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10:00am
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Movement Exploration
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 10:00am to 10:30am
Caregivers and children (5 & under) are invited to come and play together in a movement friendly environment. Different play areas will be set up each week to encourage crawling, hanging, climbing, balancing and more. This is a facilitated open play environment where kids are encouraged to explore the space, navigate challenges and move their bodies with support from their caregiver.
Youth Program Room
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10:30am
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Storytime
Community Rooms A and B Combined
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 10:30am to 11:15am
Read and play together at Meadowridge's storytime! Engaging with stories, songs, and play is an essential part of early development and helps foster a lifelong love of reading. This program is recommended for ages 0-5.
Community Rooms A and B Combined
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11:00am
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Application Assistance
*In Goodman South Madison Library
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 11:00am to 2:00pm
Find help navigating application processes and filling out forms required for housing, immigration, food, health, and other community support services.
In partnership with the City of Madison and Madison Public Library, the African Center for Community Development provides in-person assistance. Examples include:
- Disability
- Employment
- Housing
- Passport
- Social security
- Unemployment
- WIC
For questions about the program or to schedule an appointment, please call the African Center at 608-957-5623 or 608-294-0066.
*Neither The African Center for Community Development nor Madison Public Library can provide legal assistance or advice. We cannot fill out applications on your behalf or assess program eligibility.
*In Goodman South Madison Library
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12:30pm
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Mindful Moments: a Drop-In Meditation Group
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Mindfulness is the art of paying attention, of listening to your heart. Rather than worrying about the future or ruminating about the past, mindfulness can help you enjoy life more fully, effectively, and peacefully. Join us when you can to learn simple mindfulness and meditation techniques that can be incorporated into your everyday routine to reduce your stress and increase your well-being. Typically, each session will begin with a brief check-in, followed by a guided sitting meditation. Then Gloria will share reflections on some aspect of mindfulness. The group will discuss the topic and ask any questions about the practice. We will end with another sitting meditation. Experience in mindfulness or meditation is not necessary. This program is being offered both in-person and online through Zoom. If you would like to join by Zoom, please register below. Registration is not necessary for in-person attendance.
This program is part of the Live Well @ Your Library initiative.
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
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2:00pm
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Application Assistance
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 2:00pm to 5:00pm
In partnership with the City of Madison and Madison Public Library, the African Center for Community Development provides in-person assistance* to help offset housing costs by assisting residents with applications for services, jobs, and other financial benefits.
We provide help for people navigating application processes and filling out forms required for housing, immigration, food, health, and other community support services. For questions about the program, please call African Center at (608) 957-5623 or (608) 294-0066.
*Neither The African Center for Community Development nor Madison Public Library can provide legal assistance or advice. We are not able to fill out applications on your behalf, or assess program eligibility.
Family Study Room
Personal Archiving Lab: Drop-In Tutorials
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
The Personal Archiving Lab at Central Library is a collection of equipment that can be used to digitize at-risk analog materials like home movies video tapes audio cassettes photographs and more. Stop by the Central Library on Mondays, 2-4pm (Room 209) for a tutorial on how to use the library's Personal Archiving Lab. Tutorial duration is approximately 20-30 minutes. The instructor may not be able to accommodate those who arrive after 3:40pm.
Following the tutorial, you will be able to make an appointment during library hours to use the equipment - up to 3 hours per day - for your personal archiving project.
The Personal Archiving Lab supports the following formats: VHS and VHS-C tapes DVDs (not BluRay); audio cassettes; MiniDV and Hi-8 tapes; photographs (including negatives and slides) and other paper-based documents. Patrons who use the lab must bring some form of external storage — a portable hard drive, or a thumb drive — on which digital files can be stored.
Call 608-266-6350 for more information.
Study Room 209
Read to a Dog
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Read aloud to Libby, a certified therapy dog from Alliance Therapy Dogs. Reading to an attentive, non-judgmental audience is a great way for young people to build fluency, and being with a pet has many other proven health benefits.
This program is first-come, first-serve, so drop in at any time. Bring books from home, or pick them out from the library.
This program is recommended for ages 5 and up.
Youth Program Room
Monday Meetup
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Join us on Monday afternoon for library fun--you never know what might happen!
Projects especially chosen for the school-age crowd; all ages welcome with adult help.
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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Let's Blow Off Some STEAM
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 3:00pm to 5:30pm
A trip into the Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math (STEAM) realm! This collaboration with UW-Madison and other science partners helps teens, tweens and their families to pick up new skills through hands-on experimentation and exploration.
Meeting Room 115
Dungeons and Dragons A Ballad of Intersting Events Season 2.
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
The Queen is in trouble and calls for our aid! Navigate this new world as Season 1 comes to a close and the first threat and the second threat looms over the horizon will our heroes be brave enough to stop what comes? Will they be wise enough to solve the mystery? How many fart jokes can I squeak in?? Find out in A Ballad of Interesting Events
Study Room A
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Gaming Club
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Drop-in and play games on the library's iPads and Nintendo Switch. Minecraft, Roblox, Mario Kart, & more! Board games will also be available. There is a limited number of devices, so participants will take turns as needed.
Family and friend groups are encouraged to attend and play together.
Youth 8 years and younger must have a caregiver with them during the program.
Community Room
Minecraft Club
Community Room - Table Side
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Play Minecraft in both survival and creative worlds! There is a limited number of computers, so participants will take turns as needed.
Mondays, January 22 - April 29, 4:00-5:30pm.
Community Room - Table Side
Madison Writing Assistance at Lakeview
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 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.
Study Room 1
Meadowridge Book Club --- Come Home, Indio By: Jim Terry
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Join us for this month's Meadowridge Book Club! This month we are reading Come Home, Indio by Jim Terry.
In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he tries in vain to fit in and eventually turns to alcohol to provide an escape from increasing loneliness and alienation.
*In Meadowridge Library
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4:30pm
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5:00pm
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[FULL] Madison Writing Assistance at Lakeview
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 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.
Study Room 1
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6:00pm
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Pen Pals Writing Group
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Are you struggling to carve out time to write that novel, screenplay, or other work of fiction you've always been meaning to write? Are you battling writer's block? Are you looking for people to read what you've written and provide feedback? Try Pen Pals, an all-experience-levels-welcome group for fiction writers and fiction writer hopefuls!
Once a week, bring in a laptop or notebook and surround yourself with other writers striving toward similar goals. The first hour will be dedicated to organizing feedback-swaps, discussing our projects, and collectively brainstorming solutions to story problems. The remaining hour and a half is just for writing! Pen Pals is captained by local fanfiction author Linea Kemsley, who will provide baked goods and warm beverages every week to help promote that perfect cozy writing atmosphere.
Studio
[FULL] Madison Writing Assistance at Lakeview
Monday, Apr 29, 2024, 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.
Study Room 1
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