HOME 2024: WORLD REFUGEE DAY AT MILWAUKEE CITY HALL
FREE
Milwaukee City Hall, 200 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202
World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the globe. It falls each year on June 20 and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
This June 20, join the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families – Bureau of Refugee Programs and Lynden’s HOME program to celebrate World Refugee Day, and our refugee communities, through art, food, fashion, and poetry and performance, in Milwaukee’s beautiful City Hall.
The day’s program includes the presentation of the City of Milwaukee Mayor’s Declaration for Milwaukee’s World Refugee Day; and welcomes from Bojana Zorić Martinez, Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs, and Wisconsin State Refugee Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families; Chris Her-Xiong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Hmong American Peace Academy; and others. There will be performances and readings by members of local refugee communities, and food trucks parked outside City Hall.
Our annual exhibition of work by local refugee children and youth will be on display in the City Hall Rotunda. Special thanks to the Hmong American Peace Academy, the International Newcomer Center at Milwaukee Academy of Chinese Language, and others.
