Invisible Child
The most critical issues in contemporary America seen through the life of one remarkable girl.
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OCTOBER 19-22, 2023
and year round
Past Years - 2022 Events
Just Pursuit
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2022 UW Fiction MFA Graduates Reading
A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in fiction.
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The Green Hour
What it means to live in community with wilderness and to allow our identities to be shaped by it
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Madison Chefs
An in-depth look at nine creative, intense, and dedicated chefs and Madison’s food culture.
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Line Breaks Festival Showcase
The top new aesthetics in contemporary hip hop and interdisciplinary performance art
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2021-22 Great World Texts in Wisconsin
***CANCELED*** Tonight's public lecture with Jacqueline Goldsby has been cancelled due to illness
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My People Redux
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2022 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading
Poetry and fiction from the 2021-22 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows
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We Will Always Be Here
Examples of LGBTQ+ activism throughout Wisconsin’s history for young people to explore and discuss.
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Some of My Best Friends
A fearless and darkly comic essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.
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Young Mungo
A deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and
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Slack Tongue City
A love letter, paying homage while also tracing the joys and dangers of nostalgia for place.
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Crossing the Pressure Line
Twelve-year-old Clare Burch has just lost the person she loves most in the world.
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READ DANGEROUSLY
A guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list
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Floods
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An Evening with Neil Gaiman
He will tell stories and read stories, answer questions, and “amaze, befuddle and generally delight"
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Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules! (Lupe Lopez: ¡Reglas de una estrella de rock!)
When a sassy drummer starts kindergarten, the rules of school cramp her style.
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My America
A deeply personal tribute to the food of “a land that belongs to you and yours and to me and mine.”
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Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster
Growing up in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has always been a little messy, but she’s o
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