Out and about: Therapy dogs listen to stories

November 4

Family Storytime with D.E.A.R. Therapy Dogs

• Date: 11/04/2022 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Location: Library
  409 Fourth Ave.
  Longmont, Colorado 80501

• Library Meeting Rooms (by West Entrance)

Today's Family Storytime will include visits from therapy dogs from the Library's Dogs Enjoy Afternoon Reading program.

A 30-minute Friday fun storytime designed for children of all ages and their grown-ups! This storytime will include longer picture books, so expect a little more sitting and listening. Silly singing and movement will also be included.

Drop-in Family Storytime

City Of Longmont Public Library

Live Music at Bootstrap Brewing!

Bootstrap Brewing

Longmont Christian 30s Meetup

Christ Church International

Psychic School 101

Earth Feather Healings

 

November 5

Senior Center Welcomes All to Open House

On Saturday, November 5th 2022 from 9:00 a.m. to noon, the Longmont Senior Center welcomes to friends, neighbors, residents, families, newcomers, and anyone else interested in learning more about the recreation and resources available through Longmont Senior Services.

The Longmont Senior Center open house will include live entertainment, refreshments, building tours, and a sampling of programs and resources available to those in our 55+ community. There is no registration required, and this is a cost-free event. Ample parking is available at Roosevelt Park's southern entrance adjacent to the senior center at 910 Longs Peak Avenue. Be sure to tell a friend and invite a buddy!

For more information about the open house, please call the Senior Center front desk at 303-651-8411.

For more information about our programs and services, check out the GO catalog--our quarterly magazine full of classes, special interest, hobby groups, sports and fitness classes, extended travel opportunities, volunteer opportunities, and so much more.

Bilingual Storytime: Read, Dance, Play and Fun @ the Park!

• Date: 11/05/2022 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

• Location: Lanyon Neighborhood Park
  1900 Collyer St.
  Longmont, Colorado 80501

• Lanyon Neighborhood Park, 1900 Collyer St.

Join Ms. Lili for reading bilingual stories, playing, dancing and having fun in Spanish and English for children of all ages! All aged children with a grown-up are welcome.

COMING TO A PARK NEAR YOU: Each month, Ms. Lili will change park locations, giving the opportunity for all the Longmont community to participate. Please check our website every month for the park location.

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED for our Storytime @ the Park program to help the storyteller.

9:30 am to noon | Saturdays, Aug. 13 - Nov. 19

If you are interested, please email [email protected] with dates you have available. Volunteers can be as young as 15 years old.

 

I Am A Maker Craft Class

November 6

Museum Film Series 

The first three Sundays in November (6, 13, and 20), the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, will host a series of film screenings showcasing the stories of the Indigenous peoples of this land. The films will focus on the Northern Arapaho, whose land and territories once included the area now occupied by  Longmont. There is no cost for attendance, but reservations are recommended.  Q&A sessions will follow each film.

Two Rivers (1996) & Home From School (2021)

3 pm, Sunday, Nov. 6

Two Rivers is the true story of a Native American reconciliation group in North Central Washington State. In Home From School, the Northern Arapaho bring home the remains of boys who died at the Carlisle School more than 100 years ago.

Pure Grit (2021)

3 pm, Sunday, Nov. 13

Chronicling three years in the life of Northern Arapaho racer, Sharmaine Weed, Pure Grit is both a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story.

Little by Little: Becoming Sister Cities (2022)

3 pm, Sunday, Nov. 20

This documentary prequel introduces the context of a historic first Sister Cities relationship with a sovereign tribal nation that was formalized between the City of Longmont and the Northern Arapaho Tribe in September of 2021. This short film explores a journey towards friendship and trust, and the ties that we all feel to a place that is both an ancestral homeland and thriving city.

Bluegrass Buffet Brunch with Shine Provisions & 5-Foot Betty!

The Times Collaborative / 338 Main

CiderYoga w/Kevin Flynn

St. Vrain Cidery

LOCO Ukulele Jam with Brian Rezac!

