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Upcoming opportunities to learn to sew or practice sewing in a club at Madison Public Library

Madison Public Library offers kits to make running a book group easier.

Learn how you can be included in shaping the future of health care for you, your family, your community, and generations to come by joining us for an All of Us Research Program event.

A group of loyal donors to Madison Public Library Foundation is offering a $100,000 match throughout December for all gifts made to the foundation's annual fund, which fuels core library resources and programming. Every contribution will go twice as far!

Over winter break the Madison Public Library has some fun ways to keep your family entertained and engaged with books and reading!

All Madison libraries will be closed December 24, 25, 31 and January 1 for the winter holidays.

Summer is here! Let's learn about different types of gardening and greenery at these upcoming Madison Public Library programs. 

Help package native seeds for library patrons to pick up this winter. Native seeds need to be over-wintered to thrive and library staff need help packaging the seeds so that library patrons can pick them up from the various library locations this winter. 

Jim Terry, author of graphic memoir Come Home, Indio, will speak at the Central Library on Thursday, December 7, 7pm.

Pinney Library Artist-in-Residence Bernie & Zuzu is hosting weekly open studio hours, passive programs and workshops from February - October 2023.

Learn more about Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)'s second north-south line.

If you've ever wondered if yoga is for you, try Chair Yoga at Alicia Ashman Library this December.

For the launch of their annual, themed calendar, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets has invited 25 poets from the South Central Region of Wisconsin to read poems on the theme of "Margins" at Sequoya Library on Saturday, November 11. 

Do fun after-school art projects led by local artist Amy Mietzel at Lakeview Library in November 2023

Explore mending across Madison through a series of events hosting in partnership by Madison Public Library, The Mending Project, the James Watrous Gallery, and Center for Design and Material Culture at UW-Madison's School of Human Ecology.

Create a mini-greenhouse out of a milk jug! Workshops will take place at Pinney and Sequoya Libraries.

Central Library Artist-in-Residence Maria Schirmer Devitt is hosting weekly open studio hours and workshops about wishing from September to December 2023.

Stop into Hawthorne Library every Thursday afternoon at 2PM for a movie matinee! Most films are geared towards adults, with a rating of R or equivalent.

Come make something new afterschool at Meadowridge Library this fall with the weekly Tinkering Tuesday program!

Take your business to the next level by harnessing the power of social media! Brand Strategist Paris Nash helps you grow your business using Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and more!