Like the majority of folks in Indianapolis, we at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library are very excited that our city will be hosting the Super Bowl this year. To celebrate this great moment in the city’s history, we will be having extended hours as well as special events during the days leading up to the Super Bowl.

The *OFFICIAL* KVML Super Bowl Week Events Calendar follows. Save the dates, stop by, and check out some of our offerings—including the new Schehr collection, which features first-edition Vonnegut books and magazines.

• January 28: First Anniversary Celebration, Free public open house featuring discussions and music from noon to 5PM. There will be a staged reading of Vonnegut’s only play, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, at 7PM. Tickets are required for the reading. Go to http://www.eventbrite.com/org/435374436?s=1687503 for tickets.
• January 28-January 29: Final two days of The Cats of Mirikitani exhibit. Come see the paintings of Japanese American internment camp survivor Jimmy Mirikitani. Mirikitani was the subject of the award-winning documentary The Cats of Mirikitani.
• January 30-February 2: Extended library hours of 10AM to 8PM (Note that we will be open on Wednesday, too. We are normally closed on this day.)
• February 3: Extended library hours of 10AM to 9PM including First Friday event with 46 for XLVI muralist Pamela Bliss (creator of the Vonnegut mural at 345 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis).
• February 4: Extended library hours of 10AM to 8PM
• February 5: Special library hours of noon to 3PM

Continue to watch our blog for more information about these events in the coming days. We hope to see you at one or more of our offerings. For those of you who don’t live near Indianapolis or don’t want to brave the downtown traffic during Super Bowl Week*, please share this post through your social media networks.

–Shannon

*For those of you who are planning to make the trip downtown, here’s a guide to getting around Indianapolis during the Super Bowl festivities. For those of you utilizing the “Bowl Route” to get around town, we’re just right off New York Street, north on Senate Avenue.

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