Free majiang lessons taught by UW-P’s Confucius Institute.
Date: Saturday, October 19
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Where: Platteville Public Library
Call us at 608-348-7441 ext 4 to register.
Majiang is a 19th century Chinese game played with tiles. It’s similar to rummy card games.
All are welcome!
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Fit in some fitness during the lunch hour!
We will be walking inside using beginner level Leslie Sansone DVDs.
This is a drop-in program. Registration is NOT required.
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Rated R
130 minutes
FREE
Movie popcorn and seating provided, but feel free to bring your own favorites movie snacks or camp chair along.
For more information, call 348-7441, ext. 4
A gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller, about Julian Assange and the creation of Wikileaks, the controversial website that facilitated the largest security breach in the U.S. history. Paralleling Assange’s rise and fall with that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the troubled young soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, and multi-layered expose about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth.
The Great Gatsby
Rated PG-13
142 minutes
FREE
Movie popcorn and seating provided, but feel free to bring your own favorites movie snacks or camp chair along.
For more information, call 348-7441, ext. 4
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
Mud
Rated PG-13
130 minutes
FREE
Movie popcorn and seating provided, but feel free to bring your own favorites movie snacks or camp chair along.
For more information, call 348-7441, ext. 4
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn’t long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out for blood.
Admission
Rated PG-13
107 minutes
FREE
Movie popcorn and seating provided, but feel free to bring your own favorites movie snacks or camp chair along.
For more information, call 348-7441, ext. 4
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
42
Rated PG-13
128 minutes
FREE
Movie popcorn and seating provided, but feel free to bring your own favorites movie snacks or camp chair along.
For more information, call 348-7441, ext. 4
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
The Guilt Trip
Rated PG-13
95 minutes
FREE
Movie popcorn and seating provided, but feel free to bring your own favorites movie snacks or camp chair along.
For more information, call 348-7441, ext. 4
The plan for a quick stop at Mom’s takes a turn when an impulse compels Andy to invite his mother, Joyce, on a three-thousand mile cross-country journey. But the further they go, the closer they get, and Andy realizes that they have more in common than he ever imagined.
It’s the SECOND ever library Trivia Night!
Date: Friday, July 26
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:30 (ish) pm
Who: teens and adults (ages 13 – 116)
What you need to know:
If you have never been a trivia night:
Everyone will be read the same set of questions. Teams, working together, will write down their answers. The team with the most correct answers wins.
This year’s theme:
This year’s theme is “GROUNDBREAKING.” What does that mean? You’ll have to come to find out!
Holes
Rated PG
117 minutes
FREE
Movie popcorn and seating provided, but feel free to bring your own favorites movie snacks or camp chair along.
For more information, call 348-7441, ext. 4
Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and “builds character.” An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he’s thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what’s really going on in the desert.