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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Time Items
All day
 
9am
9:00am to 4:45pm
Madison Traditional Gaming

Madison Traditional Gaming

Community Room
Saturday, May 20, 9:00am to 4:45pm

For people interested in a wide variety of roleplaying games, including traditional roleplaying games such as Original D&D, 1st Edition AD&D, Classic Traveller, Pendragon, and Call of Cthulhu, as well as retro-clones like Old School Essentials, Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry, and others.

We also play more contemporary RPGs such as Savage Worlds and GURPS, as well as games like Beyond the Wall, Torchbearer, Powered By The Apocalypse and FATE.

If you played any of these games in the past, or are COMPLETELY NEW to them, we're happy to have you come and play. 

Meets every third Saturday at Hawthorne Library.

Community Room
 
9:00am to 4:00pm
Friends of Alicia Ashman Spring Book Sale

Friends of Alicia Ashman Spring Book Sale

Community Room
Saturday, May 20, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Find great bargains and support the library.  Low prices from 9am-2:30pm: 

  • Adult Hardcover $2
  • Adult Paperback $1
  • Audiobooks, CD’s,
  • DVD’s $1
  • Children/Young
  • Adult Books, 4 for $1
  • plus specialty books and sets priced as marked

Bag Sale 2:30-4PM $5/Bag

Note: We will close the sale room briefly from 2:15-2:30pm to prepare for the bag sale. Attendees must get pre-approval from book sale coordinator to use their own bags.

Cash or checks accepted only (sorry, no credit cards)

 

Community Room
 
10am
10:00am to 12:00pm
Ceramic Basics: Mini Planter Pots [Part 1]

Ceramic Basics: Mini Planter Pots [Part 1]

Community Room - Table Side
Saturday, May 20, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Join artist Hannah Best in making a mini-planter pot using pinch and coil hand building techniques at Lakeview Library! We will supply the materials and tools, feel free to bring your own apron or towel. 

This workshop will take place over two sessions: the first on Saturday, May 20th from 10 AM-12 PM, covering the basics of working with ceramics and hand building a planter and the second on Saturday June 3, from 10 AM-11 AM, to apply glaze to the bisque fired planter. 

Space is limited for this event; registration is required. Please use the sign up link below or call (608) 246-4547 to register. Registration opens on May 6 at 9 a.m., two weeks prior to program date.

Registering for this workshop will automatically register you for part 2 of the workshop on June 3 at 10 AM.

 

About the presenter

Hannah Best (she/her) is a Studio Assistant and Instructor at Midwest Clay Project. She studied ceramics at UW-Madison and formerly worked in production at Rowe Pottery. Hannah loves the intuitive nature of working with clay and sharing that joy with others!

Community Room - Table Side
 
10:00am to 11:00am
Demonstration: Three-Dimensional Felt

Demonstration: Three-Dimensional Felt

Meeting Room A
Saturday, May 20, 10:00am to 11:00am

It’s a bit of magic to turn wool fleece into a free-standing vase or bowl.  Felter Carol Cohen will demonstrate the basic method of felting wool with a focus on creating three-dimensional objects and will bring a variety of vessels to show and talk about. This activity coincides with the Artful Felt at the Library exhibit by the Madison Area Felters’ Guild, April 5 to May 30. Artful Felt at the Library is made possible with support from the Friends of Sequoya.

Meeting Room A
 
10am
10:30am to 4:00pm
“History in our Veins” A Discovery and Wellness Event

“History in our Veins” A Discovery and Wellness Event

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined
Saturday, May 20, 10:30am to 4:00pm

Healing Labs is back at the Central Library on Saturday, May 20th! Mark your calendar now, and join us and lots of great partners for an afternoon of knowledge and connection.

