Community Calendar

Join the Library's longest running book club on the 2nd Thursday of every month to discuss a new book! This month, we are reading The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Copies are available at the Downtown Information Desk.

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

We will meet in person in the Downtown Library Community Room.

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.

Please join Northern Arizona Archaeology Society for a presentation by Kimberly Spurr

Abstract: Before the construction of Glen Canyon Dam, archaeologists from the Museum of Northern Arizona explored the Colorado River and tributary canyons to document cultural sites that would be submerged under Lake Powell. A recent project by the Museum monitored the condition of nearly 500 sites in the canyons and uplands to learn what happens when archaeological sites are inundated by a reservoir and millions of visitors. Ongoing drought conditions in the western US are remodeling the landscape and require new approaches to preserving our cultural heritage.

Kimberly Spurr has worked as a professional archaeologist for more than 30 years. She is currently the Archaeology Division Director at the Museum of Northern Arizona, where she collaborates with federal agencies and tribes to preserve and protect ancestral sites and cultural material.

The Cline Community Lecture in the Humanities, established and endowed by Platt Cline, Flagstaff and NAU Historian and newspaper editor, has for 42 years brought speakers of international stature to Flagstaff. Cline Lecturers are asked to answer the broadly conceived question of “what is the social usefulness of the humanities? Or “why are the humanities important?”

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s prodigious body of work engages deeply with critical questions in the humanities, reminding us of the urgency of being present in our broader communities. His award-winning duo of novels The Sympathizer (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and The Committed are set during and after the Vietnam War. April 30th of this year marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, but Nguyen’s writing compels us to remember that wars send aftershocks throughout generations and remain a touchstone for all impacted. Viet Thanh Nguyen non-fiction works include The Refugees; Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, and To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other, Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, his edited volume, The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, as well as an award-winning children’s picture book, Simone, illustrated by Minnie Phan, about wildfires, emergency evacuation, and a shelter stay from the perspective of a young child. Viet emphasizes that “it is through telling stories that we shape our identities…and contest our identities.”

Big Read Writers Gone Wild Open Mic

Thursday | February 26 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM

Historic East-Side Taproom

Last month, Flagstaff writers enjoyed a workshop with writing prompts themed around real world animal-human interactions. This month, we are hosting an open mic for those who participated last month as well as other writers – all around the theme of animals and humans sharing the world around us. Truth? Fiction? Poetry? Give us what you’ve got. Meet up with your community, read, or listen to your friends and neighbors sharing their writing. Historic is offering some beer discounts just for us and we have free food for all non-bears!

Open to adults of all ages.

This season's Flagstaff Big Read is asking us all to take a walk on the wild side with Mary Roach’s book: FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law! It is a collection of stories about the many many times that non-human animals and human animals have had to learn how to get along – or are still learning.

You can pick up a free copy of Roach’s book at the Flagstaff Public Library, Cline Library, The Riles Building at NAU, the Murdoch Center, or Culture Connect AZ! Join one of our programs between January and May 2026 to engage with your community while learning more about animals and how we live with them all around the world.

Go to Flagstaff Big Read Coalition to learn more about our free community events, check-out reading lists and at-home activities, or learn more about Fuzz!

Established in 1997, the Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF) is a literary nonprofit based out of Kinłání (aka the bordertown of Flagstaff, Arizona). It coordinates readings, panels, workshops, contests, and more that reflect the literary interests and cultural issues that define life in the Colorado Plateau region of Northern Arizona. As part of its regular programming, the NOAZBF includes the Indigenous Writers’ Symposium, Young Readers’ Festival, and Flagstaff Off-the-Page (FLG OTP, new in Fall 2021). Throughout the year, the NOAZBF collaborates with and/or supports the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, the Northern Arizona University MFA Program, Cinder Skies Reading Series, Juniper House Reading Series, Flagstaff Poetry Slam, Northern Arizona University VisualDesignLab, the McCallister Program for Community, Culture and Environment, Red Ink.,Thin Air Magazine, Carbon Copy, Curios, Eggtooth Editions, Tolsun Books, Salina Bookshelf, Abalone Mountain Press, Outspokin’ and Bookish, Poetry Out Loud, Kin’Lani Bordertown Dormitory, the National Park Service, Northern Arizona Museum, and Bright Side Bookshop.

Established in 1997, the Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF) is a literary nonprofit based out of Kinłání (aka the bordertown of Flagstaff, Arizona). It coordinates readings, panels, workshops, contests, and more that reflect the literary interests and cultural issues that define life in the Colorado Plateau region of Northern Arizona. As part of its regular programming, the NOAZBF includes the Indigenous Writers’ Symposium, Young Readers’ Festival, and Flagstaff Off-the-Page (FLG OTP, new in Fall 2021). Throughout the year, the NOAZBF collaborates with and/or supports the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, the Northern Arizona University MFA Program, Cinder Skies Reading Series, Juniper House Reading Series, Flagstaff Poetry Slam, Northern Arizona University VisualDesignLab, the McCallister Program for Community, Culture and Environment, Red Ink.,Thin Air Magazine, Carbon Copy, Curios, Eggtooth Editions, Tolsun Books, Salina Bookshelf, Abalone Mountain Press, Outspokin’ and Bookish, Poetry Out Loud, Kin’Lani Bordertown Dormitory, the National Park Service, Northern Arizona Museum, and Bright Side Bookshop.

Established in 1997, the Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF) is a literary nonprofit based out of Kinłání (aka the bordertown of Flagstaff, Arizona). It coordinates readings, panels, workshops, contests, and more that reflect the literary interests and cultural issues that define life in the Colorado Plateau region of Northern Arizona. As part of its regular programming, the NOAZBF includes the Indigenous Writers’ Symposium, Young Readers’ Festival, and Flagstaff Off-the-Page (FLG OTP, new in Fall 2021). Throughout the year, the NOAZBF collaborates with and/or supports the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, the Northern Arizona University MFA Program, Cinder Skies Reading Series, Juniper House Reading Series, Flagstaff Poetry Slam, Northern Arizona University VisualDesignLab, the McCallister Program for Community, Culture and Environment, Red Ink.,Thin Air Magazine, Carbon Copy, Curios, Eggtooth Editions, Tolsun Books, Salina Bookshelf, Abalone Mountain Press, Outspokin’ and Bookish, Poetry Out Loud, Kin’Lani Bordertown Dormitory, the National Park Service, Northern Arizona Museum, and Bright Side Bookshop.

Established in 1997, the Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF) is a literary nonprofit based out of Kinłání (aka the bordertown of Flagstaff, Arizona). It coordinates readings, panels, workshops, contests, and more that reflect the literary interests and cultural issues that define life in the Colorado Plateau region of Northern Arizona. As part of its regular programming, the NOAZBF includes the Indigenous Writers’ Symposium, Young Readers’ Festival, and Flagstaff Off-the-Page (FLG OTP, new in Fall 2021). Throughout the year, the NOAZBF collaborates with and/or supports the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, the Northern Arizona University MFA Program, Cinder Skies Reading Series, Juniper House Reading Series, Flagstaff Poetry Slam, Northern Arizona University VisualDesignLab, the McCallister Program for Community, Culture and Environment, Red Ink.,Thin Air Magazine, Carbon Copy, Curios, Eggtooth Editions, Tolsun Books, Salina Bookshelf, Abalone Mountain Press, Outspokin’ and Bookish, Poetry Out Loud, Kin’Lani Bordertown Dormitory, the National Park Service, Northern Arizona Museum, and Bright Side Bookshop.