Thursday, June 18, 2009

Thursday through Sunday, the Madison Infoshop will sponsor the Madison and Milwaukee Trading Post Bike Ride and Solstice Celebration! Madison folks will be meeting at 9 AM on Friday at the State Capitol and East Washington Avenue for a community bike ride to Sandhill Station State Campground. Bring goods, food, art, plants, or anything you'd like to trade with people from Madison and Milwaukee. There will also be a second bike contingent leaving late Friday or Saturday morning. For details contact 262-9036.

OutReach of Madison and South Central Wisconsin’s LGBT Community Center, is seeking nominations of individuals, organizations and businesses whose work make a substantial contribution to improving equality and quality of life for LGBT people in South Central Wisconsin this past year. Awards will be presented at OutReach’s seventeenth Annual Community Awards Banquet, to be held Friday, July 17th, at the Monona Terrace Convention Center. Nomination forms are available at OutReach, 600 Williamson Street or on-line at lgbtoutreach.org. Nominations must be received by June 21, 2009. For details call 255-8582.

With “Wings and a Halo--R.E.A.C.H. a Child” is in need of volunteers for the Mascot and Celebrity Charity Hug that will take place at Rhythm and Booms at Warner Park on Saturday, June twenty-seventh. Volunteers are needed for two hour shifts between 4 - 8 p.m. that evening. The rain date is Sunday, June 28th. Please contact Julie Cruz at 445.9903 for more information.

Tonight at 6:30 pm at a “Room of One's Own Bookstore”, 307 West Johnson Street, Michael Perry, author of “Truck: A Love Story”, reads from his latest book about a new life in the country and being over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute. For details call call 257-7888.

Today through Sunday the 2009 Socialism Conference will be held in Chicago at the Wyndham Hotel near O’Hare airport. This year’s conference theme is “Building a New Left for a New Era”. To register or for more information visit socialismconference.org or call 773-583-7884.