All day
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9:30am
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Baby & Toddler Storytime (ages birth to 3)
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 9:30am to 10:30am
READ and PLAY with your favorite baby or toddler! Reading, singing, talking and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even before they can talk! Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Youth Program Room
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10:00am
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Multi-age Storytime (ages 5 and under)
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 10:00am to 10:30am
READ and PLAY together with children under age 5! 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
Youth Program Room
Scrabble at the Library
Community Room - Table Side
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Attention word lovers: exercise your brain by playing Scrabble with other adults!
Community Room - Table Side
Volunteer Event: Winter WE READ Maker Kit Assembly
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Madison Public Library will be kicking off our Winter Edition of WE READ!
Now the library is looking for volunteers to help with the hard part: creating activity kits! If you would like to donate your time and effort to this project, please register below!
Registration for the event is open.
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
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10:30am
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Storytime
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 10:30am to 11:30am
READ and PLAY together with children 5 & under! Stories, songs, and rhymes for about 20 minutes, followed by playtime and an art project.
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.
No registration, free of cost, and older siblings are welcome!
Community Room
Baby Storytime
Community Room - Fireplace Side
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 10:30am to 11:30am
READ and PLAY with your favorite baby, ages birth to 17 months! Reading, singing, talking, and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even before they can talk! Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Community Room - Fireplace Side
Multi Age Storytime (children & families 5 & under)
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 10:30am to 11:30am
READ and PLAY together with children under age 5! 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. Older and Younger siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Youth Program Room
Read & Breathe: A Mindful Storytime for all ages
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 10:30am to 11:15am
A special storytime series woven together with playful mindfulness practices for children and their caregivers to do together. Comfy clothing encouraged!
Books, songs and mindful practices all help children develop communication skills, patience, empathy, and pre-reading skills as well as a lifelong love of reading. After about 20-30 minutes of stories, songs, and a few mindfulness games we'll end with a time for child-led play together in our children's area. You are welcome to stay as long as you like!
Library programs are always free. Siblings and friends are welcome.
Community Room
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11:00am
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Baby Storytime (ages birth to 17 mo)
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 11:00am to 11:30am
READ and PLAY with your favorite baby! Reading, singing, talking, and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even before they can talk! Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Youth Program Room
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12:00pm
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Free Mending @ Hawthorne Library
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Do you have clothing or other fabric items that need mending?
Volunteers from the Sewing Machine Project are offering free mending at Hawthorne Neighborhood Library every other Wednesday from noon - 2:00 pm. These helpful sewers mend clothing and can handle many other fabric-related repairs (exception: no zipper repairs).
Mending is done on the spot on a first come, first served basis. There’s no drop off or pick up, we do what we can do in the time allowed.
Drop in anytime between 12:00 - 2:00 pm!
*In Hawthorne Library
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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Read To A Dog
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Read aloud to a furry friend from Alliance for Therapy Dogs. Bring a favorite book or try a one from our collection. First come, first served.
Meeting Room
Chess for All Ages
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Please join us to play chess at our weekly, drop-in program! All ages and experience levels welcome.
Study Room A
All-Ages Knitting Circle
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Drop-in knitting. All experience levels welcome! Children under 9 must be accompanied by an adult for duration of program. Yarn and Needles provided for in-library use.
Please contact Meadowridge Library at 608-288-6160 for more details and information!
*In Meadowridge Library
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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It Takes A Village Afterschool Enrichment : Digital Arts with Nate
Wednesday, Oct 16, 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.
Nate from The Bubbler has expertise in film production, editing, animation, game design, graphic design, and digital art.
Meeting Room 115
One-On-One Computer Assistance
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Need help with basic computer or Internet skills? Get assistance with opening an email account, writing a Word document, navigating the internet, keeping your files safe, and more.
Call 608-266-6350 to make a 30-minute appointment.
Computer Assistance is sponsored by the Digital Equity Project.
Study Room 211
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4:30pm
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Kids' Open Dungeons and Dragons
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 4:30pm to 6:30pm
School-age children (elementary and middle school) are invited to join us for this kid-led Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Be a part of an adventuring party where you'll use your imagination and creativity to explore a fantasy world in an epic quest. Our Dungeon Master Jared will provide support and help guide campaigns along with our adult D&D experts and our Youth Librarian Ruth.
This weekly session is for beginners.
About D&D: Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game that allows each player to create their own character to play. These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master (DM) serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur.
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
We Make: Journal Decorating
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Join other young people and their caregivers for a relaxing art workshop. Decorate a blank notebook by using paint markers, collage, and stickers. Take what you make with you when you leave.
All materials are provided, no registration, and free of cost.
Youth 8 years and younger must bring an adult, or responsible older sibling, with.
Community Room
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caring for the Whole Family
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 6:00pm to 7:00pm
When you discover that your child is growing differently than other kids, you may experience a wide range of emotions as your world begins to change. Join us as we explore those emotions and the realities of raising a child with a special health care need or disability. Learn about resources and supports available for your whole family. This discussion is for families who may be new to the world of special health care needs and disabilities. Handouts and materials available at the Wisconsin Medical Home Initiative.
October 16, 6:00-7:00pm Madison Pinney Library Registration
Community Room B
Knitting at the Library
Community Room - Fireplace Side
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Drop in knitting: Learn a new craft or work on that unfinished project with other neighborhood knitters.
Community Room - Fireplace Side
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7:00pm
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Wisconsin Book Festival Presents UW-Madison's Go Big Read with Rebekah Taussig for Sitting Pretty
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Presented in partnership with Go Big Read. Please note this event will be held at Union South - Wisconsin Union, Varsity Hall, Section II.
Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling.
Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life.
Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.
*Offsite
Book Discussion of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
A fast, rollercoaster first person narrative that’s a barbed satire of the publishing industry and a metafiction commentary on our race obsessed culture. One reviewer called it ‘the reading experience of watching a trainwreck’ …. one you can see coming from far off! Join us for discussion and perhaps dessert! Newcomers warmly welcomed.
Conference Room 104
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