As part of the NEA's Read Across America campaign, Village Lights will host our annual 24-hour reading marathon and children’s book drive to promote literacy and benefit The Clearinghouse. The marathon will kick off with an aloud reading for kids of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. Rock ‘n’ Read has become a Madison favorite. So run, don’t walk, to Village Lights to […]

  Live Music in the Twain Room – Tom Schneider, piano Cincinnati’s Tom Schneider offers a festive array of seasonal American Songbook standards, Broadway show tunes, bossa-nova/Latin, blues, and jazz on the Steinway grand. He’s got the white beard thing going and has promised to wear his Santa hat.  

  Village Lights Poetry Nights (with special guest, Kyle Craig) Open sign-up; open mic. Everyone is invited to participate. Read your own work or that of a favorite poet. Readers are welcome to draw from our shelves. MC for Village Lights Poetry Nights is well-known Madison poet, Jill Kelly Koren. We are pleased to feature special guest poet Kyle Craig, who will […]

Live Music – John Sheckler, dulcimer “Not your granny’s dulcimer.” Local folk musician John Sheckler plays original and traditional songs on a mountain lap dulcimer crafted with his own hands. Seasonal sing-alongs for the kids.

Immediately following the parade at Village Lights Bookstore.