Sleepy Dog Books Annual Events
Sleepy Dog Books is committed to providing the highest quality events to the Mt. Pleasant and surrounding communities. Through strategic partnerships and robust offerings SDB is focused on our store becoming much more than a retail option, rather SBD will strive to become the heart of the community. Each of the events on the SDB calendar has be designed to offer learning, personal growth, and development opportunities to all participants.
" So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world."
-Vincent van Gogh
-Vincent van Gogh
August 2023
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SDB Community Hero Series- Multiple Dates (5:30pm)Join us for stories, activities, and discussions with a Doctor, Police Officer, Veterinarian, Scientist, and Teacher. For kids of any age
August 2- Veterinarian August 9- Teacher |
July 2023
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SDB Community Hero Series- Multiple Dates (5:30pm)Join us for stories, activities, and discussions with a Doctor, Police Officer, Veterinarian, Scientist, and Teacher. For kids of any age.
July 12- Police Officer July 19- Scientist |
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SDB Ice Cream Social - July 16th (3:00pm)Let's get social! Join Sleepy Dog Books for their first annual ice cream social to celebrate community, books, and downtown Mt. Pleasant. We will have ice cream, toppings and extra sprinkles but please be sure to come early to make sure you get some before we run out!
This event is FREE! |
April 2023
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Poetry Night- April 5th (7:00pm)Author Event- Dennis Hinrichsen and Andrew Collard
Sprawl is a reconstruction of the constantly shifting landscape of metropolitan Detroit, which extends over six counties and is home to over four million people, from the perspective of a single parent raising a young child amid financial precarity. Part memoir, part invention, the book is Andrew Collard's attempt to reconcile the tenderness and sense of purpose found in the parent-child relationship with ongoing societal crises in the empire of the automobile. Here, a mansion may contrast with a burned-out home just up the street. How does one construct a sense of place in such a landscape, where once-familiar neighborhoods turn to strip malls or empty lots and the relationships that root us dissolve? Sprawl suggests that there is solace in recognizing that when we ask this question, we are never alone in asking. The winner of the inaugural Wishing Jewel Prize, awarded for a manuscript that challenges our notions of what poems can do and what a book can be, schema geometricais nothing short of visionary. It juxtaposes quasi-sonnets and erasures with illustrations by Marnie Galloway, a Chicago-area cartoonist and illustrator, and Julian Van Dyke, a Lansing-area muralist, painter, and childrenís book author. schema geometrica will be accompanied by a number of audio and video poems, available online this fall; this is a multimedia collaboration between Hinrichsen and Dylan Rogers, a Lansing-area musician and proprietor of The Robin Theatre, and Tom Larter, musician and composer. |
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Auras- April 20 (7:00pm)Author Event- Kevin Fitton
The twelve stories that make up Auras span time from the 1940's to the present day, They cover ground from New England to the Midwest to the South. But in another respect, all of these stories live in the same place, asking a different version of the same question: Is it possible to fix broken things? |