Quatrefoil Library

Prime Timers Dominoes
2025-03-16 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-20 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
Join the Prime Timers for an afternoon of dominoes. Feel free to bring a snack to share and your dominoes set, though not required.

Queer Threads
2025-03-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-16 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.

Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club (Online)
2025-03-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-16 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:
2025
January—CHRISTMASSED by Blythe H. Warren
February—DEVIL’S BREATH by Anna Paxton
March—JONES by Gerri Hill
April—HALF IN by Felice Cohen
May—PULL OF THE STARS by Emma Donoghue
June—FALLS FROM GRACE by Ruby Landers
July—LAST CHANCE CHICAGO by Diana DiGangi
August—SCORCHED GRACE by Margo Douaihy
September—WATERLOGGED by Nance Sparks
October—THE SAFEKEEP by Yael Van der Wouden (in hardcover now, but will be out in paperback May 27th)

Quatrefoil Game Night
2025-03-22 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-04-12 18:30 - 21:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States

Transgender Book Club
2025-03-23 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!
2025 Meeting Calendar:
1/26 Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi2/23 Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo3/23 Bluff by Danez Smith4/27 Pageboy by Elliot Page5/25 Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio6/22 We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy7/27 A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell8/24 The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach9/28 Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia10/26 Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman11/23 Marley’s Pride by Joelle Retener

Volunteer Committee Meeting
2025-03-24 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.

Programming Committee Meeting
2025-03-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-14 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.

Twin Cities Queer Transplant Group
2025-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 | 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

BiblioFemmes Book Club
2025-03-27 19:00 - 21:00
BiblioFemmes is a group of queer femmes who love books. We have a monthly book club at Quatrefoil and other events throughout the month, including pottery making, game nights, social hours, and more. We meet regularly with the express intention of creating a community, so if you are looking for a book club AND some new friends, we might be the right fit for you.

Everyone who describes themselves as a femme (small doses count) and who has done the reading is welcome to attend a book club (RSVPs appreciated but not required). If you are interested in the group, but want to meet without homework, please reach out to the email address listed below and we’ll add you to our Discord server and mailing list.

Contact: bibliofemmes.mn@gmail.com

Q Volunteer Appreciation Event
2025-03-29 17:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States

Workplace Wardrobe Clothing Swap Event (OFFSITE)
2025-03-30 13:00 - 16:00 | Pride Cultural Arts Center, 1201 Harmon Pl Ste 104, Minneapolis, MN, 55403
Join Quatrefoil Library and the Twin Cities Pride Cultural Arts Center for a collaborative event where you can donate and/or acquire free gender affirming clothing!

We will have attire in all sizes for all presentations available, and we welcome clothing and accessory donations in new or slightly used condition.

Whether you’re exploring your identity or simply need a safe place to find workplace clothing that feels right for you, this event is for you!
This is the second event in Quatrefoil Library’s Investing in Us Event Series. The Twin Cities Pride Cultural Arts Center is the host of The Rainbow Wardrobe: a community service dedicated to providing free gender-affirming care in a welcoming, private, and supportive environment. They offer a space where LGBTQ+ individuals can try on clothing that affirms their gender identity, without the discomfort or anxiety they might face in traditional retail settings.
For donations, within the wardrobe we have a few specific needs:
1. Plus-Size Femme Attire: Dresses, pants, blouses, t-shirts, all forms of clothes.
2. Small/Medium Masc clothes: Button-ups, shorts, t-shirts.
3. Socks, new undergarments for all sizes and types.
4. Large size shoes, both masc and femme.
– Femme sizes from 10+
– Masc sizes from 12+

Queer Threads
2025-04-02 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.

Quatrefoil Board Meeting
2025-04-03 18:30 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Quatrefoil Board meets monthly on the first Thursday of the month in the Community Room.

Library Patron's Union Meeting
2025-04-03 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.

Knotty Recovery
2025-04-05 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-19 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.

