Events Calendar

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.

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)

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.