Quatrefoil Library

Volunteer Committee Meeting
2024-11-25 17:30 - 18:30, 2024-10-28 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Our volunteer committee is responsible for recruiting and training volunteers. They also maintain our volunteer schedule, for operating hours and special events.
Anyone is welcome to stop in if interested in joining, or to share constructive ideas. You can also sign up via our volunteer form.
This meeting is held in the library space, with a virtual option available.

Transgender Book Club
2024-11-24 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-10-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Transgender Book Club meets the fourth Sunday of the month from 1-2pm to discuss books by and about trans people. We welcome people of all genders, orientations, and backgrounds!
2024 Schedule:
1/28 Nimona by ND Stevenson
2/25 Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
3/24 Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
4/28 Nobody Needs to Know by Pidgeon Pagonis
5/26 The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy
6/23 Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
7/28 Drag Me Up by RM Virtues
8/25 How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
9/22 Confluence by Nyri Bakkalian
10/27 Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni
11/24 Bye Bye Binary by Eric Geron
Find us on Facebook: “Transgender Book Club at Quatrefoil Library”
For more information, email Kai at kaigottschalk101@gmail.com.

Quatrefoil Game Night
2024-11-23 18:30 - 21:30, 2024-11-09 18:30 - 21:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States

Zine Workshop
2024-11-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join Quatrefoil Library and local zinemaker Sarah Evenson (they/them/theirs) to talk about the importance of the perzine* in Queer history and make a sweet or sassy perzine of your own!
*A perzine is a zine about yourself…anyone can make one! Prompts will be provided if you need inspiration.
Drop in for a bit or stay the whole time, no RSVP required. We hope to see you there!
This is the final event in Quatrefoil Library’s Queer History Event Series. Sarah Evenson (they/them/theirs) is a gay & transgender illustrator / zinemaker / animator / print-media-artist living and working in Minneapolis, MN. Their sassy & spirited zines about Gay Life and Crying are held in more than 40 collections worldwide.
IG @saltysweetsarah www.sarah-evenson.com

Girl Scouts of the River Valleys: LGBTQIA+ Stories with the Quatrefoil Library
2024-11-23 13:00 - 15:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Event Open to Current Girl Scouts of the River Valleys Only. Details Can be Found Here: https://www.girlscoutsrv.org/en/sf-events-repository/2024/lgbtqia–stories-with-the-quatrefoil-library—nov-23.html

Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club
2024-11-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Events
Virtual Book Club that meets online via Zoom – please direct all questions and requests for the Zoom link to jchandlerauthor@gmail.com
You are welcome to attend even if you didn’t read the book, or didn’t like it. We enjoy staying in touch with our friends!
Book of the month:
2024
October—CLOUDED WATERS by Dianna Hunter
November—DARING DUPLICITY by Edale Lane
December—A GRAVE Talent by Laurie R. King
2025
January—CHRISTMASSED by Blythe H. Warren
February—DEVIL’S BREATH by Anna Paxton
March—JONES by Gerri Hill

Queer Threads
2024-11-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Queer threads: a weekly intergenerational craft night for LGBTQ people of all genders
what: a weekly craft night for knitting, crochet, embroidery, mending, quilting, and other portable crafts
why: find community and camaraderie with other LGBTQ crafters
who: for all ages and genders. Kids are welcome, but childcare is not provided.
where: Quatrefoil Library at 1220 E Lake St Minneapolis.
when: Wednesday nights from 7-9 pm
accessibility: please wear a mask.
help us cultivate a welcoming group: crafting is for all gender identities and types of gender expression; ask for (rather than assume) pronouns; all types of yarn and materials, experience levels, and portable craft projects are welcome.

Prime Timers Dominoes
2024-11-17 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-20 13:00 - 16:00
Join the Prime Timers for an afternoon of dominoes. Feel free to bring a snack to share and your dominoes set, though not required.

Prime Timers Bookclub
2024-11-16 13:15 - 15:15, 2024-10-19 13:15 - 15:15 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
This monthly book club is a subgroup of the Twin Cities Prime Timers Club, which is affiliated with the state and national organizations. It meets each third Saturday of the month at Quatrefoil from 1:15pm – 3:15pm.
Book of the month:

Quatrefoil Board Meeting
2024-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Quatrefoil Board meets monthly on the second Thursday of the month in the community room.

Moon Palace Queer Book Club
2024-11-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Event by Moon Palace Books
Public · Join us for Queer Book Club every second Wednesday from 7-8pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407! (Please note that in June, July, and August we will only meet at Quatrefoil if it rains. Otherwise we will meet at Brackett Park.)

Programming Committee Meeting
2024-11-11 06:30 - 20:00, 2024-10-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Regular meeting of the Quatrefoil Programming Committee. Committee meets every second and fourth Monday in the library (with a virtual option available for committee members) from 6:30 – 8:00pm. Reach out to programming@quatrefoil.org if you are interested in joining.

