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Friday, October 9
Fall 2009 Book Sale - Free Entry!
Friday, October 9 | 10:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Venue: Memorial Library
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
A benefit for the UW-Madison Libraries -- runs through Saturday.
Category(s): Book Sales
Lev Raphael: My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped
Friday, October 9 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Press and Wisconsin Veterans Museum.
Presenter(s): Lev Raphael
As the son of Holocaust survivors, haunted by his parents’ suffering and traumatic losses under Nazi rule, Lev Raphael was certain that Germany was one place in the world he would never visit. Yet, as time passed, the barriers of a lifetime began to come down, as revealed in this moving memoir. After his mother’s death, while researching her war years, Raphael found a distant relative living in the very city where she had been a slave laborer. What would he learn if he actually traveled to the place where his mother had found freedom and met his father? Join the author as he tells his very personal and moving story of self-discovery and becoming someone unafraid to face the past and transcend it.
Bookseller: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Category(s): International, Memoir & Biography
Bone Folders' Guild Exhibit Opening: Courage to Create, Courage to Cross Boundaries
Friday, October 9 | 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Venue: State Street Gallery
The Bone Folders’ Guild is a group of Madison area artists who share an interest in the book arts. Join the Guild members as they present their latest hand-crafted books, designed to convey unique and personal messages about having the courage to create and to cross the boundaries of traditional book making.
Category(s): Art & Visual, Wisconsin Ties
Wisconsin People & Ideas/Wisconsin Book Festival Writing Contest Winners' Showcase
Friday, October 9 | 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Avol's Bookstore
Presented by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
Come see some of the the best Wisconsin writers and poets read their winning entries from our 2009 contests. Nancy Jesse, Gwendolyn Rice, and Sylvia Gilberson read from their prize-winning short stories, and poets Cathryn Cofell, Caleb Whitney, and Judy Kolosso share their winning poems. Hosted by Jason A. Smith, Wisconsin People & Ideas editor, with introductory remarks by WP&I poetry editor John Lehman.
Category(s): Fiction, Poetry, Wisconsin Ties, Writing & Publishing
Harriet Brown & Joan Fischer: Feed Me! Writers Dish about Food, Eating, Body Image, and Weight
Friday, October 9 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Presenter(s): Harriet Brown, Joan Fischer
Join Harriet Brown, former editor of Wisconsin Trails, and Joan Fischer, former editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas, for a thought-provoking reading from Feed Me! Writers Dish about Food, Eating, Body Image, and Weight, a collection of essays written by women about their relationships with food and their bodies. Featuring a joyful eating exercise.
Category(s): Society & Politics, Wisconsin Ties
Jonah Lehrer: From Marshmallows to Metacognition: What Can Science Teach Us About Decision-Making?
Friday, October 9 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presented by the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison
Presenter(s): Jonah Lehrer
A Contributing Editor at Wired magazine, Jonah Lehrer writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities. The author of How We Decide and Proust was a Neuroscientist, he is also an Editor at Large for Seed magazine, a Contributing Editor at Scientific American Mind and National Public Radio's Radio Lab.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): Society & Politics
Wade Rouse: At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream
Friday, October 9 | 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
Presenter(s): Wade Rouse
In At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream, Wade Rouse relates, with his trademark tongue-in-cheek humor, his courageous decision to follow a dream of the simple life. Leaving cultured urban living behind, Wade strikes out with his partner Gary for the back woods of lower Michigan where his spirit, sanity, relationship, and Kenneth Cole pointy-toe boots are sorely tested with humorous and humiliating frequency.
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): LGBTQ, Memoir & Biography
Madison Children's Museum Kids' Book Bonanza
Friday, October 9 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Venue: Madison Children's Museum
Presenter(s): Lexi Gee, Stephanie Lowden, Patricia Curtis Pfitsch, Sheri Sinykin
The museum's annual mini-festival for young readers and families. Enjoy all of the museum's hands-on exhibits in addition to the following programs:
Author Programs with Lexi Gee, Sheri Sinykin, Stephanie Lowden, and Patricia Curtis Pfitsch (check their respective event listings for details)
Special Exhibition: Cartonera Publishers: In conjunction with the 2009 UW Cartoneras Publishers conference, MCM hosts an exhibition of Cartoneras, handmade books made by artists in Central and South America from reclaimed materials. Learn more about this emerging publishing phenomenon and make your own Cartonera book to take home.
Girl Scout Workshop: As part of the Kids' Book Bonanza, MCM offers a badge opportunity for Junior Girl Scout troops (registration and program fee required).
