Let your creativity blossom and help build Maker City from the ground up. Participants are invited to create a building with a variety of materials and add it to the gigantic Maker City map!
This event is part of the Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo. Find out more here.
Come one, come all, and swap out your old toys and games for something new to you! You do not need to bring a toy or game to pick one up.
Show and Tell isn't just for kids! Bring your latest craft, a favorite heirloom, or some other treasure and show it off. You don't need to bring something to attend. If you plan to show something, please arrive 15 minutes early to register at the door.
Join the Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library at for a spring bag sale! We provide the bags, you stuff them as full as you can with books, puzzles, and CDs for $5 per bag.
Join the Friends of the Ann Arbor District Library at for a spring bag sale! We provide the bags, you stuff them as full as you can with books, puzzles, and CDs for $5 per bag.
Make "quilt" squares out of paper to celebrate Ann Arbor's Bicentennial. All squares will be combined at the end of the event series and placed on display in the Library as a collective representation of Ann Arbor's citizens and visitors.
The library is building a display and we need your help! Come celebrate Ann Arbor's bicentennial by sharing what you love most about the city. Drop in and write a list, draw a picture, or tell a story. The possibilities are endless! We'll provide some prompts and the writing and drawing utensils. When you're finished, you can give it to us for the display or you can choose to take it home.
This project is part of AADL’s commemoration of the city’s bicentennial year.
Join us for the opening reception of Family Foundations: Four Stories of Black Washtenaw County Community Building, 1850 to 1950, on display from Saturday June 8, to Sunday July 28 in the Downtown Library 3rd floor exhibit space.
Gather ‘round for an evening of informed and informal talks from a friendly neighborhood expert! We’ll have three speakers, each presenting on a different topic and sharing interesting facts that you never knew you never knew! Past Nerd Nite speakers have led deep dives into topics from the legacy of Louis Pasteur, to the origin of elements, to how a trumpet works, to a dissection of romance novel tropes. So bring a friend, grab a drink, and enjoy an evening among fellow nerds. Be there and be square!
This event is offered in partnership with the Ann Arbor Summer Fest.
Connor Good explains tips and tricks to show the passing of time on the page and how to make narratives readable, exciting, and clear.
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
Take two quick-thinking artists, add a timer and some audience prompts and you'll get an idea of the joy of Quick Draws. It's improvisational cartooning with lots of cheer and courage brought to you by our A2CAF guest artists. Will there be vegetables... on the moon? Dinosaurs... at the dinner table? Sea monsters... running for president? Watch out for the 5-minute Quick Draw Switcheroo! This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
A2CAF Special guest Jen Wang (The Prince and the Dressmaker, Stargazing) will discuss how her comics are made, from drawing to publication.
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
Take two quick-thinking artists, add a timer and some audience prompts and you'll get an idea of the joy of Quick Draws. It's improvisational cartooning with lots of cheer and courage brought to you by our A2CAF guest artists. Will there be vegetables... on the moon? Dinosaurs... at the dinner table? Sea monsters... running for president? Watch out for the 5-minute Quick Draw Switcheroo!
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
How do you get drawing when you can't think of anything to draw? James Kochalka (Banana Fox, American Elf) will help you get over your block in this draw-along workshop.
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
Create a story about a bear with Ruth McNally Barshaw (Ellie McDoodle Series)! Participants will learn how to generate and refine ideas, and leave the workshop with the beginnings of their very own graphic novel about a bear.
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
Take two quick-thinking artists, add a timer and some audience prompts and you'll get an idea of the joy of Quick Draws. It's improvisational cartooning with lots of cheer and courage brought to you by our A2CAF guest artists. Will there be vegetables... on the moon? Dinosaurs... at the dinner table? Sea monsters... running for president? Watch out for the 5-minute Quick Draw Switcheroo!
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
Learn about how to inject tension and conflict into your stories in a live-drawn comics session with Vera Brosgol! We'll come up with a character together and then make them suffer. Fun for all ages!
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
Join Jen Wang (The Prince and the Dressmaker, Stargazing) to learn the nuts and bolts of making comics.
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
Make your own paper character that will star in their own movie! Merrill Rainey (Color, Cut, Create) will guide young artists as they learn the techniques of stop-motion animation. You can download a free copy of Stop Motion Studio here https://www.cateater.com/try.html or use one of our iPads for this event.
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
Take two quick-thinking artists, add a timer and some audience prompts and you'll get an idea of the joy of Quick Draws. It's improvisational cartooning with lots of cheer and courage brought to you by our A2CAF guest artists. Will there be vegetables... on the moon? Dinosaurs... at the dinner table? Sea monsters... running for president? Watch out for the 5-minute Quick Draw Switcheroo!
This event is part of A2CAF, an annual all-ages Comic Arts Festival!
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