STEAM WEEK: Mad Science Fire and Ice - Program for All Ages / Everyone

Mad Science: Fire and Ice (All Ages) Monday, March 23 @ 2pm Kick off STEAM week with thrilling show of science experiments from the mad scientists at Mad Science Milwaukee! Be prepared for ice storms, floating beach balls, sizzling scissors, and more! Regist......More

Mad Science: Fire and Ice (All Ages) Monday, March 23 @ 2pm Kick off STEAM week with thrilling show of science experiments from the mad scientists at Mad Science Milwaukee! Be prepared for ice storms, floating beach balls, sizzling scissors, and more! Registration appreciated. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25642

Middleton Public Library - Archer Room

Techno Minutes

Sign up for these 30 minute or less computer classes by calling 827 7403, stopping by the library s Reference Desk, or emailing [email protected]. Tablets, phones and laptops are welcome at our sessions. Please let staff know at sign up if you plan to bring your own e......More

Sign up for these 30 minute or less computer classes by calling 827 7403, stopping by the library s Reference Desk, or emailing [email protected]. Tablets, phones and laptops are welcome at our sessions. Please let staff know at sign up if you plan to bring your own equipment. Topics Could Include: How to use a mouse, laptop/phone/tablet basic questions Help navigating the LINKcat catalog Signing up for an email/social networking account Opening and attaching email files Scanning photographs and basic editing Accessing full text magazine articles online Sprucing up your resume with style formatting Using Libby on your computer or mobile device Please check in at the lower level service desk when you arrive for your appointment. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25395

Middleton Public Library - Lower Level

Virtual Author Talk with Shoshana Walter and Special Guest Host Barbara Kingsolver

Welcome to our ongoing series of virtual author talks in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium! Each month enjoy talks and interactive Q& A sessions with bestselling authors streamed live. Recordings will be available for viewing after live events. Join u......More

Welcome to our ongoing series of virtual author talks in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium! Each month enjoy talks and interactive Q& A sessions with bestselling authors streamed live. Recordings will be available for viewing after live events. Join us for a special conversation between award winning journalist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award winning author Barbara Kingsolver as they chat about Walter s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In this work Walter a Pulitzer finalist exposes the country s failed response to the opioid crisis and the malfeasance corruption and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry. Click on the link below to register submit your questions for the author and receive your unique link to join the discussion: https://libraryc.org/midlibrary/117270 About the Author: Shoshana Walter is a reporter for the Marshall Project covering the criminal justice system. Her reporting has been honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Selden Ring and she has won the Knight Award for Public Service the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She started her work on the treatment system at The Center for Investigative Reporting where her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine in newspapers and on NPR stations across the country. She is based in Oakland California. About the Guest Host: Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist essayist and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible the tale of a missionary family in the Congo and Animal Vegetable Miracle a nonfiction account of her family s attempts to eat locally. In 2023 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice biodiversity and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments. Thanks to the Friends of the Middleton Public Library for sponsoring this series. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25639

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STEAM Week: All Ages Lego Day! - Program for All Ages / Everyone

LEGO fun for all ages! You ll find parts and pieces available to let your creative side go wild. Like a little structure? There will also be LEGO sets for teens and adults. Registration required. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25641

Middleton Public Library - Archer Room

Creative Writing Workshop for Adults

Interested in creative writing? Join us for a beginner friendly workshop! This month s topic will be settings and description. We will read and discuss a few short pieces of writing, then have some time to practice your own writing. No experience necessary all skil......More

Interested in creative writing? Join us for a beginner friendly workshop! This month s topic will be settings and description. We will read and discuss a few short pieces of writing, then have some time to practice your own writing. No experience necessary all skill levels welcome! Registration required. If you need accommodations to attend this event, please contact [email protected] or 608 827 7403. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25666

Middleton Public Library - Storytime Room

B.Y.O.C (Bring Your Own Craft)

Join your fellow crafters at the library! Drop in to work on projects and maybe exchange some tips and tricks. Please bring your own supplies and materials. The library will provide light refreshments. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25431

Middleton Public Library - Storytime Room

Movie Screening--Hamnet

Agnes Shakespeare the wife of the world s most famous writer struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. Rated PG 13. Runtime 125 min. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25631

Middleton Public Library - Archer Room

Techno Minutes

Sign up for these 30 minute or less computer classes by calling 827 7403, stopping by the library s Reference Desk, or emailing [email protected]. Tablets, phones and laptops are welcome at our sessions. Please let staff know at sign up if you plan to bring your own e......More

Sign up for these 30 minute or less computer classes by calling 827 7403, stopping by the library s Reference Desk, or emailing [email protected]. Tablets, phones and laptops are welcome at our sessions. Please let staff know at sign up if you plan to bring your own equipment. Topics Could Include: How to use a mouse, laptop/phone/tablet basic questions Help navigating the LINKcat catalog Signing up for an email/social networking account Opening and attaching email files Scanning photographs and basic editing Accessing full text magazine articles online Sprucing up your resume with style formatting Using Libby on your computer or mobile device Please check in at the lower level service desk when you arrive for your appointment. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25396

