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Please note that this calendar only contains library programs. For room availability, please contact the appropriate library directly.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Time Items
All day
 
7am
7:00am to 8:00pm
Election Day - General Election

Election Day - General Election

Community Rooms A and B and Kitchen Combined
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024, 7:00am to 8:00pm

If Meadowridge Library is your polling place, come in to vote!

 

The General Election is held in even-numbered years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November to elect United States senators, representatives to congress, presidential electors, state senators, representatives to the assembly, district attorneys, state officers other than the state superintendent and judicial officers, and county officers other than supervisors and county executives.
State Statute 5.02(5)

Find your polling place.

Community Rooms A and B and Kitchen Combined
 
7:00am to 8:00pm
Election Day
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
 
10am
10:00am to 10:45am
Growing Voices Music Class

Growing Voices Music Class

Youth Program Room
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
10am
10:30am to 11:00am
Growing Voices Music Class

Growing Voices Music Class

Meeting Room
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
10:30am to 11:30am
[FULL] Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South

[FULL] Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South

Blue Room 128
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
11am
11:30am to 12:30pm
Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South

Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South

Blue Room 128
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
12pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
One-on-One Computer Assistance with Marcus

One-on-One Computer Assistance with Marcus

Family Study Room
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Chat with a Cop

Chat with a Cop

Conference Room 104
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Do you live or work in Central Madison and have ideas for making our city a safer place to live, play, learn, and work? 

Meet with Madison Police Department Central District Captain Michael Hanson, his Community Policing Advisory Board, and police officers who serve Central Madison every first Tuesday of the month. 

Meet with other community members to learn how community policing is helping to address safety issues in the Central District and ask questions or share ideas.

Sponsored by Madison Police Department and Madison Community Policing Foundation.  For more information, call 608-335-2363, email mcpf-cpab@madisoncommunitypolicingfoundation.org, or visit madisoncommunitypolicingfoundation.org/chatwithacop

Conference Room 104
 
12pm
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South

Madison Writing Assistance at Goodman South

Blue Room 128
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
1pm
1:00pm to 2:00pm
One-on-One Computer Assistance With Marcus

One-on-One Computer Assistance With Marcus

Family Study Room
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Adult Knitting Group

Adult Knitting Group

Study Rooms 104 and 105 Combined
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Come on in and share tips or get advice! Please bring your own supplies. All skill levels welcome.

Study Rooms 104 and 105 Combined
 
2pm
2:00pm to 3:15pm
One-on-One Computer Assistance With Marcus

One-on-One Computer Assistance With Marcus

Family Study Room
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:15pm

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
 
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Application Assistance

Application Assistance

Study Room 2
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
3pm
3:00pm to 3:45pm
Dream Bus at 7 Oarks Apartments
1108 Moorland Rd
 
4pm
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Snap & Edit: Photo(shop) Magic for Teens

Snap & Edit: Photo(shop) Magic for Teens

Study Room A
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Tree & Root Art

Tree & Root Art

Youth Program Room
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024, 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Join us in celebrating all things trees & roots by making a mini flip book, drawing your own tree-themed scene, or doing a coloring sheet. This is a drop-in and informal art time for school age kids in grades K-5.

Youth Program Room
 
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Dream Bus at Leopold Elementary
2602 Post Rd
 
4:00pm to 8:00pm
Extended Hours! Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence Phil Hassett

Extended Hours! Open Studio with Artist-in-Residence Phil Hassett

Studio
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024, 4:00pm to 8:00pm

Join Pinney Library's 2024 Artist-in-Resident, Phil Hassett for weekly Open Studio letterpress printing!

Extended Open Studio hours this week!

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
 
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Minecraft Club

Minecraft Club

Meeting Room 115
Tuesday, Nov 5, 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
 
4pm
4:30pm to 6:00pm
It Takes A Village After school enrichment: TEEN Choice

It Takes A Village After school enrichment: TEEN Choice

*In Goodman South Madison Library
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Join us Friday's at Goodman South Madison Library for teen time. Teens can choose what they'd like to do each time, but we'll have activities available to engage them from 4-6PM. Board games, art + maker projects, crafts, video games, and enrichment opportunities like vision boards and STEM experiments coordinated by Teen Librarian Will G. and featuring various community partners. Meet other teens from your neighborhood and enjoy community after school. 

*In Goodman South Madison Library
 
5pm
5:00pm to 5:45pm
Dream Bus at Monona Shores Apartments
2 Waunona Woods Ct