Bootstrap Brewing

 

November 7

Bad Art Club for Teens/Tweens

City Of Longmont Public Library

Drop-in Bilingual Storytime

City Of Longmont Public Library

High Score Skeeball Tournament

Quarters Bar & Arcade

Ignition Dance Fitness - Zumba Class

Elks Lodge

Monday Night Writer's Group

City Of Longmont Public Library

Open Mic with Denny Driscoll

Bootstrap Brewing

 

November 8

Drop-in Cricut Paper Craft and Design Exploration

City Of Longmont Public Library

High Score Skeeball Tournament

Quarters Bar & Arcade

Karaoke with Nic at Bootstrap Brewing!

Bootstrap Brewing

Open Chess Night @ the Library

City Of Longmont Public Library

Social Emotional Circle Time for Babies and Caregivers

City Of Longmont Public Library

Speakeasy Open Mic

The Speakeasy

Taps & Apps Happy Hour

300 Suns Brewing

 

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

Adults Creative Night: Pop-up Cards

• Date: 11/10/2022 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

• Location: Library
  409 Fourth Ave.
  Longmont, Colorado 80501

The time of giving and what better way to celebrate than with giving a card with a fun twist! Learn how to make your own festive pop-up card for FREE! No experience required. Pick and choose your theme from three templates (or four if you're brave) and create your wonderful masterpiece.

Registration REQUIRED

Registration opens on Friday, Oct. 28. These events are expected to sell out quickly! Only 20 spots are available for each night.

 

Register for Adults Creative Night Classes on Eventbrite

¡Hablemos! Let's Talk!

City Of Longmont Public Library

Art & Sip: Autumnal Watercolor Sunset

Longmont Museum

Boulder County Tonight: Post-Election Special

Longmont Public Media

JT & Dan at Bootstrap Brewing

Bootstrap Brewing

Social Emotional Circle Time for 3- to 5-year-olds

City Of Longmont Public Library

TNT! (Thursday Night Teens)

Longmont Museum

Tween Club @ the Library

City Of Longmont Public Library

 

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.

Veterans Day Parade

Main Street

Friday Afternoon Concert: FY5

Longmont Museum

Live Music at Bootstrap Brewing!

Bootstrap Brewing

Longmont East Side Back Alley Ghost Tour

Downtown Longmont

Longmont East Side Haunting History Tour

Downtown Longmont

Psychic School 101

Earth Feather Healings

 

November 12

Library Recommendations & Programs 

For younger audiences, the Longmont Children’s Librarians will be hosting an Indigenous Authors Storytime from 10-10:30 am on Saturday, Nov. 12, in the Library Meeting Rooms. The storytime is geared toward preschool-aged children and older, but all aged children are welcome to attend! No registration necessary. 

Looking for more? Consider checking out a book or DVD  from the Longmont Library that amplifies the stories and histories of native and indigenous peoples of this land.  

• Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.  

• In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000 Year History of American Indians by Jake Page 

• Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen 

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian Story about the American West by Dee Brown  

• Black Elk Speaks conveyed by John G. Neihardt 

• Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 

• Reel Injun (DVD), directed by Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge and Jeremiah Hayes 

• Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (DVD), directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana 

November 13

Museum Film Series 

The first three Sundays in November (6, 13, and 20), the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, will host a series of film screenings showcasing the stories of the Indigenous peoples of this land. The films will focus on the Northern Arapaho, whose land and territories once included the area now occupied by  Longmont. There is no cost for attendance, but reservations are recommended.  Q&A sessions will follow each film.

Pure Grit (2021)

• 3 pm, Sunday, Nov. 13

• Chronicling three years in the life of Northern Arapaho racer, Sharmaine Weed, Pure Grit is both a thrilling tale of extreme bareback horse racing, and an intimate love story.

