All day
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9:30am
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Red Cross Blood Drive
Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 9:30am to 1:30pm
Central Library Madison and the American Red Cross are hosting an upcoming blood drive.
Please join our lifesaving mission and schedule an appointment today!
Drive Details: Site: Central Library Address: 201 W. Mifflin St, Madison, WI, 53703 Room Name: Community Room 301 Date: Tues Oct 15, 2024 Time: 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of us will need blood in our lifetime.
Thank you for supporting the American Red Cross blood program!
Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined
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10:00am
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Storytime for the Very Young
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 10:00am to 10:30am
Read and play with your favorite baby or toddler! Engaging with books, songs and playful experiences all help children develop communication skills, patience, empathy, and pre-reading skills and helps to build a lifelong love of reading.
Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Storytime for the Very Young is intended for children ages 0 to 3 years old.
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
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10:30am
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Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 10:30am to 11:30am
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.
Blue Room 128
True Play Makers
*In Alicia Ashman Library
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 10:30am to 12:00pm
October is the Month of The Play Makers at the Alicia Ashman Library! In this 5 week program, children will engage in self-directed play for the whole time while the adults will start each week with a quick tutorial on how to bring more opportunities for True Play into their daily life, then spend time deeply observing the play that's happening. Register for this special series if you're curious about True Play (or Anji Play) or if you've ever wished that your child would play more independently or if you've ever felt awkward around other caregivers at the playground or if you're interested in learning how to host a relaxed playdate in your own home! Everyone will remain in the same room throughout this program (no separation anxiety!). Sign up here for the whole series!
*In Alicia Ashman Library
Growing Voices Music Class
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 10:30am to 11:00am
Growing Voices Music Class is an interactive class for caregivers and their children, birth-4, to play, learn, and bond with music. In our classes we sing, play instruments, dance, and have fun together!
Funding is provided by the Monroe Street Library League
Meeting Room
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11:30am
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Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 11:30am to 12:30pm
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.
Blue Room 128
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12:00pm
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One-on-One Computer Assistance with Marcus
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Free hour-long one-on-one computer and tech assistance.
Marcus can help you with:
- Becoming comfortable with your laptop, cellphone or tablet
- computer basics
- Safely browsing the internet
- Creating and using an email address
- Basic understanding of apps and their usage
- help filling out online applications
- help with creating resumes and cover letters
...and many other computer- and technology-related topics.
Call 608-246-4548 to reserve a spot
Family Study Room
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12:30pm
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Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
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.
Blue Room 128
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1:00pm
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Adult Knitting Group
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Come on in and share tips or get advice! Please bring your own supplies. All skill levels welcome.
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
One-on-One Computer Assistance With Marcus
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Free hour-long one-on-one computer and tech assistance.
Marcus can help you with:
- Becoming comfortable with your laptop, cellphone or tablet
- computer basics
- Safely browsing the internet
- Creating and using an email address
- Basic understanding of apps and their usage
- help filling out online applications
- help with creating resumes and cover letters
...and many other computer- and technology-related topics.
call 608-246-4548 to reserve a spot
Family Study Room
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2:00pm
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One-on-One Computer Assistance With Marcus
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Free hour-long one-on-one computer and tech assistance.
Marcus can help you with:
- Becoming comfortable with your laptop, cellphone or tablet
- computer basics
- Safely browsing the internet
- Creating and using an email address
- Basic understanding of apps and their usage
- help filling out online applications
- help with creating resumes and cover letters
...and many other computer- and technology-related topics.
Call 608-246-4548 to reserve a spot
Family Study Room
Memory Screening
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
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 608-824-1780, or in person. Registration opens two weeks prior to program date, October 1st at 10:00a.m.
Study Room
Application Assistance
Tuesday, Oct 15, 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.
Study Room 2
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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It Takes A Village After school enrichment: Let's stART Here
*In Goodman South Madison Library
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
It Takes A Village After-School Enrichment sessions are created in an effort to promote community, and a safe place for youth patron between 12 and 18 years old. Which could be open to invited guests who have created activities for community youth.
*In Goodman South Madison Library
Minecraft Club
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Play Minecraft in both creative and survival worlds! Gaming devices will be provided and participants will take turns so that everybody can get their turn to create and explore! Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Meeting Room 115
Snap & Edit: Photo(shop) Magic for Teens
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Join Nate from the Bubbler to learn photography and photo-editing skills using professional-grade cameras and photo-editing software. Each week, participants will take original point-and-shoot photos in the library, then edit those photos using Adobe Photoshop.
This workshop series is for teens and tweens ages 12-18. Attend one, a few, or all sessions to learn and practice new tricks and techniques.
Study Room A
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4:30pm
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Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence Phil Hassett
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Join Pinney Library's 2024 Artist-in-Resident, Phil Hassett for weekly Open Studio letterpress printing!
Most Tuesdays, 4:30-6:30 pm, May-Nov 2024
Title: Call & Response
"Taking inspiration from jazz and improvisational musical practices, this residency will use letterpress printmaking to explore many levels of interplay and collaboration between text & layout, word & image, letter & ornament, color & form, and artist & community. Over the course of the residency we will work with wood & metal type and ornaments to print at a variety of sizes—from buttons to posters, and we’ll explore layering, iterative collaboration, and ways that the rigid grids of letterpress type can be used as a foundation for both carefully planned and improvisational prints. We’ll explore the use of letters to create images and the use of ornaments to create letterforms, how communities shape words and stories and how words and stories shape communities. Along the way we’ll get a little inky, and have a lot of fun."
About Phil:
He is a letterpress printer living in Madison, WI, where he maintains a small collection of historic printing presses and a growing collection of historic and modern printing type. A lifelong musician, he named his print studio Washboard Press because of the sound one of his presses makes, and because he enjoys doing by hand what is now more usually done in a more automated way.
Visit his website https://www.washboardpress.com/about/
Studio
Sequoya Kids' Chess Club
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
For school-aged kids who know the basic moves of chess and want to practice their skills. Sessions begin with a 30 minute strategy or tactics lesson, followed by open game time. Come on in to play against other opponents your age!
Sequoya Library chess clubs are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month (except for election days).
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Cooking with Chef Lily
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 4:30pm to 5:30pm
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 Combined
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Sequoya All Ages Chess Club
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024, 6:00pm to 8:45pm
Come on in for a friendly game of chess with your neighbors. All ages welcome!
Sequoya Library chess clubs are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month (except for election days).
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
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