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Magic Morgan & Liliana library programs

2/25/2025

 
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Hello, Library Friends! Great news—our 2025 dates are still available! However, we’re already 50% booked for this summer, so don’t wait too long to secure your spot. If you’d like to check our availability, please reach out to us!

Experience the Magic! Magic Morgan & Liliana bring an unforgettable, family-friendly magic show to libraries across the country! Our interactive performances feature mesmerizing illusions, audience participation, and a touch of humor—designed to captivate audiences of all ages.

✨ Bonus: Learn ASL! ✨ During our show, we introduce American Sign Language (ASL) in a fun and engaging way. Audiences love learning signs as part of the performance—it’s interactive, enjoyable, and adds an educational twist to the magic!

What to Expect
  • Setup & Performance: We arrive 45–60 minutes before showtime to set up. Each performance lasts about 40 minutes.
  • Meet & Greet: After the show, patrons can meet us, ask questions, take photos, and even meet our friendly dove!
  • Multiple Shows: Libraries booking multiple performances will have a 15–20 minute break between shows for audience transition and reset.

Booking & Logistics
  • Audience Size: We can accommodate various audience sizes based on your space.
  • Space Requirements: A performance area of at least 16 feet wide by 10 feet deep is ideal.
  • Rebooking: Many libraries invite us back year after year, as we introduce new magic routines aligned with summer reading themes.
  • Availability: We perform year-round, but summer fills up fast—book early!
  • Discounts: Save by teaming up with another library or booking multiple shows in the same area.
  • Interpreter Services: We provide a sign language interpreter for voice translation, with flexible funding options.

​Cost & Payment
  • Pricing: Rates vary by location—contact us for details.
  • Holding a Date: We can temporarily hold a date for 48 hours while you obtain approval.
  • Deposit: No deposit is required except for out-of-state performances.

Book Magic Morgan & Liliana Today! Bring a magical and educational experience to your library! Contact us for availability, pricing, and booking details.
  • Call: 262-347-3121
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Book Online: magicmorgan.com/bookme/view.php?id=2100

Looking forward to bringing magic and ASL fun to your library!
Magic Morgan & Liliana
Matthew Morgan 
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ASLdeafined.com: Links with libraries to expand access to ASL learning

9/30/2024

 
ASLdeafined logo: American Sign Language Education... One Sign at a Time
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership between ASLdeafined, a leading provider of online American SIgn Language (ASL) learning resources, and libraries across the United States. This collaboration aims to increase access to authentic ASL instruction for everyone in your community.

For 15 years, ASLdeafined has been a trusted resource for individuals seeking to learn and improve their ASL skills. Our comprehensive online platform offers 300+ themed video lessons, an 18,000+ ASL video dictionary, and a free mobile app, all designed to provide an engaging and effective learning experience.

We believe that libraries play a vital role in promoting literacy and lifelong learning for all. By partnering with libraries, we can provide affordable and convenient access to our resources to a wider audience, including people who may not have access to traditional ASL classes,

This partnership will allow libraries to offer their patrons:
  • Free access to ASLdeafined's online video lessons: Patrons will be able to explore basic to advanced ASL signs and grammar, learn essential vocabulary and practice their communication skills.
  • Patrons will have the ability to access ASLdeafined through our mobile APP
  • Educational events and workshops: ASLdeafined will be working with libraries to host workshops and events designed to introduce the community to ASL and its importance. 

We are excited to embark on this journey with libraries across the country and help break down barriers to ASL learning. By providing access to authentic ASL instruction, we can promote greater understanding and inclusivity for all members of the community.

To learn more about this partnership and how your library can participate, please get in touch with me, Meg Cowan at ASLdeafined.com or follow these listed links for more information:
  • Subscription information
  • Library Pricing

Thank you for reaching out to ASL Deafined. I am here to answer any specific questions you may have. I can also send a free trial username and passcode to use if requested.
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MEGAN COWAN
Library Sales - Program Manager
743.288.8896
[email protected]
www.asldeafined.com

"The New Me: How Jesus Turned a Traumatic Brain Injury Into a Miracle" by Wisconsin Author Lori J. Peterson

1/29/2024

 

A new message from the author:

"My book FINALLY ARRIVED. I would love to get you a complimentary copy and would very much appreciate an opportunity to speak to your library patrons about the book, my pathway to self publishing, and to answer with any patrons you have that are disabled or even have had a brain injury or concussion about the importance of medical evaluation.

Here is a .pdf flyer that you... could post if (you) elect to invite me to speak.  You might also discover TBI support groups in your cities or counties in your region that may want to partner with you on an event.

