NEW TIME. The event is now at 5:30pm. Hope you can still join us!!
Author “visit” (via Skype) with Tara Westover, the author of our library’s Big Read choice for 2018, Educated.
The library’s annual Big Read encourages people to come together around a book. Offering free books, multiple programs and a community book discussion, this exciting programming series offers a multitude of ways to connect with a book, and each other.
Come meet author Patricia McConnell as she talks about her book, The Education of Will.
For decades, animal behaviorist Dr. Patricia B. McConnell grappled privately with intense fear, anxiety, and guilt. In this soul-searching memoir, she recounts for the first time the compelling story of her past and how a dog named Will helped her recover from a history of trauma and shame.
Singers from Four Seasons Theatre explore the art of lyric writing through the work of a master lyricist: Stephen Sondheim. Join us as we use Sondheim’s own words and performances of his songs to learn about the lyricist’s craft.
This program is free and open to the public.
Artist and educator Wayne Valliere (Mino-giizhig) describes the ways in which Ojibwe are recovering ancient arts and traditions on the Lac du Flambeau reservation in northern Wisconsin. Traditions that were suppressed or abandoned—including the making of birch bark canoes—are becoming re-established on the reservation, and with them, a greater sense of cultural identity and resilience.
Iroquois Raised Beadwork is an ancient art form of the Eastern Great Lakes. The symbols in the beadwork are much like an early form of writing, holding stories from the earliest days of the Haudenosaunee. Karen Ann, a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, shares her Nation’s beadwork and stories.
The Wisconsin Dells Singers' songs, stories, drumming and traditional clothing shine a light on Ho-Chunk heritage. Elliot Funmaker, the group's leader, will have an open, honest discussion of the Ho-Chunk people's lives in Wisconsin. Immediately followed by the Big Read Community Book Discussion.
This event is part of the series: The Horse-Human Connection.
Legend Lake is a 34 minute documentary film that recounts the saga of Legend Lake, a beautiful 5,160 acre lake development, formed by joining nine smaller lakes in the Menominee Indian Reservation in Northern Wisconsin. Shore-land was subdivided and sold mostly to non-Menominee people. Legend Lake represents another chapter in the land and frequently contentious relationship between Native Americans and non-Native Americans in Wisconsin. Why and how the lake came into being, what land issue have arisen and what might be done to manage them is
This program is produced by Four Seasons Theatre as an outreach component of its 2016/2017 season and draws on the work of Alisa Solomon, author of Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof. Tamara Brognano, Four Seasons Theatre Outreach Coordinator, will lead a program that introduces the audience to Sholem-Aleichem’s stories and describes the collaboration of Broadway artists that resulted in the creation of Fiddler on the Roof.