July/August 2019 Vol 21 Issue 4 Calendar Highlights July 4 - All Libraries Closed 8 - Family Fringe Preview Night | RV 9 - Easy Exercises for Better Balance | NB 9 - Man of La Mancha: Joe Chvala | SV 9 - Poets on Poetry | SV 9 - Seed Talk | WB 10 - Evening Book Club | NB 11 - Dementia: Caring & Coping | RV New Look in cloudLibrary 13 - Advanced Vegetable Gardening | RV 15 - Family Fringe Preview Night | SV Ramsey County Library is excited to announce 17 - Summer Music Series | MP that cloudLibrary will be upgrading to a new 17 - Arts Roseville Featured Artist | RV interface on July 1. The new look will make it 17 - History Book Club | RV easier than ever to: 17 - Library Board Meeting | SV 22 - Friends Board Meeting | RV • Borrow e-books and e-audiobooks. 22 - The Story of the White Bear Lake Armory | WB • Save reading lists and mark favorites. 23 - History of the Blues | SV • View digital borrowing history. 25 - Tour a Senior Facility | RV • Easily switch between family member cards. 25 - The Floating Bethel | RV You will also be able to customize your 27 - Fix-it Clinic | NB cloudLibrary – create your own avatar, choose a 27 - Digital Storytelling Series | RV 27 - Pest Detective | SV theme and curate notifi cations, get the information you want just the way you want it. 31 - Summer Music Series | MP cloudLibrary is a free service, available to all library patrons. All you need is your library card. 31 - Common Threads Book Club | SV The app is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Patrons can simply download the app, log in using their library card number and PIN and start interacting with Ramsey County August Library while they are on the go. 3 - Depolarizing Within: Becoming | MV 3 - Planting for Pollinators | RV Upgrade cloudLibrary today, take the guided tour of features, and fi nd out how easy it can be to 6 - Get Smart about Home Buying | RV manage your library account. 8 - Dementia: Caring & Coping | RV 10 - Digital Storytelling Series | RV Enjoy the Outdoors at Your Library 10 - Planting for Pollinators | SV 12 - Better Angels Workshop | MP Come out this summer and 13 - Drop-In Job Search Assistance | RV enjoy our reading gardens 14 - Summer Music Series | MP and outdoor spaces at several 14 - Evening Book Club | NB Ramsey County libraries. 14 - Arts Roseville Featured Artist | RV • Enjoy butterfl ies fl uttering 15 - Better Angels Workshop | SV and children playing in the 15 - Easy Exercises for Better Balance | WB Roseville reading garden. 21 - History Book Club | RV 21 - Library Board Meeting | RV • You can always fi nd a favorite 22 - Thank You for Shopping | RV reading bench on the patio at 26 - St. Mary’s School: A Look Back | WB the library in Shoreview. 28 - Common Threads Book Club | SV • At White Bear Lake, patrons 31 - Herb Gardening | RV "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher can enjoy the garden and the reading buddies statue. • Come and build forts in the nature play area at the library in Mounds View. • Have a picnic on the outdoor patio and explore the trail through an adjacent wetland at New Brighton. • Take a stroll through the hiking path behind the library in Maplewood or enjoy a series of musical performances on the deck (see page 2). See you soon at a library near you. Explore is a bi-monthly publication funded jointly by Friends of the Ramsey County Libraries and Ramsey County Library. Art & Literature For the most up-to-date program information or to register for an event, visit www.rclreads.org. Man of La Mancha Poets on Poetry: Pos Moua and In Conversation with Joe Chvala Soul Choj Vang Tuesday, July 9, 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, 7 - 8:30 p.m. RCL - Shoreview RCL - Shoreview Join us for a Join us to celebrate conversation the publication of two with Joe Chvala, Hmong American poets, director of Pos Moua and Soul Mounds View Choj Vang. The host Community and co-organizer for Theatre's the evening is Mai Neng (MVCT) summer Moua, Minnesota author musical, Man of and editor of Paj Ntaub La Mancha. The Voice, the fi rst Hmong award-winning choreographer, writer, American literary arts Family Fringe Preview Night composer, performer and founder of the journal. Flying Foot Forum will be discussing Monday, July 8, 6:30 p.m. Poets on Poetry the upcoming production of Man of La RCL - Roseville celebrates the richness Mancha – the origin and history of the Monday, July 15, 6:30 p.m. of language, featuring musical – as well as his previous works. RCL - Shoreview two poets who will read Joining the discussion will be members some of their poetry, followed by a casual Join us at Family Fringe Preview Night. of the creative team and cast, who will conversation about writing. This event is Each event will feature three of the six perform selections from the show. Tickets funded