Quatrefoil Library

Prime Timers Book Club
2025-08-16 13:15 - 15:15, 2025-09-20 13:15 - 15:15 (America/Chicago) | 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

Prime Timers Dominoes
2025-08-17 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.

Queer Threads
2025-08-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-17 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)
2025-08-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-17 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
July (will discuss in August)—LAST CHANCE CHICAGO by Diana DiGangi
August—SCORCHED GRACE by Margo Douaihy
September—POSTMARKED CASTLE COVE by Judy Kerr
October—DESPITE HERSELF by Jessie Chandler
November—WATERLOGGED by Nance Sparks
December—THE SAFEKEEP by Yael Van der Wouden (in hardcover now, but will be out in paperback May 27th)

Intergenerational LGBTQIA Watercolor Club
2025-08-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Intergenerational LGBTQIA Watercolor Club is a time to relax, paint, and be in community. Open to adults of any age with any level of artistic experience. Supplies will be provided. Wear clothes suitable for painting in. Hosted by Alison Nowak, an illustration professor from Minneapolis.

Quatrefoil Game Night
2025-08-23 18:30 - 21:30, 2025-09-13 18:30 - 21:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States

Transgender Book Club
2025-08-24 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
2025-08-25 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
2025-08-25 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.

Volunteer Front Desk Training
2025-08-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Training for new Q Volunteers to get acquainted with the responsibilities of being a Volunteer and working at the Library Front Desk. Reach out to volunteer@quatrefoil.org if interested in joining.

OFFSITE - Twin Cities Queer Transplant Group
2025-08-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Pride Cultural Arts Center, 1201 Harmon Pl Ste 104, Minneapolis, MN, 55403
NOTE: The Twin Cities Queer Transplant Group is currently meeting at the Pride Cultural Arts Center.
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 PCAC.

Questions and information requests can be sent to TCTransplants@gmail.com

BiblioFemmes Book Club
2025-08-28 19:00 - 21:00 | MN
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

Casting Call – Black and Proud: The Musical
2025-08-30 12:00 - 15:30, 2025-09-06 12:00 - 15:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
🎭 Casting Call – Black and Proud: The Musical
Join us for open auditions for Black and Proud, an original musical centering the lives of eight Black LGBTQ+ individuals who find healing, resistance, and chosen family at a fictional community center called The Lavender Lounge.
We are casting for 8 lead roles and ensemble members, with a priority on BIPOC and LGBTQ+ performers of all identities and experience levels.
🎤 What to Prepare:
A 2-minute monologue
16 bars of a song (a cappella or backing track)
📅 Dates:
Friday, August 30th – 12:00–3:30 PM
Friday, September 6th – 12:00–3:30 PM📍 Quatrefoil Library, Community Room
📩 RSVP required. To audition, please email Jasmine Mincey at minceyjasmine3@gmail.com

Technology Committee Meeting
2025-09-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The tech committee meets hybrid on the first Tuesday of each month. Contact technology@quatrefoil.org if you are interested in joining!

Queer Threads
2025-09-03 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
2025-09-04 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.

Rainbow Reads
2025-09-07 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
2025-09-07 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. We gather to socialize and discuss queer media.
Find us on Meetup at: meetup.com/twin-cities-aroace-solidarity

Programming Committee Meeting
2025-09-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Regular meeting of the Quatrefoil Programming Committee. Committee meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the library (with a virtual option available for committee members) from 6:00 – 7:00pm. Reach out to programming@quatrefoil.org if you are interested in joining.

North Country Gaylaxians Book Club (Online)
2025-09-09 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
2025-09-10 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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Library Patron's Union Meeting
2025-09-11 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.

Our Stories and Ourselves: A Writing Workshop
2025-09-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
History is forgotten if it is not recorded. That simple idea has always been important, but never more so than right now, when there are cultural and political forces hard at work trying to erase our stories as LGBTQ+ individuals, stories of struggle and oppression but also stories of pride and perseverance. This workshop, geared towards older members of the LGBTQ+ community but open to all and to writers of all levels, will explore ways in which we can tell and preserve our stories. Through generative writing exercises and discussion, we’ll consider how our own experiences can serve as building blocks for storytelling, whether it’s through poetry, fiction, or non-fiction. Participants can expect lots of time for writing, brainstorming, reflection, and questions!
Gary Eldon Peter is the author of the short story collection Oranges, recipient of the Gold Medal for LGBTQ+ fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Midwest Book Award, and the novel The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen, which received the Minnesota Book Award, the Foreword Reviews INDIE Book of the Year Award, and the Whippoorwill Book Award. It was also was named one of the best books of 2022 by National Public Radio. The recipient of grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation, he recently retired after 21 years as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Saint Paul with his partner and is at work on his third book, a collection of essays. You can find out more about Gary and his work at garyeldonpeter.com.
Gary Eldon Peter is a fiscal year 2025 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.

Radical Queer Tarot Reading Group
2025-09-13 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
2025-09-20 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:
