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Library Fest 2024: The Nature Edition

Upcoming program Library Fest 2024

The Nature Edition

April 8 – 13, 2024

A weeklong celebration including authors, performers, literature, art, music, and so much more!
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Upcoming program Leah Thomas, Founder of Intersectional Environmentalist

Library Fest keynote speaker

Monday, April 8 – 6-7 p.m.
Main Library
Registration required

Dr. Francis smiling while walking, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and backpack, with the ocean in the background

Upcoming program Planetwalker Dr. John Francis

Library Fest keynote speaker

Thursday, April 11 – 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Nasher Museum of Art
2001 Campus Dr, Durham, NC 27705
Registration required

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Upcoming program Living, Thinking, Being & Sensing Otherwise: A Conversation Between Rinaldo Walcott & Joseph M. Pierce

Presented by DocX
Thursday, April 11 – 6:30-8 p.m.
Main Library
Registration required

Cover of Murano's book Notas Migrantes, showing a view out of the window of the train with the landscape reflected back onto the windows as the track curves

Upcoming program Autor y doctor argentino Matías Murano

Library Fest keynote speaker

Friday, April 12 – 5-6 p.m.
Zoom
Registration required

Lauren Spohrer and Phoebe Judge, hosts of Criminal podcast and presenters of this event, sit on a bench in front of a brick wall

Upcoming program The Nature of Podcasting

Friday, April 12 – 6-7 p.m.
Main Library
Registration required

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At our locations National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month. Come celebrate with workshops, readings, an open mic, and more! See all upcoming poetry events >

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Upcoming program Discover the Unseen: Exploring Science’s Tiny Marvels

Saturday, April 20 – 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Main Library
Drop by the 1st floor MakerLab to explore nanotechnology and pick up a take-home DNA-themed STEM kit!

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At our locations NC Voter Photo IDs

Join our friends from the Durham County Board of Elections to learn about the new photo ID requirements to vote in North Carolina and get a free Voter Identification Card!
Next session:
Saturday, April 20 – 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
North Regional Library
See all upcoming NC Voter Photo ID events at the Library >

Friends of the Durham Library

At our locations Friends of the Durham Library Pop-Up DVD Sale

Saturday, April 20 – 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Main Library
Hundreds of DVDs from every imaginable genre! $1 each, with multi-disc sets priced at $1 per disc

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