Programming Committee Meeting
2024-12-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-01-13 06:30 - 20:00, 2025-01-27 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Twin Cities Queer Transplant Group
2024-12-25 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-01-22 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

CANCELLED: Quatrefoil Game Night
2024-12-28 18:30 - 21:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Game night cancelled tonight due to the holiday season. We will be back in the new year!

Queer Threads
2025-01-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-05 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.

Rainbow Reads
2025-01-05 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-02 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.

Twin Cities Aroace Solidarity Group
2025-01-05 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-02-02 13:30 - 15:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Twin Cities Aroace Solidarity group is a joyful, embracing 21+ creative community for progressive aroace-spec (aromantic and/or asexual spectrum) and queer allies to share mutual aid and friendship; creative/artistic exchange; and learning, peer education & guidance across gender, age, income level, ethnicity & other lines of social difference. We gather at Quatrefoil monthly to socialize and discuss queer media.

Please email or text group organizer Amy Brooks at abbrooks77@icloud.com | (937) 901-9205

Operations Committee Meeting
2025-01-06 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-02-03 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.

Moon Palace Queer Book Club
2025-01-08 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.)

Quatrefoil Board Meeting
2025-01-09 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.

Quatrefoil Game Night
2025-01-11 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-01-25 18:30 - 21:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States

Queer Threads
2025-01-15 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.

Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club
2025-01-15 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

Knotty Recovery
2025-01-18 10:30 - 11:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Knotty Recovery is a 12-step group who shares their experience, strength, and hope with each other to solve their common problems related to addiction. Meeting on the 1st & 3rd Saturday of every month, this is a space where you can openly to discuss sexuality and kink in recovery and the format is similar to a traditional 12 step meeting. The only requirement for attendance is a desire to quit whatever addictive substance or behavior is affecting your life.

Prime Timers Bookclub
2025-01-18 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:

Prime Timers Dominoes
2025-01-19 13:00 - 16:00 | MN
Join the Prime Timers for an afternoon of dominoes. Feel free to bring a snack to share and your dominoes set, though not required.

Poetry Reading Event with Aurora Masum-Javed, Chavonn Shen, Halee Kirkwood, & Su Love
2025-01-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Join us at Quatrefoil Library for a poetry reading with four different poets!
Presented by Su Love in collaboration with Quatrefoil Library. Su Love is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Aurora Masum-Javed is a poet, educator, and writing coach. A former public school teacher, she holds an MA in Education from George Mason University and an MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught courses in creative non-fiction, short story, poetry, and composition. Her work can be found in various journals including Nimrod, Black Warrior Review, Aster(ix), Winter Tangerine, Frontier, Jaggery, and Callaloo. She has received fellowships from places such as the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, Caldera Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Kundiman, Callaloo, BOAAT, the Community of Writers, and Pink Door. A recent Philip Roth Resident and Hub City Writer in Residence, she is currently working on her first collection of poems. auroramasumjaved.com

Chavonn Williams Shen (she/they) is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a 2022 McKnight Writing fellow and a first runner-up for The Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Contest. She was also a Best of the Net Award finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, a winner of the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series, a fellow with the Givens Foundation for African American Literature, and an instructor for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. A Bread Loaf, Tin House, VONA, and Hurston/Wright workshop alum, her writing has appeared in: Diode, Anomaly, AGNI, and others. Her first book, Still Life with Rope and River, is published with Finishing Line Press (2024). chavonnwshen.com

Halee Kirkwood is a poet, teaching artist, and bookseller living in Minneapolis, MN. Kirkwood is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and has received fellowships and grants from In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poetry), The Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series program, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. The winner of the 2022 James Welch Prize, published with Poetry Northwest, Kirkwood has work published or forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, December Magazine, Ecotone Magazine, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast Journal, Water~Stone Review, Poem-A-Day, and others. Kirkwood earned their MFA in poetry from Hamline University. They are a direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. hskirkwood.wordpress.com

Of Su Love’s five published books of poetry, Weight of Light (Laurel Poetry Collective, 2004) was nominated by Jim Moore for the 2005 Pushcart Editors’ Book Prize, and Buddha, Proof (broadcraft press, 2011, reprinted by Red Dragonfly Press, 2013) was a finalist for the 2012 Minnesota Book Award. Most recently, The Memoir of Mona Lisa, was published by the Irish press Salmon Poetry (2019). Su’s current work centers on legacies of nuclear power. Fully funded residencies awarded to Su include Vermont Studio Center, Tofte Lake Center, and twice as a Pine Needles Artist in Residence at the St. Croix Watershed Research Station, a program of the Science Museum of Minnesota. She has received additional funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Arts Council, and Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council. Prizes include the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, selected by Elizabeth Alexander, and the Joy Harjo Poetry Award, selected by Dorianne Laux. Su co-directed the small literary press Laurel Poetry Collective, which was honored by Literary Witnesses. sulove.org
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Winter Used Book (Bag) Sale
2025-01-25 10:00 - 15:00 | Quatrefoil Library: Spirit on Lake Community Room, 1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Come get warmed up at our Winter Used Book Sale! Come get the best bang for your buck you will see anywhere. Bring a bag (grocery bag size) & fill it up for $10*. Stock up on fab queer reads & support your local queer library. Early birds enjoy a cup of Peace Coffee & treats.
*unless otherwise marked

Transgender Book Club
2025-01-25 13:00 - 14:00 | 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!

Volunteer Committee Meeting
2025-01-27 17:30 - 18:30 | 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.

Examining Military Service From the Margins
2025-01-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-01 13:00 - 15:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
From the Margins at Quatrefoil Library

Veterans, active service members, and civilians are invited to contribute to the “Examining Military Service From the Margins” discussion series. Facilitated by pairs of Discussion Leaders, each session will use guiding questions, and a set of core-shared resources like oral histories and films, to better understand how race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and other factors have caused the military service of some individuals to be devalued or limited in some capacity. All Discussion Leaders are either active service members or Veterans.

This session of “Examining Military Service From the Margins,” held at Quatrefoil Library in Minneapolis, will have conversations focused on LGBTQIA+ community issues. Topics of discussion will include the history of Queer service members, the effects of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and the current experience of transgender individuals in the military.

What you can expect from this session:

Discussion Leaders, Veterans, active service members, and civilians will share information on military service, as well as talk about their personal experiences and perspectives.

A post-event resource list of articles, books, and organizations to help you gain a deeper understanding of topics discussed.

Engage in small and large group conversations.

Registration

Registration is required. There is no cost to attend.

Registration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org

CANCELLED: Library Patron's Union Meeting
2025-02-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The February meeting is cancelled, this group will reconvene in March.
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.
