November at the Art Center

While November usually brings a lot of dark and gloomy days, we can still be thankful - it’s good reading weather. Plus there are some fun activities scheduled at the Fosston Community Library Arts Center.
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, from 2-5 p.m., there will be free family portraits taken at the library. Each participant is required to have (or to sign up for) a current LARL library card, and those are free too. If you wish to have prints made from the photos taken, bring in a flash drive or a writable CD, and the photo files will be copied for you to have.
Book club meets on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. This month’s book is The Graveyard Book  by Neil Gaiman, a children’s fantasy novel set in a graveyard. While not a book I would have selected to read, once I got into it, I really enjoyed it. New members are welcome.
There will be a special event on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. when Bonnie Stewart will present a holiday workshop featuring menu ideas with wine pairings. Find out what wines to serve with various cheeses and/or chocolate.  Space is limited so preregistration is required. Call the library at 435-1320. Also put this on your calendar: The Daisy Hagen Auction for the Arts will be held Sunday, December 1. This biennial event is the FCLAA’s big fund-raiser with a number of donated items on the auction block: quilts, a cabin weekend, framed art, hand-woven baskets, baked goods, woodworking and much more. Items are available for view at 1 p.m. with the auction slated to begin at 2. Lynda Lohmeier will be the auctioneer. Refreshments will be served by the Fosston Athenian Club.
If you have preschoolers, here is an item of interest to you: beginning this month, story time will be offered twice weekly. So many little ones have been showing up Friday mornings that they hardly fit into the room, so a second session with the same theme will be held Wednesday mornings at 10:30 a.m.
Writers’ group will not meet in November because of the Thanksgiving holiday. Instead plan to come Thursday , Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. Again, new members are welcome any time.
Lastly, a reminder: The library will be closed Monday, Nov. 11, for Veterans Day, and, of course, Thursday, November 28, which is Thanksgiving Day.