The Bonner Springs City Library, 201 N. Nettleton, has several featured events in September, including a Hispanic Heritage Month program.
Jack Granath, Bonner Springs Library director, said this will be the library’s first Hispanic Heritage Month program.
The event will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Bonner Springs Farmers’ Market, 129 Elm St. There will be food, salsa dancing and a mariachi group. Admission is free.
“We’ve wanted to do this for a long time,” Granath said. “We hope that we’ll do this once a year at the Farmer’s Market.”
Oldest living ‘Yankee Dodger’ to speak Sept. 13
The guest speaker at the Bonner Springs Historic Preservation Society’s monthly speaker series Sept. 13 will be Fred Kipp, author of “The Last Yankee Dodger: From Brooklyn to LA and the Bronx.”
Kipp, 86, who was born in Piqua, Kansas, is the last living player for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees.
The program will begin at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Alden-Harrington Family Event Center, 218 Oak St., Bonner Springs. There is no admission charge.
Kipp’s son, Mark Kipp, serves on the Bonner Springs City Council.
Granath said he expected this program to be very well attended. For more information, visit http://www.bonnerlibrary.org/event/historic-society-fred-kipp/?instance_id=16306.
Open mic event planned
The Bonner Springs Arts Alliance Wordslingers, a writing group that meets at 6:30 p.m. every second Monday at the Bonner Springs Library, will hold a monthly open mic for writers at Third Space Coffee.
Teen and adult writers usually show up to participate in the open mic event, Granath said.
The open mic event will be at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, Sept. 28 and Oct. 26 at Third Space Coffee, 226 Oak St., Bonner Springs, Kansas. Participants are eligible for prizes.
For more information, see http://www.bonnerlibrary.org/event/open-mic-night-third-space/?instance_id=16307.
Mohr to lead writing workshop
A free writing workshop with Joshua Mohr, a Bay area novelist and writing instructor, will take place at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, at the Bonner Springs Library, 201 N. Nettleton Ave.
Mohr teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and will speak on “Plaracterization: Marrying Plot and Character.”
The program is sponsored by the Johnson County Library Foundation , Joan Berkley Writers Fund. For more information, visit http://www.bonnerlibrary.org/event/plaracterization-marry-plot-and-character/?instance_id=16302.
Book discussion of ‘Song of the Lark’ featured Sept. 18
A book discussion of Willa Cather’s “Song of the Lark” is scheduled at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Bonner Springs Library.
Linda Lewis, a retired professor from Bethany College, will facilitate the discussion. Lewis was a professor of English for 27 years at Bethany College and is an expert in British literature. She also has taught courses about Cather previously.
Like Cather, Lewis is from Nebraska. Lewis moved to Kansas upon completing her doctorate degree at the University of Nebraska. Lewis currently is an editor and author.
The book talk is funded by Humanities Kansas as part of its Talk about Literature in Kansas series. For more information, visit http://www.bonnerlibrary.org/event/book-discussion/?instance_id=16308.