Watch AADL staff try out a series of tabletop role-playing games to get a taste of the wide variety of genres, play styles, and rulesets that exist today. This time they are playing Shiver, a horror RPG that is adaptable to a range of different settings with character archetypes pulled from popular movies. Every roll of the dice has consequences, even if not immediately apparent. Too many failures and the Doom Clock ticks up! Who cut the power in the old barn? What is that horrible roaring sound in the junkyard?

Each week, AADL staff members share recipes in a specific category – from “Unusual Veggies” to “Favorite Cookies” - whether tried and true or tried and failed. The recipes that are discussed in this episode are attached to this event page. Please join the conversation in the comments section! What are your favorite recipes from this week’s category?

In this talk, Dr. Sarah Jonovich will highlight the rise in mental health concerns for adolescents in the United States over the past decade and include national survey results demonstrating increased rates of mental health concerns (e.g., anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts/behaviors), particularly for girls, LGBQ+, and some minority groups. Next, the she will briefly explore potential contributing factors and considerations for at-risk groups.

It's a Mario Kart 8 Tourney for kids, teens, and adults! Bring the family for an afternoon of fun!

This event will be streamed live to this page and the AADL YouTube channel. Library videogame events offer a chances for budding esports personalities to show their skills with the controller, or in front of a camera providing live commentary of our event's broadcast stream. You'll need to attend the event in person to participate in the stream, but you can also attend the event without participating in the stream.

Join us for a talk by Detroit based artist and educator Ebitenyefa Baralaye whose work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design. He received a BFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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 Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives From Black History Volume 1 by Joel Christian Gill.

Each week, AADL staff members share recipes in a specific category – from “Unusual Veggies” to “Favorite Cookies” - whether tried and true or tried and failed. The recipes that are discussed in this episode are attached to this event page. Please join the conversation in the comments section! What are your favorite recipes from this week’s category?

Join the Washtenaw County Director of Elections Ed Golembiewski, Ann Arbor City Clerk Jacqueline Beaudry, and the League of Women Voters of Washtenaw County for this informative presentation about your voting rights for elections this November and in 2024. Learn about your early voting options, the permanent absentee ballot list, and how to become a poll worker.

This event is in partnership with the League of Women Voters and the Washtenaw County Clerk's Office.

Local Asian-American bakery owners Grace Han of Porch Bakery and Rachel Liu Martindale of Milk and Honey will lead a conversation and demonstration about Asian-American cooking and baking, touching on themes of process, community-building, and identity.

This event is presented as part of the 'We are here because you were there' exhibit at the A2AC Gallery, in co-sponsorship with the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission.

The Gilded Age was defined by extremes of wealth and want, and those extremes played out dramatically in the ways Americans ate. For the elite, daily meals were extravagant and formal banquets became complicated rituals of luxury and intentional waste. While a wealthy minority feasted, many other Americans struggled to feed themselves, and hunger and misery were widespread among the rural poor and those in city slums.