Thursday, October 14, 2010

This weekend, the Grassroutes Caravan Crew hosts a bike ride and Full Moon Harvest Party. This starts with a bike ride from Madison to Edgerton and ends with a campfire party. You can attend the party even if you didn't ride there. The ride leaves from behind the Willly Street Co-op on Friday. Email thistle@riseup.net for the time. For more information, check grassroutescaravan.org.

This weekend is the fifth-annual Edgerton Sterling North Book & Film Festival. This year's festival is an important milestone in its mission of transforming Edgerton from a town founded by the tobacco industry, into a literacy capital and Wisconsin's book town. Among this year's guests is author Chris Van Allsburg, who wrote "The Polar Express," "Jumanji," and many other books for children and young adults. This is in Edgerton this weekend. For schedules and locations, check edgertonbookfestival.com.

This and next weekend, Rave Theatre presents “Escanaba In Da Moonlight”. The stage play follows a man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season who must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck. This is at the Mazomanie Community Building stage, 9 Brodhead Street on Friday and Saturday nights at 7 and Sundays at 2. Check ravetheatre.org for more details.

Friends of Indian Lake is looking for volunteers this Saturday to help with the first annual Indian Lake Trail Race. They need help with parking, directing runners, passing out water and bananas, and so on. Volunteers will meet at 7 AM at the park shelter. The race, a 6k/12k and kids' fun run, is at 9:00, followed by refreshments and music amid the changing colors of fall. The festivities will wrap up around noon. Proceeds from the race go to directly to park restoration. If intersted, email Jesse Gardner-Durbin at jgardnerdurbin9@gmail.com.