Create your own comic character workshop

Friday, October 18 from 3:30 - 5:30
Grades 5 and older

 

Do you like to read graphic novels or comics? Do you like to draw? Write? Have you ever drawn a character from different angles? In this class, you’ll learn different tools that will help you create a comic character and start your own story! The instructors, Minnesota author Trisha Speed Shaskan and Minnesota author/illustrator Stephen Shaskan, are the creators of the picture book Art Panels, BAM! Speech Bubbles, POW! Writing and Illustrating Your Own Graphic Novel and the Q & Ray graphic novel series. This 2-hour workshop is appropriate for 5th graders and older.
 
This program, sponsored by Arrowhead Library System, was funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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gigi stafne: Set Up care anywhere! Borderless medicine

October 23 from 6-7PM



Herbalists Without Borders is a volunteer health justice and humanitarian aid group working in more than 30 countries. Join former longtime Executive Director, Advisor and current Trauma Trainer of Herbalists Without Borders International, Gigi Stafne, to learn more about the essential ingredients of offering compassionate care and health justice locally and globally. Stafne is a longtime North House Herbalism Instructor and operator of the Green Wisdom School of Natural and Botanical Medicine. 

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michael bazzett: author of popol vuh

Library Friends welcomes award winning poet 
November 9 at 5 PM



Cook County Library Friends welcomes all to an author event and poetry reading by Michael Bazzett, author of Popol Vuh, Milkweed Press, 2018.
 
Popol Vuh is a NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 AND A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION

The story: In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: "Earth." There are no inhabitants, and no sun--only the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a journey to hell and back, ready to confront the folly of false deities as well as death itself, in service to the world and to humanity.

This is the Mayan Popol Vuh, "the book of the woven mat," one of the only epics indigenous to the Americas. Originally sung and chanted, before being translated into prose--and now, for the first time, translated back into verse by Michael Bazzett--this is a story of the generative power of language. A story that asks not only Where did you come from? but How might you live again? A story that, for the first time in English, lives fully as "the phonetic rendering of a living pulse."
 
Michael Bazzett is the author of The Interrogation; You Must Remember This, which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry; Our Lands Are Not So Different; and a chapbook, The Imaginary City. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Ploughshares, The Sun, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, and Best New Poets. A longtime faculty member at The Blake School, Bazzett has received the Bechtel Prize from Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. He lives in Minneapolis. The Popol Vuh is a Mayan creation myth. Originally shared orally, and written down in the K'iche' language in the sixteenth century, it was copied and translated by the Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
 
There will be an open house and book signing with the author, in conjunction with the Grand Marais Art Colony’s Readers and Writers Festival, on November 8, 2019 at 5 p.m. at the Cook County Community Center-317 5th Street in Grand Marais. There is no charge for the event, which is sponsored by Cook County Library Friends, a non-profit organization whose mission is to to promote excellence in library services by working with the Library Board and the staffs of the public and school libraries to support these agencies, their services and programs.

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north shore readers and writers festival

November 7 - 10



The North Shore Readers and Writers Festival is Grand Marais Art Colony's biennial event that locates, celebrates, and fosters the literary arts and engagement with the written word. Readers, writers, and book professionals come together over four days filled with author talks, panel discussions, mini-classes, and craft seminars. Registration for the full festival is open now.

To make this festival even more accessible to our community, Grand Marais Public Library partners with the Art Colony and hosts a few of the festival events free of charge and open to the public. Watch our website for listings of those events.

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