Programs

2025-2026 Programs

• Banned Books Week 2025
  • Keynote speaker: Kyle Lukoff
• Rooted in Relationships: Native plants, foodways & stewardship
  • Indigenous Foodways in the Great Lakes Region with Wild Bearies
  • Basket Weaving & Indigenous Food Sampling with Kimberly Crowley   
  • Ukwakhwa: Hands-On Corn Pounding and Haudenosaunee Foodways
• 2025 Mini Grant Series
  • Unjust Deeds: Racial Covenants in Dane County and Beyond
    • Traveling historical exhibit and public program about the history of racial covenants.
  • Guilty Pleasures: Forward Theater Monologues
    • A selection of monologues from Forward Theater's 2025 Monologue Festival, including talk back.
• Spanish Storytime Training
  • 6-week training and apprenticeship program to learn to deliver Spanish storytime programs. Beyond the Page supports connecting the storytellers with Dane County public libraries upon completion.
• Hora de Cuentos Infantiles / Spanish Storytimes
  • Horas de cuentos en las bibliotecas públicas del condado de Dane.
  • Spanish storytimes in Dane County public libraries.