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Residuals: Regan Golden and Ten x Ten
Please join us September 27 for the exhibit opening celebration of Residuals: Regan Golden and Maura Rockcastle. In the exhibition, artist Regan Golden works with the landscape architecture studio Ten x Ten, to test, question, and respond to the extraordinary embedded in overlooked, liminal spaces of the city.
Find out more »On African American Theater Archives: A Conversation
Umbra Search African American History hosts a conversation with local scholar-artists and Dr. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin on how the stuff of archives and historical research — newspaper articles, photos, and letters — inspire and transform the creation of new works.
Find out more »Faculty New Book Celebration
Please join us October 12 in Wilson Library for a celebration of recent book publications by faculty in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Professional Programs!
Find out more »The 75th Anniversary of The Poky Little Puppy and Little Golden Books
Join us October 12 in celebrating the 75th Anniversary of The Poky Little Puppy and Little Golden Books with children’s literature historian Leonard Marcus and editor Diane Muldrow.
Find out more »In Their Own Words: The Tretter Collection Transgender Oral History Project
Join us October 19 at 5:00 p.m. to celebrate the Transgender Oral History Project and a new exhibit at Elmer L. Andersen Library. We will feature vignettes from the project, artifacts, books and documents from the Tretter Collection — and entertainment from community member and international recording artist Venus Demars. Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Find out more »The Singular Case of Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota
Sherlock Holmes is not just a character on PBS! He made quite a mark in Minnesota during his career as the world's foremost detective. Learn how Holmes first came to the state in 1894 and returned for six more adventures. And why the great detective remains very much a presence in Minnesota today via the magnificent Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. This event features author Larry Millett and our own Sherlock Holmes' curator, Tim Johnson!
Find out more »A Feast of Words
Join us January 25, 2018 for A Feast of Words, with historian Ann Waltner at the University of Minnesota Campus Club. Hear how Waltner's scholarship fuels the imagination and how her work outside the classroom informs her teaching and writing.
Find out more »Valentine’s Day Prequel
Love is the theme of the day! And also the theme of 19th-century European lyric poetry resulting in the Golden Age of Russian poets. Join Anatoly Liberman as he reads from great authors who have been rarely or never translated into English. Modeled on John Gielgud’s one-man show, The Ages of Man, the reading features the progress of love from its timid beginning, through its pangs of jealousy — a sweet remembrance of former joys and love after death. Bring your Valentine!
Find out more »Friends Member Appreciation Event
Digging through attics and archives, Minnesota filmmaker Mick Caouette taps the power of archival documents to illuminate history. Through the lens of his current APT/PBS project Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare and others, he explores the importance of research to create accurate public history. Hear him speak February 25 at the Friends of the Libraries Member Appreciation Event.
Find out more »Pankake Poetry Reading with Margaret Hasse
Join us April 11, 2018 for the annual Pankake Poetry Reading, featuring Margaret Hasse, in Elmer L. Andersen Library, beginning at 4:00 p.m.
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