📚 Book Festival and Gatsby Night

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Good morning, Flagstaff! This is a weekend filled with events for reading and poetry lovers! (Haiku Death Match anyone?)😄 And if you’ve got kids you’ll see there are a LOT of free family events popping up with a family faire, a stroller workout, even a circus!

In today’s Flagstaff Inspires:

• 📚 Books, book and more books!

• 🚿 It’s Water Awareness Month and you can get an efficiency makeover.

• 🤸‍♀️ Bushmaster Family Faire - prepare for summer fun at this family event.

Let’s go!

— Alissa Zorn

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Community Sparks

Books, books and more books!

📚 The first ever Friends of the Library SPRING Book Sale is this weekend. Extra carts full of books will surround the regular book sale area. Come find your new favorite read! All proceeds support programs and services at the Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library.

• Saturday, April 12th 9am-4:30pm, Downtown Library

• Sunday, April 13th 9am-12:30pm, Downtown Library

🎉📖 The Northern Arizona Book Festival continues this weekend with readings and workshops throughout the weekend. You’ll find a Book Fair on Heritage Square Saturday from 11am-6pm with performances and kid activities all day:

• Children's Story and Craft Hour: 11am

• Literary Trivia: 12:30pm

• Local Presses Present: 2pm

• Indigenous Storytelling: 3:30pm

• Haiku Death Match featuring Ed Mabrey: 5pm

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🔭 Lowell Observatory’s Worlds Revealed Speaker Series: Dr. Larry Wasserman presents "Things That Go Bump in the Night – Conjunctions, Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations" Friday April 11th, 5-6pm at Lowell Observatory

Worlds Revealed Speaker Series is included with general admission, remember to ask for your locals discount!

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AROUND TOWN

Clean-Up Events

🎿 Winter Recreation Clean-Up: Team up with the City, US Forest Service, and Coconino County to clear litter and pine needles from our beloved outdoor spaces. Fort Tuthill, Saturday, April 12th 9-11am | Raymond County Park, Saturday, April 12th 1-3pm

🌎 Earth Day Cleanup Hubs will be coming next week, April 14th-17th. These will be at various places around town where you’ll be able to pick up supplies and help clean up. Sign up to receive notification of times and locations. 

Business News

🥕🧅 New Seasonal Menu: Just Delivered is a local meal delivery service that’s great when you or a loved one needs food for recovery, or simply a break from cooking. They just announced their Spring Menu which they will offer until July.

🐓 Community Market Opening: Starting April 12th, Farm Addiction will be hosting a Farmers’ Market with live animals, baked goods, vendors, and a petting zoo every 2nd Saturday of the month at C-A-L Ranch. The first is this Saturday 10am-3pm, C-A-L Ranch Parking Lot.

👉 The Orpheum is hiring for box office/ticket sales, venue assistant, and concessions seller.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

🐰Meet and greet the Easter Bunny. FREE Photos available with your phones! Every Friday and Saturday, April 5-19th from 12-5pm at the Entertainment area in Flagstaff Mall by JCPenney.

🐾 Pet Supplies Garage Sale: Help High Country Humane do spring cleaning and get a great deal on pet supplies too. Fill a grocery bag with items you want and pay just $5 per bag! April 11th & 12th, 10am-4pm, High Country Humane

🤹‍♀️ Cirque Legacy Medieval Circus: A one-of-a-kind show that blends the magic of the Medieval Era with the wonder of the circus. Runs until May 11th INSIDE Flagstaff Mall entertainment area by JCPenney. Showtimes:

• Wednesdays and Thursdays 6pm

• Fridays 3pm and 6pm
  Saturdays 12pm, 3pm, and 6pm

• Sundays 12pm and 3pm

🌄 Register for Carving Change - Public Lands Linocut Workshop: Learn the basics of linocut printmaking and carve stamps to make postcards, focusing particularly on protecting national parks. Workshop is April 19th, 10am at The HeArt Box Gallery, Registration closes April 13th

