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Madison Public Library-Main Branch: Wednesday, September 29
Bus Lines: High School Poetry Awards & Reading
Wednesday, September 29 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Bus Lines, a program supported by the Madison Arts Commission (in partnership with City of Madison-Metro Transit, City of Middleton, and Madison Public Library System), selects outstanding poems each year from Madison-area high school students. The winning poems are displayed inside Metro Transit Buses as a celebration of poetry and youthful creativity. The Madison Poet Laureate, Fabu, emcees this special event where the young writers receive recognition for their outstanding poetry and share their original writing.
Category(s): Poetry, Youth & Kids
Madison Public Library-Main Branch: Friday, October 1
Books as Art: Opening Discussion for Cover to Cover art exhibition
Friday, October 1 | 5:00 - 6:00 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Presenter(s): Bobette Rose, Angela Johnson, Tom Linfield, Jayne Reid Jackson, Karen Reppen
Five artists from the artsTRIBE collective have mounted an exhibition that responds to books—books as subject, books as raw material, and books as inspiration. Join artists Tom Linfield, Bobbette Rose, Jayne Reid Jackson, Angela Johnson and Karen Reppen for a discussion of their work. Follow the Laurie Lang Trio as they lead the audience across the street to the exhibition opening at the Overture Center!
Category(s): Art & Visual
Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Over-heats
Friday, October 1 | 8:00 - 9:00 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Presenter(s): Gwynne Dyer
Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. These are some of the expected consequences of climate change in the decades ahead, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict. In Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats, geopolitical analyst Gwynne Dyer gives us a terrifying glimpse of the not-so-distant future, when climate change will force the world's powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): Science & Nature, Society & Politics
Madison Public Library-Main Branch: Saturday, October 2
Wisconsin History, One Story at a Time: Badger Biographies
Saturday, October 2 | 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Presented by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Presenter(s): Sheila Cohen, Bob Kann, Caroline Hoffman
Join authors Bob Kann, Caroline Hoffman and Sheila Cohen as they talk about writing for children. All three authors have written books for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press’ Badger Biographies series for 7-12 year old children. They’ve explored famous and not so famous people from Wisconsin in a kid friendly format. All of the biographies tell stories of people that worked hard, believed in themselves and achieved their dreams – such as, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gaylord Nelson, Belle & Bob La Follette and Cindy Bentley.
Bookseller: Borders West
Category(s): Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
Bob Birmingham & Jill Sisson Quinn
Saturday, October 2 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Presenter(s): Robert Birmingham, Jill Sisson Quinn
Between A.D. 700 and 1100, Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America. These huge earthworks, sculpted in the shape of birds, mammals, and other figures, together comprise a vast effigy mound ceremonial landscape. Farming and industrialization destroyed most of these mounds, leaving only the mysteries of who built them and why. Bob Birmingham’s Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes explores the cultural, historical, and ceremonial meanings of the mounds in an informative, abundantly illustrated book and guide. Nature writer and poet Jill Sisson Quinn who writes of her meditations on nature and reflections on life after she moved to Wisconsin will read selections from Deranged, a new book of essays.
Category(s): History, Science & Nature, Spiritual Beliefs, Wisconsin Ties
Danielle McGuire: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power.
Saturday, October 2 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
In alignment with their mission of Eliminating Racism and Empowering Women, this event is co-sponsored by the YWCA as part of their 2010 Racial Justice Summit: Transcending Colorblindness. For more information, please visit: www.summit.ywca.org/madison.
Presenter(s): Danielle McGuire
Danielle McGuire gives us the never-before-told history of how the civil rights movement began in her fascinating book, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. McGuire writes about 1944 rape of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer to Abbeville. Her name was Rosa Parks. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that ultimately changed the world.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): History, Society & Politics
Madison Public Library-Main Branch: Sunday, October 3
Teach-In for Happy and the River
Sunday, October 3 | 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Presented by the St. Croix Festival Theatre with support from the City of St. Croix Falls and the Wisconsin Humanities Council
Presenter(s): Carrie Classon
Happy & the River is a new play, by beloved Wisconsin author David Rhodes, developed to honor the legacy of Senator Gaylord Nelson's contribution to protecting the St. Croix River. The play will be performed at 4 PM on October 3; prior to that, this special session for teachers will stimulate and support classroom initiatives to work with this play.
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