Back by popular demand, the teen Cosplay Party will be held Friday, October 21, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Fond du Lac Public Library. Teens in grades 6 through 12 should wear fandom-inspired (library-appropriate) costumes for a party that includes a costume contest with prizes, trivia, games, snacks and door prizes, including a chance to win a Harry Potter Clue game. Free. No registration required.
More information is available by calling the Children’s Desk at (920) 322-3940.
The Fond du Lac Public Library downtown recently installed hearing loops in their two largest meeting rooms and service desks. Hearing loops help persons with hearing aids or cochlear implants to hear presentations and conversations more clearly by sending electromagnetic signals to their listening devices.
The community art project underway at the Fond du Lac Public Library Idea Studio is called Rolo – short for Rolodex – and the new makerspace invites everyone for a special Rolo Day 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, September 12.
Do you have a passion to create? A strong opinion? Want to express your thoughts and ideas? You can be a publisher – an underground publisher. The world of zines will be explored at 6 p.m. Tuesday, September 27, at the Fond du Lac Public Library’s Idea Studio.
Calling all sharp cookies, competitors, social animals and good-deed-doers. The September 27 Scrabble Bee will challenge your brain as you have fun and benefit a great cause: Fond du Lac Literacy Services.
In a three-part class, beginning sewers will learn how to make a quilted blanket using T-shirts and fleece fabric at the Fond du Lac Public Library’s makerspace, the Idea Studio.
The Fond du Lac Public Library’s used-books-and-more Chapter 52 Bookstore has great sales in September to help recharge the brain as summer wanes and kids go back to school.
Crafters will make a festive wreath by rolling upcycled book pages and adding an embellishment or two at the 1 p.m. Saturday, September 17, Crafternoon program at the Fond du Lac Public Library’s Idea Studio.
Local boys and men who signed up to fight for the Union during the Civil War were attached to the Iron Brigade, the only all-Western unit in the Union’s Eastern army, the Army of the Potomac.