Live Well @ Your Library: Renewal in Meadowood Park

Madison Public Library, in collaboration with Be Well Madison and Wisconsin Mujer, will host a series of events centered on health and wellness titled Live Well @ Your Library. Events will take place the 4th Sunday of each month from June-August, and will focus on themes of Reflection, Renewal, Restoration and Celebration. In September, a longer culminating event will take place at Central Library to go along with the Celebration theme and end the series. 

Our second event will be a multicultural, multigenerational and multisensory experience outdoors at Meadowood Park (5810 Thrush Ln). There will be a mixture of passive and experiential events offered throughout the event, including:

• Welcome table with giveaways from Be Well Madison and We Read (Madison Public Library)
• Health insurance information station with Covering Wisconsin
• 15 minute acupuncture sessions with Heidi Eimermann
• A self guided station with a writing activity to add to a collective Wish and Reflection Board
• A self-guided station for kids featuring the Bubbler’s Mini Maker kits
• An all-ages gardening activity
• Opportunity to contribute to a brief survey about wellness service access in your community

Participants can drop in between 1-3 p.m. or stay for the duration of the event. 

Experiential Events Schedule:

• 1:15pm all ages yoga with Big Om, Little Om (yoga mats will be provided onsite)
• 1:45pm: Bilingual (Spanish/English) cooking demonstration with Luz Alder Urtubey and Araceli Esparza
• 2:15: Community Conversation about wellness led by Araceli Esparza & Jamie Pekarek Krohn
• 2:15: Natural movement and play for youth with Rock Hancock of MovNat Madison

 Rain location is Meadowridge Library.

"Live Well @ Your Library" is inspired by the work of Venus Washington, Jasmine Timmons, Araceli Esparza and Nikki Cook and their "Nourish You" Library Takeover Project, and seeks to empower those who have not always felt included in traditional wellness spaces, particularly BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) communities.