Special Ticketed Event - Nick Offerman

Schedule

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Franklin Jr High Event Center | Des Moines, IA

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Meet Nick Offerman! New York Times bestselling author, Emmy-winning actor, and charismatically carnivorous woodworker Nick Offerman, will visit Des Moines to share his newest book, Little Woodchucks, an illustrated woodworking guide with projects for the whole family. He will be joined onstage by his cowriter Lee Buchanan, so don’t miss this interactive evening filled with good clean woodworking fun–bring the kids!
Nick will be answering a few select questions during the event and especially loves hearing questions about woodworking projects that you’re doing with your family – submit questions (link on our website) early and include photos if you have them.
Buy your tickets today! We anticipate this will be a popular event, and we have reserved the big auditorium on the northwest corner of Franklin Event Center to ensure we have plenty of seats available. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for general seating. Because this is a family-friendly event, we are offering 4 ticket levels to fit your group. Books will be pre-signed. Ticket pricing is as follows:
1 pre-signed book + 1 person = $40.00
1 pre-signed book + 1 person + 1 guest = $45.00
1 pre-signed book + 1 person + 2 guests = $50.00
1 pre-signed book + 1 person + 3 guests = $55.00
In his long running hit book Good Clean Fun, Nick Offerman brought us into his woodshop with personal reflections on woodworking alongside instructions to create some of his favorite projects. Now, in Little Woodchucks, the Offerman Woodshop is opening its avuncular doors to woodworkers of all ages in the form of twelve brand-new, family-friendly projects perfect for kids, from beginner projects like a handmade box kite to more challenging offerings like a little free library / meat locker.
Combining his signature wry humor with clearly written and joyfully illustrated project instructions, Little Woodchucks is the perfect way to encourage eye contact and other old-fashioned familial engagements, while introducing young woodworkers-to-be to the satisfaction and good, clean fun of hands-on crafting.

Actor, humorist, and woodworker Nick Offerman is the New York Times bestselling author of Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun, and Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, as well as co-author of The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, with his wife, Megan Mullally. His onscreen credits include the Emmy award-winning role of Bill in The Last of Us (HBO), Ron Swanson on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, and co-host and executive producer of NBC’s Making It. In 2025, Nick will be featured in Sovereign and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Death by Lightning (Netflix), and as the voices of Papa Smurf’s brother in the Smurfs movie, and Beef Tobin in the FOX animated series, The Great North. Nick and Megan live in Los Angeles, California, with their pups and a fairly decent collection of assorted wood clamps.
Refund Policy: Refunds (minus service charges) must be requested 48 hours prior to the event.
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Franklin Jr High Event Center, 4801 Franklin Avenue,Des Moines, Iowa, United States

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