Events for June 2022 — Kalamazoo Public Library

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Calendar of Events
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		1 It’s Storytime 10:30 am – 11:00 am KPL Facebook Page Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events Kalamazoo Literacy Council Family Literacy Day — Celebrating Our Fathers 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Kalamazoo Literacy Council	2 Your Non-Profit Is A Business; Therefore You Should Run It That Way Registration Required 10:00 am – 12:00 pm [email protected] Online Events Outside Storytime 10:30 am – 11:30 am OSH/Outside	3 Family Storytime 10:30 am – 11:30 am CEN/Children’s Room	4 Summer Reading Kickoff 10:00 am – 2:00 pm CEN/Portico First Saturday Storytime at Alma Powell Branch Library 11:00 am – 12:00 pm POW Do-Dah Parade 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Downtown Kalamazoo Kalamazoo Pride 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Arcadia	5
6 We Read Banned Books! OPEN HOURS All KPL Branches On-Demand Video Series: Lizzo — The Black history of twerking — and how it taught me self-love Registration Required OPEN HOURS [email protected] Online Events CANCELED – Community Tables – County ID 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm EAS Comic Book Club 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm CEN/Teen Studio Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events Page Turners Book Club 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm OSH/Outside	7 Community Tables – City of Kalamazoo 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm CEN/Second Floor Rotunda Lego at The Library 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm POW A Brief History of Parkwyn Village – 75 Years of a Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Cooperative Housing Community, 1947-2022 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm CEN/Van Deusen Room	8 Marvel™ Matinee Days 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EAS Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events So You Wanna Play Dungeons & Dragons… 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm CEN/Teen Studio	9 Texas Township 10:00 am – 11:30 am Texas Township Hall Outside Storytime – With Special Guest Wellspring Dance! 10:30 am – 11:00 am OSH/Outside Open Gaming at The Library 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm POW/Barnabee Gallery Ask a Lawyer Family Law Clinic Registration Required 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEN/Law Library	10 Family Storytime 10:30 am – 11:30 am CEN/Children’s Room	11	12
13 On-Demand Video Series: The Truth About Black on Black Crime w/ Charles Preston Registration Required OPEN HOURS Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events	14 Coffee Talk 10:30 am – 11:30 am OSH/Community Room Lego at The Library 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm POW Bookworms 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm OSH/Community Room GLAMA Acoustic Slow Jam 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm CEN/Van Deusen Room	15 Spotlighting Emergent Leaders: Jeaninne Butler-Sytsema Registration Required 10:00 am – 11:30 am [email protected] Online Events It’s Storytime 10:30 am – 11:00 am KPL Facebook Page Marvel™ Matinee Days 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EAS Marvel™ Matinee Days 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EAS Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events	16 Using SEL to Examine & Address Biases 10:00 am – 12:00 pm [email protected] Online Events Outside Storytime – With Special Guest Wellspring Dance! 10:30 am – 11:00 am OSH/Outside Ecumenical Senior Center 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Ecumenical Senior Center Library League 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm OSH/Community Room	17 Family Storytime 10:30 am – 11:30 am CEN/Children’s Room	18	19
20 On-Demand Video Series: Kalamazoo Lively Arts Registration Required OPEN HOURS [email protected] Online Events Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events	21 Job Assistance Workshops with Michigan WORKS! – Create a Resume’ You’re Proud Of 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm CEN/Van Deusen Room Lego at The Library 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm POW	22 Ask a Lawyer Family Law Clinic Registration Required 10:00 am – 12:00 pm CEN/Law Library Music with Mr. Evan 10:30 am – 11:30 am CEN/Children’s Room Marvel™ Matinee Days 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EAS Texas Township 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Texas Township Hall Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events Music with Mr.Evan 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm OSH/Outside	23 Outside Storytime – With Special Guest Wellspring Dance! 10:30 am – 11:00 am OSH/Outside Library League 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm OSH/Community Room Mobile Library–Eastside Neighborhood Association “Show Me the Money” 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Eastside Sunrise Plaza	24 Family Storytime 10:30 am – 11:30 am CEN/Children’s Room Grade School Masterminds 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm CEN/Children’s Room Kzoo Parks Summer Cinema 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oakwood Neighborhood Association	25 Family Drum Jam with Samuel Nalangira 11:00 am – 12:00 pm POW/Douglass Community Room Explore the Ocean with the Air Zoo Registration Required 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CEN/Van Deusen Room Explore the Ocean with the Air Zoo Registration Required 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm CEN/Van Deusen Room	26
27 On-Demand Video Series: Kendrick Lamar looks inward on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers Registration Required OPEN HOURS [email protected] Online Events Lego at The Library 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm CEN/Children’s Room Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events Mobile Library — Root Beer Stand Milwood 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Root Beer Stand Milwood So You Want to Publish 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EAS/Community Room	28 Q&A with the Stryker Johnston Foundation and their Trust Based Grantmaking Processes Registration Required 10:00 am – 11:30 am [email protected] Online Events John Ball Traveling Zoo 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EAS Lego at The Library 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm POW An Evening with Samuel Nalangira 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm POW/Douglass Community Room Drum and Dance with Rootead 6:30 pm – 6:30 pm OSH/Outside	29 Introduction to Systemic Racism Workshop Registration Required 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm DIY Boba Tea 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CEN/Van Deusen Room Marvel™ Matinee Days 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EAS Read Along! 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm KPL Online Events	30 Outside Storytime 10:30 am – 11:30 am OSH/Outside Library League 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm OSH/Community Room

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