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Friday, December 27, 2024

Time Items
All day
 
9am
9:00am to 11:00am
Doing Something! with Artist-in-Residence TetraPAKMAN

Doing Something! with Artist-in-Residence TetraPAKMAN

Bubbler
Friday, Dec 27, 2024, 9:00am to 11:00am

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
 
11am
11:00am to 3:00pm
We Read Loteria Family Party

We Read Loteria Family Party

*In Alicia Ashman Library
Friday, Dec 27, 2024, 11:00am to 3:00pm

Come into the warm library and play We Read LOTERÍA any time between 11:00 and 3:00 today! 

Lotería is Mexican BINGO, played with a deck of picture cards instead of numbered balls. Get ready to shout "Lotería!" and win some fun prizes! During the event, families can play the game, enjoy some tasty treats, and listen to music. At the end of the program, participants can take home a free copy of the game to keep as well as extra playing cards and check out some fantastic books to take home and read over winter break!

*In Alicia Ashman Library
 
5pm
5:30pm to 8:00pm
Hawthorne Library Anime Club (title to be announced)

Hawthorne Library Anime Club (title to be announced)

Community Room
Friday, Dec 27, 2024, 5:30pm to 8:00pm

The Hawthorne Anime Club was created to give people a place to gather, watch, and talk about Japanese animation.  The club is intended for adults and older teens. All screenings will be in Japanese with English subtitles.  Occasionally films or series with mature content will be screened.  Call ahead to reserve your spot!

(masks are required and no refreshments can be served due to Covid-19 restrictions)

Community Room
 
6pm
6:00pm to 8:30pm
Pinney Friday Flicks - The Holdovers (2023)

Pinney Friday Flicks - The Holdovers (2023)

Community Room B
Friday, Dec 27, 2024, 6:00pm to 8:30pm

Check out our Friday Night Flicks at Pinney Library, every 2nd & 4th Friday beginning at 6pm! Movies will be shown in the Community Room on the large projection screen. Light snacks and refreshments served; Closed Captioning active when available. Recommended for Adults Only as some movies may contain mature themes.

The Holdovers (2023), R, 2hr 13min

Plot: A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

Directed by: Alexander Payne

Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

Community Room B