Adult Programs
Open Lab
Friday, September 21 - 3:00pm | The Workshop
Anyone is welcome to come into the Workshop to explore and see what it has to offer. Try your hand at sphero, osmo, snap circuits, and 3D printing, or many other options to nurture your inner scientist. There will be a librarian on hand to answer your questions and to help get you started.
Teen/Adult Boardgames
Saturday, September 22 - 12:00pm | Classroom - Lower Level
We will be playing games from the new breed of modern board games that have reinvigorated this once lackluster pastime. Put down the controllers and phones and enjoy some face to face gaming.
Badger Book Club
Monday, September 24 - 12:00pm | Room C
4th Monday of the Month
DeForest Area Public Library
12:00 p.m. in Conference Room C
If you want to find a good book, look around you! Wisconsin abounds with local authors and books about our state. Copies of the books to be discussed will be available for checkout at the library.
Coloring for Adults
Monday, September 24 - 6:00pm | Room C
Coloring is an activity we think of as being for kids. However, it can be beneficial for adults.
Coloring helps us de-stress because when we focus on a particular activity, we focus on it and not on our worries. Coloring generates wellness, quietness and also stimulates brain areas related to motor skills, the senses and creativity.
Coloring sheets and colored pencils will be provided. Adults only, please.
3D Printing Design
Monday, September 24 - 6:00pm | The Workshop
Design an object with this free entry level 3D design website. Then once you have finished your design we will 3D print it for you to take home and admire. Because 3D printing is slow most prints will have to be picked up at a later date.
QiGong Classes - Registration Required With Nancy Osley, Instructor
Tuesday, September 25 - 9:30am | Community Room
Qigong is a moving meditation that is simple, easy to learn, and can be done by everyone, at any age and fitness level.
Just mirror the movements of the instructor and reduce tension, improve breathing, and increase flexibility.
Open to ages 16 & up. Participants need to register and sign a waiver (waivers are available at the front desk and will be available at the first class).
Please Note: September 18 & November 6 we will meet in the Classroom - Lower Level
If you have a disability and require accommodation in order to fully participate, please contact library staff.
Registration: Classes have begun! If you would still like to join ask at the circulation desk, or give us a call at 846-5482 for more information.
The Garbo: The Musical Music & Lyrics by Jillann Gabrielle - 4th Tuesday Forum
Tuesday, September 25 - 10:00am | DeForest Area Community & Senior Center
Join us for an original one-woman musical about the enigmatic Swedish film star, Greta Garbo!
Considered by many the greatest film actress of all time, her image was that of androgynous glamour. Dissatisfied with Hollywood scripts, and her natural beauty starting to fade, she retired from the screen at 36 and became a recluse in Manhattan. Miss G’s spicy and revealing story answers all the burning questions the world has been dying to know about “The Garbo.”
This program is part of the Library’s outreach programming. It is free and open to everyone in the community. Refreshments will be served.
This library outreach program is sponsored by an anonymous donor and hosted by the Center, the Library and the DeForest Area Historical Society.
If you have a disability and require accommodation in order to fully participate, please contact library staff.
Open Lab
Tuesday, September 25 - 3:00pm | The Workshop
Anyone is welcome to come into the Workshop to explore and see what it has to offer. Try your hand at sphero, osmo, snap circuits, and 3D printing, or many other options to nurture your inner scientist. There will be a librarian on hand to answer your questions and to help get you started.
Meet Kathy Collins author of The Mystic Chaplain
Tuesday, September 25 - 6:30pm | Community Room
“The passion I have for this work comes from deep inside. I do not think I ever experienced anything like it before.”
Kathy Collins, who lives in Sun Prairie, is a chaplain at Meriter Hospital in Madison. Her memoir, offers deep trust in embracing life’s final chapter with self compassion, safety and security. Kathy shares what she’s learned not only as a chaplain working primarily in the ER and ICU, but as one who endured through many years battling cancer that nearly took her life. After her health improved she started volunteer hospice work and was accepted into the hospital chaplain program at Meriter Hospital.
3D Scanner
Wednesday, September 26 - 6:00pm | The Workshop
Scan real physical objects with our 3D scanner. Then these can be loaded into Tinkercad 3D design app to be modified or 3D printed.