The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War Presentation

UW Speaker Doug Bradley will be at the Neenah Public Library Wednesday, December 8th, at 7:00pm to present, “We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War.” The presentation explores how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to ......More

UW Speaker Doug Bradley will be at the Neenah Public Library Wednesday, December 8th, at 7:00pm to present, “We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War.” The presentation explores how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. It also demonstrates that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latino and Native American; men and women; officers and “grunts”—whose personal reflections drive the book’s narrative. This special event is sponsored by Badger Talks. Speaker Doug Bradley has worked for the UW for three decades, is a veteran of the Vietnam war and has written three books, DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle and co-authored, with Professor Craig Werner, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War which was named “Best Music Book of 2015” by Rolling Stone magazine. He and Dr. Werner co-taught a very popular class at UW–Madison on the music of the Vietnam War. His new book, Who’ll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America was released in December 2019. For more information, please contact the Neenah Public Library adult reference desk by phone: 920-886-6315 or e-mail: Library@neenahlibrary.org.

Neenah Public Library @ 240 E. Wisconsin Ave.

Glass Art Class – Metal Clay Jewelry

Create a beautiful pendant combining fused dichroic glass in silver metal clay. The basics of working with precious metal clay will be introduced, including shaping, texturing, drying, kiln firing, and finishing. Students will shape silver clay to create a setting for ......More

Create a beautiful pendant combining fused dichroic glass in silver metal clay. The basics of working with precious metal clay will be introduced, including shaping, texturing, drying, kiln firing, and finishing. Students will shape silver clay to create a setting for a piece of perfused dichroic glass. The glass and silver pendant will be fired in our kilns and available to be picked up at a later date.

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass @ 165 N. Park Ave.

Ugly Sweater Shuffle

Ready, set, HO HO HO!!  Start and end at Fritse Park and Loop the Lake trail (3.5 mile loop). Not a timed event-run, walk, stroll. Participants receive a finisher sweater medal and holiday give-a-way. 

Loop the Lake Trail

Glass Art Class – Iridized Holiday Tray

Serve your favorite holiday treats on a dish that you have made! Learn the basics of plate making, design, and fusing while making a tray perfect for the holidays. Tips and tricks for working with iridized glass will add a bit of sparkle to your piece.

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass @ 165 N. Park Ave.

Glass Art Class – Pate de Verre Bowl

Create your very own pate de verre bowl with artist Deanna Clayton. Students will learn the basics of pate de verre, also known as “paste of glass”. Using glass frit create a textured bowl that is completely functional. We will keep your bowl and fire it. After, Deanna......More

Create your very own pate de verre bowl with artist Deanna Clayton. Students will learn the basics of pate de verre, also known as “paste of glass”. Using glass frit create a textured bowl that is completely functional. We will keep your bowl and fire it. After, Deanna will electroplate it – a process that will add a metal finish around the rim.

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass

Luminary Night with Cookie Crawl

It’s 2 events in one! We’ll be lining our streets with a special holiday glow! Businesses will remain open until 7:30pm on December 16 to welcome our special holiday guest......More

It’s 2 events in one! We’ll be lining our streets with a special holiday glow! Businesses will remain open until 7:30pm on December 16 to welcome our special holiday guests, shoppers and diners. Stroll through historic downtown Neenah and enjoy the ambiance, enjoy a dinner or pick up some last minute gifts. Cookie Crawl — Purchase a cookie passport to collect 8 yummy holiday cookies from businesses throughout the downtown! $9 passport includes 8 cookies, 1 milk and a bag. passports will be sold in a time release fashion. Cookie passports go on sale Nov. 16. You do not need a cookie passport to enjoy the luminaries! Just stroll the beautiful district. Luminaries are weather permitting, if raining we will be unable to light bags.

Downtown Neenah

ART AFTER DARK: FESTIVUS, SEINFELD TRIVIA, AND UGLY HOLIDAY SWEATER CONTEST

Join us for Festivus for the Rest of Us, featuring a Wall of Grievances, Feats of Strength, an Aluminum Pole (selfies encouraged!), and food and drink appropriate to the theme. Sign up on our website with your team of up to four to play Seinfeld Trivia. Mini rounds of ......More

Join us for Festivus for the Rest of Us, featuring a Wall of Grievances, Feats of Strength, an Aluminum Pole (selfies encouraged!), and food and drink appropriate to the theme. Sign up on our website with your team of up to four to play Seinfeld Trivia. Mini rounds of trivia, brought to us by America’s Pub Quiz, will begin at 5:30 pm and 7:00 pm, with an Ugly Holiday Sweater contest in between at 6:45 pm.

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass

Family Glass Art Class – Snowman Family Portrait

Make your own curved display with a family of snowmen! Learn about different ways to make snowmen in fused glass. Participants will create a family of snow people in a winter wonderland. The pieces will be slumped after firing, to stand up on their own and be a great d......More

Make your own curved display with a family of snowmen! Learn about different ways to make snowmen in fused glass. Participants will create a family of snow people in a winter wonderland. The pieces will be slumped after firing, to stand up on their own and be a great decoration all season long.

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass

Neenah Community Band Holiday Concert

Join us for an afternoon of holiday music! 

Pickard Auditorium

Grandparents and Me

Open to ages 3-8 yrs old.  Spend quality time on these “no school days” with grandparents making a craft, playing games, or reading stories! 

Memorial Park, Tullar Shelter @ 1131 Tullar Road