July 17

Monday evening the North and Eastside Senior Coalition has the next in its free summer concert series. This time there is Dixieland music by "Ron Sacia and the Fat Daddy’s". It starts at 6:15 in Warner Park. Call 243-5252 for details. There is food and limited transportation for older adults available.

Mondays evening the group Madison Women for Peace and Code Pink hold a meeting. This is in the Social Justice Center, 1202 Williamson Street at 6:30. Call 274-5922 for details. This is on the first and third Monday of every month.

Monday evening on WORT’s Access Hour host Sorrel Weakland presents a pre-recorded show about the Spanish Civil War. It will air during the week of the seventieth anniversary of the start of the war. That’s at 7:00. Call 256-2001 for details.

The Madison Opera is in need of volunteers for its Opera in the Park on Saturday, July twenty-second. Volunteers are needed to be ushers, greeters, set-up and take-down people, parking assistants, and more. Free "Opera in the Park" t-shirts are available for all volunteers. Call 238-8085 for details.

Through September the Williamson Street Art Center presents "Fabrications". It is a celebration of Madison’s one hundred and fifty years in cloth. These are "Fabric Collages" by Sharon Kilfoy made from artifacts collected from the "Community" and "sewn at sewing bees in Madison". It is at 1020 Williamson Street. Call 256-8878 for details.

The Respite Center is a safe place for kids, ages birth to fourteen, whose families are under stress or in crisis. Volunteers are needed to play with kids four hours a week. Training is required. Call Molly at 244-5730 for details.