Of course, my travel expenses are my own and I expect no reimbursement or stipend if you allow me to display both hard and soft cover books to purchase and give me time after a presentation to sign and personalize copies.

I can be reached by email at this address or via the contact information found on my website at www.lorijpeterson.com.

I sincerely appreciate any help you can offer.

Lori J. Peterson"
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Posted December 20, 2023:
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The New Me: How Jesus Turned a Traumatic Brain Injury Into a Miracle, comes to you from Wisconsin Author Lori J. Peterson. The book is available for purchase online and in bookstores. Visit lorijpeterson.com to learn more.

A message from the author

"Dear Wisconsin Library Systems Directors:

These days, nearly everyone needs hope and inspiration. This is especially true of those who are, or will heal, from any trauma that has or will leave them changed forever (sickness, early death of a loved one, divorce, etc.). Mine just happened to be a nearly life-ending car accident and the traumatic brain injury that left me unable to work after once being an Executive Director in the nonprofit world of neurosciences.
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I am the former Executive Director of the American Neurological Association and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping). Here is the cover and a bit more information about my personal memoir that will SOON be available to readers (PDF file).

​I was a former library employee in my small rural NW Wisconsin Library and would sincerely appreciate it if you would share this email and both attachments with the libraries in your system. I self published the book and used Ingram and Amazon to make it easily available to both libraries and individual readers worldwide. It is my prayer that it helps many through the trials and tribulations that dominate today's headlines.

Thank you in advance for your willingness to spread my story. I can be reached at [email protected] or on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

I sincerely appreciate any help you can offer to share this book with as many people as possible. I'd cherish your honest book review as well as I consider library directors to be the most expert in the field of information sharing and service to the public.

With warm regards,

Lori J. Peterson"

Call for Visual Art and Poetry from Individuals with Disabilities

9/19/2023

 
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ARTS for ALL Wisconsin is thrilled to announce the 2024 ARTS for ALL Wisconsin CREATIVE POWER Calls for Visual Art and Poetry! These unique opportunities for children and adults with disabilities to showcase their skill and talent will open for submissions on October 31 and close on February 14, 2024.

ARTS for ALL Wisconsin celebrates the diverse perspectives of our community every year with its Call for Art and Call for Poetry.


Submissions are juried by arts professionals, who will select CREATIVE POWER Award-winning submissions. Winning visual art submissions become part of the CREATIVE POWER Collection and tour the state for three years. Recent showings of the Collection have been La Crosse, Kenosha, Racine, Madison, and Milwaukee. Award-winning poetry will be featured in Arts for ALL Wisconsin's first edition of CREATIVE POWER Poetry to be published in 2024.

The calls are free to enter, and open to any current Wisconsin resident over the age of 5 that identifies as having a disability. Both calls can be entered simultaneously.

Submission Details:
  • Opening Date: October 31, 2023
  • Closing Date: February 14, 2024
  • Award Celebration: May 4, 2024 at Madison Youth Arts Center (MYArts)
  • Who Can Submit: Individuals ages five and up who identify as having a disability.
  • Visual Art Submission Guidelines: Submit images of up to two works of art using the online entry form found at www.artsforallwi.org/programs/call-for-art
  • Poetry Submission Guidelines: Submit up to two poems using the online entry form found at www.artsforallwi.org/programs/call-for-poetry
  • Complete Guidelines and instructions can be found at the links above
  • Winning Entries Announced: April 10, 2024
ARTS for ALL Wisconsin is a statewide nonprofit organization founded in 1985 and formerly known as VSA Wisconsin. Its mission is to expand the capabilities, confidence, and quality of life for children and adults with disabilities by providing programs in the arts.

There are flyers for both the Call for Art and Call for Poetry available on their website and linked here too – please feel free to share them electronically or by printing and sharing hard copies.

For inquiries or assistance, please contact Mike Lawler at [email protected] or 608-241-2131. Let's celebrate the power of art and poetry within our diverse community!

Native American Tribal Maps

9/6/2023

 
Tribal Nations Maps introduces the most comprehensive maps of pre-contact and at-contact Native North America to date. These maps use Tribal Nation’s original indigenous names for themselves, and show where Tribes were just before contact with outsiders, as well as the last homelands they defended. The intent of these maps is to instill pride in Native peoples and to be used as teaching tools from a Native perspective.