Friday 4.11

🎶 Sound Connections: a multi-generational music gathering run by a Board Certified music therapist. Come together to create, connect, and thrive through live music making. Additional caregivers are available to provide care partner respite during the session. 10-11am, Montoya Community Center

🚿 Water Efficiency Makeovers: It’s Water Awareness Month! The City of Flagstaff Water Conservation Program is tabling at Buffalo Park with in-depth water efficiency resources, free water efficiency supplies, and a raffle to win a free high-efficiency toilet! 12-4pm, Buffalo Park

🧒🌲 Pursuing the Pinyon Pine: Learn about the pinyon pine and make tree ring art. All participants will take home a tree seedling! (while supplies last). Ages 7+, 1-2:15pm, Downtown Library

🎈 NACA Celebration of Youth: Come enjoy a fun-filled evening with kid activities, community, and springtime joy! 4-8pm, Flagstaff Mall in front of JCPenney

🥂 Gatsby Night: Celebrate the centennial of the publishing of The Great Gatsby with music, dancing and style! Prizes for Best Dressed, Most Gatsby, and Eyes of Eckleburg. 8pm-12am, Uptown Pubhouse - $10, or FREE in 20s attire

Saturday 4.12

🚶‍♂️ Flagstaff Easy Hike Group at Buffalo Park: This group is perfect for outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy hiking without large elevation changes or rough terrain. Assuming weather is good they’ll do two laps around the park. 9am, Buffalo Park

🐣👶 Spring Workout, Egg Hunt and Crafts: Join Fit4Mom Flagstaff for this free spring stroller workout and egg hunt! 9am, Flagstaff Mall Turf Area

🌾 Root Camp: Fertilizers 101: Learn about fertilizers with instructor Dane Munk, who “lives and breathes horticulture” and loves to share his expertise. $10, but participants get a $10 certificate for Warner’s. 10am, Warner’s Nursery

💥 Aerial Sampler Day: Come try out the apparatuses Momentum Aerial offers for only $14 per thirty minute sampler-- try out as many as you like! Ages 13+, 10am-12:30pm, Momentum Aerial, Register ahead of time.

🤸‍♀️ Bushmaster Family Faire: This is your one-stop shop for summer fun, featuring kid activities, entertainment, summer camp & class registration, food trucks, vendors, and non-profit booths. 10am-6pm, West Side of Bushmaster Park

👨‍👧📖 Saturday Story Stop: A fun-filled storytime for all ages. 10:30-11am Downtown Library

👩‍👧 Character Kindness Club with the Blue Heeler: Get free photos with the Blue Heeler Puppy and color a paw print poster. Show a mall receipt or donate $10 to this month's charity for face painting! 11am-12:30pm, Flagstaff Mall

📖☕ Silent Book Club: In this no pressure book club you pick the book you want and interact as much, or as little, as you want. 11am-1pm at Bookmans Cafe

🧝‍♀️ Cosplay and Thrift: Dress up as your favorite character for a chance to win prizes - every purchase or donation enters you into a drawing for even more goodies! 11am-2pm, Trash Panda Thrift 601 N. Humphrey’s

👒 Viola’s Annual Pansy Party: Celebrate spring with food, music, and huge variety of Pansies. Come dressed in your Sunday's Best - the floppier the hat the better! 12-3pm, Viola’s Flower Garden

💍 Handmade Jewelry Trunk Show: Fabulous stone and metal pieces from Nancy Foo, Flagstaff artist. Meet the artist and check out her newest work. 12-4pm, Arizona Handmade Gallery

💧 Free Tour of the Lake Mary Water Treatment Plant: Learn more about the processes that keep our water flowing! To RSVP, email [email protected]. 1-3pm, Lake Mary Water Treatment Plant

🖼 The Future Is Indigenous Opening Reception: Featuring contemporary Indigenous artists offering their unique and courageous messages to us and the next seven generations, curated by Jihan Gearon. 6-8pm, Coconino Center for the Arts

🚀✨ Flagstaff Foundry April: The Flagstaff Foundry is about to go supernova with a night of cosmic comedy, intergalactic improv, and performances so hot they’ll make the sun jealous. 7-9:30pm, Momentum Aerial

