Events Calendar

Are you a high school or college student needing help with your chemistry homework? Do you need a little extra help studying for a test? Please sign up for a 30 minute time slot, and our wonderful tutor will be able to help you!

Registration for this program is required. 

¡Únase a Nury Castillo Crawford para historias y arte en español! Comenzaremos con lectura y música paraunos 20 minutos. Después de la hora del cuento crearemos arte. basado en los libros que leemos. Este evento está dirigido a jóvenes desde jardín de infantes hasta segundo grado y sus familias. Todos son bienvenidos, pero tengan en cuenta que este evento se realizará íntegramente en español.

Nury es una educadora de toda la vida y defensora de los libros infantiles biculturales y de alfabetización bilingüe que reflejan el amor por la comunidad, el idioma y las tradiciones.

Join Nury Castillo Crawford for stories and art in Spanish! We will start with reading and music for about 20 mins. After storytime we will create art based on the books we read. This event is geared to youth in kindergarten through 2nd grade and their families. All are welcome, but please keep in mind this event will be hosted fully in Spanish.

Nury is a lifelong educator and an advocate for biliteracy & bicultural children’s books that reflect love for community, language, and traditions.

Practice speaking, reading and writing English with Literacy Network. Beginning to advanced students welcome!

For more information, fill out the New Student Interest Form or call our office at 608-244-3911 to make an appointment. During the registration appointment you will talk with a staff member over the phone about your goals and they will help you choose the best program for you. All programs are free. At registration, you pay for program materials, $10, $20 or $40 depending on program. Cash, check or credit cards. Scholarships are available.

Fall 2023 classes run September 16th-December 9th...sessions are in-person at the Literacy Network, 701 Dane Street, Madison WI 53713, across the street from the Goodman South Madison Library.

Join us for a preschool music and movement program with singing, dancing, playing, and bubbles! For kids up to age 5, with their caregivers.

Join us this Saturday from 10:00-noon in the youth services programming room at Central Library for hands-on art and craft projects inspired by this week's Overture Center's Kids in the Rotunda performance  (free performances happening at the Overture Center across the street at 9:30am & 1:00pm). All ages welcome with fun projects accessible to every level. Don't forget your library card to browse awesome books and materials about art, music, dance, and fun while you're here! 

Children ages 7 and under should be accompanied by a grown up. 

Bring your little one (ages birth-5) to sing, dance, explore instruments, and play! Teacher Junko Yamauchi Stewart will lead these fun music & movement activities for families to do together.

Join us in celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the City of Madison’s Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC)!

This event will take place on November 11, from 11am-2pm at the UW South Madison Partnership located at 2238 South Park Street in Madison.. 

Madison Public Library is partnering with the Madison Reading Project to provide free books for children who attend the event.

Stop by and sign up for a Library card and help us celebrate the amazing work of the EOC!

The Munch Mobile Lunch Van will make a stop at Lakeview Library on Saturdays this fall.  All people in and around the library can get a free lunch between 12:40pm and 1:00pm.

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.

Unidas por Hilos es una comunidad de inmigrantes Latinas que se reúnen mensualmente para bordar y al mismo tiempo construir una comunidad de apoyo. Nuestras reuniones mensuales son un momento para relajarse, crear y socializar.

¡Este grupo es para todo tipo de experiencia en bordado (principiante-avanzada)! Tiene niñ@s menores de 10 años? Niñ@s menores de 10 años pueden participar en actividades diseñadas para ellos en la Biblioteca. L@s mayores pueden participar en el grupo de bordado.

El grupo es facilitado por Rosibel en Español. Rosibel (Rosi) es nativa de Nicaragua y es Profesora bilingue de segundo grado. Ademas de trabajar con niños, Rosi tiene experiencia manejando proyectos sociales y trabajando con grupos de mujeres Latinas en Madison. Ella busca fomentar los valores y desarrollo personal de las mujeres.

Se agradece el registro pero no es obligatorio. Para obtener más información, visite; www.mariaamalia.com/unidasporhilos

Join us to celebrate Pinney Library's art installation “Color Play – Making the World a Little More Rainbow” created by 2023 Pinney Studio Artist-in-Residence bernie & zuzu! There will be a creative art activity inspired by Bernie's installation, light refreshments, and showcase of the color-filled installation created by bernie & zuzu.  Bernie will be present to talk about her vision for this installation and how it was created with much help from community members from February-November 2023. 

From February – November 2023, Bernie Witzack of bernie & zuzu was the Pinney Library Artist In Residence. Her residency was titled “Color Play – Making the World a Little More Rainbow.” Over the ten months, Bernie held weekly drop-in art making sessions, taught evening workshops in drawing and printmaking, and led participants on an art installation journey – transforming the Pinney art studio into a room of color – a Rainbow Room! The residency was an exploration of color, shape, mark-making, and abstraction through Bernie’s own improvisational process with an emphasis on creativity and flow. During the residency, Bernie focused on the mediums of drawing, mixed media, collage, printmaking, painting, and installation art.

Along with the amazing Rainbow Room, this Celebration will unveil Adventures in Color Play, an exhibit grown out of Bernie’s experience as the Pinney Artist in Residence. Adventures in Color Play aims to be several things at once: a documentation of Bernie’s residency, a continuation of the themes of the residency, and a distillation of moments and memories from the residency into a small intimate scale. After the installation/Rainbow Room was completed, Berne took some time to process and reflect on her experience at Pinney. The drawings you see here are both an expression of Bernie’s experience and were inspired by artwork in the Rainbow Room - made by community members (you!).

Bernie would like to thank the Pinney Library staff, the Bubbler staff of Madison Public Libraries, and YOU, the community who welcomed her to Pinney and spent time with her making art in the Pinney Art Studio.

bernie & zuzu

***Facebook event linked here: https://www.facebook.com/events/290828537205131

Artist Bio:

bernie & zuzu is named for Bernie Witzack and her cat Zuzu. 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 a special emphasis on bright, bold color and playful shapes. We hope our artwork and goods inspire tiny moments of beauty, wonder and joy. We work out of our eastside Madison studio and at Madison’s Printmaking Collective, Polka Press.

Bernie studied Studio Art at Beloit College and has been making and exhibiting her art ever since. She earned an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Michigan, focusing on improvisational drawing and painting. She also studied graphic design at Madison College and was working as a graphic designer before leaving the field to focus on her art full time. She launched bernie & zuzu in 2021.

You can find bernie & zuzu online at www.bernieandzuzu.com.

Follow bernie & zuzu on social media, @bernieandzuzu.

This project was made possible by generous funding from the Friends of the Pinney Library and Madison Public Library Foundation's continuing support.