These maps are part of Aaron Carapella's 
Tribal Nations Map series-which covers the Nations indigenous to the “United States,” “Canada,” "Mexico," "Central America," "South America" and “Alaska." Your purchase supports multiple upcoming maps.  Aaron credits the many hundreds of Cultural directors, elders, educators and linguists that have helped him centralize these names onto one visual display.

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Early Literacy Hmong board books

12/16/2022

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"Hi,

My name is Kaolee Yang, and I am one of the authors of two early literacy Hmong board books. Wisconsin is home to one of the largest Hmong population in the United States, and yet there are very little bilingual titles available in the public libraries. We would love to supply your library with these two new titles that teaches how to count in Hmong, and how to say the colors in Hmong." 
XIM by Kaolee Yang & Yer Wrate, Illustrated by Stacey Lo
We believe that reading not only helps your children learn more, but also helps you to create an even closer bond together. Learn the colors with your children in The Story Cloth Shop's first bi-lingual children's book.
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IB, OB, PEB by Kaolee Yang & Yer Wrate, Illustrated by Stacey Lo
Help your children learn how to count in Hmong with The Story Cloth Shop's first numbers book for children. Our illustrator created images from common objects in the Hmong household.
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"You can learn more about the two books at our website: https://www.thestoryclothshop.com/

Thank you, 
Kaolee"
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Tails and Tales Summer Reading Program with David HB Drake

4/1/2021

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Folksinger and storyteller David HB Drake presents “Animal Faire” - a menagerie of songs for the whole family!

To celebrate the Summer 2021 Reading Program, “Tails and Tales”, David is “Going to the Zoo” to visit “My Rhinoceros” and go “Waltzing with Bears” at “The Animal Faire”. Magical beasts like “Puff the Magic Dragon” play with “Jennifer’s Rabbit” in songs performed on guitar, concertina, banjo, dulcimer, and Native American flute.

David HB Drake has been called “the real thing” – a musician and historian with 40 year of experience performing throughout the Midwest.

Contact Organic Arts at [email protected] (preferred) or call 414-702-6053.

Libraries over 100 miles from Milwaukee – please be “green” and  try to work with other area libraries to schedule more than one show a day and/or on adjacent days to save travel costs.

Programs can be done outdoors or in large rooms if COVID restrictions are still in place. David also has programs for the community, Library Week, and Seniors year-round.

For a wealth of information on David’s rainbow of performances for all ages, visit www.davidhbdrake.com and David HB Drake on YouTube.
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David HB Drake
Creative Director, Organic Arts Ltd.
414-702-6053 / [email protected]

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Embracing Special Needs, Building Inclusive Communities: A Program offered by Miss Wisconsin 2020-2021

2/5/2021

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"Hello,
My name is Alyssa Bohm, a Racine native, I am currently serving as Miss Wisconsin 2020-2021.  I am a high school special education teacher that understands the importance of equal opportunities and educating our youth about inclusion and acceptance. 

As a state titleholder, it’s my job to volunteer, make appearances throughout the state and promote my social impact initiative, "Embracing Special Needs, Building Inclusive Communities" which focuses on enhancing the lives of those with disabilities and creating inclusivity within our communities. 

I am diligently working to fill up my calendar for the remainder of my tenure. I am scheduling virtual and in-person appearances. I am available to speak (about my social initiative, perseverance, social media, and a few other topics), sign autographs, mingle, walk in fashion shows, dance, etc.

I would love to make an appearance at your library and present my Inclusion Program: Teaching Acceptance and Kindness. I can also assist in promoting the program event prior to the event taking place on our social media platforms.


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Miss Wisconsin Summer Library Program (available through 8/22/2020)

5/7/2020

 
 I would love to make an appearance at one of your library summer program days and present my Inclusion Program: Teaching Acceptance and Kindness. I can also assist in promoting the program event prior to the event taking place on our social media platforms.
Download Miss Wisconsin Summer Program Flyer
Download Miss Wisconsin Summer Program Flyer
My name is Alyssa Bohm, a Racine native, I am currently serving as Miss Wisconsin 2019. As a state titleholder, it’s my job to volunteer, make appearances throughout the state and promote my social impact initiative, "Embracing Special Needs, Building Inclusive Communities" which focuses on enhancing the lives of those with disabilities and creating inclusivity within or communities.

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​Host a Community Screening with Wisconsin Public Television

5/21/2019

 

​Partner with WPT and Host a Community Screening Exploring the Lasting Impacts of Trauma and New Approaches to Care

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Wisconsin Public Television has had a decades-long relationship with Wisconsin’s libraries and childhood resource agencies through their popular Reel to Real community event partnership with the Wisconsin Library Association.
 