🍅 Throwing Tomatoes Humor Writing Showcase: A selection of writers will read funny poems, essays, or short stories. 7:30pm, Firecreek Coffee

Sunday 4.13

🌄 Flagstaff Mountain-Town Market: Find local produce, artisan goods, food, music, and even face paint and yoga at this outdoor market. Sundays 9am-1pm at City Hall Parking Lot

🧘‍♀️🍺 Pints and Poses Yoga: Start your Sunday with a drop-in Yoga class. Then enjoy a recovery beer for just $2, 10:30-11:30am at Dark Sky Brewing Co

♟ Chess in the Square: Students going to SuperNationals VII in Florida in May will play chess with all who dare to play them. $5 suggested donation to play. $10 if you lose. 1-4pm, Heritage Square

🦋 Springtime Vibes Beeswax Candle Making Workshop: Shape colorful beeswax into delicate flowers, butterflies, and vines, or craft your own unique design. 3-6pm, Drinking Horn Meadery

💃 Ballroom Social Dancing: Come learn and practice social ballroom, swing, and Latin dances. Beginners welcome, no partner needed! 5-7pm at Jazzercise

Monday 4.14

🚣‍♂️ Riordan Mansion Lunchtime Lecture: Join local author and historian Tom Martin presenting on his new book, Dock Marston: Grand Canyon’s Colorado River Running Historian, Vol 1. FREE, reserve a spot. 12:15-1pm, Riordan Mansion State Historic Park

🌸 Northland Hospice Pregnancy and Infant Loss Group: this counselor hosted group meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month. For details, call their office at 928-779-1227 OR email [email protected] or [email protected]

🔵Bingo Night at Dark Sky: $5 and 100% of entry fees go directly to the chosen non-profit of the month. Regular Bingo 5:45-8pm Bonus Bingo 8-9pm, Dark Sky Beer Garden

🎲♟ Pride in Your Community: Queer Board Game Night: Join a night of gaming fun for allies and LGBT+ community members alike! 6:30-7:30pm, East Flagstaff Library

MUSIC

Friday 4.11

Dark Sky Beer Garden | Chad Breen | 6-8pm
The Station Cafe & Lounge | Karaoke Happy Hour | 6pm
Awa Kava Bar | Open Mic | 7:30pm, sign ups 7pm
Mountain Top Taproom | Shine Sweet Moon, Zach & Ty | 8-11pm
NAU DUB Ballroom | Caravel and Beautiful Bones | 8pm | Free, open to the public
Flag Brew | Andy See & His Swinging Jamboree | 9pm
Gopher Hole | Black Lemon | 9:30pm
Monte Vista Lounge | Cadillac Angels | 9:30pm

Saturday 4.12

The Station Cafe & Lounge | Live Music | 4-6pm
Wanderlust | JT Sheets | 4-6pm
Flag Brew | Palo Brea | 6pm
Drinking Horn | V-Rae and the Crawdads | 8pm
Mountain Top Taproom | The Neighbors | 8-11pm
Museum Club | Firerock | 9pm-1am
Gopher Hole | Gold Souls | 9:30pm
Monte Vista Lounge | Andy See & His Swinging Jamboree | 9:30pm

Sunday 4.13

Mother Road | Streetwise Duo | 4-6pm
Dark Sky Taproom | Jazz Funk Trio | 5-7pm
Dark Sky Beer Garden| Acoustic Emo Night | 6-9pm

Monday 4.14

Dark Sky Taproom | Seenan | 6-8pm
Museum Club | Open Mic | 6-9pm
Mountain Top Taproom | Open Mic | 7-11pm

Connections

Outdoor Mental Health Group Leaders Wanted

Take Time Speak Your Mind is searching for volunteers to lead their Outdoor Movement & Community Empowerment Groups.

🌳🏃‍♂️ These groups are designed to help people reconnect with nature, themselves, and others. They combine some form of movement and meaningful conversation in community circles.

Learn more about joining or volunteering in these groups here.

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