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Fall Book Sale
<p>The Ely Public Library is having a book sale! Book sales like this allow our library to continue to bring in new materials for our patrons, while also providing funds for our programming and community outreach! $5/bag of books, however many you can fit! </p> 2022-08-11 15:00:00 -0500
9/24/228:00 a.m.Ely Public LibraryEly -
Book Club: Books Published or Set in 1900-1930
<p>This month Book Club participants will be reading books published within the years 1900-1930, or set in that time period. </p>
9/12/226:00 p.m.Ely Public LibraryEly -
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What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
8/28/221:00 a.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
10/23/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
11/20/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
What'cha Reading Book Club
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club. This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.</p><p>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
9/25/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
Banned Book Club- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
<p>Join us to peacefully discuss banned/challenged books! Our next selection will be "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>When:</strong><u> </u>Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 7pm.</p><p><strong>Where:</strong> Ely Public Library OR via Zoom</p><p><a data-id="l-5511669937" href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89484786257?pwd=Mk5EcWhVSWliYmNyV3VFRU1DT2l5UT09" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Join Zoom</a></p>
8/25/227:00 p.m.Ely Public LibraryEly -
What'cha Reading Book Club - Holiday Party
<p>Join us for our What'cha Reading Book Club - Holiday Party. If your budget allows, please bring a wrapped copy of your favorite book for a White Elephant Book Exchange.<br><br><br>This book club just encourages you to read and then come share what you've read recently. It doesn't matter what you like to read or how much you read, just that you read and like talking to other people about books.<br><br>So join us for this low pressure no assigned reading book club.</p> 2022-01-20 15:00:00 -0600
12/18/221:00 p.m.Craft'dCedar Rapids -
Prima's Picks Iowa Children's Choice Book Club for Adults
<p>Join us for an end of summer party for all the readers who have joined us for Prima's Picks Iowa Children's Choice Book Club for Adults. We will do one final share of any of the books chosen for the summer and enjoy one last night of summer fun before the craziness of the school year gets underway.</p><p>Bring your lawn chair and something to eat/drink and join us in the green space next to West End Diner to talk about this month’s reading selections: <a href="https://swampfoxbookstore.com/?q=p.iowa_children_s&fbclid=IwAR295N3A179skBPLDBosRuIzqoNpNOU7ZLtWeFT5vWVVIPjPUrWDvB5M3DM" rel="nofollow noopener" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://swampfoxbookstore.com/?q=p.iowa_children_s</a></p> 2022-05-16 19:00:00 -0500
9/01/226:00 p.m.Swamp Fox BookstoreMarion -
Banned Book Club: "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
<p>Join us to peacefully discuss banned/challenged books! Our next selection will be "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. </p>
9/22/227:00 p.m.Ely Public LibraryEly -
Art Lovers Book Club: Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime by Patricia Hampl
<p>Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the nuns of Hampl’s girlhood, free and untouchable, a poster girl for twentieth-century feminism. In <em>Blue Arabesque,</em> Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing rush of the modern era. Her tantalizing meditation takes us to the Cote d’Azur and North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugène Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning always to Matisse and his obsessive portraits of languid women, Hampl discovers they were not decorative indulgences but surprising acts of integrity.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
8/18/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
Art Lovers Book Club: Back to Japan: The Life and Art of Master Kimono Painter Kunihiko Moriguchi by Marc Petitjean
<p>As a young decorative arts student in the 1960s, Moriguchi rubbed shoulders with the cultural elite of Paris and befriended Balthus, who would profoundly influence his artistic career. Discouraged by Balthus from pursuing design in Europe, he returned to Japan to take up his father’s vocation. Once back in this world of tradition he had tried to escape, Moriguchi contemporized the craft of Yūzen (resist dyeing) through his innovative use of abstraction in patterns.<br><br>With a documentarian’s keen eye, Petitjean retraces Moriguchi’s remarkable life, from his childhood during the turbulent 1940s and 50s marked by war, to his prime as an artist with works exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
9/15/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
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Art Lovers Book Club: The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley
<p>In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps.<br><br>In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the<em> fin-de-siècle</em>. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.</p> 2022-03-17 17:00:00 -0500
10/20/224:00 p.m.Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtCedar Rapids -
MasterChef Junior Live!
<p>Something tasty is heading to your hometown! America’s favorite cooking show is now on tour with MasterChef Junior Live! This high-energy, interactive, stage production brings the culinary hit TV show, MasterChef Junior, directly to fans and foodies alike… LIVE on stage! Watch Season 8’s winner, finalist, and fan favorites as they take to the stage in head-to-head cooking demonstrations and fun (sometimes messy!) challenges with an overall immersive audience experience fun for all ages. Celebrate all things MasterChef with a VIP Experience! Limited packages are available that will include a pre-show meet and greet, signed merchandise, photo opportunities, and more. It’s a recipe for a guaranteed good time! Bring the whole family to see MasterChef Junior Live! Get your tickets today! </p> 2022-06-28 20:30:00 -0500
9/21/227:00 p.m.Adler TheatreDavenport