LPC Regranting Deadline May 31, 2021
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Winter Works Accepting Submissions
Calling all Island artists! Winter Works, a community show, is accepting your winter creations to display in the show at the LPC Art Gallery. Please drop off your art work by June 1, 2021.
Show runs June 4 – 27.
For more information, contact the Gallery at 715.747-3321
LPC April 20 Book Club ZOOM Link
7 PM Central
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89732463493?pwd=MkFhSVFsZ1FCMERuSElZZmNFc3Axdz09
Discussion led by Mark Heir.
The book is The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson published in 2020. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports, the author provides a new lens on London’s darkest year during the blitz through the day-to day experience of Churchill and his family and advisors. Lots of intriguing insights and personal details.
Seri already has copies at the Library.
LPC ZOOM Book Club 2021 Schedule
Tuesday, April 20, 7:00 p.m. Central
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The discussion will be led by Mark Hier
Tuesday, May 18, 7 PM Central
Anxious People by Frederik Backman
Special Summer Event
Tuesday, June 15, 7 PM Central
The Bluebird Effect by Julie Zickefoose
The Madeline Book Club is join ing together with the MI Wilderness Preservation to host this special June ZOOM. What better way to enjoy the arrival of summer than with a nature read and discussion of this delightful book. Thanks to former college classmate, Joe Scarry, the author will be zooming with us with funding provided by the La Pointe Center for the Arts and MIWP.
The author, a naturalist, bird painter, and songbird rehabilitator, shares her passion and curiosity for “the zone where birds interact with people … the moment when her gaze meets the bright bead of its eye.” She takes care of four astonishingly tiny hummingbirds, “hatched from eggs no bigger than black-eyed peas,” who dominate her life with feedings every 20 minutes. Each chapter is illustrated with Zickfoose’s stunning watercolor paintings and is devoted to a different bird from bluebirds to sandhill cranes.
The book mixes humor, natural history, and memoir to give readers an intimate story of a life lived among wild birds while raising a family, as well.
To receive the ZOOM link a few days before the event, send your email address to bpweiss@mtco.com (Paula Weiss 747-2059) No need to send your email address if you are already receiving book club emails. If you are new, please indicate if you want to receive future book club emails.
Tuesday, July 20, 7 PM Central
Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye
Mr. Geye will be zooming with us.
Tuesday, August 17, 7 PM Central
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunters
Video of March 16 Book Club
Tara Westover’s Educated
LPC April 20 Book Club ZOOM Link
7 PM Central
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89732463493?pwd=MkFhSVFsZ1FCMERuSElZZmNFc3Axdz09
The book is The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson published in 2020. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports, the author provides a new lens on London’s darkest year during the blitz through the day-to day experience of Churchill and his family and advisors. Lots of intriguing insights and personal details.
Seri already has copies at the Library.
ZOOM Link to Feb 16 LPC Book Club Meeting
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT 7:00 P.M. CENTRAL
ZOOM Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86903645597?pwd=TkNsY3pPQXA1NHl3ZU9WQmU3Qk1NZz09
The book is A Good Provider is one who leaves: One family and migration in the 21st century by Jason DeParle. Kirkus Reviews says of this book, “a gorgeously written, uniquely insightful and evenly critical volume that hits every talking point on world migration today.”
The author lived with a family in the Philippines to gather material for his book. Pixie Martin will be leading the discussion. Seri will be ordering copies for the Library and other public libraries will most likely have copies of the book.
Upcoming Book Club Meetings
After surveying the members and determining the availability of discussion leaders, it was decided to stay with the third Tuesday of the month and to continue with the zoom format.
March 16: Educated, by Tara Westover led by Robin Russell
April 20: The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson led by Mark Hier
May 18: Anxious People, by Fredrick Backman led by Susi Saxl
Enjoy your reading!
Next Madeline Island Book Club Meeting
The Madeline Island Book club will start up in January with Susi Saxl making the arrangements. The zoom discussion will be held Tuesday, January 19th at 7:00 p.m. CST. The book is Wintering by Peter Geye. The Library has ordered several copies which are available to be borrowed.
We have not gotten together to arrange the selections for 2021 that many of you sent in and voted upon but we will be doing so in the near future.
Contact Susi at susisaxl at gmail.com.
Free Webinar: Federal Resources for Creative Community Development
Are you looking for funding to support a community development or creative placekeeping initiative in your neighborhood? If so, tune in on Tuesday, February 9, to Federal Resources for Creative Community Development—a free web seminar designed to help you access federal funds and harness the power of the arts and culture for community development.
This seminar features a new Creative Placemaking Public Resources Guide that offers:
- a curated selection of federal funding sources that you can use to advance equitable community development,
- examples of initiatives that have transformed community development through creative partnerships, and
- practical tips on accessing federal grant programs.
A live demonstration of the guide’s powerful search functions will reveal often-overlooked federal resources for equitable community development, creative placemaking and the arts. You’ll also hear from practitioners who have successfully leveraged public funding opportunities for creative placemaking.
Complete session details and registration information are available at http://bit.ly/2LdRvDc. This one-hour session is designed for arts nonprofits, community development groups, state and local government agencies, arts advocates, cultural district managers, and creative placemaking practitioners. All organizations that are pursuing arts based community development initiatives are welcome to participate.
This one-time event is offered through a partnership between the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, the National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations and Metris Arts Consulting.
LPC Regranting Deadline October 31st
Video of September 15 LPC Book Club
Here is our September Book Club meeting when we discussed Leif Enger’s Virgil Wander. We were very pleased to have Leif Enger joining us for the ZOOM session. Mark Hier led the discussion and Joe Scarry was the technical operator.
LPC Art Gallery Last Shows of the Season
Until September 12, enjoy the watercolors of Carolyn Cone, the jewelry of Kim Mager, and the woodwork of Robert Tiesberg.
September 13- October 17
Anything Goes Community Show
This is the second community show the LPC Art Gallery sponsors every year. All island artists are invited and encouraged to exhibit their current works. The last show of the season, it will run through mid-October. Art work will be judged for best of show 1st, 2nd, 3rd places. A monetary gift will be awarded to the winners upon closing weekend. A wonderful opportunity for island artists, new emerging, seasoned established and all in between to show and sell their work in a professional manner in a professional Gallery.
Call the Gallery if you area interested.
715-747-3321
CLOSING
OCTOBER 17 4 PM – 7 PM
