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Mar

UPCOMING PROGRAMS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS!

Posted by shart  Published in PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Join the Davenport Public Library during the month of April for many exciting events.  On top of our many weekly programs already offered like five story times, an afternoon and an evening game night, a book discussion, and a kids craft, there are many other programs this month as well. Let’s start with a huge [...]

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24

Mar

Final Big Read Event – Wednesday, March 25

Posted by shart  Published in PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Over the past few months, the African American Museum of Iowa and the Davenport Public Library have been offering unique programming for The Big Read initiative, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, which aims to restore reading to the center of American culture. This year, the featured book is Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their [...]

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20

Mar

Help Support the New Eastern Avenue Library

Posted by shart  Published in Adult Programs, Library News, Podcasts, PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS, Teen Programs, Youth Programs

  The Davenport Public Library needs just $112,000 to secure a $1.2 million dollar Community Attraction and Tourism (CAT) Grant to help buildthe Eastern Avenue Library, and the FRIENDS of the Library are offering the citizens a great opportunity to contribute. Join us for thefirst ever“RE@D – River-city Entertainment at Davenport – Variety Show” on [...]

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Tags: Adult Programs, Entertainment, Program Reviews, Uncategorized, Variety Show

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17

Mar

Independent Film Series Features – A Man for all Seasons

Posted by shart  Published in PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Davenport Public Library’s Off-Beat Independent (OBI) film series goes “classic” in March for a showing of the 1966 independent drama, A Man for All Seasons, starring Robert Shaw, Vanessa Redgrave, and Paul Scofield. This Oscar-winning film will be shown on Wednesday, March 18, at 6:00 pm, at the Fairmount Street Library (3000 N. Fairmount Street). [...]

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11

Mar

15th Annual Bix Birthday Bash Another Success!

Posted by shart  Published in Adult Programs, Library News, Teen Programs, Youth Programs

Over 300 people from as far away as Chicago, IL, Milwauke, WI and St.Paul, MN filled the meeting rooms, hallway, and lobby of the Davenport Public Library – Fairmount Street on Tuesday to enjoy the toe tapping music of Bix Beiderbecke.  Featuring talented jazz musicians from around the Midwest, the Bix All Star Band brought Bix’s [...]

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6

Mar

15th Annual Bix Birthday Bash

Posted by shart  Published in PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

  It’s time for Davenport Public Library’s 15th Annual “Bix Birthday Bash,” a festive time of live music celebrating local jazz sensation, Bix Beiderbecke. Join us on Tuesday, March 10, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Fairmount Street Library (3000 N. Fairmount Street) as the “Bix All Star Band” plays your favorite jazz [...]

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2

Mar

New Process for Printing Copies

Posted by shart  Published in PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Computers at the Davenport Public Library will be down on Monday, March 2 at the Main Street Library (321 Main Street) and on Tuesday, March 3 at the Fairmount Street Library (3000 N. Fairmount Street).  The computers will be down because of a new print release system being installed.  Once the computers are back up [...]

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