Coiled Basket Weaving

Coiling is a beginner-friendly basketry technique that combines elements of weaving and sewing. By wrapping yarn around and around a length of cord and anchoring the layers, you can get creative with color, patterns, texture, and shape in your basket! Materials provide......More

Coiling is a beginner-friendly basketry technique that combines elements of weaving and sewing. By wrapping yarn around and around a length of cord and anchoring the layers, you can get creative with color, patterns, texture, and shape in your basket! Materials provided. Collaborator: Textile Center. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Mary Ann Key Book Club Discussion – The Sun Does Shine

The Mary Ann Key Book Club uses reading as a catalyst for conversation as we attempt to better understand past and current injustices – including systemic racism, other forms of discrimin......More

The Mary Ann Key Book Club uses reading as a catalyst for conversation as we attempt to better understand past and current injustices – including systemic racism, other forms of discrimination, and bias that affects marginalized communities. Join your neighbors in a discussion of Anthony Ray Hinton's "The Sun Does Shine." This is the Season 6 pick for the Mary Ann Key Book Club. Copies of the book can be reserved; eBooks and downloadable audiobooks are available.

Poetry Lovers Converge

Everyone is invited to read original or favorite poems, or just listen. In all languages, for all ages and all authors. Hosted by Golden Valley Library.

Fossils and Clay Art

Grades 1-5. Explore real fossils of crustaceans, plants, petrified wood, and more. Then work with air dry clay to create a plate decorated with texture and fossil molds and rubber stamps. Materials provided. Collaborator: Three Rivers Park District – Silverwood. This p......More

Grades 1-5. Explore real fossils of crustaceans, plants, petrified wood, and more. Then work with air dry clay to create a plate decorated with texture and fossil molds and rubber stamps. Materials provided. Collaborator: Three Rivers Park District – Silverwood. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Macra-Weave

Two fiber arts are better than one! Bring together techniques from macramé knotting and tapestry weaving to create a wall hanging that is rich in color and texture. Materials provided. Collaborator: Textile Center. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Art......More

Two fiber arts are better than one! Bring together techniques from macramé knotting and tapestry weaving to create a wall hanging that is rich in color and texture. Materials provided. Collaborator: Textile Center. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Golden Valley Book Club: The Vanishing Half

Join our discussion of new and interesting titles. Hosted by Golden Valley Library.  May 13: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Read With an Animal

Grades 1-3. Cuddle up with a certified therapy animal and practice reading aloud. Sign up when you arrive for a 15-minute slot. Collaborator: PAWS to READ is a program of North Star Therapy Animals (NSTA). All handlers are required to be trained in an additional childr......More

Grades 1-3. Cuddle up with a certified therapy animal and practice reading aloud. Sign up when you arrive for a 15-minute slot. Collaborator: PAWS to READ is a program of North Star Therapy Animals (NSTA). All handlers are required to be trained in an additional children's reading program that focuses on utilizing registered therapy animals.  Note: This event will only have dogs.

Poetry Lovers Converge

Everyone is invited to read original or favorite poems, or just listen. In all languages, for all ages and all authors. Hosted by Golden Valley Library.

Golden Valley Book Club: Solito

Join our discussion of new and interesting titles. Hosted by Golden Valley Library.  June 10: Solito by Javier Zamora