FOL Book Sale

SAVE the DATE!

The Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library are sponsoring a used book sale. There is a variety books which include Fiction and Nonfiction genres. CD’s, DVD’s, and puzzles are also available. The proceeds from the book sale support scholarships and library programs.

Book sale hours:

MEMBERS ONLY:
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (You can become a member at the door)

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:

Friday, March 4^th, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 5^th, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

BAG SALE: Sunday, March 6^th, 2022, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

We are accepting donations for our sale from Saturday, February 26 to March 3. Please bring your books (all genres including children’s), games, puzzles, CD’s, record albums and DVD’s to the library lobby and place in the collection bin.

Pleasant Hill Library
1490 S Frontage Rd,
Hastings, MN 55033

Poetry Contest

Do you like to create poetry?

The Dakota County library is hosting a Poetry contest throughout the month of April. Winning poets will be announced in May, and their poems will be published on Dakota County Library’s website and social media channels. The top three poems in each age category will be awarded prizes.

“Embrace your inner poet by entering our annual Poetry Contest during National Poetry Month. Haiku, free verse, odes and sonnets — whatever your poetry style, poets of all ages are encouraged to submit original poems from April 1–30.”

Contest Highlights:

Poems were judged in various age groups:

Poems must be your original work.

Only one entry per person.

The poem length should be no longer than two pages.

The poem should be authored by a single person.

How to enter: complete the entry form and email it along with your poem to library.programs@co.dakota.mn.us by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, 2020.

For more information, email libraryprograms@co.dakota.mn.us or call 651-450-2965 or click on link below:

Contest information

Work of Art Series

Learn a new set of business skills!

The Pleasant Hill Library is offering a professional development series geared for artists in the visual, performing and literary arts. Attend any or all sessions in September.

Presented by Springboard for the Arts. Registration required at www.dakotacounty.us/library

Work of Art: Business Plan Essentials

Tuesday, September 04, 2018

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Event Details
Learn how to prepare a simple business plan in arts-friendly language and get help organizing the various aspects of your artistic practice and making informed business decisions.

Registration begins 8/21/2018 at 10:00 AM

Work of Art: Funding

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Event Details
Learn to think creatively about how to diversify your funding streams by exploring traditional and new models for generating value, resource and revenue.

Registration begins 9/4/2018 at 10:00 AM

Work of Art: Kiva Info Session

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Event Details

Learn how the Kiva microloan platform works and about matching funds, examples of successful artists’ projects and best practices to help you find capital to expand or invest in your work.

Registration begins 9/11/2018 at 10:00 AM

For more information please contact Pleasant Hill Library

DCL at Hastings (Pleasant Hill)
Pleasant Hill Large Meeting Room
1490 S Frontage Rd, Hastings, MN 55033

Art & Fun at Pleasant Hill Library

Enjoy a variety of family events during the month of April!

1. Art on Tour … at Pleasant Hill Library

Connect to the NEA Big Read in the St. Croix Valley at Pleasant Hill Library.

A traveling art installation will feature work by photographer David Owen and painter Jimmy Longoria. Owen’s panoramic photographs show the expansiveness and beauty found along United States border with Mexico in western Texas. Also, on display will be a print of one of Longoria’s “Palas de mi Apa,” a painted shovel he has painted to honor Latino leadership in the United States.

Exhibit Dates: April 2- 7. More info

2. Spanish & English Storytime for Ages 2-6

Dia del Niño Storytime: stories, rhymes and fingerplays in Spanish and English. For Ages 2–6.

April 11, 10:30am. More info

3. Los Alegres Bailadores

Enjoy a colorful and truly authentic Mexican dance performance and learn about the vibrant arts and cultural traditions of Mexico. For All Ages.

April 14, 2-3pm. More info

4. Dia del Niño Wood Animalitos

Sculpt your own animals out of Model Magic and other crafts materials and then paint colorful patterns on them. Leave class with a fun new animal sculpture. Presented by Artistry. Registration required. A Minnesota Legacy program sponsored by Minnesota’s Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. For Ages 6-12.

April 26, 3:30-5pm. More info

This is just a quick list of upcoming events. For a complete listing and more information, please visit Pleasant Hill Library

Pleasant Hill Library
1490 S Frontage Road
Hastings, MN 55033

Music & Gingerbread Displays

Enjoy these upcoming events in Prescott & Hastings!

Ukulele Christmas Sing Along

Saturday, December 16 from 1 to 3 p.m.

You are invited to join the Orange Dragon Art Gallery for Ukulele Christmas songs, even sing along while you are enjoying some hot apple cider and Christmas Cookies. This would also be a good time to shop for unique, one of a kind Christmas gifts.

Orange Dragon Art Gallery
122 Orange St, Prescott, Wisconsin 54021

Gingerbread House Contest and Display

Join in the fun by entering your own creation or stop by the library to vote for your favorites!

The Pleasant Hill Library will be hosting their annual Gingerbread House Contest and Display from Thursday Dec 14 to Monday, Dec 18. Winners will be announced on Monday, Dec. 18 before the Bells of the Bluffs Concert. Read More

Pleasant Hill Library
1490 S. Frontage Rd Hastings
651-438-0200

“Seeds of Change” – ARTober Events

You are invited to the Opening Night Reception, Meet the Author, and Art Exhibit!

