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YWCA Duluth, Main Street Alliance, and Northland Providers Network are teaming up to host a screening of the documentary No Country for Mothers, followed by a panel discussion with local community leaders on the care economy in our region. Event goes from 5:00pm-8:00pm at Zeitgeist (222 E Superior St Duluth, MN 55802). Attendance is free with RSVP Registration to reserve your spot.
Join us for a fun adventure of trick or treating on Glensheen’s historic grounds! Grab a treat or trinket at all 11 stops around our 12 acre estate, that will guide you through various stops including the Gardener’s cottage front door, boathouse, servant’s door, the Juliet balcony, and the mansion front door. This event is free to the public and takes place at Glensheen between 4pm-6pm on October 28th. Get dressed up in your favorite halloween costume and come on down to Glensheen!
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…
Artist and author Sam Zimmerman / Zhaawanoogiizhik visits Split Rock Lighthouse to sign copies of his newest book, Walking My Ancestors’ Path: A Collection of Paintings and Stories, including Ojibwe translations by Manidoo Ma’iingan. Sam is a direct descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. His award-winning artwork has been widely exhibited. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the museum shop.
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