KYLYN Festival Screening with Live Score | Attack from Space!

Enjoy some classic Japanese sci-fi with a modern twist! Award-winning electronic musician Joo Won Park will provide a live score to the 1965 movie Attack from Space!, directed by Koreyoshi Akasaka and Teruo Ishii and starring Ken Utsui.

In Attack from Space!, benevolent aliens from the planet Emerald send superhero Starman to protect Earth from invasion by an evil alien race called the Spherions. When Starman arrives on Earth, he discovers a conspiracy involving Earth's top scientists, and he must root out the traitors and also stop the impending alien invasion.

KYLYN Festival Film Screening & Q&A: Most Honorable Son

Most Honorable Son is the story of Ben Kuroki, the first Japanese American war hero—an airman over North Africa, Europe, and Japan. This documentary charts Kuroki's historic, controversial journey from the day Pearl Harbor was attacked to the atomic bombings of Japan.

Join the film's director, Bill Kubota, for a Q&A after the screening.

AADL Welcomes Solo Acts: A Solo Aging Symposium and Theatrical Performance

Join solo agers, policy makers, healthy aging advocates, and artists at a community convening on aging alone in Ann Arbor. There are three parts to the Convening. Part I-Solo Aging Stories from Ann Arbor. Part II-Solo Acts: A Theatrical Compilation on Solo Aging with a follow-up town hall on aging solo in Ann Arbor. Part III. Breakout sessions on living solo in Ann Arbor from healthcare, to transportation, to housing,  to recreation  and relationships.

Zine Workshop with Steve Hughes

Zines are self-made little magazines or booklets that can be about absolutely anything! They can be made using a single sheet of paper or printed more professionally. Zines can include writing, comics, collage, art, or anything you can think of. In this workshop, you'll be able to make your own zine and copy and share it with others. You are also welcome to bring a recent issue of your zine to show off. Presented by zine maker Steve Hughes, who has published Stupor since 1995.

Game Night

Come for a relaxing (or competitive) evening of board games at the Library! Great for all ages, so bring the kids, your siblings, your partner, your friends, or anyone else you might choose. We will have a variety of fun board and card games available, but feel free to bring your own!

Film Screening | Navalny

NAVALNY (2022) takes viewers inside the careful investigation into the shocking and brazen 2020 assassination attempt against the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, and who was behind it. Through his years-long campaign against corruption among Russia’s elites, Navalny developed powerful enemies. His publicized revelations, and calls for democratic reforms, enraged Vladimir Putin, who refused to even say his name in public.

Stash Bust!

It's time to clean out the yarn closet at the library! We're bringing all of our leftover balls of yarn, floss, pom pom kits, and stacks of embroidery canvas for you to create whatever you want. Instructions will be available for making friendship bracelets, pom poms, and French knitting, but this is mostly a self-directed event.

Film Screening | Pariah

Join AADL for a film screening of Dee Rees' Pariah.

A black teenager living in Brooklyn embraces her identity as a lesbian, but she struggles with how much she can confide in her parents.

In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", making it the first narrative feature from the 2010s chosen to be in the registry.