March in to your nearest library for reading month!
(TRAVERSE CITY) - It’s always reading month at the Traverse Area District Library (TADL) but March is the OFFICIAL month to celebrate. In addition to all the great reads, we have lots of events coming up - including a full slate of activities for families taking a spring break staycation.
Special Photo Op - Friday March 10 - Tee Time with TADL 6:30 pm
This event is fully booked but it does offer a great opportunity for media photographers. Golfers will work their way through a “nine-chapter” course designed and built by TADL librarians. This is our first indoor mini-golf event, and we just may bring it back for another run during our Summer Library Challenge!
Community Resource Fair to Support Teen Wellness & Inclusion - Sat. March 11 10 am - 4 pm
Join Polestar, in partnership with TADL, and a variety of community organizations in our first-floor atrium for the first Community Resource Fair in support of our LGBT+ youth and families! There will be information, resources, and giveaways for all attendees. Attending organizations will include: Polestar, TADL, the Grand Traverse Health Department, Up North Pride, Thomas Judd Care Center, and the Traverse Bay Children's Advocacy Center.
Author Event: Hockey with Keith Gave - March 14, McGuire Community Room 6:30 pm
Join best-selling author (and veteran sportswriter) Keith Gave and get the inside scoop on some of hockey's most amazing moments for both men's and women's teams. https://www.tadl.org/hockey
Local History Volunteer Info Session - Sat. March 18, McGuire Community Room 10-11:30 am
Interested in volunteering time to assist the local history effort? Join us and learn more about opportunities. This is an in-person event, register at tadl.org/events if you would like to view the Zoom.
1000 Books Before Kindergarten Bash - March 18 11 am - Noon, Youth Services Storyroom
Join us for an out of this world celebration of our 1000 Books Before Kindergarten families and readers! We'll have special space-themed stations set-up throughout the Youth Services department filled with crafts and activities. This program is open to all families, whether you are currently signed up for the 1000 Books program or not. You can sign up for this free program anytime - find a link at tadl.org/youth!
Library Movies!
TADL’s own Cinema Curiosa is planning two movies this month with a Women’s History Month focus:
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Sisters with Transistors Fri. March 24 8-10 pm
Follow the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.
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Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint Sat. March 25 2-4 pm
Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. Hilma af Klint is the unsung heroine of modern art.
Listening Party
Alice Coltrane's – Journey In Satchidananda March 23 7 pm
One of Detroit's own, Ms. Coltrane was one of the foremost proponents of spiritual jazz. Find more works in our catalog and learn more here - tinyurl.com/listentoalicecoltrane
Health & Wellness
Join us for a Tai Chi class Fri. Mar. 17 at noon in the McGuire Community Room. The Traverse Health Clinic outreach van will also be at the Main Library every Wednesday afternoon this month from 1 - 4 pm. Visitors can get free blood pressure checks, free COVID test kits, and assistance with Medicaid redeterminations or applications.
This is all in addition to our usual full schedule of storytimes and regular events, so please check our calendar for the entire slate of activities and spring break staycation week March 27 - April 1!. If you’re looking for something to do outside at any time check out our permanent storywalk - start at the Little Free Library and continue on around the building.
