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Celebrate the lovely Monarch butterfly during the Duluth Monarch Festival, 10 am to 1 pm June 7 at First United Methodist (Coppertop) Church

Duluth Failed Poets Society
Friday, June 6, 6-8 pm
The Loch Cafe & Games, 318 N. 18th Ave. E.
Open house with the society’s writers and creative talent. Poets, writers and artists will have their creative works on display and interactive writing prompts and other activities will be available for those who want to try their hand at new forms of creative expression.

Women in Theatre, New Play Festival
Friday, June 6, 7:30 pm
Norshor Theatre
The festival formerly known as “What She Said” (we prefer the old name, but that’s not important) with eight short plays written and directed by women. Titles include G-Complex, Sorry about the Galvanism, The Ascension of Maxi, I Watched My Mother Die Before She Died and Days of Awe.

Duluth Monarch Festival
Saturday, June 7, 10 am to 1 pm
First United Methodist (Coppertop) Church
The monarch population has decreased by more than 90 percent since the late 1990s and it has become a symbol for a whole class of threatened pollinators. Due to loss of habitat, climate change, pesticides and herbicides and other factors. Learn how to help bring them back.

Stand with the Banned Music Festival
Saturday, June 7, 12 pm
Honest Dog Books, Bayfield
Showing of the documentary “Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship,” about the battle going on today in school libraries, followed by live music by Polka on Purpose, Molly & The Danger Band and Spring Fed.

Dhejemke
Saturday, June 7, 7 pm
Bent Paddle
Band from North Dakota with jazz, punk, funk, R & B and pop influences, a collective of musicians working to express thought-provoking nerdy songs to bob your head to.

Alison Krauss & Union Station
Wednesday, June 11, 7 pm
Bayfront Festival Park
For nearly four decades, Alison and company have upheld their legacy as one of the most influential and widely celebrated acts in bluegrass and roots music. Jerry Douglas has played dobro for Union Station for 27 years but he’s attained “featured” status as his own solo career has risen.

Bimbo, Willem Dafoe Fan Club, CU Next Tuesday
Thursday, June 12, 7 p.m.
Jade Fountain
Bimbo is an art-rock and post-punk sibling duo from Michigan; Willem Dafoe Fan Club is a local band playing alternative slowcore; and C U Next Tuesday plays intersectional feminist rowdy queer punk.