February 2019 by Duluth Public Library

February 2019

February 2019 Sunday

Monday

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Wednesday

EVERYONE

Thursday

Friday

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6 pm: Analyze the Evidence with TPGS (Green Room)

10:15: Baby & Toddler Storytime (Green Room) 10:30: Storytime (West Duluth) 11:15: Preschool Storytime (Green Room) 6:30 pm: How to Duo with Pushing Chain (Mt. Royal)

11 12 pm: Book Bingo (Green Room) 2 pm: Tax Help (Gold Room)

18 All Libraries Closed Presidents’ Day

25 2 pm: Tax Help (Gold Room) 3 pm: West Duluth Book Club (West Duluth)

3:30 pm: Read to a Dog (Mt. Royal)

2 pm: Perler Bead Art for Kids (Green Room) 6 pm: How to Duo with Pushing Chain (West)

10:15: Baby & Toddler Storytime (Green Room) 10:30: Storytime (West Duluth) 11:15: Preschool Storytime (Green Room) 3:45: Squad Car Storytime (Youth Services)

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

10:15: Toddler Time (Green Room) 10:30: Storytime (West Duluth) 11:15: Preschool Storytime (Green Room) 3:30 pm: Read to a Dog (West Duluth) 3:45: Squad Car Storytime (Youth Services)

2 pm: Movie: Searching (Green Room)

8 2 pm: Movie: Equalizer 2 (Green Room)

6 pm: How to Duo with Pushing Chain (Gold Room)

10:15: Storytime (Mt. Royal) 3 pm: Crafternoons for Kids (Mt. Royal) 4 pm: AntiValentine’s Day (Green Room)

10:15: Storytime (Mt. Royal) 4 pm: Teen Anime & Manga Club (Green Room) 6:30: DPL Book Group: H is for Hawk (Gold Room) 10:15: Storytime (Mt. Royal)

1 pm: STEAM in the Library (YS) 1 pm: The Nebulous Tangle of the Middle Book (Green Room)

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

Saturday

2 pm: Movie: First Man (Green Room)

10:30 am: Movie at Mt. Royal: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Mt. Royal)

9 10:15 am: Tax Help (Gold Room)

2 pm: Valentine’s Day Crafts for Kids (Green Room)

10:15 am: Tax Help (Gold Room) 10:30 am: Emoji Day (Green Room) 11:30 am: The Emoji Movie (Green Room) 3 pm: The Duluth Paranormal Society (Green Room)

Winter Reading Program Ends 10:15 am: Tax Help (Gold Room) 11 am: Academy Award Double Feature (Green Room) 1 pm: Craft Make and Take (Youth Services)

Baby and Toddler Storytime • Every Wednesday at 10:15 am 20 minutes of simple stories & fingerplays for infants and toddlers from birth to 3 years. Preschool Storytime • Every Wednesday at 11:15 am 30 minutes of stories, songs & fingerplays for ages 3 to 5. Squad Car Storytime • Stories read by a Duluth police officer. Wednesday, February 13 & 27 • 3:45 pm • Youth Services 1 - Movie: Searching - 2 pm, Green Room • Rated PG-13 • 1h 42m 2 - The Nebulous Tangle of the Middle Book - 1 - 2:30 pm, Green Room • How many writers start off their dream project with great drive, only to get bogged down in the nebulous middle? Why do we stop writing, and what kinds of tricks and tools can help us get going again? Writer Carol Dunbar will share her experiences wrestling with “the middle” and offer practical techniques for pushing through to the end of a large project. Presented by Lake Superior Writers 2 - STEAM at your Library - 1 - 3 pm, Youth Services • Drop in to try out some activities from our new STEAM Cart. Science, technology, engineering, art, and math can all be a part of the library experience. We will have activities representing all areas for kids to try. Made possible by the Northland Foundation. 4 - Analyze the Evidence - 6 - 7:45 pm, Green Room • Professional genealogist Joanne Sher will present methods for analyzing the evidence that family historians have gathered. Find how you can decide which fact is correct when you have a conflict with data. Presented by the Twin Ports Genealogical Society. A brief Twin Ports Genealogical Society meeting may precede this event. 7 - Teen Scene - 4 - 6 pm, Green Room • Games, crafts, movies, book discussions and more. You choose what you want to do! Pizza will be served while it lasts. For teens in grades 6-12. 7 - How to Duo with Pushing Chain - 6 - 7 pm, Gold Room 8 - Movie: Equalizer 2 - 2 pm, Green Room • Rated R • 2h 9m 9 - Valentine’s Day Crafts for Kids - 2 - 4 pm, Green Room • Get ready for Valentine’s Day! Drop in anytime between 2 - 4 pm to create your own valentines! Make a valentine for a veteran or for a friend. For children in K-5th grade. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. 11 - Book Bingo - Noon - 1 pm, Green Room • If you like Bingo, you’ll love Book Bingo. Instead of numbers, we draw book titles. Bring your lunch and play to win a gift card to Barnes & Noble. 14 - Anti-Valentine’s Day - 4 - 6 pm, Green Room • A celebration of friendship! Teens, bring your besties to the library for crafts, to smash the piñata of love, decorate and eat cookies, and consume lots of chocolate. We will screen the movie “New Moon” from the Twilight saga and roast the classic vampire/human/werewolf love triangle. 15 - Movie: First Man - 2 pm, Green Room • Rated PG-13 • 2h 22m 16 - Emoji Day - 10:30 - 11:30 am, Green Room • Join us for emoji fun at the library! Drop in anytime between 10:30 am and 11:30 am to create emoji crafts. Stay to watch the Emoji Movie at 11:30 am. Stop by the Youth Services desk anytime during the day to complete the emoji scavenger hunt for a prize! 16 - Movie for Kids: The Emoji Movie - 11:30 am, Green Room Rated PG; 1h 26m

16 - Duluth Paranormal Society - 3 - 4:30 pm, Green Room • Learn more about Duluth’s very own ghosthunters - The Duluth Paranormal Society. DPS is the only group to have 48 hours of unfettered access to Nopeming. Besides sharing personal experiences and evidence, they will also go over the equipment they use on their hunts and answer questions at the end. 19 - Perler Bead Art for Kids - 2 - 4 pm, Green Room • Drop in anytime between 2 pm and 4 pm to make your own perler bead creation. For kids in Kindergarten and up. Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Made possible by the Friends of the Duluth Public Library. 21 - Teen Anime & Manga Club - 4 - 6 pm, Green Room • Anime, cosplay, manga, food and games. All teens in grades 6-12 welcome. 21 - DPL Book Group: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - 6:30 - 7:30 pm, Gold Room • New members welcome! The DPL Book Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month from August to May. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk of the Main Library 4 weeks before the meeting. 23 - Academy Award Double Feature - 11 am, Green Room • Check out a couple of this year’s Oscar-nominated films. Join us for Movie Trivia before each movie and you could win a box of candy. Oscar ballots will be available at each movie. Get the most correct and win a gift card to Marcus Theatres! 11 am: Can You Ever Forgive Me? Rated R; 1h 47 m • Nominated for 3 Oscars - Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay 2 pm: A Star is Born Rated R; 2h 14m •Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress 23 - Craft Make and Take - 1 -3 pm, Youth Services • Come and do a make and take craft in Youth Services. No registration or experience required!

Monday, February 18 All libraries closed for Presidents’ Day Tax Preparation Help at the Library Volunteers from UMD will be at the Main Library in the Gold Room beginning Saturday, February 9. Tax Help is available first come, first serve. Mondays: 2 - 7 pm Saturdays: 10:15 am - 3:30 pm There will be no tax help: Monday, February 18 - closed for Presidents’ Day

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Preschool Storytime • Every Thursday at 10:15 am 20-30 minutes of stories, songs, & fingerplays for children from birth through age 5. 6 - How to Duo with Pushing Chain - 6:30 - 7:30 pm 7 - 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 have tried or would like to try and copies of the recipes, if possible. 12 - Read to a Dog - 3:30 - 4:30 pm • Kids are invited to read a story to a good listener with big ears! These one-on-one read-aloud sessions with a licensed therapy dog are a great way to practice reading in a comfortable, low-stress environment. Drop-in sessions available on a first come, first served basis. Games and activities available while you wait. 14 - Crafternoons for Kids - 3 - 4 pm • Drop in for a fun make-and-take craft project. No experience or sign-up required. 22 - Movie at Mt. Royal: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 10:30 am Rated PG; 1 hr 30 min

How to Duo with Pushing Chain Wednesday, February 6 • 6:30 pm Thursday, February 7 • 6 pm • Gold Room Tuesday, February 19 • 6 pm

Join Pushing Chain, an acoustic folky-tonk duo from the shores of Lake Superior, as they discuss musical choices and performance decisions as they apply to being a duo. How do they arrange songs to fit into the seemingly small box of an acoustic folk duo? How do they hold an audience’s attention with two instruments and two microphones? Pushing Chain will discuss their process, and illustrate the discussion with songs chosen from a vast catalog of original music as well as some songs you probably know. Paid for in part by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Storytime • Every Wednesday at 10:30 am 20-30 minutes of stories, songs & fingerplays for children from birth through age 5. 19 - How to Duo with Pushing Chain - 6 - 7 pm 25- West Duluth Book Club - 3 pm 27 - Read to a Dog - 3:30 - 4:30 pm • Kids are invited to read a story to a good listener with big ears! These one-on-one read-aloud sessions with a licensed therapy dog are a great way to practice reading in a comfortable, low-stress environment. Drop-in sessions available on a first come, first served basis. Games and activities available while you wait.