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10:00am
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Storytime for the Very Young
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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
Growing Voices Music Class
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024, 10:00am to 10:45am
Growing Voices Music Class is an interactive class for caregivers and their children, birth-5, to play, learn, and bond with music. In our classes we sing, play instruments, dance, and have fun together!
Youth Program Room
Doing Something! with Artist-in-Residence TetraPAKMAN
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Visitors of all ages are invited to come by the Bubbler Room and work with TetraPAKMAN on engaging, tactile art-making out of recycled materials. Whether we’re building a large-scale, community-generated social sculpture or creating the unthinkable through cardboard construction we need your help!
Some of his ongoing projects include painting bedsheets for a upcoming installation, creating messages out of old keyboard keys or using everyday objects like lids, boxes, and twist-ties to make larger than life sculpture forms.
Many of TetraPAKMAN’s projects scale up or down based on age and timeframe — so come by for 5 minutes, an hour, or more and we will be Doing Something. We’d love your creative additions as he works to transform the Bubbler Room at Central Library!
About the Artist: TetraPAKMAN is a Madison-based artist who has long considered concepts around conservation, and often creates using repurposed/recycled materials. TetraPAKMAN’s practice is focused on community-generated social sculpture projects. His work is about the future, and the challenges we face today as a community. He explores the role of art as a mechanism to generate awareness about the climate crisis.
Bubbler
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10:30am
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Storytime (ages 5 & under)
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024, 10:30am to 11:15am
READ and PLAY together with children ages 5 and under! Engaging with books, songs and playful experiences all help children develop communication skills, patience, empathy, and pre-reading skills. It also helps to build a lifelong love of reading. Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Meeting Room
Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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
Baby Storytime
Community Room - Fireplace Side
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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
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11:30am
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Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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, Nov 19, 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.
Family Study Room
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12:30pm
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Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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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One-on-One Computer Assistance With Marcus
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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.
Family Study Room
Adult Knitting Group
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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
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2:00pm
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[FULL] Sowing Native Seeds Over Winter
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Master Naturalist Alex Singer will demonstrate making a mini-greenhouse, introduce various plant species (seeds of which he's generously sharing), and share useful resources for identifying seeds. Then, make your own mini-greenhouse using tools and seeds provided. Bring an empty milk jug, clear juice bottle, or water jug.
Small quantities of seeds will be available to take home in addition to those used in the mini-greenhouses.
Space is limited - register online or by calling 224-7100 starting November 5.
Community Room B
Application Assistance
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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
Go By Metro: Fast Fare
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
This Go By Metro series is dedicated to everything Fast Fare! Metro Transit and City employees will be distributing the new reloadable cards. Staff will also be available to answer questions, and help rider’s set up online accounts, add any half-price entitlements and trade in unused passes/cards. Metro Transit staff can also answer route questions about the new Bus Rapid Transit Route A. No registration is required.
Community Room
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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 Game Day
*In Goodman South Madison Library
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024, 4:00pm to 6:30pm
It Takes A Village After-School Enrichment sessions are created in an effort to promote community, and a safe place for youth patrons between 12 and 18 years old. We will supply various gaming activities board games and electronic games also VR gaming
*In Goodman South Madison Library
Minecraft Club
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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
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4:30pm
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Cooking with Chef Lily
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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
Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence Phil Hassett
Tuesday, Nov 19, 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-Dec. 14, 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, Nov 19, 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
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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, Nov 19, 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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