Share your voice with your community! Enter our essay and art contest for a chance to win. Entries due by July 31. Grades K-2: write a few sentences & draw a picture about what makes you special. Grades 3-5: write a paragraph about what makes you uniquely you. Grades 6-12: write a five paragraph essay… Continue reading Share Your Voice
May 12-Sept 1 Track the minutes you read. For every 250 minutes read, earn a prize from a local business. Read 1000 minutes and get invited to an exclusive pool party at Country Inn & Suites in Galena! Pick up a booklet to track reading at the library. Sponsored by Friends of Galena Public Library,… Continue reading Find Your Voice! Reading Program
12:00-1:30pm Music by Brion Bowman-Pavilion 1:00pm Dog Trick Show-Basketball Court 1:30-3:00pm Music by Liliana Asta-Pavilion 2:30pm Drag Story Time with Cara Toon-Gazebo 3:00-5:00pm Drag Show-Pavilion 4:00pm Raffle winners called-Pavilion All Day: Family crafts and games, vendors, food, drinks, Meet & Greet with the goats of Hoof It!, photo op trail, activities from Illinois Gay Rodeo… Continue reading 2023 Galena Pride Picnic
The graphic novel Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe has been the number one challenged book of 2022 and 2021. Kobabe has defended eir book, noting how beneficial it would have been for em at a younger age. The memoir continues to spark controversy. We shall have a mediated community discussion about the book itself, Kobabe's… Continue reading Community Reads for Inquiring Minds
Join bestselling author TJ Klune this Pride Month to discuss publishing, writing, queer identity, book-banning, and being neurodiverse. TJ will be in conversation with Douglas Mahan. Register here: http://tjklune.eventbrite.com TJ KLUNE (he/him) is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Extraordinaries, and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's… Continue reading An Evening with TJ Klune (virtual)
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601 S Bench St
Galena, IL 61036
815.777.0200
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