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Happy cartoon daisies with red hearts and blood drop symbols
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Meeting Rooms A and B Combined

Save lives and empower your health! This March, successful blood donations will get free A1C testing, commonly used to screen for prediabetes and diabetes. For details, visit…

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Meeting Room 115

Come join the book club for a lively, thoughtful discussion of "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. Everyone is welcome…

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Black-and-white photos of each member of the Inside Pocket trio playing their instruments.
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Meeting Rooms A and B Combined

Join us for Saturday Jazz! This month, we welcome Inside Pocket.

Inside Pocket is a jazz group based in Madison, Wisconsin. We perform standards, original compositions, hard bop, and…

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Storytime at Hawthorne
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Community Room

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…

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Youth Program Room

READ and PLAY with your favorite baby! Reading, singing, talking, and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even…

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Conference Room 104

the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

A guard at the Met shares a behind the scenes look at working at the museum, along with his visceral and emotional experience…

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The Verifiers, Jane Pek
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Meeting Rooms A and B Combined

Join us for a discussion of this month's book, The Verifiers by Jane Pek. New members are always welcome! Copies of the book may be available at the Ask Desk.

Synopsis: Claudia Lin…

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*Offsite

Join us for a mystery book group discussion of "The Family Chao" by Lan Samantha Chang. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!

"The residents of Haven, Wisconsin,…

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Youth Program Room

Bring your little one (ages birth-5) to sing, dance, explore instruments, and play! Teacher Junko Yamauchi Stewart will lead these fun music & movement activities for families to do together.…

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Meeting Rooms 301 and 302 Combined

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

Please join our lifesaving mission and schedule an appointment today!

Save lives and empower…

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Storytime at Hawthorne
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Community Room

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…

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*Offsite

Join us for a book discussion of "Mama Makes Up Her Mind (and Other Dangers of Southern Living)" by Bailey White. New members always welcome!  Please check with library staff for location or…

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Storytime at Hawthorne
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Community Room

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…

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Youth Program Room

READ and PLAY with your favorite baby! Reading, singing, talking, and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even…

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The Better Sister by Alafair Burke
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Meeting Rooms A and B Combined

Join us for a discussion of this month's mystery book, The Better Sister by Alafair Burke. New members always welcome! Copies of the book may be available at the Ask Desk.

Synopsis…

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Community Room

Join the Alicia Ashman book club for lively, thoughtful discussions every first Thursday of the month (excluding December). Everyone is welcome and books are available at the Checkout Desk week of…

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Community Room - Fireplace Side

Join us for a book group discussion of "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. Books are available at the library. New members always welcome!

"Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in…

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The Capitol Quintet
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Community Rooms A and B Combined

The Pinney Saturday Music Series welcomes performers on the first Saturday of the month! (Intended audience is adults, teens, and older children.)

Saturday April 5th, 11am-…

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Storytime at Hawthorne
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Community Room

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…

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Youth Program Room

READ and PLAY with your favorite baby! Reading, singing, talking, and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even…

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glass walled reading room with art installation
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Reading Room

Text+Titles = TexTITLES: Conversations Around How Textiles Connect Us

The Textile Arts Center of Madison (TAC) and Pinney Library are pleased to invite you to join a monthly facilitated…

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A cartoon drop of blood reading "blood donors needed now", surrounded by spring flowers and the American Red Cross logo
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Meeting Rooms A and B Combined

Donate blood and help maintain a stable blood supply. Every day the Red Cross must collect more than 13,000 pints of blood for patients across the country. Encourage family and friends to join you…

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Storytime at Hawthorne
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Community Room

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…

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Youth Program Room

READ and PLAY with your favorite baby! Reading, singing, talking, and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even…

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Conference Room 104

In Renaissance Italy, the brief life of Lucrezia de’Medici, married at age 15 to an Italian Duke, then murdered (probably by her husband), is explored in this novel that paints the time and place…