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Events at Michigan City Public Library October 2017
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Oktoberfest Music Celebration
Sunday, October 1, 2:00pm
Library Meeting Room
Join Stephen Kowalczyk for a fun Oktoberfest accordion concert. Celebrate the harvest with traditional Oktoberfest music!
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Intermediate Spanish Language Course
Mondays, October 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 9:10am
Library Meeting Room
A Spanish 1 class will be offered on Mondays between October 2-30. Previous study of the language is needed. There is no cost for the class, but a $5.00 textbook is required. Registration is limited. Call Al Tieken at 878-8519 for more information.
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Intermediate French Language Course
Monday, October 2, 10:20am
Library Meeting Room
A French 1 class will be offered on Mondays between October 2-30. Previous study of the language is needed. There is no cost for the class, but a $5.00 textbook is required. Registration is limited. Call Al Tieken at 878-8519 for more information.
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Gentle Flow Yoga
Saturday, October 7, 12:15pm
Library Meeting Room
Certified yoga instructor Lauralee Sikorski, who has taught over 1,000 hours of classes, will lead a free gentle flow yoga class with emphasis on deep breathing and releasing stress. Bring your own mat, wear comfortable attire, and come on an empty stomach.
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Library's 120th Birthday Celebration
Monday, October 9, 11:00am
Library Meeting Room
Join us for donuts and cider and wish the library a very happy birthday!
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Duneland Stamp Club
Thursday, October 12, 6:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
This stamp collecting club meets the second Thursday of each month. New members are invited.
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Halloween Family Yoga
Friday, October 13, 4:00pm
Library Meeting Room
Family Yoga is so AWESOME! So grab your mat and sense of humor. In a world where parents and children are so busy, family yoga provides a wonderful place to spend healthy and happy, quality time together. Come be a part of this family fun event. Children under 10 years old must be accompanied by an adult.
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Writing Out Loud: Gothic Myth Author Anna Lee Huber
Saturday, October 14, 7:30pm
Library Meeting Room
Writing Out Loud continues with Anna Lee Huber, the Daphne award-winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as the forthcoming anthology The Jacobite’s Watch. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. She lives in Indiana with her family and is at work on her next novel. Visit her online at http://www.annaleehuber.com.
The program will be followed by a reception and book signing hosted by the Friends of the Michigan City Public Library. Programs are supported with funds by the Patrons of Writing Out Loud, Michigan City Public Library Endowment Fund and Friends of the Library, with Book Warehouse at Lighthouse Place-Premium Outlets providing books for sale for each event.
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Fall Films on DVD Series: The Big Sick
Sunday, October 15, 2:00pm
Library Meeting Room
The romantic comedy of 2017, The Big Sick, will be shown as part of the Fall Films on DVD Series. Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face his true feelings. Rated R. The film is co-sponsored with Purdue University Northwest Odyssey Arts and Cultural Series.
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Angels Among Us
Tuesday, October 17, 3:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
Listen to and share inspiring stories about the presence of angels in our everyday lives. Ange Benz will guide you to connect to your angel.
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AARP Smart Driver Course
Thursday, October 19, 1:00pm
Library Meeting Room
Sign up now for the new and improved AARP Smart Driver Course, the nation’s largest driving refresher course. Although the course is geared to drivers age 50 and older, the course is open to people of all ages. AARP membership is not required to take the course and there are no tests to pass. Some insurance companies offer discounts for taking the course. The classroom course is $15 for AARP members and $20 for non-members.
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Scary Stories Family Fun
Friday, October 20, 10:00am
Library Meeting Room
Storyteller Grant Fitch will share spooky tales just in time for Halloween. A program for the young and the young at mind.
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Bookmarks: Killers of the Flower Moon
Friday, October 20, 2:00pm
Library Meeting Room
Therese Oniskin will review Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I. by David Grann. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma due to the oil found on their land. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. A masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, the book is a searing indictment of the prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity. The program will also be offered at the Westchester Township Historical Museum on Thursday, October 19 at 2:00 pm.
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Writing Out Loud: Poet Tara Betts
Saturday, October 21, 7:30pm
Library Meeting Room
Writing Out Loud concludes with Tara Betts. An author and professor, Betts wrote Break the Habit (2016) and Arc & Hue (2009). Her chapbooks include 7×7: kwansabas (2015) and The GREATEST!: An Homage to Muhammad Ali (2013). She is also an editor for The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives About Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century (2017).
Her poetry and prose have appeared in various journals and anthologies. She has contributed to many interdisciplinary collaborations, and has appeared in the Black Family Channel series Spoken with Jessica Care Moore.
The program will be followed by a reception and book signing hosted by the Friends of the Michigan City Public Library. Programs are supported with funds by the Patrons of Writing Out Loud, Michigan City Public Library Endowment Fund and Friends of the Library, with Book Warehouse at Lighthouse Place-Premium Outlets providing books for sale for each event.
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Keith Scott Blues
Sunday, October 22, 2:00pm
Library Meeting Room
Have a ball, y’all! Remarkably versatile, Chicago-based blues/rock guitarist Keith Scott will perform a concert of his (and your) favorite heavy blues tunes. Join us for a raucous time of fun and funky!
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Library Board Meeting
Wednesday, October 25, 2:30pm
Library Meeting Room
The monthly meeting of the Library Board of Trustees is on October 25 at 2:30 pm.
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Ghost Hunting
Thursday, October 26, 6:00pm
Library Meeting Room
Join Jayde McAloon, an amateur ghost hunter, to learn what it’s really like to hunt for the paranormal. She’ll discuss equipment used, look at photos of actual ghost investigations and share some of her EVP (electronic voice phenomena), which is sound potentially caused by ghosts in order to communicate with us from the beyond.
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