Category(s): Art & Visual, Youth & Kids
Catherine Victorias Alexis (Lexi) Gee
Friday, October 9 | 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Madison Children's Museum
Presenter(s): Lexi Gee
Catherine Alexis "Lexi" Victorias Gee, age 12, is the author of Preemies Rock!, a book written for parents and siblings of premature infants that describes what happens to preemies during their hospital stay. A preemie herself, Lexi was born at 25 weeks and weighed only one pound eight ounces at birth. You can find out more about Lexi at her website: www.preemiesrock.org.
Category(s): Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
Robert Rauschenberg's America: Gallery Talk
Friday, October 9 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Venue: MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art)
Presented by MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art)
Professor Jeremi Suri will explore the social, cultural, and political influences on Robert Rauschenberg's artistic sensibility through investigation of his works on view in the exhibit Signs of the Times: Robert Rauschenberg's America. Professor Suri will also discuss Rauschenberg's influence on other artists, thinkers, and citizens. Gallery talks are informal, thirty-minute lectures; seating is limited.
Category(s): Art & Visual
Sheri Sinykin, Patricia Curtis Pfitsch, & Stephanie Lowden
Friday, October 9 | 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Venue: Madison Children's Museum
Presenter(s): Sheri Sinykin, Stephanie Lowden, Patricia Curtis Pfitsch
Three novels for middle school girls, each set in a different century, and each presenting an empowering main character. Young people today face a world full of urgent concerns, but often the adult community resists acknowledging their problems. In the 1700's, Autumn Dawn summons physical courage and resourcefulness to survive a perilous trek through wintery wilderness along the shores of Lake Superior, the home of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe). In 1894, Francie agrees with those protesting the felling of the giant sequoia trees, but times are hard, and her parents believe their town will die if the lumber company fails. And in modern times, Davia faces literal and figurative ghosts on an unfamiliar Louisiana plantation, far from her Wisconsin home. These three protagonists will help young people find the courage to face their problems, make a difference in their communities, and even save the world.
Category(s): Fiction, Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
Making Waves Showcase: From Hawai’i to First Wave through Chitown
Friday, October 9 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall
Presenter(s): Team Hawai'i , Marty McConnell, First Wave Hip-Hop Theater Ensemble
Join two-time International Teen Slam Champion Hawai’i as they share their award-winning pieces that have taken the nation by storm (resulting in an invitation to the White House for one of its members). Also featured will be Chicago’s Marty McConnell who will do a special set and the event will be closed by special First Wave hip-hop theatrical shorts drawn from the Sophomore and Freshman cohorts.
Category(s): Poetry, Spoken Word, Wisconsin Ties
Presenting Akademia Cartonera: A Primer of Latin American Cartonera Publishers
Friday, October 9 | 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
El Cartón es Vida = Cardboard is Life. The Cartonera phenomenon, a progressive new publishing model in Latin America, inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison conference "Recycling Latin American Bookscapes." Representatives from eight Latin American countries meet in Madison October 8 & 9, 2009 to share their extraordinary books and talk about their methods of book production -- all of which include cardboard recycling as part of their core activity. Several cartonera projects have established social and educational elements to their program and are using the creation of the Cartonera books to redefine the relationship between the book and the public. This event unveils Akademia Cartonera: A Primer of Latin American Cartonera Publishers, the result of the cartonera conference and the first publication to present this redefining model of progressive publishing to a wider audience.
For more information please click here.
Category(s): Art & Visual, International, Society & Politics
Gay American Autobiography: David Bergman & Raphael Kadushin
Friday, October 9 | 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
Presented by University of Wisconsin Press
Presenter(s): David Bergman, Raphael Kadushin
For nearly a dozen years the UW Press has been publishing lesbian and gay memoir and autobiography in the unique and award-winning Living Out series. The latest and most ambitious volume in the series, Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris, presents a panoramic portrait of gay male life writing, including the work of towering figures such as Henry James and Henry David Thoreau while also offering the testimony of tattoo artists and academics, composers and drag queens, turn-of-the-century transvestites and soldiers attempting to come out in the army. Join editor David Bergman and senior acquisitions editor Raphael Kadushin to celebrate Coming Out Week with a fascinating and insightful look back at how gay men have defined and lived their lives throughout the last 150 years.
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): LGBTQ, Memoir & Biography, Wisconsin Ties
Passing the Mic Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Open Mic
Friday, October 9 | 9:00 - 11:45 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall
A special complement to Madison's freshest monthly open mic, Just Bust, this Spoken Word & Hip-Hop event is hosted by First Wave and DJ Pain1 and features the Midwest Youth Slam All-Stars. Come hear youth poetry slam champions from Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland and Detroit. Bring your own piece to share, get on the mic, and just bust! Signup starts at 8:30pm.
Category(s): Poetry, Spoken Word, Wisconsin Ties