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.

Test your might at the freshest tourney in town! We'll provide the gear in-game and out; you bring the skills for a chance to win a prize.

Nintendo is not a sponsor of or affiliated with this tournament.

Learn about the history of knitting with Meg Croft, owner of Woven Art Yarn Shop. Where does knitting fit into the larger context of textile history? What are our earliest surviving examples of knitting, and what does that tell us about knitting's past? We will explore these topics as well as the spread of knitting around the world, its progression through the centuries, and how knitting has become an art form and method of visual protest.

The anticipation that precedes the first bite of a chocolate-covered candy bar is filled with expectation. This is true whether you're indulging in a novel candy bar or an everyday favorite. If a chocolate confection is made just right, the experience can be as powerful as Proust’s memory stoking madeleine.

Candy bars–especially chocolate covered candy bars–tantalize taste buds with sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami nuances that combine with smell to produce flavor. They also work their magic on trigeminal senses (hot, cold, spicy, tingling) and touch (aka mouthfeel).

Join Bangladeshi American fiber artist Fatema Haque as she describes her work as a portraiture. Haque will share examples of her hand-embroidered portraits, discuss the (somewhat) unusual ways she taught herself embroidery, and the stories behind her portraits. 

So... you can crochet. You've made things. They're gorgeous. But how far can sc, hdc, fpdc get you? Did you know that there are a LOT of other styles of crochet? This is not a tutorial but an answer to "What else can I make with yarn and a crochet hook?" This program will introduce you to a wide variety of crochet techniques and styles and show off sample pieces made from each. Presented by Angel Garrison.

This event is part of the 2024 Ann Arbor Fiber Arts Expo. For a full list of events and vendors, go to aadl.org/aafax.

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.

Martin Bandyke, long time host of the morning drive on ann arbor's 107one, will be in conversation with Karin Dybis about her new book, Detroit Style Pizza: A Doughtown History. With its airy crust, cheesy corners and distinctive red sauce on top, Detroit Style pizza is enjoyed worldwide. How did this Motor City delicacy transform from a singular kitchen in Detroit to an international sensation?

Special Guest Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, illustrator of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me and author/illustrator of Don't Go Without Me, will discuss her experience as a full-time illustrator and offer some advice for aspiring artists. NPR graphic novel reviewer Etelka Lehoczky will moderate the discussion.

This event is part of A2CAF: Small + Indie Press. For a full list of events and vendors, go to aadl.org/a2cafsip.