Northeast Library Events

Northeast Library, 2200 Central Ave. N.E., 612-543-6775 / www.hclib.org/northeast

HelpNow: Free online tutoring for all ages. Get help from a tutor in English or Spanish. Online every day from 1 to 11pm. Available on computers in the library or at home with your Hennepin County Library card. Visit https://apps2.hclib.org/auth/BrainFuse

Ask Us Reference services are available by phone, email, or chat. Call 612-543-KNOW (5669) or visit https://www.hclib.org/contact/

Affirmation Mirrors: Visit Webber Park, North Regional, Sumner or Franklin libraries in November to view and participate in the Affirmation Mirrors art installation. Bayou, Twin Cities-based artist and designer, uses mixed media to create Affirmation Mirrors, which are composed of fabric-wrapped wood, yarn, mirrors and beads. They are intended to create a community space where we can connect and send messages to our past, present or future selves through reflection, affirmation and gratitude. Participants are invited to reflect with the mirrors, to write or draw an affirmation, and to leave an affirmation behind as part of the community affirmations. All-day event.

Virtual Magnet Senior Center: For patrons 50 years old and up. Open conversations about anything and everything as well as planned events such as history. This is a drop-in online event, so just click on the link at www.hclib.org/events to join. Hosted by Minneapolis Central Library. Wednesdays, Nov. 3, 10 & 17, 10:30-11:30 am.

Indigi-Nerd: A facilitated one-hour conversation held each month relating to Indigenous comics. Feel free to join anytime. It will be open-ended discussion. Wednesday, Nov. 3, 7-8 pm.

Virtual Family Storytime: For children of all ages and their caregivers. Talk, sing, read, write and play together in a format appropriate for young children, in a virtual setting. Share books, rhymes, music and movement. Hosted by Ehsan from St. Anthony Library. Activities and the link to the live online storytime will be emailed to registrants in advance. Online event. Registration required. Thursday,s Nov. 4 & 12, 10-10:30 am.

Teen Tech Workshop: Grades 7-12. Learn how to design games using the Roblox Studio platform. In this workshop you will develop basic gaming and design principles to create your own game. Participants will need to have Roblox Studio downloaded on your computer. Hosted by Eden Prairie Library Teen Tech Squad. Sponsor: Friends of the Eden Prairie Library. Online event. Registration required. Thursday, Nov. 4, 5-6 pm.

Pricing for Artists: Discover an analytical approach to defining key elements that will help you calculate the costs and prices of your art for a variety of markets. Collaborator: Springboard for the Arts. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Online event. Registration required. Saturday, Nov. 6, 1-3:30 pm.

Great Decisions: Struggles Over the Melting Arctic: With climate change melting portions of the Arctic, there has been a return to a great power competition in that region. Both the United States and Russia are staking claims. Macalester College Professor Andrew Latham will speak. Sponsors: Friends of the Edina Library, Edina Senior Center, Minneapolis Community Education, Plymouth, and Washburn libraries. Online event. Registration required. Monday, Nov. 8, 4-5:30 pm.

Teen Geekery Trivia and Gaming: Grades 6-12. Hang out, geek out, and test your skills against other anime, fandom, and gaming stans. Join the Brookdale Library Teen Geekery Club for Jeopardy-style trivia games, Jackbox, card games, and more. All activities finish with door prize drawings. Online event. Registration required. Monday, Nov. 8, 4-5 pm.

Dining Through the Decades: Anchovy canapes, fried fancy frog legs, and chicken liver chop suey. These delectable delights are just a few of the dishes found in the restaurant menu collection at Minneapolis Central Library. Join the Special Collections librarian on a local culinary tour of menus and restaurants from the 1880s to the more recent past, including well-known favorites such as Nankin Café and Charlie’s Café Exceptionale. Online event. Registration required. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 10-11 am.

Google Suite 4: Sheets: New to using Google products? This five-part series will help beginners navigate free applications such as Gmail, Meet, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets and Forms so you can learn to use these services to your best advantage. Looking for the best way to organize your family’s budget? Want to travel the world, but need an easy place to track your potential expenses? Google Sheets, similar to Microsoft Excel, offers a variety of budgets, schedules, and other optional pre-made spreadsheets to help organize, edit and analyze different types of information. Online event. Registration required. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 3-4:30 pm.

Talk of the Stacks with Margaret Renkl: Join Friends of the Hennepin County Library for an evening with author and columnist Margaret Renkl (“Late Migrations”) as she discusses her latest collections of essays, “Graceland, At Last,” with award-winning journalist Marianne Combs. A Q&A session with webinar participants will follow. Online event. Registration required. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 7-8 pm.