with money from Minnesota's Arts performing arts groups in the upcoming for the performance will be available for and Cultural Heritage Fund. Family Fringe Festival. purchase at the event. From Thursday, Performers and groups include Storyland July 18 through Sunday, August 4, the Summer Music Series Magic Carpet Presents Super Drag performance will be held at Chippewa Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Storytime, Broken Box Mime Theatre Middle School. This event is funded with RCL - Maplewood presents Destination: Everywhere, Keane money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Sense of Rhythm with Universal Dance Heritage Fund. July 17: Curtis and Loretta presents Pete Destiny present Minneapolis Human Seeger - 100th Anniversary of the Music Rhythm Project, Benjamin Domask Sensory-Friendly Performance and the Man presents Hodge Podge, Off -Leash Area Thursday, July 18, 7:30 p.m. Listen to the music of Pete Seeger and sing presents Paws 'n Eff ect, and Teen Improv Chippewa Middle School along to songs like If I Had a Hammer and from the Brave New Workshop Student 5000 Hodgson Road Connection Kisses Sweeter Than Wine while delving into Union. For the third year in a row, Ramsey Pete's history and passion for social justice. One fi ve-show pass will be given away at County Library is thrilled to be partnering each library event. Online ticket discounts with MVCT and the Autism Society July 31: Tropics Steel Drum Band will be available for attendees. Family of Minnesota to present an inclusive, Steel bands play on instruments that began Fringe programs are aimed at children sensory-friendly performance of their as altered oil drums. The Tropics Steel Band twelve and under, but everyone is welcome summer show, Man of La Mancha, directed draws from Caribbean styles like calypso, at this family-friendly event. by award-winning choreographer, writer, reggae, ska, soca, pop and others. Family Fringe off ers children and families composer and performer Joe Chvala and new and adventurous presentations by featuring an amazing cast. August 14: The John Penny Trio companies creating multi-generational This inclusive performance is also suitable The John Penny Trio brings jazz that productions. Family Fringe is a juried for those with memory loss or other swings, bossa nova that sways and romantic festival taking place in tandem with the disabilities. For more information, contact ballads for dreams. The performance Minnesota Fringe Festival July 26 through MVCT at www.mvct.org or 651-638-2139. includes informal conversations and 28 and August 2 through 4 at the Barbara This performance is a partnership between audience questions about jazz history and Barker Center for Dance. MVCT, Ramsey County Library and the culture. Autism Society of Minnesota. This event is This series is funded with money from funded with money from the Friends of the Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Ramsey County Libraries. Fund. 2 Ramsey County Library | www.rclreads.org Call 651-724-6001 or go to the Library's website, www.rclreads.org, to register for classes online through the Event Calendar. Arts Roseville Featured Artist Book Clubs Nathan Beverage Wednesday, July 17, 7 p.m. History Book Club RCL - Roseville Wednesdays, 1 p.m. RCL - Roseville, Board Room Nathan Beverage is July 17: Si, Ella Puede: The Rhetorical a Roseville Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United resident and a Farm Workers by Stacey K. Sowards student at the August 21: We Were Eight Years in Power internationally by Ta-Nehisi Coates renowned Join us monthly with College- Clarence White, associate Conservatory director of the East Side of Music at Freedom Library, for the University discussions on a wide of Cincinnati New Brighton Evening Book Club variety of topics from where he Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m. American history. is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Composition. He has the dream of one In July, we will discuss day changing the world with his music as Wednesday, August 14, 7 p.m. the life and work of Latina a composer for fi lm and media. Beverage Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal labor activist, Dolores has written multiple works for orchestra, by Mary Roach Huerta. In August, we'll talk about Coates' essays chamber and choral ensembles, as well as Shoreview Fiction theater productions and award-winning on race in America from Tuesday, July 2, 7 p.m. animations. Reconstruction to Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Reparations. Extra copies of the books Tuesday, August 6, 7 p.m. are available at the Library. Co-sponsored Once in a Blue Moon Lodge by the East Side Freedom Library and by Lorna Landvik the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Minnesota.