No registration necessary, unless specified. We add events often. Make sure you check back for the most up-to-date calendar!
Questions? Please reach out to Melissa, Adult Programming Librarian, at 608-437-5021, ext 4109, or melissa.roelli [at] mounthorebwi.info.
Upcoming Events
Saturday, September 13
9am : Book Giveaway Thanks to the Friends of the Library, we give away 75 copies of the book. First come, first served. Large print is available (limited quantities.) One copy per person. We recommend arriving early as these usually go quickly!
9:30am: Kick Off Program:
The octopus as tech: exploring the science, art, and technological potential of nature’s most spectacular color change artist with Scientist Roger Hanlon (Virtual Visit.)
Roger Hanlon is a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA and a professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Brown University. Roger travels the globe as a SCUBA diving biologist, studying the behavioral ecology of cephalopods and fishes with special interest in rapid adaptive coloration that is used for camouflage and communication. Animal behavior, visual perception, and functional morphology of colorful skin are his favorite subject. Photo copyright Roger Hanlon
Sept 15-October 24
For all ages!
We might be far from an ocean, but you can bring some ocean to us! Create your own ocean scene diorama using whatever materials you'd like. Please keep it to the size of a shoebox or smaller. We'll display our community's creations throughout our Big Read for everyone to view and explore.
Saturday, September 20, 1pm
Sayo'kla (It Snows Again) Kindness-Williams
Ages 10+ only.
Registration Required. Sign up here.
Sayo'kla will share her knowledge of bead use among Native peoples and guide participants in creating water protector pins with beads. A multi-disciplinary artist with a lifelong beadwork practice, she engages with Haudensonaunee way of life and modernity. She is Turtle clan and Onyota’a:ká talú kowanhné and resides on the Oneida reservation.
Sponsored in part by the Optimist Club of Mt. Horeb and a grant from the Mt. Horeb Utilities Department.
Tuesday, September 23, 1pm
Designed for ages 18+
With Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
Engage with live raptors, including a bald eagle! Raptor ecologists face many conservation challenges. Environmental contamination, habitat loss, and climate change have the most dramatic effect on apex predators, making raptors strong indicators of overall ecosystem health. Schlitz Audubon Nature Centers brings some incredible birds for us to see as we explore past and present issues in conservation. They also highlight conservation successes and share ways we can help these species today.
Wednesday, September 24, 6:30pm
Registration Required. Class is full but you can put your name on our waitlist.
Chef Mike Tomaloff
We are excited to partner with Willy Street Co-Op for this vegetable based cooking class. Just in time for fall farmer's market fare - or your own garden's produce!
Chef Mike Tomaloff will teach us how to prepare:
*Winter squash fritters
*Mushroom Paprikash
*Apple Tarte Tatin
Chef Mike has the goal of demystifying the craft of cooking, highlighting the beauty in simplicity, and demonstrating techniques and methods that, he hopes, will encourage folks to try something new, and to think outside the recipe. He believes that when you start experimenting with flavors and techniques you learn more than you ever would strictly following recipes.
Monday, September 29
Registration Required. Sign up here.
2 different sessions
1pm: Ages 18+
6:30pm : Ages 10+
With Librarian Melissa Roelli
Spend some time creating an EASY art project. We'll spend time time painting (don't worry - zero artistic skills needed) then watch some deep sea related videos while the paint dries. We'll finish up by tearing our art into waves! This is a great way to explore your creative time and created a memento of this year's Big Read! (And perhaps have something to frame and show off!) All materials provided.
Tuesday, September 30, 6:30pm
Anne Moser, Wisconsin Water Librarian
Join us in breaking down the problem of plastics in our Great Lakes. We’ll unravel sources of this pollution, barriers to cleaning it up, and innovative solutions to restore a healthy lake ecosystem.
Anne Moser has served as Senior Special Librarian and Education Coordinator for Wisconsin Sea Grant since 2008, where she manages the print and digital collections of the Wisconsin Water Library, brings Great Lakes Literacy to young learners, and organizes professional learning experiences for formal and non-formal educators. She has led several projects in support of Wisconsin Sea Grant’s goal of intersecting the arts, sciences and humanities to achieve a science-informed society. Moser has a BA in Spanish and Art History and MA in Library and Information Studies.
Tuesday, October 7, 10am
City of Thieves, David Benioff
Everyone is welcome at our monthly book club. We meet the 1st Tuesday of the month from 10-11am. Light refreshments are provided. Pick up a copy of the month's title at the Circulation Desk. Large print is available.
Tuesday, October 7, 1pm
With Titus Seilheimer, Fisheries Specialist
Dive into the Great Lakes! Take a biological journey of discovery from the shaping of the Great Lakes by the glaciers, to human alternations, and into the future climate.
Titus Seilheimer has been a fisheries specialist with Wisconsin Sea Grant since 2012 where he leads research, outreach, and education activities focused on Great Lakes fisheries and ecosystems. He has a B.A. in Biology from Lawrence University and a Ph.D. in Biology from McMaster University. His past fish research took him to all five Great Lakes as well as the southern Great Plains. Seilheimer has spent more than 100 days on Lake Michigan commercial fishing boats since 2015. He lives in Manitowoc, WI where he enjoys spending time exploring the local coast with his family and setting out on long bike rides with no planned route.
Thursday, October 16, 1pm
Paul Daigle, Woods Hole Oceanic Institution (Virtual visit)
The ocean is a vast and challenging place to work, but knowledge about the ocean is crucial to life on a changing planet. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the world’s leading independent non-profit dedicated to ocean science, technology, education, and communication. WHOI scientists and engineers travel the globe from land and the coasts to the deepest depths to tackle questions ranging from climate change to oil spills to ocean acidification. If there is no tool to do what needs to be done, they invent one; if there is no experimental method, they devise it. Because now more than ever, the ocean matters to us all. Join Paul Daigle as he gives an overview of the incredible things WHOI does everyday, discoveries they have made and research they are working on.
They also have incredible learning resources. Check them out here.
MahJongg Wednesdays
Weekly MahJongg at the library!
Wednesdays, 1:30pm. We play American MahJongg. Beginners are welcome! Please come the first Wednesday of the month for instruction.
