Events Calendar

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Red Cross Blood Drive

Wed, Apr 30, 9:30am - 1:30pm

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined

Central Library

Central Library Madison and the American Red Cross are hosting an upcoming blood drive.

Come to give blood April 30th and get an exclusive Red Cross T-shirt, while supplies last.…

Wisconsin Book Festival Presents Mary Annette Pember for Medicine River

Wed, Apr 30, 7 - 8pm

Madison Room

Central Library

A sweeping and trenchant exploration of the history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S., and the legacy of abuse wrought by systemic attempts to use education as a tool through which…

Wisconsin Book Festival Presents UW Creative Writing Ceremony

Thu, May 1, 7 - 8pm

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined

Central Library

The 2025 undergraduate and graduate creative writing awards ceremony. Presented in partnership with The UW Program in Creative Writing.

Featured author TBA.

Wisconsin Book Festival Presents: Steven Espada Dawson for Late to the Search Party

Tue, May 6, 7 - 8pm

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined

Central Library

A raw, crystalline debut poetry collection exploring themes of family, addiction, belonging, and loss—a searching elegy of the fissures that have come to define contemporary American life.

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Wisconsin Book Festival Presents: Jane Hirshfield for The Asking

Mon, May 12, 6 - 7pm

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined

Central Library

Presented in partnership with the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. This event is free and open to the public, however we do ask that you please …

The Wisconsin Book Festival Presents: Rickey Fayne for The Devil Three Times

Tue, May 13, 7 - 8pm

Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined

Central Library

Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with the spirit of her dead sister as her only companion. Desperate to survive the hell that awaits her at their destination,…