This page highlights select key events happening within the community.
If you represent an organization or group and would like to feature an event on this page, please submit an event form for review. All submissions will be evaluated and posted upon approval by CCLN.
For additional events, we encourage you to visit other resources such as:
– Library Event Page
– Chaska Community Events
– Chanhassen Community Events
– Carver City Community Events
– Victoria Community Events
– Carver County Community Events
– Chaska Athletics
– Chanhassen Athletics
Please note that not all local events will be listed here.
We strive to keep all listed events up to date, but event details may change. Please verify event information with the event organizers or official sources before attending.
Laurie Hertzel is the author of two memoirs, News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist (2010) and Ghosts of Fourth Street (March 2026), and co-author with Mayme Sevander of a memoir, They Took My Father: Finnish Americans in Stalin’s Russia (2004). She is also the former book reviewer for the Star Tribune. This will also be streamed on our Facebook page […]
Sign up to share a poem or short prose piece – your own or a favorite – with a warm and supportive audience. No experience required. Additional audience members are welcome who are not planning to read aloud; please register to help us plan seating. Hosted by the Chanhassen Communities of Belonging.
Learn about creating welcoming spaces in our community while painting mandala designs. Hosted by the Chanhassen Communities of Belonging. Registration recommended.
Local author Ron Rindo (Breathing Lake Superior and Love in an Expanding Universe) will discuss his fifth novel, Life, and Death, and Giants. … Books will be available for purchase and signing from Valley Bookseller. This program will be streamed simultaneously on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CarverCountyLibrary/live and available on our social media for a month after the program.
Author Greg Gaut presents The War at Home: Minnesota During the Great War, 1914-1920 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2025). Greg is a finalist in the Minnesota Non-fiction category of the 2026 Minnesota Book Awards. This project was funded (in part or in whole) with money from Minnesota’s Art and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Learn about creating welcoming spaces in our community while painting mandala designs. Hosted by the Chanhassen Communities of Belonging. Registration recommended.
November is International Games Month, and your library’s got game. Bring gently used jigsaw puzzles to swap with other puzzle lovers. Play Book Bingo for a chance to win a free, […]
Enjoy live book readings, meet local authors, and enjoy light refreshments at this community celebration honoring the stories of adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities. All ages welcome. Hosted […]
Join us for a brief program at 10am, activities until noon. All ages are welcome! A look back on our second year, plus a look forward Make holiday cards (supplies […]
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