10:30AM-12:30PM: All of Us enrollment and tabling
12:30PM-1:30PM: Lunch (provided)
1:30-2:30PM: Presentation from the Wisconsin Historical Society with Lori Bessler
2:30-3:30PM: Hands-on Ancestry.com Workshops with Patricia Glover-Howard

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined
 
10:30am to 12:30pm
Cooking with Chef Ken

Cooking with Chef Ken

Community Rooms A and B and Kitchen Combined
Saturday, May 20, 10:30am to 12:30pm

Calling all kids, teens, and families! Join us for a cooking lesson with Chef Ken from Kerol's Kitchen! You will learn how to cook a traditional Malaysian dish while having a lot of fun!

 

If you are planning to attend, please sign up so that we can have enough food for everybody! You can either sign up online or call Meadowridge Library (608-288-6160) for assistance. 

Community Rooms A and B and Kitchen Combined
 
1pm
1:00pm to 3:00pm
EcoRest Art & Reflection Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence Mars Patterson

EcoRest Art & Reflection Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence Mars Patterson

Bubbler
Saturday, May 20, 1:00pm to 3:00pm

All ages are welcome to join in weaving together perspectives, processes, experiences; creating a blanket of memories to see and hear. As participants drop in they can work individually or in groups weaving together images, found objects and recyclable materials on our giant community tapestry;

  • Add onto the collaborative Weaving Wall — use plastics, yarn, or other found objects

  • Record Stories / Community Sketchbook — contribute written, oral or drawn responses to provided prompts or document the Open Studio process through snapshot photograph
     

Learn more about Mars and her current residency at Central Library: https://www.madisonbubbler.org/artist-in-residence-mars

Bubbler
 
1:00pm to 1:15pm
Munch Mobile Lunch Van

Munch Mobile Lunch Van

*In Lakeview Library
Saturday, May 20, 1:00pm to 1:15pm

The Munch Mobile Lunch Van will make a stop at Lakeview Library on Saturdays during the school year.  All people in and around the library can get a free lunch between 1:00pm and 1:15pm.

*In Lakeview Library
 
1pm
1:30pm to 3:00pm
Goodman South Madison Book Club - The Unfit Heiress
Meeting Room 115
 
1:30pm to 2:30pm
Cooking with Chef Lily

Cooking with Chef Lily

Community Room - Fireplace Side
Saturday, May 20, 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Join The Kids Chef, Lily Kilfoy, for a series of cooking classes for school-age kids, tweens, and their families. Participants will learn about different foods, where they come from, how to follow recipes, and how to use a variety of tools.  Registration is not required, but participation will be limited to the first 25 attendees. Food generously provided by Willy St. Co-op North.

Community Room - Fireplace Side
 
2pm
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Jazz at Sequoya: Michael BB Quintet

Jazz at Sequoya: Michael BB Quintet

Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Saturday, May 20, 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Join us for Saturday Jazz! This month, we welcome the Michael BB Quintet.

The Michael BB Trio/Quartet/Quintet, begun in 1994, has two aspects. The first is the performance of MBB’s original music, as recorded on the three CD’s “Guided Tour”, Popular Culture” , and “You’re Dippin”.
Bop, post, bop, blues, Latin, and even instrumental gospel are all part of that repertoire. The horns are trumpet and saxophone. The second aspect is, of course, the American Songbook, which we have played for many years, as a group and as individuals in other settings.
Happy Jazz and Good music to everyone!

Jazz at Sequoya features local musicians on the third Saturday of every month. The series is generously funded by the Friends of Sequoya Library.

Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
 
5pm
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Wisconsin Book Festival Presents: Sheila Heti

Wisconsin Book Festival Presents: Sheila Heti

*Offsite
Saturday, May 20, 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, host of the 2023 Society for Novel Studies' Bi-annual Conference. Novelist Sheila Heti will deliver a keynote address on “Where Do the Words Come From". 

The Society for Novel Studies exists to further the study of the novel as a genre and to examine the role of fiction in engaging, formulating, and shaping the world. 

This year, join in a conversation on the theme of "The Novel and the Archive". Understanding the novel as a historical and contemporary phenomenon, as a genre continually open to change and experimentation, and as a national, regional, transnational, and global form. What does the novel archive? And how does the archive manage the novel’s horizons?

This event will be held at The Pyle Center.

*Offsite