Make a simple handheld loom with a technique that’s over 400 years old! Build a knitting nancy out of a craft roll, choose your yarn colors, and we'll teach you how to knit a cord. All materials provided.

Alan Paul's new book, which focuses on the Allman Brothers smash hit album of the same name, also presents a broader cultural history of the era, covering stories of how the band rescues Jimmy Carter’s flailing presidential campaign, Gregg Allman’s marriage to Cher, and how the band’s success led to an eventual breakup. Martin Bandyke, formerly of ann arbor's 107one will host the event, which includes a signing with books for sale.

Watch AADL staff and other community members in a book discussion with The Unerased Book Club. This month, they'll discuss Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki.

Sheela Lal and Fatema Haque are co-facilitators of The Unerased Book Club, a project of Rising Voices of Asian American Families that reads, and builds community through, Asian American literature.

Ever wanted to learn how to save seed from your vegetable garden? Stacy Mates, seed company manager at Green Things Farm Collective, will discuss good crops for seed saving and how to clean, test and store your seed. She'll also demonstrate the "wet process" technique for saving tomato seed and share seed saving resources to help you take the next step in gardening!

In this part of our BLM discussion series we are highlighting books that explore how Black people move through the world. This discussion series celebrates Black authors and books, across genres, across time, and across the African diaspora.

This month, watch AADL staff and other community members for a discussion of Oreo by Fran Ross.

Howdy Holmes, CEO of the Chelsea Milling Company, will present a talk on the family-owned milling company that produced the first baking mixes sold in the U.S. The company's best known and best-selling mix is Jiffy Mix corn muffins, which accounts for over 90% of its retail sales. _This event is in partnership with the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor._

Andy J. Pizza presents Invisible Things, a creatively wacky exploration of the invisible things that make up the human experience that encourages readers to look past the visible and connect with the things that are not seen.

From the sound of a dog barking to the rainbow-MAGIC taste of a lollipop, from gratitude to grit, this book will help you meet the many interesting sensations that follow you every day, even if you can't see them.

Leave your swingin' pad and boogie down to the AADL for Dining By Decades. Get the skinny on far-out recipes, groovy history, and out-of-sight food! Can you dig it?

This event is in partnership with the Lakehouse Bakery.

Looking beyond solemn statements and well-meant monuments, Professor of History at Wayne State University Andrew I. Port examines how the Nazi past shaped German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda—and further, how these foreign atrocities recast Germans’ understanding of their own horrific history. Making the lessons, limits, and liabilities of politics driven by memories of a troubled history harrowingly clear, Never Again is a story with deep resonance for any country confronting a dark past.

This tour will be a walk through of the collection of restaurant-ware dating back to the turn of the century. You'll see everything from corporate china used by a watch maker and dishes used by the United States military, to creamers, mugs, and butter pats made exclusively for famous restaurants all over the country. And, you'll get a sense of the heart and the soul that went into their production. This event is part of the IMoDD Unforgettable Dinnerware Series.

This event is in partnership with the International Museum of Dinnerware Design.