Rainbow Reads
2025-04-06 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
2025-04-06 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

North Country Gaylaxians Book Club (Online)
2025-04-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The meeting of the Twin Cities chapter of the Gaylactic Network, an organization for the GLBT fan community, whether it be science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics, or gaming. We read and discuss books of speculative fiction with GLBT or similar content or by GLBT authors. We meet the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm on Zoom. Also, monthly gaming get-togethers in a private home.

Info on events can be found on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthCountryGaylaxians/

Moon Palace Queer Book Club
2025-04-09 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 the summer we will only meet at Quatrefoil if it rains. Otherwise we will meet at Brackett Park.)

Queer Book Club April

Wednesday Apr 9th, 2025

7:00 PM

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8:00 PM

Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407

Join us for Queer Book Club on Wednesday, April 9th, at 7:00pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407. We’ll be discussing Blood Orange by Mx. Yaffa. Anyone is welcome to join whether you’ve read the whole book or just skimmed a few pages. We meet the second Wednesdays of every month!
“Blood Orange” is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.
This highly charged and cathartic body of work confronts the anguish and loss inflicted by genocide but also embraces a vision of a world free of it. The poems within “Blood Orange” were a means of working through and processing the grief caused by recent events and serve as an act of protest and defiance against settler colonialism as a whole.

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Concert preview of The Secret Letter with Cantus
2025-04-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The “engaging” (New Yorker) low-voice ensemble Cantus is widely known for its trademark warmth and blend, innovative programming and riveting performances of music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. The Washington Post has hailed the Cantus sound as having both “exalting finesse” and “expressive power” and refers to the “spontaneous grace” of its music making. The Philadelphia Inquirer called the group nothing short of “exquisite.”

Cantus invites you to a special behind-the-scenes deep dive into the upcoming spring concert series The Secret Letter which delves deep into a clandestine world of forbidden love via passionate letters from the past two millennia. In collaboration with the Quatrefoil Library, this special event will feature conversation around the program’s stories, delving deep into the intimate exchanges that defied societal norms and ignited flames of love in the shadows, as well as sneak peak performances of several pieces from the program.
The event will also feature a special guest, renowned L.A.-based Filipino-American composer Saunder Choi, who will speak on his new work, “Lightyears to Lebanon,” commissioned and written for this particular program. Don’t miss this unique event giving even more depth to an important conversation around the resilience of love despite all odds.

Reserve your free spot and let us know you’re coming!

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Radical Queer Tarot Reading Group
2025-04-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Radical Queer Tarot Reading Group is a space for novice to expert tarot readers to gather in non-hierarchical community to explore applying the wisdom of the tarot to apocalyptic times. We’ll focus on reading BIPOC/Queer/Leftist/Radical/Anti-Capitalist authors of tarot interpretation, discussing what we’re learning, & doing tarot spreads together to experience & interpret our new ideas. From tarot-curious to tarot master — if this offering speaks to you, please join us. Contact radicalqueertarotreadinggroup@gmail.com for more information.

Prime Timers Bookclub
2025-04-19 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:

Prime Timers Book Club
2025-04-19 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.
March Book of the Month: Shortest Way Home By Peter Buttigieg

Legacy Giving with John Brentall
2025-04-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Legacy Giving: How naming LGBTQ+ non-profits as beneficiaries can facilitate justice and social change

There is currently around $160 trillion in wealth in the U.S.—this includes retirement assets, property, cash, bonds, and stocks. Learn how naming LGBTQ+ non-profits and other organizations working for justice as beneficiaries on assets you have can positively impact our world for decades to come. According to Funders for LGBTQ Issues, only 0.25% of total institutional giving goes to organizations led by and for our communities. Individual choices we make can help change this disparity.

This event is the third in the Quatrefoil Programming Event Series called Investing in Us. This event is free and open to the public, with information that will be relevant to anyone regardless of age or income.
