Events Calendar

Are you a kid who loves LEGOs? Do you enjoy engineering and designing LEGO creations?  If that is you - come join us for LEGO Club! The library will provide lots of LEGOs, and you provide the imagination. No registration required. LEGOs will have to stay at the library, so bring a camera to capture your creations.

Join Kimberly Crowley as she demonstrates the process of making Ho-Chunk Black Ash Baskets. Participants will be able to make their own paper basket as well as help make a communal Black Ash Basket for Hawthorne Library to keep and display. Open to all ages. No registration required.

About the presenter: I am Kimberly Crowley, Thunder Clan Member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. I am the 3rd daughter of Sidney Hall Sr. and Christine Hall. I grew up in Wittenberg, Wisconsin with my 10 siblings. I now now reside in Baraboo, Wisconsin with my family, and spend my time making and teaching black ash basket classes. I have 2 granddaughters that I have been teaching and are my apprentices-in-training, Brook had been with me learning basket making for 10 yrs and her sister Ariel is also learning at a young age of 8 yrs old. They both come and assist me during our basket classes, both have made and have baskets along with myself at several museums around Wisconsin. I have been making and selling baskets for over 44 yrs. and just within the last 5 yrs I have been teaching black ash basket making, an art that is slowly dying out.

Part of the Teejop and Beyond: Celebrating Native Nations series in partnership with Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison and made possible thanks to the Friends of Madison Public Library. Visit madpl.org/teejopandbeyond for more info.

The Munch Mobile Lunch Van will make a stop at Lakeview Library on Saturdays this fall.  All people in and around the library can get a free lunch between 12:00 and 12:20pm.