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.

Desai's presentation explores U.S. media representations of the Third World, the global bloc of decolonizing nations in Asia and Africa during the Cold War, through the development of the mid-century music genre known as Exotica. Emerging after the Second World War, Exotica was a popular form of ersatz “world music” which, he argues, responded to anxieties around racial integration and the decolonizing world.

Nate Powell showcases different approaches to fiction and nonfiction in comics storytelling to tackle common themes of myth-making, memory, freedom, and the power of expression in the new graphic novels Fall Through and Lies My Teacher Told Me.  

The Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo (AACME) is back and you're invited! Come celebrate the maker movement that ranges from traditional technologies like weaving all the way to our future in robotics! Our keynote speaker this year is designer, artist, and maker Sophy Wong, who will be speaking on the intersection of technology and clothing design. Enjoy hands-on demos from local maker spaces, learn about ham radio, solder an LED badge, see an upholstery demonstration, use our heat press, and so much more!

In this interactive session, publishing expert Brandi Larsen will answer your questions about how the book business works. Driven by the audience’s interests, she’ll share insider stories from the center of the publishing industry and her best strategies on how you can be a part of it.

Submit your question in advance here

Come and meet the local teams of the FIRST robotics league! You'll get to see the robots in action and meet the student engineers and drivers.

This event is part of the Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo. Find out more here.

Try out the library's heat press and create for yourself a canvas tote adorned with this years AACME logo.

This event is part of the Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo. Find out more here.

Drop by the Multi-Purpose Room in the Downtown Library and engage with FIVE THOUSAND DOMINOES! Build a domino run, or a house, or anything you can think of! Wait, there are also SO MANY LEGO! Build a spaceship, a goat, or even a giant domino!

This event is part of the Ann Arbor Creativity and Making Expo. Find out more here.

Sophy Wong is a designer, costumer, and maker creating artistic wearable technology. Using digital fabrication techniques like 3D printing and laser cutting, her work highlights the intersection of technology and design for the human body. Sophy has been featured by Adam Savage's Tested.com, Nerdist, Hackaday, Make: Magazine, and Adafruit. Her book, Wearable Tech Projects, is a compilation of 30 tutorials and articles about DIY wearable tech. Sophy documents her work online at sophywong.com.

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.