October 20
RTD to hold public meetings to share fare structure alternatives, gather customer input
Explore two new fare structure alternatives in the third phase of RTD’s systemwide fare study and equity analysis. Learn more about the proposed options and provide input at a virtual customer and community meeting on Oct. 20 (in English – register here ) or Oct. 27 (in Spanish – register here ). Provide additional feedback via an online survey . Customer and community input in this phase will be used to develop the final recommended fare structure.
The Great Ideas Reading and Discussion Group
- Date: 09/08/2022 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Location: Library
409 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - 3-4:30 pm
- Select Thursdays throughout the fall
- Unquiet Study Room on the second floor of the Library
- No registration required
Participants will be asked to complete a brief reading and then join us once every two weeks to discuss readings from "Great Books of the Western World," compiled by Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher. Some of the topics will include chance, religion and history.
The sessions will be lead by community member Brian Hansen. The schedule and readings can be found below or download a Word doc on the presenter's website.
Upcoming dates:
- Oct. 20: The Great Books of the Western World Vol 2, pp 711-718: The Idea of History from the Syntopicon
- or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 307-315
- Oct. 27: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 956-968: History: The Record of Events
- Nov. 10: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 212-220: The Idea of Hate from the Syntopicon
- Dec. 1: The Great Books of the Western World, Vol 3, pp 588-597: The Idea of Religion from the Syntopicon
- or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 722-733
- Dec. 15: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 1268-1300: The Distinguishing Features of Religion, Judaism, Christianity
The Great American Ghost Trip with Author and paranormal investigator Richard Estep
- Date: 10/20/2022 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Location: City Council Chambers
350 Kimbark St.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - Registration required
In 2021, local author and paranormal investigator Richard Estep traveled 4,000 miles in 10 nights, staying only at haunted locations— and wrote a book along the way. He called it “The Great American Ghost Trip.” Join Estep as he talks about his book and the adventures he had. Books will be available for sale after the program.
Attend the Author Talk Registration is required through Eventbrite. Click on the button below to save your seat!
Register for the Author Talk with Richard Estep on Eventbrite
Creative Happy Hour
5:30 p.m.
TinkerMill, 1840 Deleware Place, Unit A
We will be bringing together our local arts organizations and creatives to meet, mingle and create!! Learn about what the different creative organizations are doing in the community, take a tour of the TinkerMill and contribute to a collaborative art project. Appetizers provided with beverages to purchase. FREE!
NCAR Explorer Series: Predicting Future Climate
7 p.m.
Longmont Museum
Earth’s climate, weather, and biological systems are changing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions, but they also vary naturally with or without human influence. By combining models, observations, and future emissions projections, learn how scientists can predict impactful variations in climate up to a decade in advance. Featuring National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientists Dr. Stephen Yeager and Dr. Isla Simpson.
Wine, beer, and concessions available for purchase. The Museum is open late (5 - 9 pm) on Thursdays! Make a night of it by visiting the exhibits before the concert.
October 22
El Comité Health Fair
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
El Comité de Longmont’s parking lot, 455 Kimbark St.
Join us to learn health information that can help yourself and your family lead healthier lives and improve your future.
¡Únase a nosotros para aprender información de salud que puede ayudarlo a usted y a su familia a llevar vidas más saludables y mejorar su futuro!
Coffee with Council - October Session
- Date: 10/22/2022 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- Location: Museum
400 Quail Road
Longmont, Colorado 80501
Longmont residents are invited to have coffee with Council Members and discuss any topic of interest. At least two City Council members will be in attendance at each gathering. Free coffee will be provided. Meetings are scheduled for the last Saturday of every month (January through October), 9 to 10 am.
Scheduled to attend (subject to change): Mayor Peck and Council member Tim Waters
Dia de los Muertos Market
Noon
Summit Tacos, 237 Collyer St., Longmont
Out door market supporting our LOCO artists!!! Come and enjoy art, food, music and drinks.
October 23
Club de artesanías: Papel picado
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Date: 10/23/2022 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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Location: Library
409 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - Cuarto domingo de cada mes
- No es necesario registrarse
Reúnase con nosotros para aprender y crear artesanías de otras partes del mundo. Este otoño vamos a crear artesanías relacionadas con el Mes de la Herencia Hispana y Dia de Muertos.
La artesanías de octubre es papel picado.
Este programa es bilingüe y para toda la familia.
