Public Programs

Several public programs are offered by LearningQUEST each term as its gift to the community. No registration or fees. Registration for members is suggested during online registration or in-person registration. Please help spread the word and be sure to invite your friends and neighbors.

Spring, 2025

P1-Ebony and Ivory: Alabama Writers to Know and Love!

Instructor: Anna Blair

Dates: 2 Thursdays, March 13-20

Time: 10 – 11:30

Location: AUD

This course continues Read to Me, Alabama!, offered in 2019 as part of LearningQUEST’s celebration of Alabama’s Bicentennial. A two-session course dipping into the overflowing treasure trove of writings from Alabama authors, focuses on Black and White writers, known and not known until now. The presenter will encourage participants to bring and read books from their own libraries.

P2-Singing River Trail

Instructor: Katie Lee, Sara Kovachich
Dates: 1 Wednesday Apr. 16
Time: 10 – 11:30
Location: AUD

The Singing River Trail will be a 200+ mile greenway system across eight North Alabama counties that strengthens regional bonds and creates new health and wellness, educational, economic, tourism, and entrepreneurial opportunities for the people and communities of North Alabama. The SRT team will provide an update on current and future projects, planning and design work, and regional collaboration. Learn how SRT contributes to quality of life, recreational tourism, and economic development, and where you can find the trail today!

P3-Land Trust of North Alabama Invitation!

Instructor: Hallie Porter, area experts
Dates: 1 Tuesday May 20
Time: 2 – 3:30
Location: AUD

Project Pollinator has exciting news to share. The Land Trust of North Alabama is going through a transformation and over the next few years, beginning with the pollinator education garden at Blevins Gap Nature Preserve and the pollinator garden at Harvest Square Nature Preserve, the goal will be adding a pollinator garden at all trailheads. Some of the new plantings will be small, but a couple of them will actually cover an acre or more of preserved land. Pollinators include bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, birds, and bats. Each of us depends on pollinators in a practical way to provide us with the wide range of foods we eat. This presentation will cover pollinators and the plants they need to survive and thrive in our local environment, The speakers will also touch on practical ways to incorporate a pollinator garden into any home landscape.