Send us your events in this format:

Format: Date, Event, Description if necessary, time, cost, sponsoring organization and phone number/website/other contact information. All events must be pre-approved and are recommended to be sent at least two weeks in advance to: anichols@d.umn.edu

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NOVEMBER

Tuesday November 25th , 2008 Northland Gay Men's Center "weekly" discussion group. Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Repeats: This event repeats every week.Location: NGMC--Building for Women in Duluth 1st Ave East and First Street

Thursday, November 27-28 UMD is Closed for people to observe "Thanksgiving"

DECEMBER

Monday, December 1st World AIDS Day  

The St. Louis County Historical Society and AIDS Information Duluth presents

Nowhere to Hide

A traveling exhibit providing an historical understanding of the present

worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic by comparing it to the 1918 flu pandemic

Free preview and public reception

Monday, December 1, 2008

World AIDS Day 

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. Program 

Featured speaker: Tony Smydra, MSW

Case Manager/Prevention Specialist

AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin

Complimentary refreshments will be served.

St. Louis County Heritage & Arts Center

Great Hall

506 West Michigan Street

Duluth, Minnesota

Monday, December 1, 2008 QASU Board Meeting 5:30-6:30 in Kirby 351, followed by QASU Social Night 6:30-8pm in Kirby 355-57 in Kirby Student Center at UMD for lots of fun!

Thursday, December 4th, Book Club Discussion, White Like Me, Tim Wise. Griggs Conference Room, P-Q (Residence Hall Area, not to be confused with Griggs near the Multicultural Center) . 4pm.

Saturday, December 6th, Kwaanza Celebration! UMD Ballroom, 6pm

Monday, December 8, 2008 QASU Board Meeting 5:30-6:30 in Kirby 351, followed by QASU Social Night 6:30-8pm in Kirby 355-57 in Kirby Student Center at UMD for lots of fun!

Friday, December 12th Last Day of Fall Semester

Saturday, December 13th Annual Northcountry Women's Coffeehouse Talentshow and Craft Bazaar. Performers and Crafters needed! To perform, call Lee: 728-5468, for crafter space call Logan at: 218-393-7569. Location: Unitarian Universalist Congregation 835 W. College Street, Duluth, MN. $8 members, $10 non-members. Always more if you can, less if you can't.

Monday, December 15th , 2008 QASU Board Meeting 5:30-6:30 in Kirby 351, followed by QASU Social Night 6:30-8pm in Kirby 355-57 in Kirby Student Center at UMD for lots of fun! (TBA: This is finals week)

Monday December 15-19 Finals Week (if you're stressed out, it's normal)

Sunday December 21st Hanukkah begins at sundown

Wednesday December 24-26th UMD is closed for Winter Break

Wednesday, December 31st New Year's Eve is observed

JANUARY 2009

Thursday, January 1st, New Year's Day is observed

Monday, January 19th Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday. See community calendars for city events and celebrations.

Tuesday, January 20th Spring Semester Classes Begin!

Wednesday, January 28th-31st, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Conference. Denver, CO. (21st Annual)

FEBRUARY

Thursday, February 12 Lincoln's Birthday

Thursday, February 12-15th BIG GAY COLLEGE CONFERENCE, Bloomington Indiana.

Saturday, February 14th Valentines Day

Monday, February 16th Washington's Birthday Celebration

Sunday, February 22nd Washington's actual Birthday apparently

Wednesda, February 25th Ash Wednesday

MARCH

Sunday, March 8 Daylight Savings Time Begins

Saturday March 14th-Sunday, March 22nd UMD's Spring Break

Tuesday, March 17th St. Patrick's Day is observed.

Monday, March 23rd Classes Resume

APRIL

Sunday, April 5th is Palm Sunday

Wednesday, April 8 Passover begins at Sundown

Friday, April 10 is Good Friday

Sunday, April 12 Easter

Thursday, April 30th is Angie Nichols Birthday (38 years) Fundraiser! Time & Location TBA. Cake and Coffee will be served, with Ellen D'Generes film footage on site. (Ellen came out on natational television in her show as "Ellen Morgan" and the world freaked out, and my birthday was overshadowed, so we share this day together each year!

If unable to attend on campus party, please send your tax-deductible donation checks payable to "UMD Cruden Riggs Scholarship" or "UMD GLBT Program Fund" (with Memo line) "Angie's Birthday" to: University of Minnesota Foundation, CM-3854, PO Box 70870, St. Paul, MN 55170-3854.

MAY

Friday May 8th Last Day of Spring Semester Classes

Sunday, May 10th is Mother's Day

Monday May 11-15th Final Exams Week (if you're stressed out, it's normal)

Note: For other local organizational updates, check out Queer Duluth/Superior links (under "Resources") and go to their homepages.