OPENING NIGHT Reception:

Enjoy the Art Exhibit: “Seeds of Change” by Mike Hazard opening night reception Friday, October 6, from 7 PM – 8:30 PM at Hastings Arts Center.

Mike Hazard’s 36 photographs, video, and artist book tell the story of a year in the life of the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) farm. Located in Vermillion Township, the farm is attracting national attention as a model for sustainable stewardship.

Programing starts around 7:15 pm. Come enjoy light snacks and beverages and view more photos like “Ariana and the Zinnias.” Each of the 20 families at the HAFA farm grows about 60 different varieties of plants. Over 100 different vegetables, flowers, and herbs are grown at the farm.

MEET the Author

Author & Artist Mike Hazard’s Reading and Book Signing will be on Saturday, October 7 from 11 am-12 noon at Pleasant Hill Library.

Meet Mike Hazard, who documented the lives of Hmong American farmers in the photo show and book We Come from the Flower, and watch his short film Seeds of Change. Author Hazard will sign and sell his book.

“SEEDS OF CHANGE” Art Exhibit

The visual arts display that includes photographs and video is FREE and open to the public. The exhibit displayed at Hastings Arts Center will run until October 29, 2017.

Please visit ARTober for more details and specific dates and times to view the exhibit.

Hastings Arts Center, 216 E 4th St, Hastings, MN 55033

Pleasant Hill Library, 1490 South Frontage Road, Hastings, MN 55033

Library – Art related programs & contests

Here is a quick list of art classes and programs offered to you!

The Pleasant Hill Library in Hastings is offering:

Sumi-e painting – Japanese brush painting on July 10 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Felt phone cases – making of cases on July 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. This class is meant for parent/child, or grandparent/child or some multigenerational mixture!!

For registration for that, if you and the child are each going to make a case, you both need to sign up but if you are going to work on one together, only one needs to sign up. To register visit Pleasant Hill Library

One more program for everyone in July is the Apollo to the Moon program on July 19 from 6:30 to 7:30. This program would be appropriate for adults and kids. This will be power point and exhibits and a presentation on the space program and especially on the Apollo missions. Rob Ellos is a retired teacher and he now travels around giving presentations on some of the things he most enjoyed teaching. He is great to listen to and very engaging for the kids.

Please check out these contests:

Bookawocky Bookmark Contest for Teens:
https://www.co.dakota.mn.us/libraries/Programs/Teens/Pages/bookwocky-bookmark-contest.aspx

Bookawocky Art Contest for Grades K-5:
https://www.co.dakota.mn.us/libraries/Programs/Kids/Pages/bookawocky-art-contest.aspx

Climb Theater presents The Ant and the Grasshopper:
http://melsadakota.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=37549&ln=ALL&?ag=adult%2c+55&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2017/06/26

Pleasant Hill Library
1490 S Frontage Road
Hastings, MN 55133
651-438-0207

Upcoming Events at Library

The Pleasant Hill Library in Hastings, MN invites you to check out the following upcoming events:

Art Demo Tuesday: Wire Wrapped Jewelry

Tue, May 16, 4-6 pm

See a demonstration by a local artist.

The Jolly Huntsmen

Wed, May 17, 1-3 pm

Put a little oompah in your life with local German polka band the Jolly Huntsmen and enjoy light refreshments.

UFO Minnesota–Watch the Sky

Thu, May 18, 6:30-7:30 pm

Hear author Chad Lewis present some of the most amazing unidentified flying objects and alien encounters in Minnesota. Each year hundreds of people witness something in the sky that they can’t explain and experience encounters they believe are with extraterrestrial beings.

Pleasant Hill Library
1490 S Frontage Rd, Hastings, MN 55033

For more information, visit www.dakotacounty.us/library, and search calendar of events.

Sculptures on Tour

Find the Falcons!

Don’t miss the Sculptures on Tour… presented by ArtReach St. Croix and Pleasant Hill Library

Stop by the Pleasant Hill Library from April 24 – April 30, 2017.

See how local artists interpreted of The Maltese Falcon. The traveling installation will include work by Barbara Riegel Bend (textiles), Alan Honn (glass) and James Shoop (bronze).

Barbara Riegel Bend
As a fiber artist I am drawn to the rich heritage of cloth and the story it tells through its content, color, design, and cultural history. I work with fabrics that have their own integrity and voice. In my fiber sculptures I explore the interplay of cross cultural fabrics stitched side by side with a reconfiguration of contemporary ‘throw away items’ that share the pattern, color or texture. Read more

Alan Honn
A Minnesota native, Al Honn worked as a professional glassblower in Boulder, CO and on Whidbey Island, WA before returning to settle in his home state. Currently, he is a studio artist and instructor at the Minnesota Center for Glass Arts and Foci Cooperative in Minneapolis. Read more

James Shoop
James Shoop has been a professional sculptor since 1983. He first started sculpting at his family’s foundry, Shoop’s American Bronze Casting. At the foundry, he was involved in producing sculptures for the awards and incentives market. For ten years he refined his skills at production molds, casting and finishing. Read more

Free Admission

Individual Dates & Times: *
Apr 27, 2017: 10 am – 8:30 pm (Thu)
Apr 28, 2017: 10 am – 5:30 pm (Fri)
Apr 29, 2017: 10 am – 5:30 pm (Sat)
Apr 30, 2017: 1 pm – 5 pm (Sun)