Little by Little: Becoming Sister Cities (2022)

• 3 pm, Sunday, Nov. 20

• This documentary prequel introduces the context of a historic first Sister Cities relationship with a sovereign tribal nation that was formalized between the City of Longmont and the Northern Arapaho Tribe in September of 2021. This short film explores a journey towards friendship and trust, and the ties that we all feel to a place that is both an ancestral homeland and thriving city. 

Miracle on 4th - Local Holiday Market

4th Avenue from Main Street to Kimbark in front of Bricks

CiderYoga w/Kevin Flynn

St. Vrain Cidery

Dogs Enjoy Afternoon Reading (D.E.A.R.)

City Of Longmont Public Library

Full Throttle Yoga at Bootstrap Brewing!

Bootstrap Brewing

LOCO Ukulele Jam with Brian Rezac!

Bootstrap Brewing

Native American Documentary Film Series: Pure Grit

Longmont Museum

November 14

Drop-in Bilingual Storytime

City Of Longmont Public Library

Ignition Dance Fitness - Zumba Class

Elks Lodge

Monday Night Writer's Group

City Of Longmont Public Library

Multi-ball Skee-ball Tournament

Quarters Bar & Arcade

Open Mic with Denny Driscoll

Bootstrap Brewing

Second Mondays Book Group

City Of Longmont Public Library

 

November 15

Dungeons & Dragons for Teens

 

November 16

Why early-stage and funded startup businesses fail

Having a cool idea for a startup isn’t enough to get an entrepreneurial venture off the ground. Having a passion for your product is essential, but too much passion might lead you to believe that your product is so good that it will sell itself.

In her presentation, “Your Product Isn’t Going to Sell Itself,” Lori Jones, president and CEO of Avocet Communications, will share the intriguing and winning mindset that entrepreneurs must have in order to achieve a five-fold acquisition income and billion-dollar valuations. It is a mindset that welcomes and embraces taking calculated positioning and marketing risks. In its 40+ year history, Avocet Communications has worked with over 1,200 startup brands, helping them to differentiate and increase demand with their particular audiences.

Jones will address:

●       Reasons start-ups and growth-minded businesses fail

●       Three ways to get your product or solution more attention

●       Must-dos if you don’t want your startup to fizzle

WHEN: November 16, 4 – 6 p.m., including in-person networking and refreshments

WHERE: Avocet Communications, 425 Main Street, Longmont, CO 80501

The event is free, open to all, and limited to the first 30 respondents.

To register, click here.

 

November 18

“Simple Gift” a concert by Rocky Mountain Chorale

Nov. 18,7:30 p.m. at the Heart of Longmont Church, 350 11th Ave., Longmont

Nov. 19 7:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder

Inspired by the beautiful Quaker hymn “Simple Gifts,” the concert will feature music of all genres – from classical to folk to modern – that celebrates the joy and wonders of life.

Tickets are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for students and can be purchased via the Rocky Mountain Chorale website: www.rockymtnchorale.org, or at the door.

 

November 19

Youth Center Celebration

Saturday, Nov. 19, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 

Join the Longmont Youth Center (1050 Lashley St) and the Northern Arapaho 477 Biixoo3etiit’ program for a day of celebration including fry bread, tacos and a presentation about the importance of buffalo. Youth will also learn how to construct a tipi with guidance from the Lennard and Dawn Buffalo Family. 

 

November 20

Museum Film Series 

The first three Sundays in November (6, 13, and 20), the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, will host a series of film screenings showcasing the stories of the Indigenous peoples of this land. The films will focus on the Northern Arapaho, whose land and territories once included the area now occupied by  Longmont. There is no cost for attendance, but reservations are recommended.  Q&A sessions will follow each film.

Little by Little: Becoming Sister Cities (2022)

• 3 pm, Sunday, Nov. 20

• This documentary prequel introduces the context of a historic first Sister Cities relationship with a sovereign tribal nation that was formalized between the City of Longmont and the Northern Arapaho Tribe in September of 2021. This short film explores a journey towards friendship and trust, and the ties that we all feel to a place that is both an ancestral homeland and thriving city. 

 

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.