As part of this powerful community partnership, they’re asking public libraries to consider hosting a free community screening and dialogue around a critical topic impacting our youngest – childhood trauma, and the need for trauma-informed care awareness, support and training.

Libraries are encouraged to partner with WPT and host a screening of Not Enough Apologies: Trauma Stories, an original Wisconsin Public Television news documentary examining the "childhood welfare to adult prison pipeline," and the positive impacts of trauma-informed care.
 
For more information, including details on how to request a screening kit, view: https://dpi.wi.gov/wilibrariesforeveryone/host-community-screening-wisconsin-public-television

Caregiver and Memory Kits for Seniors

5/19/2019

 
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MEternally offers reminiscence products to include DVDs, photo and activity cards, and memory mats. These have become popular with libraries that offer caregiver kits or memory kits. Some check out their individual products and others create kits with their products as the basis for a themed kit, and add books and tactile objects to complete their kit.
 
MEternally was recently reviewed by the Library Journal: https://meternally.com/blogs/news/review-library-journal-review.
 
They offer a 15% off discount to libraries with code LIB15 at checkout. Feel free to call President & Founder Sally Mathews Inglett directly at (833) 733-8866 if you have any questions, or visit the website https://meternally.com/collections/all to take a look at their product line "Favorite Things."
Learn more at MEternally.com

Too Soon to Forget: The Journey of Younger Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

4/12/2019

 
PictureToo Soon to Forget: 2 DVD Disk Collection
An award winning documentary selected by American Public Television
Too Soon to Forget: 
The Journey of Younger Onset Alzheimer’s Disease

For those offering dementia-related CE and programming, Rush University’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Chicago has developed an amazing set of two DVDs that explores the impact that younger onset Alzheimer’s has on the affected person and their family. 

Narrated by Celebrity Chef and Supermodel B. Smith and her husband, the documentary is being shown on PBS stations across the country.  In addition to adding these DVDs to your circulating collections, librarians might consider using the DVDs as the basis for a program open to the public on this important topic… or for staff training.  There are no restrictions on its use. 


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Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & Death

4/7/2019

 
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Illuminating gay & lesbian lives
and the journeys
of extraordinary older women

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 "The most life-affirming film of the year is a documentary about death." 
--Metro Newspapers, San Jose, CA
Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & Death
NEW DAY FILMS
© Pam Walton Productions
55 Minutes DVD / Closed Captioned
Colleges and Universities $125 
Community Groups & Public Libraries $65
All DVDs 50% off at purchase.
 
Preview Liberty on Amazon.com 
 
DVD, Discussion Guide, and Streaming Options at New Day Films 
 
Professors and Students Watch on KANOPY 
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Immigration in Wisconsin: Free Programming Offered by Wisconsin Humanities Council

3/28/2019

 
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Immigration to Wisconsin is not new. But the issues are complicated. Current concerns can make them hard to fully comprehend. This series of ShopTalk offers history, stories, and the law to help us think about immigration today.

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Nick Scott: Published Author & Professional Speaker

3/7/2019

 
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"What's the one thing you gain when you lose everything? PERSPECTIVE!" -Nick Scott
At the age of 16, Nick Scott was an ordinary teenager with an interest in athletics, when a near fatal traffic accident changed life as he knew it... forever. After the accident Nick became overweight and discouraged, but somehow found the determination, mindset and personal strength to transform his life from a debilitating tragedy into a personal triumph. Now he uses those hard-won insights to help others awaken the beast within themselves and achieve their personal goals.

As a professional speaker, author, professional bodybuilder, wheelchair ballroom dancer, and personal trainer, Nick Scott uses his enthusiasm, vision, convictions, abilities, and life experience to reach out, to inspire and give hope to others, especially those unaware of the personal strength they can tap into if only they will believe and try. Nick's sheer strength of will has helped transform thousands of individuals -from professional athletes to senior executives -as well as organizations and corporations across the country. Nick inspires others to break through to new levels of peak performance and success.
Learn About Program Opportunities with Nick Scott

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The Duelling Dames

2/25/2019

 
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The Duelling Dames theater + anti bullying + audience interaction = best. show. ever.
​The Duelling Dames are on tour!  Enjoy local rates while they are in your area, and hefty discounts for multiple library visits.
 
With 50 performances in libraries and fairs, The Duelling Dames is a swashbuckling show that teaches history with hilarity, astounds with swordplay, and is brave enough to bring participants onstage (Don't worry, only foam swords are used then with participants).
 
This all female anti bullying swordfighting show has a story message of...peace!​
Learn More about The Duelling Dames

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