All day
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10:00am
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Scrabble at the Library
Community Room - Table Side
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Attention word lovers: exercise your brain by playing Scrabble with other adults!
Community Room - Table Side
Multi-age Storytime (ages 5 and under)
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 10:00am to 10:30am
READ and PLAY together with children 5 & under! 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
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
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10:30am
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Storytime
Wednesday, Jul 24, 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
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12:00pm
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Free Mending @ Hawthorne Library
Wednesday, Jul 24, 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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12:30pm
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Wiggles and Words Multi-Age Storytime
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Join us to READ and Play together. When children engage with books, songs, and play, they develop communication skills, patience, empathy, and pre-reading skills which helps to build a lifelong love of reading.
This program is geared toward children under age 5. All older and younger siblings as well as childcare groups are welcome to join.
Library programs are always free.
Meeting Room 115
Dream Bus at Camden Court Apartments feat. Drop-In Maker Activities
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 12:30pm to 1:15pm
Visit the Dream Bus to browse books and other library materials, place or pick up holds, and sign up for a library card. Learn more at dreambus.org.
Join Making & Learning Intern Yaritza at Dream Bus and Parks Alive stops this summer for a fun, maker activity! While you're there, explore Madison Public Library's summer reading program WE READ:
- Pick up your WE READ Card Game
- Fill your WE READ tote bag with books from the library collection
- Answer the Share Your Voice question of the week to earn a prize
Yaritza is bilingual in English and Spanish and will offer art and making programs throughout the summer. Learn more about Yaritza.
2601 Old Camden Square
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1:30pm
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Dream Bus at The Meadowlands Apartments feat. Drop-In Maker Activities
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 1:30pm to 2:15pm
Visit the Dream Bus to browse books and other library materials, place or pick up holds, and sign up for a library card. Learn more at dreambus.org.
Join Making & Learning Intern Yaritza at Dream Bus and Parks Alive stops this summer for a fun, maker activity! While you're there, explore Madison Public Library's summer reading program WE READ:
- Pick up your WE READ Card Game
- Fill your WE READ tote bag with books from the library collection
- Answer the Share Your Voice question of the week to earn a prize
Yaritza is bilingual in English and Spanish and will offer art and making programs throughout the summer. Learn more about Yaritza.
6834 Milwaukee St
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2:30pm
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Dream Bus at Harmony Apartments feat. Drop-In Maker Activities
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 2:30pm to 3:00pm
Visit the Dream Bus to browse books and other library materials, place or pick up holds, and sign up for a library card. Learn more at dreambus.org.
Join Making & Learning Intern Yaritza at Dream Bus and Parks Alive stops this summer for a fun, maker activity! While you're there, explore Madison Public Library's summer reading program WE READ:
- Pick up your WE READ Card Game
- Fill your WE READ tote bag with books from the library collection
- Answer the Share Your Voice question of the week to earn a prize
Yaritza is bilingual in English and Spanish and will offer art and making programs throughout the summer. Learn more about Yaritza.
116 Milky Way
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3:00pm
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All-Ages Knitting Circle
Wednesday, Jul 24, 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
Chess for All Ages
Wednesday, Jul 24, 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
Growing Voices Music Class
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 3:00pm to 3:45pm
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
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3:30pm
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We Read Bubbler Artist in Residence with Elias
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Stop by to make art with our summer artist in residence, Elias! Each week will offer a different fun, hands-on project for kids of all ages!
Wednesdays, June 26-August 14, 3:30-5:00pm
Note: No program on July 17.
Community Room Combined
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4:00pm
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One-On-One Computer Assistance
Wednesday, Jul 24, 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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We Make with Bubbler Artist in Residence Savannah Starlin - Self-Portraits
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Join Bubbler Artist in Residence Savannah Starlin for a relaxing art workshop. Take what you make with you when you leave. No registration required & free of cost.
Create a self-portrait that expresses who you are. Your portrait could take a surrealism approach that describes who your inner-self is or use a mirror for a realism approach.
We Make Summer Session meets weekly on Wednesdays, June 26th - August 28th.
Youth 8 years and younger must bring an older caregiver with them.
Community Room
Canceled - Kids' Open Dungeons and Dragons
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Wednesday, Jul 24, 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
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5:00pm
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Parks Alive - Meadowood Park
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Connect with Madison Public Library at Parks Alive. Stop by to get a library card, learn about library resources, and pick up a WE READ Library bag and a card game that inspires youth to read over the summer! Parks Alive builds stronger neighborhoods and connects neighbors to their parks through fun, family-friendly activities, music and free food. Events are held in parks across the city and throughout the summer. Connect with your neighbors and engage with your community at a Parks Alive event near you! Learn more at Parks Alive https://www.cityofmadison.com/parksalive.
*Offsite
Parks Alive - Hammersley Park
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Connect with Madison Public Library at Parks Alive. Stop by to get a library card, learn about library resources, and pick up a WE READ Library bag and a card game that inspires youth to read over the summer! Parks Alive builds stronger neighborhoods and connects neighbors to their parks through fun, family-friendly activities, music and free food. Events are held in parks across the city and throughout the summer. Connect with your neighbors and engage with your community at a Parks Alive event near you! Learn more at Parks Alive https://www.cityofmadison.com/parksalive.
*Offsite
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6:00pm
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Knitting at the Library
Community Room - Fireplace Side
Wednesday, Jul 24, 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
Madison International Travel Meetup Group
Wednesday, Jul 24, 2024, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Engaging in activities such as history, politics, art, music, the environment, language, economics, and more are all possibilities for this group. Let's embrace the many things this world has to offer us here in Madison!
Community Room
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