A Few Tales - Faerie & Otherwise with Patrick Scully
2024-11-09 15:00 - 16:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join us for the Second Event in the Quatrefoil Programming Queer History Event Series!
“A Few Tales – Faerie & Otherwise will be Patrick Scully, on stage telling stories, his most at-home mode – honed over decades of hosting Patrick’s Cabaret.
Many people have told him: You should write a book. Here it comes, but not on paper, on stage! More storyteller than writer, he resisted writing – too much computer time! He feels most alive and at ease telling stories, like he did at Patrick’s Cabaret. Voila – “A Few Tales – Faerie & Otherwise”.
The structure of “A Few Tales…” is based on TV’s “Jeopardy”. Behind each box is a story. The audience determines the flow of the show, choosing box by box among 6 categories, with 5 choices in each category to determine the evening’s stories. The 6 categories across the top are things like: Resisting Authority, Making Queer Art, Being Gay & HIV+, Being Naked, Creating
Spaces, and Wandering. The categories at Quatrefoil will be created specifically for Quatrefoil. The vertical choices in each category – 5 decades: 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s.
Patrick has been called a provocateur, free speech champion, impresario, raconteur, choreographer, performance artist, orator, storyteller, pioneer. And activist. He’ll be onstage telling these personal stories, and more!

Library Patron's Union Meeting
2024-11-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Library Patrons Union is an explicitly leftist, community-run union of Hennepin County Library patrons, organizing for more just public libraries. https://librarypatronsunion.com
Email librarypatronsunion@gmail.com with questions.

Queer Threads
2024-11-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library: Spirit on Lake Community Room, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Queer threads: a weekly intergenerational craft night for LGBTQ people of all genders
what: a weekly craft night for knitting, crochet, embroidery, mending, quilting, and other portable crafts
why: find community and camaraderie with other LGBTQ crafters
who: for all ages and genders. Kids are welcome, but childcare is not provided.
where: Quatrefoil Library at 1220 E Lake St Minneapolis.
when: 1st and 3rd Wednesday nights from 7-9 pm
accessibility: please wear a mask.
help us cultivate a welcoming group: crafting is for all gender identities and types of gender expression; ask for (rather than assume) pronouns; all types of yarn and materials, experience levels, and portable craft projects are welcome.

Operations Committee Meeting
2024-11-04 17:30 - 18:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Monthly Operations Committee meeting for the Quatrefoil Library, for questions, contact Tom Nechodomu (Operations Chair) or email operations@quatrefoil.org.

20th Anniversary Screening of "Venus of Mars" Film (Free)
2024-11-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Quatrefoil Library & Flip the Script present: 20th Anniversary Screening of “Venus of Mars” Film
Transgender pioneer Venus, the force behind the glam rock band All The Pretty Horses, and her wife Lynette negotiate the frontiers of love and gender in Emily Goldberg’s award-winning documentary. Q & A with Venus de Mars, Lynette Reini-Grandell and Emily Goldberg following the screening. This is a free event.
Parking in the lot (anywhere) behind the building off of 13th Ave, or street parking. 21 bus route. Mask-wearing always encouraged.

Q Clothing Swap
2024-11-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Free clothing swap! Clean out your closet, bring your clothes to the Library, and exchange them with members of the community! Free and open to all, bringing materials to swap encouraged but not required.

Rainbow Reads
2024-11-03 11:00 - 13:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Queer reading party (not a book club) that meets in the Library on the first Sunday of every month. This group allows people to share what they have been reading and interested in, rather than discuss one book everyone has read.

Autumn Used Book Sale
2024-11-02 13:00 - 17:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join us for our Autumn Used Book Sale! 1 pm – 5 pm. Come and pick up a pile of gorgeously queer reads for yourself! Bring a friend! Parking available in the lot behind the building off of 13th Ave.
Peace coffee will be provided. Mask-wearing is encouraged. Funds support library acquisitions fund!
Autumn Used Book Sale

Twin Cities Queer Transplant Group
2024-10-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Twin Cities Queer Transplant Group is a new community meetup for folks who have recently relocated to the Twin Cities. Drop by to meet new people, learn about local LGBTQIA+ resources, chat, and share your favorite Twin Cities discoveries! Locals, partners, and family welcome. Meetings hosted every 4th Wednesday at Quatrefoil Library. Questions and information requests can be sent to TCTransplants@gmail.com

Communications Committee Meeting
2024-10-16 18:00 - 18:45 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The regular meeting of the Quatrefoil Library’s Communications Committee. If you are interested in getting involved, contact Nicole Olila, LibraryManager@quatrefoil.org.
