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This twice-monthly educational session is open to any 13+ youth wanting to express themselves creatively through photography. Club meetings include field trips, individual and group projects, short info sessions, one-to-one skill development, and discussion of each other’s work. Participants are allowed to use any type of camera, including their phones.
Veterans Memorial Hall, a program of the St. Louis County Historical Society, is partnering with the Minnesota Humanities Center to present Objects of War: A Storytelling Circle of Service, Memory, and Community on Thursday, September 24, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at American Legion Post 71. The event is free, and advance registration is required. Register online at https://www.mnhum.org/event/duluth-objects-of-war-a-storytelling-circle-of-service-memory-community. Space is limited, and registration helps organizers plan seating and the light meal. For Objects of War, participants are invited to bring an item connected to military service or the experience of war and conflict — such as dog tags, a service member’s good luck charm, a photograph, a letter, or a family heirloom — and share the story behind it. Guided by trained facilitators, the evening will explore why we hold on to certain objects and how those objects help us better understand the human impacts of war. Participants…
Join us for the Pruitt Center Fall 2026 Virtual Speaker, Shawn Achor! Conventional wisdom holds that success is determined by talent, intelligence or the circumstances we happen to land in. After more than a decade of research at Harvard and work in 51 countries, Shawn Achor found that the greatest predictor of our future success is something else entirely: the set of beliefs we hold about the world around us. Beliefs are not passive. They shape what we notice, how we interpret setbacks, how much energy and persistence we bring to hard problems and whether we see a challenge as fixed or changeable. And because beliefs spread through teams the same way emotions do, a single person’s belief about what is possible can raise—or quietly cap—the ceiling for an entire organization. In his newest book, The Power of Beliefs, Shawn demonstrates that these beliefs are far more malleable than we…
Learn about mindfulness and how to incorporate it into your daily life with the Pruitt Center’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) virtual course. Open to UW-Superior students, employees and the community, this 8-week, evidence-based, program offers in-depth training in many different forms of mindfulness, from meditation to mindful eating, to gentle stretching and more. A free orientation will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 5 p.m. Anyone who is interested is welcome to join to learn about the course. Learn more about the fall 2026 MBSR course and register at uwsuper.edu/MBSR-Fall2026
Is Autism an identity or a disorder, is an ongoing question which faces those who describe themselves under the umbrella of Neurodiversity language. WW Norton author, and autistic individual, Sean Inderbitzen LCSW, DSW, invites neurodiverse Duluthians to wrestle with this question with him in a small gathering setting. Themes to be covered from his new book in this talk include identity, temperment, disorder, empathy, and the role of ambiguous loss in shaping connection and rigidity. These themes like these and more appear in his new book Neural Exercises for Autism, and we invite you to meet with the author partaking in discussion, pastries, and a dive into meaning and neurodiversity. Please register for our gathering complete with readings, discussion, pastries from Sara’s Table at Chester Creek Cafe, and Alcoholic beverages available for purchase. Pastries will be provided for those who wish to partake, and beverages are guest responsibility. Our event…
Ever want to start Comedy but not sure where to begin? Well you’re in luck, Twin Ports Comedy is bringing stand up comedy classes to TCS! 🎙 Lesson #3 brings us: How To Produce A Comedy Show, classes are free so what better time than now to learn the comedy ropes! 7pm · FREE Learn more here: https://www.twinportscomedy.com/…/tpc-presents… This event was made possible in part by a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council with funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature from its General Fund.