September 23

This Friday evening is the rally and vigil for Bringing Our Troops Home. Lend your presence in support of the April 4th statewide anti-war referendum. Assemble at 7pm in the UW Library Mall. The candlelight vigil will be held at 8pm up and down State Street.

Tomorrow, a Troy Gardens Workshop will teach participants canning, freezing, and preserving basics. Hmong translation will be provided. This is at Lakeview Lutheran Church on Northport Drive from 2 to 6. Advanced registration is requested. For more information, call 240-0409 or check www.troygardens.org.

Tomorrow evening, the Alliance for Animals holds its second annual Vegan Chili Cook-Off. The event features a chili tasting and the film “Chicken Run”. The Alliance for Animals is a Wisconsin-based non-profit organization advocating for the rights and human treatment of all animals. There is a ticket charge that is waved for those entering their chili. All profits benefit the Alliance for Animals. This is at the Atwood Community Center, 2425 Atwood Avenue, from 6 to 9. For more information, call 257-6333 or check www.allanimals.org.

This Saturday and Sunday, the Mercury Players Theater presents, Chesapeake. a one-woman show by Lee Blessing starring Marcy Weiland. Chesapeake will run concurrently with Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? At 4pm on Saturday and 7pm on Sunday. A $10 donation is suggested.

This Sunday is the Bikes for Cuba Concert. The concert and raffle, which will raise money to send 300 bikes to Camaguey, Cuba, is held at the dairy bar at the Conzemius’ Farm on Adams Rd in Fitchburg from 3pm-6. $15 will send one bicycle to Cuba. The address is 5949 Adams Rd; for more information call 259-1272, email jheinrich@charter.net, or visit www.madisoncamaguey.org.

Sunday, Susan Murphy-Milano will sign and discuss her book “Moving on Moving Out”, a workbook for women in change and includes strategies for leaving abusive relationships. This is at a Room of One’s Own Feminist Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 307 West Johnson Street, at 2. For more information, call the Bookstore at 257-7888.