Gunnison County Libraries

Join us for afternoon tea and a book discussion on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 2 pm in the Crested Butte Library. Titles are announced at least 4 weeks prior to meeting times and several copies of the book are available to check out for free in advance of meeting.

Upcoming reads:

• June 20: Improvement by Joan Silber

• July 18: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

• August 15: Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

• September 19: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Meetings are free and open to all.

Practice English this summer at the Gunnison Public Library on Thursdays from 6:00-7:00 pm in the Library’s Western History Room beginning May 30th. Our wonderful volunteer teacher Ellen Ross will lead an English conversation group and answer your questions about English.

Este verano ven y practicar el ingles los jueves a la biblioteca publica con nuestra maestra voluntaria y maravillosa, Ellen Ross. Empieza el 30 de Mayo y continuara si hay participantes. Es un grupo de conversacion y practica para cualquiere nivel. Favor de avisarnos si vayan a participar para que Ellen sabra cuantas personas vendran. Es gratis y una oportunidad maravillosa para mantener el ingles cuando no hay los clases regulares. Por favor, compartir el anuncio con otros.

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is from Denver, Colorado. She is the author of the debut short story collection, Sabrina & Corina from One World/ Random House, a historical novel to follow. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. Kali has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, and Hedgebrook. She has an MFA from the University of Wyoming.

This event is a collaboration with the Crested Butte Center for the Arts and is free and open to all.

Join us for a family storytelling program with presenter, Linda Batlin. She is a storyteller and author from Boulder, Colorado where she has lived for over half of her life. She tells stories filled with wisdom and mirth for all ages in many settings.

Her repertoire is also filled with multicultural folktales from around the world such as Asian stories, animal stories, ghost stories, Jewish folktales, nature stories, puppets, etc. Linda has had the good fortune to trek, travel and climb in many parts of the world, many of them quite remote and exotic. Along the way she has collected folktales from the places she has visited.

This event is part of the Summer Reading Program, A Universe of Stories. It is free and open to all.

Join us for a children’s storytelling program with presenter, Linda Batlin. She is a storyteller and author from Boulder, Colorado where she has lived for over half of her life. She tells stories filled with wisdom and mirth for all ages in many settings.

Her repertoire is also filled with multicultural folktales from around the world such as Asian stories, animal stories, ghost stories, Jewish folktales, nature stories, puppets, etc. Linda has had the good fortune to trek, travel and climb in many parts of the world, many of them quite remote and exotic. Along the way she has collected folktales from the places she has visited.

This event is part of the Summer Reading Program, A Universe of Stories. It is free and open to all.