On April 30, 2014, Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by a Milwaukee police officer. Filmed over the course of three years in the direct aftermath of Dontre’s death, the documentary “The Blood is at the Doorstep” follows his family as they struggle to find answers […]
Bubbler Artist-In-Residence: Dance!
Libraries are all about permanence, serving as indexed archives of culture. The written word, photographs, moving images in physical or digital media, written musical scores, musical recordings, these are the bread and butter of libraries. But what about the ephemeral, the fleeting or the one of a kind? How do you archive those kinds of […]
Revisiting 2017’s Access Denied panel
Recorded in February 2017 at the Central Library, the Access Denied panel discussion tackled issues of equity and accessibility in Madison’s nightlife. While much has changed in Madison’s venue landscape since then, the struggle to make nightlife spaces open and welcoming to all people continues. We bring you the audio from the discussion again this […]
Hannah O’Hare Bennett’s feral materials
Artist Hannah O’Hare Bennett takes familiar objects and materials and makes them feel wild. She creates pincushions with unruly tufts of fur, books that turn into messy spirals, and embroidery that looks rough and brittle. The work draws a lot of inspiration from the materials that people source from the natural environment. In a way, Bennett’s […]
Fantasy Coffin Carpenter is Bubbler Artist in Residence
Have you ever put any thought into the type of vessel that you’d want to be buried in? Maybe you have, maybe you haven’t – but this next story will make you think about your burial in a different way. Our next guest is the Owner of the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop in Teshie, Ghana […]
Writing towards the strange with Andy Gricevich
The strange can take on many forms in Andy Gricevich’s poetry. Working with weird music selections in the background and drawing inspiration from reading subjects such as philosophy and biology, the Madison-based writer is bound to get results that feel bizarre and boundary-pushing. But he doesn’t necessarily want readers to see his work that way. […]
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