Events Up North Jan. 6-11: Lantern-lit hike, author and sourdough brown bags

Welcome to the first full week of 2025! There's plenty to do, even though it's January.

• Brown Bag Author series - noon, Brainerd Public Library with author Jan D. Payne discussing her book Rabbit Moon

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• Capturing Your Life Stories - 1 p.m., memory-capturing session at the Bemidji Senior Center. Bring writing tools or your laptop.

• Feed Your Mind brown bag lunch learning series - noon, Northland Arboretum in Brainerd. Learn how to make sourdough bread. $5/Arboretum member, $10/non-member. Register.
• Auditions for Disney's The Little Mermaid, Jr. - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Bemidji Community Theater Performing Arts Center. All actors must be between the ages of 8 and 18.
• S.A.V.E suicide prevention training - 5 p.m., Hibbing Memorial Building. Sponsored by the Hibbing chapter of Disabled American Veterans.

• Auditions for Disney's The Little Mermaid, Jr. - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Bemidji Community Theater Performing Arts Center. All actors must be between the ages of 8 and 18.
• Classic Movie Series - 6:30 p.m., Edge Center for the Arts in Bigfork. This month's film is No Way Out, starring Sydney Poitier and Richard Wydmark.

• Opening reception for "The Rhythm of the Hill Annex Mine" with artist Aaron Squadroni - 5 to 7 p.m., Watermark Art Center in Bemidji
• Burger Night - 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Curl Mesabi in Eveleth
• Learn to Curl - 6 p.m. at Itasca Curling Club in Grand Rapids

• Minnesota Historical Society Free Admission Day - Free sites include the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids and Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors.
• Lantern light walk - 5 to 7:30 p.m., Itasca State Park
• Bemidji Contra Dance - 6:30 p.m., Rail River Folk School in Bemidji. All ages and experience levels are welcome. Dance to live music from the O'Neil Family Band. No partners necessary.
• InsomniActs 6 - 7 p.m., Reif Center in Grand Rapids

What's going on in your community? Let us know!

Events Up North is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota.