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Thursday, March 23, 2023

Time Items
All day
 
10:00am
10:00am to 12:00pm
Free Mending

Free Mending

Study Room 211
Thursday, Mar 23, 10:00am to 12:00pm

We’re here to mend anything you need for the colder months, including clothing, coats, and any other fabric-related repairs, except for zippers. Sewers from the Sewing Machine Project will be available to mend your things for free every Thursday of the month.

Study Room 211
 
10:00am to 10:45am
Toddler Dance Party

Toddler Dance Party

Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Thursday, Mar 23, 10:00am to 10:45am

Shake Rattle and Roll, it's time to dance!  Enjoy some fun tunes in a cool, toddler friendly environment.  For ages 14 months to 3 years.  No registration required.

Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
 
10:30am
10:30am to 12:30pm
Jamming with Junko

Jamming with Junko

Meeting Room 115
Thursday, Mar 23, 10:30am to 12:30pm

Led by music and movement teacher Junko Yamauchi, bring your toddler and drop in between 10:30 and 12:30 to learn about rhythm, melody, and Japanese stories and songs!

Meeting Room 115
 
10:30am to 12:00pm
Multi-age Storytime

Multi-age Storytime

Community Room
Thursday, Mar 23, 10:30am to 12:00pm

READ and PLAY together!

Engaging with books, songs and child-led play all help children develop communication skills, patience, empathy, and pre-reading skills​ and helps to build a lifelong love of reading. After about 20-30 minutes of stories and songs, we'll end with a time for child-led play together in our children's area. You are welcome to stay as long as you like!

Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome.

Community Room
 
10:30am to 11:00am
Move - Nourish - Connect

Move - Nourish - Connect

Youth Program Room
Thursday, Mar 23, 10:30am to 11:00am

Move, Nourish, Connect: These are important concepts that tend to fall by the wayside for parents during the first years of a little one's life. 

This program is designed for both parent/caregiver and child (ages birth - 5) to learn to move naturally, nourish their bodies and connect with one another and others in attendance.

Bring yourself and your little one and move, nourish and connect with your community.

Youth Program Room
 
11:00am
11:00am to 3:00pm
Dane Core Rental Assistance / African Center for Community Dev. (ACCD)

Dane Core Rental Assistance / African Center for Community Dev. (ACCD)

Study Room 109
Thursday, Mar 23, 11:00am to 3:00pm

Are you behind on your rent because of the pandemic, either directly or indirectly? You are not alone. Many people are experiencing financial hardship right now.

The African Center for Community Development will be at the Pinney Library on Thursdays, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, to help individuals and families who owe back rent apply for Dane Core assistance. Eligible households in need of rental and utility assistance should stop by. Working with City of Madison to provide rental assistance. For questions about the program, please call African Center at (608) 957-5623 or (608) 294-0066. More info at https://africancentermadison.org/housing-support/ (link is external)

Study Room 109
 
1:00pm
1:00pm to 1:15pm
Memory Screening

Memory Screening

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 1:00pm to 1:15pm

Memory screening is an important part of overall health and much like other routine health screenings. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Dane County is offering free and confidential 15 minute memory screening appointments, including educational materials about memory concerns and brain health.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone at 246-4547, or in person. Registration opens on March 9 at 10 a.m., two weeks prior to program date.

Study Room 1
 
1:15pm to 1:30pm
Memory Screening

Memory Screening

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 1:15pm to 1:30pm

Memory screening is an important part of overall health and much like other routine health screenings. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Dane County is offering free and confidential 15 minute memory screening appointments, including educational materials about memory concerns and brain health.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone at 246-4547, or in person. Registration opens on March 9 at 10 a.m., two weeks prior to program date.

Study Room 1
 
1:30pm
1:30pm to 1:45pm
[FULL] Memory Screening

[FULL] Memory Screening

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 1:30pm to 1:45pm

Memory screening is an important part of overall health and much like other routine health screenings. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Dane County is offering free and confidential 15 minute memory screening appointments, including educational materials about memory concerns and brain health.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone at 246-4547, or in person. Registration opens on March 9 at 10 a.m., two weeks prior to program date.

Study Room 1
 
1:45pm to 2:00pm
Memory Screening

Memory Screening

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 1:45pm to 2:00pm

Memory screening is an important part of overall health and much like other routine health screenings. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Dane County is offering free and confidential 15 minute memory screening appointments, including educational materials about memory concerns and brain health.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone at 246-4547, or in person. Registration opens on March 9 at 10 a.m., two weeks prior to program date.

Study Room 1
 
2:00pm
2:00pm to 4:15pm
Community Room
 
2:00pm to 2:15pm
Memory Screening

Memory Screening

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 2:00pm to 2:15pm

Memory screening is an important part of overall health and much like other routine health screenings. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Dane County is offering free and confidential 15 minute memory screening appointments, including educational materials about memory concerns and brain health.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone at 246-4547, or in person. Registration opens on March 9 at 10 a.m., two weeks prior to program date.

Study Room 1
 
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence: bernie & zuzu

Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence: bernie & zuzu

Studio
Thursday, Mar 23, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Color Play: Making the world a little more rainbow

bernie & zuzu's residence term at Pinney Library Studio: February 2023 - August 2023

bernie & zuzu's in-Studio work time: Thursdays from 12-2 pm

bernie & zuzu's drop-in open Studio time: Thursdays from 2-4 pm at Pinney Library

bernie & zuzu wants you to come make the world a little more rainbow! Bernie invites the Madison community to explore color at weekly open studios and drop-in art making sessions that focus on color, shape, and mark-making in abstraction through the mediums of drawing, collage, block printing, stenciling, screen printing and painting. Throughout the residency, Bernie will invite the community to assist her with making the art studio into an installation and exhibition space that explodes with color: a rainbow room! Come play and be part of the fun!

bernie & zuzu is named for Bernie Witzack (she/her, a human) who is the creative force behind bernie & zuzu, and the extraordinary zuzu (a cat) who takes care of the business side of things. At bernie & zuzu, we create handmade, hand-painted, and screen-printed goods in small batches. We specialize in unique, one-of-a-kind art, home goods, accessories and prints with an emphasis on bright, bold color and playful shapes. bernie & zuzu is run out of a studio in the Madison Enterprise Center and we screen print at Polka Press, Madison’s local printmaking collective. We hope our artwork and goods inspire tiny moments of beauty, wonder and joy. 

Bernie studied Studio Art at Beloit College and has been making and exhibiting her art ever since. She earned an MFA in Fine Art & Design from the University of Michigan in 2013, focusing on improvisational drawing and painting. She then went on to study graphic design at Madison College, falling in love with screen printing along the way. She was working full time as a graphic designer and pursuing her art on the side when the pandemic hit in spring 2020. She left the design field in spring 2021 to focus on her art full time, launching bernie & zuzu in fall of 2021.

You can find bernie & zuzu’s goods at the Dane County Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings from April-October, at Little Luxuries, Hatch Art House, and Communication Madison. They also vend at local art markets such as The Eastside Winter Market, Femmestival, The Crafty Fair and the Madison Maker Markets. bernie & zuzu have an online shop at www.bernieandzuzu.com

Studio
 
2:15pm to 2:30pm
Memory Screening

Memory Screening

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 2:15pm to 2:30pm

Memory screening is an important part of overall health and much like other routine health screenings. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Dane County is offering free and confidential 15 minute memory screening appointments, including educational materials about memory concerns and brain health.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone at 246-4547, or in person. Registration opens on March 9 at 10 a.m., two weeks prior to program date.

Study Room 1
 
2:30pm
2:30pm to 2:45pm
Memory Screening

Memory Screening

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 2:30pm to 2:45pm

Memory screening is an important part of overall health and much like other routine health screenings. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Dane County is offering free and confidential 15 minute memory screening appointments, including educational materials about memory concerns and brain health.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone at 246-4547, or in person. Registration opens on March 9 at 10 a.m., two weeks prior to program date.

Study Room 1
 
2:45pm to 3:00pm
Memory Screening

Memory Screening

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 2:45pm to 3:00pm

Memory screening is an important part of overall health and much like other routine health screenings. The Aging & Disability Resource Center of Dane County is offering free and confidential 15 minute memory screening appointments, including educational materials about memory concerns and brain health.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone at 246-4547, or in person.

Study Room 1
 
3:00pm
3:00pm to 5:30pm
Meeting Room 115
 
3:30pm
3:30pm to 6:00pm
Chop with a Cop

Chop with a Cop

*In Goodman South Madison Library
Thursday, Mar 23, 3:30pm to 6:00pm

Chop with a Cop, is a collaborative effort between the Southside district community officers and neighborhood youth. As constructed these interactions can increase the vision and physical presence of neighborhood officers. While aligning neighborhood youth with officers that are engaging,supportive and understanding. They will be equipped with various activities furnished by but not limited games, arts/crafts, with additional things created through the youths' "voice and vision". 

*In Goodman South Madison Library
 
4:00pm
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Madison Writing Assistance at Hawthorne

Madison Writing Assistance at Hawthorne

Family Study Room
Thursday, Mar 23, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

The Madison Writing Assistance (MWA) program offers free, one-to-one writing support for community members at library branches throughout the city. Our friendly, experienced writing coaches are happy to help with writing projects across a wide range of genres, including resumes, cover letters, application essays, grant proposals, fiction writing, memoirs, and more.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone, or in person.

MWA services are made possible through generous donations from the Evjue Foundation and UW Anonymous Fund, along with administrative and program support from the UW-Madison English Department, the UW-Madison Writing Center, and our Library and neighborhood center partners.

Family Study Room
 
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Minecraft Club
Community Room B
 
5:00pm
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Madison Writing Assistance at Hawthorne

Madison Writing Assistance at Hawthorne

Family Study Room
Thursday, Mar 23, 5:00pm to 6:00pm

The Madison Writing Assistance (MWA) program offers free, one-to-one writing support for community members at library branches throughout the city. Our friendly, experienced writing coaches are happy to help with writing projects across a wide range of genres, including resumes, cover letters, application essays, grant proposals, fiction writing, memoirs, and more.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone, or in person.

MWA services are made possible through generous donations from the Evjue Foundation and UW Anonymous Fund, along with administrative and program support from the UW-Madison English Department, the UW-Madison Writing Center, and our Library and neighborhood center partners.

Family Study Room
 
5:30pm
5:30pm to 6:00pm
One-on-One Computer Assistance

One-on-One Computer Assistance

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 5:30pm to 6:00pm

Need help with basic computer or Internet skills? Looking for assistance downloading library eBooks and audiobooks? We offer free one-on-one sessions on Thursday evenings!

Reservations required. Register online, in person, or call Lakeview Library at 608-246-4547.

Study Room 1
 
6:00pm
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Tell Us! Community Conversation

Tell Us! Community Conversation

Meeting Room 115
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Tell Us! is a survey initiative that gives residents an opportunity to provide feedback to the library and share their visions for improvement for Madison's south and west side libraries. Community Engagement Librarian Ariel R. and Library Planner Rynn K. will be on hand to facilitate and take notes as a small group of South side residents discuss the survey and provide feedback. 

Light refreshments provided.

Registration required.

Meeting Room 115
 
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Madison International Travel Meetup Group

Madison International Travel Meetup Group

Community Room
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Engaging in activities such as history, politics, art, music, the environment, language, economics, and more are all possibilities for this group. Let's embrace the many things this world has to offer us here in Madison!

Community Room
 
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Madison Writing Assistance at Hawthorne

Madison Writing Assistance at Hawthorne

Family Study Room
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:00pm to 7:00pm

The Madison Writing Assistance (MWA) program offers free, one-to-one writing support for community members at library branches throughout the city. Our friendly, experienced writing coaches are happy to help with writing projects across a wide range of genres, including resumes, cover letters, application essays, grant proposals, fiction writing, memoirs, and more.

Schedule an appointment online with the link below, by phone, or in person.

MWA services are made possible through generous donations from the Evjue Foundation and UW Anonymous Fund, along with administrative and program support from the UW-Madison English Department, the UW-Madison Writing Center, and our Library and neighborhood center partners.

Family Study Room
 
6:00pm to 7:30pm
[ONLINE] Literacy Network Beginner ESL Class

[ONLINE] Literacy Network Beginner ESL Class

*Offsite
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:00pm to 7:30pm

This free group English class will be offered mostly online using Zoom.
You can take your Zoom class on your smartphone, a tablet, a laptop, or
a computer. 2 classes will take place in-person at the Meadowridge
Library (5726 Raymond Rd) on Thursday 3/9 and 5/4.
You will practice speaking, listening, reading, writing and new vocabulary
in English. Topics include talking about family, health, making
appointments, phone calls, small talk, and more!
For more information, please call (608) 268-6425 or email
bex@litnetwork.org.

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Esta clase de inglés grupal gratuita se ofrecerá principalmente en línea
utilizando Zoom. Puede tomar su clase por Zoom en un teléfono
inteligente, tableta, laptop, o computadora. Dos clases estarán en
persona en la Biblioteca de Meadowridge (5726 Raymond Rd) 03/09/2023 y 05/04/2023

Practicará hablar, escuchar, leer, escribir, y nuevas palabras en inglés.
Los temas incluyen platicar acerca de su familia, salud, hacer citas,
llamadas telefónicas, conversaciones casuales, y más.
Para más información, llame al (608) 268-6425 o envie un
correo electrónico a becky@litnetwork.org

*Offsite
 
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Express Yourself - Frank Lloyd Wright's Stained Glass

Express Yourself - Frank Lloyd Wright's Stained Glass

Community Room B and Kitchen
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Calling all teens and tweens! Join us every Thursday evening to learn more about an influential artist and make your own masterpiece to add to your very own portfolio! All supplies will be provided, so just show up and have fun! 

This week we will be learning about Frank Lloyd Wright and the stained glass creations in the homes he designed. Participants will create their own stained glass shrinky dink to add to their portfolio!

Community Room B and Kitchen
 
6:00pm to 7:45pm
Essentials Skills Tutoring

Essentials Skills Tutoring

Community Room A
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:00pm to 7:45pm

Essential Skills Tutoring Need help with reading, writing, or basic computer skills? Meet once a week with your own tutor! Every week you will work with a tutor on a lesson that is written just for you. You can study with a tutor for up to 2 hours per week. Your tutor will help you study so that you can continue your education and/or improve your employment.

•You must register. There is a waitlist.

• Attendance is important, you must come every week.

 

Visit https://www.litnetwork.org/study/ for more information.

Community Room A
 
6:00pm to 6:30pm
One-on-One Computer Assistance

One-on-One Computer Assistance

Study Room 1
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:00pm to 6:30pm

Need help with basic computer or Internet skills? Looking for assistance downloading library eBooks and audiobooks? We offer free one-on-one sessions on Thursday evenings!

Reservations required. Register online, in person, or call Lakeview Library at 608-246-4547.

Study Room 1
 
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Chapters Teen Writing Club

Chapters Teen Writing Club

Studio
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Gathers most Thursday evenings! Middle and high school students can meet other aspiring authors, bounce ideas off one another, share their stories, and feel the creativity flow! Writing club is led by local author Carole Madrzak.

Studio
 
6:30pm
6:30pm to 7:30pm
[FULL] Knife Skills with Chef Paul

[FULL] Knife Skills with Chef Paul

Community Room Combined
Thursday, Mar 23, 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Once your knife skills have improved, your cooking will be more efficient and more delicious. Join Chef Paul for a demonstration on how to dice, julienne, and chiffonade vegetables and fruits. Chef Paul will also discuss how to choose, care for, and sharpen knives.

This program is for ages 13 and older; adult supervision required.

Limited space; registration is required. Registration for this program is currently full. If you would like to be added to the wait list, please email lakeview@madisonpubliclibrary.org or call (608) 246-4547.

Presented in partnership with Willy Street Co-Op.

 

About the Presenter

Paul grew up in Taiwan surrounded by fresh hanging foods in the market, but he didn’t have an appreciation for Taiwanese or Chinese ingredients until attending culinary school in Chicago where he developed a love for cooking. After serving in many kitchens over the years, he wanted to share the skills he learned with others which led him to teach. He says about teaching, "Cooking and sharing what I have learned is my passion. Teaching a cooking class gives me a chance to share my knowledge about the differences and uniquenesses of foods that people overlook. I want to show people how to be respectful, creative, and economical about food. To feel delighted when they learn an easy cooking technique using just a couple of simple fresh ingredients. The food is the real star, we are just the facilitators."

Community Room Combined
 
7:00pm
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Dane County New Horizons: Second Wind Band Concert

Dane County New Horizons: Second Wind Band Concert

Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Thursday, Mar 23, 7:00pm to 8:00pm

You're never too old to make music!

Everyone is welcome at this concert of the Second Wind Band. Band members are adult musicians who may be new to playing a musical instrument, those who have not played since they were in high school or college, and those who want to learn to play a different instrument, and this concert is the culmination of their winter session. They will play traditional concert band music focusing on themes and variation on songs, including "Variations on a Korean Folk Song" and "Chorale and Shaker Dance."

Meeting Rooms A and B Combined