two to take home! All tools and materials will be provided. Paid for in part by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. For ages 14 and up.

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