October 24
Deep Thoughts Philosophy Reading Group (Virtual)
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Date: 10/24/2022 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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Location: Online via Zoom
This Month's Session
- This month's reading: Loren Lomasky's essay in "Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 22"
- For links to online versions of the texts, reading guides, and other resources, please view the shared Google site
Some philosophers favor "virtue ethics" - a view on which ethics is a matter of developing and exercising virtues like honesty, integrity, generosity, etc. In this month's reading, Loren Lomasky argues against such a concept of ethics.
Virtue, on Lomasky's view, is too rare to be the cornerstone of an ethics. In fact, since most of us are full of vice, we are better off building a "vice ethics."
Join us for a discussion of Lomasky's arguments and determine for yourself whether virtue is possible and whether virtue or vice should be the focus of ethics.
Registration REQUIRED
Register through Eventbrite. (Event limited to 24 participants) You will receive the Zoom information for the meeting after registration. Please email the facilitator if you can't find the Zoom info; they'll get back to you right away.
About the Deep Thoughts Philosophy Reading Group
- Meets every fourth Monday of each month, from 7-8:30 pm, via Zoom
- Open to adults and older teens aged 16+.
This group meets monthly to discuss a classic short work of philosophy or an excerpt from a longer work.
Participants read the work prior to our meeting, and together we explore the meaning of the text and the value it offers us. All participants are welcome, including those who are unable to read the entire selection before the meeting.
Sessions are facilitated by Dawn Jacobs and other graduate students of the Philosophy Outreach Program of Colorado at CU Boulder (POPCO). Facilitators will focus on encouraging and guiding a group discussion/learning event rather than on teaching.
October 25
Social Emotional Circle Time for Babies and Caregivers
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Date: 10/25/2022 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
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Location: Library
409 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - Second and fourth Tuesdays of each month through Dec. 20
- For babies and their caregivers
- No registration necessary
Join the wonderful mental health professionals from Mental Health Partners' program Kid Connects in the Neighborhood for a social emotional circle time for children and their caregivers under the age of 2. We will be using an evidence informed curriculum, Parenting in Parent Education, which supports caregivers' understanding of early development and strengthens relationships with the children they care for. No registration necessary, just bring you and your baby for fun activities and learning together!
October 27
The Great Ideas Reading and Discussion Group
- Date: 09/08/2022 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Location: Library
409 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - 3-4:30 pm
- Select Thursdays throughout the fall
- Unquiet Study Room on the second floor of the Library
- No registration required
Participants will be asked to complete a brief reading and then join us once every two weeks to discuss readings from "Great Books of the Western World," compiled by Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher. Some of the topics will include chance, religion and history.
The sessions will be lead by community member Brian Hansen. The schedule and readings can be found below or download a Word doc on the presenter's website.
Upcoming dates:
- Nov. 10: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 212-220: The Idea of Hate from the Syntopicon
- Dec. 1: The Great Books of the Western World, Vol 3, pp 588-597: The Idea of Religion from the Syntopicon
- or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 722-733
- Dec. 15: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 1268-1300: The Distinguishing Features of Religion, Judaism, Christianity
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra: Nosferatu
7 p.m.
Longmont Museum
$18 general admission, $15 students/seniors, $12 members
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of F.W. Murnau’s silent film classic with live musical accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. This unauthorized adaptation of Dracula features not Dracula but Count Orlok, a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws—perhaps the most disturbing incarnation of vampirism envisioned.
October 29
Día de los Muertos Noche de Museo: Celebrating Day of the Dead
7 p.m.
Longmont Museum
$10 general admission, $8 students/seniors, $5 members
The Museum’s Stewart Auditorium comes alive with musicians, singers, and dancers of all ages for an evening in celebration of Día de los Muertos. Mariachi groups and other performers from local schools join up with seasoned professionals to sing and dance to traditional Mexican song.
October 30
Media Matters: The Local Scene
3 p.m.
Free, reservations recommended
Local newspapers provide the soundtrack of our communities, hold our public officials accountable, and help us better understand our nation and our world. But the state of local journalism has never been in greater peril.
Featuring Macie May, Executive Editor and General Manager of the Longmont Leader; Sergio Angeles, Executive Director of Longmont Public Media; Biff Warren, Founding partner, publisher, and managing editor of the Lefthand Valley Courier; John Vahlenkamp, Times-Call managing editor; and Sonia Koetting, of the League of Women Voters accountability for public institutions initiative. Moderated by Tim Waters, Longmont City Council.