Middleton Public Library - Lower Level

Virtual Author Talk with Smithsonian Curator Valerie Neal

Welcome to our ongoing series of virtual author talks in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium! Each month enjoy talks and interactive Q& A sessions with bestselling authors streamed live. Recordings will be available for viewing after live events. Join u......More

Welcome to our ongoing series of virtual author talks in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium! Each month enjoy talks and interactive Q& A sessions with bestselling authors streamed live. Recordings will be available for viewing after live events. Join us for an exhilarating journey through the history of US women astronauts with Valerie Neal emerita curator from the Smithsonian s National Air and Space Museum and expert on human spaceflight. Click on the link below to register submit your questions for the author and receive your unique link to join the discussion: https://libraryc.org/midlibrary/145419 About the Author: Valerie Neal is a space historian and Curator Emerita at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. Her specialty is human spaceflight space technology and space science in the Space Shuttle era and beyond. At the Museum she collected more than 1500 artifacts of the shuttle era curated three exhibitions and eight documentary programs for the Smithsonian Channel (cable TV) published books and articles growing from her research lectured in the USA and abroad and gave many interviews for US and international media. Before joining the Museum she was a writer and editor for some 25 NASA publications on Space Shuttle and Spacelab missions the Hubble Space Telescope and other Great Observatories space science and NASA History. She participated in underwater astronaut training in Alabama and mission support in Houston for four Space Shuttle missions. She has taught American Studies and writing courses at multiple universities. Valerie Neal holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in American Studies and a B.A. degree in English and History. Thanks to the Friends of the Middleton Public Library for sponsoring this series. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25720

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Movie Screening--Roofman

Jeffrey Manchester, an inmate on the run, hides in a place no one would look for him a toy store. When this paradise of fun becomes a prison of loneliness, he falls for the one thing that can stop him from getting away ... love. Rated R. Runtime 125 min. https://ww......More

Jeffrey Manchester, an inmate on the run, hides in a place no one would look for him a toy store. When this paradise of fun becomes a prison of loneliness, he falls for the one thing that can stop him from getting away ... love. Rated R. Runtime 125 min. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25636

Middleton Public Library - Archer Room

Techno Minutes

Sign up for these 30 minute or less computer classes by calling 827 7403, stopping by the library s Reference Desk, or emailing [email protected]. Tablets, phones and laptops are welcome at our sessions. Please let staff know at sign up if you plan to bring your own e......More

Sign up for these 30 minute or less computer classes by calling 827 7403, stopping by the library s Reference Desk, or emailing [email protected]. Tablets, phones and laptops are welcome at our sessions. Please let staff know at sign up if you plan to bring your own equipment. Topics Could Include: How to use a mouse, laptop/phone/tablet basic questions Help navigating the LINKcat catalog Signing up for an email/social networking account Opening and attaching email files Scanning photographs and basic editing Accessing full text magazine articles online Sprucing up your resume with style formatting Using Libby on your computer or mobile device Please check in at the lower level service desk when you arrive for your appointment. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25397

Middleton Public Library - Lower Level

Great Nature Wisconsin

Great Nature Wisconsin is a fun, practical guide for getting families outside. The book features 400 different spots across the state, offering everything from quick daily walks to full week long adventures. Rather than just giving you a list of places to see, it sugges......More

Great Nature Wisconsin is a fun, practical guide for getting families outside. The book features 400 different spots across the state, offering everything from quick daily walks to full week long adventures. Rather than just giving you a list of places to see, it suggests immersion experiences to help you and your kids connect with nature while you re there. Come learn about potential places for your next nature inspired getaway! Author bio: Randy Hoffman is a retired DNR ecologist with nearly 30 years of experience in Wisconsin s State Natural Areas Program. An expert birder and author, he has helped establish over 300 protected natural sites. He currently lives with his wife, JoAnn, in Waunakee, WI. The author will be selling copies of Great Nature Wisconsin after the program. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25540

Middleton Public Library - Archer Room

Drop-In Genealogy Workshop

Come share tips on researching your genealogy, exchange information with others, and talk shop while working on your own project. All levels of genealogy expertise are welcome. We will have laptops to use for Ancestry.com research. Feel free to bring your own devices an......More

Come share tips on researching your genealogy, exchange information with others, and talk shop while working on your own project. All levels of genealogy expertise are welcome. We will have laptops to use for Ancestry.com research. Feel free to bring your own devices and materials. https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25736

Middleton Public Library - Archer Room

MCPASD Family Wellness Morning @ Middleton High School - Program for All Ages / Everyone

Join the Middleton Public Library at MCPASD s Spring Community & Family Wellness Morning on Saturday April 11 from 9 11am at Middleton High School (2100 Bristol Street). MCPASD s Family & Community Wellness mornings are free activities located around the school dis......More

Join the Middleton Public Library at MCPASD s Spring Community & Family Wellness Morning on Saturday April 11 from 9 11am at Middleton High School (2100 Bristol Street). MCPASD s Family & Community Wellness mornings are free activities located around the school district on three Saturdays throughout the school year. A variety of drop in and scheduled activities will take place such as crafts fitness indoor play scavenger hunt for example and these will be available between 9 11am. This event is FREE but please register in advance here: https://forms.gle/2oTgghG93cSLeKM98 https://www.midlibrary.org/EventDetail?ID=25760

Middleton Public Library