October 31
Halloween Storytime & Trick-or-Treat Parade
10 am
Join us for a not-so-spooky Halloween Storytime for all ages! Costumes are encouraged, but not required.
After about 30 minutes of stories, songs and dancing, participants can parade through the Civic Center hallway for treats courtesy of City of Longmont staff.
November 4
LEGO Club for Families
- Date: 11/04/2022 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Location: Library
409 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - Longmont Library Meeting Rooms
The Library has more than 10,000 LEGO pieces, and at LEGO Club, we get them all out and build! Each time the club meets, we have a different building challenge. We also make a 'shared build' together. Family event- adults and kids build together. Kids younger than 10 years old must be accompanied by someone older than 14 years old dedicated to their care.
Register Your Family
Click the button below to register your family for LEGO Club. Registration will open on Saturday, Oct. 8 for the November session.
Register Your Family for LEGO Club - November
November 9
Talking About Race w/ Living Room Conversations
Join in a community conversation around race, facilitated by Annie Caplan of Living Room Conversations. In small groups of four to six people, participants will explore their personal experiences around the given topic:
5:30-7 pm on Sept.14 Empathy: Sharing experiences giving, receiving and observing empathy.
5:30-7 pm on Oct. 12 Status and Privilege: From education to wealth to gender to race, let’s talk about what we have…and what we desire.
5:30-7 pm on Nov. 9 Race and Ethnicity: This conversation is an opportunity to explore our experience of race and ethnicity. Where are we and what do we aspire to for ourselves and our community?
These sessions work best when taken together, but you can drop in to anyone of them. No registration is required.
November 10
The Great Ideas Reading and Discussion Group
- Date: 09/08/2022 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Location: Library
409 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - 3-4:30 pm
- Select Thursdays throughout the fall
- Unquiet Study Room on the second floor of the Library
- No registration required
Participants will be asked to complete a brief reading and then join us once every two weeks to discuss readings from "Great Books of the Western World," compiled by Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher. Some of the topics will include chance, religion and history.
The sessions will be lead by community member Brian Hansen. The schedule and readings can be found below or download a Word doc on the presenter's website.
Upcoming dates:
- Nov. 10: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 212-220: The Idea of Hate from the Syntopicon
- Dec. 1: The Great Books of the Western World, Vol 3, pp 588-597: The Idea of Religion from the Syntopicon
- or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 722-733
- Dec. 15: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 1268-1300: The Distinguishing Features of Religion, Judaism, Christianity
November 11
Friday Afternoon Concert Series
September 9, October 14, November 11, and December 9 at 2:30 pm
$12 general admission, $10 students/seniors, $8 members
Enjoy an afternoon of live music in the Museum's Stewart Auditorium featuring an eclectic array of musical acts from up and down the Front Range.
December 1
The Great Ideas Reading and Discussion Group
- Date: 09/08/2022 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Location: Library
409 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - 3-4:30 pm
- Select Thursdays throughout the fall
- Unquiet Study Room on the second floor of the Library
- No registration required
Participants will be asked to complete a brief reading and then join us once every two weeks to discuss readings from "Great Books of the Western World," compiled by Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher. Some of the topics will include chance, religion and history.
The sessions will be lead by community member Brian Hansen. The schedule and readings can be found below or download a Word doc on the presenter's website.
Upcoming dates:
- Dec. 1: The Great Books of the Western World, Vol 3, pp 588-597: The Idea of Religion from the Syntopicon
- or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 722-733
- Dec. 15: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 1268-1300: The Distinguishing Features of Religion, Judaism, Christianity
December 9
Friday Afternoon Concert Series
September 9, October 14, November 11, and December 9 at 2:30 pm
$12 general admission, $10 students/seniors, $8 members
Enjoy an afternoon of live music in the Museum's Stewart Auditorium featuring an eclectic array of musical acts from up and down the Front Range.
December 15
The Great Ideas Reading and Discussion Group
- Date: 09/08/2022 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
- Location: Library
409 Fourth Ave.
Longmont, Colorado 80501 - 3-4:30 pm
- Select Thursdays throughout the fall
- Unquiet Study Room on the second floor of the Library
- No registration required
Participants will be asked to complete a brief reading and then join us once every two weeks to discuss readings from "Great Books of the Western World," compiled by Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher. Some of the topics will include chance, religion and history.
The sessions will be lead by community member Brian Hansen. The schedule and readings can be found below or download a Word doc on the presenter's website.
